Us were sleeping. Reporter now youre looking live there. 202 422. On a normal day it looks pretty crowded. Now it looks pretty good. Were going to keep an eye on the roads from the sky. Were heading over to the blue route and checking that out. Now, if you are headed out on the town this thanksgiving eve, heres a way to get a free ride home. Uber is offering a free ride to anyone who is willing to take a breathalyzer. It will set up one of these kiosks here. All you have to do is blow into one of those tubes to check your blood alcohol level and hop into your free and safe ride home. A lot of travelers got a ride home from amtrak. Nbcs George Spencer is there live. George, a lot of people are stretching out this hold, been getting a jump on it today. Oh, yeah. Reporter definitely, an early start for a lot of people. Typically we think of this train station as so businesslike but today the tone had a different feel and the crowds have been didnt too. Weve about watched a steady stream through here much of the dame. 30th street station has really been phillys station. Tim purcell came prepared with this bouquet in hand. The pair is spending thanksgiving in philly for the first time with her aunt. First time meeting the family and its the entire family. Youve got a big thanksgiving. Yeah, im a little nervous. She sent out an email saying she wants to host thanksgiving. Reporter on the busiest day of the year, we watched friends and family embracing and reuniting on front seats of cars and front seat corners. One girl could barely wait for the van to stop before she jumped out to hug her college friend. Reporter an on this thanksgiving eve night, friends and family will enjoy another tradition, catching up other drinks in old city where many spots enjoy weekendlike crowds. Were preparing for a regular saturday night. Its so busy. On a wednesday night. Yeah. We have everybody coworking her coming in. Reporter its an exciting chance to revisit old traditions and make new ones. I stay home at christmas but i come home every thanksgiving. I look forward to coming down here. This has been home for me. Reporter for a bit of context, last year amtrak carried a Record Number of passengers during the overall thanksgiving travel period. That was more than three quarters of a Million People nationwide and theyre expecting a similar number again during this thanksgiving period. Were live tonight at 30th street station. Im George Spencer, nbc 10 news. So night to see all of those happy reunions. Really nice. George, anyone invite you over while you were there . Reporter no. No extra thanksgiving meals, but that may be coming up as soon as im done with work. All right, george. George, thanks. So if youre hitting the road or going out on the town, Mother Nature is being really kind this thanksgiving. Glad were in the clear tonight. Its a great. Reporter yeah. Its a great tonight and a great tomorrow and beyond that a little bit. Weve got a lot of sunshine today and it continues to get warmer. On monday we only got up to 43 degrees. Were 53 now. 50 in reading and allentown. The clear skies and light winds are going to allow the temperature to drop pretty quickly down to about 40 by midnight. In philadelphia, 30s in some of the suburbs. Still not as cold as previous nights. For tomorrow, were going to be not quite as cold in the morning. 39 in Lehigh Valley at 9 00 a. M. But by noon were talking about near 60degree temperatures and into the 60s across most of the area by middle of the afternoon. But the jersey shore, not quite as warm because of a wind coming in off the ocean. Believe it or not, it gets even warmer than that, and then we have some weekend showers to get in. Well get into that in a few minutes. Today president obama tried to assure americans that theyre ready for any threat. I want everybody to know were taking every possible step to keep our homeland safe. The president said u. S. Law enforcement officials havent seen any credible reports of a, quo quote, an attack on the homeland. Theyre monitoring threats and securing procedures heading into the busy Holiday Travel season. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with the Pennsylvania State trooper who was shot on duty. Nbc 10 news was there when he left the hospital. He was here when a traffic stop left to a shooting and a fiery crash. Nbcs doug shimell was at the hospital where trooper casey said hes happy to be going home for thanksgiving. Reporter with a bullet still in his shoulder he walked out of the hospital. Want to they everybody for the prayers and support. Happy go home for thanksgiving and lets go eagles. Reporter earlier a car he stopped to help took off and crashed into a bus, the car firing at ktrooper caseys vehicle the whole time. He was using a stolen. 45 caliber handgun and did not want the troopers to search his car. Most of the car was burned. We dont know who what he was trying to hide. Were still working to investigate what was in the car. Reporter they want to investigate the fourth passenger in the car. For trooper casey, it will be rest, physical therapy, and surgery, what will be a piece of evidence from his shoulder. At honaman hospital, doug mercer, nbc news. Skyforce 10 was overthat aftermath. As you can see the cars are totaled. Police are trying to figure out what caused this wreck. New information swirling around attorney general kathleen kane. Theyre set to remove her from office. They made the recommendation to the full office. Shes running her office with a suspended law license. She was charged in august for perjury and obstruction for leaking information to the grand jury and lying under oath about it. Kane released this statement. Quote, today a handful of senators sought to substitute their judgment for that of more than 3 million pennsylvania who cast their vote for the duly elected independent attorney general. She went on to say i believe this attempt to remove the attorney general from this office is unconstitutional, end quote. Starting next tuesday the county says it will stop dipping into its general fund to make payments to nonprofits that provide services. Those nonprofits usually receive state funding. The county has been paying out more than 3 million a month since the budget missed the deadline in july. We were hopeful that a budget would be passed by thanksgiving. Not only is that hope dashed, but were not sure when its going to be passed. Delaware countys also considering withholding more than 6 million a month in taxes and fees it collects for the state, a move bucks calle made just yesterday. He robbed a store four months teague feed a drug habit but he now has a clean record thanks to new jersey governor chris christie. I hope everybody here knows they dont have to live the way i lived or the way i had to live. It there theres a better way to live. He served five years in jail. Today governor christie congratulated berry for his 28 years of sobriety and turning his life around. Hes a drug addict and couldnt get help and hes dead. When i sat there as the governor of new jersey at his funeral and looked across to the pew with his three data darts sobbing be hes gone, there but for the grace of god go i. He talked about a late friends struggle with drug addiction. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with a delayed thanksgiving for travelers heading to philadelphia this morning. A flight had to make an Emergency Landing just after takeoff. The plane reported an engine issue. All passengers got off safely and got put on other flights. A food safety alert. If you bought Chicken Salad at costco in the last couple of weeks, they want you to throw it away. The cdc urges even if you already ate some of that chicken and have not gotten sick, still, throw the rest away. They stopped selling it and is looking into how it got contaminated. Also the costco e. Coli outbreak may be more than chipotle. The Fast Food Restaurant closed after more than a dozen people got sick. The two outbreaks are not related. The city of chicago remains on edge this afternoon. Protesters expected to take to the streets for a second consecutive night of demonstrations against police. Police arrested five protesters and overnight they dismissed charges against a man charged with assault as Police Officer. This was after the officials released the dash cam video showing the Fatal Shooting of 17yearold mcdonald. He was gunned down by officer jason van dike. The video shows him walking in the middle of the road with a night. Officer van dyke approaches and with his weapon drawn he starts shooting firing 16 times. Van dyke is facing murder charges. Kenyans lined the streets in nairobi to cheer pope francis. He urged kenyans to show greater sensitivity in a relationship between humans and the natural world. Pope francis will visit kenya and other arias. The president pardoned the turkey. His partner honest was also spared from ending up on someones dinner table. The two birds will spend their remaining days on a nearby farm in virginia. Look how much those obama girls have grown up. Organizers are working out the final logistics. Its one of philadelphias oldest traditions complete with giant floats and lots of performances and a lot of little kids. It all kicks off at 8 20 a. M. In center citi. Penn city looking like a winter wonderland. It opens to the public. Looking for more local Holiday Events the nbc app has you covered. Download the app for free. You can get a list of preholiday fun. We can also look forward to some a great weather for some of these events. Yeah. Absolutely, for all all of the events. Not only for tomorrow but black friday as well. Temperatures are going to be in the 60s across a good bit of the area and even warmer on friday. Possibly recordbreaking in some places and some hours over the weekend part saturday and sunday. We have clear skies out there right now. Its 53 degrees. The winds are fairly light. Only seven miles an hour, and the temperatures continue to cliechlt 53 yesterday 4rks 3 on monday, 55. 62 tomorrow, 67 on friday. The average highs now down to 52. So thats 15 degrees above average for black friday. Its 50 in allentown and reading and blue bell and coatesville. Just a light wind out of the eastsoutheast. 55 in swooezborough. Everybody is wormer than they were yesterday, but with the increased wind off the ocean, it wont be quite as warm at the shore. And for your mall shopping, king of prussia on black friday at whatever stores are open. Noon, 62, look how warm it is. All in the 60s. Even by noon on friday. And some near record highs. Allentown may have the chance of getting to the record on friday. The record is 62. Philadelphia is going to have a tough time because their record is 73. But a lot of these places are going to be pretty close, depending on how much Sunshine Shows up. Its been dry all week. That dryness should continue. We dont have any kind of significant moisture moving in this direction. But there is a cold front coming down and that will affect us over the weekend. Were going to have some clouds coming down. A mix of sun and cloud. Same story for friday. And then here comes this front. You can tell very clearly where it is by that band of rain. By saturday morning it comes down. It stalls. Creates showers for delaware. Mild weather definitely with us tomorrow and definitely with us on friday. Pushing down. Now, it wont be as cold, but at the same time its not going to drive the dry air in. So we might not have a dry weekend as a result. The cold air, its going to stay pretty far to the north and next week were going to get some surges of warmer air, but were going get fairly significant rain. Clear but not as cold tonight. Were in the 20th. Tomorrow, a mix of sun and clouds. Look at that. High temperatures into the low 60s. Its about ten degrees above average and were not expecting any kind of rain. 67 degrees. Some records at least close to it and then a chance of showers on saturday. A better chance on sunday, especially in southern sections. Delve ware, south jersey, we dont have it quite as cool. We still do have it warming up next week as it gets wet again. We are live above the blue route interchange there. The blue route turnpike out toward bucks county. You can see that it looks like a normal day. You are starting to see some congestion there as the eastwest turnpike and the onramp from the blue route starts to merge together and as as we can see from skyforce 10, you can see it coming from bucks county area and seeing starting to slow before you hit the 309 interchange there. You can see as the cars are exiting there onto the northeast extension, probably the clearest ive seen. Of course, im fortunate to have the view from above on skyforce 10. When you zoom down, you can see where some of the cars are on this thanksgiving eve. Im Deanna Durante live in skyforce 10. The eagles will definitely be looking for better luck as they face off against the lions on thanksgiving. Nbc 10 is in dearborn, michigan, where the team arrived at the hotel just a few minutes ago. This video just in the newsroom. We still dont know whos starting at quarterback for the eagles. John clark is also live in michigan and well bring you the very latest coming up from nbc news 10 at 5 00. The nbc news 10 is proud to sponsor the military. Well cover dan rhodes, a paralyzed vet whos back on his feet due to remarkable technolo technology. And a Hometown Hero whos work runs generations deep. Our special eagles salute to service airs saturday night at 7 30. A demolition doesnt go as planned and it puts one bulldozer in a really bad spot. Hear from the guy inside that bulldozer and what his family thought as they watched the whole thing. And go blake. You wont believe how quickly he solved the rubiks cube. Thats next on nbc 104. And i know me and ellen can change our lives forever. A jersey shore woman tells us how Ellen Degeneres can change her life. For more go to npc. Com. Tense moments for a demolition crew in south alabama. When the demolition of a smoke stack took an unexpected turn. The plan was to blow it up but after two explosive tries the landmark smoke stack would not fall. Onto plan be. There it goes. Bringing down a backhoe. The only problem sit toppled back onto the backhoe. He tried to swing away but the thick smoke made it hard to see. Things go wrong, but not like this. I stayed in the hoe. The cab is made to turn over. The driver is oklahoma. As for the smoke stack, the crews will make way for a city park. Spectators get a chance to see the balloons for the annual macys annual thanksgiving parade get inflated and prepare for the big day tomorrow. More than 10,000 including dancers and singers will be taking part. The 89th will be seen tomorrow right here at 10 00 a. M. Its the most wonderful time yes, the most wonderful time its the most one time of the year i know that building. Its a holiday tradition eight years and running. We got a sneak feek at tpeek at comcast spectacular. Ill have to might down there. Comcast is the Parent Company of nbc 10. This is a race for only the most extreme tleets. About 50 people from around the globe ran the antarctic marathon. Thats 26. 2 miles in nothing but snow, wind, and below temperatures. Jacqueline, this is the race for you, im telling you. You know i hate cold weather. Heres what paul webb had to say . Freezing cold. Freezing. Unbelievable. Webb took just over 3 1 2 hours to finish that marathon. And i hope he gets some hot chocolate. Did you see ice on his face . Mmhmm. Congrats to him. How much do you think you can get done in five seconds . One teenager set a new record by solving an rubiks cube in that amount of time. Seriously . Thats crazy. Video of lucas went quickly. He just became the new rubiks cube world championship. Lets see that again. What . He solved the 3 x 3 rubiks cube in 4. 9 seconds. The teen said the secrets to success is the countless hours hes practiced. I think its paid off. The most i could get was two sides and that took me an hour. You know what . Im afraid to try at all. Payback for his punishment from police. A california man looking for sweet revenge after he was kicked out of a College Football game. The man sent 20 dozen coconut doughnuts to Police Officers at the university of wisconsin. He traveled to wisconsin to see the badgers saturday. His assigned seat was away from the friends. When he tried to union his friends, he was thrown out. He sent this email to police. This was meant as a harmless way to both show general gratitude for job you do but slight disdain for my treatment saturday. Doughnuts are awesome, but coconut doughnuts not so awesome, he said. One of the officers replied to the man. Youre exactly right. Coconut doughnuts are not so awesome. It was an unfortunate misunderstanding, police donated the 240 doughnuts to the salvation army. So somebodys going to enjoy them. Somebody will. You might not realize how quickly a fire can spread but seconds can make a difference. The nbc 10 investigators put two of the top smoke alarms to the test. What you need to know to protect your familys home. So take a look at this. This time lapsed video shows this small fire that starts on a couch. In no time at all smoke and flames fill the room. If this were a room in your house, the Smoke Detector you have could make a big difference. More holmes catch on fire on more holidays unfortunately like thanksgiving. Not all fire alarms respond the same way. Mitch blatcher put it through the test. Were looking at the difference between ionization and fire technology. 96 of us have one of those in our homes but few families have both. Reporter raj never bumpus knows how fires can devastation. This year his moms house is us go replaced by pinwheels and flowers. If ive got to go, i dont want to go in no fire. Reporter his mom and grant daughter were found together in this home holding each other. Reporter he bought four ionization detectors suing the company because they never sounded. In fires every second matters. Reporter they showeds how different alarm technologies are better at detecting different types of fires. One is going to be a smoldering fire the other a flaming fire. Reporter kirby kerber and his team put two oeft the most ones. Ionization like the kind bum pos said he bought and photo electric. Ien nation takes smoke in and photo electric responds to light. First we created a fire of smoke without a lot of heat. The photo electric should detect the fire first and it does. Thats photo electric. So somebody would have time to get out of the the house. If they get motivated and get moving they will get out of the house. Reporter next we put an iron under a couch cushion. A trained firefighter stays in the room. Both stay sigh leblt during smouldering. Then flames. 30 seconds later we hear our first alarm. We have an alarm. That alarm is from our ionization detexture. The smoke continues building. It covers the ceiling. 45 seconds later we hear the second alarm. The second detech her has gone into the alarm. Its been 8 seconds. 20 more seconds and the thick smoke is turning black. Two minutes after the first sound alerted. It incinerated both Smoke Detectors silencing them for good. Once the fire started the flame it was off to the races. Reporter ionization for detecting heat, photo electric sensing smoke before it produces an inescapable flame. If you have your choice, get a combination. Neither technology is perfect and there may be times when one or the other is not going to be adequate. If you actually want the best protection, probably that would be to install both technologies. Now, people like rodney bum pos, theyre not alone. There are literally dozens of lawsuits across the country. We should make people aware those alarms may not consistently respond as they did in our test. There are a lot of variables with fires. They could be different materials that are burning. The ignition source, and, of course, the temperature in the room. We saw the smoke coming frup the cushionens before any alarm went off. It took six minutes. At one point it was good enough to have a Smoke Detector in your house. Now we have to advance it and we need to be knowledgeable on the type of Smoke Detector and make sure its good for your house. Yes. Now to northeast philadelphia where a special holiday breakfast was hosted by the fraternal order of police. The breakfast is a way to ensure families are taken care of especially during the holidays. When somebody is killed in the line of duty, you know, you have a lot of attention a couple of weeks after. Nothing after that. So to be able to keep in touch with them, to show them that we care a couple times a year, the reaction is tremendous. The fop also sent each family home with a thanksgiving meal to enjoy tomorrow. Friends and family are remembering a Police Officer killed in the line of duty five years ago today. Offer jason marles was hit and killed by a drunk driver. The Department Says it is still feeling the loss. With every thanksgiving that comes up, were faced with the same tragic memory of what happened on that day, that early morning. Reporter the Department Also put marles signature on the truck that replaced his in his memory. Erick. Why this woman says the tv show host could change her life. Plus, theyre more than a mans best friend. How they could help your childrens health. Information on dogs. Apparently theyre not just mans best friend. New Research Suggests they can live bet were anxiety. It builds social conversation and reduces stress. The National Dog Show celebrates mans best friend, crowning one dog best in show. It was held earlier this month at the greater expo center. Actor john ohurley will be hosting it. It begins at noon following the thanksgiving macys day parade. It may not feel lie thanksgiving. Why it may break a record. But is this warmup going to last through the weekend . A new jersey woman is taking to social media to get help. Shes targeting one of the most popular talk shows around for support. Hi, ellen. Sending you another lovely video of mine to show you how desperately i need your help. Shes posted this to facebook. Its been viewed more than 25,000 times. She says shes been riding around in this 13yearold wheel chair and is in desperate need of a new one. She said its slowly turning our herr body into a frozen statue. Most recently she put out a note saying if you want a new vehicle or a new vehicle would help you in your life, you know, send me, you know, your request. Kathy says shes also hoping ellen can help her get an accessful vehicle shes able to drive. She hasnt driven in three years. A local Football Team has a lot to be thankful for this year. Theyre getting an allexpense paid trip to didny world after their dreaming were crushed last week. Its after the team read about the heartbreak. It changed in the middle of the season to make the game less competitive and that meant they were going to loose out to a randomly athletic team. They said it felt like the right thing to do. The Philadelphia Flyers gave back this year by preparing thanksgiving dinner. More than 60 staffers peeled potatoes and diced onions. The says its a small way to show support for the community. Listen to this number of 700,000 drones will be under the Christmas Tree this year. The unmanned devices are easy to fly but some experts warn its also easy to get into trouble if you dont understand the requ e required rules and regulations. Theyll guide you through your liability when it comes to piloting a drone. Now f you intention lame send your drone onto somebody elses property. You may very well be sued or liable for trespass. Know your drones. Thats sunday morning right after meet the press only on nbc 10. Weve got a great flying weather for any legitimate purposes over the next couple of days. Its going to keep getting warmer. Were talking about temperatures going into the 60s and friday getting even warmer than that. Your record warmth in some places. And some weekend showers. Some places could get some on saturday. Other parts on sunday as youll see in just a minute. Traffics going just fine. Weve got dry conditions everywhere. 53 degrees with clear skies. Winds at only seven miles an hour. And were in the upper 40s to the low 50s. Some 41 degrees. Mt. Poconos is cool. Its not going to be quite as warm at the shore during the day tomorrow because of the wind coming in off the ocean. And you can see were three to six degrees warmer down to the south. Its about the same yesterday because of the on shore wind but the farther you get away from the ocean t bigger the warmup has been. And this is the warmup. 50, tuesday, 55 so far today. 62 thursday and 67 degrees on friday. It doesnt just keep going up indefinitely though. Weve had a dry week. Weve got clear skies now. Back to the west, there really isnt much moisture. There is a cold front that is going to be coming through over the weekend. Theres no doubt about that. Where its going to move, how much moisture is with it, theres some questions with it. Theres that flow coming in that we had on friday. Generally dry. Maybe some cluds at times. But here comes the showers with that front. Its warm friday and into friday night. There could be a band of showers. Thats the end of the warm weather. And then the front stalls to our south to give us the best chance of showers in delaware and extreme south jersey on sunday. Now, everybodys going get into thelcau warmer weather thursday friday. Some of the colder air tries to come down over the weekend, but its just not enough push. And so thats whats going to allow that front to staal. Thats what ee going to keep the shower threat in parts of the area. But its also not going to cause the temperatures to go burlington jing. We just cant get very cold weather for very long with this kind of a weather pattern. Clear, not as cold tonight. 42 in philadelphia, 32 new york and west. During the day tomorrow, a lot of sunshine, clouds at times. A lot warmer than its been. 62 degrees for the average high. T saturday, not as warm with a chance of showers, more clouds around. Most of the weekend is dry, but theres still a threat even on sunday, especially in delaware and south jersey where the front may staal, and then once the front goes away, we get a little bit cooler on monday and then start towarm up with a better chance of rain on tuesday. Jersey shore t day before thanksgiving. We have hit the lottery. Were so excited. Im pat greenberg. Driving temperature this month have been also driving up sales at the beach. Well, most people dont think about the beach in november or maybe you do because you want to warm up. Yes. Wishful thinking. Nbcs ted green says the warmer weather has people rethinking thanksgiving at the shore. Reporter as bury avenue in ocean industry is filled with the sounds and sights of Holiday Season and before thanksgiving ron took it all in wearing shorts its been beautiful. I love it. 55, 60s, a great. This time last year it was snow. Its crazy. Its gorgeous. Reporter the mercury is expected to climb even higher in the next couple of days. We have hit the lottery. Were so excited. Reporter adding to one of the warmest regions on record. Business owners say the wave of mild weather has lured people to town. Shorts weather in november right before thanksgiving right before black friday. Fantastic. Reporter like many Ocean Shore Community they rely on the weather and local Business Owners say some shops have seen a 10 to 15 increase in sales compared to a typical november. When its not nice weather, theres none of that traffic. Reporter another indicator, the amount of began badge that needs to be removed from the boardwalk. Theres been more trash than usual, a november folks here have treasured. Ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. Nbc 10 news at 5 00 next. Home for the holiday. A wounded trooper is out testify the hospital tonight. Nbc 10 was there when he was released and based on what he said weve got a pretty good idea what hes going to be doing. Well have his story after one of the busiest days in philadelphia. Well take a look at the forecast, a nice warmup in time for black friday. Dude, youre kidding me, right . Plus an extra reason to be thankful. A local man meets the complete stranger who saved his life. Its the story youll only see on nbc 10 news at 5 00. Nbc 10 news at 5 00 begins with skyforce 10 five at lansdale. See those trucks out there . Theyre carrying a handful of the 42 Million People expected to travel. The low gas price helping to fuel the rush on the roads. Philadelphia National Airport is hustling and bustling. Its anticipated 3. 5 million will fly over the weekend and theyll see a greater number of police in the wake of the paris terrorist attack. But they go about their normal holiday traditions as planned. As we go into thanksgiving weekend i want the American People to know that we are taking every possible step to keep our homeland safe. Security is ramped up along the rails as well. This is a live look at philadelphias 30th street station. Thousands of people are coming and going as the clock ticks down thanksgiving dinner, the centerpiece of tomorrows festivities. And shoppers, as you can guess, are crashing. Crowds of cooks are gathering up to gathering if the feast that were all looking forward to. Good evening. Im keith jones. And im rosemary connors. Were beginning with the weather. What a difference a year makes. Do you remember this . I was thinking about this. The conditions were very different a year ago. Nbc 10 caught these shoppers last year having a little bit of trouble dodging the sleet and the rain. Quite a difference this time