Where you have to worry about the potential for brief freezing rain, the key times between 9 00 and 1 00 and then change all over to rain and as far as philadelphia the i95 metro area and areas southeast this is all a rain event and temperatures climb to about 40 degrees and we are looking at a. 25 inch of rain. This system is opening the door for a big warmup well talk about that in the accuweather forecast. Cecily thank you. With icy conditions expected in parts of the area tonight. 6abc. Com weather has your covered. You can rely on stormtracker 6 live double scan radar to see which areas are affected next and keep up to date by following each of our meteorologists on twitter and facebook. Other news at this hour. A teacher in the north Penn School District is under arrest accused of having a sexual relationship with a female student. Mark miracle say military science instructor at the Penn High School at the jrotc. School officials were alerted last month and alerted the police. Miller resigned on december 14th he is a former teacher, a judge arraigned miller today and set bail at 50,000. Philadelphia police are trying to track down the bandits that police think struck twice overnight in frafrpg ford. Armed robbery number one the 1500 block of avenue and the 1500 block of grisham street within a half hour. Action News Reporter sara bloomquist is live at northeast detectives. What are the deal tails here . Reporter jim police are operating under the assumption that the same group of masked men carried out both of these armed robberies they happened minutes apart both near the frank ford transportation center. They came and i thought it was cops. The victim that did not want to appear on camera thought they were cops but they were robbers that attacked him at 12 40 a. M. He saw them pull up in a white chevy impala, they wore masks and carried guns. They said give me everything you have been i said i have nothing i am homeless and they hit me with the shotgun in the face and they take everything and then they shot me. The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and went to the hospital for treatment and just before a 18yearold girl was attacked the same way by masked men and was being treated for a head wound. She was grabbed from behind by a male, and was thrown to the grown and there were three other males and she gave up her wallet and continued to kick her. Police are alarmed by the level of violence even after the victims complied with the demands. They are well aware that the streets surrounding the frankford terminal can be dangerous. It has to stop, we need more police out here and we have cameras on the could have beeners but they dont work, they dont care. Its not new to us here. We have no feelings about gun fire because we hear it all the time. This is called a mean street for a reason. Now the teenage victim it just gotten off the l and was walking along busy frankford avenue. There are a lot of business as long the stretch and police hope that surveillance cameras may have picked up either the suspect or vehicle they were traveling in. Live in northeast philadelphia, im sara bloomquist, channel 6 action news. Sara thank you. A 10,000 reward it offered to catch the killer of a store owner. He was shot and killed inside of the frankford parquet yesterday afternoon and Police Believe the motive was robbery and investigators did not reveal if there is Surveillance Video of the suspect or not. The man accused of murdering a woman by stabbing her more than 20 times was in court this afternoon. Only action news was there as byron allen was taken into district court. His preliminary hearing was continued until next month. Police say that allen killed Natasha Gibson in a random attack in september. Allen is also charged in four splashings and sexual assaults in the kensington section of philadelphia. A School Bus Driver in philadelphia is in trouble with the law tonight after leaving a student on his bus unattended for 15 minutes yesterday. Walter perez is live along the 6700 block of haverford avenue in west philadelphia. Walter what happened there . Reporter jim, police say that the driver tried to get himself out of trouble saying he pulled over to use the bathroom at the supermarket but the responding officer found an easy way to prove that was not true. Nicole scott says that for a full hour and a half she had no idea where her 7yearold son was. They didnt tell me where my son was from 4 15 until 5 45 i didnt know where my child was. The youngster was here sitting alone with the Engine Running outside of this shoprite yesterday afternoon on the 6700 block of haverford avenue. Fortunately a Police Officer was patrolling the area and saw the child on the bus. In terms of getting information from the juvenile on the bus, a male exits from the store and begins to run in their direction. That man was the bus driver, identified at jamal henry and the responding officer made the arrest after catching ry in a lie. He told the officer he had a bathroom emergency and the office looked at surveillance and found out that was not the truth. And henry was found carrying a bag of marijuana and arrested on child endangerment and child endangerment. He was employed by the school bus company. And nicole scott says that her son affectionally known as little b is okay. But she says he is never taking the bus again. No little b is getting shelters now chauffeured. Chauffeured and sheltered. The footage shows henry inside making a Western Union transition not going to the bathroom. And he was in the bus for 15 minutes at least before the officer found him. Walter perez, channel 6 action news. Thank you. As many as 900 children who have received federally subsidized vaccines in ocean county may need new injections, the department of health says they may have not have been properly refrigerated. It happened at manahawin at the off of michael bliman. The state has file aid complaint against the doctor. Governor Chris Christie focused on the states drug epidemic in his seventh state of the state event in trenton and christie told his mission in his final year in office will be to save lives because of the opioid addiction. And he requested lawmakers to pass a measure to require insurers to pay for at least six months of drug treatment. There is nothing more important i can do with my last 373 days as governor than this. Lets work to save lives together and start together today. Christie asked everyone to say a prayer for newark paster, joe caster who suffered a medical emergency and had to be removed from the chamber today. President barack obama is back in his home town of chicago tonight where he delivered his farewell add to the american people. Obama is expected to thank americans and urge them not to lose faith in the future despite a divisive election and tickets to attend the historic speech is a hot item. The line outside of the Convention Center is building since early this morning. You can watch the president farewell address here at 9 00 on channel 6 and streaming live at 6abc. Com. Coming up on action news tonight. Rescuers battled the elements to save a horse stuck in an icy pond in chester county. And the Philadelphia Fire Department gets updated life saving equipment and firefighters show us how it all works in smokey situations. I am tracking freezing rain and rain overnight followed by a big january thaw. Wait until you see the temperatures. In the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. And the latest on joel embiid and wayne simmons, that from ducis rogers when action news continues. 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We have news from philadelphia firefighters and without question it will ultimately save lives. John rawlins has story. Imagine a gray world and visible almost nil just shadowy beams. Zero visibility firefighters dont have to imagine this can be their workplace to find and rescue victims in a burning building. This demonstration at the philadelphia fire academy, the smoke not from the flames but a fog machine, the point is real, how do you find victims and avoid pitfalls. Firefighter Daniel Sullivan explains. We have the camera that allows them to see through the smoke and heat and gases. Is that the victim . That is the victim. Hand held imaging cameras can pick the scene for energy. And they are in is of for more than a decade and row placing them with new units at 3,000 to 5,000 a piece. We purchased 27 ladders in the city and going to the company. Besides search and rescue, they can be used to find hazmat situations and through walls. They are already looking at the new generation. We are currently evaluating a thermal imaging camera inside of the mask itself. The mask led by scott safety includes a camera outside and a small display inside of the mask and a firefighter using it could move through the confusing gray world hands free. John rawlins, channel 6 action news. Upper darby police are getting new vests to protect them in the line of duty, michael chitwood, unveiled the new active shooting vest. Underneath their bulletproof vests. Protecting officers in the case of an active shooter and repels rifle rounds and each of the departments 133 officers get a new vest. Sixers getting ready for the knicks tomorrow night and everyone is talking about one sixers that is becoming a true fan favorite. And a phenom on the basketball court. With three wins in the last four gays its easier to trust the process. The rookie is a bit out there but in a fun, good way and his teammates and coach are all in. When joel embiid proclaimed after their third win in four games that the sixers had a chance of making the playoffs. Many thought that was absurd. We were at the bottom of the east conference the last three or four years, i can understand where they are coming from and acting surprised but that say realistic goal and i think we can achieve it. While mathematically that seems far fetched especially because embiid cant play on back to back nights. Coach loves the thinking behind it. That is joel embiid and when i put my own coaching hat on it, i view it more as just a reminder that they think like that. Its more of a mentality i think than anything. Another big step today for ben simmons who actually practiced with the team who needed five against nobody. Scripting some plays, we caught the glimpse in the training room. Brett brown says having him out here made a huge difference. The gym got a lift and you can feel it. We played him as a playing guard and im excited to see he was excited. You should trust it, and him. In camden, new jersey, jaime apody, channel 6 action news. To the flyers. Not the road, the flyers skate in buffalo with the sabers, the flyers lost their last six road games. Wayne simmons is heading to los angeles later this month. The flyers forward is named to his first nhl all start game. The game is set for january 29th. Its kind of surreal makes me think when i was a young kid watching the allstar games and all the great players that played in it, and to even be mentioned in the same breath as all stars in the nhl that is pretty special. Third ranked villanova host number 15 and xavier. The third top 25 opponent in the last four games. The Clemson Tigers returned home to North Carolina and brought something home the national champs. The crimson tide took a lead 30 yard touch down run that was with two minutes left on the clock. Plenty of time for clemson to march down the field. Its a touch down from watson to renfro with a second left on the clock. They won 3531 after falling short a year ago they are national champs. We finished it after 35 long years, its finally coming home baby. Coming home lets go celebration was wild, Christian Wilkins the 310 pound line man did a split. That kind of hurts. And the gatorade was orange. That is how you celebrated. Cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment. Accuweather forecast is about geography tonight. Brief freezing rain tonight northern and west of philadelphia. Stormtracker 6 live double scan not showing a lot of action yet. A little bit of drizzle breaking out near dover, generally we are dry and the problem is with the rain moving in we have been if the freezer so long, between 6 00 thursday night and noon today we were below freezing 114 hours below 32 degrees, that means the ground is pretty frozen and its a while to get the ground temperature as above freezing in areas far to the northern. But a turn around, by thursday you may want to find the torch. With the temperature up to 62 degrees, yesterdays high was 23. So a big temperature turn around but between the two extremes we have rain to deal with. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing the rain that is moving through the ohio valley some freezing rain in western pennsylvania that begins to move in late tonight. Future tracker 6 showing around 9 00 tonight, philadelphia 34 and cloudy and some of that freezing rain beginning to break out north of berks county by 11 00 we have freezing rain in the poconos and the Lehigh Valley and berks county and just kind of skimming northern montgomery and buck county. And by 2 00 this is when the main batch of rain moves in and temperatures in the 40s, 43 in philadelphia and a. 25 inch of rain and still freezing rain in the poconos and dealing with clouds and temperatures around 40 degrees, this is a quick hit, north of the pennsylvania turnpike this is where you watch out tonight for slick spots, fortunately a lot of surfaces have been treated and the sidewalks and driveways, this is where it could be icy with the ground temperature below 32 degrees, its deceiving when you see the temperature outside. Its 34 and you may think its rain and the ground will hold in the cold longer and could be freezing rain and the temperatures gradually rising overnight and the morning commute temperatures around 40 no issues, this is really just going to be a brief event tonight. Then tomorrow looking pretty good, clouds in the morning and sunshine by the afternoon. Much milder 51 in philadelphia and 49 in allentown and wilmington 50 and Atlantic City up to 49. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast rain overnight and freezing rain and tomorrow clouds breaking for peeks of sunshine and milder with 51 degrees, another system, a warm front moving into the area late thursday morning, bringing us another round of rain. During the day on thursday clouds mixed with sun, 62 degrees but it doesnt last long and a cold front brings us colder air and 49 degrees and saturday we drop down to 39 degrees and that cold front will stall over us a ripple of Energy Develops over that and that brings us light snow north of philadelphia, and a wintry mix around philadelphia in the afternoon and evening hours, right now this looks like a light event and clouds break for sunshine at 40 and monday Martin Luther king day of service 43 and tuesday back 10 degrees above normal with a high of 50 and ill have an update on action news tonight at 11 00. Thank you. Abc world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6. Action news continues at 10 00 on phl 17 with brian taff, sharrie williams, adam joseph and ducis rogers. And please join us for action news at 11 00 here on channel 6. For cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire Action News Team im jim gardner, we hope youll join us for action news at 11 00. 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Answering questions about the russian hacking, and the fbi director is asked, are you investigating any possible ties between the russians and members of mr. Trumps team . President obama returning to chicago tonight. His farewell address. And the major storm on the move at this hour. Several feet of snow. Winds 15 miles per hour
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