Some suburbs are a little chilly this morning. Be on the lookout for icy spots. Even though the temperature is above freezing and will be climbing first thing this morning. Ground was so cold over the last few days. Rain overnight maybe some areas of ice. Treated surfaces find a majority of roads are not going to be an issue. During the day. Also get sunshine. See temperatures climb and the conditions dry out some more. New jersey 49 degrees while it will be up to 50s degrees at the shore. Few rain drops we see here for the evening stays dry during the day today. When to expect rain drops to fall when i come back with future cast in ten minutes. First Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Starting off on route 202 this morning. Cameras right around route 29. No major problems or delays here. Traffic flowing freely. 7 minutes northbound from this point. And average speeds are also in to the mid 60s. Crash out in upper pots grotsgr crash on park road and gravel pike. Police responding to the scene of that. Use extra caution there. Also watching 76. This is in glosser city over in new jersey. Right around market street. Traffic in this lane right here. Moving northbound. Headed towards philadelphia, going that way. No problems or delays moving up towards philadelphia. Bridges look okay as well. Katie, back to you. Jessica, thank you. To the president ial transition now. President elect donald trump is expected to hold a News Conference. It has been six months since he last one. Thats the longest wait for any recent president elect. He is expected to face questions about how he plans to disentangle himself from his familyowned business empire. Hes also expected to talk about what role he believes russia played in the Election Year hacking of the democratic groups. A new accomplished report says russia may have obtained quote damaging and personal information about the president elect. Nbc asked trump adviser Kellyanne Conway about the allegations. Fib is trying to confirm it. President elect tweeted fake news. Total political witch hunt. Not clear if he specifically referring to that new report. A kremlin spokesperson denies the allegations. 6 03. 42 degreeings outside. Capitol hill, today Rex Tillerson getting in the hot seat. President elect trumps nominee for secretary of state. Day two of hearings for senator Jeff Sessions nominated for attorney general. Cory booker expected to testify against sessions at the hearing. First time a senator will testify against a fellow senator. Booker has said he believes some of sessions visions pose a danger to the country. During yesterdays testimony, sessions denied that claim as attorney general he would go after muslims. I have no belief and do not support the idea that muslims as a religious group should be denied admission to the united states. Sessions did pledge to crack down on illegal immigration. And get tough on gun violence. President obama has just nine more days to go in office. Last night delivered farewell address to nation. Back in adopted home of chicago for the speech. Outlined achievements. New voices and leaders to emerge. Repeated the refrain of his 2008 campaign. Im asking you to hold fast to faith. Created the core of every american whose story is not yet written. Yes, we can. Yes, we did. And with that, he waved to the crowd. The first lady turning to the white house this morning. Michelle obama will make her final talk show appearance tonight before he husband leaving office. Shes be on the tonight show with jimmy fallen this evening. Right here on nbc 10 at 11 30. First lady has been on the show twice before. Five minutes past six right now. Happening today, the man at the center of the philadelphia clergy sex abuse scandal. Trying to avoid a retrial. Nbc 10 Pamela Osborne live outside the criminal Justice Center where the hearing will happen later today. Pam, walk us through whats going to happen. Several things are going to with happening inside of the courtroom today. Expecting to hear from a detective who interviewed one of the prosecutions key witnesses in the case. The defendant will argue the detective who interviewed that main witness, an alleged victim, gave inconsistent statements about the abuse. They say the prosecution never told them and allowed the alleged victim to testify anyway. Prosecution is calling that absu absurd. The judge will be deciding on if there is if the guilty plea of a priest who he is accused of covering up for will be allowed if there is a new trial as well. Montsignor william lynn first in the church to be convicted for the super vision of priest. Conviction was thrown out. Lynn released from prison in august. Vacated 2012 conviction. District Attorneys Office decided not to drop charges. Prosecutors will be pursuing a new trial. Judge will be hearing from both sides today at 2 00 if this does go to trial, jury selection could begin as early as may 15. Pamela osborne, nbc 10 news. Overnight, Philadelphia Police looking into what led to this crash that tied up traffic on the roosevelt boulevard. The car as you see crasheds into a utility poll near sixth street knocking the poll down. Did not report any outages. Deliverile driver danger. People who deliver food are in officers say five delivery men have been robbed. Two of them have been shot. Crimes are located in the same area of chester near the 1300 block of west ninth street. Were really just trying to make a living. These guys are trying to make a living. Some of them are exfelons. Turning around lives and trying to feed families. Its out here. Almost a war zone. Chester police think the same three to four armed men are all blind the crime spree. Its 6 08. Notice it as soon as you walk out the door. Much warmer temperature today as we take a live look at broad street right now. Wet street. The rain has moved out. The rain is done. The bind is blowing and that putting warm air into the area overnight. Puch of the area still seeing very cold ground. So some suburbs and into the Lehigh Valley. You may see some icy spots. A few icy spots have been reported on the suburbs. Possibly in the Lehigh Valley too. With that wind blowing in warmer air and sunshine, were going to see icy spots disappear during the day. Warmer temperatures with us this afternoon. Mild and dry. Especially compared to what weve been there. Get to near 50 degrees this afternoon. The dry, thats during the day. Rain is set to return this evening. The temperatures will stay elevated through this evening. Not expecting any icing. The temperatures now in the low 40s for philadelphia and south jersey. South jersey about 40 degrees warmer than yesterday at this time. Delaware 42. Still some chillier spots in the suburbs and especially in the Lehigh Valley. This is where you could see icy spots this morning. Same story. Into allentown, 35 degrees. The air is at 35 degrees, but the ground may still be cold. If it hasnt been treated, expect to find some ice this morning. It wont last. Well see sunshine in fact the clouds that are over the shore are not producing any rain. That rain has now completely moved offshore. Just off to the northwest t skies are already clearing. Its this early clearing thats allowing the temperatures to fall before sunrise this morning. Theyll recover during the day today and any icy spots in the suburbs will complete disappear. Heres how it looks this afternoon. 3 30. Look at the 40s and low 50s. Little bit more sunshine in these neighbors go even warmer today. Look what comes rights back this evening. Rain moving in at 7 30 this evening. During the overnight hours, see periods of steadier rain. By first thing tomorrow morning, that rain is out of here. Temperatures warmer across the board than they are this morning. And even warmer tomorrow afternoon. 60s you see on the 7 day forecast at the bottom of the screen, show you how long theyre going to last on the ten day on ten when im back in ten. We like that. Thanks so much. Not as hard to get out the door with weather like this. See, you look forward to getting in your car. What about the roads, lets check those. Nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter. What do you see there . Were moving through camden here. Just underneath the graphic over here. Ben franklin toll plaza. Youre seeing this traffic moving towards philadelphia. No big problems or delays there yet up and over the bridge. At least for right now. Theres a crash thats moving to our system. Heres the boulevard looking okay. More delays headed southbound. You can see more traffic heading that way. All the traffic approaching the schuylkill expressway just past wissahickon avenue. Out in cherry hill township. Set of malfunctioning traffic lights on route 7 0. Taking its toll on both directions just around penn avenue. All lanes open in both directions. Use caution and watch for Police Activity on the scene as well. End on 95. Seeing a slow down. 17 minutes right now southbound from woodhaven road. Philadelphia school buses driver is accused of leaving a child on the running bus alone. Police say the driver left the child there to go grocery shopping. Next, what he tried to tell police he was doing instead. 11 minutes past six, modern day pen pals. The less son in current events. Uhhuh. Unscheduled stop. School buses driver leaving a 7yearold on the bus while running. Picked up the second grader on monday. Then stopped at a shop right and told the boy to stay put on the bus. A passer by called police who found the driver inside the store. Cant tell a 7yearold to sit tight on a running bus in west philadelphia. It just doesnt make sense to me. Henry is charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Police say they did find marijuana on him too. The boy was not hurt. Its quarter after six. Delaware county some Police Officers are getting more protection. Upper car by Police Superintendent would announce yesterday each of his officers would receive a new bulletproof vest and an extra layer of safety worn over the existing bulletproof vest. At the jersey shore, a k nine is also getting a new vest. 9 is also getting a new vest\is also getting a new vest. Vested interest in k9s is donating. Third and fourth graders have met monthly with Syrian Refugees after havrfoerforhaver most refugees have nothing, but the clothes on their back. They have taken to art to express their feelings. In fact, the local students have collected supplies for their friends overseas to continue this much needed hobby. It makes me feel like im luckier than i thought i was. Seeing that those kids, theyre cold and they dont get to see their parents as much and seeing they dont have as much as we have, it kind of malks me feel like i want to donate. Coming up on nbc 10 news tomorrow, well check in with the schools effort to raise awareness and supplies for the group of refugees. Quite a less son. It really is. Look at route 7 0. Action going on. Looks like they are complete out in both directions. No major delays because of this. Definitely something to watch out for. With Police Activity moving through the intersection. At least until thats back. Also watching an accident on ridge road and township line road. Here is 422 starting to see a little bit of slowdown around trooper road. Trooper road is back here. Not backed up to that yet. Seeing delay is headed eastbound. Thats the traffic moving towards the schuylkill expressway. Ten minute trip right now eastbound from 29 to that point. Speeds dropping, but still into the 50s. End here on the hatfield township. Might be detoured around the scene there. Keep checking in as soon as rush hour gets underway, check in on slow spots. Jessica, thanks. Check with meteorologist bill henley to talk about warm early temperatures this morning and warmer temperatures to come. Good shape this morning. Temperatures in the 40s. Much warmer than yesterday. Most of the roads last there. Offshore now. Beach avenue is still damp and still well above freezing this morning. In fact, closer to 50 degrees at the shore right now. New jersey is 43 degrees and 40 for philadelphia and delaware. Still some chillier neighbors in the Lehigh Valley and the suburbs. So if you see a little sheen on the roadway, treat it as ice. The temperatures are above freezing and that will continue through the day today. Any ice will be disappearing. Just getting a few reports of ice on the roadways. Wont find it in the city however. Look at the numbers. 40 in andorra. 43 at penns. Somerton the school spot. Philadelphia airport at 44. Chilly morning at the bus stop with clearing skies already. The temple temperatures could n a little more. Still could be icy spots at 8 00 this morning. Atlantic city, 44. Warmer temperatures will take hold during the day today. As the clouds move out. Get some sunshine and watch those temperatures climb, but not going to be sunshine all day. See this rain to the south. That arrives this evening. Late this afternoon before the rain gets here, well start to see clouds moving in. Temperatures will stay above freezing. In fact look at the warmup for tomorrow. 65 degrees tomorrow afternoon. Rain that comes in overnight clears in throughout the day. Temperatures come back down. Saturday the cool spot. That is a possibility. Well get wet weather on saturday. Weekend forecast has a weak system coming through. Saturday theres a chance of light snow for much of the area. Or mix of snow and rain for new jersey, delaware, and the jersey shore. Thats just a chance at this point. Then we clear out for sunday. It starts another warming trend. Which will have us in the 50s next week. Shining spot, thats tomorrow. 65 degrees with sunshine. Cooler on friday. Above freezing all day. There comes the weak system coming through on saturday before we clear out on sunday and then another warmup starts tuesday afternoon. 56 degrees. For the rest of the workweek next week afternoon temperatures stay in the 50s. 6 21. The driver seat in a car next to you could soon be empty. Next the push to make pennsylvania a testing ground for driverless cars. Later, a local mayor jumps into action to save a girl from burning home. Advising thousands of people to find places to stay. Crews are trying to bolster levees near sacramento to keep the flooding from getting worse. Driver took this picture as an avalanche covered a highway in colorado. The bulk of the snow was stopped by large protection walls built there. No one was hurt. Looeheres a live look at t wednesday traffic. Pen dot wants the state to be a testing ground for selfdriving cars. State officials have applied to be part of a project to study the new technology. Proposed using the poconos raceway and penn state racetrack as testing grounds as well as streets around pittsburgh. The wind is glowing warm air into the area. 42 degrees at 6 25. Parts of the area about 40 degrees warmer than yesterday. Still chilly spots around. Watch out for ice especially on untreated surfaces in the suburbs in the Lehigh Valley. Neighborhood forecast is just ahead. Next at six, president s final farewell. Message to the first lady and his daughters tearful reaction. Later investing in alternate. Pennsylvanias plan to make it easier for you to get around without a car. Looks like were still a man short. Not anymore. Gus the second most famous groundhog in pennsylvania. Lets hit the ice. Whoaaa take the shot buzzer that shot was one in a million. Sos this. All the money millionaire edition, new from the pennsylvania lottery. With five top prizes of a million bucks. Its a real game changer. giggles keep on scratchin responding to russia report. A farewell to the nation. President obamas Emotional Message to americans and a tribute to his wife and daughters. 60s in site. A big warmup underway. When it will start feeling like spring. Good wednesday morning. This will is nbc 10 news. Feeling more like spring. Get you details on that. Meteorologist has your first alert neighborhood forecast. Much improved conditions allaround. Rain fell overnight. Temperatures holding in the low 40s for much of the area. Philadelphia and the suburbs 41 degrees. Is southwesterly wind at 7 miles an hour. Helping with the warmup. Suburbs and the Lehigh Valley. Clearing skies right now. Easton. 35 degrees in easton. Few neighbors colder than that. If it hasnt dried up, you may run into icy spots this morning. If it hasnt been treated sunshine. See the numbers get closer to 50 degrees. This evening, you know the rain moved out this morning. Another round coming in the evening. After we get the warmup during the day. Walk you through the forecast hour by hour. Come back in ten minutes. First, Jessica Boyington has an update. Were watchi ining cherry hi new jersey. Finally in camera view here. See Police Activity both sides of the road directing traffic around the scene. Traffic lights arent working at all. Not even on flash. Could be a dangerous situation there. If somebody runs through the intersection. Right around hattenfield road. Watch for Police Activity there. Gun shell road came into our system. 95 just around girard avenue. Looking okay now. Southbound side seeing more of a delay. Thats normal. 27 minute trip. Average speeds dropping to the 30s. Now the president ial transition. First time since july. The longest wait for any president elect. Comes just hours after new report claims russia has damaging information on trump. Nbc matt delucia following all these new developments. Sources tell nbc news that president elect trump was informed about these allegations during his Intelligence Briefings recently. Allegations about dealings with russia. Nbc damaging information regarding trumps financial affairs. That information by the way has not yet been verified by the fbi. Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway appeared on late night with seth myers last night. He asked her about the new developments. Heres her thoughts. Also says that Hillary Clinton and groups that wanted Hillary Clinton to win. And most importantly it says the fbi is trying to confirm it. Nothing has been confirmed. President elect trump he sent out a tweet last night which reads fake news a total political witch hunt. Russian spokesman this morning says that do not have a compromising information about trump calling this a hoax. A fabrication. And nonsense. As we mentioned president elect trump is expected to hold first News Conference since july. Coming up at 11 00 a. M. In the meantime, much more coming up on the today show less than 30 minutes from now. Live in the operation center, matt delucia, nbc 10. President obama heads back to washington after delivering farewell address. He outlined achievements and said he will continue to serve the country. It has been the honor of my life to serve you. I wont stop. In fact, ill be right there with you as a citizen for all my remaining days. It was an emotional speech that brought tears to the eyes of his daughter malia. The president thanked his wife First Lady Michelle Obama for her love and support during his term in office. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf tweeted this after the farewell address. Thank you president obama. Thanks to you we were able to give nearly 700,000 pennsylvanians access to health care. Inauguration will mark the end of decade of service by joe biden. Mr. Biden also served 36 years in the senate. Mr. Biden tweeted, quote, january 20, jill and i will head home to delaware. The same way i have for 44 years. By train. Serving this country has been our greatest honor. 6 34. Happening today expected to learn whether the case against philadelphia montsignor william lynn can be retried. At the center of the clergy sex abuse scandal. Sent to prison then his case was overturned. Philadelphia prosecutors want to retry him. A judge is expected to issue a ruling today. Stay with nbc 10 and the nbc 10 app for updates from court when we get them. Today convicted charleston, South Carolina dylann roof will be formerly sentenced to death. Yesterday jury took three hours to decide the fate. Showed no remorse during the trial and had no reaction to the verdict. Roof was found guilty for killing nine people during the 2015 massacre at his korically black church. New overnight Philadelphia Police investigating a shooting that started as an assault. Heres what happened. A man was punched leaving a chinese restaurant. He ran away. Then pulled the gun out and shot one of theory men who was chasing him. Police are now questioning the shooter and the gunshot victim. Out on bail after being charged with sexual assault. Teacher at north Penn High School until he resigned after being accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenage student. Students told police that the sexual encounters happened more than once between november and december. It was topic of conversation at dinner tonight and we just have to go through and explain thats an abuse of power. Miller posted 50,000 bail and now awaiting trial. Five mothers from Montgomery County are remembering murder teenager grace packer. Hold a Memorial Service for grace monday afternoon. Mothers raised more than 5,000 for the tribute and scholarship that will benefit children. Last night, police searched the home of a third person of interest in this case. Authorities say this is an apartment where graces adoptive mother and her mothers boyfriend lived with another woman. Also newly released documents show the adoptive mom sara packer was fired for misconduct. Sara and her boyfriend jacob sul janua sullivan are accused of murdering grace. Awarded 1. 5 million settlement to the family of a wilmington man killed by police while sitting in wheelchair. Officers shot him 2015 after getting a call about a man firing a gun. Cell phone video shows him reaching for his waste after officers ordered him to drop his weapon. Prosecutors did not file charges against the officers. When you walk outside, sit a pleasant surprise. Just wait for the next couple of days. Right. Bill henley we knew it was coming. This should not be a shock at all. Youve been taking notes watching my weather forecast. My body was surprised. My mind wasnt. Let me show you what im surprised about. How quickly things are clearing. Look at the clouds. Live view from center city. Clouds moving ahead in a hurry. A good thing and a bad thing. Its good because were going to be on aur way to sunshine. Still about an hour for the coldest time of day. Just after sunrise. Enough time for the temperatures to come down a bit more. Not a problem in the city where its in the 40s and drying out rapidly. Some suburbs will see a little bit of ice this morning. Jessica boyington spotting some in red hill pennsylvania. That was the latest report this morning, but it is going to change because the suburbs with the rest of the area will be warming up. Combination of sunshine and winds out of southwest. 44 degrees by noontime. 45 at 2 00. During the afternoon, those clouds will be moving back into the area. Cold spots also in the Lehigh Valley. If it hasnt been treated or hasnt dried out, expect to find some icy spots first thing this morning. They will quickly disappear. Look how clear it is in the Lehigh Valley. 39 degrees. Nicely above freezing at 10 00. Into the 40s this afternoon. New jersey, some lingering clouds wont last much longer. Partly sunny to mostly sunny skies. 48 degrees at 2 00 this afternoon. Jersey shore get closer to the 50 degree mark. 46 degrees right now. Not going to get much chillier just after sunrise and back to 40s this afternoon. Southwesterly winds helping to dry things out during the day today. Delaware quickly clearing out. See 30s at 8 00 this morning that end in the 40s this afternoon. More wet weather on the way. Doesnt arrive until this evening. Look at that when i come back with the ten day on ten. About 20 minutes before 7 00. Things are picking up on the roads. Couple of issues to tell you about. Well let Jessica Boyington tell you about it. Moving through Chester County, reports of several more icy spots. Right along route 2, several accidents reported here. Now probably because of unexpected considering the warm temperatures. Multiple accidents again. Route 30 eastbound right around route 113. Route 82 northbound near route 30. And another one at cherry lane. Some effects both directions. Lane restrictions pretty much all over the place. Up and down Chester County. Right around route 282. No accidents reported in this scene here. I just wanted to show you the slow go. See its a little slow even with traffic moving in both directions. Watch for those icy spots. Theres a crash on upper. Fran con conia franconia. These traffic lights on flash. So you can see Police Activity in both directions directing traffic around the scene. Thats creating a little bit of backup now as we approach rush hour. Updates on this and slippery spots again when i come back. Jessica, thanks. Irs is warning about a tax refund delay. 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If you have a consumer problem, let us know. The best way to reach us right there on your screen. We will respond to you. About a quarter of seven right now. 42 degrees outside. We take a live look at the roads. 95 because bill henley has just issued a first alert because of the slippery icy conditions in some areas. Tell us more about that. Wont be 95, but getting numerous reports of slippery conditions. Im talking about the Lehigh Valley, berks county. Suburbs. Issued a rain that came down overnight. The air is above freezing. There are some colder neighbors and the ground is still frozen. Leading to icy spots this morning. Not widespread, but theyre out there and may surprise you if you come upon them. Slippery conditions first thing this morning until the 9 00 hour. Then see enough sunshine and warm temperatures to warm things up, but right now, live view from easton. Look how clear it is. The clouds wasted to time getting out. Thats allowed to temperatures to drop down a bit in Lehigh Valley. And for some suburbs as well. Not an issue in in south jersey. Philadelphia, or delaware. Some spots in the Lehigh Valley right at freezing. Even if the air temperatures a little bit above freezing, use caution. If it look damp on the road, the ground is still colder. It has not warmed up as much as the air. Run into ice. Thats also true in bethlehem. And some of the suburbs as well. Chester into montgomery and bucks county. Even though its upper 30s rights now. Ground has been so cold over the last few days, no surprise were seeing a little bit of ice in some spots. Majors will be just fine. Warmer neighbors shonts uldnt n issue. We will see the temperatures climb. There go the clouds. Once the sun comes up, 7 22 this morning. Warming process begins, but until then, its thooz areas that could get a little bit colder. Watch out for some ice. Then, a nice warmup during the day. Rain. This rain comes in tonight. First arrives this evening. Will stay warmer and get warmer for tomorrow. Look at 60s for thursday. Then cools down over the weekend. 34 for saturday. Thats when we could see a weak system bring some precipitation. Could be a mix of rain and snow. Just a chance of light snow in the area on saturday. Then its out of here on sunday. Watch out for the slippery spots first thing this morning. Enjoy sunshine this afternoon. 48 degrees. And rain comes through tonight. Big warmup tomorrow. Starts to cool down on friday. Real cool down arrives saturday with that weak system and light snow. Then a slow warmup next week. Sunday and monday in the low 40s. Back into the 50s starting tuesday. Bill, 10 before seven. Talk more about icy conditions and problems the ice on the roads is causing. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington standing by with that information. The 30 bypass moving through Chester County reports of multiple accidents. Watching right around our camera at route 282. No accident in this camera scene right here, but definitely cars going a little slower than normal. Watch for accidents eastbound just near route 113. Route 82 northbound around route 30. Longview lane and cherry lane. Lehigh county for a crash. 222 right around grim road. Affecting lanes in both directions there. Slippery spots reported there as well. Upper providence on south lewis road. Move over into new jersey. Traffic lights malfunctioning. Right around hattenfield road. Mass transit running on or close to schedule this morning. Thanks for the update. Bon jovi is helping bands achieve their dreams. This is going to be a lot of fun for a lucky band. New jersey rockers holding a contest to find opening acts for upcoming tour. The winners will play a 20 minute set before bon jovi takes the stage. One artist or band selected for each tour date including the stop at Wells Fargo Center march 31. 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Day two for Jeff Sessions. New jersey senator cory booker is expected to testify against session at todays hearing. First Lady Michelle obama will make talk show appearance tonight before her husband leaves office. On jimmy fallen. Today in charleston, south caroli carolina. A federal judge will formally sentence dylann roof. Recommended death penalty. Same jury convicted him of killing nine africanamerican at a bible study. Expected to learn whether the case against philadelphia montsignor william lin can be retried. Lynn was convicted on sex abuse and then overturned. Philadelphia prosecutors now fighting again to retry him. Judge is expected to issue a ruling in the case sometime today. Keep you updated on nbc 10 and on our nbc 10 app. Today the former Revel Casino Hotel could take a step closer to reopening. Owns the ocean front property and officials from his company will appear in fronts of casino control commission. Says he doesnt need to apply for casino license since a third party would actually run his planned casino report called ten. The control commission disagrees. This morning in philadelphia, mayor gjim kenny task to fight Opioid Epidemic will meet for first time. Expected to deliver a plan to the mayor within 90 days. Good morning, everyone. Jessica boyington with one last check on the roads. Watching the 30 bypass around route 282. Watching for slippery spots in cameras. Multiple accidents reported on route 30. One westbound. Another westbound around newport pike. Longview lane and cherry lane. Tons of slippery spots reported. Reports of icy conditions here as well. Route 222 around grim road. Also watching the schuylkill, check for any slow drive times. A little bit. Seeing red on the maps here. 26 minutes. Pretty much the same drive time in both directions. Watching eastbound from the blue route to vine. Moving towards center city where youll see slowdowns. Watching out in cherry hill around route 70. Still watching for these intersections where the traffic lights are not working. Police are directing traffic in both directions. Just issued a first alert based on jessicas reports of all the icing happening in the Lehigh Valley, berks, and the pennsylvania suburbs. This is until 9 00 this this morning. Temperatures still cooling downright now. Even though the rain has ended. The ground is still frozen. Leading to icy spots and slippery conditions. Might be deceiving. If youre looking at the temperature in your car shows 40s. Everybody in the suburbs, Chester County, montgomery reporting temperatures above freezing. The ground is still frozen. The air is warmer, its going to take time for the ground to warm up. We will see that happen this morning. First alert is in effect until 9 00 this morning. Please be careful. Well have updates throughout the morning as well. Well see you at 7 25 good morning. Breaking overnight. A stunning report that the russian government may have gathered potentially salacious and explosive information about donald trump. The damaging but unverified allegations reportedly part of Intelligence Briefings given to the president elect and the president last week. Trump quickly calling it fake news and a political witchhu hu. This morning, reaction from president obama and trumps incoming chief of staff who joins us live. Emotional goodbye. Yes, we can. Yes, we did. President obama uses his farewell address to take some veiled swipes at donald trump. For every two steps forward,