The Christmas Tree looking more festive than ever. With one day to go there is a chance that some will enjoy a White Christmas. Im walter perez. The big story is the chance of snow on the way and some for Christmas Morning. Melissa magee has the forecast. We are tracking parts of the region for Christmas Morning. Today, the start of the Holiday Weekend numbers are mild. 60 in philadelphia. The average this time of year is 43. We came in the high despite a fair amount of moisture across the region. Right now, 44 in the city. We are starting to cool down. Off to the north, 17 in bismarck, 21 chicago, 31 in st. Louis. The cold air rushes in, in time for Christmas Eve. The forecast tomorrow, the majority of the day is dry. Sun giving way to increasing clouds. Its a cooler afternoon. 8 00 in the morning, 37. 43 by 4 00 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. Future tracker 6 showing you Christmas Eve night, we are tracking a mixed bag of precipitation. We have disturbances moving through. Rain through th
But first we will get to your head lines an your good morning, and Merry Christmas. Lets get right to your headlines on this friday morning, december 25th, every year hundreds of people, pack cathedral basilica of st. Pete era and paul on the ben franklin parkway for Midnight Mass to kick off christmas and this was no different. This was the the scene earlier this morning more masses at the cathedral throughout the the daytoday. Meanwhile, overseas pope francis, probably did some shopping at some point, but he also held a special Christmas Eve mass at the vatican. This of course was video that were watching of last minute shoppers but ill tell but what was happening at the vatican the the ceremony featured a prayer for pope and praying of the Christmas Songs on trumpets. People are expect to attend the traditional speech later today. Lets talk about these last minute shoppers. They ran down the the clock last night at target at the metro plex in Plymouth Meeting, it stayed opened until
Grocery store. Super markets will be mobbed today. Yes. In one is running anywhere, that slow crawl all day good partly because of the the rain. How long will this stick around. I think all the way through Christmas Eve, even through early Christmas Morning but imagine if it were snow. Wouldnt that be nice. We would have about 6 inches. Im in the ready. Im not going to do it. We will have a five out of ten today, it is in the raining every minute but it will be cloudy, gray, showers on and off drizzle and fog but the temperatures are getting milder and they will stay that way through christmas. We have bus stop buddy, this is last day of school for a lot of kids until winter break begins for many, tomorrow. So rain coat at the the bus stop, umbrella at the bus stop, temperatures in the 40s so dont bundle will them up too much and there it is, the rain, clouds all on satellite and radar and it looks like the entire region at least has something and it is on and off throughout the take h
The uk and the European Union are on the brink of an historic post brexit trade and security deal, ending nearly a year of bitter wrangling. An announcement that the two sides have secured an agreement on their future relationship, which will avoid import taxes on each others goods, is expected in the coming hours. But yet again, fishing is the issue theyre stuck on, and a news conference, which was initially expected first thing this morning, is being delayed. Negotiators from both sides talked through the night in brussels and are continuing to hammer out the details. 0ur political correspondent, iain watson is in downing street. We iain watson is in downing street. Are very much on that. We are very much on the brink of that. That deal looks like it will go ahead. I guess it would not be brexit if everything ran to time. To missed deadlines, lots of informal deadlines have gone on these talks. This time next week, we are likely to be leaving the eus rules and regulations behind at t