Good morning everyone, 5 30 a. M. , december 28. Tam is off, Alicia Vitarelli joins us. Reporter matt pellman in for karen rogers, good chilly morning, guys. Reporter the more the merrier, pile them on. Reporter the other point im trying to make is cover up as much skin as you can. If youre outside for any period of time it could be a day where you get frostbite. Its a day where we have lots of sun, but it wont help. 15 degrees in philadelphia. 14 in trenton. 14 in wilmington. Just 12 in allentown. 11 reading and lancaster. 13 in millville. 18 down the shore in cape may. It is the wind and what its doing with the cold and the windchills. Feels like 3 in philadelphia. 2 in trenton. Zeron allentown and wilmington. One below zero in reading. 4 in millville. 9 in cape may. Even that is very brutal. As we go through the day temperatures will stay on the cold side. In fact well be in the low 20s this afternoon. High of 23 around 3 00 p. M. 19 by 11 00 spending a good portion of the day in the teens. When you factor in the wind which will be getting blustery. We expect gusts up to 25 Miles Per Hour past sunrise. Youre looking at single digit windchills through the day. If were lucky well get up to ten or 11 on the windchill monitor. That will be raw. If youre heading to the poconos, look out a windchill advisory with windchills between 10 and 15 Miles Per Hour. Got snow coming on saturday, another big bonechilling drop in the numbers for the new years eve and new years day holiday. Reporter i hope were lucky going for that at the end of week. That will be great. Good morning everybody, not only is it cold, it dark on the boulevard extension between fox street and ridge avenue here. The overhead lights are out this morning. A little darker than youre used to heading toward the schuylkill expressway. On the schuylkill expressway itself overnight construction that i had advertised yesterday didnt happen. Presumably becau the good news, both lanes open heading westbound toward belmont. Overallxpecting a light commute this morning a busy one this afternoon thats the set up for this week between christmas years, quiet mornings, busy afternoon. Fire crews on the scene at the church fire in kensington at cornwall and f. They wrapped up working on the fire in abington township Huntington Pike 232 and morton road. Watch out for ice in the area. They had to spray water on the fire to get it extinguished. Midtown a bad accident, highway one is the alternate. Firefighters put out a fire in a boarded up church they discovered Homeless People inside trying to keep warm. Jeanette reyes is live on East Cornwall street. Reporter g matt we saw the last fire truck head out. They were here for four hours since the fire broke out. The deputy fire commissioner said it was a difficult fire one because its cold and the structure is large its a large Vacant Church with holes in the ground and previous burns inside. This was cleared out just a few minutes ago. There were homeless taking shelter inside. It is below freez outside as you can imagine when they were pushed out into the cold that was a separate issue that crews had to deal with. 19 people were evacuated from inside the church. Fire crews were called out to cornwall street in kenskensington. 100 firefighters responded they were met with flames out of the first window that spread tosecond floor arena a second alarm was called. It threatened neighboring homes ose were immediately evacuate temporarily. Fire crews were told to knock on each door and tell residents they had to leave. The conditions caused us problems here, obviously you can see we have a lot of freezing going on out here. Our members are covered in iceear dry said it is totally with ice. Reporter and i can tell you this entirete street is ice, now that firefighters are done battling this blaze l i and peco were on scene the red cross we and a was brought out to keep thoseacuated warm for the time being. No injuries report, the cause is under investigation. Reporting live in kensington, Jeanette Reyes channel 6 action news. Thank you. Now to a developing story in chester county. Gunfire has left a 9th grader with serious injuries. Phoenixville police say a young victim was shot on nut road near gay street. It is unclear what sparked the violence or who pulled the trigger. Phoenixville hospital is opening the door to provide grief downstairs students who may need it. An who ran a Philadelphia Police officer was shot by another the confrontt 16th and nedro in germantown. Officers tried to pull him over to talk to him about a murder case. He ran over one officer and kept going until he crashed. The suspect refusedlow commands the officer opened fire. The injured officer is in stable a drimmed into theback of septa bus in dele wreckage. The driver of the black sedan is in very critical condition. He rear ended the bus and came to rest in front of it. It happened in newtot. M septa with the bus driver none of them seemed to be injured. Toover in srtni. Espons the girl was spending the nig the 9200 block of gu to determine if aexistingtion or food allergy is to blame. If you the last two da cold, this morning will chill you to the core. It is part of the a arctic blast that is sweeping across the northern half of the country. In minnesota the cold froze an entire waterfall. Look at that. In wisconsin coast guard was breaking ice in green bay. The great lakes are digging out from record snowfall. In upstate new york, firefighters had to tunnel their way into a home to rescue a woman who is trapped inside. While were not expecting a lot of snow, Delaware Department of transportation is not taking any chances. Trucks were out brining roads in an effort to prevent slick streets in the coming days. Good idea, right david . Reporter especially with the snow coming in on saturday. Storm tracker 6 live showing no snow this morning. As we look outside, this is a shot live on the action cam Franklin Square in philadelphia an indication of the brutal cold, look at the live picture on the action cam. The fountain is freezing up. I dont know, matt and alicia maybe its a better idea to keep going so the pipes dont freeze. Thats an Ice Sculpture form lg on Franklin Square an indication of how cold it is. 15 degrees in philadelphia. I love this dewpoint, 2 below zero an indication how dry the air is. Winds out of the west at 9 Miles Per Hour. Windchill in philadelphia has dipped to degrees. Thats what it 3 degrees. Thats what it feels like in philadelphia. There are some spots in the colder suburbs where its around zero. 15 degrees in philadelphia. 1 on the thermometer in allentown. 11 in reading an lancaster. 14 in trenton, 18 in cape may. Extra layer and extra coverage this morning with the windchill were dealing with. Lots of sunshine on the way. Cloud cover not much of a factor. 16 degrees by 8 00 a. M. 19 by 10 00 a. M. 21 by noon. Im expecting a a high of 23 at p. M. Lots of sun but its not going to be a day where the sunshine helps you at. High reading. 23 in philadelphia and trenton. 24 in wilmington. 27 in cape may. 28 at the boardwalk. But the big story today will be the windchills and you can see them on future tracker 6. Between now and noon, probably in the Single Digits folks north to south allentown and reading could be close to zero in terms of how it feels. 6 00 p. M. Pretty much more of the same. We increase the numbers a little bit. Winds die down, but the windchill in the Single Digits. For the weekend on saturday, we have a clipper system coming in from the west. There were brief indications last week, you might have heard some peopleg about this,ssure center off the coast combining with a big storm. These will stay separate. All well deal with is the clipper. Slick roads could develop because of the cold temperatures in place. By 4 00 p. M. , most of the northern half of the region and south jersey getting this and it is done in the evening. The seven day from accuweather big story right now bitter cold today, we have a red bar for accuweather alert as a result. High of 23. Tomorrow 30, more clouds build in. Flurries at night. Most of the light snow will be during the day on saturday, high of 28. And then we get another shot of cold air. This next one just in time for new years eve and new years day, probably more uncomfortable than what were feeling today at least similar. Brisk and cold for the eagles, 22 degrees is the high on sunday. Bundle up for that in layers. Midnight 14 degrees in philadelphia. New years day a morning low of 8. An afternoon high of 20. Very cold, matt you were saying this could be the coldest new years mummers parade in decades. I cant stress enough how top five coldest in time square. Make that a quick strut everyone. Reporter keep moving. [laughter]. It 5 42 a. M. , action news a computelitch has lottery players thinking they won. Plus a power outage puts disney lands visitors in the dark. Not stuck in traffic any more this morning volume nice and light. Nobody out near the Art Museum Spring garden street eakens oval. Construction coming to 202 later today. Ill tell you the spots to avoid when action news continues on this thursday morning. It is 54 50 a. M. Thursday morning, if youre just waking up with us, Spring Mountain theyw t match the frigid temperatures out. Youre heading out wearlayers and bundle up. P ice, the roads different reporter ill i heard was im focused on spring. I guess we have a ways to go. Good morning matt and alicia. If this is you into work this morning, this is 202 and the 30 boy pass. Southbound offramp to the 30 bypass we got back our second lane right before the holiday. Today they will come back out there and blockne of the two lanes from 10 00 a. M. 2 00 p. M. They will work on the guardrails. Watch out for midday crews on this chunk of 202. In exton they will be working on the danour bridge heading into norristown. About during the morning commute and midday today tomorrow and use dekalb street. Not markley street and the bridge. Middletown township, closed for two weeks. Middle town township to middletown delaware we have a crash shuttingn 301 near 896. Cedar lane road or 13 or highway 1 are alternates around that. Ewing township mercer county, construction blocking is 75 by 175 by i95 stay or bear tavern road. An object on the road northbound on the boulevard near adams avenue watch out for an object northbound on the boulevard early this morning. Alicia. All right matt, thank you. More than two dozen people were rescued from a new york city ferry that was stuck on a sand buyer. Firefighters were using boat that could fit only two other people at a time. It became stranded on the way from queens to wall street. Back on in disneyland in southern california. A transformer problem caused a morning outage in tune fantasy land. The outage affected a dozen rides. Guests off the stalled rides. They said the power went out and they to get the tractor to come and tow us out. Nobody was hurt disney is the parent key of we just moved in about four months ago, but the living rooms pretty blank. Its really nice when clients come in and have done some of their own research. Working with a bassett designer was really easy. Just kind of ties in very well. We love it the vatican is using milk to repaint the facade of the b. He belvidere pals. They get the milk from the popes cows and they mix it with paint and pat it onthe anciente proven than any mo paints. How does that smell in the summer . Reporter lets talk about what will never get old thats these easy morning commutes, well take them. Yesterday it was anything but easy in mercer county. We had a big northbound accident near route 1. This morning no issues, traffic is moving fin directions. Northeast corridor train is moving on modified schedule. On septa were good so far trolleys and buses remain on modified weekday schedules. Reporter the cold this morning might be hard on car batteries, good idea to make sure you havent got that in your car too long and charge it up. 15 degrees in philadelphia. 1 in allentown. 12 in reading. In trenton. 19 in cape may. Current winhill, 3 in philadelphia. Zero in allentown one below in reading. 2 in trenton in millville. Layer up as you go out. 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