2017. Its the annual mummers parade and were taking live look at Atlantic City, where dozens of people just ran into the water for the 26th annual polar bear plunge. Ahead, how others are celebrating the first day of the new year. First the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, with meteorologist chris sowers it is mild outside, but not mild enough for a dip in the atlantic ocean. Reporter no, but ill tell you what, looks like they are getting off easy today considering how bad it could be on january 1. 54 degrees in Atlantic City. The ocean temperature, 42. Weve seen way worse than that, so, its not perfect conditions for jumping in, but it could have been worse. 52 in millville. Philadelphia, 50 degrees, the normal high 41. 47 in reading. Allentown, 46. Poconos, 34, a little chilly up there. Trenton, 48. Dover checking in at 51 degrees. Satellite and radar, as advertised all the cloud cover has cleared out. Still seeing the cloud cover across the delaware bay region and a couple o
When without saying a word those officers pounced. Just rushed. Reporter the former tennis star shaken and furious. 35yearold james blake says he was tackled and pinned to the ground by nypd officers outside of the Grand Hyatt Hotel on east 42nd street wednesday morning, taken down in an apparent case of mistaken identity. Reporter have you had any conversation with him at all with the cops yet . Not yet. Reporter the harvard educated tennis player, once ranked fourth in the world was waiting outside of the midtown hotel for a car when the Police Lieutenant rushed towards him. He says at one time he was held down by five plainclothessed officers. It was when a detective nearby recognized blake and identified him and the officers let him go. Police commissioner bill bratton says blakes account is disturbing. One of the officers now placed on modified duty. Just the nature of what he described is not what we do. Its not what were supposed to do. Reporter bratton says the officers were fr