Monday morning. Good morning. Welcome to nbc 10 today. Im tracey davidson. Im vai sikahema. This just happened. Just issued a first alert because of damaging winds. Lets get right to bill henley and most accurate forecast. For the entire area today until 6 00 this evening. Weve already seen strong gusting winds of more than 50 miles an hour. Could top 50 and head to 60 miles an hour in parts of the area this morning and this afternoon. That will lead to more downed trees, branches, Power Outages and can at times make travel difficult. Strong gusty wind are really whipping right now. 44mileanhour wind gusts in philadelphia. 45 in wilmington. At the shore, winds are topping 40mileanhour in toms river. Just shy of it. Its all combining to make things cold as well. 34 degrees in the Lehigh Valley. Delaware is 36. And right at the freezing mark for the suburbs with those winds blowing the temperatures are really going to be held back today. Well see sunshine. 35 degrees at 7 00 and at 10 00. A lot of sunshine, look. Just a one degree increase in those three hours. The wind, steady wind at 28 miles an hour. Still see gusts of more than 40, possibly 50 miles an hour in philadelphia at that hour. As far as High Temperatures, not going that high today. Not with the wind. 38 for the suburbs. 36 in the Lehigh Valley. Rest of the area will see temperatures into the 40s. Ill break it down hour by hour and take you through it with the wind when i come back in ten minutes. First, Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. The wind is causing some problems on the roads. Out in north coventry, heres one. Downed tree and wires on temple road right around valley view road. Not the only thing reported. Right around new second street. Were checking in with mass transit as well. Dealing with delays of up to 30s minutes because of am track over head wire problems. Already 30 minutes there delays for septa. Check in with more storm damage spots when i come back. Speaking of that, lets take a life look at wynnwood. A number of trees down. A number of power lines down and hundreds of people without power. At least four traffic lights here throughout the saint joes campus. Continue Team Coverage with nbc 10 katy zachry at philadelphia international. Talk about the wind and impact on the flights there. Reporter just to give a little color to what you were describing before you tossed me, the wind damage reports are coming into our newsroom so fast and frequently, its really a challenge keeping track of this widespread wind damage. There is a septa train behind me. You can see all the airport activity outside the airport. Lets take you inside and show you arrival and departure border. The high winds were experiencing too far this morning are having a profound affect or airport operations. Most of the flights arriving to philadelphia and new england have been cancelled. However flights leaving from philadelphia so leaving from, departing from philly international are so far unaffected for the most part at this early hour. Could change consider how strong the winds are expected to get today and how widespread the damage has been so far. Airport Officials Say check your flight status before you head here to catch your flight. Away from the airport, weve seen wind damage across the suburbs outside of center city and outside of philadelphia i should say and Center City Philadelphia has seen a number of wind damage incidents. Fencing blown away from a construction site at love park overnight because the winds were so strong there. Coming up in the next hour, we are going to again reach out to all of our contacts throughout the suburbs, throughout center city, and get you the most uptodate report of the wind damage. If youre just getting up at this early hour, you may have been awoken overnight from the wind howling outside your home. We can almost guarantee when you take your first step outside and you drive down your neighborhood street, youre going to see evidence of this wind damage from overnight. Reporting live at philly international. Katy zachry, nbc news. You can track the latest on the high winds right on nbc 10 app. Get weather alerts and track conditions where you live. College basketball player from philadelphia was wounded in a drive by shooting is recovering. Plays for baltimore. Led his team to beat drexel saturday night. Homecoming of sorts. Played High School Ball here. Instead of going home with the team. He stayed in town for his sons baby dedication. A gunman opened fire on south Fourth Street and a bullet grazed his knee. A 16yearold was also shot. Guys you grow up and with they went out and got something to eat. Hanging out. Just got back. And unfortunately, he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Police are investigating. Meanwhile, happening today, family, friends, neighbors remember this Community Activist who was shot and killed in her home. Head of the University Green nonprofit, she was found shot to death inside her home earlier this month. Funeral today in west philadelphia. Meantime a 20,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest in this deadly shooting. 5 36. This morning east commute should be smoother than last week. Trains will run every 56 minutes. Septa says it will have more cars in service. Still not operating at full capacity. Pulled dozens of trains from service when cracks were found on two rail cars. Working to repair the problem. Speaking of septa, riders see new kiosk starting this morning. Look for them at all stations. The reloadable cards will eventually replace tokens, strips and paper transfers. Northeast Philadelphia Restaurant is offering 2500 to whoever knows what happened to a stolen barbecue smoker. Here it is. Someone took it thursday night from fat jacks barbecue. The smoker, which weighs about 2,000 pounds, a couple of tons, is worth about 30,000. In berks county, activists are calling for the countys Residential Center to be shutdown. The center houses dozens of undon mattingu undocumented immigrants. A new memo says hearings for the immigrants could soon be moved up. A group in philadelphia is now helping people who might be detained in a new wave of immigration raids. Yesterday, activists began training people in what to do in ice agents show up to take someone into custody. Nbc 10 was at the saint Thomas Roman Catholic church in point breeze. Exercises included texting or calling neighbors to go to a persons home. They cant leave to find things in a congregation. Were bringing the congregation to them. While im not going to be deported some place, its my possibility to be there for others. Sanctuary cities like philadelphia do not provide information to federal authorities to deport or prosecute undocumented imfwrant immigrants. Ice usually conducts targeted enforcement operations during which Additional Resources and personnel are dedicated to apprehending deportable foreign nationals. 21 minutes before 6 00. If youre heading out right now, strong gusty winds. Not just going to be here this morning. Howling winds will be with us through the day today topping 50 miles an hour. Already seen that this morning. This evening, winds subside. Finally die down. After a gusty day, winds right now are steady at 31 mooiiles a hour in philadelphia. Wind gusts at 44 miles an hour. 45mileanhour in wilmington. Seen them as high as 53mileanhour in coatesville. And its going to make it feel cold all day long. 24 right now in poconos. 34 for allentown. Factor in the strong gusty winds and suddenly feels a lot colder. 18 is the windchill in coatesville. 24 in philadelphia. 26 for vineland. 23 in trenton. Its a cold wind thats blowing this morning. We will see sunshine however, it will blow a few clouds through at times and the sun is going to limit the warmup during the day. 36 degrees at 8 00. 10 00 this morning, 38 degrees in philadelphia. Thats at lunchtime. See a few clouds blowing through the suburbs. A good deal of sunshine. Not much of a warmup. 32 now. 30s this afternoon. Getting close to 40 degree mark. The Lehigh Valley it will be dry and gusty winds will be blowing. 25mileanhour winds at lunchtime today. For new jersey, clear skies. Scattered clouds. 39 at 2 00 this afternoon. Strong gusty winds continue through the day to the shore in the very low 40s. For delaware. 36 degrees right now. Getting close to 40 at lunchtime. Feel like 20s with temperatures in the 30s. Those winds will die down this evening. Still be going strong at 4 00 today. The weekend quite a bit different. Walk you through it when im back in ten minutes. Thank you. 19 minutes before 6 00. Lets get a look at the area roads. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington has you covered. Starting off with the brings. A lot of times when theres high winds in place, we see speed restrictions on brijs. Not yet. Dges. Not yet. No problems or major device on the plat. The tacony palmyra, betsy ross, all clear there. Watching septa. Regional rails. Thorndale line delays. Due to amtrak overhead wires. Downed tree on the new jersey turnpike headed southbound just around route 73. Just the right lane is blocked there. Vai and tracey, back to you. Thank you, jessica. Flyers of hate dropped off at home. Message from the kkk found and how neighbors are reacting this morning. Dangerous discovery. What firefighters uncovered inside a burning home in atlantic si. 37 degrees. Continue to monitor the impact of the damaging winds. Issued a first alert because of threat of downed trees, Power Outages and difficult travel. We are starting to see that and we now know more than 3,000 customers. Thats the latest number without power in pennsylvania. Delaware and new jersey. There you see the high winds. First alert traffic reporter jk following reports of trees down and road closures. Nbc 10 bill henley is tracking the winds and how long they will last. Check with both of them in a couple of minutes. Donald trump will meet today with the leader of one of our countrys closest allies and neighbors. Canada. Just one of a number of things on the president s agenda this week. Nbc meet the press Moderator Chuck Todd has a preview for us. As weve already learned. Any week at the Trump Presidency can be unpredictable, but heres what we know this week. Hes going to get treasury secretary. Hes going to get a couple other cabinet secretaries finally into place. That will be one thing to look for in the week. Look, the biggest news is going to be will the president be signing a new executive order that replaces essentially a repeal and replace of the other partial travel ban executive order he signed. Courts have indicated this is going to be a long drown out fight, legal fight for the administration if they want to pursue it. Or do they want to sit here and narrow the scope and get something on the books that legal. That is the bigger story to look forward to in the coming days. Well be on all of it. Watch today, nightly, and, of course, meet the press. Meanwhile messages of hate. Recruiting people for the kkk. Also had messages surrounded by hearts that read love your own race and stop home mow sexual and race mixing. Neighbors are upset. Osexual an race mixing. Neighbors are upset. The flyers have an outof town number of then. When we called, when straight to a recorded message. Of town number of then. When we called, when straight to a recorded message. Take you state by state and county by county. Look at stories across our area. In chester first alert traffic warning for you. The route 926 street road bridge linking birmingham is closed until september. Replacing the old bridge with a new one. Signs will detour drivers. Today a judge in north jersey could decide the case of three people from the Lehigh Valley. Accused of trying to drive a truck full of weapons through the holland tunnel. This happened last summer. Three said they were headed into new york to rescue a teenager for a heroin den. Teen died last month from apparent overdose. Discuss the recent speak in deadly violence and plans for reducing crime. Chest r had 26 homicide all of last year. Its had seven so far this year. At this rate, that would be more than 40 killings by the end of the year. While there were there. Found needles all over the floor and drugs in every room. One firefighter suffered a minor injuries. Police in two states hope you can identify the couple in this picture. Take a look. Suspect instead at least three they haves. Accused of stealing on friday and across the river in new jersey. Police both are looking for the pair for similar thefts. Happening today, philadelphia will hold its annual Abraham Lincoln parade. Live look right now. Near the union league from Kimmel Center campus camera. Echbtd will sfep off at 1 00 this afternoon. Parade will follow a short route through center city. President lincoln 208th birthday was yesterday. Well, wet heavy snow expected to fall again today across parts of the northeast. Winter storm warnings are in effect from upstate new york to maine. Up to two feet of snow is possible. Boston schools cancelled classes for today. This is how it looked in albany yesterday afternoon. Parts of new york, northern new jersey and vermont all getting walloped with this wintery blast. Something to keep in mind if youre traveling today. I was traveling yesterday during that. I had a Facebook Live that showed it all. Meanwhile, closer to home, the reports of wind damage is coming in fast and furious. You heard katy zachry say. The blizzard is causing all the wind. Were not getting snow, but we are getting wind. Check this out, first alert for damaging wind for wind gust through entire region through the day today and 00 this evening. Winds of 5060 miles an hour lead to more downed trees and branches. Make difficult travel this morning and this afternoon. Temperatures will be held back as well. Look at the wind gusts thchlt is the future hourly hour bind gust. 7 00 this morning. 52mileanhour for millville. Go to lunchtime hour, not much different. 45 in philadelphia. 41 in pottstown. By later this afternoon for the ride home, wont be as strong, but not that much lower. 48 degrees at philadelphia. 43, 48mileanhour winds in philadelphia. 43mileanhour winds in millville. Then as we head to the evening hours, wind speeds will not be as strong. They will still be present. All going to combine to make it feel cold through the day. 37 degrees right now. Feels like it is in the 20s. Mount poconos 23 degrees current temperature with the wind. Feels like 23 in northeast philadelphia and for wilmington. Youll definitely have though bundle up. That snow to the north. Seeing a few snow showers in the poconos, but not the heavy snow that new england is getting. Thats the storm thats giving us the wind that is going to be with us into late this afternoon and early this evening. Noerk calling for 41 trees this afternoon. Chillier day with a strong gusty winds. Winds die down tonight looking a whole lot better for valentines day. Of 34 in the morning. Nice warmup in the afternoon. Nice day for wednesday. Partly sunny. 47. Morning item temperature. Just a little bit colder. Blustery on thursday. This will bring temperatures down once again. Wind will be strong, but not as strong as what were seeing today. A cool day friday. Look at the warmup. Theres your weekend. 52 degrees on saturday. 60s on sunday and mild weather carries into next week. Then the next chance of wet weather comes wednesday with a high of 54. Lets get you to work and see how the winds are impacting the commute this morning. Looking at south jersey. 42 moving through right now. Right around route 41. No problems reported right now and not seeing any big major problems with drive times. Here is the northbound side. Moving up towards philadelphia area. No problems in this part of new jersey. We are hearing reports with that storm damage out in mount laurel, new jersey. New jersey turnpike headed southbound. Dealing with a downed tree. Taking up part of the right lane near route 73. End with mass transit here. Regional rail for septa. Due to am track overhead wire problems. Thank you. The flyers celebrate different type of goal being reached. Nbc 10 there as players and wives welcome family to remodeled home. The reason it meant so much to this mother and her daughter. Allnew at six, fund raising fail. Cheerleaders partner with a company to help pay for afterschool fun, but check for hard work never came. Cart wheeled in to help out. Good morning. Jessica boyington with a check of the roads. Watching for winds and storm damage this morning. Thats why were looking at 95 around betsy ross bridge. Really shaky camera here. Moving north or south no major delays. Wind is a factor this morning. Check in with some of the spots that have downed trees and wires when i come back. The flyers are master athletes on the ice. Off it theyre pretty good with hands when it comes to building. Take a look. Nbc 10 was there as players and wives welcomed michelle inside their newly remodeled home. Everything inside this house got a complete makeover. Michelle nine month old daughter was born with tumors behind her eyes and had several surgeries. The family turned to two generous charities for help e. Take a bad thing and turn it around and make it good. Make a positive impact on someones elses life. Thats means a lot. Its spectacular. I was so nervous to come here. And after seeing everything and like every detail, its been amazing. Michelles daughter is doing well, by the way. This is the sixth year the flyers have teamed up with michaels Way Foundation to rebuild homes. Today is your day if you want to see lady gaga when she comes to philadelphia this fall. Tickets go on sale at 10 or in person at the Wells Fargo Center box office. Brings joanne world tour to philadelphia september 10. Lonely hearts club adoption event. Organization Fishtown Center looking for families to adopt dogs that have been there more than six months. Adoption fees will be waived for those dogs today through saturday. More of the stories were following for you at 6 00 a. M. High wind warning. We are waking up to damaging gusts already bringing down branchs and power license. Damaged