And boying the outdoors and going for a bike ride. Beach haven 72. Trenton, allentown and reading coming in at 71. 63. In the poconos. Its hard to believe we have changes up ahead. We are tracking some energy that came out of the pacific northwest. Its diving southward out of the four corners. It gathers moisture up the gulf of mexico and work it up in the form of a storm. Disruptive travel regardless of the precipitation that we see. The you heaviest is 10 00 a. M. To 4 00 p. M. Its the day before thanksgiving a Business Travel day. Al north and west and rain south and east. The i95 corridor is wet. We are calling for rain. Changing over to wet snow. There is key ingredients that we need to talk about. Ill have those details in the exclusive accuweather forecast. John, recordhigh temperatures. You found some folks that are not taking time to enjoy it . No they were not enjoying the weather at penndot in norristown. They were doing lastminute mechanical repairs on certain mechanical issues that persisted. They were bringing trucks out as late as today to clean them up should Mother Nature deliver snow on wednesday. It is not far away penndot crews are busying readying the fleet. e2 q d possible snowshp c just the day after tomorrow. We are doing lastminute repairs small things like lights, starter problems, straightening out of a plow. Reporter and the reshaping of this bent snowplow 9 inches. It could be rain snow. We are looking at monitoring it closely. Its a winter system that could develop in the region. Its on thanksgiving eve if not one of the busiest travel days of the year. Reporter winter supplies are in demand. There is an uptick in sales. There is concept itch saysicismt crouse. Its 70 degrees right now and to buy snow accessories its tough for people to wrap their minds around. Reporter amen to that. Its an unusual forecast particularly given its fall. Penndot is watching and waiting. So are the airlines before thanksgiving. A lot of people are on the move. Everybody is wondering about the weather. Live in norristown, channel~6 action news. Thank you. Chopper 6 hd was over the scene at the 200 block of west wyoming avenue. Two residents were hurt in that fire. The person killed has not been yet identified. The cause of the fire is under investigation. The search continues for a missing Lehigh Valley woman. Jessica padgett went out on her lunch break on friday and has not seen since. She is worked for a childcare business in north hampton. More on the search for padgett coming u up up at 5 00. A student was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. Katherine scott has the details in havertown. Reporter they arrived at the preschool in havertown. A child that attends on tuesdays and thursdays has been diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. An email went out to parents. Some did not hear the news until school went out today. They are constantly wiping down even the handrails, you know, the school is very clean. So i mean, my concern is naturally for the child that is in the hospital. Reporter the school is being decleaned. The little boy was last in school on tuesday. His brother intends as well. He is not infected. The family is taking antibiotics. Reporter everybody should take medication. Lets get you back to that developing news out the ferguson, missouri. Late this afternoon, abc news confirmed that the gru grand juy has reached a decision. Shethey are working to decide if charges should be filed against Darren Wilson that shot Michael Brown. They are urging people to keep calm. Presence has been increased. I tell people this is going to show their character. Its not going to be as bad as some want it to be or respect it to be. Wilson claim it is selfdefense. Others are calling it murder. While the schools are open, many businesses have windows boarded up to prepare for any demonstrations that come after this grand jury decision. The 12 jurors are meeting today. Nine votes are needed to indict wilson. Its expected to be released in the next few hours. Stay with us on air and on 6abc. Com. World news with david muir, will expand on your coverage of the decision in ferguson. That is at 6 30 after action news at 6 00. President obama announced the resignation of chuck hagel. It was the appropriate time for him to step down. It wide l believed that hagel resigned under pressure. He had a rocky twoyear tenure. He struggled to break through the president s inner circle. People are hitting the slopes in our region. Well show you where the ski action i is happening coming up. A new tool to make sure you are not taking any risks the next time that you get behind the wheel. Those stories and more are coming up next. [ ] the Holiday Season is here, which means its time for the volkswagen signthendrive event. For practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a germanengineered volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta. And the 2015 motor trend car of the year allnew golf. If youre wishing for a new volkswagen this season. Just about all you need is a finely tuned. Pen. Hurry in and get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on select new volkswagen models. A large gathering of Police Officers for the unveiling of daniel faulkner. Charles ramsey and his squad and family were attending the unveiling of the mural that depicts the likeness of faulkner. He was killed in the line of duty in 1981. There is more fallout for bill cosby and the rape allegations that are haunting him. They postponed his appearance scheduled for january 31st. The announcement comes after the embattled comedian. Cosby has issued a statement discrediting the actio accusats that are decades old. Wall street, the dow is closing down 2 points 17,807. Nasdaq is up and s p in positive territory today. A meeting is scheduled for today to salvage the deal to be the revel hotel and casino. They agreed to buy revel for 110 million in toronto. They scrapped the plans last week. The deal is off because of problems with the power plant that provides energy to that building. The price of gas has dropped. We watched it go down steadily. It dropped 8¢. That is a decline of falling since 88¢ since may. I want to show you the closing numbers. Gas prices 2. 96. South jersey, 2. 68. In delaware 2. 83. Compare it to last week. Down 3¢ and down a penny in delaware. Down is good. Lower crude oil prices and the abundance supply and the dollar are driving the prices down. We hope that that trend conditions. Its a happy thanksgiving. Boxes and boxes of turkeys arrived at shop rite of organ eve in it south philadelphia. They are creating a complete dinner that feeds 6,000 people in philadelphia this thanksgiving. The smell of thanksgiving was filling up the Campbell Soup kitchen. They showed a live demonstration on how to make the classics turkey and sausage and apple stuffing and green bean casserole. There were tips on what to do with the turkey leftovers. It was for the notforprofit cathedral kitchen. I cant wait. Thanksgiving dinner. We know that traffic is going to get worse. That is true, matt pellman. I hope we can make it to thanksgiving dinner later in the week. This afternoon you are going to make it home fine. A little slowing in your future. We have a disabled ambulance. The person that was transported is put in a new ambulance to continue that transport. Its taking out of the right lane. From the normal spots out to gladwyne. The sun glare is an issue this afternoon. Davisville road there was a crash. And 295, near delran. And in Burlington County we are watching downed wires taking out the right lane south of route 70 at the red lion circle. A water main break, is warranting repairs. Its near browning road. Slow speeds as you head to the 42 freeway. Lets grab the ipad. I hope you had a good weekend. Lets see what is cooking speaking of the thanksgiving dinner in Chester County. Slow going it appears. See you then, thank you. A montgomery countien couple iss asking for help about a naw8 mig pet. Hi monica. Hi, brian. The dogs owner left their pet out for a few minutes. That is all it took. Someone snatched the yorkie. She was a few feet from her home. Now her family is pleading for her safe return. Well have more on the search for the dog coming up on action news at 5 00. Plus, its time to roll of your sleeves and prepare the thanksgiving feast. There are a number of hazards that launch folks in the emergency room. How to save guard yourself and your family to avoid the common thanksgiving injuries. That is coming in a little bit on action news at 5 00. See you then. Thank you, monica. Tonight at 11 00 the Delaware Valley is going to the dogs. The days of leaving fido at home when you go out shopping and dining are ending. More and more doors are open to our fourlegged friends. We put a camera on a dog and hit the street was philadelphia for an experiment. What we found surprised even us. How you can get your dog in shape for an outing. Sit, and stay of and watch as we sniff out the action tonight. I glove the gopro. And Melissa Magee has the latest on the time of that snowfall in the accuweather forecast. We remind you to go to facebook. It gives you access to all of the top stories the weather and breaking news and the viral videos. You can communicate with the members of the action news team. Well be right back. Ski season in the poconos is getting off to the earliest start thanks to a colder than usual november. Blue mountain in palmerton is already open. They used snowmaking pumps that helps to spread more snow on the ground than ever before. It will be back open on friday. They are not going to need the snow machines. Mother nature is going to do it for them. Going to Melissa Magee for the latest on that. Hi brian and shirleen. Well show you the picture outside. Its a gorgeous shot of the ben franklin bridge on this monday afternoon. We have plenty of sunshine to get the temperatures above average. It broke the old record of 71 in 1979. 67 in allentown. 58 along the coast in sea isle city. Its 17 degrees warmer in philadelphia the same time yesterday. 19 degrees warmer in it wilmington than it was 24 hours. And 18 degrees warmer in lancaster at this hour. We had the warm front that is lifting off to the north and east. In the wake of that warm front you get the surge of the warmer air south and west. Dont get used to it. Off to the north and west we are tracking a cold front moving through. As it moves on later tonight and into the evening. We have it in advance of wednesday and the precipitation by then. The temperatures long the i95 are in the 50s. 54 in philadelphia. Its 1 degree above our average this time of year. As we get into wednesday you notice how the cooler air drains. 4 in philadelphia at wednesday. At 2 00 in the afternoon. Remember this is the height of the storm system we are tracking. We are showing you 7 00 in the morning on wednesday along the i95 as we track the area of low pressure that works up the eastern seaboard it starts out as rain in philadelphia. It has some snow north and west. As it advances 4 30 in the afternoon we have rain along the immediate coastline. There is snow potential north and west of the i95 corridor as the storm system strengthens it generates snow on the back side. There is little mixing that has a cap or a limit on the amount of snowfall that we see. This is the early call. Mainly rain for areas in south jersey down to delaware. Philadelphia you are close to 1 to 3inch line of snowfall. Chester montgomery and bucks up to 1 to 3. As it pools away and generates the cold air down to the lancaster and reading 3 inches of snowfall. 44 in the suburbs with the southwesterly here is your 40 at 4 00. Upper 50s. On wednesday snow to the north and west. Rain to the south south and eas. 37 for the black friday shoppers on friday. We are tracking the storm for the next couple of days. We are buzzing next, alicia. Big announcement about the halftime show at super bowl. Ill tell you who will be playing coming up. Okay. Time for the buzz. Four celebrities will dance to the finish. Tomorrow night the mirror ball trophy is handed out. Bethany mota and Sadie Robertson and alfonso ribeiro. It is here on 6abc. The lawmakers ar rumors are tru. Katy perry will be playing for the halftime show. We have breaking news right now out of the west philadelphia. Chopper~6, is live at 56 and chestnut. The crews are on the scene of a house fire. There were reports of heavy fire on the first floor. We see smoke emanating from the structure right now. If you look closely you see the fire hoses on the secondstory of that building in the center of your screen. There are lots of crews inside of building. What remains unknown is if any residents were in the house when it caught fire or if any were able to get out. The Fire Department is working this active scene right now in west philadelphia. Fiftyfirst and chestnut. The question is if any people were inside of the structure at this time. We will pass it as long as this newscast continue this is afternoon. And action news still conditions. Ahead till how they were spelled or what they rhyme with. The baby names most hated in the country. The top 10 list coming up. We show you a free new tool to show you are not takes unnecessary risks the next time that you drive. The Holiday Season is here, which means its time for the volkswagen signthendrive event. For practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a germanengineered volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta. And the 2015 motor trend car of the year allnew golf. If youre wishing for a new volkswagen this season. Just about all you need is a finely tuned. Pen. Hurry in and get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on select new volkswagen models. It is 4 30. Action news continues with a shake up at the Chester County college. A shakeup leaving the president to resign. One local University Paper says no, its getting a lot of attention. Well explain the reasoning. An adult male teacher trying to drag a kicking screaming teenager into the pool. Now the 14yearold student is sharing her side of the story for the first time. What happened to make her go public. We are going to begin with brand new details about a deadly accident in delaware. This was the stunning scene at route 40 and bear. The police say that an suv ran a red light killing alexis defrancesco. She was preparing to begin the next chapter of her young life. Vernon odom is live outside of christiana hospital. Vernon. Reporter tonight the state Police Sources are tell me that the driver that plowed into defrancescos car will face charges for the tragedy that he created allegedly in the wee hours of sunday morning. Friends and family are mourning the death of alexis defrancesco age 22 that was due to finish her studies next month and get her fashion degree in the spring. She was a passenger in the nissan which was brodsided by th broad sidedby the pathfind. We are taking moment by moment. Reporter her boyfriend alec clark was driving the altima. The driver of a pathfinders identified as ewingwright roared into the intersection at a highrat high rate of speed. She worked as a sevener for twoo years. She had so many goals in fashion. He was about t graduate. Its shocking that someone is with you for a moment and the next moment they are not. Its just reporter Police Sources say it will be up to the state attorney general general to decide what e charges will be. Thank you, vernon. A puddle on the highway led to a deadly accident in chester, delaware county. They ran through the puddle and hit the jersey barrier. The occupants got out to investigate the damage. A bread delivery truck killed one of them. Doris goldwire of elkins park has died. Two others are seriously injured. There is a gruesome injury. This is on east witer street. They are calling it suspicious. There was a controversy over his comments about sexual assault. Robert jennings stepped down from his post after september 16th in that speech. An auditorium that were filled with women. They cried rape when things didnt turn out the way that they wanted. In the meantime, the board has appointed a woman to fill that job. Philadelphia has named a finalist for host city for the 2016 democratic convention. Thousands of delegates will be from across the country. The last Political Convention was the Republican National convention in 2000. An announcement will be made in early 2015. And seeing you without a coat speaks volumes. Isnt it nice today . Comfortable conditions. Its going to stay this way for one day. In is the day. After that changes. Sky6 live hd the Philadelphia International things are quiet. They are pumping in the warmth at 29. 64 th 29. 64 barometer pre. You get the green light from boston to newark in new jersey. Jfk you are reporting delays up to 53 minutes. Wait until wednesday. We Vice President winter storm watches along the i95 corridor and areas to the north and west. That brings rain and wet snow. Its a good idea to get your travel in early. Travel as early as tomorrow or tomorrow night before the wintry precip comes. Well talk about that in the accuweather forecast. Thank you, melissa. 2014 was a recordbreaking year for car recalls. 7 million cars in the u. S. Were subject to a faulty airbag recall. They teamed up with car fax and a new app. Wendy saltzman has the details. Reporter it could be the driver, passengers and other people on the road in danger. Is your car safe to drive . Well show you how you can check at the touch of a bottom. Reporter they considers her son one of the lucky ones. She was driving his car on a side street. Part of the suspension collapsed. It was something that we did not know about. Reporter vogue said was a safety recall on the car for five years. She did not hear about it. The problem is not unusual. Plug it in. It has the open recall. Reporter action news joined up with car fax to warn the unsuspecting drivers about the potential dangers on her cars. We scanned this parking lot. We found dozens of recalls including three in the camry. Two that were linked to multiple deaths. Another that could result in a fire. One in the honda odyssey. It left unfixed could result in the failure of the airbag to inflate. It has not been fixed on the car yet. Reporter we plugged in the licence plate. We found that michelle has as recall on her car from 10 years ago. It is scary. You have two open recalls on this. Reporter car fax records found 150,000 cars in pennsylvania were sold with open recalls last year. One out of three minivans have open recalls. That is not a good thing. I drive my son in this car. Reporter by downloading the app by free, it will notify you about any new recalls possibly before you get a notice in the mail. I have not gotten any paper from honda. Reporter that is what happened to her says kate. The gas tank was corroding and it was wet with gas. Reporter she never got the notice. It may have saved her life. Go to our website to download the app. All you have to do is plug in your licence plate and let you know if there are any old recalls or any new recalls pop up. I am wendy saltzman, channel~6 action news. They got a lesse a lesson in colonial style baking bread for the annual feast. It teaches the students lessons in math, science and history. They create the annual feast. The students will enjoy the fruits of their labor on wednesday. Light heavyweight champ hop hopkins and donald handed out turkeys and got to meet the boxing legend. If you have not done your thanksgiving meal shopping yet. Stay tuned. Well show you how to save at store. How a girl was dragged into a Swimming Pool by her teacher. Now, she is sharing her side of the story. Why she is ready to talk. And a Football Player caught a football last night. They are calling it the greatest grab that they have ever seen. And meteorologist, Melissa Magee is back with the full accuweather forecast when action news continues on a monday afternoon. A California High School freshman that was almost dragged intinto the pool by her teacher. This is the cellphone video of Denny Peterson pulling Sandra Garcia during gym class. Deo of she is now sharing the details. The teen said she agreed to swim laps. She told peter son that she did not want to get her hair wet. Instead she got out of the pool and sat in the bleachers. I sat on the stairs. He grabbed me by my ankles and tried to pull me down. I was sobbing. He made me feel so uncomfortable. Garcia and her mother went public after they learned that the teacher was allowed to return to a District School after 30 days of paid leave. Anheuserbusch is putting their clydesdale out to pasture. The iconic horses that were featured in budweiser spots are. Replaced by zombies and jay z they are supposedly appealing to a young, demographic with different tastes. The latest to take the lady out of the name of a womens sports tame. The review posted a letter from the editor saying that its dropping the lady from the lady hens. Calling the name sexist and redundant, hence our family. They made the same decision. Fans and players in tennessee are fighting to keep the term in lady. Its part of their history and their identity. Let us know what you think of that one. Here is my disclaimer. We love babies. We think they are beautiful. This is where a baby name expert comes in and issues a trending list of what are the 10 most hated baby names in america. Laura rottenberg is the author of baby names. And heaven spelled backwards addison, they dont like names that are mas. Jadein jayden and kayden and bentley is ignoring and jackson we are over it. Again, i did not make that list. Finally, its called one of the greatest catches that you ever will see. It happened during the giants game. The social media is on fire by a touchdown reception by odel beckham. That is impossible what he did. The thingsthatodellbeckhamcancatch there you see it. Catch it from outer space. Move on michaelangelo. What a catch you guys. It deifies gravity. How do you do that . A check on the roads right now. Matt pellman has an update. We should have him fly over the delays. That will be nice. In the northbound lanes like this morning we have a crash northbound 320. The good news that the one this afternoon is not as serious as the one this morning. Its off to the side. All lanes are open. Its a slow go through to the Commodore Barry bridge bridge on up to delco. If you are riding southbound on i95 we have new pavement on cottman avenue. No delays right now. Northbound has the typical afternoon delays. Watch out for a crash on columbus boulevard by morgans pier. The fire location on wyoming avenue has been extinguished. And watch out for the crash at montgomery avenue on rowan road. At rockhill drive on horizon boulevard. Word of crash near sauken valley road. They are blocking the northbound lanes 130. Broadway. And Melissa Magee has the exclusive sevenday forecast coming up next. All right, Melissa Magee, the timing of this snow event could not be worse. We are tracking the precipitation. Some is wintery in nature. The day before thanksgiving we break down in details for that guys. Well show you outside stormtracker 6 3d showing that its dry. No issues with precipitation right now. That will change as we get into the middle half of our work week. We are tracking that storm. A high in philadelphia climbed to 72. Its official we broke the old high of 71 setback 1979. Its above average for this time of year. Its 68 in allentown. 60 in the poconos. Upper 60s in allentown. Wilmington and dover, up to beach haven, temperatures are in the upper 50s. We have the rain and the showers early this morning. The showers moved out the warmth came surging from the south, west, north and east. The temperatures cool back down tomorrow. We fast forward and widen out the picture. A little peace of energy dips to the south. It collects moisture from the gulf of mexico. Once it does so as we get into tuesday night into wednesday. It helps to form the area of low pressure. The coastal way as we move up to the eastern seaboard. Wednesday, 7 00 in the morning. Most of the area will see rain at the onset. As the storm system intensifies t will help to drain down colder air on the back side and generates snowfall north and west. At 1 00 in the afternoon we have mixed precipitation going on. Meaning you have the raindrops fixing in with wet snow as well. 7 00 on wednesday, the storm system is taperings off and flakes north and south of the i95 corridor. It is in time for thanksgiving as it clears out. You get snowfall as it works its way north and east. The philadelphia metro area, have you rain on the onset mixing with wet snow. In delaware you have rain. A few flakes to end as the storm system moves away. We break things down for you. South jersey and delaware its a mainly rain event for you. In philadelphia and trenton, 1 to 3. And bucks county 1 to 3. From the poconos down to lancaster we are able to generate colder air. 3 to 6 inches before the storm is said and done. Any shift in the track will change. 52 in philadelphia. 44 in the suburbs. Here is the exclusive sevenday forecast, enjoy one more okay day. Its cooler. Not bad up to 57 degrees. That is above average. Wednesday we go. High of 40. Rain south and east. For thanksgiving we start to dry out. Its chilly. A high of 42. The black friday shoppers should be chilly with a high of 37. We keep our eyes on the storm with winter watch warnings. Speaking of stopping alicia is going to save us money coming up next. Inner helicopter whirring roars siren wails pop music playing when youre ready ready, ready, ready come and get it get it, get it when youre ready, come and get it na na na na na na na na na na na when youre ready, come and get it na na na na. Female announcer its a great big world and it can all be yours. Here and only here. Come and get it. Time to saving with 6abc. U have not qualified for a free one. Lauren mills says you can get a bird as little as 77¢ a pound. The big entertaining expenses come with the side dishes. Keep it simple. Focus on a few delicious ones that Everyone Wants extras of. If you are on a budget avoid the fancy recipes like exotic mushrooms or stuffing or dressing whatever you get it. Do not shop without coupons. The manufacturers themselves offer the best deals. Get the store coupons too. You will save if you buy wine by the case. And present them as gifts. Finally for the decorations, it wont save you time. It will save you money if you use the real dishes thank you, alicia. At 4 00 if you watched the show on friday you know that golden retrievers have an appetite. The golden goes to town and destroying his bowl under 4 seconds. Look at that german shepherd. He didnt have a chance. That is me on thanksgiving. I am a golden retriever. Give me seconds please. That will do it for action news at 4 00 for shirleen allicot, Melissa Magee i am brian taff. Back tonight on phl17 at 10 00. And here is rick and monica. A decision was reached in ferguson, missouri. Well await to see if the officer will be charged for killing Michael Brown. The search is underway for this missing mother. Plus a dramatic change in the accuweather coming up next. You had to mention that. Sorry. Announcer action news is sponsored by raymour flanigan, servicing your style. Its monday night. We begin with breaking news from ferguson, missouri. Ht. The grand jury considering whether it indict a Police Officer in the death of Michael Brown has reached a decision. If the grand jury has decided to charge Darren Wilson he will be already in custody once that result is revealed. He could be charged with murder, manslaughter or not at all for fatally shooting the round back in a august. There is fear that there is a widespread protesting if he is not charged. Well bring you that decision as soon as its announced. Philadelphia broke a temperature soaring to 72. The november warmup allowed those to leave their heavy jackets at home today. There is drastic change tomorrow and wednesday. Going to cecily tynan. Hi, cec. Its hard to believe on wednesday when you consider how warm it is today. Its very balmy. Philadelphia did reach a record high of 72 deges