Problem throughout most of our area this morning. Thick fog caused a stop earlier. Glenn hurricane schwartz is here with the forecast. Glenn, whats it looking like out there . Yeah. We still have fog around a good bit of the area and we have rain. Some of the heavier rain of the day moving in right now. Drier air down by washington will be moving up. We have patches into philadelphia itself. That is not going to last. We are not talking about multiple inches of rain during the day today but there is more back to the west. Some of this will be s going to be moving in later today and into tonight. Lets check out the fog. We still have zero visibility in coatsville. 1 mile in blue bell. Three quarters many mount holly. Visibility is over 1 mile now. It is improving but only slightly. So it is slow to move out. Futurecast showing the rain tapering off as we go through the afternoon and not a whole lot around during the afternoon rush. There will be some and then we have more coming in early this evening and then another round coming in closer to midnight. There are many hours of rain left before we see any diekinds changes out there. It is quite mild, 58 in philadelphia. The average high for this time of year is only 50 degrees. So well see dramatic changes over the next 24 hours. Well give it to you hour by hour coming up. Thanks. The rain could create slippery spots and slow traffic in our area. Lets check in with jessica boyingt boyington. This is the expressway. Our camera right around city avenue. No surprise it is low here. The drive time to the blue route is about 16 minutes. Speeds into the 40s. An accident out in plymouth in virginia avenue. Watch for that. Moving over into new jersey a vehicle spun out on 295 headed southbound. The right shoulder is closed. No big delays right now. There were delays moving down the southbound side and northbound side on 295 as well. Those accidents seem to clear out of the way. Watch the on and off ramps as well. Here is route 30 right around 295. Again, showing no more real big delays there. This is flights arriving into philadelphia. 24 minute delays there. Some in new york as well to half an hour. Back to you. In philadelphia two Police Officers are recovering from bike rounds. Th bite wounds. They saw a man trying to break into a parked car. When the officers tried to approach him a violent struggle took place. He bit them on their hands and the skin was broken. You always think of guns, some times knives. Incidents like this you could be severely injured. Both officers are expected to be okay. Friends and family remembering a 14yearold. He was gunned down monday night while he was with his friends. Sources say detectives are looking into the possibility that someone targeted him. The motive points to attempted robbery. It is just shocking. Like i feel bad for his mom. I cant imagine what she is going through right now. Police are searching for the gunman and another man. They are asking anyone who has information to call police. New video showed an armed rb rob robbery. One asked the cashier to fill a bag with cash. Take a good look. If you recognize either of the men call philadelphia police. Happening now a judge is hearing arguments in a complaint against new jersey governor chris christie. William brennan filed a criminal complaint that christie violated the law by not reopening the lanes on the George Washington bridge. Christie denies any wrong doing and said he had no involvement in the closure. In Burlington County today military families can make their Holiday Season a little bit brighter. They can pick up a Christmas Tree at the Family Assistance Center at 2 00 this afternoon. Trees were donated by local farmers. Those are one example of how this time of year is the season of giving. One of the best known local Charity Events is underway this week. Pamela osborne is in south philadelphia where the annual camp out for hunger has been going on all week, pamela. Reporter i can tell you, just this morning so far three trailers worth of food, that large have already left here today. It has really been like a drive through this morning. You can see cars coming in right here and dropping off their donations. You can see camp out for hunger is prepared to take all of those gifts. The rain was hardly enough to damp l t dampen the excitement. Inside they hosted their broadcast from the xfinity live parking lot. Outside the donations kept coming. Last year we had about 1,700 pounds. This year Keith Johnson and his coworkers dropped off nearly 3,000 pounds of nonperishable food items. It helped the competition. It will be putting more food in the hands of our hungry neighbors. Last year wmmr listeners and Business Owners raised over 580 tons of food. This year they hope to do even better. It puts a smile on your fachlface. I feel like this is what the holidays is about. They encouraged listen toers help end hunger here. No one should be hungry in america. No one should be homeless in america. If youre upset about whats going on in the country and you want to do something that will make your feel better and make peoples lives better is to do Something Like this. To tribute, mentor, volunteer, bla whatever you the do is getting people back focused on whats important. So maybe coming out in the rain isnt really your thing. Thats okay. We checked in with other organizations. The united way has a sex on their web site where you can figure out the type of volunteer activity that works best for you. Maybe youre good at cooking food. They will connect you to other organizations who need that type of help. There is also a drive where you can donate by using your phone. Reporting live, im pamela osbor osborne, nbc 10 news. Thanks. Kim will be visiting preston and steve later on this afternoon and the nbc 10 team will make an appearance friday morning. Make sure you say hello during the camp out for hunger. Tonight philadelphia Police Officers will be recognized for going above and beyond the call of duty. This is video from last years event. Going from one job to another president elect Donald Trumps big announcement this morning as we learn more about some of his newest cabinet picks. Plus deadly tornados rip through parts of the south as millions continue to deal with the aftermath of raging wild fires. We have got a warm and wet day across the area. Ill let you know whats in store for the weekend with my first alert neighborhood forecast just ahead. narrator attention medicare beneficiaries. alex if you have medicare or will be covered soon, here are some important things you should know. First, if you think medicare covers everything, you may be in for an expensive surprise. 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Two more people confirmed this morning they have been offered cabinet positions. Can you gentlemen confirm this has happened now . Goldman sachs as treasury secretary. Our number one priority is tax reform. And ross as commerce secretary. Still up in the air, secretary of state. Narrowed it down to a very small group of people. Including mitt romney. He had dinner with trump last night. The people he selected as members of his cabinet are solid, effective capable people. We talked about secretary of labor. Republican leaders on capitol hill today. The senate says they are ready to quickly confirm trumps cabinet. We learned trump is kicking off his tour tomorrow, a state that he won. He has a rally in scincinnati. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. Nancy pelosi has been House Democratic leaders. She faces a challenge by tim ryan of ohio. The ashes of former cuban leader fidel castro has begun a fourday journey to the final resting place. The remains of the 90yearold leader were taken from cubas defense ministry. A tornado out dpts break in several Southern States overnight killed at least five people and left four children in critical condition. Among the hardest hit was the tennessee border. Tim is there with a look at the damage. Reporter a Flash Flood Warning is still in effect in several counties in tennessee. A tornado destroyed many homes and businesses. We are in a community. Power is out where this Convenience Store got hit hard. Power lines were ripped down. The roof was torn off and thrown across the parking lot. Debris is shutting down some major highways. We spoke with the chief of police. He tells me is majority is near the rifrmt the chief believes there are at least a few fatalities. A shelter is open from those displaced. The National Weather service says they expect the Flash Flood Warning to last through early afternoon. Back to you. Rain is moving through the region of tennessee where wild fires have claimed four lives. An inch of rain fell overnight which should help firefighters. More than 150 structured were destroyed or badly damaged. It fuelled flames near g gatlinburg. Those were unbelievable scenes of that fire. And here our biggest weather problem has been the fog. Very dense this morning and only lifting slowly. We still have a lot of places reporting low visibility. We have showers and thunderstorms today and tonight but we are going to be seeing changes tomorrow brought in by wind gusts up to 35 Miles Per Hour blowing the leaves around. You can see on the radar everything moving from southwest to northeast. It is not a steady rain like it was yesterday. We have had a little burst of it within the last hour. We have drier air coming up from baltimore and washington for at least a few hours. Theres more rain back there thats going to be coming through before the day is over. Lets take a look at some of the visibilities. Thats how dense the fog is. Chester county still with zero visibility to get into the lowlying area. The fog sinks right in. Its hard to break out. Redding a little over a mile. Blue bell up to 1 mile visibility. Things improving at the airport but still not great. Its improving in wilmington as well. We are seeing many places with better visibilities than what we saw even one hour ago. The temperatures way above average for this time of year including temperatures into the 60s even at this hour of the day, even with all of the cloud cover. It is extremely mild for this time of the year. Near 50 is the high, the average high. We are seeing temperatures well into the 60s in delaware with a southeast wind. 64 in georgetown. 62 here. Cooler at the beaches with wind coming in off of that water. Through the afternoon well see temperatures rising into the 60s across much of the area. More showers and maybe thunderstorms later on this afternoon. All of that thick cloud cover cuts down the threat of thunderstorms, especially severe thunderstorms. It is dry for a while. Here comes the cold front that will change everything. Thats towards midnight. Thats when we could actually see the heaviest rain and thunderstorms coming through. By tomorrow morning, dry. No fog. We have got wind out there. Temperature not really going up very much during the day. We start off around 50 and we stay in the 50s tomorrow. Today we are mostly rising into the 60s. Farther to the north only 56 in allentown and easton. Remember those numbers as we go down to delaware. The beach up near 70. Other parts close to 72. Thats what the neighborhood weather is all about. You have 15 to 20 degree temperature contrasts across the area. This is the way we can show it to you. Philadelphia we have the nasty weather today. We have dry weather the next couple of days. A little bit cooler. Lehigh valley only 48 degrees for a high on friday. Still not extreme but you can see the dry weather both thursday and friday once we get rid of all of that moitstusture today. The ten day forecast coming up a little bit later. Thanks. Tragedy for cirque du soleil. They are trying to figure out what caused the death of a worker right before the start of one of the popular shows. It will kick off the centennial. The interim president and ceo of philadelphia and melanie, board of director. Thank you for being here today. Thank you for having us. Lets start by talking about the mission of the urban league. Tell us about what that is. The mission of the urban league nationally and locally is the empowerment of African Americans and others to achieve economic and social equality. It is a mission thats been around over the country for 106 years and here locally in 2017 for 100 years. Lets talk about that 100 years. The celebration is 100 years and moving forward. It is quite a milestone. It is. Whats in store as you hit that mark . We will actually kick off the celebration at our luncheon this friday. We will kick it off by presenting two centennial awards. One is vivian harvey. Back then it was the Telephone Company and has now evolved to horizon. We will present another award to evans. He was just sworn in as the congressman for the second congressional district. What people dont know is he started off his career early on at the urban league of philadelphia. Since that time he remained to his mission. What is your hope now as you hit that 100 year mark . Whats your hope . Its sort of audacious. Thats okay. When you think about 100 years i often say i wonder if they ever thought it would need to be around for 100 years. We know that is the case and as we look out to the future what we think is strategically is that the urban league will need to be here. When we look at where we are as a city, as a county, as a region many people in this area are locked out and left behind. The urban league is that anchor in the community that is making sure that people are moving forward and getting retrained, new tools for their portfolio, if you will, so that they can get Sustainable Living wage jobs and take care of themselves and their families. We are looking right now at a program called urban tech. Im so excited about this program because it is preparing for people in this technology sector. It is a certification that comes with the graduation and people will move into all sorts of help desk jobs, software, hardware, things that the future is holding for us. The urban league is ready to go. Thank you for being here. I want to give information. It is the 14th an youll whitney m. Young jr. Luncheon. It runs from 11 30 a. M. To 1 30 p. M. For more information head to our web site, nbc10. Com or check out the nbc 10 app. The rain is falling and thick fog continues to be a problem for much of our area. This morning a live look at Philadelphia International airport shows just what we are talking about. There is an impact on flights in and out of the airport. Glenn hurricane schwartz will let us know when the skies will clear just ahead. Reporter and when we come back well give you a look at how this years camp out for hunger is doing. Well also tell you other ways you can help out our neighbors. My favorite part about being a dad just to see their faces in the morning when i wake them up. The first thing you think about is your wife and your kids and your family. So i had surgery locally, and it came back after my follow up that i needed a second surgery. And thats when i said i need a second opinion. Everyone, from the moment i walked through the doors, theyre smiling and i love the fact that included me in the whole process. The diagnosis of cancer is one of those things that you want an answer now. We can do now here. Rod was great. 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It is sure taking its good old time. That picture behind it shows it. Thats the skyline behind her. You cant see it yet. Things are improving just slowly. You can see this area of heavier rain moved through philadelphia headed through new york city and the drier air towards baltimore and washington starting to come in. It is still cloudy but not like the steadier rain we have seen in the last couple of hours. Things are tapering off. There will be more rain. You can see right now about the entire philadelphia area has at least some rain. As we go through the afternoon there will be more but especially in the northern parts of the area. We taper off a little bit towards the afternoon rush and then more comes in from the west. Especially again between philadelphia and allentown. Then later on tonight look at this area comi