Helping this Football Team try to win a Football Game and i try not to get caught up in the magnitude, you know, of what this game really means. Reporter pederson has done judge a great job all year. Well be here all night ducis. Its our nfc championship playoff Preview Party action news sports special tonight at 7 30 p. M. Live from chickies and petes well be joined by ron jaworski and Brian Westbrook will be here. Well be joined by several hundred of the crazest eagles fans that there are right now. They are live loud, they are proud, they are praying for a victory come sunday. For jaime apody im Ducis Rodgers channel6 action news. Jim back to you. Thank you guys. Lets switch live to lincoln financial field at action News Reporter chad pradelli. Chad, what do fans need to know before they flock to the stadium on sunday . Reporter jim behind me that is lot k. That lot opens at 1 oclock on sunday but other lots they open much earlier. Heres what you need to know come sunday. Lincoln financial field will be rocking come sunday night. Hours earlier the festivities will begin outside. Fans mike and Jessica Bennett are here from vancouver ready to cheer on the birds. You going to be tailgating on sunday. Probably very early, yup. Reporter what are you expecting here. I expect probably the most insane sporting event ive ever seen in my life so and a big win. Reporter heres what they and others need to know. The party gets started early here at fdr park. Tailgating begins at 6 00 a. M. The wells fargo lots open at 11 00 a. M. A half hour later, lots mn and p open and Citizens Bank park lots get going at 3 00 p. M. Our couple from vancouver arent sure when theyll start. I dont want to be too, too inebriated for game time. Reporter security getting into the stadium will be tight. The motto is lets be clear. Small clutches are allowed, so, too, are 1 gallon ziploc bags. Other clear bags are allowed but cant exceed 12 by six by 12inches. Police are ramping up their presence. We have a lot of officers both uniformed plainclothes real good security inside the stadium and outside in the parking lots. Reporter the message from police, have fun, be safe and let the game be enjoyable for all inside the linc. The bennetts cant wait for. The atmosphere. The fans, the people, the just the excitement, the electricity in the crowd going to be amazing. Reporter and certain laws do lots do not allow tailgating. Those are north of pattison and darien. Chad pradelli channel6 action news. Jim. Thank you, chad. If the eagles win on sunday, it will surprise nobody it seems like this. Break out at various philadelphia locations. This is frankford and cottman in mayfair. And police are preparing for crowd control here and elsewhere. Action News Reporter vernon odom is live at Police Headquarters tonight where officials have been sharing their plans for sunday. Vernon, whats the story there. Reporter jim, they are eyeballing legendary hot spots for big victory turnouts as we go into this weekend theyll be watching them all weekend. Police have been declaring themselves fit and ready for big game on sunday. Theyre own game plan based upon planning experience and sound judgment. Jim, they have been planning for this all week. Theyll have extra troops on the street all day long and more on standby if they are needed to be called out. Their experience comes a lot from the 08 celebrations spontaneousus ious after the phillies game. Septa police are ready to go too. Theyre putting on extra trains and people. There are surveillance camera and system better than any other as good as any in the world so everybodys standing by, jim, and they say they are ready to go. Im vernon odom channel6 action news live at Police Headquarters in center city, jim. Thank you, vernon. Action News Reporter bob brooks live at city hall tonight. Bob its hard to imagine that there are fans more passionate about their football and more desperate for the ultimate prize. How is the area expressing its passion and its pride . Reporter jim very well. We went all over the area today. We stopped in places of work, school, senior centers. Everyone is having a blast preparing for this nfc championship game. That includes support right here in center city. Youll see these overlife sized cutouts of eagles players. Ill tell you what, everyone is very excited. Fly eagles friday. Reporter from some of the youngest. Reporter to our seniors who are clearly still going way strong. Fly eagles fly on the road to victory. Eagles eagles reporter and every fan in between. For many work, school or their typical day was a lot more fun. The eagles are bringing fans all across the area together. Are the eagles going to win. I think so. Reporter you think so . We think so. Reporter and we had a blast today meeting some of the youngest well dressed and spirited fans. This was at todays Child Learning Center in sharon hill. Some of the little ones here dont know it yet but theyll be eagles fans their whole lives. Nothing wrong with that. And others seem ready to play now. Win, eagles. [cheers and applause] reporter just around the corner we popped into the pep rally at mercy wide. The seniors have been waiting a long time. How long have you been an eagles fan. Long, long time. Reporter do you think this is the year they make it to the super bowl. Yes, i do. Reporter this is it . Yes. Reporter along with an eagles fight song cheer they had a message for the vikings. Pain. Reporter pain for. Minnesota. Reporter thats rightly. [cheers and applause] reporter in broomall at crozer keystone they had the full spread going and they insisted i sing with them in a cheer so i did. Fly eagles fly on the road to victory. Reporter i ask everyone out there to pardon my singing. I had a blast with everyone we pretty. I made a promise to a lot of those people. I said in two weeks the friday before the super bowl if the eagles win i come back and do it all over again. We certainly hope that happens. Reporting live at city hall bob brooks channel6 action news. Jim. Thank you bob. We invite you to join action news beginning sunday morning. Eagles game day starts with live reports from the linc on action news at 6 00 a. M. Pregame coverage begins with action news at 5 00 p. M. And of course well have live postgame reports as soon as the final whistle blows and an extra hour of action news starting at 10 00 p. M. And well wrap up the game with extended live eagles coverage on action news sports sunday. And right now on 6abc. Com you can find complete coverage of the eagles playoff run. Analysis from our action News Sports Team and a look ahead with former eagles quarterback ron jaworski but also showing you how some of the areas biggest eagles fans are getting ready for the game. Coming up on action news tonight new jersey senator bob menendez could be retried on corruption charges. Thats not that story. What youre looking at there is a sinkhole in fishtown. Its a problem and crews are now working to fix it. It has forced evacuations from the entire neighborhood. Melissa. And jim, weve got a nice climb as we head into our weekend. In fact, on wednesday we had a High Temperature of 33. Yesterday 36. 10 degrees milder this afternoon with a high coming in at 46 degrees. And it looks like this warmer weather will continue as we head into our weekend. Details coming up with the accuweather forecast. We will go back to Ducis Rodgers and jaime apody in south philadelphia for an eagles championship preview. That and more when action news continues. Schumer said there was some progress and efforts to prevent a Government Shutdown at midnight tonight but that there are still disagreements. Senate democrats say they wont vote for a short term funding bill unless it includes protection for socalled dreamers. 800,000 people brought here illegally as children years ago. World news tonight with david muir will have complete coverage of the showdown over the possible shutdown next at 6 30. The Justice Department says it intends to retry new jersey senator bob menendez on corruption charges. The first menendez trial ended in november with a deadlocked jury. It was a mistrial. Menendez is seeking reelection to his seat next year. Firefighters battled a smoky blaze that broke out inside a twin home in the frankford section of philadelphia. This is on the 4600 block of pilling street. The fire erupted at 10 30 this morning. Fire crews got it under control within an hour. And fortunately nobody was injured. The cause is under investigation. All right we showed you this picture a minute ago. A large sinkhole prompted the evacuation of six homes today in the fishtown section of philadelphia. The view from chopper6 shows a section of the street and sidewalk collapsed along the 2200 block of taggert. Crews from the water department, pgw, l and i and peco responded to the area at 11 30 this morning. There is no official word yet whether a broken water main caused the sinkhole. A sign of changing times in downingtown, chester county. Chopper6 was overhead as demolition crews leveled part of what was once the sunoco paper mill at the intersection of boot road and route 322. Local officials hope that it will be the future site of a new downingtown amtrak septa train station. The hanging group purchased the property with plans to build a massive retail and reasonable project. The 13 member panel tasked with creating philadelphias new board of education met today for the first time. The group presented legal requirements for Board Membership at city hall this morning. It also outlined the nomination process and ethics guidance for candidates. Earlier this month Governor Tom Wolf approved dissolving the School Reform commission and returning the district to local control. Heads up for commuters. Septa will no longer be selling tokens at the market frankford and broad street line stations come monday. It is the latest step as the Transit Agency transitions to a septa keycard. They are free with a 10 minimum load. An entire section of the sun country have a single pulse . If it can its quickening for sure. Fly eagles fly will be sung over and over again sunday night at the linc everyone is getting ready to roll anxious nervous name the emotion eagles are feeling it as they get ready for the biggest game of the season sunday against the vikings for the right to go to the super bowl. Doug pederson admitting hes trying to focus and stay level headed. Lets go live to Ducis Rodgers and jaime apody at chickies and chickies and petes in south philadelphia hosts of our nfc championship pregame show tonight. Guys. Reporter say, there, jeff. The excitement is certainly in the air throughout the city, certainly here at chickies and petes and it will be that way at the linc sunday 6 40. This eagles team i would never bet against them. They have overcome so much this season including a number of injuries. Think about that. Jason peters darren sproles, jordan hicks, subsequent, carson wentz thats an entire starting team right there and also it features the most unlikely of mackups case keenum against nick foles. Its uncanny that hes at this point. Of course he led the eagles to the playoffs the last time they were here in 2013. But hes been a journeyman backup since and also decided to retire before fate brought him back to philadelphia to back up carson wentz. His teammates say theres nobody else they want to lead the team right now. Foles wants to win it for this city. Right now were just focused on the moment but this fan base is amazing. Thats coming back here philly wherever ive been when i wasnt playing for the eagles its always had a special place in my heart and to be a player thats fortunate enough to come back and play for the team that he was drafted by and has such strong ties to the city that doesnt happen often and just to be here in this moment to go play the game with these guys to play in front of these fans its a great honor and were going to give everything we have sunday to give us that opportunity. Reporter like foles, vikings quarterback case keenum began this season as a backup. Hes done an excellent job guiding his team. Chris long was keenums teammate in saint louis. Long knows how tough he can be. I call him like a little mini brett farve like hes like a little gun player. Ive played with him before. I know what hes about. Hes a great competitor. He can make a lot of throws in tight spots. You know, out of anyplace in the pocket and he is tough to bring down. Reporter we will have much more from the eagles coming up tonight at 7 30 here on 6abc for our playoff Preview Party, ron gentleman jaworski, Jeff Skversky, Brian Westbrook and jamie will be here. What do you travel with a band. Reporter right on cue. Reporter the crowd is so pumped up. They love the disrespect. It continues ducis. The nfls Facebook Page they were promoting a contest to win trips to the super bowl. Theyve got the matchup as the patriots and the vikings. I think these fans would have something to say about that. Yeah. Eagles, eagles. Reporter if you dont believe them the picture is on 6abc. Com ducis. Reporter for jaime apody im Ducis Rodgers im Ducis Rodgers. Tom brady is questionable with a hand injury. The the patriots quarterback will be a game time decision against jacksonville sunday. The eagles could potentially be facing one of those two teams next in the super bowl. All right. Coming up on action news accuweather when we continue in just a moment. Folks all over the Delaware Valley and the tristate area are getting ready to cheer the eagles on to victory. Physical Education Teacher jeff yakel and his second graders at Whitemarsh Elementary School exercising their singing voices today. Fly eagles fly on the road to victory. Eagles eagles. Pretty good. Share your eagles pride with us throughout the weekend. Just send your photos and videos by using the 6abcaction on instagram and twitter. Going to be kind of a warmish weekend. Yeah. For the game and whatever else you have planned. Yeah, temperatures will be nice and mild, even for kickoff in the lower 40s jim. Weve got you covered with that. Well show you whats going on. Well show you the picture outside sky6 live in hd from our Temple University camera looking at a beautiful shot of the center city skyline, the buildings lit up in eagles green as we are getting ready for the game day forecast on sunday. Looking at some of the weather headlines its nice for the eagles at the linc on sunday and then were talking about four Straight Days with temperatures in the 50s. A soaking rain however is headed our way as we get into tuesday morning. Right now in philadelphia, still pretty comfortable at 40. Its 31 in allentown, 39 in trenton, 38 in dover and 40 degrees in Atlantic City at the airport. The big picture showing you High Pressure is dominating with satellite6 along with action radar. You can see weve got a mostly clear sky but a southwesterly wind will be heading in our direction as we go throughout the rest of our weekend so pretty quiet conditions for the next 12 hours. In fact, weve got a mostly clear sky, not as chilly. Well fall down to 24 in the suburbs and 30 degrees in philadelphia for the overnight low with that west to southwesterly wind at four to 8 miles per hour. The setup for us on our saturday, sunshine, a few afternoon clouds, it is a nice day a High Temperature coming in at 54 degrees in philadelphia. Thats 14 degrees above average, 52 in reading, 47 in cape may, 53 in dover and 52 degrees in trenton. Heres the setup as we get into sunday, though. 11 oclock in the morning, some sunshine still along the i95 corridor, points to the south and east but clouds are starting to drift in from a westerly direction. So, it will not be raining on sunday but the clouds will be making a comeback especially by 6 30 in the evening. 10 minutes before kickoff at the linc so weve got you covered, the eagles taking on the vikings. All eyes will be there. Rather cloudy southwesterly wind at three to 6 miles per hour. First quarter that temperature not bad 4 degrees above average at 44 and once we get into the fourth quarter, weve got a temperature coming in at 42. The skiers want to get some action in as well and certainly a good weekend to do so. The past two weekends are pretty wet and pretty mild. Sunny and comfortable tomorrow High Temperature at 43. Sunday its partly sunny with a high coming in at 41. The exclusive accuweather 7day forecast showing you on saturday its nice and mild, a High Temperature up to 54. On sunday, its mild with sunshine and clouds sharing the sky, more clouds drifting in as the day wears on. Otherwise a High Temperature of 50. On monday, mostly cloudy with some patchy fog developing and the High Temperature of 51. Tuesday were tracking the system thats going to move on through so were wet for the first half of the day. A good soaking on the way, a high by then coming in at 56. And in the wake of that on wednesday it is brisk and colder with a high of just 43. Then on thursday, sunshine a few clouds around at 39 for the high. Next friday mostly cloudy with a High Temperature coming in at 46 degrees. So, temperatures, jim, well above average as we head into the weekend. The eagles at least the fans should be okay. It will not be as cold this go round as it was last weekend at the linc. All right, thank you. Abcs world news tonight next with david muir o