Satellite6 and action radar showing we have clear skies out there. The temperatures have really plummeted in the region. Less wind than yesterday so thats at least helping us a bit. Its only 8 degrees right now in quakertown. Its 12 in pot pottstown, 11 sat davids, 14 degrees even in the center city area, 11 in browns mills in new jersey, 12 in glassboro, 15 in dover, delaware. Temperatures right now so low and how about the wind chills . It feels like 4 degrees below zero right now in philadelphia and allentown but look at mount pocono. This is why we have that wind chill advisory for the upper elevations of the poconos. Feels like 20 degrees below zero right now on mount pocono. 6 degrees below zero in trenton, 19 wildwood it feels like negative one so the wind chills a serious factor even though the winds will not be as gusty as yesterday, a high of just 31 trees feeling colder than that but a very cold start for sure despite the sunny skies so we may be sunny, we may be dry but you got to bundle up and warm up there car matt pelman. Thats for humanitarian ill tell was i would not like to be doing this morning, karen rogers and that is some construction but the crews are out. Theyre a hardy bunch here along the vine street expressway shut down. They did return from their holiday break last night so both directions of travel are blocked off between this point at the schuylkill and broad street. They should be out of here within the next half hour and of course well keep you posted. We were also scheduled to have overnight construction here on the roosevelt boulevard northbound side between the schuylkill and wissahickon. As you can see there are no crews out right now but they will return tonight at 9 oclock and work both directions on the roosevelt boulevard extension. On the big picture so far not so bad along the schuylkill expressway or i95. Cardington road by cobbs creek golf course i would watch out for fire activity. The crews are still out. They have to salt and sand the roadway because everything turned into a sheet of highs. Watch out for construction on the northeast extension southbound near lansdale. A couple lanes blocked there but they shouldnt be out there too much longer. Matt and a. M. Matt thanks. Breaking rider now a sixyearold boy is safe again after he was briefly kidnapped overnight in northeast philadelphia. Now police say the little boy was asleep in the back seat of a car left run tag 7eleven. A suspect jumped in the drivers seat and took off. Katherine scott is live where this started at bridge and oxford avenue. Katherine. Reporter matt and tam, police say this little boy was asleep in the back seat of the car when it was stolen and police say this would already be a serious concern but this little boy has asthma. His inhaler was at home and with these dangerous temperatures police were afraid what would happen if too much time passed. But lets go to video from not too long ago of that little boy as he was marrie carried Ina Police Officer and reunited with his mother at the 7eleven where this all started. This happened just before 2 30 this morning near bridge and oxford. The child was asleep in the back seat of a honda civic in his pajamas and winter coat when his 30yearold stepfather stopped at the 7eleven and ran inside to make a pump he left the car Engine Running and thats when the suspect took the car and took off driving towards roosevelt boulevard. The car was found about half hour later on the 4300 block of leaper. The engine was left running so the heat was on in the car and police say the little boy slept through the whole thing and was not harmed. The car is being checked for fingerprints and swabbed for dna. Police saint helps that the car had a unique description and unique details. They were able to radio the description out city wide they notified state police and police credited good work by investigators to find this car and child so quickly. A lot of distance can be traveled in a half hour and the family told us that he has asthma and that was a big concern and we knew how bad the weather is. This person would have taken the sixyearold and just threw him out of the vehicle and kept the car now the child is going to be exposed to this brutal cold. Reporter at this point police do not have a detailed description of the suspect but they are viewing Surveillance Video to see if they can find more details. When this person is found police say that he will be charged with auto theft and kidnapping. Were live in northeast philadelphia, katherine scott, channel6 action news. Okay, katherine thank you. Im erin ohearn with a developing story. The frigid temperatures always present firefighters with challenging circumstances and that was the case at the cobbs creek golf course. This is viewer video taken when the blaze broke out around 11 30 last night. The course is located on the 7500 block of cardington road in the Overbrook Park section of philadelphia. The fast moving blaze engulfed the Mansion House which holds the pro shop restaurant and offices. The Upper Darby Fire Department also responded because two buildings adjacent to the back of where the blaze was was threatened. Fire crews had to deal with water supply issues and of course icy conditions. Yeah, the cold and wind always plays a factor. It creates ice quickly especially at these temperatures and members slip and fall so we have to keep our equipment moving so that it doesnt ice up because when we try to take it down it will break. Took firefighters about two hours to put that fire under control. Luckily none of them were hurt. That Mansion House could the no be saved. The cause of the fire hasnt been determined but the deputy chief does not believe it is suspicious this time. Tam, back to you. Okay, thank you, erin. The fire marshal is also investigating a house fire in Montgomery County. Chopper 6hd was over the 600 block of wissahickon avenue in lansdale. The fire broke out just after 10 00 last night. Crews say they arrived to find flames coming from the real of the wood framed cape cod style home. There were no reports of injuries. This is new on action news. A College Student is sharing her story about how she was kidnapped at a gas station in the poconos. 23yearold Rachel Stephenson was returning to Sunni Binghamton from her home on long island wednesday last week. She stopped at a gas station in east stroudsburg. 18yearold ralik chambers jumped nutrifers seat and trove away telling stephenson that he was taking her hostage. She convinced the kidnapper to let her take a call from her father while they drove around for two hours. When they stopped for gas stephenson saw her opportunity to escape. Surveillance video shows her running from the car. The thought of giving him my car was like even just thinking about it now really hard. It was the worst time of my life. Two hours of shear panic cause im 200 miles away from where she was. Police arrested chambers in the harrisburg area after a police chase. He is facing kidnapping and robbery charges. A new jersey couple are accused of gambling with their childrens well being leaving three young kids in a cold car while they went into parx casino. Temperatures were below freezing at the time on saturday evening. Police say 39yearold Jared Evan Nelson and 30yearold ebony walker were inside the bensalem casino for about an hour and a half. Their children ages one, three and eight are now in the care of their grandparents after being checked out by doctors. Happening today, a new top cop takes over the Philadelphia Police department. First Deputy Richard ross will be sworn in as commissioner at his alma mater central high school. He takes over for Charles Ramsey who held the . B job fort years. Ross plans to eliminate the policy of stop and frisk and limit police stops to when there is reasonable suspicion. Jim kenney is now the mayor of philadelphialy he says he has a lot to to starting this morning. He didnt stay out too late at his own inauguration celebration last night. Kenney held what he called a block party at the convention center. The event served as a fundraiser for city schools. You can see more on mayor kenneys busy first day in office on 6abc. Com. Thats where we stream the inauguration ceremony and have posted highlights including the moment that kenny was sworn in. 4 39 is the time and still to come on action news a schooSchool Bus Fire is unable o prevent a new jersey track team from racing to their meet. Local ski resorts finally getting ready to open. Karen. Wind chill below zero everywhere below zero at 4 degrees below zero in philadelphia but minus meant mount pocono. The cold is serious. Details on how long it lasts coming up. Even though its so cold skiers will not find too many local spots to hit the slopes. Right now jack frost big boulder in Monroe County is one of the only resorts currently open to skiers. Blue mountain in Carbon County has powered up its snow makers and expects to be open thursday. Spring mountain in Montgomery County scheduled to open to the public tomorrow afternoon. These temperatures right now perfect for snow making, right . Yes. But you wouldnt want to be outside in it because its so bitter cold its a real issue this morning because of the wind chill. It is below zero throughout the area but youre right we could make snow if we had some precipitation. Just none right now on the radar. Storm tracker6 live double scan showing us that were dry through the area right now. Lets go outside and see what it looks like. Its crystal clear. Yesterday you had to scrape off the car a little bit. Not the case today and thats because of a very low dewpoint. As we look live on sky6 at Philadelphia International airport we have clear skies. The bitter cold a real issue. The current temperature is 13 degrees. The dewpoint is 4 degrees below zero. The dewpoint how much moisture in the atmosphere and we just dont have any. The winds out of the north at 18 and the barometric pressure is rising. In fact the dewpoints are an issue, how it feels, bone dry arctic air with dewpoints overall less than 10 degrees thats so dry so you need to prepare your skin and your body for this very try cold air. This mornings temperature 13 degrees. The last time it was this cold was last march when it was 11 degrees. Remember how cold march was. Association its beeits been ae been in the coldest air so you need prepare yourself getting out. Satellite6 and action radar showing clear skies that has allowed that temperature to drop father. The afternoon cold, sunny, not nearly as cold. 31degree temperature. In the overnight hours the bitter cold once again but the wind chills wont be as bad overnight so this is the worst of it right now. I want to show you future tracker6 looking at the wind chills at 9 30 this morning. Still below zero in mount pocono. Were at least in the Single Digits in the city. We a advance this to their afternoon it will feel like its about 23 degrees in the city and most of the suburbs in the 20s so very cold but not the kind of frigid dangerous wind chills that were currently seeing and in the overnight hours tonight, see that its going to feel about 21 in the city. This is really the worst of it. Lets take a look at your exclusive accuweather 7day very cold. The temperature 31 but this morning the big deal is the wind chills below zero for the first time in a long time. Not quite as harsh tomorrow in the afternoon, 40 degrees for your high. On thursday tits sunny and milder, really nice day, a high of 46. Friday its turning cloudy, 48 degrees for your high. Looks like well have some rain friday night. Saturday maybe an Early Morning shower, mild otherwise 50 degrees temperatures treating you right. What a huge difference in just a few days. Sunday is a wet day periods of rain but the temperature 52. Even in the overnight hours staying above freezing so its just rain for sunday and as we look at monday mostly cloudy skies a high of 44 so the worst of the cold air is happening right now and its because of those wind chills, matt and tam, below zero. Hate the wind chills. I know. But at least its a brief shot. Thats true. Remember you can get that sevenday forecast and check storm tracker6 radar any time at 6abc. Com weather. A School Bus Fire wasnt enough to keep a new jersey team off the track. The track team was waiting on the bus outside Malcolm X Shabazz hig high school on sund. They were preparing to leave for the essex county relay championship when the coach spotted flames from underneath the bus. They escaped through an emergency exit. The bus was engulfed in those flames just seconds later. Some of the teams gear was destroyed in the fire but they still made to it compete in that relay on sunday. Uniforms sharing spikes while they were running. One kid ran the 200 then took his shoes off and gave it to another kid and he will to finish the race with somebody else shoes. The team finished seventh in the county. No word on what caused the fire. Time for your first look at business. At the big board u. S. A. Today reports rental rates could rise 4. 1 percent this year. Part of the problem a labor shortage preventing the construction of new complexes. Rent in the 100 largest metro areas has risen by 22. 5 percent over the last six years. General motors investing half a billion dollars in Ride Sharing Company lyft. The automaker is positioning itself for a possible future where people dont buy their own cars every five or six years, they would share them instead. Gm says it will also work with lyft to develop a fleet of self driving cars betting that you might use an app to have a driverless car come and pick you up one day. The major stock indices suffered major losses yesterday over fears of chinas economy. The dow fell 276 points. It was worse at one point. Futures are flat right now. The Powerball Jackpot is now at 400 Million Dollars and that number may climb even higher by tomorrow nights drawing. The odds of winning though are pretty darn slim about one in 292 million. Officials say this jackpot has exceeded the sixth largest prize in powerball history which was back in 2013. We could always treatment. Its 4 40. Still much more on action news this morning. It is day four of the standoff in oregon where an armed shah has taken over. Affluenza teen trying to hold off deportation to the u. S. Action news will be right back. I want to be able to impact a community, to reach back to where i came from, and pull some people up with me. My name is david, and i am your dividend. It is a little bit refreshing out there this morning. It is down right freezing let me correct that but nonetheless construction crews working hard here on the vine street expressway. They return from their holiday break last night and closed it down in both directions and they havent budged yet. Vine street expressway remains closed both ways between this point at broad street and the schuylkill. Should be clear within the next 10 minutes and of course well keep you posted. All good this morning along 95, the schuylkill itself as well as the roosevelt boulevard. Watch out for the fire crews and the salt trucks out there by Cobbs Creek Golf Club because of the fire overnight along cardington road. Still a good spot to avoid this morning and there are a couple new suburban accidents, one in doylestown bucks county is shutting down the northbound lanes of 202 at 313 swamp road there by the lukoil and the first savings bank. I would come up 263 york road instead of 202. I mentioned overnight construction on the northeast extension southbound by lansdale. That cleared out. All lanes opened with speeds in the 60s and in pottstown watch out for a new wreck along drink street at york street by lourdes and ladies salon and medical spa. Lots of moisturizer being applied there at a. Matt. The fbi continues to monitor a standoff in oregon. An armed militia took over a Federal Building at a National Wildlife refuge. There are lawyer says the hammonds do not want the help from the militia men. The group is led by ammond bundy the son of clive bundy. Because weve allowed our federal government to step outside the bounds of the constitution theyre coming down into the states and taking over the land and the resources. Many of the armed men are from out of state. They are vowing to stay put and defend themselves. Residents in the Rural Community feel uneasy. We havent had normal life since they came in and started trying to intimidate us. Local Law Enforcement has not made any efforts to remove the protestors. Officials say they are hoping for a peaceful and to the standoff. Happening today, ethan couch the socalled affluenza teen will meet with his mexican lawyer today. Hell have to make a decision on whether hes going to stretch out his appeal process. Couch is staying at a mexican Detention Center after he was caught in mexico alongside his mother a few days ago. Authorities say they fled there to avoid a probation violation related to his dui accident that killed four people. Couchs lawyer says the appeal against deportation could delay his clients return to the United States for months but if they decide to drop the appeal then couch could be deported back within a day. 4 53 and were following breaking news. A young boy is briefly kidnapped in northeast philadelphia this morning. Well have the latest in a live report coming up at 5 00 a. M. Theres a new push in florida to have more rape kits tested. Quite a few are just sitting on a shelf. That story next up on action news. Good morning. Youre taking a live look here out across penns landing. Its one of those nights when you tell the dog or the cat they cant sleep in the bed. Last night they could sleep in the bed. All the warmth was good. Its 4 56, 16 degrees, were just going get up to 31 and it will actually feel colder than that because of the wind chill. And new this morning, a new report reveals florida has more than 13,000 untested rape kits sitting in evidence rooms across the state. Experts say not every rape kit is tested because sometimes the rape suspect pleads guilty. Other times the victim is too afraid to proceed with charges but now theres a push for every single one to be tested partly to keep serial rapists from attacking again. The report says it will take at least 8 million to clear the states backlog. A sick woman in upstate new york is advertising for a kid flee donor on her car. She has been in stage five renal failure for two years. Shes on the waiting list but says she needs the help now. She will still have to go through testing and evaluation protocol before Going Forward with a transplant. She got the idea for the sign after she heard that a man found a match by to go something just the same way in buffalo. A run away sheep from australia who missed years of hair cuts finally got sheered. Sheila the sheep escaped from a farm seven years ago. She was roaming forests before being captured in tasmania last week and the first thing on the agenda was for sheila to get a much needed and very overdue hair cutter. The y. W is almost 50 pounds lighter thanks to the sheering. Wow. Nothing left of her. No, its not. Its 4 58 and all new in the next half hour of Action News Police in texas hunt for carjackers after a car salesman was beaten and kidnapped during a test drive. A Home Invasion leaves a local family scared and looking for justice. Those stories and more on action news next. Action news. Delaware valleys leading news program. With matt odonnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. Good morning. Its 5 oclock on this tuesday january 5th and were following several new and breaking stories. A sixyearold was as 17 in a running car when a stranger jumped in and trove away. Were live with the details. Freezing temperatures create big problems for firefighters who battle a house fire in chester county. Just days after the firing of chip kelly, more names are beginning to surface in the eagles search for a new head coach. First lets talk about that cold and the roads. Karen is in for david and matt pelman is here as well. Good morning. Its really dangerously
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