Row christmas. We hope your holiday has been wonderful. In bucks county a girl scout troop helped to spread Holiday Cheer by filling backpacks with things like hats and gloves. To give people who are less fortunate. Our hank flynn went to check it all out. I never give up even if the hardest challenge comes by. I never give up. I love it. Im truly amazed, thankful, excited for him. Reporter Christmas Giving flowed boy and girl scouts style in penndel today as companies gave their annual meal for the homeless girl scout troop 21227 give you a pay backpacks filled with search winter supplies. Like we put in, um, note books and socks and stuff. They dont have anything to do so people are going to have to give them the stuff and if they dont give it, they might not survive the winter and stu stuff. People ate as the good vibes flowed but the girl scouts were far down. We have an announcement to make. They adopted john michael and his mother kathleen who struggled with homelessness over the
Thats whats going to be continuing through the next few hours. Its going to feel like the teens for the kickoff of the eagles at the linc. So youre going to want to bundle up if you are headed outdoors for the rest of the evening and ill take look at this cold cold forecast coming up in just a bit. Iain. Monica, thanks. Good we want to wish everyone Merry Christmas hope your holiday has been wonderful. Holiday cheer was being spread in germantown today in the form avenue free hot meal. The first christmas dinner was served at face to face after a 5 million renovation. The nonprofit is an organization dedicate to do the health, stability and wellbeing the residents of germantown. They have a place where they can come and feel like theyre home. They can enjoy the time with us because only thing we try to do is just have a place for everybody when they come they feel like welcoming and serve them with more dignity thats the goal. 132yearold building on east price street started renovation
It feel a lot colder than it was. We hope you take a look outside our old city studios. We hope wherever you are got to enjoy the day with friends and family. Thanks for joining us. Im iain page. While it wasnt a completely white christmas, it certainly was a cold christmas. Remember that polar vortex . Well, its coming back. So lets begin with our fox 29 Weather Authority. Lets get over to fox 29 meteorologist nine today cryan. What everybody was talking about today wasnt just the cold, but that wind making it even worse. We had very gusty winds. You can see in Atlantic City we reached your peak gust at 47 Miles Per Hour. Philadelphia 45 Miles Per Hour. You may have noticed a lot of that debris on some of those roadways. You may have had some incidents with those Christmas Lights and outdoor decorations. A lot of this peak weather gust were measured earlier this morning. And then winds did start to slow a bit throughout the day were now at 16 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. You can se
Were in it for the long haul and fox 29 is with you the when he will way. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. The bomb cyclone is about to explode. Live look at Rehoboth Beach, delaware, bracing for serious snowfall and bigtime wind. Check out the radar because this is one huge storm moving on up the east coast. As we take a live look at ben franklin parkway, the city of philadelphia has declared a snow emergency effective at midnight tonight. What that means do not park on those snow emergency routes. If youre trash collection is on thursday, sorry, but youve got a hold it until next week. Wednesday pick up tomorrow because of mondays holiday is now on friday. And philadelphia public and arch diocesan schools are both closed tomorrow along with a host of other schools. Youll see them all running along the bottom of your screen throughout the night. Lets take live look at Atlantic City right now, because the snow it is already flying there. At 10 0 2 00 p. M. Its just the beginning the shore is
Today which means we want to make sure you are prepared for the storms ahead. Steve is tracking when the weather will start. Be ready for wet weather today. Rounds of rain. First alert is today through tonight and we will see the entire area in these conditions. So what were expecting for you periods of heavy rain, isolated thunderstorms. Dont be surprised to see street and highway flooding along with gusty winds. Right now Flash Flood Watch in effect for all of new jersey and it has been expanded into the philadelphia area for the reason of the potential of flash flooding later on this afternoon. We are quiet but i am tracking the rain across the baltimore washington area. More of that rain will continue to push in throughout the morning. That first band moving into lancaster county. Well see more rain filling in behind. Why . We have a threepart system thats moving up from the south to the north and along with that cloudy and humid weather we will have a warm day, upper 60s for later