The temperatures will be at or above freezing for the event. Hazardous travel, slipping and sliding saturday. Not today, no. Clearing skies for the suburbs and for the lehigh valley. Leading to colder temperatures. Look at the clouds lingering in delaware and south jersey. The clouds will fill back in during the day. And then the wet weather you see to the south, thats rain in the warmer areas. The cold that we have pushing into alabama, mississippi, and georgia, that will produce snow for them and for us tomorrow. Right now if youre heading out, plainold cold. 29 in the suburbs. 36 degrees in philadelphia. The clouds will linger. Sunshine in the lehigh valley, up to 38 this afternoon. Well below normal for delaware, four degrees. 40 degrees for new jersey. For philadelphia, 41. The first snowflakes and raindrops potentially late this afternoon and into the early evening hours at the shore. The temperatures should be above freezing. Im not expecting accumulations today. Ill break it down hour by hour and show you when you can expect the snowflakes to come into your neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. First, katy zachry has first alert traffic. Fortunately the precipitation youre talking about thats in our future is not on the roads today. Everything is dry. Ill show the cameras in a minute. Just a quick overview of the majors in pennsylvania. 95, 76, and the blue route. 476 in the green. That means no construction blocking traffic. That means theres no crashes. As you see, average speeds hovering around 60 Miles Per Hour now. Thats good. Taking a live look outside, there is 76 right at south street. I bring up this camera because throughout the morning until just recently, we had a closure at south street for drivers headed eastbound on 76. That has cleared. Traffic is running smoothly past the south street exit. We also have construction on the pennsylvania turnpike. That was right around the nashomoy exit on the new jersey line. A 25minute drive both directions from route 1 to valley forge. Developing now, blistering wildfires are spreading across southern california, destroying homes and businesses. Some 200,000 people have already been forced to evacuate. And that numbers could go up. Nbc10s dray clark is following efforts to get a handle on those wildfires. At this point, this is still an uphill battle. Yeah. Good morning. Firefighters certainly have their hands full. Theyre just in the early end of the fight there. Its been four days of fighting relentless fires that are showing no signs of slowing down. There are now six massive wildfires burning in southern california. Thursday the department of forestry and Fire Protection issued a purple flag. The highest danger level. Its never been issued before. 5,500 firefighters are on the ground attacking the fire, but thats not enough to push the flames back. Thursday, strong santa ana winds gusting up to 70 Miles Per Hour pushed the fire farther, fanning embers and flames in every direction. The flames even moved into San Diego County thursday. The lilac fire wiped out an entire Retirement Community along with 4,000 acres, and its still burning. The largest of the wildfires remains in ventura county. The tonnis fire has charred more than 115,000 acres and 400 trucks were destroyed. Fire officials are still urging people in the fires to get out if theres even a remote possibility the fire could shift their way. We want to urge everyone to follow the principles of ready, set, go, for fire evacuations. I would urge everybody to be set. Have your stuff ready to go. Reporter the winds are expected to die down some today. Theres still a major threat looming with the fire barely contained. 20,000 homes are still in the path of the flames. Firefighters say trying to get the upper hand today will be extremely difficult. Were live in the digital operations center, dray clark, nbc10 news. 5 35. A shooting in kensington sends two people to the hospital in critical condition. A woman was hit four times. A man was hit twice near the corner of g street and East Allegheny avenue. Investigators uncovered two weapons. No arrests have been made. This happened a few blocks from a deadly incident this week. Someone shot and killed a man at pointblank range on east madison early wednesday morning. A woman in Chester County says a man hit her during a roadrage incident as her two children watched the whole thing happen. The victim says she accidentally cut off the man while pulling into the Providence Town Center in Upper Providence township on monday. She says the man pulled up next to her and then got out of the car. I rolled down the window. My Immediate Reaction was to say, im so, is im so sorry. He became enraged and screaming. At that point, im like, theres kids in the car, please stop. I dont want sop. Shocking that he was doing that. Then with that, he leaned in and hit me right here. Police are asking for your help to identify this man. They describe him as a large man with thinning, white hair. He was dressed in a dark suit and driving a dark gray or navy chrysler 300. Happening today, President Trump will hold a campaignstyle rally to support Alabama Senate candidate roy moore. The rally will be in pensacola, florida, close to the Alabama State line. The president endorsed his fellow republican in week. In a tweet. Moore is involved of Sexual Misconduct involving teen girls. Hes denied the allegations. Hes running against doug moore in a special election tuesday. Minnesota senator al franken says he will step down at the end of the year as the Sexual Harassment issue continues to rock congress. I know in my heart that nothing i have done as a senators, nothing, has brought dishonor on this institution. Eight women have accused the democrat of unwanted touching, groping, and forcible kissing. Franken flatly denied the allegations and said its ironic hes leaving while President Trump is in office and roy moore runs for the senate while facing allegations of sexual assault. Congressman trent franks says he is resigning. A House Ethics Committee is investigating the republican for possible Sexual Harassment. In a statement, franks said that he made two women in his office uncomfortable back to you discussing his interest in finding a surrogate mother. He and his wife struggle with infertility and used a surrogate to carry their twins. Franks will step down on january 31st. Im meteorologist bill henley. Cold outside and dry in cape may. That may be changing later today. The first snowflakes of the coming system that will bring accumulating snow well inland for tomorrow, the first will arrive late this afternoon and this evening right along the coastline. Most of it will be moving in overnight and into saturday. During the day, well see snow totals of one to four inches. The higher totals, that will be on the grass on, cars, on colder surfaces. The temperatures for much of the event to begin will be above freezing. It will get colder during the day. Delaware and new jersey seeing higher amounts. The suburbs seeing it pull away. Later tomorrow, temperatures will plurchlnge. 31 in the lehigh valley. Cold enough for snow. 29 in the suburbs. Colder temperatures with the clearing skies this morning. Look at west callen township now 29 degrees. 32 in exton. Below freezing, one degree above in gladwyne and bryn mawr. Colder than yelled. Its going to be a than yesterday. Its going to be a cold and mostly cloudy wait at the bus stop. 20s for quakertown and allentown. Right at freezing for philadelphia. And upper 30s with a breeze making it feel chillier in atlantic city. Sunshine to start for areas north and west. Burks county the upper suburbs. Clouds are going to linger for most of the day for delaware and south jersey. The clouds will spread across the entire area as this storm thats to the south advances. You see the rain meeting the colder air, producing snow, and thats whats going to happen in our area. Its going to be cold enough that the atmosphere will produce the first snow late this afternoon. This is the hourbyhour forecast. Look at 5 30 this afternoon. Some light snow. But i expect temperatures to be above freezing. Im not expecting accumulation during the evening hours. Then it breaks only to come back tonight. This time tomorrow, well see snow falling in delaware, south jersey. And just making its way into wilmington, philadelphia, and trenton. Still dry in the 5 30 a. M. Hour tomorrow for reading and allentown. That snow will be spreading inland. Light during the day. By 11 30 in the morning, you see the suburbs getting that snow and steadier snowfall will be accumulating in delaware and south jersey. Late, its moving out. 5 00 in the afternoon. In fact, it may be ending before the Army Navy Game starts at 3 00 in philadelphia. Temperatures will be plunging. Its going to be freezing up later on saturday. A look at the potential snowfall total for each neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. See you then. Well look at the roads. Katy zachry has more. Katy . This time yesterday there was quite an issue on 95 near woodhaven road. Fingers crossed, everything is looking good. This is 95 at girard. Closer to philadelphia. We typically see trouble spots creeping up around 6 30, 7 00, everything running smoothly. Light to moderate traffic on 95 in both directions. Moving into new jersey. Taking the 42 freeway northbound and getting on that ramp to 295 northbound, the ramp is blocked because of overnight construction. Weaver about 20 were about 20 minutes away from 6 00 which is when it should lift. That ramp is blocked. Ill let you know when the closure lifts and youre free and clear to go from 42 freeway to 295 northbound. A little further south on the 42 freeway, this is our live camera right at route 41. Moderate traffic there, no issues to report. At this early hour, mass transit on closer to schedule. Ill be back it ten minutes with an update on local bridges. See you then. Hurtful message. Writing left on a car window outrages a mother who took her son with a rare disease to meet santa at the mall. Well tell you how the family wants to turn their experience into a positive. Plus, chilling out. A School Principal spends the night camping out on the roof of the school all because of a promise he made to his students. Were live at the school next. 5 45. A Montgomery County family is trying to raise awareness about their sons rare disease after someone left an upsetting message on their car at the mall. Nancy took her son garrett to see santa at the mall. She parked in a handicapped spot. She has a placard and needs the extra space to help garrett get out of the car. He has a rare terminal condition called batten disease with limited mobility and no vision. Someone wrote on the window, youre not handicapped. I was trying to make memories and have a Great Holiday season. Someone decided to be ugly and cruel. The family has set up a nonprofit for research on batten disease and help other families with similar struggles. Up on the rooftop no, not santa. A Chester County principal keeping a promise to students to camp out on the roof if the students met their fundraising goal. The students surpassed the goal. The principal is waking up on the roof this morning. Jandy gyllenhaal is Randy Gyllenhaal is live outside the exton middle school. How is mr. Ross doing . Is he all right . Reporter you know, i think hes pretty cold. It was close to freezing overnight. Ive been out here about five minutes now, and ive been shivering already. Hes not cheating. No space heaters allowed up there. Only his clothes, a sleeping bag and tent. Principal jonathan ross, sleeping out there since yesterday. How was the night, cold im guessing . Yes. Very cold. Thats an understatement for sure. Reporter what have you been doing up there to pass the time . For the first part of the night, most of the night i was interacting with the kids. We have the live stream going. We had kids that were checking in, asking me questions, and i was responding to them. Reporter principal ross had a wager with his lionville middle schoolers, the kids had to raise about 7,500 at the schools annual turkey trot fundraiser. In exchange, the principal agreed hed sleep up there on the rooftop. The kids raised 7,600. Money goes toward alexs Lemonade Stand that helps raise money for children with cancer. They were very motivated to see me up on the roof. A lot of them didnt think i was going to do it. I had a lot of kids asking me if it was for real. I have a tent and allweather sleeping bag and lots of layers. Lots of clothes to be prepared. Reporter so the principal will be up there until about 7 00 a. M. When school lets out and all the kids will come back over, give them a nice, warm hug. Let me show the messages here that kids have been leaving them. Dont freeze, youre the best, and my favorite dont fall off. Hes going to be there for a couple more hours. Well check one more time at 6 45. Live at the lionville middle school. Nbc10 news. Wow. Dont fall off mr. Ross, good for you. Allweather sleeping bag . I dont know. Speaking of weather yeah. Hello . Look at that. That is apparently coming our way. This is snow that dumped in texas last night. Its moving our direction. This was the scene at texas a m stadium last night. College station getting, boy, snow. How about that . Yikes. Yeah. Were going to be seeing something similar come tomorrow. The system has been lingering offshore. It will come closer inland. Well see accumulating snowfall probably starting overnight. During the day, dry, just cold for mr. Ross and everybody else. Penns landing, a nice, dry view. If youve ever gone skating in the snow, you have a chance tomorrow. Fun, back to you. Well see that light snow falling tomorrow at penns landing. Just the temperatures falling. Camping out, its above freezing. And in exton where mr. Ross is, 32 degrees this morning. A cold start all around for the suburbs. 20s, too, 29 in milford township. We will see some sunshine breaking through in the suburbs. Its going to be a mostly cloudy day peaking in the low 40s for philadelphia. The suburbs, upper 30s this afternoon. Clouds increasing during the day. Well get sunshine this morning in allentown and easton and kutztown. Later today, cloudy skies and a mostly cloudy but dry day for new jersey. Its the shore that could see some showers late in the day. Some raindrops and then during the evening hours, the first snowflakes. The temperatures i expect to be above freezing. Youll see that same mix for rehoboth beach, while it stays dry in wilmington. Dry today. Tomorrow, a different story. The system that is just to our south is making steady progress, you see where that moisture hits the colder air, spreading snow from texas through louisiana, mississippi, alabama, georgia, and now into portions of western virginia, too. And eventually our area. In fact, it starts overnight tonight. This is at 4 30 tomorrow morning. The hourbyhour forecast shows the snow potential of close to two inches right along the coastline. Roads will be warmer overnight. Grass, car tops. Some objects out overnight will get higher accumulations. And it continues to push inland. In the afternoon, snow accumulating in the suburbs. Its going to be very light snowfall for the suburbs where were looking for two to four inches in delaware and south jersey. Snow is coming. Youll feel it feel the cold today. Well peak at 41 degrees this afternoon. Breezy. Winds die down tonight. Tomorrow, the snow develops overnight and first thing saturday morning. It spreads inland. That snow will be tapering off late in the day. Once it moves out, temperatures plunge. Anything on the ground is going to freeze up in a hurry. Sunshine on sunday. 38 degrees the high. Warmer on monday, but not all that warm. Tuesday, a chance of scattered snow showers. Looking less likely now h. What we will get whether we get the snow or not, another blast of cold. 20s and 30s next week. Not until late next in the weekend next weekend that well see the temperatures climb above the 40degree mark. Next sunday up to 43. Yikes. Thank you. Weaver an accident into the system we have an accident into the system in Chester County. Katy zachry tell us where that is. Not long ago we were highlighting the crashes on local roads that could slow your commute to work or school. This is the latest in Chester County south of pottstown. Its at town square road at west cedarville. Be aware of that if thats part of your commute to work or school this morning. Taking a live look outside, near the philadelphia area or in the philadelphia area, this is the schuylkill expressway. Spring garden street, the taillights are headed eastbound into the city. The headlights are headed westbound. Thats a quick drive as you make your way between the vine and the blue route. Only about a 15minute drive. No issues to report on 76. Lets look at 95. Not bad. 95 northbound between 295 and 495, a tenminute drive. Coming up, more on mass transit. Frchlt if youre making the trip to l. A. To catch the eagles, youll find a taste of philly. And you can get it with or witout. And coming up, olympic confusion. How statements made by white house officials had people questioning whether the u. S. Would participate in the games. Get a steak. Dont stop there. Get it with lobster. Get a steak, topped with crab cake. Eat like you own the place. Because tonight, you do. Get it now, longhorns turf and surf. The new filet and citrus grilled lobster tail, the new crab cake filet, or flos filet and lobster tail. The feeling. The flavor. The place. Longhorn steakhouse. You cant fake steak. The forum of executive women is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Last night the group marked the milestone at the please touch museum at fairmount park. I was honored to serve as moderator as the organization celebrated 40 years of supporting women and actively working to increase the number of women in leadership roles across the greater philadelphia region. To hear more, i posted video and pictures on my facebook page. Now well take you state by state and county by county for a look at stories from across our area. We begin in delaware where a former fire chief faces theft and racketeering charges. Anthony good is accused of stealing 50,000 from an organization representing minority firefighters. Prosecutors say he also racked up several thousands in charges on the group credit card. He retired in august of this year. And new details about a south Jersey School thats been closed since october because of mold and asbestos problems. Whitehall Elementary School will reopen in january. Mold concerns closed every school in the Monroe Township Public School for a week back in october. All but two, whitehall elementary and holly glen elementary opened the following week. Holly good friend will remain holly glen will remain closed. We know more about this fireball. A Hamilton Township Police Officer recorded this video. A viewer also caught the flashing light. It was a meteor, probably about the size of a baseball. The eagles say one of their offensive weapons is on track to play sunday the rams in los angeles. Zach ertz was back on the practice field yesterday. But only on a limited basis. Ertz left sundays game against the seahawks with a concussion, didnt return. He still needs to be cleared, however, in order to play. Count on us to get you ready for the eagles rams matchup. Starts sunday morning at 9 30 with game day kickoff. Thats followed by eagles game plan at 10 00. Right here on nbc10, the official station of the philadelphia eagles. Eagles fans in california for sundays game are savoring a tasty treat from back home. The cheesesteak. Philadelphia native bob levy and his wife opened phillys best 25 years ago. They specialize in creating actual philly cheesesteaks with ingredients from home. From amarosa rolls, which you have to have, to tasty cakes, their place has everything a traveling birds fan can ask for. The original cheesesteak wit or without out onions. We have people traveling from philadelphia. They hear about phillys best from family members. Theyre calling. Were getting catering orders together for that. Its going to be huge. Vai and both prefer wit. I dont know what Steven Fisher prefers. He was putting the philly cheesesteak to the test quickly. Research research. He got a good gig there. Yeah. By the way, i met the levys for the championships. He tailgated for us. The crowd that gathered around, people from philadelphia, it just draws people in. Now im super hungry. Yeah. Now to more of the stories were following for you at 6 00 a. M. California on fire. In the past 24 hours, two new wildfires have ignited leading to evacuations. Winds will fuel the fires through the weekend. Unprovoked attack. A homeless man in Delaware County said a group of teens roughed him up for no reason, and he wasnt the only victim. The army navy rivalry as they square off at the linc for the timehonored tradition. Ive covered olympics. That is the greatest sporting event ive ever seen. The greatest rivalry. So great. And theyll have snow. Lets talk about that. 6 00 a. M. This is nbc10 news today, im tracy davidson. Im via sikahema. Winter weather is heading our way. It is expected in time for your weekend. Check this out snow at the alamo. Wow. Parts of texas had to deal with the snow last night. And it is part of the system that is headed our way. First alert meteorologist bill henley has issued a first alert for tomorrow. Right . Yeah. A massive storm system. We will get some of that. It happens tomorrow for the suburbs, philadelphia, new jersey, and delaware. Ive issued a first alert for snow. After midnight, tapering off by the evening hours. Most of it will come during the day. Accumulating snow can be expected on colder surfaces. Cars, grass that have been sitting out. Temperatures above freezing for part of the event. The roads may have a splushy mix with a potential of one to four inches. New jersey and delaware will see th
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