His 33rd touchdown pass a few plays later setting an eagles franchise record. That proves just how tough this guy is. That is how Carson Wentzs season will end but it is not how it will end for his teammates who are still 11 and two, still headed to the playoffs with a chance to have Home Field Advantage throughout. You can bet theyll be playing for carson and i asked Doug Pederson what his message is to all of us who understandably worry that without wentz the eagles super bowl chances are over. People thought our chances were were gone by the way side when jason peters went down, too, and when Darren Sproles goes down, you know. And all the guys i mentioned earlier and to the fans out there, they cant you cant lose faith i mean, this is this has been a resilient Football Team all season long and, you know, if theres if theres ever an opportunity for me as a head football coach to rally the troops now might be the time. Reporter talk about not losing faith. One action news viewer sent me a beautiful picture of the sunset over philadelphia tonight. It sure looked like an eagles spreading his wings over the city. I have that on my Facebook Page if you want to check it out. Bring on saint nick. Remember nick foles has done this before. He led the eagles to the playoffs back in 2013. He had 27 touchdowns and two interceptions that season. Well hear from wentz well hear from foles coming up a little bit later in sports. Live at the novacare complex jaime apody channel6 action news. Jim. Thank you jamie. So carson wentz will have to undergo surgery to repair the acl. The good news here, a full recovery is expected. And experts say wentz should return to a high level of play. Cant remember the exact study to quote it but i believe 13 to 14 nfl quarterbacks in the more recent times that underwent acl reconstruction all returned to the same level of performance based on stats the season they returned. The surgery involves taking a tendon from elsewhere in the body, holes are drilled above and below the knee and that new tendon is threaded through and anchored by screws. In time, doctors say the replacement acl will actually be stronger than the original. Wentz is likely to begin physical therapy soon after surgery. Lets go live to the linc and action News Reporter chad pradelli. Chad, the eagles are hoping that the fan base rallies around nick foles just as the players will. What have you been hearing today . Reporter jim, this is a fan base that lost a little bit of its mojo. You know, there was a lot of confidence in this team with carson wentz at the helm but that confidence is now a bit shaky. When m. V. P. Candidate carson wentz went down for the season, the eagles faithful went into a tail spin. Honestly i felt like throwing up. I mean, it was like this is the year, im excited and i see there and my heart is broken. I was on the bandwagon. I was at super bottom of the beltway i was the bandwagon. Reporter felt like the team could win. I was ready to hop on that bandwagon and drive straight up to minnesota oh, yeah. Reporter it feels the collective mood is the eagles can still win but dont bet the ranch unless youre frank from south philadelphia. He didnt have much faith in wentz in the first place. To me hes overrated, okay. He under throws passes overthrows the guys. Reporter youre not worried about this. No, im not. I think foles can do the job. Reporter nick foles is once again the man leading the birds attack. He has had success even a pro bowl bid. Heck, in one season he threw 27 touchdowns in and just two interceptions. Foles would have been more laid back kind of california cool compared to north dakota but got a little momentum right now. Reporter momentum only goes so far. Number 11 had some fans booking hotel rooms in minnesota for the super bowl. Now those fans are looking to unload. Getting into the playoffs deep i think is going to be probably a little bit of a challenge. Reporter and some fans are hoping the running game and this defense will help pick up some of the slack with the loss of wentz. Live in south philadelphia, chad pradelli channel6 action news. Jim. All right, chad. Our coverage of Carson Wentzs injury and the eagles victory yesterday continues on 6abc. Com sports. There you can read more about the future of the team. You can watch video of the birds returning home to philadelphia. And see how fans are celebrating the nfc east championship. Oh, yes, they did win the nfc east yesterday. One of the busiest transportation hubs in the world was the scene of an attempted terrorist attack this morning. Police converged on the Port Authority bus terminal in new york after a 27yearold brooklyn man detonated a pipe bomb deep inside the terminal building. Now, this is video of the moment the bomb went off. Akayed ullah of bangladesh originally was seriously hurt. Five other people suffered injuries but obviously this could have been catastrophic. Action News Reporter vernon odom is live in center city philadelphia. Vernon what happened in new york reminds us that authorities have to be constantly vigilant here especially with the holidays coming up. Reporter indeed, jim an act of terrorism in new york city always grabs attention here and in fact all over the world. Todays pipe bomb in the new york city subway generated plenty of reaction here from civilians and Law Enforcement as well. The shock waves of a terrorist attack in new york city always raises alerts in philadelphia. City and septa police were quick to respond to Media Inquiries about their state of readiness here down the road from manhattan. Septas uniformed personnel have been increased in the subway system and regular police on the streets of center city as well. We have a lot of layers of security were constantly training. We do a lot of outreach. We kind of say the same thing for every active shooter every terrorism event but really is true. Whenever theres an incident somewhere else in the country every Police Department is concerned that its a its a organized effort, maybe an attack in multiple cities so we we immediately implement a higher visibility posture and we did that today. Reporter regular septa riders are vowing not to be intimidated. If im in an area where i cant observe everybody at all times im concerned. I used to live and work in new york so you just know that thats the kind of thing that could possibly happen so youre just more dill gender about things. Reporter at 30th street station amtrak as usual makes no effort to conceal the fact that theyre on high alert Holiday Season or not. In center city, shoppers today are showing no hesitation to come downtown if this was their original plan. You cant live in fear. Every day id never leave the house. It made me think for a second about coming downtown but we werent going to let us stop us. We just wanted to enjoy the dickens village and being in the city with the kids at christmas. Reporter jim, tonight we see no signs here in center city that the incident today in new york city has tamped down the holiday spirit in philadelphia. Live in center city, im vernon odom channel6 action news. Thank you vernon. And an overturned tractortrailer caused delays for drivers through Gloucester County this afternoon. The accident happened in the southbound lanes of route 55 in the area of the interchange for route 322 in harrison township. Theres no word on what led up to the crash or the condition of the driver. Heavy delays are reported as officials work to clear the scene. Two students are in custody for an alleged threat made at a school in lehigh county. Authorities received information about a plot at park Land High School in South Whitehall township last week. Allentown police along with the District Attorneys Office and the fbi worked to track down two 15yearold boys. The boys remain in juvenile detention. Both are expected at a Juvenile Court hearing on thursday. A trial challenging pennsylvanias Congressional District boundaries got under way in harrisburg today. A state court is hearing a lawsuit from voters who say the republican drawn map is too partisan and violates the state constitution. A separate challenge is awaiting a decision in federal court. These gerrymandering cases are proceeding as the u. S. Supreme Court Considers new standards for drawing political district lines. Governor tom wolf and representative mary jo daily spoke out today against Pennsylvania State senate bill three. This happened in conshohocken. The controversial measure would ban abortions after 19 weeks of pregnancy. Wolf calls the legislation an attack on womens personal freedoms. The governor vows to veto the bill if it reaches his desk. We are happy to report tonight that Kiersten Edwards alexander received a brand new custom walker this morning. The 10yearold from wilmington relies on one to help her get around because of her cerebral palsy. We told you the story originally last week. Her walker was stolen two weeks ago. Surveillance video caught the crime in action. The two suspects were arrested last week and kiersten has a new walker tonight. Coming up on action news tonight, seasons greetings from south jersey. Young students make holiday cards for service men and women who are serving overseas. And without Carson Wentz Nick Foles is in. Ducis rodgers with reaction from the eagles new starting quarterback tonight. Cecily. Well, we made it up into the low 40s today. But theres some bitter cold air over eastern canada. Thats moving our way by the middle of the week. 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The current replacement project is expected to have a much longer life span. The 650,000dollar project is scheduled to be completed later this month. Some youngsters in south jersey spent this morning making sure that American Service men will get some cheer during the Holiday Season. Action News ReporterJeanette Reyes has that story. My dad is a superhero. Reporter this morning dozens of students at kid academy in delran new jersey got to cheer up a special kind of superhero for the holidays. My dad is an american soldier. Reporter children ages two to five created 100 holiday cards for active military. So were going to make them cards so we get them on christmas. Say thank you for keeping us safe. We do have some parents that are serving our country abroad. And theyre not going to be home for the holidays. Reporter the students got right to work whipping out crayons colored pencils and markers and drew everything from lit up Christmas Trees to santas sleigh. What are you doing right now. Making cards, christmas cards. Reporter what do you have so far . A house. We have a lot of active military in our schools. So, we talk about families and how sometimes the families arent home for the holidays. We decided to send them cards so we could spread a little holiday cheer. Wrote him a letterrism the goal is twofold. To connect with troops overseas and to teach the children about generosity compassion and gratitude. The earlier they know, you know, to give back, the best because it will help them to grow into like better people and i just i think thats the best way. Reporter reporting in delran, new jersey, Jeanette Reyes, channel6 action news. Its a challenge for the eagles and also a challenge for eagles fans. You know, lets go all in on this, all right. Not the end of the world. Theyve had players go down. One eagles fan tweeted i dont know whats more torn my heart or Carson Wentzs acl. Thats how a lot of people felt once the news was confirmed this afternoon that carson wentz is indeed done for the season. Jaime apody is lie at live in south philadelphia with more details and reaction. Jamie. Reporter ducis i saw some eagles fans tweet that theyd give their acls to carson if they could. If only it were that simple. Who would ever believe the day after the eagles clinched the division we would be this devastate. Not me. Wentz running in a touchdown late in the quarter later called back because of ahold. He got sandwiched between two defenders. He came up limping. He stayed in the game a few plays later threw a touchdown pass to Alshon Jeffrey that set the eagles record for touchdown passes in a season. But its a torn acl. Hes done for the year. So now what . The eagles are still 11 and two, they are still in the drivers are seat for Home Field Advantage throughout the playoffs. They still have super bowl aspirations. Of course guys are disappointed. Their heartbroken for their quarterback who is in the midst of a special season but theyll go on and try and win it for their leader. I hate it for carson wentz. I hate it for the career or the season i guess that hes been having. But at the same time its been the next man up mentality and thats thats how we approach it this week. It sucks, you know, because more so for carson as a friend as a teammate and what he puts in the game and his preparation to not have him or see him go down in that fashion right where we are on a night like this it sucks for him. But as a team, we still got all our goals out in front of us. Reporter indeed they do. With a win against the giants on sunday the eagles can clinch at least a bye in the first round of the playoffs and of course nick foles has been there before. Ducis you have more on that. Im live at the novacare complex jaime apody channel6 action news. Jamie thank you so much. Nick foles is now your starter. This is not the 2013 nick foles who lit up the nfl but the eagles still have the utmost faith in him. Foles finished off the game yesterday and rallied the troops from behind. The eagles have had a next man up mentality all season long. They say despite the importance of that position that does not change. As for foles himself he says he knows what to do. Im absolutely ready. Thats why im here. So, im ready to go prepare every day work jeff day so im ready to go. Understand this, hes a veteran player who has played and hes won a lot of games. Not only here but other places that hes been. We feel like we going to roll with it. We feel confident in nick as well. Nick got playoff experience, he got game experience. We going to roll with it. Theres a new number one in Mens College Basketball and its villanova. The cats are perfect 10 and zero on the season. They are coming off victories over then number 12 gonzaga and lasalle. Nova will visit temple wednesday night. That should be a good one. Thats sports. Sorry. I was ready for you to put a period at the end of the sentence. I get it. Cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment. What do you think . Hey, think ben will like it . Yeah, was i the only one hearing the angelic music . Im serious, i never know what to get him. Just tell me you got him fios too. Sigh. Mrs. Layne, fios is a 100 fiberoptic network. That, plus this sick console, hell be like whaaaaaattt. Your new tech is best on the 100 fiber optic network. So get fios. Now just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. The week ahead from accuweather and cecily tynan. Weve got some really cold air on the way. Not yet tonight, though. Tonight lets go live on sky6 taking a look, just a beautiful shot at the philadelphia Christmas Tree all aglow but earlier this evening, did you see it . Jaime apody did at sunset, at 4 36, now look at this picture, the clouds, they actually look like an eagle. Doesnt it . You notice that . Maybe thats a sign. Maybe thats a good sign. Hopefully not a sign that were our season has reached its sunset. So jaime apody tweeted that out. A little bit of cloud cover ahead of a system that will bring us much cooler air. Right now 37, down from a high of 42 which is 4 degrees below normal. A little bit on the cool side. Allentown 37, trenton 32 and Atlantic City airport 31. As we head through the evening hours, temperatures will kind of bottom out right around midnight but then actually theyll start to rise into the 40s early tomorrow morning ahead of a cold front. We have kind of a one day hit of some milder air. Right now, though, satellite and radar showing we do have some cloud cover moving in. Generally partly cloudy skies. If you look near chicago, you see that little spin. Thats the low pressure that will move up to the north. First it pulls in mild air. And then an arctic front moves through behind it weve got very cold air and very high winds. But future tracker showing tomorrow morning 7 30 lots of clouds, not all that cold for philadelphia, 42. That was our high today. Notice a few scattered light showers across the north and west suburbs. Could have a little bit of snow