35 with rain in Lehigh Valley. Above freezing. The temperatures will be climbing. In spite of more rain showers moving up to 42 degrees at 11 00. See a big warmup today. Wont be an allday rainfall. Get showers this afternoon and to philadelphia. Upper 50s for suburbs. 50 degrees for Lehigh Valley. Big warmup. Occasional showers inland. Late sunshine in delaware. 64 degrees this afternoon. Go through it hour by hour so you know when the rain moves in and out out of your neighborhood. Right now, lets see how the traffic is looking. Jessica boyington has first alert traffic. Starting off right at Mount Laurel Township new jersey. 295. Just around cameras at route 38. On the northbound side. Now a vehicle fire was what occurred here earlier. Looks like the fire is out right now. All traffic moving towards the trenton area is going to see delays. With only that one lane getting by, watch the nnk road for you. Taking new Jersey Transit the new jersey turnpike might be a good alternate for you. Especially if this is here for quite some time. Right lane and should blocked. Check in with mass transit well. 5 32. Breaking from overnight. Fire rips through three homes in kensington. You can see flames shooting out of the home. This is jasper street just a few hours ago. He is just distraught not only because he lost his home. Its completely destroyed, but he lost two dogs in the fire. This is how he got out. As he pushed into the home. He climbed out a second floor window to escape the flames and had to actually walk on that first floor roof to get away from any of the danger. Now the person who recorded this cell phone video got pretty close to the scene at the height of it. From it shlgs you can see how strong those flames were and how quickly they went from this initial home to two surrounding homes. Neighborhoods along jackson street tell me they ran out to the road for fear of the growing flame and make sure everyone who was in danger made it out safely. One of the homes that was burned houses a young family. They made it to safety. Third home affected was vacant. No one was there. He said he sees the fire that is there. He get help on the window and he went on the roof. Hes looking for the dog. He did manage to save one of his dogs. Two other dogs died in the that house fire. I spoke to the fire investigate who was at the scene not long ago from the scene behind me they have since cleared it. Firefighters and investigators have left. Im told they will be back when the sun is up to look for money evidence by right now theyve been able to rule out foul play. Reporting live in kensington. Katy zachry nbc 10. Also breaking from overnight. Another fire this oneless than a mile from the one katie told us about. Nbc 10 on the street here in joyce street and port richmond. Put out the flames around 11 30. One pet being treated for injuries. Third fire in the same area. Also being investigated this morning. Three fires in the same area. Three crews were called to frank ford after and elk hart street in kensington. They found a car in flames. No one was inside. Investigators not yet saying if the three fires are at all connected. 5 35. Right now on capitol hill showdown is on over betsy devos. President trumps trumps choice for education secretary. Live look at the senate floor. Active right now. Hashtag hold the floor is trending on twitter right now. Democrats holding against nominee. Two republicans say they will not vote for devas. Means the senate is split 50 50. Vice president mike pence would be the tiebreaker. First time ever that happened. Democrats plan to hold the floor until confirmation vote which is scheduled for noon today. Also happening today president trumps travel ban goes before federal Appeals Court. Wants court to reverse judges ruling that froze temporary ban on travelers from seven mostly muslim countries. Judge put the ban on hold friday night after Washington State and minnesota filed suit. The Appeals Court will give both sides 30 minutes to make arguments by tell conference. Here at home, a syrian family caught in the middle of the ban is in allentown after several days of 16 hour flight. First turned away a week ago now back with extended family already living here. Matthew said its been a stressful trip. Thinking i will go asaliasal still a dream. The dream has come true today. Newly arrived members plan to make the Lehigh Valley their new home. Pennsylvania attorney general is part of 16 Member Coalition suing to stop the executive order on immigration. Says the order hurts business as well as people. Companies and educational institutions who have researchers, engineers and students who live here, own homes and pay taxes are harmed by this executive order. 16 ags announced the filing in a brief yesterday in support of washington and minnesota. Federal lawsuit on the ban. Also signed the lawsuit. Also yesterday new Jersey State Senate voted to formally condemn the travel ban. Investigating sticks of dynamite found at estate sale yesterday. Sky force ten over the scene as Police Closed the roads in the area. Explosives safely removed from the home. In delaware one woman admitted to killing her husband by lacing steroids be antifreeze. Pleaded guilty to Second Degree murder. Could face life in prison for poisoning husband james back in 2013. Baker will be sentenced for the crime in march. Also in delaware, cause of prison standoff that left a Corrections Office dead is still an open investigation. Governor said hes waiting for answers from various investigations. Spoke to a mother of an inmate in wilmington concerned about her sons treatment and flow of information to families. Theyre not giving us any answers. Thats what is disheartening and really concerning. State correction Officials Say theyre reviewing security measure s at all of their facilities. Happening today, pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf will deliver annual budget address. Proposed spending plan will include 2 billion in cuts and savings. Without major tax hikes or cuts to schools and social services. Governor would still need money to close a 3 billion budget gap. 5 38 time and dry. Tracking rain showers moving in later this morning and into this afternoon. Already seen a few showers at the shore. In the Lehigh Valley, but those are on the move and starting to move out. The next round of wet weather comes in later. Hour by hour, future cast shows rain moving into harrisburg at 8 00. 8 00 hour mainly dry. First round of showers moving off to north. Here comes rain. Philadelphia and suburbs in the Lehigh Valley. Berks county getting rain and few steadier showers. Into northern delaware by that hour. Lunchtime clouds and showers push into new jersey, but mainly dry. Go onto noon, showers take a break and look at the clouds starting to break. A little bit of sunshine is going to send the temperatures shoring this afternoon. Wont need your umbrella all day. Dont need it right now. Not isnt the city. 41 degrees. Fivemileanhour breeze. Early afternoon hours, lunchtime 52 degrees. Drying out this afternoon. Look at temperatures wampling into the upper 50s, near 60 degrees. 4 00 inning well reach into the 60s in philadelphia today. Showers this morning for the suburbs. Not at the 8 00 hour. Mainly dry at 8. Coming in at 10 00 and few rain drops at noon. Drying out this afternoon. Big warmup. Great news with the rain that has already moved through. Showers and 36 degrees. Little warmer. Steadier rain 10 00 noontime hour. Then by 2 00 showers are tapering off. Into the 50s for the Lehigh Valley. New jersey, cloudy skies right now. Seen a few showers move through south jersey this morning. Later this morning and early afternoon is next round of rain for new jersey. At the shore, few rain drops. Mainly going to be rain free. See the southerly winds increasing late in the day for delaware. After we get showers. 10 00 should be tapering off by noon and warmup with sunshine breaking through. Into if 60s for delaware. And more warm air is on the way for one more day. Big changes ahead. Got the ten day on ten when im back in ten minutes. Thank you, bill. 5 41. 19 minutes before 6 00 a. M. Update on 295. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington has that. All of the Police Activity actually moved over to the reasoned shoulder. Moved the camera. Not seeing any delays at all. Might be shoulder activity just around the earlier spot of the car fire. Right now 295 might see residual delays on the northbound side. Approaching trenton see a little bit of that. Other than looks completely cleared out of the way. Both directions look good again. Checking with mass transit. Give yourself extra time this morning now that were not coming out of weekend. Day after super bowl. Expecting busier commute this morning. Trains make all stops still. About 3 dozen cars short. Shuttle bussing some passengers during the peak hours there as well. Either way this is going to take you longer this morning. End on the pa turnpike. Everything looks great. Both directions west, east, 23 minutes at most. Speeds into the 60s. Say, back to you. Local school gets a helping hand from nba star. Iconic items that were swiped and what a basketball legend is doing in response. Changing a community. Why a local man turned a bar into a place for learning. Plus National Attention hes now getting. Contrary to ancient wisdom, the sun doesnt rise. We do. Yet, the more we travel, the more the world pushes back corralling us and controlling us. So we seek a place. Where were given a choice not just to get up. But to rise. 14 minutes before 6 00 a. M. Take you state by state and county by county. In kent county, a man kicked in the face by a Dover Police Officer will receive a settlement of 300,000. Video from 2013. Broke his jaw. Reached the settlement with the city two years ago, but the details were just released yesterday. Thomas webster is the Dover Police Officer who kicked dickerson. In montgomery county, basketball lengd will help to replace the items stolen from a trophy case. Swiped his framed replica jersey, autographed sneakers and school s championship troefy. Former trump taj mahal is for sale. Carl icahn ready to find a buyer. Icahn said he made the move after state lawmakers passed a bill to revoke casino license for five years. Yesterday governor Chris Christie vetoed that bill. Delaware governor says his administration plans to focus on revitalizing the state. Spoke yesterday at a community forum. Blueprints need to be drawn. Goal to make delaware a place people want to live and work. Officials want to ban bamboo. Bethlehem city counsel will meet tonight to consider new restrictions on growing bamboo within the city limits. Bamboo is a hard variety of grass that can damage lawns, foundations and water lines. 5 47. Philadelphia Strawberry Mansion neighborhood in the national spotlight. Lester holt featured it in aspiring america series. Recently came to philadelphia. Lester, did and met with business owner. This Corner Property used to be a neighborhood bar once owned by his mother. In 2007, shortly after she died, he decided to reopen the place as a Community Learning center. Afterschool program so they actually do homework here, and, you know, its a mentoring program. When the kids come by, they can see that door open and they know consistently that they got somebody to count on. Get this, demand is so great in the neighborhood that the Learning Center is now working on building an addition to the lot right next door. Congratulations to kevin and all the people who helped him make that so great for the neighborhood. Speaking of neighborhoods. Want to get a check on your neighborhood. Some of them have already seen rain drops this morning. More on the rain. Rain today. Rain showers maybe tomorrow. Snow, come thursday. Were all over the place right now. Dry view from philadelphia. View from comcast center. Clouds overhead and wind will seize. First round of showers havele alrea already cleared. Next round of wet weather moving to western and central philadelphia. That is only rain. Much too warm for anything else. The temperatures are going to stay warm until we get this system moving in from california. Thats going to be our snow maker for thursday. Well see a dramatic temperature fall come wednesday night. For today, 63 degrees the high temperature. We will get late daybreaks of sunshine today. Wont be an all day rainfall. Should be dry. Just a slight chance of shower. Clouds break for sun. 65 degrees. Record breaking for wednesday. Look at the temperatures plummet for thursday and this is when well likely see some wet weather moving in. In fact, the temperatures allentown, redding, pottstown. That hour light rain moving in, but we could see snow even though the temperatures are above normal. Above freezing. North and west. The snow moves in during the morning hours. 5 00 in the morning, light snow falling in philadelphia and wilmington. Look at the temperatures just above freezing and the ground will still be warm from the day before. Much of this snowfall will be accumulating on the grass. Not as much on roads. By 10 00 thursday morning, we are drying out. Big change on the way. 63 degrees this afternoon. Best chance of rain this morning into the early afternoon hours. May see late day breaks of sunshine. Temperatures 63 today. Not cold tonight. 55 in the morning. 65 in the afternoon. As we saw in the future cast as we clear out on wednesday, clouds move back in wednesday evening. Thats when the temperatures come walkway down. 30s for thursday. Light snow in the morning. Out of here in the afternoon. Friday get sunny skies. Look at the cold. Cold as it gets. Warmup next weekend with temperatures into the 50s saturday and sunday. Rain showers later on sunday, but drying out for monday. Still pretty mild for tuesday and wednesday before it turns colder next thursday. Nine minutes before six. Lets get you out the door. Get you to work. Look at the roads and including route 309. Jessica boyington how is it looking right now. On 309 around the pa turnpike. Around fort washington. Looks good now. No problems north or south both directions on 309 look great. Most of the majors. Heres schuylkill. Another example of that. No huge problems here. East and westbound drive time 12 minutes at the most from blue route to vine street expressway. Speeds still clocking into the mid 60s. Again, the new jersey turnpike and pa turnpike connector bridge is still closed. You can take the burlington bristol bridge. Good alternate for you. I just checked in. Also running on modified schedule. Watch out for shuttle buses. Give yourself extra time before you head out the door. Thank you, jessica. Up next. Continue to mark black History Month. This morning get a rook at tloo man making a difference in miss community. How hes helping change lives one meal at a time. All new at six, rebate rules. Local veteran says faulty washer ended up costing him. He called nbc 10 responds for backup. Watch them take action up next. Yeah. We love low prices. No bones about it. [ laughter ] thousands of blue tags. Thousands of low prices. My giant. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Which means we offer equal upload and download speeds. Cable cant say that. Get this great offer 150 meg internet, tv and phone for only 79. 99 per month online for one year. Only from fios. Nbc 10, Rosemary Conner in serves on the board. Shows us how he turns food into medicine. This is for march. Were making 120 gallons now. Managing a kitchen of volunteers and cooks is only half the heavy lifting for chef keith lukas. The brains behind the meals that man that, a nonprofit based in philadelphia serves to thousands of people battles life threatening illnesses and have specific dietary needs. You need to be a food scientist to put this thing together. Were using it. These are for people who cant have acid. Cant have potassium. Make 1 million meals a year. 2 million in the year ahead when they move into a larger facility. Keith had no idea when he first stepped foot in the kitchen that he would be here two committdec later. I have the experience. The good looks and the charm. At first, it was just about the job. Keith previously worked as a chef in hotels, never in the nonprofit world. Quickly, he fell in love with the mission. This is why having a good product not to make money, but to help the client was really resinating with me. Inspiration for crafting delicious and nutrition meals on a budget comes from watching eight siblings. Twin brother is also a chef in the philadelphia region. More than the ingredients. Its really his heart and soul. Throughout the years hes been such a mentor to so many people in our kitchen. He never saying no. He really doesnt. People love him. I hope people see this and inspire to go work in the neighborhood, work in the community. Were all gods children. We need to help each other. Words he lives by. Reporting from center city. Nbc 10 news. Celebration of black History Month continues throughout the month of february. Tune in saturday night for special coverage from african museum. Only on nbc 10. Happening tonight, penn hosts princeton for College Basketball showdown. No ordinary game. Celebrate the 90th anniversary and the place widely known as College Basketball cathedral. We checked this morning and tickets are Still Available for tonights game sgll former phillys first baseman is the newest member of the broadcast team. Spent parts of six seasons with the phillys and named three allstar teams. Also played key role on 1993 pennant winning team. First broadcast will be a spring training game on february 25. A lot look forward to seeing him back after 1020 years. Good to have him back. Now more of the stories were following for you. Up in flames. Fire spread through a line of homes in philadelphia. Two other fires b