Heres a very frigid shot looking live in the poconos. We just saw some scattered snow showers fly through there. Every where else were looking for mainly cloudy skies and yeah we do have potential for these lakeeffect snow streamers to sort of push through and pop up in and around the region as we move through our saturday morning. First alert weather day because we need everybody to sort of Pay Attention to the weather today and tomorrow. Near record cold temperatures. Thats what we anticipate. Dangerous wind chills along with wind gusts getting up to about 50 Miles Per Hour today. So we have a wind chill advisory from just about every where across the philadelphia region until tomorrow morning 9 00 a. M. Because the coldest arctic piece of this front hasnt even pushed through yet. So well be getting even colder. 22 in philadelphia. Its down a tick in the poconos at 12 degrees and its 19 degrees in allentown, 20 in atlantic city. When we factor in the wind and the winds will be intensifying. Expect these numbers to be dropping as we move through our saturday. This is what it feels like right now mainly single digits, feeling like negative 3 in the poconos. Patchy snow showers expected as we move through our saturday. Bitter wind gusts. Philadelphia high 18. But the temperature will be dropping off through the afternoon hours. Rosemary . Volunteers are helping the homeless get off the streets during this extreme cold. Dozens streamed into joseph house in camden last night. The city has issued a code blue emergency from tonight until monday morning. Two Warming Centers are available in addition to josephs house on atlantic avenue. The new Life CommunityDevelopment Corporation on haddon have new is open. Imagine if you had to sleep outside. 700 adults and children are choosing to do that in Montgomery County. Drew smith is live in lower providence township to explain why the boy scouts are braving these bitter cold conditions on this weekend in particular. Drew . Reporter yeah. President s day weekend a tradition for these boy scouts to come out here, go to Valley Forge Park to experience it all and its a real experience this year. So far its cold but the scouts are still asheep. Thats a food sign. They are layering up make being sure they take precautions because it can get dangerous. We captured the scouts pitching their tents last night. Everybody had gloves and protective gear on. Troops are here from around the country. Originally 1,000 scouts signed up and about 700 of them decided to come anyway despite the conditions but they say they are ready for this even as a harsh chill is expected to dip down even further this morning. All of the campers have had some sort of training through cold weather camping. We offer training to all of the scouts. They send some leaders to our training and then they take that knowledge back to their boy scout troop. Reporter we have seen some people awake, Walking Around this morning. Those are the scout leaders. They are checking on the tents to make sure everybody is okay. So far no problems. Im drew smith, nbc 10 news the. The water is back on and the street is reopened in this West Philadelphia neighborhood after a water main break left an icy mess yesterday. The frigid weather caused the water to freeze on the road and cars at 63 record street and girard streets. Nothing but ice. I cant even open the door. I rather deal with the snow. Ive seen a lot of vehicles, icicles on their cars, tires. Its very dangerous. Water Department Tells nbc 10 that the arctic air made repairs a challenge because the water kept freezing. If you have not done it now is the time to download the nbc 10 app to stay ahead of the dangerous cold this weekend. On our app youll find the first alert forecast every time we update it youll see it. Youll get Severe Weather alerts sent straight to your smartphone. Today in norristown theres a celebration of life service for 12yearold Sanford Harling. He died last week after he ran back inside his Burning House to save his father whom he thought was trapped. Sanfords dad escaped by jumping from a second floor window. Investigators are looking for the cause of this fire. The service for Sanford Harling is scheduled for 11 00 this morning at the Christian NetworkOutreach United Church of christ on swede street in norristown. The service is open to the public. A suspect arrested in a deadly hitandrun in Delaware County remains in jail this morning. A heem scott is charged with the crash. Scott got in his car after an argument with his girlfriend and took off without clearing snow from the windshield. Hes allegedly speeding when he hit and killed Mary Ann Bennett and then kept going. Scott was already on parole for a drug charge. A dying widow of a gunman that opened fire at a delaware courthouse will spend the rest of her life in prison. Yesterday the judge sentenced her while she lay in a bed at Jefferson University hospital. Her son david said last week his mother had just months left to live. His mother and sister were convicted of cyber stalking, that crime resulted in the death of davids exwife at the New Castle County courthouse in wilmington in 2013. Today a chance to save a life. The American Red Cross is holding blood drives this weekend. Theres an urgent need for blood donations throughout the winter. Go to our mother of consolation on east Chestnut Hill from 9 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. Or sunday head to old st. Joseph church from 8 30 in the morning until 1 30 in the afternoon. An outpouring of grief for two deputies shot and killed in the line of duty. Up next well take you to a vigil to honor them in baltimore. Late ear man requests one mile uber ride and ends up costing him 171. How it happened and how you can keep it from happening to you. Good saturday morning. Im meteorologist karen thomas. Were in a first alert weather day because we got Important Information about your forecast today, tonight and for tomorrow as well. So well go outside where it is very cold, we have a live shot. Some motorists are out early inmorning. If you have to head out early today you want to bundle up and plan on having quick trips outside if you can. You want to stay indoors today, first alert weather day simply because we have dangerous cold near record cold settling in. Bitter cold this morning but we havent even gotten to our lowest temperatures and wind chill factors just yet. Dangerous wind chills as we move on through the afternoon with wind gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour. We have a wind chill advisory for most of the area until tomorrow morning at 9 00 a. M. Simply because the winds will be increasing, factored with really cold arctic temperatures, its going to feel very cold outside. 11 in the poconos right now, these are current temperatures, 20 in atlantic city, 22 in philadelphia. This is what it feels like when we factor in the winds. It feels like 4 below in the poconos so rosemary and i were talking even skiers have to plan on quick trips on the mountain today. If youre heading outside bundle up but if you can stay inside thats the best call. Rosemary. 5 41 on this saturday. This weekend Law Enforcement in maryland and across the country are remembering two sheriffs deputies who were gunned down earlier this week. Last night more than 100 people attend a candlelight vigil for the murdered officers. A wanted suspect shot them inside a restaurant. Police killed the suspect during a shoot out. In Arizona Police now say two 15yearold female students died in a murder suicide. Their bodies were found yesterday near their High School Cafeteria in glendale. A suicide note was discovered at the scene. Detectives say the girls were Close Friends and appeared to be in a relationship but have not released any further details. In california a busted fire hydrant cause this canopy to collapse at a gas station. Two cars crashed on the nearby street and one of the cars hit the fire hydrant. Water shot into and landed on the canopy. The weight of that water caused to it collapse. Fortunately nobody was pumping gas or underneath the canopy at the time of this incident. Next in sports, dont miss what Allen Iverson had to say of being a finalist in the Basketball Hall of fame. Flyers are getting ready for a pair of arch rivals. Philly is the place to g getting inked. Dear fellow citizen, i know how it feels to save for retirement and College Times two. I get that it can be overwhelming, because im living it. But i always tell People Savings not that complicated. You just have to work with what you have. If you have a question about saving, ask me. Sincerely, alex payne. Fellow dad and fellow citizen. This is going to be a colorful weekend at the Pennsylvania Convention center. Thats because the Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention is under way. Nbc 10s keith jones gives us a look on what youll find inside. Reporter okay. So i wasnt brave enough to get a tattoo but there are plenty of people here that did get tattoos. This is the largest Tattoo Convention on the east coast. To the outsider its intimidating pop the insider its a community. The needle jumps. It pierces. It scars. Some are not as bad as i expected. Reporter eric clark likes skull. He says everyone should get a tattoo. We found stars on side burns, wings across a neck and a bird on a thigh. This is what everyone is doing to express what they are into. A lot of older people think its so bad to do and that youre harming your body. This is crazy. Reporter for sharon tatoos are therapeutic. When i go through stuff in life, i get a tattoo. The artist listens. Reporter hundreds of good listeners spread out across thousands of square feet. Every color of ink and skin. You meet these people the same day and the amount of trust they put into you is incredible. Reporter Pennsylvania Convention center, keith jones, nbc 10 news. Listen to a guy from washington, d. C. Learn ad very important lesson, a hard lesson about uber after falling asleep on a ride home. He requested a ride around 2 00 in the morning to drive him just about a mile to his house. He admits he did not enter his destination into the app but said he told the driver his address. Then he fell asleep. Two hours and six minutes, 71 miles and 171 later he was home. Really to be dramatic, company have been taking pictures of me, have other people in the car, stopping other places. I literally dont know what you were doing and its like, that just makes me feel a little uncomfortable. Uber ended up refunding his money. The company suggests passengers enter their destination into the app before they take a trip. Lets go down to the shore. Adventure is calling you in cape may county. Youll get points for bravery and charity if you take an icy dip in the ocean or a brisk stroll through streets. The city is holding its annual polar plunge this weekend. The plunge is set for 2 00 this afternoon. More than 2,000 people are expected to venture into the frigid surf wind chills around zero. Because of the dangerous cold extra ambulance crews and police will be on hand. Going to be bitter cold. Colder than they ever had before probably. Use your head. This might not be the time to going first year. Not feeling up to it dont. I dont know. You can check it off your bucket list. The polar plunge is today. The polar bear walk and run for autism is set for tomorrow. I dont know. Im kind of thinking Polar Bear Plunge might want to be rescheduled. This is not the day to be jumping into the ocean as our temperatures are very cold this morning. But getting even colder as we move on through our saturday. Were looking for near record cold. This is arctic air that we dont typically see in the midatlantic moving in via arctic front that has yet to push all the way through. Coldest temperatures and strongest winds have not settled into the area. Dangerous wind chills onto way with wind gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour. Checking temperatures around the region right now, its interesting but we are cold but were going to become bitterly cold as we move on through saturday and night. 18 degrees in pottstown, mainly in the teens, 11 up there in the no, sir. Teens north and west and philly 22 degrees still hanging on to the 22 mainly in the lower 20s every where else. Up in the poconos, boy were looking for absolutely frigid wind chills as we move on through the afternoon hours, so up here in the poconos parts of the lehigh valley, wind chill warning and thats really dangerously cold weather. People, even bundled up cant spend a lot of time out in that weather. For everyone else a wind chill advisory in effect until tomorrow morning at about 9 00 a. M. Because as i said that super cold air has yet to funnel in. Its going to get even colder. We factor in the wind chill. These are the values with the wind chill factored in. This is what it feels like outside right now and so were below zero, feeling like negative four up in the mountains and going to get even colder believe it or not. Nine degrees in philadelphia. Feeling like 8 degrees in wilmington. If you have to be somewhere this morning, really bundle up and get there quickly. Get to the car quickly. Turn the heat on. Dont spend a lot of time outside in the elements. I like this graphic because the hourly forecast showing us our temperature dip towards the end of the day. Getting to the evening hours were at 13 degrees but feels like zero because were going to be dealing with those winds as we move on through the afternoon. What can a wind chill value do to us . Well, frozen and bursting pipes thats sort of what can happen there. Hypothermia and frostbite. Only takes a few minutes for frostbite to set in. Even skiing if the skin is exposed only going to take a few minutes for that damage and you can forget about the pets. May not be a great day to let the pets go out and juaner about. Radar showing us we have lakeeffect streamers coming in from the northwest as the wind picks up. We anticipate isolated scattered snow showers. Larger storm is what were watching for monday. Blocking high in place but system will be coming up. Cold enough for snow as it begins on monday afternoon. But then changing with a little bit of ice there. Changing over to rain because the warm front pushes in and in the warm sector of that system. Temperatures going to have about a 30 degree come tuesday. Heres a look at the seven day forecast. A little bit everything for sure. We do have to get through this first alert weekend. Valentines day tomorrow, your heart may be warm, but your conditions outside will be chilly. And then were watching the system come in on monday starting as snow, develop late in the day early evening. Thats what its look like right now. Then we get the temperature bump through dont and changing over to rain, heavy rain on tuesday, a few scattered showers wednesday morning as the system gets out here then temperature will moderate towards the end of the week. Hey, Allen Iverson is a finalist for the Basketball Hall of fame. The class will be announced at the beginning of april. This was announced at the nba allstar weekend. Hes known by a lot of players and coaches as pound for pound the best player in nba history. The induction ceremony is in september. Well get our answer then. Seems a. I. Will be in there. List to this. Congratulations on the nomination. And we may be seeing you later this summer. You never know. Maybe. When . Springfield . Oh, i hope so. Hopefully hell thereabout. S sixers playing last night to tip off allstar. Okafor playing for team usa. Second half, how about a pull up three. Six from seven from the field, 13 points, team usa beats the world 157154. Flyers big backtoback this weekend against division rivals, devils and rangers six points back in the playoff chase with four teams ahead of them. A lot more at stake when theres a team that youre chasing. But i think you look at the schedule and every is huge right now. Were close but not out. We have to take care of business daybyday and this is a really big weekend for us. What was jake doing last night . He was at Bruce Springsteen at the wells fargo center. Jake switching from hockey sticks to guitars doing i had impression of the boss. Heres the phillys equipment truck leaving clearwater. Pitchers and catchers report wednesday. First work out is thursday. The phanatic jumped on there. Check this out. Matt montello from well beyond halfcourt gives mount olive the 5149 win. Wow. Top ranked villanova hosts st. Johns. Hopefully they dont need a buzzer beater to. They are number one in the country. Im john clark. Enjoy your weekend. 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. 5 56 on this saturday. Heres a live look over philadelphia. You can see that wind blowing out there and thats really going be the issue over the next few days. Meteorologist karen thomas tells us the wind chill at some point this weekend may be subfreezing. Going to be down right frigid. She will have details throughout the rest of the newscast. Seniors dance their friday night away in south philly for the Fourth Annual senior sweetheart dance. It allowed them to kick up their heels. Seniors learned about living a healthy lifestyle. Just in time for valentines day the son of a soldier is savoring the Sweet Surprise he received at middle school in florida. Take a look. Boy, come here, give me a hug. Hes been reunited with his father. He came back early from serving overseas. Father and son hadnt seen each other since last summer. Dad teamed up with School District for a surprise that left him speechless. Trying to hold in the tears. Glad to be home. They say they will spend valentines day fishing or playing ball. Remember they are in florida, they are not here in the philadelphia region where were dealing with some bitter cold temperatures not everybody is staying inside, though. Some boy scouts are choosing to spend their weekend outdoors braving the elements. Nbc 10s drew smith fills us in. Reporter yeah, rosemary. Can you believe this . Well show you how they are staying warm in tents with no heat. A lot of preparation out here. Well show you that at the top of the hour. Im tracking dangerous cold and we havent Mouhamed Sene just how cold things are going get around here as we move through our saturday and our saturday night. The blue cross river rink will get even colder. Were talking dangerous cold. Ill let you know what that means when we kwont our first alert weather day. Ill have our full forecast after the break. This morning we have issued a first alert day because of the dangerous weather this is glenside, Montgomery County where overnight as you can see it was 28 degrees. Thats the warmest it will get this weekend. Also overnight snow squalls moved through center city, philadelphia. We could see more scattered showers today. Camden issued a cod