Cecily tynan live at the big board with the all important turkey day forecast. We are clearing out things nicely on this busy travel day right before thanksgiving, satellite and radar showing the system that moved through this morning that brought light rain to philadelphia. A half inch in Atlantic City blossoms along the coast than rain is pushing up around Northern New England behind it we have cool gusty winds blowing in. Philadelphia reporting a peak wind gust 33 Miles Per Hour the same in reading and nearly as strong in reading and Atlantic City 38 and wilmington 36 Miles Per Hour. And we dried out but the gusty winds along with high volume are causing some ground delays in newark. We have delays 51 minutes, that is the only airport reporting delays and boston lingering rain no delays. And buffalo cold but no delays, and washington and pittsburgh looking good and down to the south, atlanta and out to dallas and Denver Colorado this is looking nice. This is what we want for a big travel day. We want quiet weather but its cooler off if you step outside you need the winter coat. 41 the windchill but if you look to the northwest. Buffalo feels like 19 and pittsburgh 24. The 6 abc Dunkin Donuts thanksgiving day parade its going to be a cold one lots of sunshine and at 8 00, 34 degrees and by 10 00, 38 and noon only 42 feeling cooler with the winds outs of the west 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour. The the balloons should be a go. Well talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. Lets switch live to matt pellman in the action news traffic center. Well, crowds are the name of the game this evening, at the Grocery Stores and on the roadways as i step aside this is 95 near bridesburg and an awful lot of headlights and taillights, slow moving at the betsy ross bridge and travel time a couple of minutes worse. And a few issues on i95 and they are all gone and this time just volume. And issues on the southbound boulevard to the westbound schuylkill a stuck truck where the ramp is narrowed and working on that. The truck is gone now and the southbound doesnt look bad and the northbound is backing up as it often does heading to broad street and there is a medical emergency on the southbound side of lady of ransom and several issues on the pennsylvania turnpike eastbound. And a couple of gets are gone and now a broken down vehicle eastbound by valley forge and norristown. That busy stretch taking out the left lane. So extra slow coming east of king of prussia this afternoon. Big problems near vineland. 55 southbound blocked off for an accident investigation not getting through south of 40 h d harding highway. Delsy drive. If you head to the shore dont do so 55 southbound . Head for the ac expressway and the garden state parkway. No issues there except for heavy volume. A crash in voorhees that just cleared at the chipotle. And crash in newark, delaware that cleared by the bp station at route 2 capital trail. And you can see 95 in delaware is plenty busy the whole way from newark into the city of wilmington. Well check it again coming up in the next half hour. All right matt thank you. We are just hour as way from another proud thanksgiving day tradition here in philadelphia. The 6 abc Dunkin Donuts thanksgiving day parade now in its 98th year. Our drone 6 was over eakins oval after the grand finale on the art museum steps, hours of practice and planning went into the numbers you will see tomorrow. And as always watch the 6 abc Dunkin Donuts thanksgiving day parade with us. Cecily tynan will lead the holiday tradition and our live coverage kicks off right now lets turn it over to vernon odom live at the acme in bryn mawr. People waited until today to get the items for the thanksgiving day dinners. How are you out there . Reporter good evening monica and rick. In is always a run on supermarkets its crowded here at this acme in bryn mawr at this hour. Always this way on thanksgiving eve and mark it on your calendar and tonight frankly is no different. The general mood is great at supermarkets we visited today as last minute food shoppers gathered up the ingredients for the traditional dinners for family and friends and here we are in the suburbs. This is my third time. Today . Since saturday. Big day planned. The first time im cooking thanksgiving dinner. Ever . Ever. How many people are coming . 10. The atmosphere we found was intense. To make sure they had the goodies to stuff themselves and give thanks for the blessings. Its usual macaroni and cheese. Vegetables. And collard greens, the typical things, turkey. Chicken. Roast beef. And the sides. For how many people frmg i have a large family maybe 0 people. No kidding . Yes. This is all of your last minute stuff. Back in the burbs a grandmother born in italy plans an american thanksgiving dinner. How many coming . Four boys grandchildren and my daughterinlaw and her parents. And you are cooking the dinner . Yes. What are you serving . Turkey, soup. And the wedding soup. I asked her about lasagne she said no way tomorrow we are going the turkey route. Thank you vernon the lasagne is friday. The good folks at three ministries made sure that people did not go hungry this thanksgiving, 150 families were fed with the food here at the center city location. They did it at their West PhiladelphiaOutreach Center as well. A lot of people have a hard decision, do i actually have a thanksgiving meal or do i pay my rent. And do we help these people in desperate need. 23 of people live at or below the poverty line and the events are popular during the holidays. And bring us with you. As you head out for your holiday. Get real time traffic conditions, and weather updates and Storm Tracker 6 or more on your phone or tablet. The app say free download. A young couple is charged with murder after the discovery of a mans body at a shopping center. Chad pradelli is live at the scene on the 400 block of ridge pike on more on the reported motive tonight. Reporter rick, the Montgomery CountyDistrict Attorneys Office says they planned to rob their drug dealer and it went bad and now they are charged with murder. The Montgomery CountyDistrict Attorneys Office say that austin park inson and lana laird are the two people seen in the video earlier this week and you saw two people running and a victim crashing at the bottom of the scene. That they got into the buick sedan and announced a robbery and a struggle ensued and they began to stab their drug dealer and made off with 800 in heroin. And tj found the wrecked vehicle and called police. I noticed someone in the front seat of the car kind of leaned over and the windows were tinted over and got a closer look and the guy was bloody. Surveillance video helped detectives identify a vehicle in which the couple fled and laird suffering a hand injury and went to Einstein Medical Center to be treated and the two were taken in for questioning and parkinson admitted to killing him in a rage. And others in this Suburban Shopping Center were waiting for an arrest. Interesting it happened in the area and disturbing. But the frequency with which it happens i like to believe is pretty low. Reporter so for 8 800 in stolen heroin this couple could face life behind bars. Chad pradelli, channel 6 action news. People in roxborough in safer thanks to the philadelphia fire department. They went doortodoor installing smoke detectors in homes that did not have them. Ladder 30 did the work. And the American Red Cross came along to hand out Home Fire Safety checklists to residents. More ahead on action news tonight. A lot of people look forward to thanksgiving as a time to overindulge on all of their favorite foods, but food addictions it could be an especially difficult time. Ali gorman has more on local efforts to give support. Well show you how the fourlegged friends are enjoying the holiday. And we are taking a live look from chopper 6 hd tonight at traffic over the new jersey turnpike. Look at all of those headlights, this is southbound route 73 in mount laurel. Again, along the new jersey turnpike a lot of folks trying to head home. It will take a while because traffic is a parking lot on this thanksgiving eve night. Health check now officials in delaware are confirming two children in that state have the flu virus. This is the first two cases of the virus in children so far. Ali gorman joins us with details on that and what you need to know. Both cases in delaware are in kids under 4 years old. Young kids are more likely to have complications from the flu and more likely to spread the virus. According to the cdc activity is starting to pick up in the west in the south and then the number of cases is also creeping up in pennsylvania. The flu comes on suddenly with a fever, cough and sore throat and headache and runny nose, if you expect you have the flu, antiviral medication can help if taken within the first 48 hours. This is especially important for people at high risk for complications. Its not too late to get a flu shot it can help prevent you from getting sick and even lessen its severity of your symptoms and for most people thanksgiving is a happy comfortable holiday and okay to indulge a bit on the food. But for some people tomorrow can actually be a tough day. Especially for anyone that has a food addiction or suffers from overeating or bulimia. So the food addicts and anonymous has extra support. Annabel a supporter talks about her struggle. My particular food addition was mostly flour and sugar products, i would eat anything but really in massive quantities, it was not unknown to have a binge of 10,000 calories. I could not stop. Food addiction was destroying my life and this program just put me back on track. She and others will be supporting each other at a meeting tomorrow. If you would like to join its from 9 00 until 1 30 in the morning at Trinity Lutheran in havertown. And if this is something you struggle with they have link at 6abc. Com. Website we thank you. Some fourlegged friends are getting a thanksgiving feast too. Homeless dogs in media were treated to special feasts today and these are the dogs that will not be adopted by tonight and the ones that got the restaurant quality cuisine no fillers and no preservetives. They donated enough for all the pooches and thrilled to get it. I work overtime when i can get it. I need my blood sugar to stay in control. So i asked about tresiba®. 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In brew mall they hosted their pajama and book drive. And they helped to collect for local shelters and students and teachers were invited to wear their pjs to the assembly. They used thanksgiving to say thanks to the veterans. Students cheered as local vets walked by and students and staff and all the veterans took part in a turkey trot. They walked one mile together as a way to promote an active healthy lifestyle. You heard that right. The carollers sang the most dangerous time of the year that. Is how the office of delaware Highway Safety is trying to spread the message of all the dangers that pop up near the holidays. And the weather holidays through january is one of the most dangerous time for drivers and pedestrians and asked them to sign a holiday pledge and enter the larger than life snow globe to get a picture and remember. E . Hey. Did you take out the trash . Haha, garbage boy dad, i already took out ben. Its not funny. Gaming is best on a 100 fiberoptic network. So get fios. Now, just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee, with a 2year agreement. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast. Cecily tynan is here with the turkey day details. If you come down to the parade, which we hope you do. Heavy coat. Yes, only 15 hours from the kickoff to the parade. The parade forecast is looking really nice. Its been on the windy side today and you dont want winds for the parade because that grounds the balloons but the 6 abc Dunkin Donuts thanksgiving day parade, the winds will generally be light about 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour. Loads of sunshine and you can see the temperatures, if you head down to the parade route. You really do want to dress in layers and dress for winter. 8 00, 34 degrees, 9 00, 36 and by noon when the parade wraps up on the cool side only 42 degrees and feeling cooler when you factor in the breeze. Right now speaking of a breeze. We have got pretty impressive wind gusts, wind gusts anywhere from 17 Miles Per Hour in allentown and 30 miles in cape may. And you see the streamlines, the arrows, that is the direction of the wind out of the northwest that is after the cold front moved through earlier today. The high we hit that at noon. 57 degrees and the windchill make its feel like 41 in philadelphia. Feels like the 30s in the north and west suburbs and the poconos for thanksgiving the current windchill is 19 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar showing the cold front brought us the quick hit of rain and that left the region, we still have a few lingering clouds and they are beginning to break up and continuing to do so overnight as the High Pressure builds in and 30 is the low and 26 in millville and 24 in allentown and 27 in trenton and the same in wilmington and reading 25. It will be brisk and it will be cold and thanksgiving day tomorrow. Blue skies and sunshine and mostly sunny and temperatures running 17 degrees below average and by noon 42 and 3 00, 46 degrees, bundle up a nice afternoon to work off the turkey stuffing and pumpkin pie. I like the pumpkin pie that is my favorite. Its dry tomorrow and lots of sunshine for your thanksgiving day parade and all of your activities, if you travel at all its looking good and the high only 46 degrees and on friday the High Pressure scoots to the east and that shifts the winds more out of the westsouthwest. Bringing us milder air with a high of 54 degrees with the shoppers looking pretty nice and saturday ahead of the cold front. We bump it up to 58 degrees. That front moves through and brings us a shower or sprinkle and behind the front back to the cold gusty winds. The high of 48 degrees. We could have wind gusts 30 to 35 Miles Per Hour. And that could have an impact on the kicking game at the linc and plenty of sunshine with the process of rebounding 50 degrees. And ill talk about the sevenday forecast but in the meantime we want to head down to the art museum steps, that is where adam is with a few of your closest friends. Just a few. Several years in a row i am a part of this. This is the way to kick off the Holiday Season. Of the course they stopped the music when you go live. I hear the drums they go again. Ill tell you well be lighting this tree at 5 50 p. M. A 54 foot tree and well do the count dont live on the air and great dances here. Do a dance twist like this . You got the hands and everything. This little girl, its the light of the cameras, you can dance with me. The sevenday forecast and the live Tree Lighting and how much hot chocolate have you had . They are giving out cookies here. She is in a cookie coma. Let me see you dance . There she goes. I lightning that twist. Nice. Lots of cookies. My favorite move. Much more ahead on action news at 5 30. Well check the Holiday Travel situation around the nation. And also philadelphia Rapper Meek Mill is behind bars but his thanksgiving turkey project continued today regardless. And philadelphia mayor, jim kenney fights a Controversial White House order. Action news continues. With adam joseph can jaime apody and Monica Malpass. Hello again, here is what is happening on road air and sky. Thanksgiving travelers are heading out and this year is the busiest in many years but folks are staying here to catch philadelphias 98th annual 6 abc Dunkin Donuts thanksgiving day