Im tracy davidson. And im vai sikahema. Lets get to bill henley. Bill, what a difference a day makes. How much of a difference . 25 . 30 . Its cold this morning. The temperatures have plummeted. Were cleared for sunshine to start with. That includes mountains. This is the blue mountain. Well see temperatures just above freezing this afternoon and in philadelphia enough sunshine to warm us into the 40s. While its 278 at Philadelphia International, its colder for northeast philadelphia, even right along the Delaware River trail its in the 20s. Were not far away. Less than half an hour away from sunrise and thats going to have a positive impact on the temperatures. Well go from the 20s into the low 40s this afternoon. Bright sunshine at 8 00. Then well start to see some scattered clouds. As the day goes on, well see more and more cloud cover. What we will not see during the day is any snow, but tonight thats a different story. Weve got to the futurecast in ten minutes. Jessica is watching your first alert traffic. Jessie. Thats right. We still have that Police Activity on the scene with the vehicle on the scene. Its northbound. So, again f youre heading to the Philadelphia International airport with a flight to catch, you will be stuck in some delays. The Police Activity still active here on this scene. You can actually see some flashing lights up ahead over there. Again, mainly affecting i95 northbound. A lot of traffic just being moved all over the place in that area. Heres east Windsor Township where we have a tractor trailer northbound at exit 8. Thats route 33. Delays as well. Well have updates on both of these things when i come back in the next ten. Tracy. Thanks. Happens today. Philadelphia mayor jim kenney will lay out a budget for nearly 4 billion. He wants to pay by taxing soda and borrowing. We have more on what were expecting from todays budget proposal. Matt, lay it out for us. Vai and tracy, city hall will be meeting at 9 30. Lets go over some of the key point os thereafter right now. Prek, community schools, and investment in parks and rec centers. All of that would be funded by proposed taxes on sugary drinks. Theres also a plan in there to reduce the city waste tax in the next five years. Altogether this would be a little over 4 billion. Now, onto that proposed tax on the shurjry drinks it would be imposed not directly on you. Mayor kenney hopes it will generate around 5 million a year. You have to remember all sugary drinks have an extremely high profit margin. It costs roughly 22 cents to make a bottle of soda. Its sold for 1 or 2 and 3 to 4 at sports complexes. Reporter how much tax . If you have a 20ounce bottle of soda, that would end up being 60 cents of tax per bottle. That would be, again, on the distributor and manufacturer but some are worried eventually that tax would be passed on with extra costs to you at the grocery store, but at this point mayor kenney says hes still open to negotiating chltz live outside city hall, matt delucia, nbc 10 necessary. Kenney visited the library branch. He read to kids there and others to help celebrate the anniversary of read across america. It celebrated dr. Seuss. Well send you out a push alert when the mayors Budget Hearing starts and you can watch the app online orr on the app. Now to decision 2016. Tonight the republican candidates in the race for the white house will go head to head, but whats happening before the debate is grabbing a lot of attention. With a lot of it, they look at it. Today mitt romney will deliver a speech in utah on the state of the president ial race. Hes reportedly deeply concerned because trump is whipping. He doesnt plan to announce his own candidacy. Ben carson, meanwhile, says he will not debate on the fox news debate tonight. He could formally leash the race on friday when he plans to discuss the future of his campaign. And on the democratic side, Hillary Clintons focus is now on donald trump. Yesterday she kauded her strong super tuesday performance one for the history books. She also blasted the tone and rhetoric of the republican case instead of criticizing her democratic challenger bernie sanders. Sanders said he wont relax his feelings on trump. He campaigned yesterday. Heres a look at the current delegate count. Clinton is ahead right now with more than a thousand. Sanders has more than 424. Clinton almost halfway there. For the republicans trump is heeding the delegate count with 345 followed by ted cruz, marco rubio. All the candidates still have a long way to go. They need 1237 delegates to win the gop nomination. Hillary clinton is facing a new controversy this morning. Thousands have signed a petition by saying clinton broke campaign lays by greeting people on tuesday. Name conot he says he never handed out materials supporting his wife around never prevented anyone from voting. Its eight after 6 00. People will have one more chance to weigh in on the proposed water bill. It calls for an 8 a month increase on the water bill started in july. It would go toward upkeep at the facilities. The meeting happened at the ymca in philadelphia. Bill henley, lets check on the forecast. Yeah, it is. The suns not up just yet. It is in the 20s this morning. A cold morning into the 40s this afternoon. The sunshine fading. And tonight got some snow. Tracking snow in the midwest. Will there will be a brief return of winter because next week a big warmup. Were looking at spring break in our area for the workweek. 15 degrees in mt. Pocono. No break from the cold. Atlantic city in the 20s this morning but you can start to see the light glowing on center city. Predawn light. Sunshine will be bright at least to start with. The finger lakes in the new york area, this is the snow for tonight and tomorrow morning. It really does not look all that impressive, does it. Its not going to be all snow with this system. Well see both types of prags with the area. Today at 2 00, sunshine, clouds to the west and thats where youll find the scattered snow. At 9 00 snow falled into maryland and new jersey and delaware. Very light snow at 9 00 spreading across the area but really scattered showers overnight and the temperatures wont get that cold overnight thanks to the clouds coming in during the afternoon. Even though well see scattered snow showered at kk. It makes in with rain on the shore and moves out. Thats tonight and tomorrow. 41 in allentown and reading. Youll see sunshine. Bright and a warmup. 40s for norristown. Much less wind. Upper 30s in cape may. Sunshine fading later today for vineland and dover. Peaking in the low 40s this afternoon. When e come back in ten minutes, a sevenday forecast. Well see how much snow we can expect to see tomorrow morning. Ten after k68. Sky 4s ten was ore the scene last night as investigators tried to figure out what happens. Police tell us that a driver suddenly crossed the center grass median and slammed head into a train tore tray already. The drive over the trailer tame letter were nomt seriously hurt. A car and a pickup truck crashed and 3 30 in the morning at grant avenue. Both are expected to be okay but were waiting to hear from the police what caused that accident. 6 11. Jessica boyington has an update on whats going to happen here. Were starting to see a little bit of our camera. This is off 95. Now we have Police Activity. If youre on 95 and you have to take or get to a flight this morning, just given yourself extra time. Moving over, theres an accident on souderton. Moving over to the new jersey turnpike where we have a jackknifed tractor trailer blocking that exit which is 333. Thanks a lot, jessica. From honor student to inmate, the charges this accused student imposter is facing and the wing things his lawyers are calling a expect part of his case. A runaway horse makes a mad dash through times square. Well take you for a ride. Ive been a turkey farmer my whole life. And i raise turkey for shady brook farms®. We dont use growthpromoting antibiotics, thats just the way things should be done. Thats important to me. My name is glenn, and im an independent turkey farmer. female announcer shady brook farms®. No growthpromoting antibiotics, just honest, simple turkey. What an awesome scene this was. After nearly a year in space astronaut scott kelly is back home in houston. He arrived at 2 00 this morning for hugs from his girlfriend and two daughters. Congressmen and Gabby Giffords and Vice President joe biden and dr. Jill biden were there to greet him. Only nbc 10 was there as philadelphia detectives searched an abandoned home in frankford yesterday. Theyre looking for peter bag leo. His burning suv had been found and then he was found nude in the river shot in the head. The project is called scoot cool yards. Eight new highrises will be built between drexels campus and 30th street station. There will be offices, apartments a md retails. Construction start later this year and will take 20 years to fizz in. It is 6 17. Weve had some issues on the road to tell you about to follow up on. Jessica has a very, very busy morning. Right now shes watching the new jersey turnpike. It looks like weve got to a jackknifed tractor trailer. The inner area can get through but its on the northbound side of the new jersey turn pack in east Windsor Township around eight 8 which is route 33 this shot may be a little difficult to see. We still have that Police Activities and penndot crews on the scene. It is the off ramp so that was blocked earlier with a vehicle fire. Also in montgomery. If yourehooding out the door, no problems yet. Still a nineminute trip. Average speeds starting to get do into the 50s. Back to the new jersey turnpike again. This is around exhibit 3. No problems. With we have a disabled truck. 19 minutes after 6 00, were getting closer to sun rise. We need it. It is cold outside. A few thin clouds in the distance. Later well get good cloud cover. 28 crees in philadelphia. A little bit of a breeze. Nowhere near as strong as we saw yesterday when we had close to 50 miles an hour in the area. You can feel it at the shore. Sunshine to tart with. A bit stronger in the mountains. Its even cold at the shore. 22 degrees is what it feels like in wildwood while northeast philadelphia, trenton, and mt. Holly, 18 degrees. No sign of clouds here. The cloud cover will be moving in from the west and with that will come some of this, but not until larch to the area. St. Louis is dealing with the rein this morning. It shows the first event starting to move in. Very light snow showers in pennsylvania. As we go threw the night, well see light snow showers accumulating first on the grass. Its not going to be a huge accumulation. Theres not a lot of moisture with the system. Look at that. At 6 00 in the morning weve got an inch on the ground. Though there will be more moisture at the shore there will be rain as we go into the noon time hour on friday so we could see limiting to very little precipitation for cape may as far as snow is concerned but up to two inches for dover. Sunshine and clouds. Temperature, upper 30s, low 40s. Just cold enough for snow and accumulation. Then friday afternoon well get breaks of sunshine. With moderating temperatures this weekend. Theres a chance of a light snow shower. It doesnt look like theres going to be much of anything and a better chance of a massive warmup next week which will have us in the 70s by wednesday afternoon. Awesome. Again, just light. It doesnt look like were going to have do any major shoveling with this one. Where is that brush. Thank you, bill. New at 6 00, a horse is back home after escaping and running wild through times square. He threw off hitz officer, ran away and started running for the garage and starteding down a twostep. You can tell that guys from new york. Yeah. Up next, thousands of cases are in jeopardy. Well tell you how one person could be to blame. Plus a latenight shoutout from a star. Well tell you what they were talking about. That is 11yearold taylor closure getting a holeinone. It happened at a new golf course designed by tiger woods. Theres tiger. He congratulated closure with a nice big hug. How about that . J today washington washington will open its first ever compressed fuel. Experts say compressed natural gas is cleaner and cheaper than gasoline or diesel but few cars are equipped to use it. Good morning, everyone. Were watching the boulevard. This is around ninth street. You can see no backups or problems there yet. We have had a lot of problems. Starting to look up. We will check in with that and ariasing. For now lets get a check on todays forecast with meteorologist bill henley. We have clear skies and its cold. Were 28 degrees at 6 28. Hiccups. You probably get them from time to time and probably think its harmless but it land one radio host in the hospital. Well have that all new coming up at 6 30. Matt . Reporter im matt delucia outside city hall where mayor jim kenney will talk about his budget. Schools, parks, and public safety. Well learn what is in mayor jim kenn kenneys plan. Bundle up. As youre getting your kids ready. You see people bundled up at the train station. And take a look whats coming. Yeah. That snow. By this time tomorrow its going to be snowing. Its in Northern Illinois right now. So this could impact your commute tomorrow. Good morning. Welcome to nbc 10 news today. Im vai sikahema. And im tracy davidson. Lets talk about the cold and the snow and the big warmup to come. Bill henley has that. Bill . Were starting off cold this morning. The temperatures have come down overnight. Here we getting sunrise. A few pink clouds. Well see a nice warmup during the day today. Youll need your winter coat this morning. Its down by 27 degrees in millville, off by 25 degrees in northeast philadelphia. Everybody is colder which means were starting off at 21. Wilmington is 25. Roxborough, 44 degrees. Sunshine. Into the 40s this afternoon and it will be completely dry today. But as the day goes on, well see more and more of those high clouds and the clouds will take over tonight. 30 degrees at 8 00. By 11 00. 36 degrees. A little bit of a breeze out of the westsouthwest at 5 miles an hour 406789 degrees at 2 00 this afternoon. Zero snow during the day today. Tonight, its a different story. Ive got your forecast. Right now, the commute. Jessica boyington watching your first alert traffic. Here is the vine street expressway where were seeing delays. You can see the schuylkill expressway actually looking okay but seeing a little bit of delay headed eastbound but no problems headed to 95 or basically to the schuylkill expressway. Were doing okay for the most part. Winner we could say the same when heading out the door on 422. Right now these are the cameras around the p. A. Turnpike. Were seeing delays and cars stopped. You see a multivehicle accident. Definitely something to watch out for. A jackknifed tractor trailer. Vai. Thank you, jessie. Happening today, were going the find out how much money philadelphia mayor jim kenney wants to spend. The big question comes along, whos going to pay for i. Matt delucia is in front with whos going to pay for that. Reporter its a little over 4 billion. Lets go over some of the key points. Prek, schools, and investments in parks and rec centers. The mayor wants all of that. It will come from proposed tax on sugary drinks that will be passed a i long to the distributors, not you. With regard to that idea of body cameras on police officers, first you going hear the mayors reasoning behind it and then we ask the fop what they think. It protects the officering the citizen, the process. I think were in a technological age and we should have the ability to moderate these kinds of actions. Looking forward to talking with the administration on exactly the imemployly indicationsu k. c when, how, how many. They could be a positive and also detrimental to the officers out there. The city has been using the 22nd district. They say relations between the police and Community Need to be repair and this is one way to do that. The city counsel will meet here at city hall later on at 9 30 and thats when the mayor will address the budget. Matt, thank you. If you want to learn mow how the budget plan could impact your life, click on the n b bc 10 ap its 6 35. 28 degrees outside. New at 6 00, the nrj Attorney Generals Office says nearly 8,000 cases are in question after a lab tech botched an analysis in a drug investigation. The attorney general says shaw tested it. He was suspended without pay. Mainline Health Employees may have reason to worry about their personal information. Someone targeted the bryn mawr Health Organization with spearfi spearfispear phishi phishing. In this case, mainline Health Employee responded to the email and provided personal information on all other mainline employees. Cyber expert says there is a way to protect yourself from an attack. Its when you receive an email from a person or company. If you look at the reply to, it may not be who you think it was. Reporter mainline says it did not compromise anyones information. Christopher wheeler is the former headmaster of tower hill schoo school. A prep school. He was never charged with abuse but convicted and sentenced to being in involved in child pornography. Yid they overturned his conviction saying the warrant the police used violated the rule. It says they can look at any cell phone, computer. Police are given Carte Blanche to search anywhere and everywhere but its not expected to be uses as it. A lawyer for a man posing as a student will plead not guilty on charges against him. He went from an honor student at a high school to an inmate. They say his reputation will be significantly part of their case when presented in court. The reason that you see some of that groundswell of support for him. Hes charged with Identity Theft and Sexual Assault over a relationship with a student. Authorities say he came to the u. S. On a work visa before enrolling at the school in 2013. So grab the heavy coat on your way out the door because o youre going to need it. You can see the view from the loews hotel camera. Were currently at 28 in philadelphia and a little bit of a breeze to make it feel colder. Nowhere near breezy as it was yechltd bright sunshine to start with. Clouds are moving in from the southwest. Thats part of a system thats going to bring us snow and rain. That starts to move in late tonight. You will not see it during the day. Just light snow extending into the midwest now moving boo western ohio. Come late tonight thats when well see the first snowflakes in our area. Thf afternoon at kk, high clouds. Look how unimpressive it is. This storm system not coming together. Were not going to see a lot of snow but a nuisance. By 10 00, light snow. Very light snow in new jersey. Scattered showers. The grass will see more snow than the roadways tomorrow but the timing is an issue with the commute likely siem some snow. Sunshine. 41 degrees. Quakertown the clouds increasing, norristown and trenton, no sign of snow until late tonight ant at the shore, near 40 degrees. Very low 40s here. Ill go through the futurecast when im back in ten minutes when i show you how much you can expect in your neighborhood as well as a huge warmup. Huge warm jaup. Huge. Huge. We could go on all morning. Dont get us started. Weve got huge problems on the road out there. Its been all over the place today. Weve had a really quiet beginning of the week but now were making up for it today. Route 222 around 4012 we have accidents block stg center lanes. This is the worst kind. People dont know what to do. Theyre going to the righthand side. It looks like a fire engine as well with Police Activity and multi vehicles involved. A big backup behind that scene. I wish that was all that was happening right now. Another accident scene up in Montgomery County at west point pike. A jackknifed tractor trailer taking out a roadway at exit 8 at route 33. Jessica, thanks. Whats nine feet long and weighs nearly 300 pounds. For one family, it was this unwanted guest. Its musthave video coming up in 15 minutes. And late night tv, tina fey talks about the journalism scholarship at temple high school. So, what moves me . Its the journey. The feeling of doing. Its making choices for a healthier me, a healthier us. Im on my path and i love it. The path to a healthier you starts with natures path pumpkin flax granola. Crunchy clusters of delicious organic oats, flax and pumpkin seeds, with all the goodness to nourish you and your family. Natures path granola. Enjoy your path. A new Jersey Transit plan is under way. Representatives from new Jersey Transit and the unions are scheduled ed td to meet with t National Transportation board in washington. If there is a strike, you can count on nbc 10s app to have alternative routes for your trailers. Its quarter to 7 00. 28 degrees outside. From our south Jersey Bureau say people want answers after officials found bacteria in the Drinking Water but didnt tell anyone for about a year. They sent out letters but that problem happened in february of last year. The mayor says the contamination has been cleared up and the public was never in danger. Officials closed one of the wells and now the town is outsourcing its water supply. Three children and i want to know what im bathing them in and cooking their food in. Its upsetting. They did note the department of protection and they posted it on their website days after it was found. A Council Meeting is scheduled for monday. Mean teemtime a little girla boost thankses to a church. Thanks to donations 600 bottles of water are headed to michigan. Nikki has been asking tr businesses to donate water to be collected for flint. Her father is driving the shipment to michigan in two weeks. And new at 6 00, tonight longtime radio show host big daddy graham returns to the air after being sidelined with a bout of hiccups. He hiccupped for 41 straight hours. Doctors diagnosed him with afib. He left the hospital on tuesday. He said hes still dealing with flareups but hell perform on tuesday. We wish him well. Tina fey told Host Jimmy Fallon about a new journalism scholarship inspired by her dad. We dedicated it to him and my family set up a scholarship in my dads name for werely not related to me but he was a vet, a returning vet to wants to study journalism. She thanked fallen for being one of the first donors to give money to that scholarship fund. 12 minutes before 7 00. Get ready for a sunny start. Its cold outside. Well go from the 20s into the 40s this afternoon. 28 degrees right now in philadelphia. A little bit of a breeze. Its not going to be as cold as it was wednesday. We saw 50mileanhour wind gusts in the pocono mountains. Back to the snow, its cold enough for it. Temperatures will climb to near freezing this afternoon. 19 now the toms river. Theres so cold air. Look at chalfont at 21. Its a cold start but its going to be a sunny start as well. Clearly dry today. Radar, no sign of any snow for today but to the west you can see the snow that is going to arrive for tonight and rain for our area. More likely in new jersey than pennsylvania. Futurecast snow shows the light snow developing by 11 00 tonight. Its very light snow in pennsylvania, new jersey, and delaware, but it continues overnight. By in the morning youll see it. We might see a little more accumulation by it. Toms river may end up with a couple of inches but there will be rain mixing in as well. With sunshine breaking through, the temperatures warming up, most of that is going to melt away on its own. If it doesnt melt, it will melt over the weekend. Clouds increase. With the clouds coming, thats going to seal in some of that warmer air and make sure were not as cold tomorrow morning. Thats why the accumulation is going to be on. Light snow and then some rain showers in the morning. Out of here in the afternoon ffrmts we dont see sunshine breaking through on friday. We will see breaks of sunshine. We could see a brief snow shower. Check this out. 50s on tuesday and wednesday. Spring break next week. Light snow. Small price to pay for a 70degree day. A busy morning on the roads if youre getting ready to head out. Jessica, youre still looking aet 422 . Yeah, because we have huge delays behind an accident scene ininvolving multitipple vehicles. We have it. It create as big problem for drivers because then we have to split off to the righthand side and the lefthand side. Can see the backup. We have fire trucks on the scene, Police Vehicles as well. Everyone getting by. Big delays. Well check in with drive times in the next five minutes. East Windsor Township on the new jersey turnpike its around exit 8 at route 33. Vai . Ease ter is quickly approaching. First mcdonalds is auring a cadbury creme egg mcflurry. Seems kind of cruel were telling you because you can only get it in canada. This is bright yellow froeden yogurt which you can top with small peeps. Would you try these . Tell us on twitter. If you do, tweet us a picture. Tell us how it tastes. Wed love to know. Coming up a check of the stories and headlines you need to know as you head out the door. Mayor jim kelley is laying out his budget and where he plans to boost his credit. Back on solid ground and hugging his family but hear the one place astronaut scots kelly says he really wants to be after returning to ertz. Were three or four minutes until 7 00. Stories you need to know about. Bill henley is talking snow and cold weather on the way. Jessica boyington is checking your commute and matt due luc delucia is talking the budget. Lets talk about what will be discussed. Pk, schools, investments in parks and recs all to be funded by proposed tax on sugary drinks, also body cams on police and a plan to reduce waefts in five years. Its worth a little over 4 billion. The mayor says hes worked on it for the past four months. Well be following it for you throughout the day. For now im outside city hall on nbc 10 news. Tonight the candidates for the Republican White House will go head to head. Romney calls donald trump phony and his promises worthless. Hes expected to make his statement earliergbo this morn in utah. Hes not expected to announce a candidate or himself. Astronaut scott kelly is back home in houston. He said the first thing he wants to do is jump in his pool. My kids always want to go to pats and get a cheesesteak. I dont know. The first thing, crawl in my comfy bed. What would be the first thing you what would you do. Pat writes i would go to wawa and get mack and cheese and spend the day with my family. Tell us what you would do. If youre far from postseason but at least you dont have to deal with any intruzers, this 9 foot gator was found in a pool in florida. Put up a fight. Wow, look at that. Good morning, everyone. Jessica boyington. An accident scene taking out pretty much all of the lanes. You can see traffic squeezing by that scene right now. We have a lot of Police Activity on the scene. A 29minute drive. Also watch for an accident up in upper marion near North Henderson road. The sun is up. Just a few thin clouds. Look at that. A few clouds at citizen bank park. We got a cold start this morning. Even at the shore. In wildwood, 38. Factor in the wind and it feels like one below zero in the mountains. Deaf nutley cold. Bright sunshine will work its magic and wind up in the 40s this afternoon and the clouds will be increasing later today. Light snow holds off until late tonight and first thing tomorrow morning. All right, bill. Thanks. You can also get information on the weather and weather and traffic anytime. Yeah, especially with the snow coming in. The today show is next. Well see you for local updates in just minutes. Have a great day. A phony, a fraud. Just out what amitt romney is claiming to say about donald trump today as Republican Leaders openly consider finding a Third Party Candidate to take on trump. With another big debate tonight donald trump will join us live to respond. Welcome home. Scott kelly arrived from texas overnight and reunites with his family. It is a great feeling to be back here on planet earth. Smashandgrab. Dramatic video from a gun shop in houston. Thieves storm inside and