Well trains and planes and automobiles, let start with trains, this is 30th street station its busy and not crazy busy by any means, they may see an uptick its nothing like the thanksgiving rush they see and there are reservations available for in trains at this point in time. Over in the airport as you said today is busy as well. Travel has been great i came from boston. Come to philly for the past couple of days and about to go home to houston. Want to see my friends and family. Im really excited to go home. We are on the move for the 2017 holidays in record numbers projects the aaa. Just in this region alone, 1. 2 million are expected to travel 50 miles plus. 1. 1 million of us are going by car and the rest by train and plane and buses. And virginia powell is boarding a plane for richmond, virginia. My daughter and my grandson. And his wife. Relax and enjoy the family. Big meal . A little bit. Youll do some eating . Yes. Church . Sunday morn and then relax after that. Gloria her daughter granddaughter and niece taking a day trip today to manhattan. The plan is to go to see the rockets and then. Big tree and then bryant park and the ice skating rink and then the sights. Sounds like fun. We actually talked to a number of people that are going up and doing a day trip today and do manhattan today and back by tonight and be home as they prepare for christmas here in the delaware valley. John rawlins, channel 6 action news. Thank you. From you driving to your holiday destination, prices at the pump is about the same this year as they were in 2016. In philadelphia drivers pay 2. 67 for a gallon of regular and new jersey 2. 68. Turning to the forecast we are days away from christmas and its mild outside today. Sky 6 hd showing you the Big Christmas tree outside of city hall in philadelphia at lunch time. Melissa magee joins us with the accuweather forecast. Second day of winter and a mild one today. Reporter it really is, temperatures keep on climbing as we go through the rest of the afternoon. Right now in the city we come if at 43 our typical daytime high for this time of year. 30 in the poconos and 42 in allentown undover 47 and 51 degrees at the coast in cape may. Looking at satellite 6 along with action radar lots of clouds around and despite that temperatures climb into the upper 50s by days end in some locations but as you look farther to the north we are tracking some weather in portions of northeast and that stays away from our region for now but tracking a frontal boundary in an area of low pressure that rides up along the front. If you travel today on this get away friday. Future tracker 6 has you covered across the northeast we are dealing with snow for burlington and syracuse, and down across the southeast. Mild conditions and numbers in the upper 50s and lower 60s and across the great lakes and ohio valley, chilly just 34 in detroit and 30 in chicago. Here is future tracker 6 showing you 11 00 ponight mostly cloudy and precipitation to the west of berks county in reading and overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning, 8 00 we track the moisture that continues on and off throughout the day and a quarter inch to half inch of rainfall that is likely when all is said and done. The weekend call showing you tomorrow its a mild afternoon, High Temperature of 59 with on and off rain and Christmas Eve it will be cooler and limited sunshine and High Temperature of 46 degrees. Overnight Christmas Eve into Christmas Day a chance of minor precipitation, well take a closer look at that in the full accuweather forecast. Thank you melissa. Dont forget to download the up loaded 6 abc app and get updates at your fingertips any time anywhere you are. In other news a man is died after being wounded by a burst of gun fire in southwest philadelphia and three other people were struck. Jeff has the the latest on the investigation. Reporter this is a quiet block. This was a surprise to us all. 9 30 thursday night Police Received numerous reports of gun fire on the 66 hundred block. They arrived on scene to find four gunshot victims. It was six shots and then it stopped by the time we got down the steps it was six more shots. Authorities learned it was a violent end to an altercation with a woman and her boyfriend. The two had an argument that turned physical and called family members and they showed up and the boyfriend starts to lose the fight and pulls out a gun and fired six times injuring four people. People were saying they were ot came out to help those that were shot and a girl stopped me and grabbed my coat because there was a guy hanging out of the car appearing to be unconscious. Two 22yearold males were shot and a 23yearold male shot and a 32yearold male all shot in the arms and chest area. Officers took the victims to penn Presbyterian Hospital where one died. Unacceptable behavior on all parts. And putting your hands on a woman and then pulling out a gun and shooting four people. We ask that young man to do the right thing and turn yourself in. From the delaware Newsroom Police are investigating an assault at a Middletown Middle School hatching at lewis l. Reading middle school. Saying that the school is fully cooperating with authorities and that students were involved in the alleged incident. The investigation is in the early stages, the former police chief in bore done town new jersey plead guilty to a hate crime accused of assaulting an africanamerican man during a 2017 arrest by smashing the handcuffed prisoners head into a door jam. He is facing civil rights and hate crime charges. He stepped down from the department earlier this year. Police are looking for a man that stole an x from a south philadelphia store. This is Surveillance Video from september 9th, that the suspect walked into the exfinity store on South Columbus boulevard and the suspect cuts the security cable and fled with the iphone 10. Is at least six people were killed in a fiery accident in northern knowledge and you see the massive flames that erupted after 6 00 this morning and happened on southbound route 440 in woodbridge and major delays as a result. And the remaining injuries are none life threat there is more ahead on action news at 12 30, a 6weekold baby found days after her mother was murdered and what we learn about the woman accused of the brutal crime and we hear from President Trump who just signed a trillion dollar tax bill into law before leaving for christmas in florida. That and more when action news continues. Sad news from the sports world halloffame broadcaster dickenberg has died. He called major events like the olympics and super bowl. He was 82 years old. Late this morning, President Trump signed the new trillion dollar tax bilnto law a signed the legislation before taking over into florida before taking his vacation. Kenneth moton has the latest from washington. Reporter President Trump florida bound for the holidays, his big 1. 5 trillion tax bill signed into law. I was going to wait for a formal signing in january and i watched the news and they were all saying, will he keep his promise and sign by christmas and i called downstairs and said we have to sign it now. The preis looking ahead to the new year and tweeting, at some point and the good of the country well work with the democrats in a bipartisan fashion. Infrastructure will be a good start. There is a legislative victory and political victory and has a lot of yards and first downs but political purposes he has not accomplished that much the government passed the spending bill. Spending caps and deciding the fate of undocumented immigrants to the United States as children. We are looking for bipartisan agreements because that is the way the senate is, there are only a few narrow exceptions as all of you know to that principal. The Childrens Health insurance program, chip that provides Health Insurance to 9 million children is on until march. And aid pack taj to help victims of hurricanes and wild fires but the senate did not take a vote. And the pretty signed a Missile Defense bill and will spend the holiday at his south florida resort. Maralago oh. Support for the Affordable Care still strong despite trying to end it. This year the open enrollment season was far less promoted and half the length of preaf yours years, the numbers of enrollment is not final yet so the tally could change. And a texas woman is charged with murdering a new mother and kidnapping the baby and passing it off as her own. She was tracked down at an apartment in houston, she was standing outside holding the baby. And believed to is suffered a recent miss carriage and hiding the loss from her boyfriend and family. She was friends the brother which is how she connected with the victim. Alvarez is now charged with murder. Now ahead on action news at 12 30, another check of the forecast for you as we look outside sky 6 hd showing you a pretty picture of the center city skyline. Melissa magee has the update as we countdown to christmas when action news comes right back. The children of a fallen washington, d. C. Police officer were given a new gift to honor their dad. And he was killed in a crash in maryland and officers that worked with east man decided to make teddy bears out of his shirts for the twins and they were thrilled with the gift and have not put them down since. So many people are reaching out to my kids and doing such wonderful things for them and my daughter says now i can give daddy a hug. Eastmans wife says he loved helping those in the community and collecting coats for those in need. A nice story there. Melissa is back with the accuweather forecast. Christmas could be maybe some flakes flying . I think by the time you wake up Christmas Day its all gone. Its new years day by the time you wake up. Ill show you what is going on outside. Stormtracker 6 live double scan you can see that its dry but it is fairly cloudy across the region be here is the picture outside. Sky 6 hd looking at Philadelphia International airport on this friday afternoon lots of clouds around and if you are catching a flight because its a busy travel day, good idea to check ahead with your carrier for weather rated travel days, looking dry for the majority of our friday. Looking north and west of town and 45 for slatington and lake harmony, cinnaminson 43 and new holland and kick wood have numbers in the lower 40s. Tuckahoe 50 and warmer i should say along the immediate coastline. Cinnaminson 43. And browns mill 44 and dover 47 and smyrna coming in at 48. Here is satellite 6 along with action radar lots of clouds around and the unsettled weather right now moving across the northeast. The snowfall and mixed precip and rain to the north is all in association with a cold front that comes back down portions of the ohio valley and mid mississippi valley. Well be tracking a piece of that energy that rides northward for the start of the weekend. Fort rest of today its mostly cloudy and mild and High Temperature in philadelphia above average at 52 with the southerly wind at 5 to 10 miles per hour. It will be damp and mild and dipping down to 47 in the city. So a wet start to the holiday weekend. An area of low pressure rides up along the front and tracks up westward into the mountains, meaning we are on the warmer side of the system. High temperature tomorrow in philadelphia in the upper 50s and rainfall hour give yourself extra time if you go holiday shopping. Fast forward and show you the precipitation, future tracker 6 showing you overnight tonight and mostly cloudy and showers are around and 6 30 tomorrow morning. We got the rain spreading in from the southwest to northeast direction. And it continues on and off throughout the day. 3 30 tomorrow afternoon. Look at these numbers, 59 in the city and 60 in dover and 54 in reading and trenton 567. Now fast forward into Christmas Eve night. With we are tracking quick hitting area of light precipitation moving on through and most models show rain for the city and light rainfall at that. And areas south and east and wet snowflakes to the northern and west and if we find wet snowflakes the ground is just too warm to pick up the snowfall and a lot will melt on contact and north and west you could find a coating to slushy inch. Here is the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast high of 52 and mild today. And mild on saturday 59 be rain. And brisk and chilly on sunday and 46 for the high. And Christmas Day morning rt sn west and high of 38 by the time we get into 6 00, 7 00, Christmas Day and Christmas Morning all the precip is out of here and brisk and cold on tuesday and a high of 37 and 34 wednesday and bitterly cold on wednesday way high of 32. A lot going on. Thank you melissa. A man is behind bars this noon charged with stalking pop singer, katy perry. The 37yearold from poland says he traveled around the world to follow her from toronto to chicago and michigan and florida. And he allegedly entered a restricted area of the American Airlines arena attempting to rush towards the stage and he would do everything it takes to be with perry and he is ordered to stay away from the singer as well as her home and all of her concert venues. And we know in an oprah is a generous woman but she was a warning about a fake give away. Fraud, its a fraud. Fraud. She took to instagram on twitter after someone impersonated her and offered free cash. Since christmas is less than 10 days away, im giving away 5,000 each. She is fighting back saying its a big scam. Dont give up Bank Accounts or information to anyone posing as me or anyone else for that matter and have a merry christmas. Oprah is the perfect target because she is so jennous in the past people would expect it from her this season. The movies are a popular place to go over the holidays and several new ones are out today. Jumanji welcome to the jungle is out gathering good reviews and solid numbers. The greatest showman, three christmas numbs up. And friday Pitch Perfect three hits theaters. Anna singing acapella is your bank. And matt damon and cool concept mixed reviews and raunchy rated r father figures the only straight up adult comedy. All the money in the world the kidnap thriller is generating buzz with 11th hour reshoots. Christopher plumber replaced kevin spacey after harass many allegations, opened Christmas Day. Zblm one second only to thanksgiving, christmas through new year will decide if this year was a Box Office Turkey or triumph. Star wars the last jedi snagged a whopping 220 million last weekend is still killing it and may make all the difference. The combined office could top 11 billion just shy of last year and may go this, in fact, the second Biggest Box Office year in history. The local wawa in delaware received a special gift this morning scores of School Children came in so sing Christmas Carols for customers and staff. From prek to 7th grade and carolled at nearby homes and businesses and everybody appreciated the concert and visited a fire station to do their part to spread Holiday Cheer before they go on their christmas break. Very cute. One final check of the forecast on a friday. Lots of clouds today and temperatures are mild. Well show you the numbers maxing out at 52 and how in dover and 54 in cape may. And we stay mild as we get into saturday and then we track some rain as we get into our saturday. All right. Have a nice weekend. Merry christmas. That will do it for action news at noon dont forget to join us for action news at 4 00, 5 00 and 6 00. For the entire action news team, im Rick Williams have a great friday. See you later. Announcer lets get festive because were saving you a ton of time with our get ahead guide to the holidays clintons throwing a breakfast bonanza with gmas ginger zee. Thats what youre going to have today. Announcer michaels making one of his favorite holiday desserts inspire plus, carlas hanging with an amazing friend whos changing lives one plate at a time. Were about to get ahead in a delicious way right now on the chew [ cheers and applause ] hey, guys good afternoon welcome to the chew you know, thank you you know, before you know it, the holidays will be upon us. Between the hanging of the