0 in trenton and 1 in killington and even the state of delaware, we are predicting the records to be smashed into wilmington and dover where well start at 1 lonely degree tomorrow. That is the air temperature not including the windchill. With that low of 1 in philadelphia that breaks the record for the date set back in 1979, the coldest temperature in february in philadelphia in 36 years but the winter as a whole the first time we hit a low that low in 21 years a couple of records we are trying to track here tomorrow morning as well as wfrp advisories for the entire viewing area, they go into effect at 7 00 tonight until 11 00 tomorrow morning. Windchills dropping to 15 to 25s below zero. Lehigh valley, 25 below and most of the region 15 to 20 degrees below zero when you walk out tomorrow morning. Well talk about the recovery, and a wedge of precipitation before the warm air well talk about that in the sevenday forecast. Thank you adam. Meanwhile the heat is back on tonight for residents in one Newcastle County apartment complex, we told you about the problems at the creeks the pipes burst in some apartments and it was so cold everything froze city Code Enforcement met with management about the conditions. They have been cited and it was explained to them if they received additional problems here they will get fines that accrue daily and i believe they have the message that this cant happen again. Contractors were hired to fix the many problems at the creeks. People are feeling the cold but at the shore its even worse with the wind coming off the water, Nora Muchanic is live in toms river, you have a frozen marina and one very brave man. Reporter oman can an its so cold down here, look at these boat slips frozen solid look at this boat, its literally frozen in place you may remember the fellow that vowed to swim in the atlantic every day in a year, even in this bitter cold he continues his pledge to raise money for people with lou gehrigs disease. Today may be the worse because of the cold wind. Some call him crazy but car dealer doug is continuing his quest to swim in the ocean for a year even if the water is 36 degrees. That could discourage head harty souls. The water is warmer than the air getting out is the hard part because i go back to the cold. He would not be able to swim in the toms river lagoons because they are frozen solid. Monica is living on her boat. We have heaters on the inside and we can get the bolt up to 85 degrees inside if we want to. Her dogs dont mind the bitter cold thark is boo boo the bull dog who loves to bury his face in the snow and snack on it. One good thing they may help to get rid of the Southern Pine beatles that are destroying trees in south jersey, i would be happy if we got zero degree weather, because it will kill the Southern Pine beetle larva. And after seeing him run by us in bare legs someone has to deliver the pants to the fedex guy. I dont feel it as long as im protected up here im fine. This boat is frozen in place and lagoons are frozen and entire sections of the barnegat bay. There is a big Polar Bear Plunge in seaside. They will find out what its like for doug to go in any day, i can tell you there is no way in the world i would venture into this water when its this cold. That is two of us nora. Be sure to stick with 6abc. Com weather we have the hourly and sevenday forecast for you you can be prepared no matter how cold it gets. One man is dead after a shooting at a laundry mat in southeast philadelphia at the corner of south 53rd street and springfield avenue chopper 6 hd shows investigators entering the building after it happened. Police say the man followed the victim into the laundry mat and shot him in the head so far no one has been arrested. A Philadelphia Police captain was injured in a hit and run this morning. Chopper 6 hd was over this incidents after a driver hit the captains car in the Fort Richmond section. The Police Captain was taken to a nearby hospital where he was treated and released. Mayor Michael Nutter is talking to students about way to curb youth violence, he delivered the key note on youth safety. Its a topic that is close to his heart when his best friend was shot in the face in high school. Nutter says the city is making strides to cut down on Violent Crime but children must have the knowledge, support and tools and guidance to allow them to make good choices. Students in new jersey got a special History Lesson their teacher was a tuskegee air andman. He talked about his experiences and their fight for equality during world war ii they were the first africanamerican an aviators and were subjected to segregation. Now a look at the traffic. Car batteries dont like this kind of weather. We see a bunch of vehicles that dont want to run, this one is off to the side here on the schuylkill expressway, westbound by conshohocken and penndot was here and they left and we saw a taxi go and the poor person has given up on this suv and the main lanes of the schuylkill moving okay slow in both directions eastbound you see the taillights, people hitting the taillights into the conshohocken curve a crash in the inner drive blocking two of the inner lanes what should be four lanes into six lanes causing slowing on the northbound side of the boulevard. In Chester County a pair of crashes along route 10 and upper oxford an overturned vehicle and a crash along broad street and icy conditions in pennsauken are blocking the ramp from 73 southbound to 130 southbound head for haddonfield the salt crews are out there now. Well check it again rick and monica in the next half hour. Im Jeff Skversky down here in clearwater with the phillies, coming up why cliff lee says he is embarrassed. And adam joseph returns with the latest on the frigid night ahead. It can actually break a record from two decades ago. Well, lets talk a little baseball, Single Game Tickets went on sale for the phillies and the loveable phanatic lined up with the faithful that were there to buy their single day tickets. The phillies have lots of give away items planned for their fans including a schedule magnet for the home opener and then the weekend home game of the season all the kids get a backpack. Phillies tickets are also being sold online. Spring training of course is in full effect down in clearwater, florida, that is where we find Jeff Skversky, things are moving along down there as pitchers and catchers have their first day together, a bit of a big day. It is sharrie and phillies star cliff lee he is embarrassed that the phillies lost 89 games in back to back seasons. Expectations are not high for 2015 but lee said he is a believer. Take a look at cliff lee and cole hamels both throwing off the mound as phillies brass expects them to be here come april and perhaps hamels throwing the team and organization a curveball when he told the usa today he wants to play for a winner and doesnt think it will happen here. But he did not. Press that to the general manager. They expect him to play out his contract. Unless he is traded before that. I have no problem with coles make choose his words more carefully, he say professional guy, he will go out and do his job. Nobody likes losing especially on a team with the payroll and reputations we have had, honestly it was embarrassing. And i take responsibility for that as well as all the other guys should. That is another tough one. How about cliff lee doning questions, as a major 8 ball will reveal well hear more coming up at 5 30. The fda has issued a warning for a deadly outbreak of a super bug at a hospital. Its used for gallbladder and pancreatic procedures people wfr exposed to super bug bacteria. Ucla says they sterilized the scopes but cleaning and sterilization nay mot be enough. They say its tougher to stay ahead of drug resistant germs, there is a new version in years to come. Every year about a half million americans safely undergo surgeries with these scopes. This extremely cold winter is a recipe for chaps lips if you want to moisten your dry dont lick them. Food and other things are irritating to the lips. Use a lip balm to lock in moisture glycerin are good ingredients, but stay away from camfer andment and action news personal investigation has a warning for for vest risky high is so easy to get its a drug of choice for youngsters and these parents say it led their son down a dangerous path, leading a straight a student into prison. He is now incarcerated for many years. A frightening story kids and parents need to watch only on action news at 11 00. Why do we do it . Why do we spend every waking moment, thinking about people . Why are we so committed to keeping you connected . Why combine performance with a conscience . Why innovate for a future without accidents . Why do any of it . Why do all of it . Because if it matters to you its everything to us. The s60 sedan. From volvo. The volvo president s day invitation. This month, get these exceptional offers on a new volvo. Visit your volvo showroom for details. The largest retailer in the world is giving a half million of its employees a raise. Walmart says 500,000 fulltime and parttime employees will get a pay bump in april that takes them to 9 an hour, that is 1. 75 above the current federal minimum wage and next year it goes up again to 10 an hour and it effects the employees of sams club owned by walmart. If you bought Girl Scout Cookies you may have to wait longer to get them. Its behind in the production of the thin mints the green box girl scouts sell about 2 million boxes of cookies a season. And st. Joes students got a chance to practice their skills today and probably meet a future employers, they held a job fair with employers it was meant to give the students a head start on their careers, they took part in mock interviews and even receive linked in head shots. Lady luck was in the house at the nursing home in hatboro, Montgomery County, residents tried their hand at black jack and roulette. They were on hand to give them vo at jennieo, we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride ten miles for tacos. We thought wed show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco, made with jennieo ground turkey, cooked thoroughly to 165. mom id feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. woman i think that theyre light and theyre just fresh tasting. vo its time for a better taco. kid the tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. vo make the switch. Look for jennieo ground turkey at a store near you. Another sign of the frigid weather the time and temperature display at the home bank read 22 degrees before lunch today at 11 54 and with the windchill it felt colder than that at the jersey shore. Time for accuweather at the action news big board. Adam joseph is standing by keeping an eye on the temperatures, well get a break what sunday perhaps . We have to wait until sunday we have a lot to go through before we get to the warmer temperatures speaking of the jersey shore if you look at this picture you say maybeant maybe antarctica. And this is where the lewes ferry comes in and out of cape may, the salty water turns over to ice. 13 in reading and 15 in wilmington and at the shore temperatures in the teens but the windchills are starting to drop off especially to the west and North Lancaster 5 below and 3 below in the state of delaware and wildwood the temperatures feel 1 below zero. This is because of arctic High Pressure dominating the lower 48 pulling infra canada and dropping the colder air and suppressing it into florida where they have windchill advisories and freeze warnings ss this morning. The biting winds the air temperatures in the suburbs, 2 below, 1 degree in philadelphia and we look at the windchills on the dangerousside. With such low windchills the frostbite times drop off in the delaware and Lehigh Valley 30 minutes with exposed skin, if you work outside or spend an extended period outdoors cover all the extremities in the poconos only 10 to 15 minutes before frostbite will begin. As the cold air moves into we try to put out some snow squalls in the afternoon and then changing to freezing rain and rain saturday evening and by 11 00 we see the warmer air puncturing the region except the Lehigh Valley where it lingers with sleet and freezing rain. The fiveday at 5 00, 17 and afternoon and evening snow on saturday, 32 before it changes over saturday night. It looks like 1 to 3 inches of snow. It doesnt look like a big storm or a nuisance, milder and 46. Sunshine in the afternoon the bitter cold slams right back in here here. How is april looking . Next half our of action news at 5 00. Two men get into quite a scuffle inside a local riteaid and you wont believe why. Well have the exclusive video. And a womans boyfriend is back behind bars well tell you what happened. And Michael Carter williams is out of here. Ducis rogers has the details. Tiberius lauderwink can appreciate a simple name. Thats why he likes pick 2 from the pennsylvania lottery, the simplest numbers game yet. Theyve given all your favorite numbers games new, simpler names. Play pick 2. Easy to play. Simple to say. Gwendolyn schnellinghoffer can appreciate a simple name. Thats why she likes pick 3 from the pennsylvania lottery, theyve given all your favorite numbers games new, simpler names. And for something really simple, play the allnew pick 2. Easy to play. Simple to say. Action news continues with meteorologist. Adam joseph, jaime apody Rick Williams and Monica Malpass. Hello again here is what is happening on action news tonight. Dangerously cold air is knocking on our door and its going to impact everyone in the tristate area and well have details. The search is on for the vandal or vandals. Well if you thought it has been cold lately you havent felt anything yet accuweather is predicting temperatures we have not seen in our area in two decades Public Schools in delaware are already closed tomorrow in anticipation for the dangerous cold. We have numbers running for you at the bottom of your screen. Well see windchills negative double digits. Its bad enough when you talk about negative 1, but teens below area wide, 7 in cincinnati and atlanta below freezing and all the numbers in the deep south going to record levels. Encompassing much of the lower half of the 48 in the eastern half of the country. Here are your temperatures all of these areas are records, cincinnati 6 below and 1 in philadelphia and 9 in raleigh and atlanta 14 and jacksonville florida, 29 degrees tomorrow morning and you take a look at windchills the same time tomorrow 7 below that is the coldest temperature we are looking at with the major cities tomorrow morning, raleigh zero and jacksonville 22 degrees. Windchill alerts from chicago east to boston down the midatlantic and all the way to the carolinas close to the panhandle of florida. More than a dozen states under windchill advisories or warnings into the day on friday. Well talk about a warmup but it comes with snow and rain and well have the seven day in just a little bit. Be sure to bundle up check the 6 abc Storm Tracker app both the hourly and sevenday forecasts are there for you to help you get ready for the frigid temperatures. Some developing news here from Lincoln University in Chester County. After racial graffiti was pained on the skin to the campus. The Historic Black University sent a letter to the students saying the graffiti was a sober reminder of the hatred. Acting president Valerie Harrison released this statement saying in part, our office of Public Safety is diligently investigating the incident to fine the perpetrator and the university in corpse with the District Attorneys Office will prosecute anybody identified as responsible. Valentines night that a Little Caesars pizza clerk was not expecting a customer through a fit and it was all caught on camera. Watch as a man wearing a gray hoody sweater enters into the pizza shop and has a discussion with the clerk behind the counter when wait for this and takes a hard swing at the clerk and misses and from there it only gets worse he throws the telephone at the clerk and two women enter the store that know the man and try to convince them to stop his rage and he wont listen or leave and he turns his attention to the employee and eventually throws the computer and register at the pizza clerk and knocks over the pizza oven and the man is eventually pulled out of the store by the people waiting for him outside, the man is question is considered dangerous and he appeared to threaten to customers as he left the pizza store. Police want you to give Philadelphia Police are looking for a man that got into a tussle over soap. Northwest detectives say that a Loss Prevention officer saw the man put four packs of dial soap in a black plastic bag and tried to leave without paying and the two got in a scuffle, the man ran out and the officer was not hurt. From our delaware newsroom this is tyrone reed of bear, police say he choked a wawa employee saying that his food order could not be prepared the way he wanted he went into a rain at a display stand and choked her before throwing her to the ground, reed is charged with strangulation and dui. Firefighters in north Hamilton County had their hands full battling a three alarmer at an apartment bld building there in the 3700 block of old philadelphia pike, the red cross is helping one person no word on what started the fire. A man is arrested after he allegedly killed his on again off again girlfriend. Randall shriner turned himself in after hiding in the bushes and shot miller in the parking lot yesterday. Shriner was upset that miller was trying to end their relationship. In reading a man accused of stealing the mayors car has turned himself into police angel is accused of stealing the convertible last december and a second suspect is cooperating and a third suspect is still at large. They believe it was chopped for parts. A life saving drugs is in the hands of Philadelphia Police officers they showed off the narcan kits that some officers are already carrying its used to bring someone out of unconscious if they overdose on heroin or oxycontin, officers say it makes them feel even better about the job. It felt good to be able to help him prior to rescue getting there and give him a better chance at coming back. So far 104 Philadelphia Police officers are carrying narcan. Time for an update on the highways and by ways in the action news traffic report. Matt pellman is in the traffic center. People just want to get home and get under a blanket. They are stuck in sizable delays like one on the blue route coming south of the schuylkill expressway from villanova remaining jam to springfield this afternoon. Elsewhere in delco crashes to avoid in upper darby along garrett road, andion at yadan avenue. And in white marsh a crash at ridge pike and church road, a crash with downed wires in lumberton county and stay on mass transit, patco is run on the thursday construction schedule that went into affect last thursday and amtrak on a modified schedule today and tomorrow because of the extreme cold. More to come on action news thursday night. The sixers deal away a major asset to the team. He asked the phillies to be traded. Highs today in alaska warmer than they were here at home. Well talk about that as well as weekend snow and rain. Okay adam its thursday that means a packed night of suspense and romance, the entire package ill have a sneak peek at the lineup. We are just a few days away from the big night. The 87th annual oscars happens here on abc. The stars walk down the famous rid carpet to screaming fans, three days to go and hundreds of electricians and carpenters are working hard to get the dolby theater ready. And the famous red carpet is laid down but it is covered in plastic until the weekend. Neil Patrick Harris says he is excited but nervous. There is Something Wonderful about having friends over and making some cheese dip and i call it queso and filling out a ballot and laughing at the famous people. Making oscar predictions and cheese, my kind of party. See live video on stage and if you have a verified tv provider, watch the oscars live. And this reminder our own Alicia Vitarelli heading to hollywood now she will have the glitz, glamour as we count down to the big night her reports start here tomorrow on 6 abc. Big news from the sixers, a key player is headed out of town. Ducis rogers is live in the Sports Center with more. Hey ducis. This is an absolute stunner, Michael Carter williams is sento milwaukee. The ever changing roster continues to change. He is averaging 15 points per game this season, if this cuts you by surprise the mcw tweeted i love the city. And kj mcdaniels is dealt to houston. They pick up magee from denver and a couple of first round drafrt picks and the one from Oklahoma City is top 18 protected and the lakers is top five protected. And the sixers snag a second rounder from houston. Now baseball the first workout from spring training is in the books and they hit the field this morning and our Jeff Skversky is there and joins us from clearwater. Hey ducis, phillies manager, ryan sand burg did talk to cole hamels and he did not express at any point. And they expect him on r phillies pitchers and catchers i fully expect him to pitch on opening day for us and i am glad to have him. Is he one of the best pitchers in the game. I dont want cole to get traded. He is on top of the phillies rotation in april is he battling back from elbow issues and feels 100 and is confident about this team even though people on the outside are not. A lot of things have to lineup to be a contending team but crazier things have happened he does not have a crystal ball but whips out his crystal ball when talking about possibly getting traded himself. Concentrate and ask again. Reporter yes so does cliff lee believe this team can contend in 2015, his magic 8 ball says all signs point to yes. And anything else would be stupid other than a world series. That is from cliff lee. Jeff well talk to you again at 6 00. The flyers home stand continues against the buffalo sabers the flyers had their nine point streak snapped and they sit five points out of the wild card spot. Steve mason had surgery last week and not ruling out a return as early as next week. Its never fun sitting out especially during a important stretch of the season. We try to do everything we can to get back as soon as possible. The eagles have released james casey, only caught three balls but two were touch downs. The eagles will save 20,000 in cap moves. You have been waiting for it starts with greys anatomy and we may find out who won the most expensive auction ever on scandal scandal scandal. I do not know what you are talking about. The search for live yeah tonight, her kidnapping and the billion dollar auction are all super top secret and how will the white house and the gladiatorers get her back. That is tonight on scandal. She has not left her room since nate was arrested. We should give her a hug for saving our butts. Ill go talk to her. The web we weave wrought with guilt for framing nate for sams murder and is calling her mom played tonight by cecily tyson. And it may not be good, that is tonight on an all new how to get away with murder the time time lineup looks like this, it will keep you warm tonight it kicks off at 8 00, at greys anatomy and scandal at 9 00 and how to get away with murder followed by action news at 11 00 and get in on all the action on twitter and erin ohearn will tweet and so will the stars of tgit. I know grandmas house isnt the most exciting, but its only for a few hours. Look what ive got. When you get verizon fios, you get beautiful hd picture quality, super fast internet, and americas most reliable network. So you wont miss a second of that movie that game they love, or those moments with family. Can we sleep over . Please come on see why fios is rated 1 in Customer Satisfaction in hd picture quality based on Customer Satisfaction studies. Call today to make your house, the house. And you are taking a live look from our sky 6 cameras, there i go coming down that is it me. No, i like to sit by the fireplace with hot chocolate and watch the action. Time to turn up your heat and leave it that way for a few days. We should all be lodge bound. As we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan we dont have any precipitation to talk about but those winds have been fierce all day and continue 30 Miles Per Hour the last hour in philadelphia we peaked at 40 Miles Per Hour earlier this afternoon and 45 in trenton and 35 Miles Per Hour in wilmington and even in the poconos, the winds gust to 25 that is dropping the windchills wilmington and dover and 5 below for lancaster and reading and 1 in philadelphia and the Atlantic City airport, below 0 and you can add more numbers as the windchills plummet, as we look at radar and satellite we had windchills this morning but with the extremely cold air in place with the late february sunshine, it interacts with the cold air and blossoms the clouds and notice the cloud forming over the open waters of the atlantic. The clouds form and they collapse once we set the sun here this evening. All right its called the cross polar flow, from the north pole, you have the polar vortex up there, some of that air floods down to the hudson bay with a piece of the polar vortex every now and then its released to the south if you get the jet stream to buckle by atlanta and the carolinas, so far that happened. All the air as it pushes in it breaking records, possibly break the 2 below zero as an air temperature and smashing it and wilmington shy of the record down to 2 degrees you factor in the wind and here are the future windchills tomorrow morning, 15 and 20 degrees below zero and in the afternoon we recover some as we jump in the Single Digits dangerous if you go outdoors. Cover the extremities it only takes 15 to 20 minutes to capture frostbite. As the warmer air comes in over the weekend it spills snow our way in the afternoon and evening right now not a big storm we can see 1 to 3 inches of snow and rain overnight. 46 mild degrees normal for this time of year, back to the 20s, monday, tuesday and snow is possible on wednesday and no warmup in sight at 28 degrees so a rough few days ahead with cold and a little bit of snow. Thank you sir. As the temperatures drop, be sure to stick with 6abc. Com weather both the hourly and sevenday forecast. Right now jim gardner is standing by we these stories next at 6 00. The region is bracing for cold temperatures and the cold is blamed for at least six deaths. And the deal for the shuttered Atlantic City casino well have the stories coming up. For the entire Action News Team im Monica Malpass have a good night. Action News Delaware valleys leading news program. Thursday night federal officials update the case of a couple that went missing from philadelphia ten years ago and its motive is revealed for the murder at a Montgomery County meat plant yesterday. But the big story on action news is the approach of historically low temperatures for the entire tristate area the high today 21 degrees in philadelphia and 22 degrees in cape may and chilly for sure but in the morning accuweather says philadelphia will hit 1 degree and cape may should hit a low of 7 degrees, but windchills will make it feel ever so much colder, between 15 and 20 degrees below zero meteorologist, adam joseph is live at the big board tonight, these are some extraordinary numbers. They are rare numbers. And they could be broken tomorrow morning, close to 36 years old. 1 degree in philadelphia and 1 degree in wilmington and smashing the old record that is 6 to 0 degrees, and the air temperatures to the north and west below zero. So these cold hard facts in philadelphia, the forecast low of 1, that would break the old record for the date set back in 1979 that is a 36 year record but when you talk about 1 degree in philadelphia it has been 21 years since it has been that cold go back to 1994 when we were negative 5