Transcripts For WPVI Action News 5PM 20180108

So, zooming in on philadelphia right now, you can see this is generally freezing rain, little bit of sleet mixed in. Manayunk where weve got the hills could be a big problem. I95 its falling. Fortunately most of the major roads have been treated. The secondary roads definitely concerned. Its a little bit heavier in northeast philadelphia. Also through jenkintown and frankford. As we zoom in, its beginning to migrate east of the new jersey turnpike. Very slowly. Its very light but do notice out in the northwestern suburbs where they generally got the snow, that is shutting off right now and as far as the snow, the snow will really be ending. Its generally just the freezing rain and the rain. Sole,. So wilmington light freezing rain, salem new jersey also bridgeton. Its continuing to push to the east. So weve got Winter Weather advisories in effect until 9 oclock for essentially philadelphia, the northwest suburbs again allentown reading and lancaster its over for you but it will take longer to exit the coast so that Winter Weather advisory continues until midnight right along the coast when it will finally be ending and, you know, a lot of this is all dependent on air temperatures. For more details on that lets head over to meteorologist Melissa Magee. Yes, cecily, and the temperatures are certainly key depending on your location. Right now to the north and west in allentown and reading, numbers are well below freezing. So, its 26 degrees in allentown, 26 in reading, 23 up in the poconos. Philadelphia just below the freezing mark by 1 degree at 31 and 35 degrees in dover. So, well talk about what we can expect and what were dealing with and why we are watching for ice this evening. For the past two weeks, temperatures have been well below freezing, which means weve got a lot of frozen ground overhead. Now, even if the air temperature is above 32 degrees, which will be the case later on today in south jersey and delaware, that can get to some icing still because the ground is so cold and it has been so frozen for so long. So, well talk about what we can expect as were tracking the light wintry mix. Its ending from northwest to southeast across the region. It clears the coast, south jersey and delaware by about midnight. Any untreated surfaces will be slick. The driveways, the sidewalks and some of those secondary streets as well. There is some good news that is headed our way. We are tracking a pattern change as early as thursday. Future tracker showing you across eastern sections of the United States temperatures are nice and mild. 45 degrees later thursday afternoon in philadelphia. 59 in cincinnati and we will be flirting with 60 later on this week. Well let you know when that will occur once we get rid of this wintry precipitation. Guys back over to you. Look forward to the end of the week. Thank you melissa. Uhhuh. Meanwhile the wintry mix is really impacting Road Conditions tonight as we mentioned. Thats right. Matt pelman in the Traffic Center with the latest on the trouble spots. Hi, matt. One of the most interesting parts of this rick and monica is we saw a very early rush hour this afternoon, around 1 00 p. M. , 2 00 p. M. , traffic was really heavy and now at this point when we would normally see the heaviest traffic, things are actually starting to die down. In fact, as we look at the travel times on the schuylkill expressway, they improved by about 10 minutes each time we look at them so now just about a 12 minute delay on the eastbound side. Westbound only four minutes behind. We just saw a trio of salt trucks come through on the schuylkill eastbound by the vine and as long as those trucks are out and about working hard as they have been all afternoon the highways at this point are mostly just wet. You do have to watch on the secondaries, on the sidewalks and if youre just heading out for the first time this afternoon, your car has been sitting outside it will be covered in a thin layer of ice. On the big picture were doing okay on 95. Speeds in the 20s. Some slowing on the walt whitman bridge for sure as you get into new jersey. More on that in just a sec and there are some crashes in the suburbs like in ambler a new one along butler pike at susquehanna road. Downed pole in horsham blocking babylon road. Willow brook road or tournament drive gets you around that. If youre heading to the pizzeria uno in lionville youre good to go. There was a crash on 100. Looks like it just cleared out. Overturned propane truck blocking kennett pike route 52. Baird road greenwood road or creek road gets you around that. I talked about the slow speeds on the walt whitman bridge new jersey bound its because 42 southbound is also extra heavy. There was a crash up ahead by 295 but that, too, just cleared. So, things are improving for the most part but well check it again, rick and monica, in the next half hour. All right. Well see you then. Thanks matt. Local School Districts werent taking any chances with this tricky weather today. Many let classes out early to get students home before the roads turned messy. Action news was at Lower Merion High School in ardmore just as school was letting out for the day. Lets head out now to Annie Mccormick lie in hunt live in hunting park. Annie, what are the roads looking like at this hour. Reporter just within the past half hour we really start to see the rain come down. You heard matt talking about the volume really is significantly less than it normally would be at this hour. Normally here at whitaker and hunting park you would see car after car here but because the city was anticipating this, thats why a number of those School Districts like you were just talking about had an early dismissal and also a number of work places. Well, take a look at this video. This is video for the Streets Department began a salting operation today, this afternoon, prepared with 70 trucks ready for whatever comes their way. They have 35,000 tons of salt at their disposal. Now, crews will be on duty through the night including overnight. Theyre waiting to see how this forecast plays out to see how big of a salting operation they need to have. Take a listen. Give a little bit of traction. Its the cold ground, the untreated asphalt. If that hits its just going to freeze and its going to give a little slow going until the salt gets to it. We do have a lot of residual salt from this past weekends snow eventually. Reporter back out here live again the precipitation that weve been seeing since weve been out in this area of hunting park for several hours, this is really the heaviest that weve seen it come down. Also within the past half hour we started to see ice form on the sidewalks. Again, theyre also hoping to have salting on city sidewalks as well. They also are giving tips to people on their own to have shovels ready, to be prepared so that that way they can also help their neighbors out if theyre walking in front of their houses or their workplace as well hopefully so no one trips and falls. Reporting live in hunting park, Annie Mccormick channel6 action news. Back to you. Thank you annie. Now lets switch to bob brooks live in roxborough for us tonight. Its not just icy conditions but also water main breaks that continue to be a problem across the city, right bob. Reporter monica absolutely. Its been happening across the city and many in the Roxborough Manayunk area. Many have stressed the fact that the Water Department isnt fixing things, theyre out there working. I spoke with an official who told me theyre facing more than 20 water main breaks a day so theyre very busy. Behind me just the latest one that happened up here on larson street. Its still closed. Monica it created a layer of ice 2inches thick out here. Its been a busy day for the philadelphia water crews, fixing water main breaks and neighbors cleaning up after the water froze. Happening all around the city right now, all around manayunk. So, its pretty bad out here. Reporter just this afternoon on two streets off ridge avenue we saw two water main breaks. One on larsden street that forced it to be closed and martin street where it flooded and froze in backyards and leaked into caitlins basement. It is way too cold. When you look up at the weather and you see that in alaska its warmer than here. Reporter rest assured the Water Department is as busy fixing water main breaks as theyve ever been. Earlier today we caught up with spokesman john. We have seen 20 water main breaks weary paring. It may take crews awhile to get to each break with such a high volume. Typically in the winter we go to a 12hour shift. Right now were on 16. 16 hours doesnt mean theyre done in 16 hours. Reporter warmer weather expected this week could create or reveal new breaks. The ground is pretty much frozen solid. As the ground thaws there could be some water main breaks broken underground that we havent seen yet. Reporter now he asks everyone have patience. First they have to fix the water mains, then they can get to individual homes and get the water back on if theyre out and the other thing Manayunk Roxborough is famous for are their hills. Its raining. Its only a matter of time before the roads start getting slick so please be careful. For now reporting live in roxborough, bob brooks channel6 action news. Bob, thank you. A broken water pipe forced the evacuation of the Fairview Care center in springfield township Montgomery County this afternoon. A spokesperson says the busted pipe flooded a nonpatient area and prompted them to shut down electricity to the building. A school bus and several ambulances were brought in so patients and residents wouldnt have to sit in the cold while officials were deciding what to do. Theyve now decided to relocate all 108 people to other Nursing Care Centers in the area. And as always action news will be on tomorrow morning to help you navigate any slick spots on the roads and to keep you up to date on School Delays and closures. Join matt tam david and karen starting at 4 30 tomorrow morning. Much more still ahead on action news monday night. Hundreds gathering in new jersey to say a final farewell to former governor brendan byrne. What those closest to him said about his legacy today. And the Philadelphia District Attorneys Office is now in rebuild mode following the firing of dozens of attorneys. What d. A. Krasner must do to get the department back up to speed and how current cases are being impacted. That when action news comes right back. Hundreds gathered in essex county today to bid farewell to former governor of new jersey brendan byrne. Former governors current lawmakers family and friends gathered at the paper mill playhouse in millburn this morning. Governor christie gave remarks and had fond memories of the two term democrat. Byrne dedicated more than 30 years to public service. He won his first term as governor in 1973 and later authorized the law to permit gambling in Atlantic City. Former governor Jim Mcgreevey just spent new years with the byrne family he told us. I think he was at peace. He had lived a long good life. But given so much to the state. He loved lucy, his children w dad. Brendan byrne died last week at the age of 93 in livingston. A changing of the guard for the financially strapped revel casino hotel. It has a new owner tonight colorado developer bruce deifik. He plans to open with a new name ocean resort casino and that about the same time the hard rock will be opened. It closed after two years of losing money. The dust starting to settle following the swift firing of dozens of prosecutors from the Philadelphia District Attorneys Office. So whats ahead for d. A. Larry krasner and his new team . Action News Reporter vernon odom has that story. Reporter the criminal Justice Center was Still Standing today even in the wake of fridays wholesale mass shakeup at the District Attorneys Office where in all, new d. A. Larry krasner fired 31 veteran employees chiefing from the ranks of those at odds with krasners progressive priorities. Hes a Death Penalty opponent and he cut off lots of hard liners. Many were supervisors who did not fit into krasners game plan. Criminal lawyers downplayed the impact of this move by the new d. A. This is not something unusual and i think only because its a new philosophy of the d. A. That everybodys making such a big deal out of it. I dont think its all that unusual. It happens all the time and it happens all around the country. Reporter the new d. A. Is making a point of staying out of the publics eye. A source tells me plans to name some new murder squad personnel late this week some of left the d. A. s office years ago and are ready to return as reformers. Hes progressive in the sense hes going to initiate types of programs that are in tune with the times and i think thats going to do well for the city of philadelphia, for the victims as well as for defendants when they come to the courthouse. Reporter Larry Krasner did appoint a new supervisor of victim services, mavita johnson huer roll a spokesman for the judge of common economies court said there was no known disruptions in the courts operations today despite the massive slashings from late last week. Im vernon odom channel6 action news in center city. Turning 65. Downsizing. Enrolling in Medicare Part d. These are moments when people realize that where you get your medicine matters. And they come to cvs pharmacy. For advice and ways to save money. Including copays as low as zero dollars. Switching is easy, call 1833cvsmedd and transfer today to cvs pharmacy. Popular childrens activity sending many kids to their hospital. Pediatricians are warning about the dangers of paintball without proper protection. Health reporter and registered nurse ali gorman joins us at the action news big board with more. Hi, guys. Almost everyone remembers this from a christmas story when ralphie asked for a bb gun and pretty much everyone including santa claus says youll shoot your eye out kid. A new report is actually backing that up. Eye injuries related to bb pell letter and paintball guns is up 169 percent over the past two decades. Eye injuries from these activities are much more likely to land kids in the hospital than other sports related eye injuries. Keep in mind in paintball kids are aiming at each other but 90 percent of the injuries can be prevented if the right safety gear is used. Also today, surgery may seem like a drastic step for a teenager who is severely obese, but a new study shows having the surgery earlier in life has dramatic benefits especially when it comes to protecting the heart many of the four to 6 million severely overweight teenagers are already at risk for heart disease. With high blood pressure, prediabetes or high cholesterol. Doctors at nationwide Childrens Hospital and four other Major Medical centers found that a third of their candidates for weight loss surgery had three or more of these risk factors. But three years after surgery, that number dropped by 85 percent. And nearly half of the teens had no risk factors. Bariatric surgery is safe and more importantly its extremely effective and more effective than many of the nonsurgical options that are available. 19yearold liare was prediabetic. With a Family History of heart problems when she decided to have a sleeve gastrectomy. Shes down 70 pounds and says working hard on a healthier lifestyle is worth it. You dont want to go back to the past. You dont want to quit. Like two minutes into the workout. So, it does give you more energy to want to keep going. And doctors say the results of this study show in weight loss surgery shouldnt just be a last resort for for adolescens with more than a hundred pounds to lose. This study will continue. Rick and monica. Thanks ali. Much more action news coming your way. Well take a break and be right back. You ok . Eczema. Its fine. Hey hi arent you hot . Eczema again . Its fine. I saw something the other day. Eczema exposed. Your eczema could be something called atopic dermatitis, which can be caused by inflammation under your skin. Maybe you should ask your doctor . Go to eczemaexposed. Com to learn more. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast. Meteorologist cecily tynan here with the very important details about the evening ahead. Yes, you know, i always say it only takes a little bit of ice to cause some big problems and thats what were getting out there in some parts of our region. Im want to show you a photo george posted from kenilworth in North Coventry township Chester County. You can see that light glaze of ice over the grille. He says that his deck, his railings all covered in ice. Really what you get in the form of wintry precipitation depends on the temperature at all layers of the atmosphere. This shows it pretty well. If you have cold air all the way from 5,000 feet to the surface, that is easy, you get snow. However if you have a thin layer of warmer air and then colder air, what happens is snowflakes will melt and then they refreeze. Thats sleet. Thats the ice pellets. Then if you get warmer air lasting even longer but theres still cold air at the surface it becomes rain but its freezing rain. If you have warmer air that extends down to the surface then its just rain. I do want to remind people in south jersey and delaware, though, although it can be just rain, with that frozen ground it will be freezing on the untreated surfaces so definitely need to be careful tonight. Once we get through tonight we have a big pattern change ahead. Accuweather highlights show you tomorrow the warmest day in two weeks. By friday temperatures rising close to 60 degrees. Comes with a price though a soaking rain on friday, about one to 2 inches of rain but with temperatures near 60 were talking about rain, not freezing rain. Tonight, though, weve got the wintry precipitation. Double scan live showing that snow is really cutting off but weve got the freezing rain across the i95 corridor including philadelphia right now. Its moving through woodbury, glassboro. Youll notice that jenkintown norristown malvern downingtown its pretty much ended for you but theres a wave of some more precipitation, some rain thats been pulling out of virginia and this will kind of fill it in across south jersey after we head through the overnight hours. Dover you can see its rain but again, with that frozen ground, untreated surfaces will be icy so do be careful tonight. Temperatures tell the story. Philadelphia 31 degrees right now. Weve dropped from 32 degrees at last hour. Allentown reading lancaster youve been stuck in the 20s. Thats why you had snow and sleet. As far as Atlantic City airport 36, dover 36. Thats why its rain but again, that frozen ground. Do be careful. Satellite and radar showing its a pretty quick moving system. Its not a major winter storm. It continues to push to the south and the east but notice some of that moisture moving out of northern virginia. That will allow it to hold on a little bit longer along the coast. So, future tracker showing around 8 oclock tonight still have that freezing rain just holding on in philadelphia. I think it will be shutting off between 8 oclock and 9 oclock. By about 11 30, midnight its rolling off the coast. Clearing skies tonight. Tomorrow morning it will be dry. Nothing falling from the sky. However, there will be slick spots with temperatures below freezing, driveways parking lots and sidewalks could be icy. So, the five day at 5 00 showing tomorrow what a turn around. 42 degrees, partly sunny skies. 39 on wednesday. Thursday 48, mostly cloudy, some late drizzle. Friday, 58 degrees, periods of rain. On saturday, a lingering shower, too, but still mild for the eagles game 50 but it cools off pretty dramatically by sunday. Well talk about that in the sevenday forecast. We have warmer days ahead guys. Thank goodness. Thank you cecily. Quick break. More news right after these messages. Stay with us. Excuse me everyone paul . Paul . This is three Million Dollar mega multiplier the new game from the Pennsylvania Lottery with top prizes of three Million Dollars three Million Dollars did you win . I dont know. Im so excited about it. This could be a big winner just had to share. Carry on. Sometimes the moments before you scratch are as exciting as the moments you do. Keep on scratchin hello again. 5 30 now and we continue with our accuweather alert tonight. A combination of snow and ice is pushing through the area during the evening rush. As cold as its been it doesnt take much to make a big mess of thing. Live look from city hall cameras. Road crews have been treating the roads throughout the city. The concern centers on the cold ground and the potential for ice and of course hopefully various accidents. Weve dispatched mobile6 to check the roads. Currently its in the conshohocken area and seems like things are rolling along just fine. The philadelphia Streets Department says it has been treating the roads. If the road looks wet in conditions like tonight you should assume the worse, assume it is black ice. We have our team tracking the snow and ice tonight. John rawlins is out with power crews. Matt pelman is watching the highways and byways. Lets begin with meteorologist Melissa Magee with the latest word from accuweather at this hour. Melissa. Yeah, rick and monica we are tracking this moisture at narrow band of precipitation from new england down across the midatlantic. You can see that on storm tracker6 live double scan radar 3d. The precipitation is light in nature. The timing its coming just in time for that ride home. Street level with storm tracker6 showing you the snow we had in our northwest suburbs already starting to depart and exit but we still have got that light glaze there along the i95 corridor from trenton, philadelphia, also pressing into wilmington and media. Even across interior sections of south jersey we are tracking that moisture. As far as what we can expect as we go throughout the rest of today, as far as the delays are concerned, at j. F. K. And la guardia more than two hours, 112 minute delay there in newark, new jersey. Philadelphia having a delay right now of 47 minutes. So, check ahead with your carrier for some delays at your local airports. The precipitation will be ending from west to east. In the Lehigh Valley and our northwest suburbs its ending about now and already over for the most part philadelphia, the i95 metro area ending between 8 oclock and 10 oclock. And there in south jersey and central delaware, ending some 10 00 p. M. To midnight which is why that Winter Weather advisory has been extended until midnight into areas of south jersey and delaware. Tracking that light precipitation. Once it kicks out milder air returns as early as tomorrow. Well take a closer look coming unwith the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. Rick. Melissa thank you. Lets switch live to action News Reporter john rawlins who is in cherry hill new jersey. John, you spent the day meeting with utility crews preparing for whatever falls from the sky throughout the evening, right . Reporter rick, correct. And something is falling from the sky. Weve had an on again off again drizzle. Its definitely on again. Its actually a rain. It is starting to glaze up very lightly on some untreated surfaces metal cars, sidewalks, things like that. Certainly not enough glaze or not enough ice to impact a power company. Theres no doubt about it. Thats not going to happen. Both peco and pse g say they are not expecting any problems tonight from this weather. We are cautiously optimistic. Reporter jim is the manager of pse gs Southern Division that provides power to a half million south jersey customers. For residential utility lines like these, it can take as little as a quarter inch of ice to trigger power disruptions. A half inch can be crippling. His optimism is based on the amount of ice in the most recent forecast he had when we spoke to him early this afternoon. The latest forecast we have is a trace amount to maybe just a small amount of icing. So, based upon that forecast, we dont anticipate much problems, john, but were going to hold some crews just in case. Reporter forecasts can change both pse g and peco say theyll have crews on standby tonight. Maybe the biggest evident ice event in recent years was part of a winter storm back in early february 2014. Especially hard hit with freezing rain Chester County where two to 310ths of an inch of ice coated trees. Many trees collapsed pulling down power lines to more than 175,000 chester customers. Another half million customers lost power region wide in that same storm. To be clear, nothing like that is expected tonight obviously. But there is as we have said many times here its starting to freeze and have a slight glaze on the excuse me on the sidewalks and you need to be careful getting around. No one anticipating what is in the forecast to present much of a problem to the Power Companies tonight. Live in cherry hill, john rawlins channel6 action news. Back to you guys. All right, john, thank you. Time now to get an update on the commute home this evening. All right. Over to matt pelman live in the action news Traffic Center with details. Could be a slow go matt. It could but the good news, rick and monica, this is not our worst commute in the last few weeks. However, weve got some pretty bad commutes in the last few weeks. Part of what is keeping this one not so bad is so many people headed home early today. So, now were starting to see lighter volume and they have so much salt on the roads that the highways at this point are just wet. Like 95 there at the walt whitman bridge. I would continue to really watch your speeds on the ramps, especially, and as you round corners cause you could hit a slick patch. On the walt whitman bridge itself speeds have improved eastbound heading into new jersey. Still on 676 southbound you have some Single Digits merging up with 42. And in southwest philadelphia, were still watching that overturned truck at island and lindbergh. Debris spilled there, too, so i would still avoid that. In the burbs reports of icy conditions especially in Chester County. In fact in thornbury theres a crash closing westtown thornton road. Stick with concorde road to get around that and in Kennett Square still have the overturned propane piking blocking kennett pike. Creekcreek could be an alternat. Water main break on rancocas road in mount holly. Slick spots but could be worse. Rick and monica. Could always be worse. Thank you sir. Thanks matt. The latest bout from old man winter shortens the school day. Action news as Marple Newtown High School Students dismissed for a half day. Philadelphia students also went home early because of the weather. And action news will be on tomorrow morning to pass along School Delays, other School Delays or openings or even closures. So join matt, tam, david and karen starting tomorrow morning at 4 30. In other news tonight President Donald Trump flew to tennessee today to pitch his tax plan but it is an issue back in washington that has some folks upset. The clock is ticking for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the u. S. From el salvador. Abcs Karen Travers explains why. [speaking foreign language] reporter outside the White House Monday a small protest but a big message. Its shameful. Its inhumane. And this is the wrong thing to do for the american people. Reporter the Trump Administration announcing it will end temporary protected status for approximately 262,000 people who came to the u. S. Nearly two decades ago from el salvador after a series of deadly earthquakes there. The department of Homeland Security now says the conditions that led to that special status no longer exist. Pps was established in 1990 to provide safe haven for people fleeing natural disasters or war. Salvadorans impacted by this decision now have 18 months to either change their immigration status or leave the u. S. Or face potential deportation. Activist groups say these individuals are racing children and contributing to the u. S. Economy. These are a people who have been living by the rules. Getting background checks every 18 months, getting their fingerprints for more than 20 years. Reporter dhs says 18 month delay for these salvadorans is to give congress some time to work out a permanent legislative fix but the white house has already asked lawmakers to do the same for those young undocumented immigrants protected by daca and that is now a political football in the effort to avoid a Government Shutdown later this month. Reporting from the white house, Karen Travers, channel6 action news. Thank you, karen. Coming up at 6 30 world news with david muir has the rumblings related to the new book fire and fury which the white house is now taking issue with. Back here the trial is under way for the man accused of stabbing Philadelphia City council david oh. Sean yarbray was in court to face attempted murder and attempted robbery charges. Councilman zero was punched and stabbed outside of his home on thomas avenue in may. Oh survived and he identified yarbray as the culprit. Two people passing by recorded video of the attack as well. Yarbrays stepfather says his son is a victim of mistaken identity. Newly released video shows two men taking something valuable in an odd burglary. They made off with french doors from a home in the 1200 block of north 57th street just before 1 30 in the morning. One of the men casually sat on the porch during the break in. Youre asked to call police if you know anything. Getting set for the battle of the birds. An eagles star says his team is being disrespected. Eagles are set to play the Atlanta Falcons coming up in the playoffs on saturday. Meteorologist Melissa Magee is tracking the winter storm a little snow and ice moving through but some milder conditions after that, melissa. Yeah, thats right. Something to look forward to. Well show you whats going on outside as we look at storm tracker6 live double scan radar 3d. Still a light glaze of precipitation from new england over into our area and also throughout the rest of the midatlantic region. This will clear the coast after midnight and then milder air returns. Weve got more details with the accuweather forecast. All right. And Governor Wolf from pennsylvania rides in style for a celebration of a new chapter. Well have that story and much more when action news continues tonight. Im a small business, but i have. Big dreams. And big plans. So how do i make the efforts of 8 employees. Feel like 50 . How can i share new plans virtually . How can i download an efile . Virtual tours . Zipfile . Really big files . In seconds, not minutes. Just like that. Like everything. The answer is simple. Ill do what ive always done. Dream more, dream faster, and above all. Now, ill dream gig. Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. A trip on the pennsylvania turnpike has drivers digging deeper. This is the first week day evening commute since the toll hike kicked in. Its up 6 percent for cash and ez pass. The new rates do not apply, though, to drivers going west on the Delaware River bridge in bucks county. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf likes creating new jobs and owns a jeep. So, an event in Chester County seemed like the perfect match. The governor rode a jeep to turn five an automotive e Commerce Company to cut the ribbon on its new headquarters in paoli. Nearly 8 million in investment brings 183 new fulltime jobs here over three years. Thats in addition to hundreds of current workers. Governor wolf applauded the brothers who had this idea as teenagers. You guys started you were 17 and 15. Yeah, i have a brother thats two years younger than me. Thats really tough. Turn five customizes cars and trucks. It gave Governor Wolf a framed picture with a jeep etched with the wolf on the door. The eagles know who theyll be playing. Jaime apody is here. They have an opponent finally. Its going to be atlanta bring on the falcons. Eagles preparing to face the falcons who knocked off the rams in l. A. Yesterday on saturday excuse me 2613 in the wild card round. Matt ryan looked sharp. Hell get a chance to return home and get some revenge at the linc where the birds beat the falcons last season. It is finally game week and the anticipation well, they can feel it. Its like a itch right now that you cant scratch you know what i mean cause of course you know its a long week and you want the game to be here right now but at the same time you have to kind of go through your progression go through the film through the playbook. I think once the game comes i think everybody going to be ready. Theres already been a bit of history made in this game and it hasnt been played yet. For the first time never before folks has the top seed in the playoff been an underdog in their first game until now. The saints are an early two and a half point favorite on the road against the 13 and three birds. Weve been disrespected all year. Our record speaks for itself. Were a team thats been disrespected week in and week out. We just come out and we ring the bell every week. I said the saints. I meant the falcons. Looking ahead. I am. Ive got them winning. That didnt take long. Just one week after losing the top spot in the College Basketball polls villanova back at one after a crazy week that saw four of the top five teams lose. The wildcats will be a georgia gets Home Field Advantage as they face alabama in atlantas new arena. The crimson tide is favored as they look for their fifth National Title since 2009. I think its two great teams, it will be a great competitive game and our players are certainly looking forward to the challenges and the opportunity of playing in the championship game. Were expecting an exciting football game. Monday night. Our players are just enthused, excited to be in this opportunity and were going to make the most of it. Should be a good one. Big day for paul palmer. He has been elected to the College Football hall of fame. Consider maybe the greatest player in owls history finished second in heisman voting in 2006. I kind of stopped thinking about the hall of fame, you know. I told myself, its not going to happen. I told myself its going to be a cold day in hell and as it turns out its a cold day in philadelphia and ill take that as well. Either way im glad, im really humbled to be to be up here in that front of you. Not just representing myself but representing Temple University. Congrats to paul palmer penn states gary collins inducted as well. Well deserved. Much more still ahead on action news monday night. Exclusive accuweather forecast. Lets take a live look through our Temple University camera sky6 show you a gorgeous view of center city. Meteorologist Melissa Magee will have details of whats ahead when we come right back. All right. Mobile6 live for you along the Spring Garden section of the schuylkill expressway. You can see traffic is jammed. We dont know if its just because of heavy volume or because of conditions but please take it carefully and slowly. Of course snow and ice coming down and sleet in some areas. Timing not so great with the evening commute. Some schools obviously dismissed early as well as some offices to deal with the latest bout from old man winter. You can see how slick the streets look right there. Right. Dont be fooled. Its probably icy as well. Meteorologist Melissa Magee is here now with a closer look at forecast tomorrow. It will go above freezing tomorrow right. Especially the afternoon it will be mild. A nice change headed our way guys. Well talk about the details though, walk over to the Weather Center and show that you Winter Weather advisory still up for the heart of the delaware and Lehigh Valleys but theyre canceling those advisories, thats good news for berks county there in reading and also in Lehigh County in allentown is included in that advisory that has just come to an end but it stays up nonetheless until 9 oclock for the i95 metro area and also for areas in south jersey and delaware. It has been extended until midnight. Any untreated surfaces will quickly turn slick as we go throughout the rest of evening hours and even into tonight. Heres the precipitation that were tracking. Storm tracker6 live double scan radar showing you weve got a light glaze here in philadelphia. The snow we had to our north and west already starting to come to an end even that rain there in south jersey and delaware. Well go in tighter on street level with storm tracker6. Philadelphia up to 95 corridor into trenton and mercer county, we are dealing with some mixed precipitation. Sleet and freezing rain and the heaviest of pocket moving across interior south jersey. Temperatures right now are above freezing there across coastal sections of new jersey so the precipitation that is falling across interior sections, you got to light glaze but you have this rain in cape may, dover and milford. Even though its falling as rain, the ground has been frozen solid for some time so this will quickly ice over in some spots and freeze. Temperatures right now, its 31 in philadelphia, 27 for allentown and reading. 23 in the poconos. 36 in dover. Above freezing barely in cape may. Coming in at 34. Satellite6 along with action radar showing you this narrow band of snow from new england. You maybe got that mixed bag of precipitation right across the midatlantic region so future tracker6 showing you later on tonight 8 30 this model showing you still a little bit of mixed precipitation right along philadelphia, even into wilmington. The rain there in south jersey and delaware. By 11 30, midnight, it starts to clear the coast from a westeast direction. We are dry as we get into our tuesday afternoon. In fact, Better Weather up ahead. Its bright and seasonable tomorrow, 7 00 a. M. 33. 35 at 9 00 a. M. Plenty of sunshine to enjoy. Do have more of a pattern change on the way. Last two weeks it has been cold with this dip in the jet stream and this pocket of cold air just locked across much of the eastern half of the u. S. Later this week really thursday into friday, the jet stream lifts off to the north. Milder air makes a comeback so enjoy it while it lasts. That colder air moves back to the west so eventually it will retreat eastward as we get into the second half of our weekend. The exclusive accuweather 7day forecast, the warmest it has been in two weeks on the way tomorrow. High temperature up to 42. On wednesday, sunshine, patchy clouds in at 39. Thursday its milder, up to 48, although its mostly cloudy. Well warm up to friday, look at that high, 58 degrees. Although periods of rain on the way. Could be a soaking that day. Saturday a shower or two around at 50 with the eagles at home at the linc taking on the falcons. Much colder next thursday, 31 and just 31 next monday, guys. So well enjoy the warmup. Absolutely. Thanks melissa. Meantime the travel nightmare is easing at j. F. K. Airport in new york city. All set off by these water woes. A feeder pipe to the Sprinkler System broke because of cold weather at 2 00 p. M. Today rather on sunday and that flooded the terminal with 3inches of water. 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Stay tuned for Live Team Coverage of the Road Conditions plus of course the forecast from accuweather. Also a major drug bust in south jersey. Details on where authorities discovered 22 million worth of cocaine. And weve got the story of a nineyearold boy who is fighting cancer and the local Police Officer who is trying to brighten his days in the hospital. Very nice. Well have those stories and more next at 6 00 for adam joseph jamie antidepressant pope cecily tynan Rick Williams the entire Action News Team, im monica malpass. Make eight good night tonight. Be safe. Be careful. Action news. Delaware valleys leading news program with ducis rodgers, meteorologist cecily tynan and jim gardner. It is monday night and the big story on action news tonight is a potentially dangerous winter mix spreading across the tristate area. Many locations are seeing a tricky combination of snow, sleet and freezing rain. And that will be with us for several more hours possibly until midnight at the jersey shore. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormick is lie live in hunting park, walter perez is in west chester and matt pelman is standing by with the latest on the traffic situation. First lets get the latest information from meteorologist cecily tynan, Melissa Magee. Cecily, whats the situation. Jim we have been stressing this is not a major storm. Just slow in a little bit of ice especially during a evening commute it can cause a lot of problem. The temperatures are key as far as the kind of precipitation were seeing. Thats right. Lets head to the action news weather enter. You can see how its its a pretty thin ribbon of moisture right over us. The snow has cut off but we have a lot of freezing rain right over the i95 corridor. Thats what you see in blue here. Philadelphia some light freezing rain but youll notice we do have some patches of the darker blue. Thats the steadier freezing rain some of that just northwest of philadelphia. A lot of that moving into south jersey right now. Elmer, malaga, glassboro all dealing with this. Farther down to the south this is very deceiving. You can see dover its raining, cape may its raining. But the ground is frozen solid after two weeks generally below freezing in that deep freeze so do be careful. Untreated roads will be icy. So that Winter Weather advisory continues from philadelphia until 9 oclock and areas point north and west. Its lingering longer along the coast. The Winter Weather advisory in effect until midnight and again temperatures really key on whats falling from the sky. For more details on that lets head over to meteorologist Melissa Magee. Yes, cecily, and the temperatures are certainly varying in different locations. So as we look at what we can expect we have got that Winter Weather advisory as cecily mentioned. 26 for allentown, same thing for reading. 24 up in the poconos. Below freezing by 1 degree in the city at 31. Above freezing in Atlantic City 36 and 36 degrees in dover. Well talk about what we can expect. For the past two weeks now, temperatures have been well below freezing, well below zero when you factor in the wind chills so the ground is