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To support locally owned and operated businesses. Nbc10s drew smith is live where the celebration is just getting started. Good crowd out there. Reporter its a party. They lit up the tree over here and singing some Christmas Carols in front of the fire trucks and still shoppers. And embraced the Small Business saturday and everybody around here said its paying off for everyone. Happy holidays. Reporter mayor jim kenny started this Small Business saturday at young fashions in West Philadelphia an efficient shopper, he liked the first suit he tried on. Watch him in the suit. Reporter it was one of the stops on the 52nd street corridor. These are the backbone of the economy. Reporter theyre here for half a century. They toil day in and day out and hold this Community Together with their goods and services. Reporter these are locally owned shops that employ people who live here. This money circulates back into the neighborhood. Reporter balloon lined main street, owners handed out free fre
Thought it would be. We know the winds of change will be changing things up. Right to your first alert neighborhood forecast, krystal klei to fill us in with more. Thats a perfect example. The cold air has not yet settled in from the cold front. Temperatures dont feel that brutal. Were going to stay close to the numbers you see right now. Were at 44 in philadelphia. 46 in wilmington. 40 in millville and 44 atlantic city. So all of us right now except for the poconos are in the 40s. This is a Welcome Change from the 20s and 30s of yesterday. In the afternoon we wont be as warm as yesterday, upper 50s. Today upper 40s, around 50 at best. Nothing to track except scattered clouds overhead and those will be thinning out today. Take a look at the wide picture. Some of the lingering activity. None of that will impact us. Instead we will see the west just a mix of clouds and sun. A pretty nice day but a cool one. Heres the temperature trend. Yesterday you might remember we started at 30. We ha
Same forecast throughout the rest of the day with little change in temperatures. Were in the 40s. It was mild overnight. The cold front had to get through overnight so hasnt settled in yet. Yesterday we got up to the upper 50s. This is no surprise. 46 in philly. 45 in mt. Holly and 43 in wilmington. Notice the winds are no longer coming from the southwest. Theyre now coming from the northwest. Whats to the north of us but colder air. Thats whats spilling in today. Winds are about 10 to 15 miles an hour. Pretty consistent across the board. They will crank up through the afternoon and gusts will get stronger that will make it feel cooler than it is. Its a blank picture, a few scattered clouds in place. Those will continue through your Morning Hours. Were looking at a mostly sunny day, just chilly and breezy conditions. Now if you have family thats traveling, driving home today, the only trouble spot will be heading directly north so that lake effect snow is spilling over parts of new yor
Hour. Its a light to moderate breeze. It does get cooler later on. 44 degrees by 7 00. If you are dressing the kids and sending them out to wait for the bus, 40 degrees in and around philadelphia and 34 coat is not a bad idea. We are going to get milder over the next couple of days ill have some nicer numbers coming in the 7day. Were starting to see a backup here with this accident. Its been out here a while on i95. This is northbound traffic at 320 here in chester and look at more crews, i cant tell if they are crews pulling up or people getting stuck. The vehicle blocking the right lane. We had emergency workers here earlier, they left an accident involving a box truck. Another new accident here this one is Chester County on eaglview boulevard. Crews on the scene with that one. Outside live in new jersey if youre here on 42, youre heading up towards the walt whitman bridge youre looking good this morning. You can see its clear and traffic is moving pretty well. With mass transit i wa