We are not tracking any snow out there. Clouds to report in new jersey and same for Lehigh Valley and delaware. North of Lehigh Valley, especially into the poconos, may run into icy patches. Thats a possibility. Hazleton now reporting snow. Temperatures are too warm for any frozen precipitation. The ground has been warm the last couple days. Looking at radar and satellite, it is across the map here in western zones, a steady rain we are looking at. Look at parts of chester and berks county. We are looking at showers that continue through the first half of the day, then start to move out end of the evening, setting up for a nice start to hanukkah and Christmas Eve. Coming up, we will get details on the conditions and temperatures to expect and what to look forward to for Christmas Day as well. 5 32. We are following breaking news out of bucks county. A van crashed along i95 in bensalem, now 15 people are in the hospital. Randy gyllenhaal just arrived at the scene. Fill us in on what you learned. Reporter this accident happened before all of the rain started to fall. It doesnt appear weather was a factor. It was serious enough to shut down all southbound lanes of interstate 95, just before woodhaven road, technically in bensalem. You can see some tow trucks working to clear a large Passenger Van that veered into the woods. Lets show you some video. State police tell us a large Passenger Van went off the highway into the woods and at least 15 people were transported to local hospitals. Authorities say they were working to free some passengers from the debris of the crash. Right now police say there are no fatalities, some passengers had serious injuries. All lanes of 95 southbound remain closed before woodhaven road. It is too early to know where exactly this large Passenger Van was headed this Christmas Eve or who the passengers are, but state police are working to clear the scene. We will keep you updated live from bensalem. Randy gyllenhaal, nbc10 news. Thanks for that, randy. New from overnight. Two men are in the hospital following a pile up in philadelphia. Nbc10 was on the scene on emerald street in kensington where a truck somehow ended up on top of cars at 2 30 this morning. We are working to find out the victims conditions and more details on the pile up. Today is the last day to squeeze in that holiday shopping. Tonight is Christmas Eve and beginning of hanukkah. That means plenty of people hitting stores to pick up last minute gifts. Shoppers pack malls across the area. This is the view from sky force 10 yesterday. You can see the parking lot at the Cherry Hill Mall is jammed. Probably see a similar scene today. Very busy at king of prussia mall. Theyre seeing strong holiday sales but arent releasing figures publicly. We spoke to several shoppers adding to the figures, some had a lot of shopping to do, others needed one or two things. Now i have to buy everything at the last minute. Under pressure, hopefully that helps me out. If you still need to do shopping, top toy sales are out. Popular gifts include barbie and boys, legos, star wars gear and hatchimal are everybodys favorite. You probably wont be able to find one this late in the game. Salvation army and wells fargo are helping families in need. They treated 150 families to a party, complete with santa claus, games and food and a Wells Fargo Stage coach. After the party, families were treated to a free performance of disney on ice. Some have a holiday meal thanks to sunshine creek. Opened a business in the neighborhood, like to give back to people who support us. One hand watching the other. Helping people in need at the holiday. They opened about a year ago. Hanukkah begins this evening at sunset. The jewish festival of lights is a celebration that dates back to ancient times. Heres a live look at boat house row, happy hanukkah in blue lights. These are the children in cherry hill getting into the spirit. Kindergarten students joined seniors for a holiday lunch, sang songs, recited blessings over the candles. If you are still scrambling for holiday gifts, you can find last minute holiday gift guides and ideas on nbc10. Com and the nbc10 app. Plus to get you in the spirit, tap the app to hear the sounds of christmas from local choirs th competed in the moore choir competition. In other news, a man is dead after his motorcycle slammed into a septa bus. It happened in the frankfurt neighborhood last night. Septa says nobody was hurt and the victim hasnt been identified. Investigators are trying to confirm what caused an apartment house fire that killed one person and left nine families with no place to go for the holidays. Flames broke out early yesterday morning at high and franklin streets. Firefighters found a mans body on the second floor of the building. Other people inside managed to the American Red Cross is now helping them. The fire chief says careless smoking likely started that fire. In Chester County,ith an avian flu about a dozen cats are in exposure to the bird flu virus. None have tested positive. The virus spread through the a decade ago, it is not harmful to humans. 5 37. A close call vikings. They had a rough landing heading to a Holiday Weekend game with the packers. Well tell you about it coming up. Christmas in bethlehem, pennsylvania that is. How the known as Christmas City usa is getting ready for the holida fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Cable cant offer that. Only fios can. Four inches fell over the area, another 6 to 8 inches expected today in idaho. Temperatures were expect to drop overnight. Folks there could see icy conditions this morning. First alert meteorologist krystal klei is tracking not a White Christmas but a little wet start to christmas. A windy, wet Christmas Eve the first half of the day. Then things start to dry out. We are completely dry by the Christmas Day forecast. Heres the radar and satellite. What we are seeing is a lot of green on the board and thats rain thats moving through. Why rain instead of snow, the temperatures are just too warm. Most of us sitting at 40 in the area. Thats not going to allow us to see snow make it to the ground. Just north of the viewing area, thats where we may see the changeover. I think radar is showing the changeover too soon. Temperatures by surface points are still above freezing for parts of the Lehigh Valley and berks county. Steady rain, deeper green and yellow in chester and Montgomery County, those areas are seeing heavy rain move through. Heres the time line for today, Christmas Eve forecast or beginning of hanukkah moving into this evening. Rain, 8 00 a. M. To lunch our, by noon moves offshore. Temperatures boost up. We get in the mid to upper 40s. Few spots should make it to 50 today. In the suburbs, 41 degrees. Showers are starting to break apart and move out. Lehigh valley is the same. By noon, wouldnt be surprised if parts of the Lehigh Valley completely dried out with temperatures making it in the mid 40s. Through delaware, 46 degrees at. Should peak in the 40s ands. 45 degrees by 4 00. And dry conditions. Also dry at the shore point. Showers hang there a little longer, around 1 00 is when they should move offshore. Temperatures make it into the lower 50s for high temperatures this saturday. Looking at the details for sunday coming up. The sixers out of time on a four game road trip starting with the suns. We have highlights coming in sports. And carson wentz had to be checked for concussion after this hit. Hear why Doug Pederson defends the call for him to block on this play. 5 44 right now on this saturday. Heres a live look at Philadelphia International airport whereas of now, no problems there. We expect it to get a bit more crowded as the day continues before traveling in and out of the area for the holiday. Well keep you posted throughout the morning in case there are hiccups at the airport. The Minnesota Vikings are safe and sound after the team plane slid off a snowy runway. The incident happened at an airport near green bay, wisconsin. The jet ended up stuck in the grass. They waited for hours to get off the plane. Fortunately nobody was hurt. The team twitter account said everyone is at the hotel snug in their beds. They play the packers later on today. Now to news overseas in syria. Hundreds are returning to aleppo to check their homes after Government Forces retook control from rebel fighters. Theyre sifting through debris for personal belongings blasted by nearly six years of civil war. Yesterday state television showed weapons and ammunition discovered in the basement of a school. Reports say army experts are dismantling booby traps left hyped by the rebels. Lets head to paris, holiday spirit is alive and well with tourists doing last minute shopping. The mood remains festive, despite tighter security following the berlin Christmas Market attack. The day after the attack, the French Interior minister urged everyone to party and enjoy paris outdoor Christmas Market. From christmas to new years eve, when you ring in the new year, last thing you want is fake sparkling wine. Italy is cracking down on production of fake pre sek oh. More than 300 fraudulent cases were found on the internet. It will be an extra special christmas for a delaware mother who officially adopted a fouryearold girl yesterday, but wasnt your typical adoption ceremony. The force was with little zoe who loves star wars. J. R. Smith has the sights and sounds from the courtroom in wilmington. I got to a point in my life where i really wanted to be a parent and i realized to me it was more important to parent somebody who needed it, needed a soft place to land, someone to care for them. We have many children of all ages in delaware who arent able to be with their biological family, it is so great when you find a family like we found today. You get this little person in your life, all of a sudden youre responsible for them, get to know them. Shes just irreplaceable now. When we got to the point adoption was getting ready, i asked her if you could have anybody at the hearing, who would you want. She said darth vader. Thats her favorite character. I wanted this to be everything she ever wanted. It is only once in a lifetime that she will be adopted. Only time ill be adopting her, so i wanted it to be really special. I told her today, forever starts today. It is forever now. And i dont have to worry ever again. Yea something she will never forget. Lets get a check of the weather with meteorologist krystal klei. S . Tell us about it. Yeah, you know what, were looking at a pretty good forecast if you were someone that wanted a dry forecast by Christmas Day. Take a look at e pocono mountains. I think we are trying to get a wintix thats about the only place that will see that. Els is seeing ra. Really nice shot showing off in area. Radar and satellite, nice wide s of rain sitting to the west and southwest. Thats where it is pumping in from. It isnt moving out quickly. This is first half of the day. Morning hours, we are tracking showers. We zoom in closely to Cape May County through delaware and along the bay. What youre seeing is light to deeper green, thats moderate steady rain falling. We can track it throughout most of the viewing area, through new jersey, pemberton and through ship bottom, and then we go into philadelphia, same deal. Pretty steady rain we are looking at. Not yellow and orange that would indicate downpour, but steady rain passing through. Seeing heavy rain in parts of Chester County and tracking up through upper Montgomery County and parts of berks county and Lehigh Valley. Dont be fooled though, this is showing snow moving around town. Ground reports arent showing that. Maybe above the surface seeing cold enough conditions but it is turning to rain by the time it hits the ground. Temperatures are too high to see that. Lehigh valley, berks county, reading at 38. And north camden county, still upper 30s. Were not going to see snowfall in these areas. As we go just north, we see temperatures on the cusp. We could see freezing rain, sleet or rain, snow mix. High for today. Rain first half of the day. Clearing by noon to 1 00 p. M. 51 in south jersey, delaware low to mid50s in a few spots. Going into tomorrow, temperatures are similar getting into the afternoon. Morning is chilly. It will not be a White Christmas, it will be a chilly christmas. 34 degrees 7 00 a. M. In philadelphia. 30 in the suburbs and Lehigh Valley. Notice we get upper 30s to 40 degrees by 10 00 a. M. Going into the afternoon, forecast high temperatures across the board. Philadelphia, 50 degrees. Seeing upper 40s as well for high temperatures across the neighborhood. Thats what we are looking at going to christmas. We fast forward, go day after christmas with mild air in place. Through the week into Christmas Eve thats when we look at the next arctic blast moving in, drops temperatures in the daytime and midnight, the fireworks show, we will talk about that in the next half hour. Hey, im danny pommells. The sixers were short a big man as they kicked off a four game road trip in phoenix but not the one youre thinking of or the other one or the other one. Richaun holmes out with a concussion. Good hustle for the sixers in this one. Joel embiid making a habit of that as he visits the fans once again. He was okay, though. Then t. J. Mcconnell with a steal and save to ilyasova. This is him draining the three. Sixers doing their thing early on. More embiid, the block andone. Leads to a Sergio Rodriguez triple on the other end. Sixers let it slip away after intermission. Bledsoe hits a jumper. The eagles are off for a few days after last nights win over the giants. Theyll be missing a key piece for their season finale. Ryan matthews suffered a herniated disc in his neck in this run near the goal line. Hell need surgery to repair it. Pederson was asked to evaluate mathews season. Got off to a good start, and then there was a little bit of a lull in the middle, and hes finished up strong. Thats kind of been the nature of the season for him. These last couple of weeks hes been our work horse at the running back position and did some really good things for us. This obviously is unfortunate now that he cant finish the season for us. Lots of eagles fans wondering what this was about. Carson wentz blocking on the reverse shortly after being cleared of a concussion. Pederson defended the call at todays press conference. We can speculate all day, i guess. You know, obviously our goal in everything we do is try to win a football game. And, you know, i think the second that you sort of hesitate in any situation is the time you get beat. And, again, i had no hesitation on making that play and putting him in that situation. That is your look at sports. Im danny pommells, csn. Seniors can enjoy a holiday concert and learn to stay healthy. The health fair begins at Greater Bible Way Temple on north 52nd street. Learn information from local Health Care Agencies and community groups. Today is the day the town of bethlehem in Lehigh Valley truly becomes Christmas City, usa. Youre looking at historic main street, busy with last minute shoppers. Hotel bethlehem is filled to capacity this weekend. Staff spent weeks decorating, setting up dozens of christmas trees. Despite a mild christmas, and no snow, theres no trouble getting into the holiday spirit. Little snow, the streets are vibrant, the town pulls together for christmas, it is our time of year. Nbc10 checked in with Business Owners and they tell us theyre doing fine with the holiday rush, the final rush of holiday shoppers. 5 57 this saturday. We are following breaking news, the aftermath of a crash on i95 at woodhaven road in bensalem. Nbc10s Randy Gyllenhaal has been live at the scene. Randy . Reporter 95 southbound remains shut down as Police Investigate this accident of a Passenger Van that sent 15 people to the hospital. Much more on this coming up next. On your Christmas Eve day, we are tracking a lot of rain moving into the area. A closer look at how long this rain will last and what it means for the christmas forecast. Heres a live look outside blue cross river rink where we see a little water there on the ice. Right now, the clock is ticking. Just hours left to wrap up holiday shopping. We are tracking the rush. The travel rush is on, families reunite at the airport. Our Holiday Weekend off to a soggy start. This is center city. Good morning. I am rosemary connors. It is 6 00 this saturday. Thanks for being with us. We have a mild holiday in store. Lets get more from meteorologist krystal klei with the first alert neighborhood forecast. If we have to see rain on the Holiday Weekend, we have santa to worry about and have your Christmas Day forecast. Right