Kitchen christmas dinner. So were just kind of on hold right now. Reporter this setback is just temporary. They are staying cheerful, pray ing the water issues get resolved and pushing dinner back just a few days. We have 12 days to celebrate and party and just this year the party is a little later than usual. Reporter church employees tell me they are hoping it will be the next wednesday and thursday. This place will be full with 250 people. Among them, santa clause is going to have gifts for the kids. Nbc 10. To your first alert weather, a sunny start to winter. It was still chilly for these walkers along the river in wilmington. Hope you enjoyed daylight while you have the chance because today is the shortest day of the year. Take a live look at the blue cross river rink at penns landing. Its packed out there. It will be a nice one for anyone skating along the water front. From the ice to the snow, heres a live look at Camelback Mountain in the poconos. A blast of Winter Weather is coming our way. Welcome news for the skiers and snowborders that will be out there. Meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz has a first look at the forecast. It makes sense this is the coldest day of the week. It is going to be it warming. Over the next couple days. Were going to wait for that wintery weather to be coming in here. This is one of the places that has the best chance of actually seeing a White Christmas this year. Easton, Lehigh Valley, berks county, they have the highest chances. May have to get up early to see the snow though. We have a lot of sunshine across the areaarea. Its supposed to be cold. Its late december. 39 in reading. 38 in wildwood. So it is going to be a cold night. Tomorrow, temperatures start going up. The average high is 43. Tomorrow, 52. Then saturday near 60. Although its going to be wet. Then we start going down. By Christmas Day and the rest of next week, its going to be pretty cold, even for this time of the year. Now because the atmosphere is warming up, even with the clear skies and the relatively light winds, the. Temperature is not going to be able to drop a whole lot. Especially in the city. As you can see were only dropping a few degrees. Were dropping into the upper 20s in some of the suburbs by tomorrow morning. Its 30, which is not too exceptional. For this time of year. And its dry. Were starting off tomorrow dry. Were going to be getting more clouds during the day tomorrow. The temperatures go up even more on saturday like we were telling you. Theres some mighty cold air thats moving in. Theres also more than one chance of snow coming up during the next ten days. Well get into all that in the next ten minutes. Developing now, those are not the typical sounds of the season being heard. For the second time crews are working to repair a water main break in the square. Aundrea clinethomas joins us now live. A lot of people in that area are wondering how much longer before this is all fixed. Good news, just a few minutes ago, they had a replacement pipe they lowered into the hole. You see the workers looking down there as crews work to attach that. In all of this with the water main break, only the Park Building lost service. But because of the closures, it caused a Ripple Effect in this area. The tables are empty at the park restaurant in the square. A rare sight even on a chilly day. You dont have to look far to see why. A water main break on 18th street this morning shut off water to the building and forced a. Popular restaurant to close. Its a bummer. I feel wadly for them around the holidays to be closed. Patrons have been greeted by a son on the front door. Its actually the second water main break in two days. Yesterday crews were working on a break at 18th. This morning it happened again just 12 feet away. Age could be a factor. Were in our winter season. We do see an increase in water main breaks this time of year. Reporter the water main date back to the 1800s. The traffic is really bad around here. We could not get our deliveries in. Its hurting our business. It could not come at a worst time for area businesses trying to cash in on the holiday traffic. Its terrible. I guess well have to live with it until they get it together. Reporter so the good news in all of this is that it seems were in the home stretch right now. U be im told its still going to be a few more hours before this water main is is fixed and the streets are reopened. We hope to have a more concrete time when we come back at 5 30. Aundrea clinethomas, nbc 10 news. New details surrounding the car crash that took the life of an 8yearold boy. Today police formally charged the driver responsible. Witnesses say finn tboned a car last night. An 8yearold boy later died from his injuries. Finn drove off, but was later arrested. The driver in the car with the boy is in the hospital in stable condition. We have new video of a violent robbery at a center city pawnshop. He walks in late last month pulling a gun from his waist band. The person working didnt give up money without a fight. They struggled before the robber ran out. He did get away with some money. A Security Guard used skills to turn the tables on a man trying to rob him early this morning. Police say the accused robber walked up to the man in West Oak Lane just after midnight. E he pulled the gun telling him to empty his pockets. Nbc 10 spoke exclusive ly with the mans parents after the ordeal. Its an armed Security Guard. The boy had a gun at his head. The man stayed on scene to talk to police. We have blurred his face out there. Police arrested him charged with robbery, assault and wrecklily endangering another person. Police say theres no evidence of a terrorist link to a car attack today. It was no accident. A white car sped through a red light and plowed into pedestrians hitting 50 or 60 people crossing the road. 19 people are hurt. The driver has a history of drug use and Mental Health issues. If it is a deliberate act we dont know the motivation. This is just terrible. He was also carrying a bag of knives. The u. N. General assembly voted overwhelmingly to declare President Trumps recognition of jerusalem as israels capital null and void. The Trump Administration says no decisions have been made about cutting off foreign aid to the 128 countries that voted against the u. S. The president had threatened to withhold money to countries that voted to denounce his decision. House republicans unveiled a new smaller spending bill today. They are trying to prevent a Government Shutdown and head home for the holidays. The smaller bill would keep things running through january 19th. In the meantime, the final tax reform bill has been officially certified by congress. Republican members gathered for a ceremony celebrating the step before sending the legislation to President Trump. A fantastic day for the american people. Thot known when President Trump will President Trump will sign the bill into law. Developing now in california, people who e evacuated from the thomas fire in Santa Barbara county with now go home after the orders were lifted. Many people have been taking shelter there for days. The thomas fire, which started december 4th, is is responsible for two deaths. Its destroyed at least 750 homes. Its been a hard fought battle for firefighters. As you can tell by this photo taken by a firefighter and shows seven firefighters resting near westmont college, which they saved from the fire. Philadelphia firefighters say they rescued three men pulling them out one after the other during a roaring fire this morning. You can see more than a dozen firefighters still outside of the home even after the fire was put out. It started on the basement. By the bd of the year, there will be fewer Horse Carriage rides in philadelphia. The Philadelphia Carriage Company and the city reached an agreement today in court. The company will shut down at the end of the month. In june the city cited the company for dismal conditions at horse stables. They will be sent to ab animal sanctuary. The company is one of two Carriage Services in the city. Former Vice President joe biden held a book signing on his home turf today. The line wrapped around the store in north wilmington. Hundreds of people came to get the former Vice President to sign their copy of his book. It chronicles the loss of his son to cancer. He lives just a few miles from the store. He knew many of the people in line to meet him. He had fatherly advice for a daditbe. He said to hold him tight. That was the advice for a new baby. The lots of folks snuck pictures as they waited in line. Some fans camped out in front of the store last night to make sure they got a chance to meet joe biden. Kids jumped for joy as they walked into a Community Christmas party at the salvation army. It was hosted by philadelphia police. Officersen wept around the table highfiving and saying hello. Kids were given gift bags with their names on them filled with christmas toys. Students across philadelphia are showing off their musical talent this is holiday season. Kids from elementary entertained guests at their winter festival. They put in a lot of hard work perfecting those songs. Nbc 10 is your official eagles station. Heres a live look at lincoln financial field. The birds hoping to give their fans a christmas night gift here in four day when is they take on the raiders. Lets head to nbc sports philadelphia studios. A win monday means the birds will be sitting pretty heading into the playoffs. You know the feel dooedeal. A win gives them the advantage. Even a chance to lock up homefield advantage before they step on the field. The wins were by at least 10 points. 3 were by more than 20. Being down two touchdowns on the road might have been good for the team in the long run. It shows character, it shows grit, determination, the ability to pull out a game in the fourth quarter. Things we talked about all season with this football team, what we have learned from a year ago. Sometimes as ugly as it can be, you figure it out and final ly get the win. The words of jayz, men lie, women lie, numbers dont. It was the first trailing by 13 or more points since 2015 after trailing 140 in the first quarter. More on the birds in the 5 00 hour. Nick foles reminisces about his seven touchdown performance a few years ago. Thats it for me. Back to you. Thank you for that. Its the eagles versus the raiders christmas night in south philadelphia. Nbc 10 is getting you set with Eagles Gameday kickoff on sunday at 9 30 a. M. Followed by game plan sunday at 10 00. Holiday travelers are out in force today. Thats for sure. Aaa says 82,000 philadelphia travelers will take to the skies for the holidays. Philadelphia international. Airport tell us everything is on time and moving smoothly, so tar. Thats good news. They are bracing for whats to comp. The big rush starts saturday and doesnt let up until december 28th. Guess who is going to be there saturday. We have Team Coverage of the weather this afternoon. We are looking ahead to cri Christmas Eve and christmas. We begin with glenn hurricane schwartz who is looking at whats on tap tonight. Starting off cold, but by saturday, its going to be feeling pretty warm out there. 42 degrees right now with a fair amount of sunshine during the day today. Right around average for this time of the year. And were close to 40 degrees elsewhere across the area. With a lot of sunshine. The atmosphere is warming up the way its going to be doing overnight, the temperatures not going to drop as quickly as it normally would. 43 at society hill. Its down to 39 in anndora. But the outlying areas, places away from the concrete are going to be cooling off much more quick ly with this kind of a pattern. We have a few high clouds streaming in from the west. Nothing too organized. But theres a lot more moisture back to the west. Well see a lot more clouds during the day tomorrow than what we saw today. Notice it is cold enough for snow up toward minnesota. Now as we head toward the next couple days, were going to see more clouds tomorrow and were going to be seeing some of the rain thats going to be developing. Theres friday afternoon. So its dry during the daytime hours on friday. And then watch what happens here. By friday night, we have the chance of some showers, especially to the north and west. And then getting into saturday itself, greater chance of rain. It looks like its definitely going to rain across much of the philadelphia area and points to the north. A chance of it in southern delaware and extreme south jersey where its going to be the warmest and be well into the 60s there. Here we are saturday afternoon. Its still warm enough for just rain. But were getting closer. Some snow showing up at least in the mountains of western pennsylvania. There you go. More rain coming in saturday night and into sunday morning. Now for the neighborhoods tomorrow, a lot of places getting into the 50s. 53 in el win. 43 in allentown and easton. So it will be a good bit cooler there. Higher into the 50s. 57 down into southern delaware at the beach. Big changes coming through the christmas holiday. We have a lot of different weather here because it varies from place to place and depending on what day youre on. Thats why were saying you need to eyeball this forecast closely. Look at saturday. Lower 50s in the pennsylvania suburbs. Meanwhile, 60 in philadelphia, the Lehigh Valley may not escape the 40s on saturday afternoon with a chilly rain. South jersey to delaware in the low to mid60s. A springlike afternoon. Moving forward to sunday. We drop those temperatures 10 to 15 degrees. And look at this. This is a nice day for lastminute shopping if you have been procrastinate iing. Temperatures in the 40s on sunday. No problems with the roads on sunday, which is Christmas Eve day. Christmas eve night into Christmas Morning, we may have some snow showers across the area depending where you are. So just a little bit of everything. Lets try to break this down for you. Christmas eve day, its dry. No issues there if you need to go out and about on the roadways. As we head into the nighttime hours, thats the best chance of some light rain r or light snow would. Happen. It would end early on christmas. If it youre going to sleep in on christmas, youre not going to see anything if it happens. Theres still uncertainty with the computer models. Some are saying snow. Others, nothing at all. Youll have to just wait and see. Well have more information over the weekend. If there will be an accumulation, it will be mainlien of the grass and north and west of the city. Not a White Christmas in philadelphia it looks like this year. So this is tracking it out. If youre doing the traveling on sunday, not an issue. But look at what is happening in the ohio and western pennsylvania vicinity. A little pressure comes on through here. That delivers the light snow by the time we get into sunday night and into Christmas Day itself. Very early in the morning and then it would move out of here quite quickly. Closer to home, this is how it would break down. Right around 9 00 on sunday evening through the overnight hours. Well be done with it by early Christmas Day itself. If youre headed to mass, everything is okay before 6 00. But if youre headed out to the midnight mass, we may see a rain snow mixture. This is still uncertain. It may not happen at all. Either way, our confidence is real high for this. On Christmas Day, it starts off gray with a rain or snow shower. E we break out sba the sunshine and see the temperature dropping just in time for the birds game on Christmas Day night. With well have that full forecast in a bit. Well check back. Remembering fallen officers who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Families of five officers and other Law Enforcement came to sunny Brook Golf Club where breakfast hosted by holiday meal on wheels. They also received a christmas dinner. Royal followers, rejoice. Prince harry and his bridetobe are releasing their engagement photos. The impromptu performance thats made this guy an internet sensation, also ahead. The epic talent show dance off thats taken social media by storm. Heres something to dance about. Look at the closing bell on wall street. Markets finishing the day up. A teens epic dance battle with his teachers going viral. The 13yearold took on his teacher, mr. Cohen, at a talent show. The crowd roared with applause. He posted this video and has had 20,000 views. Keep playing it. Id be hurting myself. Another video going viral. This one near boston when a Grocery Store employee stopped shoppers in their tracks. Listen. He just moved from brazil. His coworkers had no idea hes a trained singer. Last weekend the store was setting up for Live Entertainment and he decided to step in to help with the sound check. The other workers were just blown away. They asked him to take part in the christmas performance and he serenaded the entire store. A lot of stunned looks there. Thats quite a voice. Saving a complete stranger. A pair of Good Samaritans being hailed as hero this is holiday season. A december holiday miracle or being in the right place at the right time. Eyesen went dark for a second. I looked at him and his face was swollen. They rescue a teenage boy from the cold waters of this canal. They are telling their stories only to nbc 10, next. Plus its been through a lot. Now rescue workers really want him to find a home for the holidays. And winter is officially underway, but we have another warmup on tap before the frigid air comes in. Plus why santa may be feel dode with rain or snow. Also caught on camera, you have to see this one. The items these crooks were after at a store. Thats coming up at 5 00. Michael im thankful that im alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know we are here for you. This holiday season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. 0c from frigid waters comes a story of holiday heroism. Two Good Samaritans save a teen who jumped in to escape being shot. Cydney long joins us live from trenton. Not everyone would do this. Reporter thats right. What happened was there was Surveillance Video of part of this story that shows the urgency of two men who parked behind Catholic Charities and moments later they were scrambling to get away. But its what unfolded right here by the canal as the waters edge that has these Good Samaritans grateful they were alert about their surroundings. I grabbed it and we pulled them over the fence. I pulled them on my shoulder. Reporter he will not forget the look in his 16yearold boys eyes as he plucked him from the cold canal last wednesday. He was just shaking really bad. And then his eyes went dark for a second. After he finished shaking, i looked at him and his face was swollen because of how cold the water was. Reporter two men pulled into the back lot on west state street. School had just let out. They threatened to shoot a 16yearold who got away by jumping this fence into the water. Right here. As the kid was treading water, i checked my surroundings. Reporter they work for an after school youth detention program. Two men jump ed back in a car. Then a group of teens gathered by the canal. It was 19 degrees last wednesday. He had the teen over his shoulder. Someone mentioned dialing 911. I said we dont have time. He called to alert police they would be driving fast to the hospital. I started running lights. I was blowing horns and pulling into intersections. Reporter the teen suffered hypothermia but is otherwise going to be okay. If they kept on, this kid could have died. Reporter e we can tell you that the boy and his mother declined our request for an interview, but they are extremely grateful for both of these men. I also spoke to police and investigation. Were live in trenton, cydney long, nbc 10 news. To the weather now. The sun was shining on students as they made their way to class on the camden campus. A pretty nice start to the winter season, which officially began just five hours ago. Heres a live look at the christmas village. Not a bad day to finish the christmas shopping. Meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is here now with a first look at the forecast. It feels like the first day of winter. Absolutely. Its not going to feel so much like winter, especially by saturday. Next week its a different story. The folks in the poconos, skiers are going to love the weather for next week. We have had a lot of sunshine all across the area, including in wilmington where the temperature right now is 42. Right around average for this time of the year. Its down to 38 in dover. 38 in wildwood. 38 in pottstown. The temperature will not be dropping real quickly tonight. We have clouds that are advancing from the west. The atmosphere overall is warming up as well. So that prevents the temperature from dropping much. As you can see, theres not much wind. Theres not much of a difference in the feels like temperature. So by tomorrow morning, its 35 at 7 00 a. M. It feels like 31, which is not bad for this time of the year. But we do have a big warmup as we head into the weekend. We have some frigid air moving in next week, including multiple chances of some snow. Well time that out for you coming up. Heres a look at the other stories were following county by county at 4 00. Cape may county, firefighters rescued a dog from this house in West Wildwood overnight. Flames were shooting from the roof when firefighters arrived just after midnight. The homeowners did get out safely. It caused 200,000 in damage and also damaged the homes next door. City of allentown is cracking down on businesses that have stolen goods. City Council Approved a bill that require a store that buys or sells coin to electronically report those purchases. Officials hope it will help to identify stolen. Items and those looking to sell them. Searching for a home for the holidays. Justice for an animal that was abused. This is hayes, hes been through a rough few weeks after a serious injury. Doctors had to remove one of its legs. Hayes has been recovering in the care of the pennsylvania spca. Now needs to find a permanent home. Hes a resilient animal. Hes an amazing dog. He hangs out in our executive offices all the time. He has come out of his shell a little bit and needs to become more playful. But really what he wants to do is lay in your lap. The Law Enforcement team is working to bring charges against his former owner. Their big announcement made headlines around the world. Prince harry and his bridetobe have sent fans into a frenzy. You can sigh those next. Cool plunge, a visitor crashed into the pool and it belongs to someone philly sports fans may be familiar with. A paramedics accused of sexually assaulting a teen during a ride along appears in court. For the first time, we are hearing from the victim. Thats new at 5 00. Sixers start had an uninvited guest. A large dump truck ended up in his house. Turner called police and spotted the truck upside down in his pool. Rescuers grabbed the drivers head and held him above water until they could get him out. Pick. He played three and a half seasons in philadelphia before he was traded. A new Study Suggests women are more vulnerable to stress. Researchers looked at the effects of mental stress on men and women with Heart Disease and found women had a reduced blood supply to the heart when they were under pressure. This greatly inkrecreases their risk of heart attack or death from Heart Disease. Have you seen them. Kensington palace released the tick pictures showing prince harry and his fiance today. You can see markle touches his face showing off the engagement ring. The two will marry at the chapel in windsor on may 19th. They look so happy. Santa doesnt have the market cornered on spreading Holiday Cheer. A guy is giving him some competition. What he did after walking into a walmart, thats straight ahead. Winter arrives and were looking at the chance of some snow on Christmas Day. Details are ahead in my complete first alert forecast. Michael im thankful that im alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know we are here for you. This holiday season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. South jersey the gifts were piled up at the Holy Name School for a gift giveaway. Today every child went home with brand new backpacks filled with socks, hats, blankets and toys. Santa isnt the only one spreading Holiday Cheer around the world. A man in idaho went store to store and paid off layaway bills for families. He tries to pay it forward. He cleans carpets to make extra money over the year so he can spread the joy. Hes been doing this for the past seven years. Your layaway has been paid off. There are big gifts that ween couldnt get this year. The good lord allows me to be breathing on the earth ill keep doing it. The secret santa says hes probably helped about 100 families over the years. I love that. Sheriffs deputies in oregon spread Holiday Cheer. 100 at a time. Its a tradition that started a few years ago when generous women gave the Sheriffs Office to people who could use it. The giveaway has grown to more than 6,000. This is the time of year when you see stuff like this that makes you feel good. A lot of people are worried about this time of year is the weather. Rain, snow, everything in between. Help us out here, glenn hurricane schwartz. There are a lot of people look iing for a specific time period where it will be nice to see some snow. We may be able to deliver at least for some of you out there on sunday night and into first thing monday. Right now, we have a nice sunset going on in philadelphia. 42 degrees and its in the upper 30s in other parts of the area. Its chilly, but then its supposed to be chilly at this time of the year. Its down to 39 already in aud bonn. 39 in pem berton. Fairly uniform temperatures, but well see them spread out through the night. Just a few high clouds from the west. Thats whats made that sunset look that much better. More moisture coming in. All the clouds are moving in this direction. So it is going to be dry during the daytime hours tomorrow. It will be a good bit milder. Then here come the showers. For tomorrow night and then into saturday. Were not necessarily talking about flooding rains or thunderstorms or anything like that. Or an allday rain on saturday for most of us. It will be off and on more in the way of showers. Except towards the Lehigh Valley and berk. S county and poconos will be a steadier rain. You can see thats a fair amount of moisture there. Then its out of here by sunday morning. So sunday is is a dry day. Its a cooler day. You dont see anything o on the future radar here. So how are e we going to get any snow. Well see how that works. Chestnut hill tomorrow, 51 despite a lot of clouds. Lank horn at 51 as well. Reading at 49 degrees with the overcast. Avalon at 53. Delaware at 52 degrees. So its definitely warmer tomorrow. Then warmest on saturday. Here comes that rain on saturday. Showing another computer model here and into saturday evening. But then dry out on sunday. What is then, another area moisture comes up from the southwest. And now were getting into the colder air too. Some of us look like were dpoing to see some snow. Christmas eve, snow in the po poconos. Snow in the Lehigh Valley. Berks county possibly down to bucks, montgomery, chester counties. Dont think its going to quite make it down to philadelphia or delaware or south jersey. Its not that far off. Going to have to keep an eye on that. Some of this in the darker colors could accumulate. Especially in the poconos. That is Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Here we are at 9 00 a. M. Its just about to end. So we could end up with a wet Christmas Morning across much of the area. Then we dry out. It gets cold. Lets take a look at the weekend overall. 60 degrees. Sunday is generally dry. A morning chance of rain with a little bit of snow to the north and west. And getting more specific with the timetable here. 6 00 a. M. On Christmas Day. A little better chance of the snow north and west. The rain from philly south and east. Then it starts getting windy. You notice the temperatures not really going anywhere. So its going to be cold. Its going to be cold for the eagles on monday night. Temperatures going down into the 20s. Feels like temperatures into the teens. Thats pretty chilly. Especially after the 60 degrees on saturday. So then were down on monday. And tuesday and wednesday, it just keeps getting colder. Look at next week. All of next week is cold. Generally highs in the upper 20s, lows in the teens. And multiple chances of some snow. Were not just talking about the suburbs and were not just talking about flurries either. Could be some accumulating snow later next week. Up next, stepping in to save christmas. How one group made the call. One group said they were going to bring toys and then couldnt. Well explain, coming up. Also christmas comes early for this fan. Its an update to a story we told about on tuesday. Were there for his reaction when he receives a gift thats right on time. Thats new at 5 00. A live look at a quiet lincoln financial field. It wont stay that way for long. They are set to finally return home to play in front of the home fans. It will be nick foles leading the birds. Its the eagles and raiders crist night in south philly. Nbc 10 getting you set with kickoff on sunday. 9 30 a. M. Thats followed by game plan sunday at 10 00. No toys for kids at christmas. Thats just not right. It looked that might be the case in delaware. But christmas was saved. Lots of folks teamed up to make sure santa could deliver toys and smiles to lots of good boys and girls at that center. Tim furlong explains. For a second it didnt look like christmas would be too merry in wilmington. We understand there had been a glitch. The Center Director said there was a scheduling snafu and it looked like these kids from lowincome families werent going to get any toys. But a Health Care Company just coming to delaware happened to hear about the centers problem and fixed it quickly. Literally i would say within the past 48 hours. The folks hit the toy section hard at a local walmart and today they brought the toys to the center. We had a whole team of people more than willing to jump in and do whatever needed to be done to make sure that the kids had what they needed. The kids got to see the toys, but they wont be able to play with them until they are distributed tonight and tomorrow. The kids did sing songs though and made it real clear they appreciate what all these nice folks did for them. Its cool and excite iing because some people dont really get to get stuff for christmas. Toys for tots did come through and got toys here. So many people working so hard together to make lots and lots of christmas smiles. Absolutely. This will be a great christmas for a lot of kids. Reporter tim furlong, nbc 10 news. Those smiles say it all right there. Were working on several stories for nbc 10 news at 5 00. A paramedic faces a judge after hes accused of sexually assaulting a teen. We hear from ride along. Winter is here. Which days of the weekend will be naughty and which will be nice. Ill walk you through your travel weather and what to expect in the next half hour. Predictions of the busiest travel season on record. Travelers definitely need to pack their patience. Hitting the roads and the air. Philadelphia International Airport where a winter storm could threaten plans after christmas. radio playing in background a paramedic accused of Sexual Assault faces his accuser and a judge in court. Travel crunch, were watch ing the weather as millions travel for the holidays. A live report from Philadelphia International straight ahead. Season of giving, the heartwarming follow up to one mans story. What the community did to surprise him and his emotional reaction. We begin with the Holiday Travel crunch. Youre looking live at philly international. The airport is expected to be pack ed as travelers set out fo the holidays. From the road to the rails to the sky, the 107 Million People are expected to travel for the holiday season. We have you covered on what you need to know before you head out. Good evening, im erin coleman. And im jim rosenfield. We have Team Coverage tonight. Meteorologist steve sosna is tracking your travel forecast. We begin with mitch blacher. He spent the day talking to travelers at philadelphia International Airport. Reporter it has been steady all day. Not overwhelming, but steady. If you look at the boards here, you can see flights pretty much on time. A couple minor delays, but mostly smooth sailing here at Philadelphia International. Today the sight isnt hordes of travelers, but those that completed their journey. Today is expected to be the calm before a flurry of busy travel days at phl. But most of those traveling will do so the roads. More than 1 Million People will drive more than 50 miles from home in philly and the five county surrounding region. Travelers definite ly need t pack their patience. No matter how you are planning to get to your holiday destination, there will likely be increased traffic or congestion. Reporter Holiday Travel has seen year to year increases. Aaa is projecting 201 to have the highest travel level since it started keeping