36 in philadelphia. Feels like 39 in allentown. 35 in wilmington. Close to 40 degrees in millville. Satellite and radar we have a little bit of cloud cover this morning all this beginning to thin out now, with High Pressure sliding in, from west to east across the keystone state this afternoon, that she that shoulde us with a lot of the this, a lot of bright blue later on. Dismissening sun for the mummers sun for the mummers parade. High of 47, very comfortable high for january. Were not talking about blue skies, when i come back, but rain in the sevenday forecast. Philadelphia police are trying to determine if the driver who struck and killed a 71yearold man early this morning was driving under the influence. The action cam was at the scene in olney section of the city. A Mercury Sable dlirch driven by a 25yearold man hit the veteran dragging him for a block killing him. The scene out here is rather grizzly. In addition to the front grill and headlights from the striking vehicle, we have the victim, a 71yearold retired male who had major trauma injuries at the time that he died out here in the middle of chew street. The car stopped about two blocks down the street when it ran into a playground fence. Police found the driver there, he is being treated for a broken leg and tested for dui. Philadelphia police are trying to sort out a violent and deadly confrontation outside a bar overnight. They say an intoxicated man was refused entrance to the Crazy Leprechaun to the 3500 block of Port Richmond street. The man left and returned with a vehicle locking device and beat a Security Guard with it. The Security Guard suffered a punctured lung, but was able to shoot the man who died. No charges have been filed in this case. A Delaware County home is a total loss after a fire broke out overnight. 6 people were forced out on the 500 block of old forge road in middletown township. The flames quickly raced through the home. Everybody got out safely, one firefighter was treated at the scene for a minor burn. An investigation is underway to determine a cause. Fire interrupted new years celebration at a popular steakhouse firefighters were on the scene on the 700 block of west dekalb pike in king of prussia. The restaurant was closed for the rest of the night. Happening right now, golden slippers are beginning their stretch down broad street, the 118 mummers parade is getting underway. Action news was there as the members of the Golden Sunrise Fancy Division got into there costumes. The parade kicked off moments ago and heads south on broad street to washington avenue. The captain talked to us saying he considers it an honor to lead the club. Its a great way to welcome the new year its a long philadelphia tradition and i am proud to be a part of it. Ten thousand mummers will compete in five divisions fancy, comics winch brigade and fancy brigade. The mummers mass was held at our lady of mount carmel. The priest got into the act with his murmings strult. Looking good there. 2017 kicked off with the fireworks display over the delaware at midnight. The action cam was in camden, new jersey where many watched the colorful display. The fireworks were shot into the night sky from a barge in the delaware river. Earlier in the night, families gathered at the river rink for penns landing for a Fireworks Show that the little ones could enjoy. Happy new year reporter you guys went out with the hats and glasses. Absolutely, why not its 2017 baby, whew hoo. Reporter are you ready for the new year. Were in the mummers, we love it. Reporter this is one spot where celebrations took place across the city of philadelphia. To the jersey shore where a crowd inside the civic center danced away to the new year. Susan stewart said they were waving their handles in the air like they dont care. High winds changed the chances of fireworks, so they moved the festivities inside. Revelers watched in new york city they dropped the bail last night. At least a Million People packed the crossroads of the world. There were more than 7,000 Police Officers on the job to make sure the celebrations went off without a hitch. As is tradition, people hugged and kissed at the stroke of midnight and sang as 2016 we bet into the history books. All that confetti needed to be cleaned up once the revelers cleared out of time square. The massive undertaking last yearended up with 44 last year ended up with 44 tons of debris. This year 52 tons. Not everything goes right on tv, thats why a lot of people are talking about Mariah Careys performance last night. There were technical difficulties. The singer said heres to making more headlines in 2017. With the start of the new year comes new taxes that includes philadelphia new beverage tax, it adds a penny and a half charge or diet sodas and other sodas. It is to pay for the universal prek goal and put cash into the passion and libraries. A court denied a claim by the American Beverage Association that itts s the current tax. Gas tax jumped this year. Before the hike, pennsylvania had the highest gas tax in the country. Like the recent increase in new jersey, the extra revenue will pay for transportation projects. Now that its a new year, are you ready for a new you. Tips on getting into the shape you want and keeping the new years resolution. Plus a goat farm in minnesota is helping the environment by getting rid of the used Christmas Trees. Looking live through sky6 live hd, Philadelphia International airport right there. Nice day today. Enjoy it, balls rain because rain is coming monday and tuesday, chris sowers has the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast when we come right back. An investigation is underway after a bottle nosed dolphin was found dead off the new jersey coast. It was found around noon Sandy Hook Bay about a mile from the entrance of sandy hook. Officials believe it was a pregnant female. An necropsy is scheduled for tuesday. 20,000 fish star fish and crabs and other Sea Creatures have turned up dead in the nova scotia. They are warning consumers to only buy seafood from authorized vendor as a precaution. In minnesota, Christmas Trees are going to the goats literally. Gets on the farm are being given an extra treat as Christmas Trees are thrown out. The owner said they love to eat the pine needles. The animals digestive systems will dispose of the holiday fixture naturally. Reporter goats will eat everything. Apparently so, so will our dogs. Reporter if you have a problem and have poison ivy, get a goat, because they eat everything. Easy solution. Lets get you outside and show you whats going on. Live on sky6 live hd down in cape may. A beautiful morning. Nice and comfortable. 9 00 a. M. , temperatures are in the mid 40s down the jersey shore. A few high, thin clouds exiting off the coast. Lots of sunshine, well he keep the radar dry. Eagles game and mummers taking place in center city you dont want any rain and theres none forecasted today. 42 degrees right now, dewpoint, 26. The air is nice and dry, pressure is rising. Winds out of the west southwest at 10 Miles Per Hour. The ocean temperature 42. So, again, lots of 40s. Cape may, 44. Atlantic city, 46. Allentown, 44. Philadelphia and trenton, 42 and 44. There are changes heading this way, it arrives after midnight tonight him as we take a look at satellite and radar lots of rain developing across the gulf coast states, the gulf and atlantic wide open. This system right here, you saw the counter clockwise swirl thats an area of low pressure coming off the rockies heading toward the great lakes catching all this moisture lifting north in the mid atlantic and the northeast. That means a lot of wet weather is heading this way. Future tracker 6, nice and quiet, lots of sunshine, bright blue skies, perfect finish to the weekend. In the overnight, tomorrow morning, clouds lower and thicken. By 6 00 a. M. , the rain will be to the south. That will increase from south to north, so, by 9 00 a. M. It is raining just about everywhere. Some of it could be on the steadier side. This continues through the afternoon. Periods of rain monday, it looks lousy, lots of gray skies, if youre not picking up the rain youll be getting drizzle heres what to expect, rain arriving by sunrise. Heaviest occurs late in the day. If the rain moves in quick you enough with temperatures close to freezing it could start out as freezing rain, but it will go over to plain rain as the numbers jump in the 40s. More rain on tuesday, another round. Future tracker, this time were at tuesday morning, look at the yellows starting to move through, thats the heavy, driving tuesday looks miserable, as well. In the afternoon hours, the steadier rain pulls through, twish it will be dreary, damp and drizzle. Rainfall totals between monday and tuesday, this model may be a little bit overdone, but you get the idea, a lot of rain is heading this way. Generally speaking well see anywhere from threequarters of an inch to an inch and a quarter. Some forecast models have us an inch and a half. Mostly sunny, today, 50 in philadelphia. Millville, 50. Cape may, same number. 45 in allentown. Trenton, 47. Slight breeze makes it feel a little colder than the actual temperatures. Overnight tonight, 30 in reading, 32 degrees in millville. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, the real cold arrives later this week. 50 degrees for today. 46 tomorrow, occasional rain and drizzle. Tuesday, same thing, periods of rain, some of it heavy at times, but its a milder day with a high of 57. Wednesday maybe a leftover morning shower and clouds breaking for sunshine. Highs mild around 50. Here comes an arctic front, thursday, friday, saturday, all cold, 30s for highs. Kitchens in the 20s at least on thursday, right now theres the outside shot of a coastal storm on friday. The models are leaning that it goes out to sea. Other models bring it up. I like the timing for today, good for parade goers and eagles tailgaters. Heres something to look forward in the new year, well see a total Solar Eclipse on august 17 well have a total Solar Eclipse. We have not had a total Solar Eclipse across the continental u. S. Since 1979. I had an injury to my neck. It wasnt as serious injury it was a herniated disc. Anything that could go wrong went wrong. Ive been in the hospital twenty three times since. The bills started to pile up. I had nothing to give. We had nothing in the refrigerator. I would be dead and not sitting here right now if it wasnt for pond lehocky. Day of 2017, 919 9 19 a. M. , 42 degrees. A Beautiful Day today, our family set new year goal yesterday, for our twoyearold goal number one, mastering potty training. Healthcheck, melanoma cases are on the rise. Research are estimate one in 54 americans will develop melanoma in their lifetime. Wevers found new cases increased in 38 states. 11 states have fewer cases. This highlights the need for better sun safety education. Heres another reason to kick the habit while pregnant. Women who smoke while expecting may be likely to have children with kidney damage. Researchers examined data from you urine tests. Those who smoked were more likely to show kidney damage by age 3. Kids exposed to second handle smoke were at a higher risk of kidney damage. If youre new years resolution is to get into shape. Track your weight and keep a journal of what you eat and how much you eat everyday. That will help you keep track of calories and carbs and faculties. In order to move you have to burn 3500 calories. Its great for health and risk of diabetes. Watch out for the empty calories in sodas and fruit punch also and ice tea. They have calories but very little nutritional value. Another check of accuweather coming up next. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Cable cant offer that. Only fios can. Mother nature saying happy new year to us. Lots of talk about a weekend storm, or the potential of a weekend storm. This is the signal of a true snow event for the first time this winter season. Theres the arctic high, theres the polar jet right there, diving across the mid atlantic and the northeast. Theres a piece of energy jumping off the rockies, it will ride along the southern edges and work its way across the carolinas. The question is is this high too strong and bully this out to sea. Or will it give it ground and allow this to come up. If the high bullies its way in and the low is out to sea, were looking at clouds and sun. Thats what i am leaning toward, 70 0 its a miss. Its something we have to watch closely the first time the models are hinting at least a little bit of snow this upcoming weekend. Who wouldnt want more money in 2017. According to if fidelty new yeas resolution, the three goals save money pay down or pay less. Set up on automatic savings account. To eliminate daylight, pay more than the minimum required and start with a balance with a higher interest rates. Track spending and savings and keep an eye out for bogus charges. President elect trumps Inauguration Day is not far away, but president obama is not slowing down, mary bruce has a look at who was up an who was down in politics. Reporter with three weeks in the white house, president obama is reminding the world theres only one u. S. President , him. This weeks winner, president obama, or at least he is trying to be hoping to get in as many as wins as we come. The president refusing to be a lame duck even though he turns over the keys on january 20th. With his administration allowing a rebuke of the israeli settlements to pass through the u. N. , president obama is trying to drive u. S. Foreign policy to the end. President obama and netanyahu have had a contentious relationship. They hit an all time high condemning israeli territories. Netanyahu said friends dont take friends to the city securiy council. John kerry fired back. The vote in the United Nation was about preserving the two state solution. If the choice is one state israel can be either jewish or democratic it cannot be both and it wont ever be at peace. Reporter netanyahu doubled down calling kerrys speech unbalanced. Israelis do not need to be lectured by about the importance of peace by foreign leaders. Reporter president elect trump says things are going to be different once he takes office, relations with israel maybe heading in a different direction. Mary bruce, abc washington. Get more on this week with George Stephanopoulos coming up at 10 30 on 6abc. Coming up on action news, have a little one at home and h up hulu account, information coming up. Those stories and more, plus meteorologist chris sowers will have the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast when action news continues. my hero zero by lemonheads zero really can be a hero. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero due at signing, and zero first months payment on select volkswagen models. Right now at the volkswagen sign then drive event. Storms a turkish nightclub where amoeba foreigners were celebrating. The start of the new year means higher tolls and gas prices in pennsylvania. Plus, a sunny warmer day on tap, enjoy it for now, were tracking rain for the workweek ahead. Meteorologist chris sowers is here with all the details. Happy new year, chris. Reporter happy new year to you, as well. Happy new year, everyone. Mother nature is giving us a Beautiful Day outside. Down the jersey shore, we have high, thin clouds and iting the coast, as High Pressure moves in and clears everything out it will be a delightful day, the rain moves in monday and tuesday. Well take it, well take the sun. Millville, 42. Atlantic city, 46 and cape may, 44 degrees, most locations are generally 10 to 15 degrees warmer than at the same time yesterday. A lot of that has to do with the cloud cover that was over us overnight that acted as an atmospheric blanket. High pressure moves in from the west and kick all this cloud over out to sea. It should be a Beautiful Day. Get out and enjoy it. The call from Accuweather Sun mixing with clouds, well call it mild and nice with the high of 50. Again, rain is on the the way tomorrow, tuesday, ill have the details in future tracker 6 coming up in just a bit. Nydia. Now to the deadly attack inside a nightclub in turkey, a major manhunt is underway after a general publicman opened fire in a a gunman opened fire in a packed nightclub. Dozens were killed and many wounded. Reporter the turkish authorities had intelligence that a terror attack was likely and put 25,000 police on the streets of istanbul for new years eve. Overnight new years massacre, 39 dead after a terrorist attack at a nightclub in istanbul. 65 more injured. One armed attacker allegedly dressed in a santa suit opened fire just after 1 00 a. M. The gunman seen here in the Surveillance Video storming the nightclubs entrance armed with a long barreled weapon shooting a Police Officer and one civilian before making his way through the front doors. Once inside, the assailant changes clothes ts cloths according to the turkish interior minister. 3500 partyers ringing in the new year hours before the assault. Some club goers jumping into nearby water to get to safety. Ambulances rushed to help the injured. Turkish authorities issued a temporary media ban as forces scour the area searching for the gunman who remains at large. The names of the foreign victims have yet to be released, several wmba players were nextdoor to the shootout, their coach confirms they are safe. President elect trump continues to question whether russia was involved in Cyber Attacks against the united states. Trump spoke to reporters before his annual new years eve bash in palm beach florida. He said no information is safe. If you have something important write it out, send it by courier the Old Fashioned way, because no computer is safe. I cant care what they say, no computer is safe. Trump has been reluctant to accept intelligence that russia influenced u. S. Elections about hacking. He said he knows about hacking and it is a hard thing to approve. Today is the deadline for 35 Russian Diplomats to leave the u. S. President obama ordered the shutting down of two lavish russian diplomatic compounds. Putin has announced he will not retaliate. Trump voiced doubts despite u. S. Intelligence officials saying theres no question will the interference in the election. 9 34 a. M. An he would i were killed after being hit by a car in broomal. Police say the driver stopped after the crash. No word if the driver faces any charges. The 800 block of East Washington lane in philadelphias germantown section was the scene of an alleged abduction and rape of a Delivery Driver this weekend. A 32yearold woman was making delivers for a private company when she approached by a gunman. He forced her into the vehicle and made her drive to another location and assaulted her. Police have made no arrests in the case. A Camden County store was damaged when a driver ran off the road and hit the buildings overnight. Police say the driver of the jeep was traveling south on route 130 in collingswood and trying to make a right on haddon avenue when the vehicle jumped the curb. Driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Drivers in pennsylvania will be paying more for gas starting today and soon tolls for the turnpike will go up. John rawlins explains. Reporter pennsylvania has, if not, one of the highest gas taxes in the country and come january. There will be an 8 cent increase charged to wholesalers this year. Reporter pennsylvania relies on a wholesale fuel tax. It went up 9 cents a gallon in 2014. The next year up a dime over 50 cents a gallon. There was no change in 2016, but in 2017 it is due for the 8 cent hike. Joy, need to car pool more often. Reporter the upside, the taxes go to transportation improvement. Its part of act 89 which is the funding mechanism to improve and get to our roads and bridges that need attention. Vine street bridge was able to move forward. Reporter another source of money for rebuilding roads and subsidies from mass transit, tolls from the turnpike. Turnpike users will be paying 6 more. Jose commutes to valley forge he is not looking forward to higher gas and tolls. I travel from philadelphia i take 309 coming to the turnpike to king of prussia and back home. Reporter as for a longer run to go from valley forge to harrisburg, the cash toll 9 85 a. M. 691 6. 91 with ez pass. Some of the busiest roads in Montgomery County will be experiencing attention this week. Beginning tuesday, there will be intermittent lane closures on the schuylkill expressway in both directions, between city avenue and the pennsylvania turnpike. That work is scheduled to end on thursday, january 5. Drivers can expect lane closures on route 309 between cheltenham avenue and welsh road and 422 between palings road and Armand Hammer tuesday through friday. All motorcycle drivers may be soon wearing a helmet. Representatives compare it to the seat belt law and calls it common sense. Youre only required to carry a helmet on a motorcycle in delaware and those 19 years and younger are required to wear it. Well tell you when a beloved resident from the brandywine zoo is heading. Plus, the faa is looking into what caused a deadly air collision between two planes. Looking live, meteorologist chris sowers has the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, a gorgeous one today. With the xfinity tv app, anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels. Plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. Two small planes they were in collided midair in texas. The crash happened yesterday afternoon near a County Airport in mckinney. The plane slammed into the ground near home depot. The two pilots were the only ones on their planes. They were not in contact with air traffic controllers. A pilot is charged with impairment after his copilot found him passed out in his seat before takeoff. The flight was going to make two spots before flying to mexico. He had three times alcohol allowed in his system. He was showing signs of impairment not so that the gate crew was not concerned. He was found slumped over the seat, the captain of the airline. The flight took off a short time later with another captain. It is criminal offense for a flight crew to work within 8 hours of consumer alcohol and while under the influence. A car landed in the middle of a roof after it went airborne in winstonsalem, north carolina, a woman was traveling 70 to 90 Miles Per Hour when her car hit a curb and went into the air. The car landed on the top of the home nobody was hurt. Police believe the driver had a medical emergency. 9 41 time for accuweather, first day of the new year, we have a great day to start out. Reporter what about the second and third day . I wasnt going to talk about that. Reporter the first day is beautiful, lots of sunshine and temperatures in the 40s and close to 50 degrees when all is said and done. Live we go on sky6 live hd looking at spring mountain, you can see a little bit of snow on the slopes. Mother nature will not be lending a helping hand if they want to make snow over the next couple of days. As a matter of fact monday arrest tuesday, we could be as warm as 55 to 60 degrees. Warm stuff is on the way, followed by a cool down later this week. Youll see reflected in the sevenday forecast in just a moment. 50 degrees thats the high temperatures were shooting for today. Normal 41 starting out at 39 close to the normal high. Normal low 27. North and west, 43 in slatington. Quakertown, 41. Pilots, pottstown, 41. On the other side of the delaware river, dover, 46. Hamm the only, 46. Hammonton, 46. Agenda beach and vineland, 43 degrees. Milder air in place and we have milder air to come always the moisture starts to lift north over the next few days. The pattern looks like, its a great lakes cutter its a storm that develops off the front ranges of rockies, instead of traveling west to east it makes a hook in orderward toward the great lakes states. Because the air blows in a counter clockwise fashion around the storms. As long as the storms travel west it will pull moisture in off the atlantic and the gulf with milder temperatures. That will get in here, but not until thend of the end of the week. Future tracker 6, well skip today, lots of sunshine and bright blue skies. Tomorrow, morning lots of clouds and shades of gray and they will lower and thicken. The big concern if this moisture moves in quick enough it could be in the form of freezing rain north and west of philadelphia. If you get icing north and west it will go over to plain rain as temperatures climb into the 40s by mid to late morning. There could icy patches out here first thing tomorrow morning. Monday afternoon looks wet, as well. Periods of rain and drizzle. Icy concerns, well north and west, upper montgomery and bucks county points north and west, maybe a little bit of freezing rain at the on set going over to plain rain. City of philadelphia, south and east, state of delaware, temperatures way too warm, it will be all rain from start to finish. We fast forward into tuesday, round number two, this will be heavier, well see the yellows and oranges here, this could bring an inch of rain when all is said and done. We could see an inch and threequarters of rain wednesday morning. Lots of wet weather heading this way. Sunshine and clouds, a nice day, 50 degrees the forecasted high with the slightest breeze out of the north northwest at 5 to 15 Miles Per Hour. Going hour by hour, sitting at 42. 11 00 a. M. , 46. 3 00 p. M. , theres the high of 50. By 5 00 p. M. , back down to 47. Dry overnight tonight, increasing clouds, its cold, 28 degrees outlying suburbs, 35 for center city. The reign should hold off until sunrise if not an hour or two later. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast shows nice stuff as we get into the tail end of the seven day. Right up front doesnt look too good. 46 degrees tomorrow, periods of rain and drizzle. Periods of rain tuesday, 57. Could be a leftover shower wednesday, otherwise clouds and sunshine, 50 degrees. Thursday, friday, saturday all colder, highs in the 30s, overnight lows in the 20s and teens north and west, and light snow on friday, were watching a coastal system. A lot of models take it out to sea. Of course i want it to hit. I like the models that take it out to sea. Thanks chris you can find a live look at Storm Tracker 6 live double scan radar at 6abc. Com weather. In wilmington, this weekend people walked by the brandywine zoo did not only bid 2016 ado, they are saying goodbye to the tiger. Yesterday the zoo opened early to a long line of families who braved the cold weather to see her one last time. Welcome back were taking a live look right now at penns landing, the sun is shining it is a beautiful first day of the new year enjoy it. And were here at the action news big board with technically speaking. If youre one of the very few last in the world to earn a Samsung Galaxy note 7 it is about to become useless if it is not already. A Software Update will prevent it from charging or connecting to a wireless network. Tmobile began rolling out the Software Last week. At t and sprint are going to do the same this week. Calling all twitter users, ceo wants to hear your suggestions you want to see in the new year. Whats the most important thing you want to see twitter improve in 017. Some of the top wishes include ways to cut down on harassment and better way to bookmark shared articles and edit tweets which is considering. And you can now stream live action and animated films from the Wall Disney Company on h up up h up hulu. Well have sports next, well be right back. Welcome back waking up to 2017, 9 53, 42 degrees, sky6 live hd looking live at cape may, new jersey. Were going up to a high of 50 degrees. Its cold at the end of the week, so enjoy today. Turning to sports, College FootballNational Championship game has been set it will be a rebeam of the alabama and clemson. The buckeyes got destroyed by clemson, 310. The first time the buckeyes have been shut out in 23 years and the first shutout of the head coachs storied clear. Alabama beat clemson in last years title game. They meet in tampa, january 9th. Penn state is pasadena, california to play usc in the rose bowl. You can see it tomorrow on our sister station, espn. Now heres jeff skeverski with the rest of the sunday morning sports. Reporter since the 30 start, the eagles dropped the ball on the 2016 season. 89 eagles resolution beat the cowboys new years day. Heres the cowboys arriving in philadelphia where they have won four straight against the eagles at the linc. Dallas starters expected to be limited today at 1 against the eagles. Eagles want revenge over the tough overtime loss in dallas back in october. Definitely, nfc east rival, the point of the year he were in there, it was kind of a turning point, roughly, so its been unfortunately, this is our last game of the year, we will not playing into january, i loved it, i loved every step of the way. Reporter chip kelly wont love this. Former eagles coach chip kelly is expected to be fired for the second time in 53 weeks. According to espn the 49ers will dismiss chip kelly as early as tonight after one season in san francisco. Dating back to last year, kelly has lost 20 of his last 24 games with the eagles and 49ers. 2016 will go down as one of the most memorable years in villanova history. Have they been on a run or what. They have won a 24 straight games. Only the road against craton. Jenkins the buzzer beater. Josh hart, the big bucket. Next time possession they put it away, villanova wins 8070. They are 140. It is their best start in school history. The way 2016 finished for the flyers, you Better Believe they are looking forward to the new year. The flyers lost five of their last 6 games and once again winless since their christmas break. Not only did they go down in san jose last time out, so did steve mason. He wants to see how he feels this morning before deciding whether he can play tonight against the anaheim ducks. Thats sports, im jeff skeverski. Happy new year weve been watching an american bald eagle faithfully sitting on her baby eggs. Take a look, early yesterday, the first egg hatched and now were seeing cracks in the second egg. Momma eagle was seen feeding her baby worms. This is in fort meyers, florida. Millions have been watching the live video waiting patiently with mommy waiting for the new baby to arrive. The hatchlings remain in the nest for 10 to 12 weeks. This momma and daddy have been named ozzie and harriet. From giant peach to a giant acorn. Well see how different cities roll in the new year. We have scenes from the new star wars movies, those stories, plus chris sowers has the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast when action news continues. Happy flue new year, 10 00 a. M. , sunday, january 1. Gray is off today. In the news, an army veteran is killed after being struck by a car and dragged down a city block. A controversial philadelphia stacks has gone into tax has gone into effect. Plus, the traditional mummers parade is strutting down broad street. Nice day for a parade, meteorologist chris sowers is at the action news big board with all the details. Happy new year, chris. Reporter happy new year to you, as well. Its a gorgeous morning around the delaware and the lehigh valleys. We have a decent amount of sunshine. Look how mild the temperatures are already. 10 00 a. M. , the normal high for this time of the year is 41. It usually occurs mid afternoon. Its 45. Atlantic city, 50 degrees. Cape may, 45. Dover, 47 and wilmington 46 degrees. A nice mild start well finish somewhere around 50 later on in the city of philadelphia. Satellite and radar along with action radar, we have High Pressure right out through here, western pennsylvania that will be sliding east over the next 24 to 36 hours, eventsly working its way off the coast. Once it reaches the coast, wind shift out of the south again that will open the door to a lot of clouds and moisture as we get into monday and tuesday. So if youre not taking on the parade maybe you can stay at home. Watch the eagles cowboys game, lots of sunshine 48 degrees by kickoff. 4th quarter, 49 very mild for january standards. Again, were forecasting a high of 50. Okay, as we look farther ahead into the future. Look whats going on here. This is the water vapor shot. Look at this little train of moisture stretching over mexico and into the southeastern part of the united states. We have one, two, three, areas of low pressure that will be rounding the bend and heading this way into the eastern half of the united states. Each and every one bringing a round of rain. When i come back in just a few minutes ill show you when all the rain arrives in future tracker 6. Nydia. Thank you. Happening right now, the mummers are strutting their stuffer down broad street. The 118 annual parade of colorful costumes and floats. Bob brooks is live along broad street with all the fun, hi, bob. Reporter hey nydia, happy new year. As you look behind me you can see people cheering in the crowd for the mummers parade. Left of them you can see an act going down broad street. Were in a lull where we are, we had a big performance, no shortage. Fun hang right now. Theres a lot of Creative Genius behind this whole parade. Happy new year. Reporter its a new years tradition down broad street, the mummers parade, from what weve seen they have not disappointed. Have you ever seen anything like that . I love the mummers parade. Reporter the foggy were out in full force. I love it. Reporter its a tradition to come see the mummers for others they have only heard of the parade and now they are getting their first glimpse of it. It wanted to see them since i was a little kid 1,000 years ago. Another live look at the parade, broad street filling up. Very quickly with people to come out and see this, ill tell you what, last night i was at the convention center, i saw some of the fancy performances, they are incredible, they put a lot of work in these, so i highly suggest if you have free time come down here and check out some of the acts, nydia, back to you. Always a lot of fun, have a great time out there bob, and happy new year. 2017 kicked off with fireworks that have become a holiday favorite. [fireworks popping]. The action cam was in camden, new jersey, where many watched the colorful display. The fireworks were shot into the night sky from a barge in the delaware river. The ben franklin bridge illuminated in the background. Earlier in the night, the families gathered at the river rink for a dinnertime Fireworks Show that the little ones could enjoy. Happy new year whew. Reporter you gis went all out with the you guys went all out with the halts and hats and glasses. Why not. Reporter are you ready for the new year. Were all in the mummers, we love it. I love the enthusiasm. There were many celebrations across the city last night to ring in the new year. Now to the jersey shore where a big crowd inside the Ocean City Civic Center danced into the near year. As our producer said they are waving their hands in the year like they dont care. Revelers got the news that high winds had blown the citys chances of having fireworks, so they moved inside. Crystal ball dropped from new york time square, after the ball dropped and the crowd goes home, time for a massive cleanup. We have more on the huge undertaking. Reporter millions of americans it about that moment. When the iconic ball drops and 3,000 pounds of confetti fell from the sky. What does it take to clean up after one of the biggest parties in the world . For the time square alliance, the fireworks start after midnight. As an army of 180 sanitation workers descend on the aftermath with 350 street sweepers and garbage truck. 52 tons of debris has vanished. The ball dropped at midnight, by 6 00 a. M. On the 1st, the garment of sanitation from the department of sanitation from the city of new york has done an amazing job picking up the trash. Reporter thats just the trash. Theres miles and miles of tables, were Building Three stages, extra platform and literally within 24 hours the stages come down, time square is back to normal. Confetti is taken care of. Reporter tens of thousands lists of confetti have handwritten wishes on them. We pull a wish down together and we read it together and take it home with us and hope it comes true. Reporter abc news new york. As you know things dont go as planned on live tv. A lot of people are talking about my Mariah Careys performance in time square. There were technical difficulties. The singer tweeted in part heres to making more headlines in 2017. It was a controversial bro posal that parked support and outrage as well as protests in the city of philadelphia. At midnight, philadelphias new beverage tax went into effect. It levies a pen and a half tax on penny and and a half tax on diet sodas and juices. The American Beverage Association said the tax duplicates the current sales tax. Supporters say it will cut into the obesity epidemic. Filling up in pennsylvania got a bit more expensive at the stroke of midnight. The gas tax jumped 8 cents per gallon at the start of the new year. 11 cents for diesel. Drivers are being taxed 58 cents per gallon. Pennsylvania has the highest gas tax in the country. It will pay for trchtion transportation projects. Philadelphia police are trying to determine if the driver who struck and killed a 71yearold man early this morning was driving under the influence. The action cam was at the scene 12th anne and chew in olney. A car slammed into the 71yearold retired veteran dragging him for a block killing him. The scene out here is rather grizzly in addition to the front grill and headlights from the striking vehicle, we have the victim, a 71yearold retired male who had major trauma injuries at the time that he died out here in the middle of chew street. The car stopped about two blocks down the street when it ran into a playground fence. Police found the driver there. He is being treated for a broken leg and tested for dui. Philadelphia police are trying to sort out a violent and deadly confrontation outside a bar overnight. They say an impacted man was refused entrance to the Crazy Leprechaun on the 3500 block of richmond street in Port Richmond at 2 00 a. M. The bar was closed at the time. The man left and return with a vehicle locking device and beat a Security Guard with it. The Security Guard suffered a punctured lung, but was able to shoot the man who later died. No charges in the case. A Delaware County home is a total loss after a fire broke out overnight. 6 people were forced out into the cold night air on the 500 block of old forge road in middle town township at 1 00 a. M. Everybody got out safely, but one firefighter was treated for minor burns. An investigation is underway to determine a calls. Determine a cause. Fire interrupted a new years celebration at a restaurant on west dekalb pike in king of prussia. The restaurant was closed for the rest of the night. A kentucky doctor is doing more than healing how he is helping the homeless in his hometown, one pair of boots at a time. Plus an unbelieve story of survival. Hear a mans story of living 30 hours alone in the snow after getting lost on a hike. Looking live sky6 live hd, meteorologist chris sowers has the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast first week of 2017. Well be right back. Now to an incredible story of survive for one man who got lost on a hike and spent 30 hours in the snow. His key for survival was a tiny object he kept in his pocket for decades. Reporter lost in the middle of nowhere, wallie finding himself miles from home snow shooing cruising his cell phone to record his trek. Snowfall blew in. Reporter the 60yearold hiking in snow almost as deep as he is tall. At nightfall he relied on his experience as search and rescue volunteer three decades earlier and list of ten wilderness essentials typed on a note card. Supplies that saved his life, head lamp and tools to build a fire. The job was to keep the fire going. Protecting between two trees, waited for the snow and wind to subside. He hike out to attempt to get cell phone reception and able to reach his son to call rescuers. He used a whistle to get First Responders attention was a lesson for other adventure seekers. Take what you need and be ready to be selfsufficient. Rith his wife and otheramily just in time to celebrate the new year. One lucky man. Reporter i love the snow, but i enjoy it from my living room window, not like that. No snow in the forecast, we have colder changes arriving later this week, i know nydia be is loving this warm stuff right now. Lets go live on penns landing. You can see the sun down. Double scan live is clear, 45 in philadelphia. Dewpoint, 28 him. Pressure reading is prizing. Winds are light winds out of the west southwest at 9 Miles Per Hour. Enough to give us a windchill. These actual air temperatures, but dover is pushing 50. Atlantic city youre there. Trenton, 46. Cape may, 45. You take the mid 40s and add the 9mile an hour breeze it feels like 40 in philadelphia. 38 in allentown with the wind. Feels like 40 in millville. 43 in lancaster and 42 in wilmington. So it is still somewhat chilly out there, but its not cold, at least not by januarys standards. Temperatures will moderate over the next two days, it could be as warm as 55 to 60 degrees by tuesday. Satellite and radar we have a small little area of High Pressure moving from chi town east ward across the mid atlantic to the northeast. As that hits the coast it will allow the moisture to come up, heres a look at the water vapor shot. This is low pressure number one and low pressure number 2 and low pressure number 3. They are rounding the bend. This is the southern branch. Jet stream. This is a conveyer belt of moisture. That will make a beeline toward the mid atlantic and the northeast. Each low will round the bend and pull through, each one of them bringing a round of rain. Again, the weather will turn unsettled once we get past today. Today looks good, sunshine, bright blue skies and we get into tomorrow morning, you see the light rain breaking out. Now, the problem with this is temperatures north and west of philadelphia, 6 00 a. M. More than likely will be below freezing or sitting at freezing. Some of this may start out as light freezing rain or drizzle. It will go over to plain rain as temperatures climb in the mid 40s, there could slick spots early. Everybody else is looking at plain rain from start to finish. Round number one, round number two, tuesday. Monday, rain arriving by sunrise. The heaviest occurs late in the day. North and west, expect brief period of freeze rain and drizzle. You can see the darker shades of green and yellows and oranges earlier. This will pull on through, once we get into the evening, the heavier rains will pull north and well see clouds and patchy leftover drizzle. Lots of sunshine, enjoy the dry weather. 50 degrees not bad for january. Millville, 50, cape may, 50. Atlantic city, 50. Dover, 51. Wilmington, 49 degrees. Overnight tonight for the most part its a dry night. There will be a few showers developing as we get closer to dawn. Reading 30 degrees, philadelphia, 35. Millville, 32. Cape may, 38. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, big warmup for tuesday, more rain, though, 50 today, 46 periods of rain for monday. 57 periods of rain for tuesday. Wednesday there still could be a leftover shower. Otherwise clouds and sunshine still mild high of 50. At this point thursday, friday and saturday all app to be colder days appear to be colder days, highs in the 30s. We have the potential of light snow on friday. Well see where it goes. Queen elizabeth will not be attending traditional new years day services she is recuperating from whats described as a heavy cold. The queen delayed her departure for the christmas holidays, because she and her husband have been sick. The prolonged illness has raised concerns for the couples health. The tribute continues for the late star wars actress carrie fisher. This stars wars memorial was held in Eagles Seattle washington. They say she inspired a generation. You see a princess that wasnt the dress. She got things done, it shows a princess can be a fighter. Princess warrior. Similar vigils have pop up across the country since her untimely death. Each year a kentucky doctors spends part of the Holiday Season making sure the soles are in good shape. Doctor gives out 100 pairs of shoes for the homeless. The Orthopedic Surgeon partners with Red Wing Shoes and the homeless shelter. He donates boots and everything, he fits our size and everything. I get more blessings than shoes i bestow. The doctor said the shoes are essential to helping the recipients to stay healthy and giving them a better chance to find a job. Well be back with your social corner. It is time to check out whats going viral in the social corner. This is where we chat about the image also on facebook and youtube and more. Reporter yikes. Maybe this should not be played if you ever dentures. One grandpa became an internet sensation after his dentures fell out. He has ways to play the game and he loses his teeth in the process. This video has been viewed 35 million times. This video of one fan of the new stars war film has gone viral. The scene is complete with red light saber and music and heavy breathing that denotes he is near. Although it is only 2 inches tall and made of plastic its scary, right. Dels what you think about the videos tell us what you think about the videos by going to our facebook and twitter accounts. Coming up, meteorologist chris sowers takes a look at the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast the first week of january, well be right back. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Cable cant offer that. Only fios can. North carolina believe crystal balls are for new yorkers. The good folks of raleigh entered the new year with an acorn drop. They hosted 100 performances and workshops and events to help usher in 2017. There is no one i would rather spend the first morning of the year with than you. Reporter well, the feeling is mutual, nydia. And Mother Nature has has been a very happy mood as temperatures are close to 50 degrees. That will change tomorrow. I want to slow this up real quick. Top line, monday morning, light rain pushing through. North and west, the precip could start out as freezing drizzle or rain before going over to plain rain before mid morning hours. Today looks nice. Thanks, chris. Inside story is coming up on 6abc, heres Tamala Edwards with a preview. Reporter good morning, and happy new year, i hope you had a great night last night, if youre looking for good something to help you and try to recuperate. Were looking at the year that was and the year ahead. Donald trump is a key part of that. Looking at what his election has taught us and what will his presidency show us. We had a year of jim kenny as mayor how do wecy as he ho we assess him. A big show coming up, please join us, and again, happy new year. Happy new year, tam. This week with George Stephanopoulos is next. Action news continues at noon. Heres some of the stories were working on for you, well have more on the forecast and more on all of the other news of the day and what is happening for the first week of 2017. Now for chris sowers gray hall, and the entire action news team, im nydia han. Have a great morning, chris and i will will see you right back here at noon. Starting right starting right now on this week with George Stephanopoulos. Russian roulette. Vladimir putin bets big on donald trump. Refusing to retaliate against new u. S. Sanctions and with Russian Diplomats moving out, donald trump is moving on. I think we ought to get on with our lives. But will trumps own party follow his l his it is a threat to the fundamentals of democracy. With three weeks to go, what will the new president do on day one . Incoming Trump Press Secretary sean spicer is here. Plus make America Great again. New years revolution. 2016 broke all the rules. So whats next . Our powerhouse round tab l