57 degrees by 6 o'clock. probably inching down to about 56 degrees by 8 o'clock. breezy on the bus stop as well. sun returns today overall though 56 degrees by 8 o'clock. by noon, 59. and your high today not quite as mild as the last couple of days but 63 degrees still isn't bad considering that today's average high is down towards the mid 40's. karen, we do have another shot at rain later in the work week and then some chillier air coming in. details ahead. >> all right dave. last time i showed you this shot from the ramp from the schuylkill eastbound to the vine eastbound we saw police on the scene blocking it. you can see traffic is moving just fine so westbound and eastbound vine reopened. crews will return at 11 o'clock and shut down the 59 line in both directions so we'll watch for that. other big picture overall speeds in the 50's for the most part but you want to watch, they are a little bit damp the roads this morning so give yourself a little extra time n port richmond we have an issue here with richmond street remaining closed between lehigh and allegheny. that's until 3 o'clock for some construction they're doing. you'll have to use aramingo as your alternate to that one. and this construction in wynnefield on city avenue past conshohocken of a has been causing problems. construction had been blocking the two lanes. we see they have at least removed the cones but crews are still here on the scene at this point so the construction in the process of clearing out right now. traffic had been getting by just in the turn lane but now that they've removed the cones i think they're going to be leaving this point shortly which is good because that would cause problems if that stayed out here. accident in whitemarsh township on stenton avenue. this disabled vehicle poor guy has been stuck here awhile on bells mill road at paper mill road. tam. >> thank you karen. a hit and run driver knocked a philadelphia police officer airborne and then fled. katherine scott is outside the 17th strict police. she's got the latest. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. the 26-year-old officer is from here at the 17th district. he remains at the hospital this morning in stable condition. as for the suspect, police are still searching for him. police say they know who he is, they just haven't been able to arrest him yet. let's go to video of the suspect's volkswagen. you can see the shattered windshield. police say that gives you an indication of just how hard this officer was struck. police say the officer was hit with such force he was thrown and landed on a parked car smashing a hole in that windshield. investigators say this happened just after 6:30 last night on the 2700 block of sears in grays ferry. seventeenth district police had responded to the report of a plan with a gun. when is suspect jump need a vehicle and tried to flee by going the wrong way down a one-way street. that's when he struck the officer who suffered a severe head injury, a broken leg and a shattered kneecap. the suspect later abandoned the car at 22nd and ellsworth with passengers inside. >> when he fled on foot in his desperation to get away he left his two passengers in the vehicle an 18-year-old female and an 11-year-old boy were in the car. >> reporter: once again police say they know who they're looking for they just have to find him. live in point breeze, katherine scott channel6 "action news. >> katherine thanks. we can learn more today about a body found near the jersey shore. police surrounded the discovery site along the 100 block of vermont avenue in rio grande cape play county yesterday afternoon. they have not yet given details about the gender or age of the person or the cause of death. >> a woman with a gun held up a gas station in north philadelphia. police arrived at the exxon on the 3100 block of north broad street just after 2:00 this morning. they're still taking a look at surveillance tape. so far the woman has not been caught and no injuries were reported. philadelphia police and the fbi are searching for a bandaged bank bandit. surveillance photos captured the suspect with a wrapped up hand wearing a 76ers cap. he held up the citizens bank branch on frankford avenue in mayfair yesterday. the man handed the teller a note grabbed some cash and ran away. the suspect is considered armed and dangerous. a reward is being offered for information leading to his arrest. >> 5:35 now. tonight is the first gop debate since the attacks in paris and san bernadino in the last of the year sewn immigration and terrorism are expected to be big topics for the nine candidates. donald trump will be at center stage again. ted cruz will share in the spotlight. the two are in a virtual tie in iowa. nationally trump still holds a sizable lead. new jersey governor chris christie will join the prime time pack along with john kasich carly fiorina, marco rubio ben carson jeb bush and rand paul, all rounding out the lineup. follow the debate along with our own brian taff. he'll host a live chat with voters and a political analyst on facebook. join him with your questions and comments at facebook.com/6abcaction news. >> penndot is teaming up with the waze app to get you the best realtime traffic data. every morning our karen rogers uses the app as part of your traffic update. now penndot will provide info about crashes road conditions and construction zones to the waze app. in return penndot will use the data reported by app users to improve its road monitoring capabilities. waze says it has more than 417,000 active users in philadelphia. we're all fans of the app and this seems liking that something will make it better. >> it will get you there and it will tell you when you'll be there within like two or three minutes and if you're on the way and it has a better app it will divert you. >> i like how it says in 2 miles there will be an opossum on the side of the road and there it is. storm tracker6 double scan shows you the rain from last night is pretty much gone at this point. a couple of you might still get a little sprinkle but that's not going to last much longer. we have clouds early on over penn's landing and elsewhere. don't those christmas lights look nice around the river rink there. absolutely beautiful picture for you this morning. not exactly feeling like skating weather as we're still in that mild trend. temperature 62 degrees, dewpoint 49, winds out of the west at 14. it's breezy out there but still kind of mild. here are yesterday's highs and i just want to point out that everyone that is colored in yellow and has the asterisk next to it that's a record high that we set yesterday and in philadelphia that was three straight days of the record. then we hit a fourth one because this morning at about 3:00 in the morning, a little bit before then we actually got up to 69 which is a new record high thurifies day. now, that 69 is in the rear-view mirror and we're not going to get that mild again for the rest of the day but four straight days of records really something the way we have had that warm air surge in. there you see the rain going through last night. it is now gone. a lot of cloud cover out to the west but we expect dry air to begin to work its way through those clouds and we should return some sunshine in play. in fact could even get quite a bit of it later today. 56 degrees by 8 o'clock, 58 by 11 o'clock. by 2 o'clock, 62. and 63 is your high around 3 o'clock this afternoon. very warm out there again this afternoon, just not as mild as yesterday. 60 degrees is your high in allentown, 60 in trenton, 71 in reading. keep in mind we are normally in the 40's this time of year so all these numbers look pretty good. 62 in wilmington and more of the same down the shore on or about 60 degrees. tomorrow that rain gets out of here. the related frontal boundary gets on out. high pressure to the north delivers more of a northerly flow and that's going to knock our temperature down a little bit. tomorrow will be a nice day, sunny, not as windy as today but just 57 for a high and then another front comes in on thursday bringing us some rain during the day and behind that front we wind up with cooler air marching in for the weekend. and here you see it in the seven day. your exclusive accuweather 7-day shows 63 today, still mild, not as warm as yesterday but breezy and pretty nice overall. sunny and a little cooler tomorrow. 57 degrees. but still not too bad on wednesday. and then 60 on thursday, cloudy skies in the morning with rain probably arriving sometime after the morning rush hour and periods of rain off and on through thursday. then friday behind that system we're down to 51, a bit cooler with some lingering clouds and then the seat of the cooler air arrives for the weekend. on saturday a trough in the jet stream dips down to our south and we wind up with a cool high of 42 degrees, clouds and sun there. and still chilly on sunday with a high of 46. bundle up for the eagles game sunday night. on monday naturally as winter arrives we're back into the 50's. >> of course. all right. thank you david. it's now 5:39 and still ahead on "action news, a heated exchange lands a coffee shop worker in hot water. we'll explain. >> a plan's romantic gesture shuts down a major interstate in texas. karen. >> we're looking live here in olde city. this is race street at the i-95 ramp. the roads have been drying out. it was a little damp. looking a lot better right now. very light volume here. we'll take you to exton chester county see what it's like there coming up. >> pete rose denied reinstatement. that story a little later on "action news." >> ♪ ♪ this holiday season, my good friend gave to me ♪ ♪ 7 powerball tickets ♪ 6 match 6 chances ♪ 5 cash 5s ♪ 4 cash4lifes ♪ 3 pick 3s ♪ 2 mega millions (joe) happy holidays, rita. 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(joe) happy holidays! ♪ and best wishes from the lottery ♪ >> ♪ >> well, taking a live look at the platt memorial bridge here on this tuesday morning. 5:42. it's 60 degrees, people. sunrise hasn't even happened. it's crazy. winter has been absolutely crazy. >> crazy indeed. >> not even winter yet. >> not winter yet but you did need a coat in the overnight hours. it will feel different later on today but you'll start with traffic. >> yeah, it was in the up are 60's overnight. today even in the afternoon we'll be in the low 60's so we have a nice afternoon. your suburban traffic report if you're coming from there suburbs we know sometimes you have to wake up a little early we've already discussed you don't need any heavy coat out there today but as you are headed out you want to watch for the roads to be a little bit damp. they're starting to dry out already. we had a little leftover drizzle. exton route 100 at commerce drive. one that you know you notice is the clear visibility where yesterday we were really in it with the fog. certainly not the case today so looking a lot better. let's go to the maps here. we had an accident that cleared. stenton avenue at militia hill road traffic there moving better. this disabled vehicle still out here in springfield township at bells mill road at paper mill road. crews working on a drowned tree blocking a lane on state park lane near skinny lane in bucks county. also in bucks county some construction blocking the left lane in the turnpike eastbound at bensalem. let's show you the commuter traffic report this morning. if you're coming in from mount laurel burlington county and you take route 38 over the ben franklin bridge looking pretty good right now. right now just a 31 minute ride. not seeing any reports of problems out there. how about the temperatures? no problem there either. 58 degrees already in warrington, 57 in saint davids. 55 in center city. we had record highs four straight days in a row, 60 in hammonton, 60 in buena, 60 degrees in dover delaware as you head out and 63 will be the afternoon high later today. matt and tam. >> thanks karen. a stray bullet struck a girl walk, home from school. "action news" reporter annie mccormick is live outside east detectives in the hunting park section with more. annie. >> reporter: and matt that's right, police are still looking for the gunman that hit this little girl, only 11 years old with a stray bullet as she was walking home from school. she was only a half a block from her home at the time that she was struck by that bullet. well, numerous 911 calls brought police to the scene around 3:25 yesterday when the 11-year-old was walking home from school in the 700 block of west luzerne street. at least four shots were fired and a bullet hit her right foot. twenty-fifth district officers arrived on the scene and rushed her to saint christopher's hospital in their cruiser. the little girl is expected to be okay. jose santos walked by as the little girl was hit. >> i was coming -- i was coming from over here to the bar to buy me a beer. >> yes. >> and i see all this shooting, you know, and the little girl, she was coming this way from school. >> uh-huh. >> from the school. and they got her right there, right there by the school they got her and i went back. i don't walk this way because they probably got me, too. >> reporter: and he's saying that he had to run away at the time. many people there wanted to get out of the way as they heard those shots fired, at least four shots fired. now, police do have surveillance video. the camera was pointing in the direction of the gunman much police say that they're looking for a man wearing a black skull cap and a black shirt way brown dragon on the front of that shirt. of course if you have any information you are urged to contact east detectives. for now reporting live outside of east detectives in hunting park, annie mccormick channel6 "action news." >> annie, thanks. newly released security video shows michigan coffee shop employee throwing hot coffee at a customer. the incident happened in west land back in okay. the customer says he asked a female employee to toss out his old cup of coffee. she refused and will she handed him his fresh cup of coffee he began to drive off. then a customer says a male employee threw the hot coffee. the customer returned to the drive through window threw the cold coffee and spit at the employees. the coffee shop released a statement saying they have taken the a appropriate steps to address the matter. >> happening today, president obama will speak at a naturalization ceremony in washington, d.c. the president hopes to use the occasion to put a human face on the syrian refugee crisis. yesterday the president assured americans that airstrikes by the u.s. and its allies have knocked out key isis leaders in syria. his message to the remaining terrorists is simple. are you next. the u.s. is getting support from a new united front. saudia arabia says it will head an islamic military alliance to fight terrorism. the coalition consists of 34 majority muslim nations. its joint operation center will be based in riyadh. >> falling in love can make you do crazy things. case in point. a houston man proposed to his girlfriend in the middle of a highway. it was her favorite spot to see the city skyline. friends followed the couple in cars and stopped across all lanes to block traffic. the romance was lost on drivers who honked their horns and sped by on the shoulder. houston police, though, say they did not receive any formal complaints. in hindsight the man admits this probably wasn't a great idea. his girlfriend did say yes. >> memorable but not necessarily smart. it is 5:47 and still ahead an apartment with its own ski slope. >> a texas parent has many questions about a teacher's take-home as assume. the topic is smuggling drugs. david. >> all right. so, we are dressing the kids in light jackets. we are still mild in the upper 50's and low 60's right now it's very breezy across the region today. and this afternoon not as warm as yesterday. light jackets though will probably do. i'll have your day planner forecast and we'll check out your array of area temperatures. that's coming up next. >> ♪ >> the way our december is going, this would be a pretty horrible idea. an architect in kazakhstan wants to build a ski slope on top of an apartment building in that country's capitol. the slope would descend 1,000 feet down from the 21 story building aptly named the slalom house. the designer says the project would cost $70 million and would require a certain amount of snow from mother nature. >> that sounds like somebody who just has $70 million to waste. let's do something fun. >> hazard. >> you need to be pretty brave that's for sure and you need some snow. let's take a look outside right now and see what's going on. we had a little bit of drizzle here and there but we're drying out nicely as you can see. this is northeast philadelphia woodhaven road at thornton. no problems. 55 northbound past 49 construction blocks the left lane. that will be until about 3 o'clock as you head out, dave. >> alall right, karen on the big board this morning we are mild and the rain from last night is pretty much gone at this point. 59 degrees under mainly cloudy skies and pottstown. 57 in saint davids, 57 chester. 57 martins creek. in south jersey more of the same. low 60's across most of the area from the boardwalk in ac all the way up to cinnaminson and up to the mid 60's in dover and smyrna or at least getting there shortly. as we take a look at our errand planner today well it's another great day to get stuff done. it will be blustery with winds as high as 20 to 30 miles per hour but mild. 56 by 9 o'clock, 59 by noon and your high today is that 63-degree reading, that's the afternoon high anyway. our official high for this date is actually a record setting 69. why don't you see it here? it already happened back around five minutes to 3:00 in the morning so another record that's four in a row in philadelphia, matt and tam. >> thank you david. and don't forget you can always find the seven-day forecast and a live look at storm tracker6 double scan radar any time of day on our web site. just head to 6abc.com/weather. a father in texas says his sixth grade son's homework made him mad. he says it looked to him like a how to for becoming a drug dealer. scott pick was reviewing his son's assignment when he came across a critical thinking exercise following the cocaine trade. it listed steps from the cartels to the drug labs and how cocaine is smuggled and sold. pit confronted school officials. he they told him the study sheet would be reviewed before being considered for future use. >> a motorist showed up in the nick of time to help a driver in distress in washington state. dan windham was driving down the road on wednesday morning when a woman flags him downly she directorred him to where high water. morning couldn't roll down the windows and couldn't open the door hadn't no way to break through the window. he was holding his breath when windham busted through the glass. >> hand came up over the top and i said oh, my god. i grabbed him. first thing out of my mouth was you're alive. >> the two men reunited in downtown portland last week where morta thanked windham for saving his life. >> lawmakers on capitol hill are reportedly close to hammering out a $1.1 trillion spending bill. house speaker paul ryan says some details on the plan could be released later today. the measure contains victories for both parties. government funding runs out wednesday at midnight. congress will likely pass another short term extension to allow time to vote on this bill. and there's new information about a deadly officer involved shooting at a northeastern pennsylvania wal-mart. state police say that shooting has been ruled justified. police say 20-year-old andrew joseph todd walked into the east stroudsburg store on saturday carrying two handguns and a machete. witnesses told police todd was threatening and pointing a weapon at customers. officers shot and killed todd after they he say he refused to drop his weapon and pointed it at them. no one in the store was hurt. >> major league baseball announced it will not reinstate former philly pete rose to the game. the sports all time hit leader had app field new commissioner rob manfred. in rejecting his attempt at reinstatement manfred questioned whether rose understands the damage his actions caused to the game plus he says rose continues to gamble even as he tries to overturn his lifetime suspension. >> 5:57 now. coming up at 6:00 a.m. bill cosby is firing back at some of his accusers take something legal action of his own. >> a city that has passed workers rights protection is working to address the drivers of private ride sharing services. >> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪ >> good morning, it's 6 o'clock on this tuesday december 15. here's what's happening. >> a violent hit and run crash lands a philadelphia police officer in the hospital and now a manhunt is on the way portman behind the wheel. >> police say two women attempted to turn a berks county wal-mart into a boxing ring in two separate incidents. the story is brand new. >> after a 10 year hiatus star wars is back. there was a big premiere last night. the rehe contraction so far too thumbs up. we'll give you the latest. >> and we have some crazy things going on with the temperatures this morning. let's turn to david and karen. good morning. >> it is still mild out here. it actually was even milder a few hours ago just before 3 o'clock we set a record high for this date at 69 degrees but the temperatures have settled and they won't go quite that warm later this afternoon. we also have some clouds overhead although you can see he some breaks around philadelphia and moving up to the north and overhead on the terrace right now we are seeing some stars bre