But we have fair amount of clouds in and around the philadelphia area. The flag not blowing quite as much as it was yesterday. But just enough to make you feel pretty cold. Right now, it is 24 degrees in philadelphia. 18 in allentown. 13 in mount pocono. The temperatures are going up. We do still have wind but now the windchills are at least in double digits across much of the area. Still feels like 5 in allentown. 6 in reading. 9 in lancaster. 3 below in the poconos. And this is the way it is going to feel as we go through the afternoon, generally into the 20s. The temperature going up a little bit. The wind going down a little bit. And generally dry conditions. So the rest of the day, yeah its cold, but, of course, it is not going to be as cold as it was this morning. A few snow flurries up near the poconos now, could get down to the Lehigh Valley maybe even upper bucks county during the afternoon. Thats pretty light. Well see how much of a warmup were going to see over the weekend and when we might see some snow in parts of the area in the seven day in a few minutes. Thank you, glenn. Happening now, new information on an alleged sex scandal in the philadelphia Fire Department. The Fire Fighting union is holding a News Conference at this hour in Northern Liberty to discuss the allegations. Well take you there and listen in. Philadelphia fire fights and Paramedics Union local 222. Im joined by Eugenia Herzig she is our attorney. Good morning. The philadelphia firefighters and Paramedics Union local 22 has convened this press conference to address the Current Issues regarding alleged Sexual Misconduct in the philadelphia Fire Department. I want to make it clear from the outset that neither local 22 nor our attorneys, have been provided the Inspector Generals full report. Which is a source of deep frustration given the seriousness of the allegations. According to the sections of the report the Inspector General that we received allegations of Sexual Misconduct were made against 13 Fire Department members. Seven of our members have been accused of disciplinary violations based on the Inspector Generals report. Two battalion chiefs one captain, one lieutenant one fire service paramedic, and two firefighters. The city provided the union with only the portion of the report that related specifically to these seven individuals. It is the position of the union that we should be provided with we should be provided with the entire report as this is important for the union to be able to view the complaint as a whole, in order to address systemic issues within the Fire Department, and to ensure that all of our members involved with being treated equally and fairly. Our main question is this, when did the department become aware that there was a possible issue and how was it initially addressed . Our additional concern is regarding the training and education that our members should have received and policies that the department should have had in place. We are aware of the serious allegations made in the press over the past week. But i cant address these allegations here today as those complaints are not addressed in the portion of the report we have been provided. Additionally, several of the members interviewed by the Inspector General did not request Union Representation because it was overtly suggested by high Ranking Department officials that representation was not needed. Based on the igs report seven of the members charged, the two battalion chiefs were both charged with conduct unbecoming and failure to supervise. It is important to note the subordinate female employee at the center of the allegation did not make any allegations against either of these two individuals. She did not make any allegations against any of these two battalion chiefs. It was determined by the ig that one of these chief officers was overly concerned with her wellbeing and participated in off duty nonsexual activities with this subordinate employee. The ig concluded that his off duty relationship and hes effort to help the subordinate employee with her struggles was evidence of misconduct. The second battalion chief, as well as two other members, were charged with conduct unbecoming because of alleged consensual off duty sexual relationships with the complaint an. In these three cases, the Inspector General found that there were no substantiated charges of sexual activities within the firehouse or on any Fire Department apparatus. It is important to note that there is no current policy in the philadelphia Fire Department regarding fraternization. In fact several high Ranking Departmental officials have spouses that have served in supervisory or subordinate positions to them while working within the Fire Department. Although according to the Inspector Generals report none of the allegations of sexual relationships in the firehouse were able to be substantiated. The department has elected the department has elected to charge one of our members with having sexual relations within a firehouse. The departments position is this individual is being charged based on the allegations, even though they werent able to be substantiated. This brings to light our concern about all members being treated fairly, since this member is being charged based solely on the allegations, why then are there no charges against the other eight members implicated in the complaint . All of the officers were charged with failure to supervise. These charges are baseless in all cases except in the instance in which the department is alleging the subordinate employee made inappropriate comments and the presence of this officer and he took no corrective action. The remaining members were charged with Sexual Harassment based on inappropriate behavior while at work, but not sexual interaction with the complainant. In each of these cases, we advised our members to request administrative boards of investigation to review the facts in the specifics. We expect the board to be convened in the next couple of weeks. We also have significant concerns about the administration handling of this situation from the onset. For example, the complainant was brought into the departments headquarter and coerced into filing the complaint. She was told if she did not file a complaint, she would be required to sign a document stating nothing inappropriate had occurred. During her career in the department, she asked for legal representation and that request was denied. This individual further requested youve been watching and listening to a News Conference held by the firefighters and Paramedics Union in center city philadelphia. Their main complaint is they have not received edd a report from the Inspector General. Among their concerns some of Department Members were interviewed without the presence of a union shop steward. Well continue to monitor this News Conference. Christine maddela is present there and shell bring us more information on this story in this newscast in the next half hour or so. Meanwhile, breaking news authorities have issued a boil water advisory for part of delaware this morning. The reason a water main break in the kirkwood highway area city of newark water customers may be at risk of exposure to e. Coli bacteria from contaminated water. You can see the affected area on this map. It includes residents of south of kirkwood highway and north of oval town road and ruthard drive. A section between possum park road and polly drummen hill road is also affected. Residents are advised to boil any water and let it cool before they drink it or use bottled water. The problem should be resolved in the next two days. School administrators are meeting with parents at one local Elementary School one day after a 13yearold allegedly brought crack cocaine to class. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton is live at mitchell Elementary School in southwest philadelphia with an update. Hi monique. Reporter hi vai. First of all the principal called parents of the nearly 700 students to the school a short time ago. As you can see, all is quiet out here now, but a much different scene yesterday afternoon. Moments after we learned a 13yearold allegedly brought 16 plastic bags containing crack cocaine to school yesterday, we were here. Investigators say he placed half of them down a bathroom sink drain and kept the other half. But he gave one bag to another student, an 8yearold. Police also saying the older student then offered the 8yearold money to hold the drugs for the day. That child showed the drug to two others all four of the students were checked out at chop. The student who brought the drugs here tested positive for marijuana. This morning, we talked to parents heading to the meeting with the principal. Keep the schools safe you know. Drugs is a problem. Crime is a problem. There is problems throughout the whole city of philadelphia. There is not a quick fix. Reporter what questions do you want answered at the meeting . What happened to the child . Are they going to take any measures to make sure it doesnt happen again, things like that. Reporter both parents told us theyre not leaving the meeting, which has been going on for about two hours now, until they get their questions answered. We also learned that the dhs is investigating along with the police. The School District tells us right now the 13yearold who allegedly brought the drugs here to school has not been disciplined. That matter is still under review. Live from southwest philadelphia Monique Braxton, nbc 10 news. And state police in delaware are looking into a tractor Trailer Crash that shut down i495 in wilmington for hours early this morning. Youre looking at the wreckage of a tractor trailer that crashed on i495 in wilmington. Police say the truck driver was alert and talking when medics took him to the hospital. Investigators say the dump portion of the truck was in the upright position which caused it to clip the 12th street bridge overpass. That part of the truck detached and ended up in the south bound lanes. The tractor portion ended up striking a guardrail and overturned in the northbound lanes. The road was reopened by 6 00 this morning. Also in Delaware State Police say a louis man could face charges for driving his car into the path of a train. This is what is left of the car after the accident in georgetown last night. Investigators say the car did not stop in time at a Railroad Crossing and hit the wheels of a train car. The train did not derail and amazingly the driver was not hurt. Well we are learning new information this morning about what may have brought down a plane in taiwan earlier this week. The split second decision that investigators believe helped cause the deadly crash. And a big surprise is coming for a local organization that helps Philadelphia High Schools excel. Tracy davidson is in on the secret. I am vai. Some of the students involved in the program are here. They think were here doing a story. What they and other and people involved with this organization dont know is that in a minute theyre going to get a huge surprise. Well were going to see warmer weather this weekend. Ill let you know how warm that milder air will stick around coming up. 11 15. We have launched skyforce10 and it is hovering over breaking news, a house fire in Galloway Township in atlantic county. This is on 6th and crest view avenues. You see it smoldering there. Were working to try to find out if anybody there was hurt. We dont have that information right now. As we get information on this late breaking news information, well bring it to you. Investigators believe robbery may have been the motive for a deadly shooting in Philadelphias Kingsessing neighborhood. This happened on south paxton street. It happened around midnight. Police tell us 17 shots were fired in all, and the victim was hit several times. The wallet was found next to the body. There had been no arrests made. Investigators were looking are for the cause of a fire that hit an Apartment Building in center city. This happened along south 17th and spruce at about 1 00 this morning. Everyone did make it out safely. And firefighters put out an ambulance fire in old city philadelphia, early in the morning. This morning. Nbc 10 on the scene at 3rd and market. The fire in the engine of the ambulance broke out around 2 00 in the morning. Crews snuffed it out in minutes. No patients were inside and no one was hurt. Now, your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. We had some powerful winds yesterday bringing the latest round of arctic air. And it is a freezing friday. It started off very very cold. And now it is warming up a touch. It will warm up a lot more over the weekend. A lot of you are going to enjoy that. Rain is on the way. Looks like the threat of snow really has gone down over the last couple of days. And the wind has gone down too in a good bit of the area as you can see. 24 degrees, the winds southwest at 14 still enough to provide a windchill. Feels like it is 12. Were 7 degrees colder than we were at this time yesterday. Still in the teens, north and west, but were into the 20s across much of the rest of the area. And some of these southern places at least will get to the freezing mark during the day today. But you can see the southwest wind, thats trying to warm us up not doing a whole lot of good today, but it will tomorrow. There is the wind 10 to 15 miles an hour pottstown, only with an 8mileanhour wind. And the windchill, the way it feels in the exposed skin Single Digits in allentown, reading, lancaster, even trenton. 9 degrees but it is getting a little bit less brutal each hour. This is how cold it was this morning. Temperatures not windchills zeros in the poconos. 3 in allentown. 5 in quakertown. 6 doylestown pottstown, reading, 11 in trenton. Look at that. 14 in mount holly. 12 in wilmington. 9 in millville. 7 in toms river, new jersey. So it was a brutal start. We have clouds moving in across a good bit of the area except perhaps southern sections. And a few snow flurries coming down toward the poconos. This is very weak system you have another one back to the west, and it is going to be producing some snow flurries that could hit some of the areas near the poconos tomorrow. Here is the future cast. We go through the night and into the morning. Here is that little round of flurries tomorrow morning north and west. Thats about it. Then saturday night, were dry. Sunday started off dry, there is the afternoon, it is still dry. And then sunday night, maybe some rain. It is too warm for snow. As we go into monday morning, maybe a little bit of a wintry mix up at some of the northern areas. But that is quite a change from what we have seen a couple of days ago. Everything is tracking to the north. And although were going to warm up over the weekend, that arctic air is going to be coming back down. And it is going to be a very cold valentines weekend. Youve been warned. It is going to be almost as cold or maybe even just as cold as it is now. Mix of sun and clouds today, very cold. High temperatures up around 30. The average high is 42 and well be there tomorrow. And then it gets even warmer on sunday. Looks like it will stay dry during the weekend until perhaps sunday night. And then it would be likely rain. Some rain on monday with wintry mix to the north. And then we wait until later in the week until we get another arctic blast, but nothing as warm as what were seeing this weekend. Well a local group that helps Philadelphia High School students has no idea why we are live in their offices, but nbc 10s Tracy Davidson knows. And shes about to spring it on them. Hey, tracy. Were at Philadelphia Academy. Their in the middle of a meeting now. But were going to barge in and give them a huge surprise, a huge award with a huge check. Ring ring . Progresso its ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. Its our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. Apology accepted. Im watching you soup people. Make it progresso or make it yourself you say avocado old el paso says. Zesty chicken and avocado tacos in our stand n stuff tortillas. record scratch you say stand n stuff tortillas old el paso says. Start somewhere fresh the local Organization Philadelphia academy uses a unique way of preparing philadelphia public School Students for college and careers. The nonprofit links students with real world job training training that gives kids a look at whats available to them beyond the classroom. And Philadelphia Academy also has an impressive record of helping students graduate on time. Students who participate are more likely to land a good job with higher pay than students who arent in the program. Nbc 10s Tracy Davidson is live in th