him including that he was a newlywed. >> accuweather a tracking the coldest blast of arctic air this season. jack frost is creeping towards the delaware and lehigh valleys. uh-oh. >> first up dave murphy is outside. he'll tell you how it feels to be out there and karen rogers is taking a look at your roads. good morning. >> it already feels pretty chilly out here on the terrace. i want to start you with storm tracker6 live double scan. we got a fairly good dose of rain overnight but most of it is gone now. there is however some low lying cloud cover and you may see some sprinkles falling out of the low lying clouds and maybe some drizzle on the windshield. the last of the affect tiff showers appears to be drying up over burlington county, new jersey. the wide view shows you more clouds to the west but we expect to break out from under these clouds a little bit later today and get at least some sunny breaks. 41 degrees is your currents temperature. there's a little bit of a breeze blowing so it is definitely a morning for coats again. 38 degrees in allentown and up in the poconos we were expecting a winter weather advisory to expire right around now but we have will some freezing drizzle up there and i'm looking at a temp of 32 so i would be careful if you're driving around up towards the poconos for another hour or so. 41 degrees by 7 o'clock. 43 by 10 o'clock. 45 by noon. probably pretty cloudy during the morning with those sprinkles dying away. and then by 3 o'clock a high of 50 with some sun coming back hopefully and 43 degrees by 6 o'clock. we have colder air coming in for the end of the week karen. more on that coming up in the seven day. what about roads right now? >> you showed us those temps. the roads are just wet and not icy but it doesn't matter it's a full-fledged mess out there with accidents everywhere. schuylkill expressway eastbound at montgomery drive an accident here and now you can see this traffic really jammed as you head towards center city. you're heavy from past the boulevard to past montgomery. the accident has been blocking the right lane. emergency workers on the scene. so some slow speeds down top 7 miles an hour at this hour on the schuylkill expressway. we had another accident on the schuylkill earlier that is cleared and also here on the big picture we've got an accident in bala cynwyd on rockhill road at route 23 so police are on the scene with that one as well. taking you over here, this is the ramp from woodhaven road to i-95 southbound. we see police here. there's an accident with a vehicle that spun out facing the wrong way so that's causing a problem this morning on a ramp nonetheless. live in new jersey look at 42. i mean you're just hardly moving. at this hour you're usually flying by. 42 northbound jammed solid at this point. we had an accident blocking now the two left lanes northbound past 295 and that's creating a big delay on 42 as well. one other new jersey accident is right on the turnpike northbound approaching exit 7a and they've got to do emergency construction because of this one. matt. >> thank you, karen. detectives are on the alert for a purse snatcher. they say the robber snatched a woman's handbag at a south philadelphia shopping center in broad daylight and then she tried to get it back. "action news" reporter annie mccormick is live at third street and oregon avenue and has video of the entire thing. annie. >> reporter: and matt this happened in the middle of the day in this busy parking lot outside of oregon market. there's also a bank here and several other stores and as you said, she tried to get her purse back and she was dragged for several feast well, take a look at this video that was released by south detectives in the hopes that somebody may recognize the vehicle. watch closely as the woman puts groceries in her trunk after shopping at the oregon market here in the 300 block of oregon avenue. police think that the thief stalked her as he circled the parking lot then watched as she put her purse in the passenger seat of her car while she's putting the groceries in the trunk that is when police say the thief struck, got her purse out of the passenger side and then she chased him. he jumped into his vehicle and then the -- victim stopped him and she was dragged before she fell off the car. this happened three weeks ago. police just released the video yesterday. they describe the suspect's vehicle as distinctive. they say there's a late model toyota highlander. now back out here live the woman was not seriously injured and police say that they do discourage people from going after thieves because they don't know if they could be armed or not. if you have any information about who this could be you're urged to call 686-tips. reporting live in south philadelphia, annie mccormick channel6 "action news." back to you. >> annie i'm glad she wasn't more seriously hurt. we are learning more about that rookie new jersey state troop here died in the line of duty. trooper frankie williams was that responding to reports of an erratic driver in millville when another carp crossed the grassy median and slammed into his cruiser killing them both. prior to becoming a state trooper williams had worked at the lowes in egg harbor township. bill warren jr. is williams' childhood friend. >> guys like me who didn't have people looking out for them he was the one that stepped up and looked out for us. he took care of us. he took us under his wing. >> investigators say the driver who plowed into williams was 61-year-old psychiatrist lloyd rudley of elmer. williams levers behind new wife who he just married two months ago. funeral arrangements have not yet been announced. >> green party nominee jill stein's petition for recount will get a hearing before a pennsylvania judge on friday. lawyers for stein for the commonwealth of pennsylvania and for donald trump will have 45 minutes to make their case. stein held a rally outside trump tower on monday and called pennsylvania's election system a national disgrace. she insisted the state's voting system is vulnerable hackable and uses antiquated technology. >> the nation is marking the 75th anniversary of the japanese attack on pearl harbor on december 7th 1941. sky6 is taking a live look at the battleship new jersey along the camden waterfront which took part in the war in the pacific. a ceremony will take place on the deck of the ship at 10:00 a.m. >> 6:06. at&t and time warner would like to make a deal but they may be facing a tough environment to get it done. chloe molosk is in for maribel aber live at the nasdaq in times square. good morning chloe. >> reporter: good morning tam. the ceo's of at&t and time warn her try and sell their $85 billion merger to lawmakers today. executives will that appear before a senate anti-trust panel. some have criticized the deal that also includes president-elect donald trump who has said the proposed merger concentrates too much power in the hands of too few. the deal would combine the second largest u.s. telecom company with time warner's media brands which includes cnn. the dow closed at an all time high for the second straight session as financial stocks and telecom shares rallied. futures point a hire open. reports on job openings and consumer credit are due out later today. seaworld cutting jobs after a major drop in attendance. more than 300 positions are going to be eliminated at the company's 12 theme parks including sesame place in middletown township. the job cuts are part of plan to cut costs by $65 million. attendance at seaworld parks was down by almost half a million people in the first six months of the year. that's the latest here. back to you guys. >> all right, chloe thanks so much. let's turn now to dave murphy a little bit of explain moisture still out there not a lot though. storm tracker6 live double scan you took a look at this early view on radar and you hardly see anything at all. there's a little batch here and there and i'll go in tighter on that in a second. let's get you outside. we got lots of cloud cover over the region and that would include the platt bridge in south philadelphia and low lying cloud cover you can kind of see some of that here in this picture and in some cases it's low enough to put some drizzle on the windshield. as for active showers we're almost done with these right there around wilmington you can see a little bit of that. a little more out near coatesville and just a speckled patch of precipitation. new jersey mainly dry. there's a little bunch of stuff just to the north of the a.c. expressway in atlantic city but where you don't see those little patches of green there is that chance of some drizzle so that's something to keep in mind during the morning commute. 38 degrees in allentown now, 38 in reading. up in the poconos closer to the freezing mark and there has been some freezing drizzle up there. if you're plan on getting up there in the next hour or so careful of that. 41 degrees in philadelphia, run in wilmington, 42 currently in millville, 44 cape may. no icing in our immediate region. too warm for. that by 9:30 there might be a couple sprinkles and showers getting out of here but it does look like those end pretty quickly this morning and by later this afternoon there's the chance that we'll actually break up those clouds and return some sunshine into play. up in the lehigh valley mostly cloudy overall though. chilly, 48 is all you'll see on the thermometer. down the shore getting up to about 50 this afternoon, mostly cloudy a bit on the breezy side. winds only running about seven to 14 miles per hour today. that's not enough to knock the hat off your head but adds to that little chilly feel. ocean temperature 47 for the purpose those of you getting the wet suits on. probably not many but maybe a couple. 50 degrees is the high in philadelphia, mostly cloudy and chilly and winds out of the northwest at seven to 14. overnight tonight mainly cloudy and cold getting down 36 in philadelphia and similar numbers in the suburbs. winds out of the west at six to 12 miles per hour. and then tomorrow you know what, today with that high of 50 not much wind maybe it's a day to get outside and get the rest of the holiday lights set up or something like that because by tomorrow, you're looking at 45 for a high and in the afternoon and evening the winds will going to pick up making it feel even cooler. there's a chance of an isolated shower and then as we get into friday and saturday, highs around 40, wind chills in the 20's. the colder air is right around the corner. your exclusive accuweather 7-day t-visit is today's high mostly cloudy. 45 tomorrow, clouds, some sun a-late shower or sprinkle or even a flurry possible and then blustery and colds on friday with a high of 42 but feeling like it's in the 20's and a little pop-up flurry is not out of the question there. still brisk and cold on saturday, 38 the high. again feeling like the 20's and 42 on sunday, still chilly way mix of clouds and sun for the eagles. some sunday night rain is possible and then monday cloudy and rainy. tuesday we may still be look along the some rain. monday morning before dawn could be interesting in the northern and western suburbs as a little bit of mixing is possible before a quick change to rain. so, northern and western suburbs monday morning. >> all right, thank you david. >> yeah. >> 6:10 and when we come back protestors on a college campus speaking out against a controversial speaker. >> time magazine set to name its person of the year today. from politicians to performers we'll run down the finalists. karen. >> look at the jam on route 42. this is right by the new jersey turnpike here and you can see the blockage. we're jammed from 41 to past 295 because of an accident there. we'll talk about other problems in the area when we come back. >> ♪ ♪ i want a hippopotamus for christmas ♪ ♪ only a hippopotamus will do at the united states postal service, we deliver more online purchases to homes than anyone else in the country. and more hippopotamuses, too. 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have to sit through all those lights. not sure that would be a whole lot better. new jersey turnpike northbound approaching exit 7a we have this accident. they actually have to do emergency construction because of it so blocking the right lane another turnpike if you're heading northbound and blocking the entrance to the woodrow wilson service plaza so make sure you have gas if you're heading on the turnpike northbound. here's the schuylkill. we had two accidents this morning on the schuylkill. this is eastbound. we city emergency workers. some have left but they're blocking the right lane so eastbound schuylkill jammed past city avenue to past montgomery a 29 minute ride from the blue route to the vine and in bala cynwyd montgomery county rockhill road at conshohocken state road police are on the scene with that accident. a 19 minute ride on i-95 southbound, 29 minutes on the schuylkill eastbound from the blue route to the vine and again just had a live update 32 minutes now a-23 minute ride on the 42 northbound so really your majors are all jammed and also on the waze app we found a member of our 6abc team trolley talking about an accident on north side broad street near rockland street. watch for that. storm tracker showing most of the rain is out of here, just a little bit of drizzle, a brief shower here or there and that's it but the roads are already we had so it's like the damage is done. matt and tam. >> thank you, karen. new this morning, it's been a night of protests on the campus of texas a & m university. hundreds of people gathered outside of the student center last night in college station to show their outrage over richard spencer's speak he know guage. spencer leads a white nationalist organization. campus police say two nonstudents were arrested. >> i mean it's his right to say what he wants but it's also our right to reject that type of message. >> a and m officials say they did not schedule spencer's speech. the university strongly rejected 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break today. let's check your jammed traffic. look at this. what a horrible sight at this hour. this is route 42 by the new jersey turnpike. that's northbound traffic and you can see how jammed it is. those taillights. how about the travel time. a 29 minute ride from the a.c. expressway to 295 and that's because we have an accident past 295 blocking the two left lanes. how about the schuylkill? yup, jammed here, too. eastbound from city avenue to past montgomery. you're looking live at the boulevard an accident in montgomery blocks the right lane with emergency workers on the scene dave. >> all right karen. on the big board 41 degrees by 8 o'clock. 43 by 10 o'clock. 45 by noon. lots of clouds this morning and a few sprinkles around some low lying cloud cover giving you some drizzle on the windshield. by 3 o'clock though we get up to 50 and that's probably the warmest high we'll see for the next several days so maybe this afternoon is the one where you use to get out to the market or 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[vo] is it a force of nature? or a sales event? the season of audi sales event is here. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models. sales event ends january 3rd. >> ♪ >> developing now on "action news" a powerful earthquake has killed nearly 100 people in indonesia and the death toll continues to climb. >> a purse snatching victim risks her safety to try to get her handbag during a brazen daylight robbery. >> new this morning a crook in the lehigh valley known as the christmas city steals the heart of the holiday display. >> some of us nice and cozy inside, one of suspect -- us is not. >> it's chilly and a little bit damp. storm tracker6 live double scan shows you're not going to see a lot of rain n chester county there's a couple blips of green still moving through. even where you don't see the green low lying clouds and fog are producing drizzle on the windshield and a lot of your road surfaces are still on the damp side. karen with a lot of accidents. she'll talk about that so slow it down. we're looking at some breaks in the clouds out to the west of the it will be a cloudy start. some of the low lying cloud cover not being picked up but there's still a lot of cloud cover around we expect sunny breaks later today. 41 degrees right now in philadelphia, 38 allentown, and the poconos still the freezing mark. they lifted the winter weather advisory but we've had some freezing drizzle this morning. take it easy at least until we get past sunrise. forty four cape may. the winds in the single digits for the most part and even a little bit of a breeze in this cool damp airport. you definitely feel it. 41 degrees by 7 o'clock. 43 by 10 o'clock and then by noon we're up to a chilly 45. probably still fairly cloudy. later in the afternoon we're hone for some sun coming back and a high of 50 around three block clock before we dip back to 43 by 6 o'clock. even colder air coming in overt next several days karen. i'll have more on that coming up. wet roads leading to a lot of problems, right. >> it is a full-fledged mess on the roads. the roads are just wet. they're not icy but we're having accidents everywhere. check out the delay here. a 43 minute ride on 42 northbound from the a.c. expressway to 295. often at this hour we may see 12, 15 minutes. look at everyone on 42 northbound just jammed solid from 168 the black horse pike to past 295 an accident was blocking the two left lanes. it's now been pushed to the shoulder so hopefully this number will start to go down but a mess on route 42. i would try to wait it out if you can and we're also getting word of an accident in camden that we're checking into on river road and federal street and it's involving a car and a train so details on that still just coming in. another new accident on 295 northbound approaching rancocas woods delran. the left lanely is blocked. it's now 37 miles an hour on 295 heading northbound there. on the schuylkill expressway our accident has cleared. two accidents on the schuylkill. they both cleared. eastbound traffic at montgomery drive still pretty heavy from city avenue to past montgomery. we have a 32 minute ride eastbound between the blue route and the vine. a new accident in pottstown. route 100 northbound at shoemaker road. also an accident on the ramp from woodhaven road eastbound to i-95 southbound. a vehicle ran off the roadway that were facing the wrong way. wondering if they're blocking traffic at the moment accident lab out here awhile but i'm seeing even more emergency workers. hard to z even more emergency workers on the scene. looks like they may be blocking traffic here. a mess of a morning commute matt and tam. >> okay, thank you, karen. developing this morning, tragedy in that indonesia. a strong under sea earthquake has killed at least 97 people and seriously injured 78 others. the six points five magnitude quake struck early this morning. hundreds of buildings have collapsed. there's a frantic rescue effort under way right now as dozens of villagers soldiers and police try to reach victims in the hardest hit areas. >> president-elect donald trump is taking a day off from his thank you tour to hold more meetings include wind gust north carolina governor pat mccrory who just conceded defeat to his opponents on monday. trump made a stop in the tarheel state last night. during a rally he formally introduced the man he has tapped to be the next secretary of defense. retired general james mattis. >> general mattis is the living embodiment of the marine corps motto semper fidelis, always faithful. >> back at trump tower the president-elect called for canceling boeing's plans to develop a new version of air force one. blasting what he asserts is an inflated budget and he posed way japanese co who promises to invest $50 billion in new tech startups in the u.s. >> vice president joe biden took a jab at trump on late night tv as he once again refused to rule out his own 2020 presidential bid. biden suggested that in four years he'd be in better shape than the president-elect to run for officers. vice president biden will be at the university of delaware later this morning for the inauguration of its new president. biden will then return to washington where a bipartisan tribute him is planned on the senate floor. 'tis the season for crooks to ratchet up their crimes. newly released surveillance video shows a purse snatching at a south philadelphia parking lot that has s as terrifying as it is bold. the victim tries to get her bag back but she's lucky slaw not badly hurt. now this happened tap grocery store park, lot at 300 -- at 330 oregon avenue. the thief watches as the woman puts groceries in the trunk of her today. he had already seen her put her purse in the passenger seat so he swipes that. she runs after him as he trounce his vehicle and actually he drags her for few feet. >> heroin crisis has claimed another life in bucks county. falls township police responded to yet another overdose death last night. that makes five deaths in just lever days in the community. police say two people who were with the victim are now in custody. it is unclear if the dark and stormy conditions led to this deadly pedestrian crash in camden county. a pickup truck struck an elderly man along the 400 block of south black horse pike in blackwood at 6:00 p.m. the impact left the victim's items scattered on the highway even on the roof of the striking vehicle. the driver remained at the scene. farther north in new jersey it was cold enough for snow. drivers were dealing with slush and lightly covered roads in randolph morris county. temperatures are expected to dip below freezing in that community tonight. >> all right. time now to talk about just how cold it's going get in these parts. >> yeah, we are looking at a chill coming in. poconos got some snow last night too and a little freezing drizzle this morning so be careful if you're driving in the poconos. storm track sticks life double scan shows that you most of the rain from overnight is gone. a quick look at the western suburbs and chester county still picking up a couple sprinkles and showers. same story in montgomery county and most that of in green you see around doylestown is grounds clutter on the radar. you have cloudy skies though and a lot of low lying clouds. even know where you don't see green on the radar there's the possibility of drizzle on the windshield this morning and that will probably be the case until maybe 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock this morning. 41 degrees in philadelphia, it's chilly as you step outside. even though the winds are only running at 8 miles per hour, you feel it when the wind starts to pick up. it's cold and damp and also a little bit on the breezy side. by 9 o'clock we still are probably looking at a couple of sprinkles and showers around but they get out of here pretty quickly. later in the after plan to we might see the clouds break up a bit and there's the possibility of the return of some sunshine later. temps today kind of cool. 41 degrees by 8 o'clock. 43 by 10 o'clock. 45 by noon. it might not seem exactly balmy but when you consider that's going to be the warmest temperature you get on the thermometer over the next seven days maybe this afternoon is the time to get out there, get any more outdoor activities or chores done. by 5 o'clock, we're back down 46 degrees. not all that windy today, just a little breezy. 48 is your high in allentown, upper 40's in fact in lancaster reading and trenton. on or about visit in the rest of the i night. corridor loan 50's as we go down through millville and cape may this afternoon. tomorrow we drop to 45 for a high whip winds picking up also a the day goes on. there could be a late isolated shower or even a flurry. and then both friday and saturday look out, colder air from the northwest starts to swing in. we get highs around 40 and wind chills making it feel like it's in the 20's both friday and saturday s your seven-day from accuweather, today's high 50 as you can see. pretty good day overall compared to what's coming next. tomorrow just 45, clouds, some sun. and then 42 blustery and cold on friday with wind chills in the 20's and maybe a pop-up flurry prearound. still brisk and colds on saturday, 38 degrees with wind chills in the 20's. and for the eagles game on sunday, clouds and sun, 42. looks like it stays dry with rain holding off until night. monday and tuesday cloudy and rainy both days and in fact the rain in the morning in the northern and western suburbs on monday morning may actually start out as a wintry mix. when you get upper merionly monday morning in the north and western areas, you want to be careful of that. keep your eyes on the forecast. >> you got it david. thank you. 6:38 and a change of heart a woman steals part of apholate activity set -- nativity set in christmas city and it turns up in the next town glover a blown tire doesn't stop a suspect but a brave driver does. more video of the chase out west and its dramatic ending. karen. >> traffic is moving once again right here on the ramp from woodhaven road eastbound to i-95 southbound. we still see a lot of emergency workers with this accident where the vehicle was facing the wrong way. i'm going have details on an accident with a car and a train when "action news" comes right back. >> ♪ >> we're looking at jammed traffic wherever you go. really a lot of accidents but check out this. a 51 minute ride now on 42 northbound. that is a huge delay. almost an hour. oftentimes it's 12, 15 minutes. 51 minutes from the a.c. expressway to 295. so, 42 northbound is extra heavy because of an accident that's up ahead and was block the two left lanes past 295. it's now on the shoulder but big delays right now on 42. other problems in new jersey, near camden we've got river avenue near federal street an accidents here with a car and a river line train so this is causing problems on the roads there at river avenue and federal street. and also the river line is currently suspended because of that. and that's between 36th street and the walter rand transportation center so just coming in an accident way car and a river line train causing problems on the roads there as well as the rails so that's tannish camden right now with our breaking news. in burlington county 295 northbound approaching rancocas woods we've got an accident here as well. 26 miles an hour near that accident scene as it blocks the left lane so that's causing slowing. on the schuylkill expressway we had two earlier accidents eastbound so that eastbound now a 30 minute ride between the blue route and the vine but all lanes at least have reopened n pottstown an accident here. 100 north of northbound at shoemaker road. one in sumneytown mike upper gwynedd. nothing more than a couple showers that are going move through. most of the rain is out of here but it's just that the roads are wet and we've got problems everywhere. they're just wet and not icy but nonetheless slow it down. >> will do. thank you, karen. you would think the last thing you would want to snatch from a nativity scene is the baby jesus. surveillance video captured a woman doing just that in christmas city itself, bethlehem pa. it happened at city hall plaza early sunday morning. she was also seen walking a dog and driving off in a dark car believed to be a saturn i eye on. the jesus statue later found in bethlehem township. police say an incoherent note was way it. >> a north jersey woman is speaking out after losing her son. alex ghassan was with his fiancée at a dance party. this is some of the last video shot before the blaze. you can see the date and time in the corner. it was about an hour before the fire. ghassan's mother is now caring for the twin daughters that he leaves behind. >> i don't have time to cry right now. the only thing i can do is really make sure that my granddaughters will be okay. >> investigators are saying a refrigerator or another electrical appliance may have sparked the flames that killed 36 people. a judge in south carolina rejected a request to delay the trial of dylann roof. he faces charges for killing nine people at a black church charleston. his attorneys cite the michael slager trial. slaying area former police officers was charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black man. his mistrial has been met with outcries and anger. >> new this morning, a driver suspected of being under the influence led police on an hour long chase through los angeles mostly on three wheels. the back tire had blown out but he continued speeding as sparks flew out of the back. at one point he clipped the back wheel of a cyclist. eventually he drove through app neighborhood where the driver of a pickup truck blocked the car. police then arrested the driver without incident. >> ♪ >> it is 6:45. and a live preview of "gma" is up next. david. >> we are dressing the kids warmly this morning. temps are down around 40. it's a little bit of a breeze and it's one of those cold damp mornings. in the afternoon things do get better. i'll have your 12-hour forecast coming up in just a couple of minutes. >> time for a preview of "gma." >> let's turn to robin roberts live at the "gma" studios. robin starting to feel a chill outside. how was it coming into work this morning. >> reporter: my goodness matt and tam it is cold outside. baby it's cold outside. 19 states from california to new york are under winter weather alerts this morning. arctic blasts ripping across the country dangerous road conditions throughout the north as a new storm heads for the northwest. also ahead those overnight protests at texas am during an appearance of one of the leaders of the alt right. juju chang sat down with him movement coming up. after that controversial release and delayed arrest the man accused of killing joe mcknight the cher river in louisiana spoke out at a press conference h to bleep out some of what was said to him. he's blasting those who criticized his department's decision. dan aim abrams and nancy grace are both here live in our studio weigh in. live here chris pratt talking about his new movie with jennifer lawrence called passengers. matt and tam you got to go see it. >> it does look really good. >> thanks robin. >> reporter: yeah. >> five minutes passed since my last traffic report. that means i have that several new accidents that have come in t look at this one right here right on the on-ramp the ramp from fox street to the roosevelt boulevard southbound. you see a number of emergency workers police penndot all on the scene and traffic is kind of squeezing by them to get here on the ramp so watch for that one southbound the ramp from fox street to the boulevard southbound partially blocking the ramp. new accident in whitemarsh, township on ridge pike at baron hill road. one in norristown at dekalb street at wood street. upper gwynedd one on sumneytown pike at west point pike. you get the idea dave? it is a messy commute. >> just a little bit wet out there too karen but it seems to be just fluff to cause problems. lingering sprinkles and showers real light stuff moving through new castle county delaware into salem county delaware county montgomery county chester county. areas where you don't see green there still could be drizzle out there. your 12-hour forecast we'll start with right now. 41 degrees in philadelphia, 38 in allentown, 44 in cape may. and moving through the day it does look like we stay in the 40's through noon. by 3 o'clock we get a high of 50 degrees and hopefully by 3 o'clock or at some point during the afternoon we start to seat return of some sunshine. by 6 o'clock, we're back to 43. matt. >> thank you david. and as you know, temple football must embark on a new era. baylor university is expected to formally introduce matt rhule as its new head coach today. rhule leaves temple on a high note. the owls won the american athletic conference title game and had back to back 10 win seasons. fans and players wish rhule nothing but the best. >> he proved he's a very good coach so it doesn't surprise me that the bigger schools would wants to i guess essentially poach talent. it happens all the time. >> my first year actually i was extremely 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purse snatcher. they say the robber snatched a woman's handbag at a south philadelphia shopping center in broad daylight back on november 27th and then dragged her across the lot as she tried to stop him. breaking right new vehicle crashed along the new jersey transit river line leaving train service suspended right now. let's go karen rogers. >> thwart. it's river avenue near federal street and this is suspended the river line train so it's suspended between 36th street and the walter rand transportation because of this accident involving a car an river line train so causing problems this morning. also in new jersey, 42 looking a little better. earlier you might remember this was a 50 minute ride from the a.c. expressway 295. and right now we're jammed from the a.c. expressway to past 295. that accident was blocking two left lanes. it's now been pushed offer to the shoulder so that's why traffic is moving but dave we just have a mess everywhere. accidents popping up here and there. >> yeah, wow. storm tracker6 live double scan shows that you there's still a little bit of lingering precipitation out there that is making the roads wet. and karen that's probably part of the reason why we're having so many accidents this morning. even though it doesn't look like much we've got light rain showers right now push out of new castle county delaware across the river into salem county. parts of delaware county, chester county and montgomery county seeing some of this and up in bucks just a bit. as we go through the day we are expecting clouds to give way to some sunny breaks. these morning sprinkles and showers probably tapering off a little after the rush hour. today's high 50 which is around average. overnight low 36 also a few degrees above average. if you are driving around in the poconos, guys, later on this morning, we've had some freezing drizzle up there and a little snow overnight so just take it easy up there. things should be improving though past sunrise. >> this 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