When will it arrive . Early on your saturday morning. So as we go hour by hour, you can see it advancing toward the region. Six, 7 00 a. M. So that snow will stick instantly. Temperatures will be in the teens to low 20s 9 00 a. M. , looking at that light snow into the early afternoon before it finally starts to taper off. How much snow do i expect . Anywhere from an inch to perhaps as much as 2inches pretty much area wide across the region. Very cold temperatures. Highs tomorrow 28 degrees. 22 on sunday for new years eve. And 19 degrees on new years day but you have to factor in the wind it will be even colder with wind chills in the single digits. Our Team Coverage of this arctic assault continues. Joanne pileggi live now as the king of prussia area prepares for snow and also the cold. Joanne . Reporter well here we go, everyone. Ready, set, snow that sounds about right. Continued cold, frigid temperatures and now snow on the way. Were here to tell you that road clues crews, penn got, philadelphia crews will have you covered to try to keep everyone as safe as possible over the next 24 to 48 hours. Heres some video from skyfox earlier today above some road crews. Preparing the settlement and blacktop with brian and anti icing materials. Now, that is the idea as road crews are out in advance of this winter snow event. Best case here the snow will be coming on a saturday and there should be fewer drivers on the roads. Cold temperatures do present a challenge in terms much with us putting salt down. We will monitor well monitor that. The cold temperatures can make salt less effective. There by we may need to put more salt down. Our crews will monitor that throughout the day tomorrow. And if that becomes necessary well put more salt down than our initial spread. Penndot has activated its anti icing program so that means they will have close to 200 trucks on the road and 90 contractors to help out with snow removal. You hear it from officials and us. Take precautions if youre going to be out and driving on the roads. Obviously the idea is for everyone to get to where they needing to safely when we have a snow event like this. Were live tonight right now in king of prussia. Back to you in the studio. All right. Thanks much joanne for the latest forecast at your fingertips just download the fox 29 weather app. Youll see live radar and get alerts sent right to your phone. You can find it in the apple and google play for stores. Happening now, as you just heard from scott, we are expecting near record cold temperatures new years weekend. Philadelphia police say they are ready for this deep freeze. The department announcing new ways to keep you save this new years. Our Dave Schratwieser live along broad street in south phil will those details. Dave . Reporter chris, as you can see, the bleachers and the barricades are up here along broad street for the mummers parade. Police tonight telling us they not only want folks to stay warm they want them to be safe and they have some new tactics to make that happen. Identified threats inble philadelphia. Reporter surveillance cameras are up and so are the barricades along broad street as Philadelphia Police prepare to wrap a security blanket around the mummers day parade and new years eve events across the city. We tweaked our plan from last year. Just slightly based on some of the things we seen go on around the world. Report roar fort first time officials disclosed the police will use a drone to patrol the skies over the parade route on new years day. With pictures being streamed live to a Police Command post. Theyre very good for large events. You get overhead view of the whole event. If something happens you can zoom in on exactly what the problem is. I think its good. Its a safe way to keep everybody, you know, covered, keep everybody safe. Reporter police say they will use large dump trucks and trash trucks at all intersections along broad street to protect parade participants and the revelers. Blocking vehicles thats every large event now. We have a lot of blocking vehicles out there. Reporter police say in addition to using septa buses, to keep parade goers warm, Police Officers on duty for the parade also have access to Warming Centers. If someone is getting cold, we can send them for a quick break to warm up and then right back out on the line. Reporter police also issued their annual warning to new years eve revelers who might be thinking about firing off a couple of sel sell la befe he tower gunshots to ring in the new year. Their advice, dont even think about it. If youre going to engage in that type of activity and we catch you, youre going to be arrested and serious charges. They know they job. They know what they doing. Theyll keep everything safe. Reporter now once again, police asking the public that if you see something, Say Something during this holiday weekend. Talk to police and if you come out to these events dress warmly or duck inside one of those Warming Centers much chris . Very goods advice, dave thanks. Turning to Burlington County firefighters rescued a family from their burning home. Flames trapped the family of three in their delanco house early this morning. That fire started around 1 30 on the 600 block of union avenue. The fire chief says when they arrived on the scene, they found the parents and the child standing on their roof trying to escape the flames. Fortunately they were able to make it out but sadly their pets did not. Fire Officials Say the ice and frigid temperatures made it that much more difficult to fight. It took about almost two hours to get it under control. Theres no fire walls in between so it took us a while we were chasing fire in the walls itself. All three family members and a firefighter were taken to the hospital. No word on their condition cond. Investigators are looking into what started that fire. On to developing story in maple shade a driver hit and killed a pedestrian on route 73. This is the third person hit on this road recently within half mile of each other. Neighbors are worried. The area is just too dangerous. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose joins us live now from maple shade. Sabina . Reporter lucy, right now, were looking at route 73 at rush hour but we all know it is busy any time of day or night. So with this latest fatal crash, people who live and work here are asking the state to make the area more walkable. I think sometimes they be racing each other. Thats how fast they be going. Reporter Jeanette Alice is arrived to the rush of cars going past her as she walks from her home off route 73 in maple shade. I either go straight down this. Reporter sadly shes almost use the to the sound of sirens blaring by. It can cost you if you dont if youre not paying attention. Trying get across. If you dont time it right, youre done. Reporter three pedestrians struck and killed by cars since september all along this stretch of roadway. All while crossing the street. Mid september a 40yearold man hit and killed near this shopping complex. Two months later a27yearold man fatally struck close to the same spot. Police say neither were walking in crosswalks. Theyre still trying to determine if the victim of this third deadly crash on that same lender of 73 on thursday night had the right of way. Theres a lot of people that live around here and they do walk. So they do need something out here to keep us safe. I grew up in mt. Laurel. Route 38 i used to have to cross that to go to college, and that was that was an adventure. Reporter Brian Mccullough work in the area. We caught up to him on his lunch break. Definitely built for drivers and not for walkers. Reporter hes notice add lot of pedestrians on his daily commute. Like Jeanette Brian wants the state to add signs and crosswalks. I mean they just raised gas prices, you know, not too long ago. So that was to pay for the transportation budget and i really do feel like they, you know, something should be done for that. You know. Reporter and we did reach out to the state to see what they could or would do to make the area safer for pedestrians. Were waiting to hear back. Chris . All right, sabina, thanks. Philadelphia police have released the name of an officer involved in a Police Shooting earlier this week. Authorities say officer christian pabone a four year veteran of the 18th district opened fire on a suspect Tuesday Morning in West Philadelphia. Investigators say he shot 21yearold Basil Harrison in the chest. When he didnt follow orders. Harrison survived and is charged with robbery, assault and carjacking after police say he stole a car then robbed a customer at a deli on south 52nd street. Philadelphia is in the middle of a surge in homicides the steve brotherly love set to finish the year with more homicides than its had in five years. As of thursday, records show that 314 people have died at the the hands of another person in the city this year. Thats a 13 increase from the same period last year and the highest number since 331 deaths in 2012. The homicides have increased. Police say the number of shootings, rapes and gun involved robberies are for some reason down. Its very difficult to anticipate if someone is having a bad day or has a conflict with somebody and they decide to leave their house with gun in their hand and shoot them given this is still america and constitutional protections its very difficult to interrupt that if you dont know about it. Experts say that its hard to say why homicides are up. New years eve in the big apple always draws a cloud crowd much this year will be no different and despite the cold, new york city says this years security will be the tightest its ever been. Eagles have clinch Home Field Advantage but that doesnt mean its time forest this sunday. What they hope to accomplish that would be a first in happening right not firefighters battling brutal conditions around the region. Skyfox here showing smoke and flames pouring out of this row home in West Philadelphia as dozens of firefighters race to get it under control. Ill tell you this was an extremely difficult fire to fight in these miserable conditions. As if theyre equipment isnt heavy enough the freezing cold made it even harder. Reporter we normally heat of the firefighters in hundred degree temperatures this morning they were working in single digit wind chills and some of those firefighters covered in ice. I never seen this in all my life. You couldnt see nothing over there it was so smokey. Reporter this woman has lived at 49th and chestnut for 50 years. She saw firefighters across the street from her house doing what they do in the most miserable of conditions. Its terrible. Its terrible. Its freezing. Its cold. I thank god for them. Nearly 100 philadelphia firefighters on the scene late this morning battling the heat and the cold in brutal conditions. Not only is it brutal for also for the firefighters its exhausting you got all this equipment on, youre dealing with the heat and the cold and water. Them guys do an awesome job. Temperature out here made the conditions very tough. Our gear weighs about 100 poun 100 pounds. We have members in the back that are totally covered in ice right now. Reporter the report came in of a person trapped but everyone inside the twostory building was able to get out. Two firefighters though initia initially needed help. I just scene them rush two of them waiting in an ambulance and run one of them stayed inside. They pulled off with him inside. The other one got out. He had oxygen and Everything Else on. Reporter air this cold is freeze the water in fire hydrants and forces crews to maneuver on ladders differently and makes walking on a roof that much more treacherous. Its making it very tough. Obviously we have ladders up to the roofs, the roofs are just basically a skating rink up there. Reporter firefighters quickly got the upper hand and no one was seriously hurt. Its crazy. But at the end of the day, at least everyone made it out safely. Theyre doing a wonderful good job. Reporter now while we were out there we did see two men handcuffed at the time. Were not exactly sure why. There is no cause of the fire yet. That firefighter taken to the hospital is believed to have suffered, lucy, just minor injuries. All right. Thank you very much, brad. Busy time for firefighters. Look what happened in pemberton township, Burlington County. Sky fox over the 400 block of pemberton bypass huge clouds of smoke and probably steam there as well pouring from the roof. The fire broke out at about 11 45 this morning. Firefighters are still there in the damage is extensive. No one is hurt. Investigators are looking into what started it. Police are on the hunt for two men who they say assaulted and robbed a man and a woman in north philly. Investigators say the couple was walking along the 2100 block of west ellis street on december 10th when two men ran up behind them it happened a couple of weeks back. Police just released the surveillance video. One of the men pulled out a gun and forced the woman to give him her phone and keys. The other punched the man took his wallet. If you youve got information about what happened, call poli police. New years eve in new york city may set another record other than just being the coldest one in decades. The nypd says security in and around times square will be the tightest in the citys history. Officials are preparing for more than a Million People to ring in 2018 in the bitter cold. This year more officers and explosive sniffing dogs than ever before. Plus i wasnt plus denned number of Police Snipers and for the first time detectives will be stationed inside every hotel along seventh avenue. Each hotel were going to have uniformed officers working in each hotel. And well have multiple Emergency Service and Critical Response command Response Teams located throughout the venue. Now, inside the secure ready times square trash cans will be removed, bags will be banned and to get inside, people will have to pass by dogs and go through metal detects. The eagles will wrap up their regular season sunday against the Dallas Cowboys and theyll be doing something at least trying to do something theyve never done before. Sean bell is here with a preview. Hello sean. Hey, lucy. Theres not much else the eagles can do at this point, right theyve done a lot won the division and they wrapped up Home Field Advantage throughout the entire playoffs. And theres actually one thing that they can. To they can win 14 games in the regular season for the first time in franchise history. Thats right. Andy reid he never did it. Ron jaworski he couldnt do it but Doug Pederson can. The starters wont play much on sunday because really whats the point . You dont want to get anybody injured. You have to stay healthy. Thats the main goal, but still, everybody wants to win 14. They want to make history and pederson talked about how much that would mean to everyone. Thats a milestone for this team. For 2017 to reach and that would be, you know, they go down in the record books as being that. A great, a great team in eagles history obviously regular season. Then having, you know, the opportunity to be undie feeted at home and things like that. I mean those are pride full thing. Those are things we talk about. Stay health theme thats all i care about and quick injury note. Joe walker placed on ir with a neck injury. So theres a good chance rookie sidney jones may make his first appearance although i dont know whats the point. Why put in a rookie in the game at this point . He cant help you for the playoffs. So keep him out. Let him rest. Let him stay healthy for next season. Coming up later in sports, well have more on Doug Pederson and what this final game of the year means for the entire team. Chris . All right, sean, thanks. Former president barack obama tweeting about whats best in america and one of those people he recognized eagles defensive end chris long. President obama tweeting chris long gave his paychecks from the first six games of the nfl season to Fund Scholarships in charlottesville, virginia. He wanted to do more so he gave away his entire seasons salary. Thats a story from 2017 you may remember long announced earlier this fall he was donating his salary to increase educational equality in several cities including philadelphia and that move got national attention. Today the defensive end was humbled by the former president s praise. At the end of the day thats an honor that that would fly across, um, one of our former president s radar, um, so listen, thats the whole point of trying to do good things in the community is spreading haas tiff have the and, um, its an honor to be mentioned. Thats a good guy. Long says its all about doing what he loves for something thats important to him. The deadliest fire in new york city in nearly 30 years. 12 killed. Along with children. Investigators say it all started at the hands of a child. And South Carolina, a woman leaves a trail of destruction in her wake even getting handcuffed by police. Didnt even stop her. Pro tip giant has great prices on produce. Raspberries for john. Strawberries for amy. Whats a jicama . Thanks amazing produce prices. Only at giant. Caught on camera a woman getting out of handcuffs and takintaking on a troopers crui. Troopers say 21yearold mia thorton start beside stealing her boyfriends car in South Carolina that. Car broke down. Good samaritan picked her up. Troopers say on the drive she grabbed the steel Steering Wheel making the guy crash. Troopers say she then stole the Good Samaritans car when he got out of the car to check on somebody else and guess what . Well she crash again. Which is when state troopers caught up to her and arrested her. Video shows her as you saw in the back of a squad car getting out of the handcuffs climbing into the front seat and driving off. Troopers say she led them on chase going 115 miles an hour before, can you guess what happened . She crashed again and now shes in custody. No bond. An Apartment Fire in new york city being called the deadliest in nearly 30 years. 12 kids kill in the blaze last night including four children. And of the many injured, four are fighting for their lives in the hospital tonight. Foxs rich dennison has more from new york city. This loss is unprecedented. Reporter community in mourning after a fastmoving fire kills 12 people in this bronx apartment building. The new york fire commissioner says it was started by a child who was playing with a stove. Started from a young boy three and a half years old playing with the burner on the stove. Reporter bit mother heard him scream, saw the flames and ran outside with him and his sister. The front door was left open and that caused the fire to quickly spread. Fire travels up the stairway acted like a chimney. It took the fire so quickly upstairs that people had very little time to react. They couldnt get back down the stairs. Couldnt escape. Just two people, my sister and the baby eight months old. The smoke i guess overcame her. Everything happened so quick. Reporter other residents were forced under the fire escape waiting for help. You were on the fire escape for half an hour . Yeah. Im tough. Why, because they put the ladder [ inaudible ] literally screaming. People were screaming fire, help, fire help, we knew it was trouble. Escaping they fave the bitter cold. Many had no coats. One man ran out in his longjohns with no socks or shoes. It is the time of year where people celebrate and certainly here we have people who have lost their lives, lost their homes, lost their lost everything. Reporter in new york, rich dennison, fox news. One attorney plus one courtroom reporter and one date. It all equals more than a Million Dollars in property damage. How prosecutors say it all went down. Cold putting a damper on some favorite winter activities. A lot of towns are canceling their polar plunges. So is it the right move . Hank has his take coming up all because of the weather, scott. Lucy those temperatures continue to fall across the ar area. Even colder air on the way. Plus the timing of snow. 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 ,000 deaths just in america last year. Well. We need to stand up and say enough. The only way this problem is going to be solved is if we raise our voices. Choose help over helplessness, hope over hopelessness. Make sure that the lives weve lost will not have been lost in vain. Addiction is a disease. When you ask for help, help is there for you. Lets take trip down the shore. Ocean city, new jersey. Lets just say its not a good day to hit the beach. No. Not ooh good day. Did you see the wind whipping it it looks awful down that. The extreme cold temperatures gripping the region. So cold in fact some towns are canceling annual new years traditions. Several towns sown down the shore putting the freezes on their polar plunges. But isnt a dip in the icy cold water kind of the point. Thats what its all about. Thats what i thought. Hank flynn thought so, too. Until he actually tried it. Heres hank. Reporter its hank. Im in ventnor, Polar Bear Plunges jumping in the ocean on new years day or thereabouts. Theyre nutty by nature. Well, here in ventnor they canceled their Polar Bear Plunge this year for just that reason. Two cold. My take is, thats the point. I had to go and find out if they were right or wrong. With the accept of the first an emerging from the soup i will tell you ventnor city was not wrong. 20 degrees it was. Felt like seven when i hit the beach. Well get back to that. Ventnor folks were mixed on whether polar bears should have been nixed. You think ventnor made a good move here . I do. Yeah. I think the mayor shes very responsible. She knows what shes doing. There . I will be out there. Reporter 100 ill be out there. You dont need big crowd for it gleeted i dont even need swimming shorts. Reporter [ laughter ] reporter people talk the talk but today one guy walked the walk into the Atlantic City and thats me. Ive done it before. Three or four times. But thats no help all you can other than dance around and grumble is to do it. Its like your life explodes. Oh, my god and let me tell you even back at the car doors closed with the heater jacked up, youre still in pain. Oh beth pulled the plug on the plunge. Ventnor mayor says the organizer was concerned about this years cold. He was concerned for the safety of the people that would actually want to participate. He asked my opinion and i thought i agreed with him. I thought that it was it was smart for us to probably cancel. Reporter thats what they did after consulting with town commissioners. Holtzman took little heat for it but she is he it murph the right move because ocean city followed suit and now brigantine is postponing theirs and there are other factors. Even if its not put on by the city, won the city be libel god for bid there was a fatality or serious illness with someone participating in this type of activity . I said probably. Reporter look the plunge only feels good after its over. The dip itself is like getting struck by lightning and the moments after just as bad. You wanting to swimming in winter. Go ahead. You dont need a thousand friends. But if you see mayor holtzman, tell her thanks. Somebody has got to be the grown up. Im hank and thats my take. I was talking to him yesterday. Hes nuts. I know. He actually did that yesterday. Just crazy. Fox 29 Weather Authority now. Isnt that pretty . Yeah. This is Yellowstone National park and minerals and algae near the Norris Geyser Basin turn the area green and yellow despite temperatures in the 20s. This type of algae and some bacteria in there 35 in the extremes of thermal water watern the acidic levels. The al engineer, bacterial and minerals can look blue, red, orange and purple. Pitt toast algae ive he have seen. Tell was. Thats algae bloom we like. Back here live look down the shore in wilmington new castle county. Temperatures are just as cold here. This bitter blast is going to last well into the new year. Meteorologist Scott Williams has useconds away. Forecast just 15 cold to end the year and cold to start the new year. Were looking at temperatures today only in the 20s. Look at the high for philadelphia. 25 degrees. It was 22 in reading. 21 degrees in allentown. So, yes, stuck below freezing. Look at the air temperatures right now. Its 9 degrees mount pocono. 18 degrees currently in reading. 21 in wilmington. 23 degrees for Atlantic City. So temperatures for tonight cold again. Same story. Well bottom out into the teens across the area. And then for tomorrow, snow will be moving in early tomorrow morning tapering off in the early afternoon time frame upper 20s for high temperatures. How much snow, about a coating to 2inches. Where is the snow now . Its off to the west around sections of the great lakes. Thats the clipper system that weve been advertising it is on the move right to the Delaware Valley early tomorrow morning. So by day break were looking at that light snow moving in, a swath once again of about a coating to 2inches. Pretty much area wide across the area. Cold enough for that snow to stick immediately. Reducing visibilities so be mindful of that if you have some travel plans tomorrow across the area and then it tapers off into the early afternoon time frame. Say, two or 3 00 oclock. How much once again overall most locations an inch an inch and a half perhaps as high as 2inches before all is said and done. Lets talk about new years eve game at the linc. Layer up, temperatures right around 20 degrees for much of the game. But those are the air temperatures. Feels like temperatures ranging between seven to 12 degrees. New years eve, 6 00 oclock firework, 18 degrees, feeling like five to 10 degrees. By midnight 13 degrees. Wind chills zero to 5 degrees. So dangerous conditions across the area. Once again as we look at that seven day forecast take a look at the temperatures by new years day. 9 degrees and then by the afternoon a high of about 19 degrees. The closest we get to freezing, the middle of next week. Guys, back over to you. All right. Thank you very much, scott. It is profession trusted more than any other and not just these days. The job that people have trusted the most for the past 16 years in row. And it was a dream come true for a waitress in arkansas. Hitting the lottery with her best friend. But her fairy tale story does not it all starts with a wish. The final days of wish list are here. 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In the wake, changes were made across the entire industry. Draw jaws dropped when video surfaced from charlottesville showing a car driving into a crowd. They were frosting White National lifts who came to rally in their town. A young woman was killed. The driver charged with her murder. Cameras love crime and they reported a lot of it. Like the growing trend of porch pirates. Bad guys casing out houses and making off with deliveries. Cameras caught the cops getting robbed in florida. A wig being pilfered in fresno. Even chicken and biscuits werent safe plucked from a big apple fast food joint. A delivery truck running a red light in missouri then toppling on its side. A traffic stop in ohio taking unexpected turn when an suv slammed into two patrol cars. A Police Pursuit in utah ending in tragedy. The worlds most famous tiger gets busted for dui. Ariana grande concert target beside terrorism. A bomb filled with shrapnel killed 23 people and hurt hundreds more. A blast in new york city sends commuters running for safety. Injuries were minimal. Police say the homemade devices didnt go off as planned. Its still unknown why this was planned. The deadliest mass shooting in the nations history. Gripping video gunfire raining down on Country Music fans more than 500 people got hurt that night. The death toll eventually peak at 58. Cameras were rolling when bad weather rolled in. Funnel clouds forming above from texas to illinois. A rare snow tornado recorded in eastern europe. In 2017, we cheered on the animal kingdom. We witnessed the worst of Mother Nature but also the best of mankind. And at times, when we needed it most. Caroline shively, fox news. First date disaster in tex texas. Well known houston attorney night out with a free lance Court Reporter turned into drunken nightmare. During the Lindy Lou Layman drank too much alcohol so attorney anthony buzby reportedly called her an uber when they got back to his house. Thats when he claims she started screaming poured wine on his original andy warhole paintings and shattered all kinds of sculptures. The destroyed artworks estimated value is about one and a half Million Dollars. Layman faces criminal mischief charges. She is free on 30,000 bond. He was hailed as an internet hero for helping rescue florida hurricane victims now hes quit his job after allegations of anti semitism. Michael hamil was known as the hot cop from florida when his picture went viral in september on the Gainsville Police departments facebook page. Day later on social media comments surfaced regarding jewish people in the holocaust. Theres also allegations the officer had sex with a woman on duty before a scheduled internal Affairs Interview hamil turned in his badge. School in oregon doing away actually thinking about doing away with mascot. More than 100 students parents, teachers and Community Members signed a petition to ax the ax men name. Theyre asking the school for mascot thats something more gender neutral. School Officials Say that they plan to hold meetings about the petition after winter break. The birds have the best record in the nfl and Home Field Advantage through the nfc playoffs wrapped up. They look good on the field as well as off the feel. As tom srendenschek found out this week when he walked a hundred yards with safety rodney mcleod. Rodney, 13two including a win last monday on christmas. The thing that doug said and the coaches have said you guys stay in the moment. Thats everything for us. You know, you dont want to look too far ahead. You dont want to relish on, um, the wins either that weve accomplish this year. Talk about your new Fashion Store you opened up down in the d. C. Area. Its called back of house its in Pentagon City mall on the top floor next to auntie anms. You got your pretzels and get your clothes. Yeah. Exactly. You can knot knock it all at one spot. Street urban wear store for men right now. Very fashionable. Not too high end but kind of right there in the mill. All based on how we see it, and how i see fashion, and so far so good. A lot of people like it. Got guys on the team purchasing and buying from the store. So, um, im a happy owner right now. I see the smile. You talk about your passion for fashion where does that come from. Growing up always wanted to stay in the latest gear, high school, can never wear the same shirt once going out. I think fashion is just a vision of how you see it and youre creativity. I just have fun with it. Great photo of you on instagram witness family after the game on christmas night. Family so important to you and you live i understand by a motto nothing for granted. Family is literally my back bone. Theyre everything to me. And wouldnt be here without every single last person in my family. Youve never forgotten that. Never. I never allow them to forget that, because without every person playing, whatever role it was, whether it was helping paying for my tuition, being support system, you know, theyve been there since day one and theyre still here right n now. Success youve had individually and as team, nothing for granted. You got to cherish every moment. Cherish every opportunity that you get. You never get those moments back. You got to make the most of it and seize the opportunity when given. Beloved philadelphia new years day tradition is in jeopardy. The mummers may have to postpone their parade. We spoke to some of them about their concerns and a taste of what we can expect if well new years eve is coming fast but no need to go out in the bitter colds to celebrate. Its true. You know why, the party right here on fox. Absolutely. Steve harvey is hosting this one in fact. So you sit back on your sofa and break out the popcorn. Let the fun begin. Ashley today rourke kin has a preview. I want to keep the party going. Countdown to 2018 and starstudded style. As foxs new years eve with steve harvey live from times square. Provides one bigtime celebration. Cohosted by maria it will feature performances by celine dion, back street boys, macklemore featuring schuyler gray and flow rida plus tune up those focal cords as the one and only kneel diamond set to lead the Worlds Largest sing along. Harvey shared how excited he is to show off his live skills with this new gig. I do live. Im the live guy. I dont wont panic. If i get it wrong, its wrong. Well fix it. Dont worry about it. Its going to be a lot of fun. He also spoke about what his new years festivities are like. A lot of laughs and smiles. A lot of gratitude. You know arc lot of fun. A lot of reminiscing but the excitement that, you know, were here. That 2018, god willing, for all of us will give us a new chance to start again and get it right and have fun, you know, make up for some of the mistakes 2017 and get on down the road and start off with the right bank. I think i can do that as good as anybody. Reporter joining the party december 31st starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, seven central on fox. New years tradition here in philadelphia could be in jeopardy. Its true our bitter cold temperatures might just postpone the annual mummers day parade. Some members of few string bands were on good day this morning strutting their way through the newsroom. Of course the big question here is the cold. And i want to ask you, how difficult is it, whats the whats the difficulty with the cold weather and the banjos. I think when we go outside the cold weather affects the way everything sound. Okay. It affects the tension on the strings they get tighter. It may not be the same sound that you get when youre inside places like this and its warm. Not only that we cant wear gloves so when its really cold out our fingers get numb. Big meeting tomorrow. 12 noon. Whats going to be discussed . Well, upping, the weather is the biggest concern. We dont mind cold. But we want to make sure people are healthy and safe. With it being as cold as theyre talking, were worried about the young, the old, even the people spectates the cops on the side of the street for ten hours. Is it going to be safe for them to be out there . But of course it wasnt all talk. The bands gave us a little taste of what we can expect if the parade does go on as planned some of our members of our News Team Even got involved. Awesome. Come on katie. Ready. Whoa come on tony. To the left. Come on, guys. Kenny joyce. Come on. Grab your right here like this and move with your left foot. Feel the music. Come on, ho new jersey, lets go. Get up here. Were going to do a little momma strut. Ryan, lets go. Quaker city. Come on lets go. I overlooked before. [ laughter ] bob has got to work on has mummers strut. Huhn was great nailed tony. Tony, yes. One of our directors here. He must have been a mummer. That was strut. That was. Umbrella and everything. There you go. 6 00 p. M. Show is next. Stay right here. In the middle of an arctic bla blast, subfreezing temperatures across our area, its just going to keep on going right into the new year. Speaking of the new year, people will still be out despite the cold and the city of philadelphia is ready. Police trying something theyve never done before to keep you safe. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6 00. The cold keeps going and going and shows no signs of letting up. Take live look down the shore in cape may tonight, and it wont be just the cold but snow as well. Its an arctic assault on our senses and dont think the new year will bring any relief. This bitter cold blast of cold weather going to last well into 218. The weather is where we begin at 6 00 oclock tonight. Thanks for joining us im chris oconnell. Im lucy noland. Were cold. These frigid temps just like you are what everyone is talking about heading into the new years weekend. Of course also that snow thing. Weve got you covered with live Team Coverage. Dave schratwieser letting us know how philadelphia is getting ready for new years eve. Joanne pileggi has how penndot preparing for the snow. We begin though with meteorologist Scott Williams and our first check of the forecast. Scott . Hi there, lucy. Temperatures today did not make it out of the 20s. In fact its been three days and counting now with