Delaware and areas in south jersey one to 2inches of rain. But everything is calming down now a few showers right along Atlantic County extending up towards Long Beach Island through burlington county. Light rain and few spotty showers to the south. Wider view go from the current radar to the forecast. Picks up a few showers around but it will keep the clouds in overnight tonight and again spotty showers are possible. Mainly to the south. This is by tomorrow now. So just a few shores with cloudy skies and a little cooler. But look what happens towards the evening. Few showers begin to develop again as the warmer air returns. Youll feel that cooler weather tonight. Temperatures are dropping to the north. They will be falling throughout the night tonight. So the warmest part of the day could be right after midnight you wake up to temperature into the mid 50s and it drops into the mid to low 50s throughout date tomorrow. 63 your high today 68. Tied a record just a very light breeze out there. Heres what we have coming up. Again that rain clears out. Well see a few showers will stick around. Much cooler temperatures especially to the north warm weather returns as soon as the end of the weekend and we could be talking about more record high temperatures. Theyre all in the seven day forecast. A look at that coming up a little bit later, lucy. See you then, dave. Christmas like weve never seen around here. One a lot of folks in the southeast no doubt want to forget. Heavy rain brought flooding and mudslides states reeling from outbreak of rare december tornadoes. 15 people have died in mississippi, tennessee and arkansas. Today search and rescue teams on the ground looking for more victim. Weather officials confirmed nearly 20 tornadoes touched down across 10 states and more could be on the way. Im going sit in my house and think pow that. Theres people that are not going to go home. They dont have a house to go to. Some of those same weather systems are bringing much more welcomed weather to the west coast and drought stricken california the snow pack is higher than average for the first time in years. Clearly thats not the snow pack there, but its huge and a wonderful relief for residents who are still under severe water restrictions out west. Back here at home, the spirit of christmas alive and well across our area with many people spending part of their Holiday Giving back and few causes are more worthy than helping those who have already given so very much. Fox 29s brad sattin joins us from our newsroom. Brad you spent the day with some of our veterans in need rt row report a great story here. We did. We spent some time at the philadelphia veterans house which gives struggling vets temporary place to live, medical care also tries to find them work. Today, though, thanks to gofundme page, a local chef an bunch of volunteers, they were treated to a very special christmas dinner. Turkey. U. S. Army veteran doris thomas were something to smile about. Unexpected christmas feast. I had situation where i lost my home in new jersey and im still trying to recover. Reporter just last week mayor nutter announce an end to veteran homelessness in the city. Resources are now available to get any struggling military vet who wants it into save housing. And while 63yearold veteran carl miller knows being off the street is job one, the loneliness of the holidays can also be disabling. Makes them feel like they have family again. You know, something about vets holiday come they feel lonely. When they get together, its like, hey, we got family. Reporter familiar thanks in part to marco, wanted to start new tradition where i would cook for these guys every christmas. This chef and elkins park restaurant started a gofundme page. Raised over authors sap dollars and brought food an hundred blankets even wrapped to christmas to veterans in need. I dont want them to be forgotten. Just to see their reaction to some toiletries or a pair of sock. To tell you the truth, i almost cried a couple of times. Reporter hes been where they are. They made a statement that they hadnt had a gift or anything like that for years. Reporter so while they ate, ricky and nate owen were on dish duty. After their family breakfast and opening present their dad also a veteran brought them here. We all hit a difficult time in one way or another. When things are going better for you its definitely even that much more important to help others. Making their day or even their week knowing that they think theres people out there who are willing to help them. Reporter carl miller knows it. His thoughts as he finishes his pumpkin pie. I can kiss the chef. laughter . Reporter he indeed wanted to kiss the chef. They made enough food for about a hundred people. There were lots of leftovers which means some of the veterans will have more special meals in the days to come. Im brad sattin in the newsroom. The meaning of the christmas not forgotten tonight. Thousands of people gathered at saint petes square to listen to pope francis. He prayed for an end to human suffering this christmas. The popes message included a prayer that recent u. S. Backed Peace Agreement will bring peace to syria and libya. Pope francis also praised nations that have taken in refugees this year n afghanistan american servicemen and women celebrated christmas at bagram air base. Troops enjoyed a special meal at the air base while so far away from their families and friends he even santa and his helpers brought some cheer. Its a tough time to be away from family. It can be just just as tough for the folks back at home. I miss them very and i wish i was there having dinner with them. Kind of sad cause im not with my family at this time. But i have a job i have to do. So sacrifice i have to make. Bagram air base is the largest Us Military Base in afghanistan where americans serve alongside nato forces. A quiet Christmas Mass in holy place sacred to christians around the world. The town of bethlehem celebrat d wirefree answer on his Christmas Day worshipers made their way to the church of nativity for morning mass. Traditional site where jesus was born. Despite the wint sunshine festivities have been low key this year. Dampened by months of Israeli Palestinian violence. From the birth mace of christmas to the birthplace of our nation. One local Organization Made up of ministers all about spreading good news and cheer this christmas especially to those in need. Boy, did they. Tonight chosen 300 spent this christmas making sure families were surrounded by cheer and goodwill. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson joins us live from center city. Shawnette. Reporter lucy, youve been out. Of course you know that signs of the holiday are all around our city. But many people dont have shelter or food let alone a christmas dinner or a gift but tonight, a group of volunteers is making that possible. They was excited about comi coming. They never did nothing like this on christmas. Reporter josephine core and her family are getting a christmas they didnt think they would have. I told them they was going to a gathering and they was going out to give out toys and they was excite. Tonight they got dinner and gifts during a Christmas Celebration by chosen 300 an organization that helps the homeless and children. It helps a lot. It helps a lot. I mean i do what i can do. But every little bit more that go along with it. Reporter more than 100 people showed up for the gathering on lancaster avenue in mantua. They had a brief Prayer Service before volunteers put smiles on everyones faces. Brian jenkins is the expect stiff director. The children wake up in the morning theres no tree and no gifts to go under a tree. Here at chose season 300 we want to make sure we impact these childrens lives in a very significant way. Jeff howard says chosen 300 helped him get on his feet. He just recently got a job and the organization presented him with their free month long transpass to get back and forth to work. Theres hope. Basically my job is somewhat giving back to the community, too. I help out old vets and stuff like that. These folks have abundance of worries. Theyre trying to figure out who do i pay my rent next month . How do i feed my children . How do i put clothes on their back . What kind of education are they going to receive . And so these folks really deal with the burden of poverty on daily bas basis. Reporter and two other events like this were helder held in different places in the city. Chosen 300 serves about 150,000 meals a year. Lucy . Wonderful thing. Thank you so much, shawnette. This day is all about tradition. For many on the Delaware River general George Washington crossed part of an annual reenactment of the historic moment. Everything from the firing of a cannon to soldiers dressed in uniforuniforms today reenactmens true to what happened on this day in 1776 except a whole lot warmer today. The crossing of the Delaware River is a pivotal event in the american revolution. Straight ahead one of americas Biggest Delivery Companies is playing catch up on this Christmas Day. How fed ex is explaining the, well, the ious under your christmas tree. A south jersey familys Christmas Gift exchange is anything but traditional. It is outstanding. How theyre bringing smiles and cheer to dozens of other families. Well, um, unlike santa claus, Federal Express is conceding it wasnt able to make all of its scheduled deliveries on christmas eve. So to ease some of the disappointment Company Employees had to work on this Christmas Day and they were delivering packages out there all over the place. Fed ex even opened some stores so customers could pick up their stuff. It blames the delayed shipments on inclement weather in parts of the us and last minute surge of Holiday Shopping it hadnt anticipated. Speaking of gifts, instead of exchanging presents with one another, one local family helped bring smiles to 25 other families and fox 29s Bill Anderson went to camden for the tidings of comfort and joy. These are your secret santas. Reporter most of us spent the day with friends and family exchanging gifts one new jersey family decided to give up their traditional christmas and dedicate this year to helping others. This year we felt we want to give and the lesson is, its better to give than to receive. Reporter Jennifer Morris is a fire marshal in camden and after conducting an inspection at Ronald Mcdonald house she and her family decided that rather than he can change gifts with each other, they would give them to the 25 families of sick and injured children living here. I cant open describe. The best feeling in the world to see that were making these kids happy, the smiles on their faces its just incredible. Reporter Ronald Mcdonald house staff shared family information so the family could do the shopping and from the response it like like the presents they got were perfect. I think today they are building their reservoir of goodness so that on those tough days when they feel they cant take another step, that theyve got a little bit bad news they can look back in their minds eye and say you know what, there are people that love me. I wish you get better. 23 members of the family gave up their own christmas to give presents to the families here at the Ronald Mcdonald house and all of them agree that it makes christmas this year a little bit more special. Appreciate what you have. Dont take anything for granted because you never know what could happen tomorrow. Thank you. Does youre very welcome man. Reporter in cam, Bill Anderson, happy holidays from fox 29 news. I just love that. All right. So imagine living with six different families throughout your entire life and youre not even a teenager yet. Well thats what life was like for two local children until halloween. Thats when the fogle family got a little bigger and our Lauren Johnson shows us christmas, christmas will never be the same. Reporter for 11 years zach fogle was an only child. I wanted a brother and sist sister. Mostly a brother. Reporter his mother robin fogle wanted something else. We wanted to help kids out. Reporter she and her husband had been faster parents for years. A Foster Parent was not good thing for me because it was hard to say goodbye. Reporter she thought adoption was a better option. When i got that call, i was like yes so happy. Almost like a pregnancy, you know, wahoo katie and ben a brother and sister set i didnt know i had a sister until i had a visit with my mom. Reporter had been in the foster care system for years. Moving around lot. Um, for an estimate i think six. Reporter six defendant times . Thats a lot. How was that for you . Hard. Where are we ever going to stop moving. Reporter it took emotional toll on 12yearold katie. Did you ever get scared sometimes that you might get separated from your brother . That went through your mind sometimes . Yes. Reporter did you ever cry . Were you ever sad . I was sad. Reporter and do you know why you were sad . Because i didnt think we were ever going to get a family. Reporter robin was hoping she would would be the last stop on their tough journey to find a forever home. All these kids wanted was love. Reporter she was ready to pour out all she had. I was a bundle of energy but in different ways. Butterflies and stuff like that. Reporter everyone was nervous but excited about what could be. I thought they were really fun. It was very quite and we went from that to complete chaos but it was good chaos. Reporter after a year of adventures its became official. Our adoption was finalized october 30th, and that was just an amazing day. Reporter just in time for the holidays. First christmas with adoption done. Reporter zach says they have big plans. Go to the nutcracker, macys, hershey park probably and Christmas Lights in allentown. Reporter and christmas list a tablet, um, more lego friends. Reporter a long list of wishes for siblings who were short on tradition. It breaks my heart to think they were eight and 11 and they had never ever decorate add christmas tree. Reporter they did it and loved it. What has it moment for you guys . That we never have to move any more. Unless were moving to a different house but were still staying together. Reporter now the fogle family is finally complete. And i think that puts a whole different spin on our christmas. Like we are a family and we are altogether. Row what great christmas for them. Love that. Love the temperatures because i gave up on skiing this december. I cant believe it dave. Goodness. Id like to see colder temperatures. Like to see that ski season get underway and santa dropped off some shreds for the kids this morning. Really . He didnt Pay Attention to the Weather Forecast apparently. Temperatures were into the record territory today. Still into the 60s but dropping overnight tonight. They will will be falling you could wake up to mild start mid 50s but it will stay there all day tomorrow. Already cooling off a little point mount pocono 54 degrees. Tied a record in philadelphia. Set a record in Atlantic City 71 in 1982 it was 70. So a record high today. No records tomorrow and no more steady rain. Its all clearing out. Few showers will linger and could see a few more throughout the day tomorrow to the south. Ban of very heavy rain led to flooding there in New Castle County and threw south jersey this got one after the other. Heavy showers and thunderstorms that came over the same area. Now no more rain but the showers will linger tonight. Well say a cooler saturday. Record high on sunday in philadelphia, 64. Forecasting a high above that. So we can see another record. Heres this rain tapering off and just a few showers around tomorrow. Mainly to the south. One or two spots. Not a completely dry day although not that said dee rain widespread rain like we had today. Start to increase and fill in a bit more tomorrow night for the eagles game maybe a passing shower. This is the warmer air coming back. Were cooler tomorrow. Theres the cooler temperatures. But look all the warm air lifts up throughout the day sunday. So its cool saturday but then sunday climbing into the 60s. Cooler weather comes in late sunday. Thats the focus for these showers but ahead of that record high 64. We could be into the upper 60s by 9 00 oclock on sunday night. 65 degrees. So a warm end to the weekend. Some clearing. 47 will be dropping to 47 north and west overnight tonight. 55 falling temperatures its 55 in the morning. But then it drops throughout the afternoon and evening. Showers will linger a bit to the south and east overnight tonig tonight. Lets talk the seven day forecast. You can see we really warm up there on sunday. 52 tomorrow. Up to skate on sunday. Little cooler breeze on monday that front will come through drop the temperatures down to 50. Warm weather returns briefly tuesday. Another storm comes in brings back the rain. Brings in the warmer temperatures. It will start to feel a little more like this time of year here by the end of the week. Wednesday, thursday and friday for the new year our lows are dropping down to 35. Not to the freezing mark but down to 35. That will come with a few showers. Only climb to frick. All right. Lets hope, dave, that the eagles are as hot as our weather has been. Lets hope so. We have a big game coming up. Sean bell what you got . Sean . The holidays wont be joyous for the eagles if they dont get a win on saturday. Coming off a loss they have a back to the wall mentality and the guys talk about coming out christ nasa about over so its time to get back to business for the eagles at this point the season has been all their goals are still ahead of them. They can still win the division, make the playoffs and compete for super bowl. But they have to refocus. As nice as having a win against the good Cardinals Team would have been saturdays game against washington is all that matters. They can prevent the redskins from winning the division and they have a shot at clinching the nfc east with a win against the giants. Right now theyre backs are against the wall but that might be exactly where they want to be. We have a couple wins, and start feeling yourself thats the most dangerous position to be in. When your backs against the wall you got to scrap and you got to fight. Thats when youll find out who the men are. I think, um, when coming off loss like that like i said yes its disappointing we shot ourselves in the foot but i like the mentality of the guys in the locker room. I like everybody worked at practice. Chip kelly is taking good care of us at the same time but weve been able to get at it. This is the holidays. So high to ask him whats your favorite Christmas Gift . What pop in his actually something that happened last year. Brought me a record player. I love music. It was cool to have in the hou house. I had a lot of records. I had college drop out on reporter but i could never listen it to. I had it on vinyl. He got me that and crack it open and listen to it. You can hear from the players and get a full game recap on game day live this sunday at 10 00 a. M. Howard eskin, gary cobb, dave spadaro and myself will either be discussing how the eagles are still alive or what went wrong with the eagles season. Dont forget tomorrow the sixers will be in action in phoenix against the suns. Theyre six game West Coast Road trip continues. Smith may be in the mix at one and 30. Sam the tank hinkie can look forward to another loss on this historical bad season. Once again, merry christmas. Drive home safely. And happy holidays. Our holiday lights and sounds special followed by your lililii Grover Cleveland here. Yes, the handsome gent on the thousanddollar bill. With cash4life, the great game from the pennsylvania lottery, you could win a thousand dollars a day for life you could invest it, or save it for a rainy day. Or you could buy a new car and with drawings every monday and thursday, that means 2 chances to win every week. Cash4life from the pennsylvania lottery. You could win a thousand dollars a day for life. Welcome do our fox 29 special holiday lights and sound im iain page. Aim lucy noland. Over next half an hour youll hear beautiful muse flick local singers and choirs. Fill girls choir starts us off with deck the halls. Deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa la la la la la la la tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la la la la don we now our gay apparel, fa la la la la la la la troll the ancient yuletide carol, fa la la la la la la la see the blazing yule before us, fa la la la la la la la strike the harp and join the chorus, fa la la la la la la la follow me in me