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We were in the 30s yesterday afternoon. The temperatures plummeted overnight and were in the teens and the winds i blowing to make it feel colder. At the shore, 25 degrees in beach avenue with the wind it feels like its in the Single Digits and the wind at shore is 13 miles an hour. Atlantic city seeing a 13mileanhour wind wind in wilmington, 14 miles an hour and the pocono mountains seeing the steady wind too. Thats brought the colder air in and brought the temperatures in the teens for pottstown, northeast philadelphia trenton, 17 degrees right now. Factor in the wind feels like 7 in wilmington 8 in northeast if philly and trenton, and 12 below zero in the pocono mountains. Bundle up if youre heading out. Take your sunglasses. Brilliant sunshine during the day today. Sun up at 7 13 an the temperature at 9 00 23 degrees, by lunch time 30 and the winds easing off this afternoon. It will go warmer than that during the afternoon hours. Well go through it neighborhood by neighborhood to show you which areas will be stuck in the 20s later today. Right now first alert traffic reporter jillian mele is standing by with an update. Good morning. Good morning to you. Lets start things off in new jersey where things are quiet. No accidents on the highways. Live look at route 73 at 295. 73 is clear. 38 looks good. Same situation on the new jersey turnpike. Pennsylvania turnpike also clear. The lines of green you can see out there drive times, very average, about 22 minutes both directions between bensalem and valley forge. No issues on the blue route. Our issues this morning is in Montgomery County in whitemarsh township. Bethlehem pike blocked between pennsylvania avenue and camp hill road because of Fire Department activity there. Take 309 or joshua road. Speaking of that fire new from overnight, that fire caused rescues and residents jumping to safety. It was a all of that at the scene of the Apartment Fire in Montgomery County. Nbc 10s katy zachry is live on the scene in whitemarsh township. Fighting a fire is never easy under conditions like this. It is hard out there. You spoke with some of the firefighters. They tell me that was one of the biggest challenges. When they first arrived they tell me from the building you see right here where the fire broke out, they saw flames they saw smoke pouring from the second floor. You also had people on the balconies trying to jump to escape the fire. People on the first and second floor balconies jumped to the safety of Police Officers below while those who were on the balconies on the higher floors were aided down by firefighters and ladder trucks. Heres video of what the Apartment Building looked like as firefighters were putting out the flames. Fire broke out in a second floor apartment in the middle of the night. There were families many with small children running to safety as we said, some had to jump from their balconies to the arms of Police Officers below. Everyone inside the building where the fire broke out was evacuated. Fortunately firefighters were able to get them out of the cold. Heres how they did it. We were able to call a bus company at home woke him up sent two School Busses over here and able to utilize the school buss to keep the firemen warm and residents out of the weather and keep them warm as well. We saw those busses. Good thing they were out here in the frigid temperatures. Now several people in the apartment that caught on fire they were taken to the hospital. Im told theyre suffering from minor injuries. No firefighters were injured despite the challenge as we said of the extremely cold temperatures. And this building that youre looking at behind me it is empty, it is dark right now, even though a fire broke out in just one apartment, there is extensive damage throughout structural damage. Firefighters tell me. So they have completely evacuated this building. You have dozens of people out of a home right now. The red cross is on scene assisting for many of those people. Others are with the safety of relatives and friends tonight. Live in whitemarshp township katy zachry, nbc 10 news. Fire damaged two homes in winslow township Camden County around midnight in a garage and spread to the attached house. A neighbors house had some heat damage. Everyone did make it out safely. Investigators are still looking for the cause of this one. And investigators will be back at a center city store this morning to try to figure out exactly what caused a part of a building to come crashing into a store hurting three people inside. Officials say bricks fell off the building near 16th and walnut and came crashing through the roof of lululemon next door. The ceiling collapsed on Three Friends who were shopping. The women were released from the hospital and city officials tell us the owner of the building hired an engineer and contractor to investigate what caused the brick to fall. The city of philadelphia is investigating. Look at this. This is what we missed out on. People in new england are trying to dig out from the blizzard that dumped more than 20 inches of snow across several states. Theyre dealing with thousands of power outages. They now have temperatures in the low teens with a windchill that makes it feel like near zero. Something were almost experiencing here. And travel is still not completely back to normal at philadelphia international. So far about 75 flights in and out of the airport have been canceled for today. However, the majority of flights are running on time today. Youre flying out check with your airline ahead of time and show up early. We dodged the snow bullet that hit new england but these temperatures are going to be with us for a while. It is very cold. In fact, well rebound this afternoon but the next couple morning and into this weekend the coldest of the season. Right now 19 degrees here at nbc 10 at 5 36. Take you neighborhood by neighborhood when we come back. Also following this. Policing the streets and skies. The new responsibility the faa is asking local Police Departments to take on as drones become more common in this area. And feed to show your drivers license . Well, there could soon be an app for that. The local state considering making your i. D. Digital. Good morning, usher hey did you know bees communicate through dance . Me too. Were practically twins getting set to head out the door bundle up the wind is blowing an it is cold outside. 20 at philadelphia international, but it feels like 9 degrees with the wind and much of the area is colder than that 20. We have clear skies. Skies have cleared out overnight. Well see lots of sunshine today. So the temperatures will be climbing but even this afternoon, look at the cold for mount pocono. 24 degrees. Near 30 degrees in allentown. Redding up to 30. Low 30s for doylestown northeast philadelphia trenton, with brilliant sunshine at the shore. Atlantic city will be up to 32 degrees. Vineland and dover at 34. And after the wind dies down some this afternoon, thats when the temperatures will pop just above freezing for wilmington philadelphia glassboro and vor hes. There is cold air as we head towards the weekend. The numbers come down more. The sevenday forecast when im back in 10. 20 minutes until 6 00 yesterday a bit of a different morning. A lot of people staying at home because of the threat of the snow. This morning things should be back to normal and busy. But at this hour we havent seen major traffic jams yet. Hopefully it stays that way. Check in with jillian mele. We are seeing increased volume but no slow downs yet. This is 422 the eastbound side near route 29. We are getting more drivers but no significant issues to report on the roads. Drive times in Chester County looking average, route 100 is quiet. Route 30 eastbound from 340 to route 202 will take you four minutes. Back to you. The Philadelphia Parking Authority is promising some retaliation if a new Ride Sharing Service starts operating in philadelphia. And we may not have a home team in the super bowl but we do have homegrown players on both teams. Well introduce you to those athletes you could be rooting for them on sunday. This winter, experience something new in new york state. From the exciting slopes of catamount. To the soothing spa at the Gideon Putnam resort to hours of fun exploring the strong, the Nations Museum of play. You can find something for everyone with the i love ny app. So plan your winter getaway at iloveny. Com winter or with the i love ny app. And see whats next. It is 5 43 on a wednesday. This may feel like a monday again if you were off yesterday because of the snow and we are off to a cold start as we take a live look at the Comcast Center in Center City Philadelphia. The temperature there says 19 degrees but it feels more like 7 outside right now. Meteorologist bill henley is back in a moment with a look at how warm things will get today. New information this morning, the mother of a japanese hostage held by terrorist group isis is begging japans leader to save her son. That appeal came after isis called issued what it called a final death threat. The ult may tum yesterday said the group would kill kenji goto and a jordanian pilot being held unless the country of jordan frees a female iraqi prisoner. Japans Prime Minister expressed outage and demanding the release of both prisoners. Happening today, a senate panel will take up the confirmation of a new attorney general for the united states. The Senate Judiciary committee will hold its first hearing today on the nomination of loretta lynch. President obama named lynch to replace outgoing attorney general eric holder. Lynch currently serves as the u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of new york. The latest figures Show National unemployment went down more than a full percentage point during 2014 to 5. 6 . Last month the jobless rate dropped here in the tristate region. Pa a pas Unemployment Rate was 4. 8 . 6. 2 in new jersey. And 5. 4 in delaware. Of all 50 states delaware fell the farther down from more than half a point from 6 in november. 5 45. Time to turn our attention to super bowl xlix. Homeland security secretary checking to see if plans are in place to keep everyone safe. Going to stop by venues including the university of phoenix stadium where the game will be played. Later today well find out how the nfl plans to keep players, workers and all of those fans safe. There is so much going on this week leading up to the big sunday showdown between the new England Patriots and seattle seahawks. The teams have we if we check our countdown clock 4 days 12 hours and 40 minutes until they face off on the field sunday fight and we get to see awesome commercials and, of course, you can watch it right here on nbc 10. Our team has been in place since sunday. Nbc 10s keith jones part of that. Hes live from phoenix this morning. Keith, even though we dont have the eagles in the super bowls, there are some local players on both super bowl teams, right . And they are proud of their roots too. Not sure if you can hear it actually. The drills, the beeping noises. Theyre cutting the silence of the morning here in downtown phoenix. Were two hours behind you. Theyre out here making lastminute preparations to usher in fans. Its a 12 block area with a Million People expected to pass through here this afternoon through sunday. Youre going to like hearing this. We talked to five players yesterday at media day with ties to our area. As a matter of fact, three are members of the patriots secondary. Were talking devin mccourty, logan ryan and da ron harmon. All went to rutgers. On the seahawks corner marcus burly university of delaware blue hen, hes proud of his experience so far. Also a scarlet knight. Well go back to them pass tight end tim wright lines up Ron Gronkowski he tallied six touchdowns in the regular season. We talked to him. Its definitely a Great Fraternity we have. Great guys great players on the field and, you know, we put a lot into it. We take a lot of pride in what we do. We just want to represent where we come from be represent our alma mater well. Its great. Being a blue hen, ill be a blue hen forever. Its great representing and putting delaware on the map like this. All five say its a dream come true. They all hope to make their alma maters prouder come sunday when the super bowl airs on nbc. Coming up, were going to take you behind the scenes speaking of nbc, the super bowl compound that we have here as well as the platform were standing on overlooking super bowl central, nbc stations from all over the country were working in tandem to bring you local stories that matter from super bowl xlix in arizona. Keith jones, nbc 10 newsp. All right. You can count on nbc 10 for all of the super bowl action and, of course, the only place to watch it is right here on nbc 10. Pregame starts at noon and kickoff at 6 30. Lets shift gears to breaking news. We just got this in. To the newsroom. Breaking news in the frankfurt section of philadelphia. Firefighters are calling hazmat teams tout a business there because of a possible ammonia leak. Heres what we know. Firefighters arrived on the scene a short time ago. They believe they have stopped that leak but theyre calling hazmat crews just as a precaution. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton is at the scene and will have a live report coming up in minutes. Were also following breaking news overseas. Israel has fired at least 25 artillery shells into lebanon. This just happened within the past few minutes. This morning the Israeli Military said someone fired an antitank missile from lebanon at one of israels military vehicles. No word yet on any injuries. Were still checking in on that and we will continue to follow the story and bring you more information as soon as we get it. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Its 11 minutes before 6 00 and it is cold. If youre heading out the door bundle up. Clear skies. This is a view from center city. That sunshine is going to be bright today but were getting a very cold start. The wind is blowing, 20 degrees feels like 9 degrees in philadelphia. And much of the area feels colder including the mountains. You see the wind blowing that manmade snow. This is the sfru camelback this morning where the temperatures feel like 12 degrees below zero right now. Even without the wind it is plenty cold. 15 in pottstown and doylestown wrights town 16 Logan Township 19 along with mullica hill and harrison at 19 degrees. In the teens for turnersville and washington township. Very cold morning. But, the wind will be easing as we go into the afternoon. At 8 00 this morning, though, its a steady wind at 14 miles an hour. Even stronger at the shore, 25 shoremileanhour winds. They will ease but winds die down later today and thats going to allow with bright sunshine the temperatures to finally come up into the 20s. We are going to be back into the cold first thing tomorrow morning. By early afternoon, well see low 30s and heres comes the cold once again tonight. So stand by for a little bit of a temperature roller coaster. From a frigid start to not bad afternoon with lots of sunshine and less wind during the afternoon hours. And the sevenday forecast back in the teens tomorrow morning. Well start with sunshine tomorrow. But clouds come in a light dusting of snow coming through thursday evening, only to see those clouds disappear on friday and then the cold returns heading into the weekend. 8 degrees saturday morning. Just 24 in the afternoon. Clouds return on sunday and watching the super bowl we could see snow and rain moving into the area. Wintry mix into monday and then the cold is back tuesday. 5 51 a. M. You will need the heaters in your cars this morning before you head out. There is a little bit at this time of morning some increased volume on the roads. See if things are picking up with jillian mele. Good morning. The highways in and out of Center City Philadelphia are still quiet. 76 is clear of any incidents, same situation on 95 and the vine street expressway. That is a little bit of good news for drivers throughout. We are seeing more people on the roads, but again, no significant delays. In whitemarsh we have the Fire Department activity bethlehem pike. You can take 309 or joshua road if you need to get around it. For drivers in the Lehigh Valley its an average start. The northeast extension is clear of any accidents. Christine . Delaware wants to become the first state in the nation to offer a virtual drivers license. The digital license would be part of a secure smart phone app. The program would not be introduced until after the app is rolled out next year. Now physical copies of licenses would still be issued but drivers would have the option to use the digital copy for proof of i. D. Officials are trying to put the brakes on a Ride Sharing Services plan to start operating in philadelphia. The Service Called lyft says it will begin offering rides in philadelphia this friday. The problem, the Philadelphia Parking Authority regulates taxi and limo service and they say lyft is illegal. Ppa owe if ficial said about lyft, quote, there is no guarantee that lyft cars are clean, safe, inspected or insured. Drivers have no training and not gone through extensive driving and criminal background checks. The ppa will fine lyft drivers 1,000 and those drivers may spend time in jail. Philadelphia also battling uber as well. 45 Cab Companies have filed a federal lawsuit claiming the Car Service Uber x offers unfair competition to Single Digits<\/a> and the wind at shore is 13 miles an hour. Atlantic city seeing a 13mileanhour wind wind in wilmington, 14 miles an hour and the pocono mountains seeing the steady wind too. Thats brought the colder air in and brought the temperatures in the teens for pottstown, northeast philadelphia trenton, 17 degrees right now. Factor in the wind feels like 7 in wilmington 8 in northeast if philly and trenton, and 12 below zero in the pocono mountains. Bundle up if youre heading out. Take your sunglasses. Brilliant sunshine during the day today. Sun up at 7 13 an the temperature at 9 00 23 degrees, by lunch time 30 and the winds easing off this afternoon. It will go warmer than that during the afternoon hours. Well go through it neighborhood by neighborhood to show you which areas will be stuck in the 20s later today. Right now first alert traffic reporter jillian mele is standing by with an update. Good morning. Good morning to you. Lets start things off in new jersey where things are quiet. No accidents on the highways. Live look at route 73 at 295. 73 is clear. 38 looks good. Same situation on the new jersey turnpike. Pennsylvania turnpike also clear. The lines of green you can see out there drive times, very average, about 22 minutes both directions between bensalem and valley forge. No issues on the blue route. Our issues this morning is in Montgomery County<\/a> in whitemarsh township. Bethlehem pike blocked between pennsylvania avenue and camp hill road because of Fire Department<\/a> activity there. Take 309 or joshua road. Speaking of that fire new from overnight, that fire caused rescues and residents jumping to safety. It was a all of that at the scene of the Apartment Fire<\/a> in Montgomery County<\/a>. Nbc 10s katy zachry is live on the scene in whitemarsh township. Fighting a fire is never easy under conditions like this. It is hard out there. You spoke with some of the firefighters. They tell me that was one of the biggest challenges. When they first arrived they tell me from the building you see right here where the fire broke out, they saw flames they saw smoke pouring from the second floor. You also had people on the balconies trying to jump to escape the fire. People on the first and second floor balconies jumped to the safety of Police Officers<\/a> below while those who were on the balconies on the higher floors were aided down by firefighters and ladder trucks. Heres video of what the Apartment Building<\/a> looked like as firefighters were putting out the flames. Fire broke out in a second floor apartment in the middle of the night. There were families many with small children running to safety as we said, some had to jump from their balconies to the arms of Police Officers<\/a> below. Everyone inside the building where the fire broke out was evacuated. Fortunately firefighters were able to get them out of the cold. Heres how they did it. We were able to call a bus company at home woke him up sent two School Busses<\/a> over here and able to utilize the school buss to keep the firemen warm and residents out of the weather and keep them warm as well. We saw those busses. Good thing they were out here in the frigid temperatures. Now several people in the apartment that caught on fire they were taken to the hospital. Im told theyre suffering from minor injuries. No firefighters were injured despite the challenge as we said of the extremely cold temperatures. And this building that youre looking at behind me it is empty, it is dark right now, even though a fire broke out in just one apartment, there is extensive damage throughout structural damage. Firefighters tell me. So they have completely evacuated this building. You have dozens of people out of a home right now. The red cross is on scene assisting for many of those people. Others are with the safety of relatives and friends tonight. Live in whitemarshp township katy zachry, nbc 10 news. Fire damaged two homes in winslow township Camden County<\/a> around midnight in a garage and spread to the attached house. A neighbors house had some heat damage. Everyone did make it out safely. Investigators are still looking for the cause of this one. And investigators will be back at a center city store this morning to try to figure out exactly what caused a part of a building to come crashing into a store hurting three people inside. Officials say bricks fell off the building near 16th and walnut and came crashing through the roof of lululemon next door. The ceiling collapsed on Three Friends<\/a> who were shopping. The women were released from the hospital and city officials tell us the owner of the building hired an engineer and contractor to investigate what caused the brick to fall. The city of philadelphia is investigating. Look at this. This is what we missed out on. People in new england are trying to dig out from the blizzard that dumped more than 20 inches of snow across several states. Theyre dealing with thousands of power outages. They now have temperatures in the low teens with a windchill that makes it feel like near zero. Something were almost experiencing here. And travel is still not completely back to normal at philadelphia international. So far about 75 flights in and out of the airport have been canceled for today. However, the majority of flights are running on time today. Youre flying out check with your airline ahead of time and show up early. We dodged the snow bullet that hit new england but these temperatures are going to be with us for a while. It is very cold. In fact, well rebound this afternoon but the next couple morning and into this weekend the coldest of the season. Right now 19 degrees here at nbc 10 at 5 36. Take you neighborhood by neighborhood when we come back. Also following this. Policing the streets and skies. The new responsibility the faa is asking local Police Departments<\/a> to take on as drones become more common in this area. And feed to show your drivers license . Well, there could soon be an app for that. The local state considering making your i. D. Digital. Good morning, usher hey did you know bees communicate through dance . Me too. Were practically twins getting set to head out the door bundle up the wind is blowing an it is cold outside. 20 at philadelphia international, but it feels like 9 degrees with the wind and much of the area is colder than that 20. We have clear skies. Skies have cleared out overnight. Well see lots of sunshine today. So the temperatures will be climbing but even this afternoon, look at the cold for mount pocono. 24 degrees. Near 30 degrees in allentown. Redding up to 30. Low 30s for doylestown northeast philadelphia trenton, with brilliant sunshine at the shore. Atlantic city will be up to 32 degrees. Vineland and dover at 34. And after the wind dies down some this afternoon, thats when the temperatures will pop just above freezing for wilmington philadelphia glassboro and vor hes. There is cold air as we head towards the weekend. The numbers come down more. The sevenday forecast when im back in 10. 20 minutes until 6 00 yesterday a bit of a different morning. A lot of people staying at home because of the threat of the snow. This morning things should be back to normal and busy. But at this hour we havent seen major traffic jams yet. Hopefully it stays that way. Check in with jillian mele. We are seeing increased volume but no slow downs yet. This is 422 the eastbound side near route 29. We are getting more drivers but no significant issues to report on the roads. Drive times in Chester County<\/a> looking average, route 100 is quiet. Route 30 eastbound from 340 to route 202 will take you four minutes. Back to you. The Philadelphia Parking Authority<\/a> is promising some retaliation if a new Ride Sharing Service<\/a> starts operating in philadelphia. And we may not have a home team in the super bowl but we do have homegrown players on both teams. Well introduce you to those athletes you could be rooting for them on sunday. This winter, experience something new in new york state. From the exciting slopes of catamount. To the soothing spa at the Gideon Putnam<\/a> resort to hours of fun exploring the strong, the Nations Museum<\/a> of play. You can find something for everyone with the i love ny app. So plan your winter getaway at iloveny. Com winter or with the i love ny app. And see whats next. It is 5 43 on a wednesday. This may feel like a monday again if you were off yesterday because of the snow and we are off to a cold start as we take a live look at the Comcast Center<\/a> in Center City Philadelphia<\/a>. The temperature there says 19 degrees but it feels more like 7 outside right now. Meteorologist bill henley is back in a moment with a look at how warm things will get today. New information this morning, the mother of a japanese hostage held by terrorist group isis is begging japans leader to save her son. That appeal came after isis called issued what it called a final death threat. The ult may tum yesterday said the group would kill kenji goto and a jordanian pilot being held unless the country of jordan frees a female iraqi prisoner. Japans Prime Minister<\/a> expressed outage and demanding the release of both prisoners. Happening today, a senate panel will take up the confirmation of a new attorney general for the united states. The Senate Judiciary<\/a> committee will hold its first hearing today on the nomination of loretta lynch. President obama named lynch to replace outgoing attorney general eric holder. Lynch currently serves as the u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District<\/a> of new york. The latest figures Show National<\/a> unemployment went down more than a full percentage point during 2014 to 5. 6 . Last month the jobless rate dropped here in the tristate region. Pa a pas Unemployment Rate<\/a> was 4. 8 . 6. 2 in new jersey. And 5. 4 in delaware. Of all 50 states delaware fell the farther down from more than half a point from 6 in november. 5 45. Time to turn our attention to super bowl xlix. Homeland security secretary checking to see if plans are in place to keep everyone safe. Going to stop by venues including the university of phoenix stadium where the game will be played. Later today well find out how the nfl plans to keep players, workers and all of those fans safe. There is so much going on this week leading up to the big sunday showdown between the new England Patriots<\/a> and seattle seahawks. The teams have we if we check our countdown clock 4 days 12 hours and 40 minutes until they face off on the field sunday fight and we get to see awesome commercials and, of course, you can watch it right here on nbc 10. Our team has been in place since sunday. Nbc 10s keith jones part of that. Hes live from phoenix this morning. Keith, even though we dont have the eagles in the super bowls, there are some local players on both super bowl teams, right . And they are proud of their roots too. Not sure if you can hear it actually. The drills, the beeping noises. Theyre cutting the silence of the morning here in downtown phoenix. Were two hours behind you. Theyre out here making lastminute preparations to usher in fans. Its a 12 block area with a Million People<\/a> expected to pass through here this afternoon through sunday. Youre going to like hearing this. We talked to five players yesterday at media day with ties to our area. As a matter of fact, three are members of the patriots secondary. Were talking devin mccourty, logan ryan and da ron harmon. All went to rutgers. On the seahawks corner marcus burly university of delaware blue hen, hes proud of his experience so far. Also a scarlet knight. Well go back to them pass tight end tim wright lines up Ron Gronkowski<\/a> he tallied six touchdowns in the regular season. We talked to him. Its definitely a Great Fraternity<\/a> we have. Great guys great players on the field and, you know, we put a lot into it. We take a lot of pride in what we do. We just want to represent where we come from be represent our alma mater well. Its great. Being a blue hen, ill be a blue hen forever. Its great representing and putting delaware on the map like this. All five say its a dream come true. They all hope to make their alma maters prouder come sunday when the super bowl airs on nbc. Coming up, were going to take you behind the scenes speaking of nbc, the super bowl compound that we have here as well as the platform were standing on overlooking super bowl central, nbc stations from all over the country were working in tandem to bring you local stories that matter from super bowl xlix in arizona. Keith jones, nbc 10 newsp. All right. You can count on nbc 10 for all of the super bowl action and, of course, the only place to watch it is right here on nbc 10. Pregame starts at noon and kickoff at 6 30. Lets shift gears to breaking news. We just got this in. To the newsroom. Breaking news in the frankfurt section of philadelphia. Firefighters are calling hazmat teams tout a business there because of a possible ammonia leak. Heres what we know. Firefighters arrived on the scene a short time ago. They believe they have stopped that leak but theyre calling hazmat crews just as a precaution. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton<\/a> is at the scene and will have a live report coming up in minutes. Were also following breaking news overseas. Israel has fired at least 25 artillery shells into lebanon. This just happened within the past few minutes. This morning the Israeli Military<\/a> said someone fired an antitank missile from lebanon at one of israels military vehicles. No word yet on any injuries. Were still checking in on that and we will continue to follow the story and bring you more information as soon as we get it. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Its 11 minutes before 6 00 and it is cold. If youre heading out the door bundle up. Clear skies. This is a view from center city. That sunshine is going to be bright today but were getting a very cold start. The wind is blowing, 20 degrees feels like 9 degrees in philadelphia. And much of the area feels colder including the mountains. You see the wind blowing that manmade snow. This is the sfru camelback this morning where the temperatures feel like 12 degrees below zero right now. Even without the wind it is plenty cold. 15 in pottstown and doylestown wrights town 16 Logan Township<\/a> 19 along with mullica hill and harrison at 19 degrees. In the teens for turnersville and washington township. Very cold morning. But, the wind will be easing as we go into the afternoon. At 8 00 this morning, though, its a steady wind at 14 miles an hour. Even stronger at the shore, 25 shoremileanhour winds. They will ease but winds die down later today and thats going to allow with bright sunshine the temperatures to finally come up into the 20s. We are going to be back into the cold first thing tomorrow morning. By early afternoon, well see low 30s and heres comes the cold once again tonight. So stand by for a little bit of a temperature roller coaster. From a frigid start to not bad afternoon with lots of sunshine and less wind during the afternoon hours. And the sevenday forecast back in the teens tomorrow morning. Well start with sunshine tomorrow. But clouds come in a light dusting of snow coming through thursday evening, only to see those clouds disappear on friday and then the cold returns heading into the weekend. 8 degrees saturday morning. Just 24 in the afternoon. Clouds return on sunday and watching the super bowl we could see snow and rain moving into the area. Wintry mix into monday and then the cold is back tuesday. 5 51 a. M. You will need the heaters in your cars this morning before you head out. There is a little bit at this time of morning some increased volume on the roads. See if things are picking up with jillian mele. Good morning. The highways in and out of Center City Philadelphia<\/a> are still quiet. 76 is clear of any incidents, same situation on 95 and the vine street expressway. That is a little bit of good news for drivers throughout. We are seeing more people on the roads, but again, no significant delays. In whitemarsh we have the Fire Department<\/a> activity bethlehem pike. You can take 309 or joshua road if you need to get around it. For drivers in the Lehigh Valley<\/a> its an average start. The northeast extension is clear of any accidents. Christine . Delaware wants to become the first state in the nation to offer a virtual drivers license. The digital license would be part of a secure smart phone app. The program would not be introduced until after the app is rolled out next year. Now physical copies of licenses would still be issued but drivers would have the option to use the digital copy for proof of i. D. Officials are trying to put the brakes on a Ride Sharing Service<\/a>s plan to start operating in philadelphia. The Service Called<\/a> lyft says it will begin offering rides in philadelphia this friday. The problem, the Philadelphia Parking Authority<\/a> regulates taxi and limo service and they say lyft is illegal. Ppa owe if ficial said about lyft, quote, there is no guarantee that lyft cars are clean, safe, inspected or insured. Drivers have no training and not gone through extensive driving and criminal background checks. The ppa will fine lyft drivers 1,000 and those drivers may spend time in jail. Philadelphia also battling uber as well. 45 Cab Companies<\/a> have filed a federal lawsuit claiming the Car Service Uber<\/a> x offers unfair competition to Philadelphia Parking Authority<\/a> also banned uber x because again, they said their drivers use personal cars and may not be properly regulated. The man suspected of crashing a drone on the white house lone monday is cooperating with the secret Service Investigation<\/a> into the incident. Investigators say he works for as u. S. Intelligence agency. He reportdly said he was drinking and lost track of the drone while testing it in bad weather. The secret service says it believes the man did not intend to cause any harm. That brings us to the digital exclusive. Faa is asking local Police Departments<\/a> to not only patrol our streets, but the skies above their towns. The agency wants officers to be on the lookout for drones flying unsafely over cities even though they cant cite the pilot. The faa says its meant to keep everyone safe but what do local drone enthusiasts have to say . Tap on the nbc app to find out. Plus how many it philadelphians may soon have its own drone legislationp. Its an exclusive story now on the nbc 10 app. Now hiring the Company Moving<\/a> into part of this area and bringing hundreds of jobs with it. Plus, growing at a rapid rate. One lawmaker says Charter Schools<\/a> are sucking resources away from regular schools and it has to stop. 5 57. You could one day have coffee or lunch at this building at Valley Forge National<\/a> park. The Murray Stevens<\/a> house has been a landmark since 1816. The National Park<\/a> service wants to lease it for commercial use. One Group Interested<\/a> in turning it into a cafe. Proposals must be submitted to the park service by february 13th. To delaware we go a new bill could halt Charter School<\/a> applications in wilmington for the in extwo years. Two state lawmakers proposed a bill to the General Assembly<\/a> yesterday and say the hold on applications will allow officials to look at all aspects of Charter Schools<\/a> from funding to physical placement. More than 250 new jobs will be coming to dover, kent county over the next two years. Energizer holding is moving those jobs to delaware from the plant in montreal. Officials say nearly 3 million in state grants will help energizer with relocation and work force training. The nonprofit American Bible Society<\/a> is moving headquarters to philadelphia according to a report in the new york inquirer. The society in new york city for two centuries but because of growing costs the ceos says philadelphia is more affordable. The society runs a worldwide Christian Ministry<\/a> and works to translate the bible into every language. Happening today, mayor Michael Nutter<\/a> has his driving gloves ready and once again be driving the unofficial start of the philadelphia auto show. This is video of last years show. He will be at the wheel of several cars from the antique to the futuristic. The auto show at the Convention Center<\/a> will open saturday run through february 8th. For more information use the nbc 10 app. Never leaves home without it. Ill tell you, if youre a motor head thats the place to be. If youre a parent with kids free baby sitting as you see with the cars. Put them in the car. Good place to be. I love the auto show especially the futuristic cars. Awesome sfo cant wait for the flying cars. Youre watching nbc 10 news. Nbc 10 news today at 6 00 a. M. Starts right now. Breaking news. That breaking news hazmat crews on the scene of an ammonia leak in the frank further neighborhood. A live look from sky force 10. On the ground trying to find out what happened. Jumping to escape the flames. Children and others jump from the balcony as a fire rips through an Apartment Building<\/a>. Well hear from one of the children. She said all of a sudden they heard rumbling and next thing you know she was the one who was on the bottom like buried. Falling bricks from another building caused the roof a trendy center city store to collapse trapping three under the rubble. City inspectors will be back at the site to figure out what caused the bricks to fall. This morning, think layers, lots of layers. The cold blast is hitting the delaware valley. Your first alert forecast hour by hour. Good wednesday morning. This is nbc 10 news today. Im vai sikahema. You see the flag flapping at the air mark building frigid out there, temperatures in the teens. Right to nbc 10 first alert meteorologist bill henley with the forecast. Good morning. The wind got a bit stronger as temperatures got a bit colder. Its a blustery start to the day. Temperatures plummeted overnight with clear skies. The winds at 13 miles an hour in philadelphia. 15mileanhour breeze in wilmington. 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