Time for the morning rush hour. Over center city its a cold morning, were tracking a wintry mix heading toward the area. Hard to believe its as clear as it looks right now. Yeah, this winter is coming in with a bang. Reporter after we turn the year here, the calendar page, the winter is coming in full blast. Theres good news and bad news. This moving in is the beginning of a pattern change for milder weather. The bad news its going to hang tough a little bit longer, it will start out as ice and freezing rain. It will eventually go over to rain. There could slick spots tomorrow morning. In the meantime theres the view Philadelphia International airport, temperatures have plummeted, 17 in philadelphia. 12 in wilmington. 14 in reading. 6 in millville. 16 in allentown. As we look at the temperatures, the windchills are the same. Things are slowly starting to improve. High, thin clouds are starting to move in west to east, these will increase throughout the day. The morning looks bright and
Well tackle that in morning sports. If you are headed out today to do some shopping, it is cold out there. Here is a live look at the center city skyline where it will be dry this weekend, but it wont stay that way for long. Good morning. Welcome back to nbc 10 news today. Im rosemary connors. Its just after 6 00 on this saturday. Meteorologist Michelle Grossman is tracking the weekend weather for us. And michelle, do i understand this right, that winter officially starts this weekend . I know, it felt like it started weeks ago. Good morning, rosemary. It starts tomorrow at 6 03 p. M. Officially. Its going to feel like winter today, tomorrow and then spring towards the beginning of next week. Heres a live look outside. We are looking at the pocono mountains. A great weekend to get out and ski. Were looking at cold temperatures but not bitterly cold. Temperatures right around 39 degrees later on this afternoon. But it is cold right now. Lots of blue on the map indicating some cold air i
50 degrees by lunchtime. 3 00 p. M. , a very comfortable temperature of 55 degrees. When i come back in just a few minutes well be talking about warmer temperatures and the possibility of snow in parts of the area. Guys. Chris, thank you. The big story on action news is the mass exodus home after a long thanksgiving weekend. Action cam is live at Philadelphia International airport. More and more people have been arriving at the airport ready to catch their flight home. Aaa said 44. 5 Million People are traveling this holiday weekend. Pack your patience. Many people will return home by train. 30th street station will be packed today. 90 of travelers made their thanksgiving trp by drive trip by driving to their destinations. People enjoyed the lowest prices at the pump in five years. The National Average is 2. 78. Thats down 24 cents in the last month and down 49 cents from the last year. Here in philadelphia, were now paying on average 2. 94 for a gallon of gas in south jersey, its 2. 6
Before 8 0, 8200 block of stenton avenue and that while the 33yearold man was trying to hold up the pharmacy he ran into a Security Guard that pulled his gun and opened fire inside the store. A police say they were able to find the knife here at the scene. We spun the knife open the ground just outside the store here along with the book bag making it appear the wouldbe robber was trying to leave the store. We know at this hour that he was taken to einstein in Critical Condition again and crime scene unit just arrives here at the scene. Investigators are still trying to piece together exactly what happened inside the store. We are live in west oak lane. Eva pilgrim, for action news at 10 on phl17. All right. Eva. Thank you. And tonight a community is mourning two children killed in tabernacle, Burlington County and it appears the violence happened at the hands of their very own mother this morning. Police discovered the gruesome scene inside a home on the unit block of holly park drive.
The numbers crashed into the mid 20s. Lets show you the area temperatures. Well start in allentown, 29 degrees. Reading, a pair of 3s. Lancaster, 34. Wilmington, 38, trenton, 30 degrees. Theres not much of a breeze, so the willful is the same as the numbers you saw there. Theres a little bit of good news. We have clouds rolling in overnight. Were expecting a mainly cloudy day and eventually the clouds will give way to periods of rain for monday. Some of that will be heavy at times. Heres the day planner. 46 degrees by lunchtime, mostly cloudy. 3 00 p. M. , 48 degrees, 6 00 p. M. , 45 degrees, again, cloudy skies rain developing during the late evening hours, forecasting a high of 48. A Winter Weather advisory, this will go into effect overnight tonight for the poconos where they are expecting a period of snow which actually could accumulate a half inch to an inch. It should quickly change over to sleet and rain and all rain by 4 00. Everybody else else is looking at a rain event with t