Move through our area. So were not done with the rainfall still looking at some foggy conditions across the area as well. Down to half a mile in lancast lancaster. 5mile visibility in atlantic city. What about the airport delays right now . The Philadelphia International airport were looking at 110 minutes so almost two hours. But look at the temperature. Not a typo. It is 63 degrees right now in philadelphia. Elsewhere across the nation were looking at some airport delays as you head up the road toward newark. As far as temperatures, were looking pretty good right now in our area. So not dealing with snow, but it is going to be wet over the next couple of hours. Once again a little bit of a lull but look at what happens as we move toward 10 00 oclock. Were looking at more rainfall moving back in around midnight and you can see by 2 00 a. M. Were looking at some heavy rainfall once again moving back into the area. Coming up ill have the timing of when this rainfall moves out on your Christmas Day as well as a change in temperatures iain with that seven day forecast coming up. All right, scott, look forward to that. Thank you so what about the airport . Scott mentioned them. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson live at Philadelphia International airport for us tonight. Shawnette . Reporter iain, you remember i was here just last night when some people got the bad news that their departing or connecting flight had been canceled. Well, it appears that those people were lucky. They got out early this morning. As for tonight, things appear to be smooth right now with some arriving flights just on an hour delay. Philadelphia International Airport was up and running pretty close to normal Christmas Eve afternoon. Only two departing flights have been canceled. One to chicago and another to minneapolis. And board was showing arriving flights on time. Rain and fog grounded more flights the night before. Travelers today were happy they missed the bulk of the weather problems and are where they need to be in time for Christmas Day. It was delayed 50 minutes. We sat on the runway. A lot of turbulence in the air when we did take off, lot of bumping like a roller coaster but we got here on time. We made up for the time in the air. Reporter all right. Good news for her, and overall right now the airport doesnt actually appear to be super busy only two security gates were open when we were inside just moments ago. So it seems a lot of people actually traveled iain ahead of Christmas Eve. All right. Smart plan, shawnette, thank you. The rain here and snow in other parts of the country making eight tough day for airport travels. Fox 29s joan lum shows what it looks like at chicago midway International Airport. Reporter more people are traveling with families to unite with other families over this holiday. It can be a very stressful time but a lot of people heeded the advice and came to the airport early much it was very crowded here just awhile ago. Security officials with tsa say theyll try to screen passengers in 20 minutes or less nationwi nationwide. Theyre expecting this to be the busiest travel day at mid what. 66,000 people will move through this airport 4. 2 million will travel through ohare and midway over the two week holiday period. Travelers dont have flexibility when it comes to joining family for christmas. They have to get there before santa does. Well Christmas Steve of course a very holy night for christians across the world. The special occasion is being celebrated at churches in our region including the mass at cathedral basilica of saints peter and paul. Services just got underway a few minutes ago. There will be a Second Service there tonight at 7 30. Prayer Services Also kicked off huge holiday event in northeast philadelphia today. Students Nazareth Academy high school prayed with faculty and set out to deliver hundreds of santas gifts collected from massive toy drive in the true tradition of the season students and faculty say they were happy to celebrate the holiday by making it a better one for others. Santa claus making the early rounds to some boys and girls across our area while santa usually weights until youre asleep the jolly old elf told Jennifer Joyce there were some kids he wanted to meet persona personally. Reporter he couldnt ride his sleigh because of the bad weather. Instead stan at a had a Police Escort to help him navigate the streets of philadelphia. Ho, ho, ho. He went house to house with his elfs in tow. Delivering presents in person to some very special children. The doctors and nurses told us all about you end said hes our special guy. Reporter jones suffers from sickle cell disease. Just to see him smile all through the pain and suffering its awesome. Santa has been making special deliveries for 36 years. Inspired by children he met at saint christophers hospital. I just said this has to be the lone lee yesterday place in the world a child sitting here on Christmas Eve. He targets children most in need of a smile. It made me feel special that he came all the way just to give us gifts. Reporter while these children can celebrate stans visit with their families one stop on stans list was a special stop. We came 26,419 miles just to see the william family. Reporter he visited the family of Keisha Williams, the 34yearold and three of her children were killed last summer when Police Say Two carjackers plowed their vehicle into the Williams Family fruit stand on the side of a road in north philadelphia. I dont have a sister any more. 12yearold williams is one of two surviving siblings. Their first christmas without their mother, sister and broth brother. Christmas is the season where family come together, give, give, share, love and were missing a big chunk of our family now. So its kind of hard. Never going to be by yourse yourself. Youve got a wonderful person here and you have a lot of friends. Reporter Keisha Williams sister says support helps lift their spirit during this difficult time. Truly grateful and we thank everyone that came out. Santa plans to hit more than 100 hom homes today in the philadelphia area. Then by 6 00 oclock he has to head back to the north pole of course to get ready for tonight. Reporting in philadelphia, im Jennifer Joyce, fox 29 news. Local Little League baseball star mone davis also among santas secret helpers this afternoon. She joined city leaders and Community Organizations in surprising seven families with new toys and gifts in south and southwest philadelphia. Nonprofit group unity in the Community Organized the five year tradition known as Operation Holiday help. Each year families in need are nominated by neighbors for Community Organizations to get the special surprise delivery. Unity in the community hosts five Charity Events a year. Dedicated to changing the lives of residents in south philly by inspiring and giving back. It will be a Merry Christmas after all for some local veterans. A few weeks ago we told you about a burglary at mt. Zion Baptist Church in mays landing, new jersey. Gifts that were going to be given out to vets were stolen. Well after we aired the story, so many of you came through and donated new gifts for these men and women. The church says it got so many donations they were able to deliver gifts to a Veterans Home and to some elderly people in their community as well. A homeless man receives a hundred dollars. Still ahead he goes right into a liquor store but its what he byes thats got a lot of people talking tonight. Also ahead another teen shot and killed by police. What investigators say makes this case a lot different. And a grandfather thought he lost Cherished Memories of his late grandson. How one man went to Great Lengths to get those memories back to him right before the holidays. Scott . If youre headed out on this Christmas Eve you really dont need to bundle up. Temperatures right now, yeah, in the low 60s but you need to pack along the rain beer gear w that rain moves out coming up. Of course we are following santa has he make his magical journey around the world. Norad puts him right now in denmark. Well continue to track santa throughout this newscast. Hey guess what day it is . . Hump day hummmp daaay its hump day yeah hey Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike mike mike. Hey he knows hey guess what day it is hey camel guess what day it is its not even wednesday. Let it go, phil. If youre a camel, you put up with this all the time. Its what you do. sigh if you want to save fifteen percent or more car insurance, you itch to geico. Its what you do. Ok. We now know the name of the woman killed in that deadly hitandrun in philadelphias holmesburg second. Police say 32yearold theresa pose see was crossing the state road when she was hit by a truck. The driver of that truck then took off. Police say theyre looking for an older model dark pickup or tow truck in connection with that incident. A protest outside an eagles game leads one Bucks County School counselor to post controversial comments on social media and tonight weve learned that she will not be charged. Mary kate blank ken burg was suspended from her position at central bucks west high after writing on facebook that she would quote shoot protesters. She deleted that comment a short time later. Another fire storm in missouri after police there shoot and kill a teenager. This shooting just miles from ferguson where protests and riots erupted after the shooting of a teen there back in august. But police say things were different in this circumstance because as foxs Rick Leventhal reports investigators say this teen had a gun. There are no winners here. There are nothing but losers. Reporter another Fatal Police Shooting in missouri sparking protests and clashes with cops. The incident was caught on video at a gas station in berkeley. An officer responding to a larson knee call confronted two men one of them police say was arm. The individual produced a pistol with his arm straight out pointing at the officer from kind of across the hood of the police car. Reporter thats when the officer pull his own weapon and fired at 18yearold ant tone yo martin killing him at the scene. A large crowd gathered and grew violent some demonstrators throwing bricks and rocks at officers and breaking windows. Also throwing explosive or fireworks toward gas pumps. Police made several arrests. You couldnt even compare this with ferguson or the garner case in new york. I can assure you that did not happen last night. We had had a policeman respon responding to a call, protecting the residents of the city of berkeley. Reporter tony martin the victims mother says it took hours before she can learn what really happened to her son. They killed him. They wont let me see my baby. They got my baby laying out there. He been out there for about two hours. Reporter police say the suspect had been arrested several times before and theyre still looking for the second subject who fled the scene. In new york, Rick Leventhal, fox news. Vicepresident joe biden will be at the funeral this weekend for one of the new York City Police officers shot and killed in his car. Services for 40yearold Raphael Ramos will be held on saturday. A funeral for his partner wenjian liu will be a ranged once his family arrives from china. Protesters speaking out about against Police Violence are refusing to honor mayor bill did you bass yos request to holder off on demonstrations untilly officers are buried. Former president George Hw Bush is in the hospital tonight under observation. The 41st president was rushed to houston methodist yesterday for shortness of breath. The same hospital he spent nearly two months back in 2012 being treated for a bronchitis related cough. A family Spokesman Says former president bush is being held for observation simply as a precaution. Of course the 90yearold spent his birthday back in june making a tandem parachute jump in mai maine. Cleanup continues tonight in parts of mississippi after around of deadly storms. The Severe Weather last night killed at least four people and injured 20. Mississippis governor declaring a state of emergency in two of the hardest hit counties after tornadoes tour through the area. Crews are clearing debris from roads and restoring power to the area. And what would christmas be without some traditional music many School Choirs across the region performed songs for us each year starting us off tonight is the philadelphia girls choir singin sinking sil night. Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright round yon virgin mother and child, holy infant so tender and mild sleep in heavenly piece, sleep in heavenly piece silent night, holy night, shepherds quake at the site glorious dreams from heaven above, heavenly hosts sink alleluia christ our save your is born, christ our save your is born silent night, holy night, son of god loves pure light radiant of thigh holy faith, with the holy redeeming grace, joe suss lord at thigh birth, jesus lord at thigh birth its a change of course for sony. Coming up the quote interview come to go some theaters. Find out how you can watch it right now from your home. And we continue to track santas every movement tonight. Santa claus is in germany right now, hes already delivered millions of packages. Well continue to track santa throughout this newscast. Well continue to track santa throughout this newscast. We put all the apps you love inside a car designed to connect you to a world of possibilities. The connected car by volvo. Innovating for you. Give the gift of volvo this season and well give you your first months payment on us. From a Christmas Day release to release back at all back to christmas. The quote interview seems to be the little movie that it could. It will be shown in 300 heats nationwide. You can stream the movie online. As foxs joel waldman reports sony is getting praise for reversing its decision despite terror threats. Reality is that, yes the movies will be in theaters ill see it tomorrow myself. Reporter its a movie lawmakers and the president say theyre happy its being released interview will make its way to hundreds of theaters nationwide Christmas Day. Reports swirling sony might also release controversial film on several streaming sites including youtube and google play. Here in washington, some members of congress urging even tougher sanctions against north korea. Fbism saying yank was hospital for the hack tack on sony. Shot down the hard currency north korea needs not only for Nuclear Weapons program and for this dictator to pay his generals but it would also cut off the funding to bureau 121 which is theyre 3,000 cyber agents they pay out of that bureau. Lets get serious about our response here. Reporter the comedy is about as is that so nation plot against north koreas leader kim jongun. Interview was originally going to run on 3,000 screens. Houstons alamo draft house cinema is one that is stepping up to show the flick. Were just very happy in houston to be able to spotlight this movie ton bring it to an audience that wants to see it. Reporter north koreas own internet went dark for nearly 10 hours monday. Service back up and running but still said to be spotty. Triggering speculation maybe the us is responsible. Its really important that we not jump to conclusions on who had actually behind this. Reporter theres growing bipartisan call for congress to host a screening for the interview. A show of support that america will not be intimidated by threats. In washington, joel waldman, fox news. A grandfather thought he lost cherish memories of his late grandson. Still ahead tonight how one man went to Great Lengths to get those memories back to him right before the holidays. Scott . Iain right now ultimate doppler tracking some rainfall in particular south jersey. But were not done with the rainfall just yet. When it moves out on Christmas Day next. We are following some breaking news tonight out of atlanta. The cdc says a Lab Technician may have accidentally been exposed to the ebola virus. A cdc spokeswoman says a person working in a secure lab may have come in contact with a small amount of the live virus. It was being used as part of ebola experiment to potential exposure is now under internal investigation and has been reported to the secretary of health and human services. Additional employees have been notified but no one so far has required monitoring. Meantime a messy Christmas Eve for travelers. Heres a live look at the Philadelphia International airport. Some delays for flights coming in and out of philadelphia. Scott is back in a few minutes with when the rain moves out of the our are a. If youve ever lost someone you know the simple peace kit bring to have support from other loved ones. One local grandfather tried to hold on to that support memories of his grandson through saved voice messages. Fox 29s Lauren Johnson here with more on this touching story. Lauren. Reporter iain luckily this story has good ending. For years a local Montgomery County man held on to the memory of his bee love grandson by listening to saved voice messages. He received while the boy was sick. When the messages were accidentally erased he was devastated. It took the kindness of a complete stranger to help mend his broken heart. He was our true angel. Reporter ed ohanlon has only good things. Had a great personality. Reporter to say about his grandson. He just was a super kid. Reporter John Matthew Sha per row. Every day is a tough day. But we have good memories of john. Sixyearold lost his battle with brain cancer in 2011. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you. Family and friends couldnt stop calling. Our voice males going back to 2007 with people calling about johjohns and issues and problem. He cherish all of them hadnt plans to record them until last week when technology failed him. I thought he was going to have a heart attack. His wife says they were trying to add a phone line but the company mistakenly disconnected the line. That was traumatic. I was i almost had nervous break down. The messages were gone. Becky said a prayer. John, come on, grandmom needs you please help grandpop now. Nothing until phoned a friend who connected him with a comcast employee doug. It took about four hours to get everything back in order. You have 100 and six new messages. Ed called eight miracle film they did something for my hell cherish for the rest of my life. Says its the best present he can ever get. You cant buy this. I dont care if you have all the money in the world. Doug says its all in a days work. Meant more to know we were able to resolve it and give him back something so close to his heart. Reporter ed says unless its a with to help record all those messages he wants nothing else. Tomorrow morning that entire family will visit the cemetery and leave a wreath on johns grave and also leave an empty seat for him at the dinner table. Iain. Lauren, thanks. Great story. Happy ending. Weve got rain here but get this. Theres blizzard warning for parts of hawaii . Yeah, thats right. Especially the higher elevations, and you know, its actually colder there in hawaii in some parts than it is right now in our area. Were looking at temperatures in the 60s eye right now. And were dealing with rainfall so its not going to be a White Christmas across our area. We still have some fog, some drizzle out there but the rain is letting up a bit especially around the philadelphia area and points north and west. Well take a tour into south jersey. Thats where were still looking at some of the steadier rain right now headed down to ac expressway also as you move down the shore points. Atlantic city, cape may, worry looking at some of that steadier rainfall. But were not done with the rainfall yet. Well get that lull but take look off to the west. Were watching a line of showers even some thunderstorms right now severe thunderstorms moving through sections of ohio. Thats the batch of rain that will move in during the overnight and the first part of the day on christmas. So on your radar another round of rain overnight. So becoming steadier but for this evening if youre doing last minute shopping maybe headed out to Church Services, some travel delays on the roads. Ponding on the roadways as well. And then turning blustery tomorrow for Christmas Day. After the morning showers. Winds could gust up to 40 miles per hour. But as we take a look at the airport delay board, looking pretty good right now. New york city, newark, boston but were still dealing with the clouds as well as that rain. Well time everything out for the evening and overnight. You can see well get a break in the rainfall if youre stepping outdoors over the neck several hours. But by 10 00 oclock north and west looking at some rainfall moving back in and especially after midnight. We start to watch that second batch off to the west moving back in. Moderate to heff vo rainfall as well. Heres 4 00 a. M. On Christmas Day. Were looking at heavy rain moving through norristown, philadelphia, the deptford area into south jersey and then continuing heres 6 00 a. M. On your christmas morning. So if you have some plans errly tomorrow morning you might want to wait a few hours until that rain clears the coast especially by seven, 8 00 oclock on Christmas Day. Then we clear out but we turn blustery behind that system. Temperatures will start to drop as well. But look at the number right n now. Its 63 in philadelphia. 64 degrees currently in dover. Were looking at 50 degrees right now in allentown. So for tonight, were looking at that second round of rain especially after midnight moving in. But look at the temperatures its going to be pretty comfortable and mild as if youre stepping outdoors. So for Christmas Day, once again, an early shower, but it becomes blustery. Were looking at temperatures in the low 50 50s but it will feela little colder due to that wind on Christmas Day. 51 degrees sunny and comfortable to kick off kwanzaa as we move toward saturday. Still not that bad. 54 degrees. Upper 40s on sunday. There could be a shower chance and then behind that system colder air starts to move in and were looking at maybe some rain, maybe a little bit of wet snowflakes and it stays cold as we move toward tuesday upper 30s for highs. There could be some flurries around and there could even be flurries believe it or not as we move toward new years eve with temperatures on wednesday in the 30s. So if you want the cold air, wait until the last few days of the month. But its incredible were talking low to mid 50s here over the next couple of days. Sunny weather. Mild first part of the weekend. Still above average. Average high this time of year is in the low 40s and right now were about 20 degrees above average. Thats great. Ill take it. All right. Thank you scott. A dream come true. Coming up a local man gets to be a mummer for a day. How his wish is coming to life. Special moment for a 23yearold mullica hill, new jersey, man who refuses to let autism slow him down. For the first time he donned an outfit that until now hes only dreamed about it took another man coming out of retirement to make this dream come true. And fox 29s brad sat tip was there as it all went down. Reporter doug hoffman can barely contain his excitement stepping out of the car to walk into his dream. Has this been a dream . Yeah. Reporter for how long . All my life. Reporter your whole life . Yeah. Reporter doug has autism and for anyone who says he couldnt do it, hes about to prove them wrong. Suiting up to become a mummer. Hell be strutting his stuff with the golden sunrise fans see group in this years mummers parade and dennis clark came out of retirement to make it happen. Something he wanted to do and i used to do it and why not . Give it another go. Reporter dennis has been a mummer his end tour life. Here he is in the middle almost 10 years ago until he retired in 2009. Dennis works at bancroft a home that serves folks with autism where doug lives. Come up to me one day approached me and said, dennis, can you make me mummer . Reporter it makes laura whose done a lot of the prep work very proud. Its wonderful. This is why we do this. This is why were here. Reporter its about the pure joy on dougs face and a lesson for us all. Youre going to find anybody that will be individuals with disabilities they arent going to let their disability hinder what they can do. That was fox 29s brad satin reporting this is all part of the course par for the for doug. Last year he bowled in the Special Olympics for the first time and right now hes studying to get certified as a master gardner. A homeless man was given 100. Still ahead watch as he goes into a liquor store but this story doesnt end the way you think it may. What he bought that will touch your heart. Plus, we have some Great Holiday mewing is for you. Dont miss a special performance from the enon ban test tabernacle choir on the way. And norad tracking santas journey and so are we. Santa is now in france. Continuing to deliver all those gifts and we will continue to monitor sa santas progress throughout the newscast. Santa out delivering toys right now. But we caught up with saint nick before he headed out on his big journey more than 400,000 people come to meet santa every year at santa claus village in finland and those had cant make it send letters. Village has got its own post office where elves sort through the letters from kids all over the world. They ask how santa is doing . And they come with all sorts of wishes for christmas and often they wish for the health and willbeing of their families and of course, what they want for christmas. The village receive over 500,000 letters every year. Ever heard of pranks in the hood . They get millions of views on youtube page for the pranks that sometimes go a little bit too far. But a holiday prank in california went wrong in the most heart warming way. Foxs ed lasko shows us what happened. Thats what happened like shocked me. And i was just like mind blown. Like wow. My heart just melt. Youtube we are on his latest video. Look here. Im josh. Nice to meet you. Centers around thomas homeless man and josh who gives this man on the streets 100. Really, are you sure. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Do it. Im start to go ear up. Its okay. Hes tearing up but what thomas doesnt know theres a camera secretly following him around just to so what he will do with all of that money. If i give him hundred buck im thinking the guy will buy drugs or alcohol or something. Maybe. I was thinking, okay, if they do that im going to go and say, hey why buy alcohol . I was thinking i was going to do. What happens next is the reason this video goes viral. Almost a million views in just hours thomas takes that hundred bucks into a liquor store but he does not buy booze. Instead he buys food and then he hands it out to others who are homeless in the park. Okay first of all i gave hundred buck. You appreciate it. Thats cool. But you buy food and thats for you to help others. For him normal thing to help other people. He claims he quit his job to take care of his sick parents they have since lost died. Hes helping those who are huring even more than he is. It could be divorce and one thing leads to another. The man lost his job, his home. Hes got no money. Theres a lot of good people that are homeless. Exactly christmastime like, for him he actually buy and help others and thats just like that hundred bucks will mean the value of hundred buck more than a hundred bucks. Christmas less than eight hours away everyone getting into the holiday spirit including a pack of elephants in thailand three elephants don santa costumes use their trunks to pass out presents to school ki kids. The students filled with chore cheered on as the four leg santas delivered all the stuff. I think the children today were very excited to see the elephant dressed as santa clause. Very special. And santa claus elephants are part of tai culture and brought a little bit of cliff noose thailand. The kids got all kind of good stuff including dolls and snack. Enon Baptist Tabernacle choir one of the best in the country each year they perform a couple of great songs for us. Here they are now with the performance of what child what child is this who laid to rest on marys lap is sleeping angel greet while shepher shepherds watch are keeping weve got another half hour of news straight ahead for you tonight. The holiday rush is winding down. We are live as people try to get in and out of town in the middle of all this rain and fog. Plus, a secret santa making this memorable holiday for one family going through their toughest christmas yet. A heart warming story just in time for the holidays. Howard . Sometimes perspective at this type of the year is important for players even with fans expecting. Well hear from one of the eagles and head coach is a happy camper with certain news to some of his players much that will be coming up in sports. Coming in weather dope put away the rain gear just yet. The timing of another round of heavy rain moving in and what it means for your Christmas Day next. She inspires you. No question about that. 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As we take a look at ultimate doppler were not done way the rain full just yet. Many locations are looking at a lull, however, as we move down the shore right now, were still looking at some pockets of rainfall especially from cape may moving toward middle avalon as you move toward ocean city, atlantic city. Were looking at some of that steadier rain but off to the west, this is the batch that will move through overnight and the first part of the day tomorrow. You can see it moving through the upper ohio river valley it will continue to head to the west. So if youre stepping outdoors, its going to be from the tee mild. Temperatures right now are in the 60s but once again we are looking at a lull over the next several hours before that batch of rainfall moves in overnight. But look at the current temperatures. 62 philadelphia. 64 in dover. Upper 50s right now in much much south jersey so light showers scattered around. If youre stepping outdoors. But once again the heavier rain doesnt really arrive until overnight. As we look at the clock you can see that lull in the action if youre stepping outdoors headed to church or maybe to holiday parties and last minute shopping. But watch the clock. After midnight, we start to see more of that rainfall moving back in and this is for 4am on Christmas Day. Coming up when this rainfall moves out and the temperature changes ahead
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