Try not to get caught up in the magnitude, you know of what this game really means. Reporter ducis, two years ago today, the eagles held a, press conference to introduce Doug Pederson as their next head coach. Do you think then he was thinking in 2018 i was one win away from the super bowl. He may have not been thinking it. Rick and sharrie, back over to you. All right, were so close. Ducis, jamie, thanks. We turn to action newss chad pradelli live outside lincoln financial field. Chad, theyre busy getting ready for huge crowds and millions of television watchers come sunday, right . Reporter thats right, rick, here in 48 hours this place will be a sea of green, a lot of fun, a lot of excitement. The fun will start very early for some and heres what you need to know come sunday. As the eagles took the field for practice preparations were under way outside. Barricades are being put in place. Soon more than 70,000 will descend upon south philadelphia to root on the birds. Security is expected to be tight. The message getting into the stadium, lets be clear, small clutch purses will be a you howed 1 gallon ziploc bags and clear bags. We have a lot of officers both uniformed plainclothes real good security inside the stadium and outside in the parking lots. Reporter the party gets started early here on sunday at fdr park. Tailgating can begin at 6 00 in the morning. The wells fargo lots at 11 00 a. M. A half hour later lots mn, po and the Citizens Bank parking lots at 3 00 p. M. Eagles game at 6 40 and we have a lana del ray concert at the wells fargo. Reporter Philadelphia Police say vehicles along broad street from south street to the Sports Complex need to be removed by 2 00 p. M. Sunday. Vehicle owners who dont risk being ticketed or towed. Nearby residents are ready. I live down that way. I cant wait. I dont care about the people coming. I live at 18th street. Its amazing. Reporter and in some lots, tailgating is not allowed. Its generally speaking its those lots north of pattison, west of darien. Im live at lincoln financial field chad pradelli channel6 action news. Chad thank you. Traffic is bound to be completely grid locked around the stadium so septa and patco are stepping up to help out. Septa is also offering riders a game day discount starting today, you can purchase a four dollars pass to get you to and from the game on the broad street line and for anyone in south jersey, patco has expanded its hours for both saturday and sunday. There will be more cars on the trains and they will come more frequently. All right, time now for a check of the game day forecast from accuweather. After a few brutal weeks, winter is loosening its grip just in time for the big game. Lets go to meteorologist Melissa Magee who is in for adam today at the action news big board and were hoping for a perfect football day come sunday, melissa. Sharrie looks like these numbers will be rebounding as we head into our weekend and today we were on our way up. Wednesday we had a High Temperature of 33. Yesterdays high 36 and so far in philadelphia today coming in at 45 degrees, well above the average of 40 degrees this time of year. As we look at the numbers across the midatlantic, its still milder off to the south. 47 washington, d. C. , 54 in richmond, virginia and 53 degrees in roanoke, virginia so we will be tapping into that southwesterly wind as we head into the eastbound. Heres the reason why. Satellite6 along with action radar showing you weve got a mostly clear sky thanks to this dominating ridge of High Pressure. Over the weekend well continue to tap into those west to southwesterly winds just in time for saturday and just in time for game day on sunday so weve got you covered if youre heading over to the linc on sunday, kickoff at 6 40 in the evening. Its rather cloudy for that game but the rain stays away. Weve got a southwesterly wind at three to 6 miles per hour. First quarter that temperature coming in at 44. As we get into the Fourth Quarter well dip down to 42 degrees so certainly not as cold this sunday in comparison to last sunday at the linc. Weve got more details on that plus this warming trend and how long its sticking around with the full and exclusive accuweather of forecast. Back over to you sharrie and rick. Melissa thanks. Thanks melissa. Thousands of fans are heading to the game sunday but there are also expected to be countless watch parties all across the tristate to cheer along the birds. Fans are busy preparing to have friends over so that means shopping for the food and party favors. Gray hall is live at acme in havertown with more. Gray, i need some potato chips and some salsa. [laughter] reporter got you covered. Okay, rick, you know, everyone is excited across the area about this weekends game on sunday everyone decked out in their eagles gear. Theyre talking about two things. Football and the food. Eagles, eagles reporter the eagles spirit is contagious and taking over the city. Shoppers are preparing for the big game day. Many stopped by this acme in havertown for a team pep rally. Those in eagles gear got a discount on their grocery bill. Customers who are here right now at the havertown acme save 5 percent in honor of this pep rally. If you come in any acme on sunday on game day youll save 5 percent off your order of 20 or more. Reporter the talk was about dishes that will be served for the big game. Many customers say they have their first time goto meals. Taco dip, hot taco dip and i like those little mini hot dogs. Im going to be making stakes with my girlfriend. Reporter stakes. Yeah. Reporter any favorite way of cooking the stakes or grilling them up. Just kind of winged it way marinade made myself like brown sugar honey bit of worcester sauce. Stromboli buffalo chicken dip maybe wings. Reporter bakeries and stores are preparing for the huge crowds. The bake slop in wayne says it cant keep eagles sweets on the shelves. Its been crazy. Anything related to a football everybody in the town wants it. Weve been going through a lot of rise crispy treats all decorated in eagles colors, we have our specialty cakes that have the eagles logo we have football cookies and cup cakes that have been flying out. Reporter as customers fill their baskets at the acme swoops showed up with the teams cheerleaders and handed out prizes and tickets to the game. Amy and her son scored a pair and now she has to decide who shes taking. Going to be a tough decision. Maybe the two of us will go. Leave the rest of the boys at home. Reporter all right. So, back out live everyone now counting down until game day on sunday. They have their food and this reminder, rick and sharrie, in particular, rick, since you like chips and dip you can go to any acme on sunday 5 Percent Discount just wear your eagles gear. Live in havertown, gray hall channel6 action news. Sharrie, rick. All right,. Sunday eagles gear, all right, thank you, gray. Action news is your source for eagles coverage this weekend. It all kicks off tonight with our playoff Preview Party at 7 30 right here on channel6. Well have Live Team Coverage all weekend long. And then sunday morning start your eagles game day with live reports from the linc on action news weekend at 6 00 a. M. Then pregame coverage begins with action news at 5 00 p. M. Well have live postgame reports as soon as the final whistle blows and an extra hour of action news starting at 10 00 it all gets wrapped up with extended live eagles coverage on action news sports sunday. Hopefully well all be celebrating by then. Wake up with action news early monday morning. Matt, tam, david and karen will be on at 4 00 a. M. With a complete recap and reaction from all across the tristate area. All right, time now for the action news traffic report. Matt pelman in the action News Traffic Center friday night. How we looking out there matt. Exciting times around here thats for sure and unfortunately some excitement here on the roads. We dont like this kind of excitement, rick and sharrie. This is Chester County, 202 northbound side between boot road and the route 30 bypass. Started with emergency construction earlier this afternoon and then in the work zone there was an accident. Looks like a pretty serious crash with an ambulance and fire truck here on the scene. Penndot and police are out here as well and northbound traffic coming away from west chester is just barely squeezing by on the right side of the roadway here approaching the route 30 bypass. So, as you come northbound, i would stay local through west chester on 322 or go over to 352, northbound 202 not where you want to be. You could also use the northbound side of the blue route, 476. Had a southbound crash by villanova but thats all off to the side now. Farther north youre seeing some slowing now approaching the midcounty tolls and thats because the eastbound pennsylvania turnpike is jammed solid from near norristown out to Fort Washington. Overturned truck there is blocking the eastbound offramp to Fort Washington. And test test developing now in washington, shutdown showdown with a midnight deadline looming in the budget battle President Trump invited the Top Senate Democrat for a meeting at the white house. A Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer says he and the president made some progress this afternoon but adds that there are still a number of disagreements. The meeting in the oval office lasted more than an hour. Still no real agreement has been made as the midnight deadline for a new spending bill inches closer. Well, we just learned this afternoon that the Supreme Court will hear a case on President Trumps travel ban. The justices will decide the legality of preventing people from six countries where the population is majority muslim. Arguments are set to start in april and a ruling should come by late june. Prosecutors announced today they will seek a retrial of new jersey u. S. Senator bob menendez. The democrats first trial ended ended in a hung jury. He was accused in a bribery scheme involving a long time friend in florida. The senator allegedly traded political favors for gift and campaign donations. The Senators Office released a statement saying he fully expects to be vindicated again. Investigators are trying to piece together the owens sequence of events that led to a u. S. Marshall being killed in harrisburg by a philadelphia man. Christopher hill was serving an arrest warrant on a woman when gunfire erupted. Officers shot kevin sturgis. There were several warrants out for his arrest in philadelphia. Governor wolf order the commonwealth flag to fly at half star in honor of deputy hill. Firefighters battled a stubborn house fire in frankford. Chopper6 hd was overhead as smoke was pouring from the home. Crews had ladders stretched to the roof and other firefighters were fighting the flames from the top of neighboring homes. Still no reports of any injuries in all of that. Well, a large 30foot sinkhole opened up this afternoon in the middle of the fishtown section of philadelphia. Wow. Look at the video. Crews blocked off the 2200 block of taggert street and you can see the road caved in and a large part of the sidewalk as well. People living in six homes have been evacuated. No word yet as to what caused this mess. Wow. Well, the panel tasked with creating philadelphias new board of education met for the first time. The group started its work at city hall by presenting legal requirements for board membership. It outlined a nomination process and ethics guidance ford candidates. The School District was returned to local governance after 16 years of state control through the School Reform commission. A sixyearold from bristol signed a letter of intent with the temple mens basketball team. Mason wyckoff happily signed his name on the line while sitting next to head coach fran dunphy. The coach says its an exciting day for the time and theyre excited to have the new 4foot two player. Mason suffers from common variable immune deficiency and was teamed up with temple through team impact. Coach dunphy did put the new guy on the spot and asked him about his favorite player. By the way you got a favorite . Oh. Who is it . Damien . Damien moore oh, boy. All right. Why not. As if today couldnt get any better, moore presented mason with his very own jersey. The sixyearold pretended to faint right there. Mason having a great day there. Good for him. Turning to our forecast, melissa is back and its friday and the temperature is heading up. Yeah, thats right and our spirits are high. Yes. As we head into our weekend guys its all about the temperatures and the eagles too. As we walk over to the Weather Center as were talking about the game at the linc as they take on the vikings in the nfc championship, the game kicking off at 6 40 in the evening its going to be pretty good for the start of that game. Partly cloudy sky, winds out of the southwest at three to 6 miles per hour. 6 oclock a temperature of 44. And 10 oclock sunday night weve got a number coming in at 42 degrees. Not bad on our friday. North and west in slatington and kutztown 37, lake had harmo. Down in new jersey its 42 in surf city, 40 for ewing and browns mills. 42 for vineland and fortescue the upper 40s for areas in delaware. Satellite6 along with action radar showing you weve got a mostly clear sky thanks to a dominating ridge of High Pressure so we stay dry and quiet as we head through the rest of tonight. So, the next 12 hours its not going to be as chilly tonight as it was the last two nights. Weve got a mostly clear sky dipping down to 30 in philadelphia, 25 in reading, 28 in wilmington and 28 degrees the overnight low in dover. Fast forward into the start of our weekend on saturday, well, 7 oclock in the morning weve got a number coming in at 33 degrees. 11 00 a. M. Already above average at 46. 50 by 1 oclock tomorrow. And 52 degrees at 3 oclock in the afternoon with sunshine giving way to a few more clouds. So heres future tracker6 timing it out for you as we get into the second half of our weekend on sunday. 3 30 in the afternoon along the i95 corridor, temperatures will be in the upper 40s. 50 here in philadelphia. 38 in the poconos. And weve got this nice warming trend that continues as we head throughout the rest of our weekend. Theres a good skiers forecast as well up in the poconos. Sunny and comfortable tomorrow High Temperature of 43, partly sunny. Were dry on sunday with a temperature coming in at 41. The four day at 4 00 showing you tomorrow is nice and mild, a High Temperature in at 54 for the high. On sunday, mild with sunshine and some clouds, a high up to 50. On monday its cloudy with some patchy fog developing a High Temperature of 51. Well stay mild on tuesday but a bit of a change comes as we get into the second half of the day. Its wet as we will be tracking some moisture overhead, a High Temperature then coming in at 56 degrees. So, weve got weve weve got more details and our weekend coming up in the next half hour sharrie. Melissa thanks. The eagles game is on everyones mind and its also the final weekend of the philly home show. Theres dozens of exhibits set up at the Pennsylvania Convention center whether youre planning to build or remodel youll find plenty of ideas and inspiration. There are also workshops and celebrity speakers lined up over the next two days. And still to come on action news at 4 00 more eagles coverage. Of course including fill recycles for the birds. Its a parking meter turned into the ultimate eagles fan. Well take a look at this creative contraption and of course more team spirit as well. Alicia. And as we count down to the big game on sunday, the nfl is apparently already decided who is going to the super bowl. Well show you their social media post that lets just say made some birds fans pretty angry around here coming up in big talkers. 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