Into wilmington and philadelphia. A little bit of shower activity. Now in center city i dont think its reaching the ground. It is falling into drier air. The first raindrops are evaporating. Dont be surprised if you see a sprinkle on your way out now. Most of the day, dry. The good news is, temperatures are warm for this time of year. Were at 39 degrees now in philadelphia. The suburbs, 34. 30s for the Lehigh Valley. Everybody above freezing, and well climb. The breaks in the clouds, turning partly sunny this afternoon. 40s later today. And even warmer come tomorrow. Ill break it down hour by hour in ten minutes. First, Jessica Boyington standing by with the first alert traffic. Thanks. Starting on the admiral wilson boulevard, cameras facing the ben franklin bridge. Heres the tauoll plaza here. Looks good so far. Moving new jersey into philadelphia, not bad. Seeing delays for septa. Route 101 delays because of slippery rails being reported there. Watching for the clearing of the crash in ft. Washington from highland avenues on ramp to route 309 southbound. Also watching a crash at croydon at bristol road. Breaking news this morning, and a live picture from brooklyn. This is from our station in new york city. What youre hearing is the reporter there keeping her viewers updated. Heaters what we know at least four people dead in this house fire. Another ten are hurt including five firefighters. The fires under control. But it started around 2 30 this morning. Two of the injured are in serious condition. Witnesses say two boys jumped from a window. Firefighters say this started on the second floor. They dont know how it started, though. As we get information, well keep you update on air and on our free nbc10 app. 5 32. Heres another live look, three flight cancelations at philly international adding to more than a dozen other canceled flights yesterday. Part of the Ripple Effect from a power outage at the worlds Busiest Airport in atlanta. Thousands of people have been trapped on tarmacs and in terms analysis for hours. The power is back on. Nearly 12 hours after the outage at Hartsfield Jackson international. Flights are set to resume in just about a half hour. Perhaps not soon enough for some people. We havent gotten an email or text. I am surprised at that. The airlines, get a different flight. The system is down. This is a mess. Santa claus and mrs. Claus came around ringing bells. And wishing us a merry christmas. So pretty lightening the mood a little bit. Power Company Officials say an underground fire caused extensive damage to the electrical system. Its been a nightmare for beginning holiday travel. Thats right. Matt delucia is live at Philadelphia National airport this morning monitoring the flights there. Some have been delayed, even canceled. Whats the status youre seeing on the board . Reporter right. We have seen cancelations on the board and seen ontime flooits he flights ontime flights heading to atlanta. Weve had a couple of flights coming up at 6 00 and 7 00 to atlanta that are on time and on schedule here departing from philly international. Now, deltas had the majority of the problems because that was the hub atlanta. Most of the canceled flights were for the early morning. Up to 300 flights in and out being affected today. Delta being the largest carrier at the airport, that airline has really been feeling the effects of the outage. Delta is hoping to get back to a normal flight schedule this afternoon. Passage verse been trying to passengers have been trying to get out. One said she had a rough night with her baby, very frustrating. Just a mess. We had to find a hotel. The airlines arent at fault, so theyre not accommodating anything. We have a baby but dont have a car seat. We had to walk to the marriott. Luckily theres an airport hotel. If there hadnt been, we would have sleeping in a terminal. Reporter if you are flying to atlanta or connecting there to philadelphia, you should keep checking the status of your flight. Same goes if you are expecting an arrival from atlanta. The good news is some flights are resuming their normal schedule, especially with delta announcing theyre trying to get back on schedule. Folks trying to get home for the holidays including that woman you heard from. Shes going to be happy once shes touches down in atlanta today. Live at philly international, nbc10 news. 5 35. Police in philadelphia looking for the person who shot a man three times at fdr park in south philadelphia. Investigators say the victim was selling sneakers saturday when the shooter opened fire and took off. The victim remains in critical condition. President trump says he does not plan to fire special Counsel Robert Mueller in the russia investigation. He made the comment as he arrived back from camp david last night. Investigators are combing through thousands of emails sent from the team during a transition. In a letter, trump transition lawyer accused mueller of improper obtained private emails, unlawfully produced by the General Services administration saying some contain attorneyclient privileged information. Not looking good. Not looking good. I cant imagine theres anything on them, frankly. As we said, theres no collusion. Theres no collusion whatsoever. The mueller team said they obtained every legally. Meantime, senator john mccain who is battling brain cancer will miss the vote on the gop tax bill this week. Mccain will undergo rehab and physical therapy in his home state of arizona after getting treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center for a viral infection. His daughter says hes doing well and looking forward to celebrating christmas at home. President trump says senator mccain will come back if republicans need his help to pass the bill. New, new Jersey State Police say someone stole one of their suvs and used the weapons inside for an armed robbery. The unmarked suv was stolen over the weekend in middlesex counties. Troopers uniforms were in it, as well. Police gave no other details. The temperatures werent the only things to drop this past week. Aaa midatlantic says gas prices in pennsylvania, new jersey, and delaware dropped since last sunday. Expect price drops to continue as supply goes up and demand goes down ahead of the holidays. Average price in the philadelphia fivecount region, 2. 67. South Jersey Drivers paying 2. 39. In delaware, the average is 2. 31. In delaware, this is the first hour since major changes to wimbledons bus route. D. A. R. T. To wilmingtons bus route. D. A. R. T. Is moving away from Rodney Square to cut down on congestion. Opponents say this is racial discrimination, making it more difficult for inner city riders to get to their destinations. Eagles fans can give nick foles a passing grade. The birds new starting quarterback threw four nouch touchdowns in a victory over the cowboys. Foles met the challenge yesterday in taking over as quarterback for the injured carson wentz. Foles hit a different receiver on each of his scoring tosses, leading the birds to a 3429 win. Afterwards, foles says he expects to win in light of seasonending injuries to players like carson wentz, darin sproles, and jason peters. Been the message this year, guys have had to step up. The atmosphere its created weve had injuries, i know i talked about it. But the guys who are injured are still there. Its not like theyre not part of the team. Theyre still creating the atmosphere that when things go wrong, guys dont blink. Foales said that wentz wishe him luck ahead of yesterdays game. Super bowl we echo that. Members of eagles nation were voicing their dream at the meadowlands yesterday. Home in south philadelphia, fans watched the game at xfinity live and told us it didnt have to be so close. I got to be honest, getting nervous. I felt that the defense, special teams, they would come through and give the offense another shot. Cracies. I thought they were going to blow the giants out. A great game. Nick proved something. Close game like that, nick pulls it out, all the way nick. I believe in st. Nick, baby. Heres what the eagles latest win means theyll have a firstround bye, a value week off to rest and prepare. They maintain the numberone seed for the nfc playoffs, and if the eagles win one of the next two games, theyll get the home field for the playoff games. Keep in mind the birds are a perfect 60 at the linc this season. Christmas night, the eagles host the oakland raiders. Im meteorologist bill henley. Claunk for clearing that up for me thank you for clearing that up for me. That chant. I thought they were saying super cold, super cold. Not cold at all this morning. Super bowl makes more sense. Normally the temperatures in the 20s. Were up by ten. 39 at 8 00. The clouds break for sunshine. 44 degrees at lunchtime. 46 at 2 00 this afternoon. A pretty nice start to the day. Clouds over the suburbs, sprinkles, too. Well be in the 30s at 10 00. Into the 40s for the suburbs and a nice day for the Lehigh Valley brewing. 35 this morning. 35 at 10 00. Then the temperatures climb. A breeze out of the west at four miles per hour. New jersey has clouds to start, but the clouds like the rest of the area will be thinning. Sunshine, scattered clouds at 10 00. A good deal of sunshine, temperatures in the middle 40s for the afternoon, noon, 2 00, 4 00. A steady climb into the 40s for the shore. Up to 48 by noontime today. And at 2 00, bright sunshine at 2 00 this afternoon. Delaware, you might see a sprinkle or two first thing this morning. Then the clouds keeping temperatures well above freezing will break. Cooler at 8 00. Then enough sunshine to see the warmup, 45 at lunchtime. 47 at 2 00 this afternoon. And if youve been watching, the bottom of the screen shows warmer tomorrow. Ill have more coming up in ten. Thanks. About 5 45. Well look at the vine street expressway. Nbc10s first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington, what are you seeing . A problem reported on the westbound side of the vine. Near the ben franklin parkway offramp. Were starting to see its blocked a little. One lane or so getting by. The westbound side might start to see a little bit of a delay approaching the scene here. You see the off ramp is partially blocked. Well keep our eyes moving through center city. A crash westbound at p. A. Turnpike and mile marker 345. 25 minutes boepth directions westbound and eastbound, route 1 to valley forge. And mass transit, route 101 dealing with service delays due to reports of slippery rails. New jersey transit, amtrak, and patco on time. Ill check the vine coming up. Assaulted. A man describes the moments he heard his fiancee getting attacked by a stranger while he was on the other end of the phone. And kris kringle chaos. A holiday tradition ends with more than a dozen arrests. Cashing in. Holiday cheer. A Good Samaritan leaves the tip of a lifetime. Michael im thankful that im alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know we are here for you. This holiday season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. New this morning, in West Philadelphia police have captured a man who beat a woman as her fiance listened helplessly over the phone. We have a picture of what the woman looked like after the beating. We need warn you, its graphic. The victims fiance said he didnt recognize the person battered and bruised in the hospital. It happened on 63rd street in West Philadelphia. The womans fiance was on the phone with her because she was worried that a man followed her out of a store. He heard a scream, and then the phone cut off. I dont even go to visit her because i cant stand i was on the phone with her. I just couldnt get there. Philadelphia police captured the suspect when they arrested him for another crime. Doctors will have to wire the victims mouth shout and reconstruct parts of her face for her to properly heal. Police in north jersey say a rowdy pub crawl with a santa claus theme ended with more than a dozen arrests. Officers made the arrests at the santa con event. One arrest involved a woman police say punched an officer in the face. The police chief said they also had incidents of public drinking, lewd behavior, and disorderly conduct. New, the final numbers are in for new jerseys extended bear hunt which ended on saturday. State Officials Say hunters killed 407 bears during the years hunt. Thats a lot fewer than the 636 bears killed last year. This fall, officials have added several days to the hunting phone. Governorelect phil murphy promises to halt the hunt so officials can research other methods for managing the bear population. And pope francis celebrated his 81st birthday this weekend a 13footlong papal pizza. Children dressed as young pizza chefs surrounded the pope as he leaned down to blow out a single candle in that huge pie. The pope told the children to eat all the pizza saying it will make them grow. All the kids are being treated at medical facilities funded by the vatican. The pope is always especially touched by children. I doubt theyll need to be convinced to eat the pizza. That was always the busiest daye lunch counter when there was pizza. Word travels like lightning. If youre traveling this morning, no issues. Ive been tracking sprinkles, but the good news is the temperatures are above freezing. Well see a nice warmup. It wont be all clouds all day long. A live view from the nbc10 studios. Yes, clouds overhead. Keeping temperatures mild this morning. 39 degrees in philadelphia. The sprinkles, very light in most neighborhoods, not seeing them. Dont be surprised if salem, gloucester, camden counties, Burlington County could see a few sprinkles. South philly, center city. Most of the raindrops are evaporating before they hit the ground. Theyre falling into drier air. I would expect to see a few raindrops in woodbury. The showers move out. Well see drying conditions. Well get nice breaks of sunshine. Then were clear of big systems until saturday. A Pacific Northwest storm that hasnt moved on shore will bring a chance of showers for saturday, clearing out by sunday. Neighborhoods in the 30s. 34 in the suburbs. The Lehigh Valley at 35. Upper 30s in delaware, philadelphia. Where the showers are coming down, the temperatures are staying above freezing. Unionville, West Bradford township, 34. 35 now in elroy and for north wales. Just a degree warmer in gladwin and st. Davids. Starting in the 30s, warming to the 40s tomorrow. Warmer air tomorrow. As far as the storm system expected late in the week, we can see it will take time to start to form. Move on shore and make its way across the country. That snow coming in tomorrow evening to our west while we stay nice and dry and get a good deal of sunshine. That includes tomorrow, too. Wait until you see the temperature. Today, 46. About normal for this time of year. Look at that, 57 tomorrow afternoon. Thats after a morning low of 39 degrees. Cooler, back to normal on wednesday. Chillier for the first day of winter. It arrives just before noon on thursday. 42 the high after a cold morning in the 20s. The first full day of winter, warmer, 52 with mostly cloudy skies. A storm in the Pacific Northwest brings rain for us. Only rain as the temperatures will be too warm for anything else. 50s on sunday. And then gets chillier for christmas day. 45 after a morning low of 42 degrees. We may see rain showers on christmas day. Drying out and getting colder on tuesday. The cold air will be in place. More showers this time, snow showers next wednesday. Bill, thanks for the update. We want to look now at the vine street expressway. Jessica . Watching the vine street expressway near the ben franklin parkway, this off ramp blocked partially. Westbound, traffic moving toward the schuylkill, might see a delay. For now, traffic is getting by. What is just a little traffic at the same time. Westbound, watch for that near the ben franklin parkway. Another crash on the p. A. Turnpikes westbound side near willow grove. Mile marker 345. 21 minutes both directions. Watch for a disabled vehicle, new, too, in upper pottsgrove on Heather Place around north state street. The morning team is again taking the show on the road this week. On wednesday, we are headed to the wawa on east broad street in bethlehem. We would love for you to come by, say hi. Join us from 4 00 too many 9 00 a. M. Serving 4 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. Serving up free coffee, meeting you, shining a spotlight on the community. Today continuing a legacy of love. The community is rallying to help a local family do good in honor of their young daughter. Spreading Holiday Cheer with cash. The overthetop tip from a Good Samaritan to an unsuspecting restaurant staff. All new on nbc10 news at 6 00 a. M. , moving beyond chocolate. The pennsylvania candy giant hersheys is eyeing a new business venture. A few minutes before 6 00 a. M. Well take you state by state and county by county for stories were following. We begin in mercy county. Police charged a man with attempted murder after investigators say he went on a rampage with a sawed off shotgun. Cedric hodges jumped into a womans car, she ran to get her husband. Hodges shot at both but missed. While officers were searching for hodges, they found another man who had been shot in the arm. Police found the gun along with two victims who had been shot. In chester county, police are looking for two men who tied up employees and robbed a tmobile at dillworth town crossing. The two ordered employees to the back of the store, one man had a gun. The second tied up two of three employees. The wbeen croft school Bancroft School is the largest nonprofit facility for children with autism and other disabilities. Motorcycles will roar, and helicopters will fly today all to help a local family pay tribute to their daughter who lost her battle with cancer. 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