Lets go over to david murphy to talk about the cold and karen rogers to talk about traffic. Reporter the big focus is downingtown, Pottstown Quakertown and north where the windchills will make it feel like 10 and 15 below zero. Its bad everywhere. 12 degrees in philadelphia. 14 in millville. 6 in allentown. When you take a look at the wind gusts right now weve got some up around 40 Miles Per Hour. Wilmington at 40. 23 in philadelphia. 29 in millville. But as i tell you you can kind of mix and match the numbers because a times everyone will see the high numbers. With the strong winds and low temperatures, the windchills are below zero, just about everywhere. They are severe in places like allentown and trenton. In philadelphia it feels like 6 below zero. As we go through the day it stays cold. 10 by 8 00. Noon 19 and 3 00 p. M. 23. The wind will be blustery up through 3 00 p. M. Or so. They will die down later tonight, but all the way youll have to take precautions. We have another batch of colder air in the accuweather seven day. And snow possible later tomorrow. Details coming up, karen. Reporter i love a morning its bad and getting worse. Looking live, overnight construction is cleared, we have no problems on i95 at cottman avenue. The roadser clear and dry. Do expect disabled vehicles in the cold weather. On the big picture things are moving nicely. We have a building fire going on in sharon hill, delaware county. Watch for it on was watson road. Construction blocks the right lane on the pennsylvania turnpike eastbound between willow grove and bensalem you have one lane blocked. Ramp 295 northbound to 168 is closed that should open up in another halfhour its construction currently tam. Developing this morning firefighters in Cape May County battled flames and brutal cold. The multialarm fire broke out on the 4700 block of 5th avenue in avalon. The blaze was under construction and spread to two neighboring homes. One home was gutted. The two other homes suffered smoke and fire and the cold temperatures and water supply issues made things worse. But thankfully in the end nobody was hurt. Developing this morning a marble slab crashed into the awning of a handbag store, no injuries reported, city inspectors are investigating. The cold is relentless, the windchills go through your bones, this makes frosty the snow man question his entire career. Eva pilgrim is probably thinking of warmer climbs she is live at the Transportation Center where commuters are braving the cold. Reporter good morning, guys if youre not a wake when when you get out of bed, you will be quickly. Were at the transportation station, the wind is smacking us on the face greeting us as we head out to make our way. The windchill is crazy. Its cold. Reporter as temperatures dropped overnight night the wind kicked up, flag flapped violently in the wind. The wind is making everyone move a little faster. Utility crews at 15th and spruce shuffled their feet trying to find relief, but getting away from the wind is not possible unless you go inside. For these students the preview of the winds wrath has them dressing differently. Im wearing more layers, i iferght i forth my scarf today, i wont do that tomorrow morning. Reporter cover up, if you feel the wind youll feel it quickly. I called it the cold crouched you walk hunched over trying to block things. Its cold as you head out. Eva pilgrim channel 6 action news. Go get back in the truck. Code blue alerts are in effect across the region, so if you see a homeless person call the homeless hot line 215 2321984. I tweeted that number out for you, as well. Check on elderly neighbors to make sure they are staying warm. This year it is pope francis. Next year the democrats are coming to philadelphia. The Democratic National committee announced it will hold its convention in the city next summer. Local experts are estimating the d dnc could pump 20 million into the city. It was tremendous for the city and tremendous for hard rock. We can compose the business to a lot of people. It would be nearly impossible to book a hotel for the convention which is july 25 2016. Available rooms will be parbled out to delegations looking to book an entire block. Its been a while since democrats were in philadelphia, it was back in 1948 when they chose harry truman. Dann cuellar has more on why philadelphia is the best and most secure choice. Reporter political conventions by their very nature attract pro test e protesters with opposing and varying political views, that was no different when philadelphia hosted the Republican National convention in 2000. Philadelphia police Drew International attention in handling protesters, drawing mostly praise, but criticism. We demand liberation from the prison. Reporter Charles Ramsey will be Planning Police operations for dnc2016. You look at the plan and update it accordingly. Reporter which means Homeland Security and counterterrorism units will be involved. Officials say philadelphia beat out new york largely because the Wells Fargo Center was seen as an ideal location. Somewhat isolated secure borders like broadly street. Low gills i can logistics were to strong. Its great parking lot easy tailgating parties so the city sold itself. Reporter the city will have vast practice in moving large number of people around. The pope will be here this fall bringing in 2 Million People theres money needed to provide the manpower and overtime. Mayor nutter expects a federal grant to pay for it and need be fundraising to cover the cost. Dann cuellar channel 6 action news. Action news will have continuing coverage on the major announcement from now through next july. You can read about the latest at 6abc. Com and the 6abc news app. Happening today the phillies say goodbye to the cold weather and pack up the club house and head south for spring training. Lucky them. They will load thousands of items on the welcome truck this morning and travel a thousand miles to clearwater florida. The team is packing 2400 baseballs, 1200 ballots and 25 sets of golf clubs. I want to be a baseball player. I want to be in florida. Ill handle out the packs of gum. 4 39, more than a dozen gamblers are being forced to give back a Million Dollars to a Atlantic City casino well tell you why. Its cold here and its causing major problems in new england, especially at an ivy league school. Reporter dress the kids up in the extra gear, cover their faces as much as they can. This afternoon they will want the gear because its going to be cold, but the windchills are at their worse right now. Well have the latest on the seven day and the snow potential tomorrow after and evening. 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Reporter it is especially with the wind hitting you in the face. Storm tracker 6 live double scan shows us we are dry across the region so thats good. As we take a look outside, we have bitter cold conditions. You see the airport right now. Youll probably see the camera bouncing quite a bit as we roll through the morning on our various sky 6 cameras. The wind is very robust not only in sustained form, but the gusts are swinging up there at times. The temperature in philadelphia is 12 degrees, the winds out of the northwest at 18 Miles Per Hour. You put that together were looking at spear windchills across the region. Theres a windchill in the Northern Tier because of the windchills 10 below in allentown and 15 in the poconos. Thats unusually cold conditions in terms of windchill. In philadelphia. 6 below. 9 below in wilmington. A little better in the south in wildwood, in the last halfhour weve popped up above zero, but even there its dangerous conditions out there. These are how long it will take times how long it will take for you to get frostbite if you dont go out protected. In the delaware valley. 5 below, 15 below it only takes 30 to 60 minutes to get frostbite. Put that information in your own head. Up in the poconos its worse, it will take 15 to 30 minutes to get frostbite if you go outside unprotected. Cover up as much as you can okay . Satellite shows you cloud cover has been absent overnight maybe well see sunshine and clouds streaking in as the day goes on. 10 degrees by 8 00 a. M. 17 by 11 00 a. M. We go to a high of 23 around 3 00 p. M. Holding in the low 20s. Still very cold, but the windchills are less severe as we go into the afternoon. Future tracker 6 shows you that were below seer vo everywhere now. Single digits by noon. Later in the evening hours the toongs and 20s teens and 20s. Not as bad as now. Saturday were looking out for snow squalls moving into the afternoon and evening could produce quick but very heavy snow that could pile up accumulations in a hurry. As we go through 6 00 p. M. Theres more of them. Notice how there are bands of them coming through but they are highlighted in purple thats future tracker 6s way of showing you fairly heavy condense snow. Its possible that we get anywhere from 1 to 3 inches. Most of the models going 2 to 3 inches. Thats what to expect saturday afternoon and saturday evening. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, windy and birth cold, 23 today tomorrows high, 36 with the snow squalls in the afternoon and early evening that could put down one to three inches across region. Sunday windy and fridge conditions high of 19. Were going for an overnight low of 2. That means dangerous windchills on sunday and monday, president s day high of 23. Tuesday, 33. Wednesday, 32. The next system could bring us snow. There could snowshowers left over on wednesday. 2 right . Reporter not 1, could be worse. Well try to keep that in mind. Philadelphia detectives need your help i. D. Ing an armed robber. He demanded cash from a clerk. When the man said the money was in the trunk of the car the suspect grabbed the keys and stole the car. Weve posted the video on our website 6abc. Com. Time for your first look at business at the big board, a judge has ordered a dozen gamblers to return more than a Million Dollars in winning back to the Golden Nugget casino in Atlantic City. 14 gamblers won big after realizing that the cards werent being shuffled in the mini bacharach game in 2012. They have to give the money back. President obama will host a Cyber Security summit in san francisco. He wants businesses to share information on Cyber Threats with each other and the federal government. On wall street, stocks finished higher, futures are slightly higher. 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I thought if i could go straight up that mountain i could get out. I would stop and pray. When she reached a top a family called for help. Lopez has damaged ribs and cuts and bruises, she said she is grateful to be alive one step after an another. The will to survive can be very, very strong for some people. The manager at mcdonald in the midwest who was fired over a teens meltdown. Cameras on california caught a person stealing brass and putting them on before before bras and putting them on. Good morning, it is 5 00 a. M. On this friday 13. Get this schools in the poconos are delaying openings today because it is so cold. It is so terribly cold, bundle up, frigid temperatures are dropping the mercury across the region. Were tracking the bitter cold and sub freezing temperatures. A live report is coming up. A knife attack sends a man to the hospital and Police Believe they know who was behind crime. Calendar controversy. Lets turn to david and karen, good morning. Reporter we have a windchill advisory in the northern and western suburbs with windchills so degrees below zero. They have extended this down to the shore. Everybody in the