in spots it's coming down pretty heavy for the most part most of the snow will be out of here before the morning rush but roads be snow covered and slick if theynot treated and please allow yo extra time before you hit the road. temperatures are in the 20s over most of region. and that means it's going to stay pretty steady and powdery overnight tonight. the rain or i should say the snow moves out ear morninghours. then another band through the north and the west during about five 6am but as you can see the morning hours about eight 9:ck out of h coming up we'll talk about the rest of the morning and our nextce of snow be the end of the week. i'll see you in just minut n you inside >> one two purgethank you very m k. below temperatures not many people are roaming that was holiday hot spots in the city. vendors they're feeling the fox 2 shawnette live at city now. looks like you're your lonesomeet. >> reporter: i with snow falling. lucy at 10:00 o'clock i was you i preferred thatfl li snow. kathyaihe for i powdery. he word i couldn't think of. but any way hopefully the snow falling will get people more in the mood of holiday giving because as of today vendors here say it is just too cold. >> it's very cold today. >> reporter: nicky oh day is as prepared as she can be manning her booth at city hall where she sells homemade food and dips much she has an electric blanket and heater to keep warm. the weather has turned business to turn cold p not too good for me. >> reporter: she told me to take a look at the vinyl conversation over quite a few stalls on dilworth plaza. >> when it's really cold like this today there's other vendor that is didn't even open. but, you know, some people close early or open late. >> reporter: the city is full of holiday events to get people in the spirit of giving. minus few notation here and there. >> ♪ >> reporter: osieries wildfire and bucket drummer fast falling temp he's ya'll smaller crowds and slim earnings. >> if there's more people, we definitely will be more giving. sporadic you get what you can get. >> thayer street musicians and the show must go on. >> that's right. >> reporter: at franklin square the holiday light show was lit but the crowd was dim. at the river rink the fire pits were the biggest draw. christmas village was busy but mostly for a hot beverage. i think you're striking cold here. >> we're doing all right. it sells itself oh and a cold day. the warm wine sells itself for sure. >> brandon and his why livia appeared to be alone. there human hugh beings in here. >> there are human beings in there. >> two tired human beings visiting from california and welcomed the cold for a chance at a real christmas they just made sure the kiddies shy yen and kyla were covered. >> definitely cold. >> reporter: all right. so vendors and people not spending money the story tonight but also taking a look here at the road. you can see the snow is actually falling. it's a lot better in terms of visual. than it was at 10:00 o'clock. but wondering lucy, of course, if roads are going to be a problem by morning because it is already slick. >> i was going to say it looks like it's piling up there too. like an inch or so already shawnette and it just started. >> reporter: yeah, we were looking at kind of like more like the rain in flurries at 10:00 or just another 10:00 here and now dilworth plaza and the roads just a white out. >> all right. well thank you shawnette. be safe coming back to the station. before you head out the door tomorrow morning turn on fox 29. you know we could have some delays. bob kelly has got your traffic conditions. scott will jumps is in for sue serio with your wake up weather we got you covered good day starts at 4am. tragedy struck a montgomery county neighborhood. less than two weeks before christmas. two little boys died in a fire at their home in schwenksville this morning it broke out just past 5:00 on submit avenue at a montgomery county deputy sheriff's home. brian lukens and his wife tracy and nine-year-old daughter sophie did get out safely but the two boys 11 and six years old were trapped inside, though their dad tried to get them out. by the time firefighters made it to them it was too late. the family, friends and community are just shattered. fox 29's dave kinchen is in that neighborhood and dave just no words for what happened. >> reporter: there are no words. it's hard to even imagine how you begin to understand or process something like this. we found some people tonight trying to figure out how to get through this. >> everyone is really upset. it's like no one has any words. >> reporter: it's hard for sidney to think about the two young boys she babysat who died in a horrifying fire in the schwenksville home. 11-year-old brian lukens nicknamed lj, his six-year-old brother parker were suddenly taken from this world early this morning. >> lj was -- he was really energetic. him mine brother, they would always run around. >> reporter: sidney says her brother new him too and especially at a loss. >> my brother and his coach and his baseball buddies they're all going out tonight and like having like a grief session. >> reporter: the death of the lukens boy and heroic tempts to save them by their father montgomery county sheriff's deputy brian lukens has devastated this community two weeks before christmas. >> my dad was actually here at 5am when the pager went off, and he actually teched me and he was telling me about he posted on facebook about be thankful for your familiar and and all of that. what was going through his head if i lost two sons before christmas how that would affect me. >> reporter: so many parents are asking tonight meantime fire source fire official i should say tells us that there's an effort to collect monetary donations or gift cards for the lukens family we're told their immediate need once they get out of the hospital will be housing and there will be collecting those items at the old schwenksville fire company that's 300 main street tomorrow 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 o'clock p.m. back to you. >> we got to help them. all right thank you dave. looks like the death penalty still a possibility in the cosmo dinardo case. prosecutors have filed paper work to make sure they can do for the death pennel fee if he doesn't live up to his part of a plea agreement. in the murders of four men in bucks county this past summer. dinardo and his cuss sip sean kratz will go before a judge for their formal arraignment tomorrow. investigators found the body of the four men on dinardo's family farm in solebury in july. a family is pleading for your help tonight five-year-old man who has dementia is missing in this weather. they're beyond worried because of it. the last time his wife saw him he was just in his pajamas. dave schratwieser has been talking with that family live in upper darby. dave. >> reporter: lucy, as you can see, it's really snowing here in upper darby tonight and that's not good news for 75-year-old -- for the 75 year old whose missing he's been missing since last night. he has no shoes he had no coat, no hat and he was wearing his pajamas when he left his apartment building. the search for him went on night in the air and on the ground. >> just a matter of trying to find my father. >> reporter: the family of 75-year-old frank martinez pleaded with the public wednesday night for help after martinez wandered away from his upper darby apartment early in the morning in the pope-chilling cold. >> i just hope they find him. but it's just too cold. it's just -- it's so cold. we've been spenting most of the day just looking around the neighborhood and contacting the hospitals, the police department department, fire department. >> reporter: martinez who has dementia had no coat and only his pajamas on when he love his apartment on providence rode his family and neighbors join police searching for him all day long. >> it's just really really sad. i mean, this man is out there with no shoes no coat, just pajamas. >> he's out there in this cold weather, i mean, like i said last night it was wind chill was 5 degrees. who knows what the wind chill is going to be tonight. report roar police sun michael chitwood had k9 officers and their dogs searching the surrounding wooded areas. some like neighbor pat quinn joined in. searching for frank near a local supermarket and stores on oak avenue. >> when you have a missing person with dementia and you have this weather it's difficult to survive. >> reporter: around 9:00 wednesday night the philadelphia police aviation unit joined the search from the air using infrared and heat seeking equipment. >> i just pray that they find him safe. >> anybody out there that can you know, give us some information that would be very helpful. >> reporter: now upper darby police were just in the area here the last few minutes. that helicopter search no word on if that spotted anything overnight but again still missing lots of prayers for the family. lots of folks planning on looking again tomorrow. we have some prayers for him tonight. we hope they fine him. lucy. >> indeed prayers going up and my eyes wide open. thank you very much, dave. so this is down right wrong. somebody stole a donation jar meant to help sick children. i mean, who does that? and santa is making a special stop to visit children who won't be home for christmas. the snow is not the only thing that got you covered tonight. so do our cameras across the area. this is reading and it's hard to tell from that shot but it is . live look at rehoboth beach right now. it's wet there. i think you see little bit of snow on the ground. but we are definitely getting snow throughout the rest of the area. it doesn't look so bad right there, though. donation jar meant to help sick children ended up in the wrong hands. police say this woman swiped the donation jar from the sped way store on tuesday. the money was intended to go to children's hospital of philadelphia. police later caught and arrest 25-year-old rachel she faces theft and drug charges after police found what appeared to be meth in her car. in newark, delaware this guy is hyped bars after prosecutors say he robbed robbed 6984 old man. police say alex evans knocked on the man's door on paper mill road monday afternoon asked for food and a drink. that man was really nice. he gave him food, he gave him a drink. evans left. then police say he returned pushed the man to the floor and robbed him. evans in jail pending arraignment. >> santa pulling out all the stops ahead of christmas for children right here in philadelphia. they're getting the chance to talk with the big man all the way up in the north pole. as fox 29's bill rohrer shares this visit is sure to brighten their christmas. >> reporter: with the holiday decorations all set -- hello. >> reporter: time for were this kids at schriner's hospital in philadelphia are waiting for. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: a chance to speak one-on-one with the big man himself. >> santa. >> for the last five years santa beamed over the hospital's internet. all the way from the north pole. >> how adorable. >> reporter: this is in partnership with dimension data. >> i will be stopping and delivering all the gifts. >> reporter: providing the possibility to have a conversation with santa as if they were in the same room. >> pretty cold up here. how is it down here. >> it's. >> when the event is about to begin santa places that call to the location and when they're at the end point it answers and they are face to face, live in real time with santa. >> books that you can read. >> ariana will be at schriners hospital till march long after the holidays are over. but this technology gives err the chance to tell him everything she would like for christmas. >> he knew my name which is cool end told me i'm on the nice list which is awesome because now i know i'll get what i want. >> merry christmas! >> 11-year-old little leanna has been here before. >> i'm so glad to see you. >> you are so glad to see me? >> this is video of her a new year's ago. >> all the toys in the toy bip. >> when they meet again it's like two old friends meeting over milk and cookies. why not ask santa for something big. >> a puppy. >> it's nice to see our daughter back. after going through some tough times. yeah. just being her sell and being a kid. right? >> just being lilly. santa's virtual stops today he'll link up with four other schriner's hospitals landing smiles on each one their faces. in philadelphia, bill rohrer, fox 29 news. i don't know about you but i got happy tears going right now. that was about the sweetest thing ever live look at the ben franklin parkway. snow already covering the roads i mean about an hour ago it look like it was definitely coming down and man, it is coming down. kathy, this could be a problem for folks when they head out the door in the morning. just thinking. >> yes. >> you just thinking it will be pro problem. >> definitely. i was drying my hair because it was soak. the snow is falling so fast out there and it's very wet. you're seeing outside it look like it's raining snow and that's what it's doing in old city philadelphia. keep us posted on what what's going on where you live i sent out a tweet what's going on in old city but the roads are snow cover. the sidewalks are and it's pretty slippery out there. the temperature is 27. winds are out of the south at just seven of the wind chill is 19 degrees. when you look at the temperatures in the poconos it's 14. 27 in physical. 28 in millville and 24 in trenton. winds gusting gusting to 20 wilmington and 22 in millville these winds will slowly subside as our storm system moves away but look at the wind chills. it folic three in the poconos. 19 in philadelphia. and 22 in pottstown. but it shoo you are is a pretty peaceful snow out there tonight. ultimate doppler showing a lot of this rotating tour the northeast. you see it's ending in delaware already. but there's another little piece coming across the chesapeake bay that will be moving through. another patch of snow out west that will be moving into our northern and western suburbs by tomorrow morning. so we'll talk more about that but you can see that heavier lavender color that's where we have some of the heaviest snow right now moving pretty much threw philadelphia and to the south and east. we have that wint weather advisory through tomorrow morning for one to 2-inches of snow. some spots could see up to 3-inches of snow in that persistent banding. take look at the fox future cast. we'll watch through the overnight the snow moves toward the north and east by 2am still some snow showers through bucks county, through trenton mercer county and into the lehigh valley then that moves out. and then here through the lehigh valley to the north and west i'm watching this patch of snow possibly moving across the same area by 7am. so up the northeast extension toward allentown and lehigh tunnel you could have some snow even during the 7:00 o'clock hour but eight 9:00 o'clock the outta here and then we're just seeing a partly cloudy sky and cold temperatures. but any surface that has not been treated obviously will be snow toward covered and slick. overnight tonight one to 2-inches. through most of the area. of course, as you get little bit closer to the shore a coat to go one. overnight temperatures in the 20s in the poconos in the teens. tomorrow we'll start off in the upper 30s. but then temperatures will be falling through the day. you'll see temperatures also responding to those winds so we will be talking about a wind chill with winds out of the northwest ten to 15. on your seven day forecast from the weather authority another chance of a shower on friday. saturday dry. late rain on sunday morning rain or snow on monday and then we dry it out for tuesday and wednesday lucy and temperatures bounce back toward 50 degrees. >> oh. >> on tuesday. there you go. >> that will be shock compared to what we've seen. be careful tomorrow morning. give yourself extra time, of course bob will have the latest on the traffic and scott williams with the latest on the weather. >> of course, the team has got you covered for any school delays. >> which is very possible. >> thank you very much kathy. >> you bet. >> kristen we're still talking carson aren't we. >> yes we are lucy. carson wentz may be out for the season but i don't think that means esche be out of the mvp race. my case for why he shoul >> earlier this season i stood here and said carson wentz was going to be named mvp. then he tore his acl even though he's on the injured reserve list out for the rest of the is that i still think carson james wentz should be considered for this year's mvp. here's why. first of all carson got the eagles to where they needed to go. he clinched nfc east for the birds sending them to the playoffs. eagles have that locked um even though he's on the side lines. second he's still leads the nf will. in touchdowns. he's thrown 33 passes this season closest behind him russ russell wilson with just 29. let's take look who else is in the running right now. there's the tom brady russell wilson antonio brown and ben roethlisberger a lot of these guys put together good seasons but they've also had bad games. brady threw two interceptions against the dolphins. they lost that game. wilson had three in seattle's loss to jacksonville. carson was even keeled before going down. he may be off the field but he shouldn't be off the table. when it comes to voting. he definitely deserves the nod. lucy. >> there you go. pup going from the doghouse at the jailhouse kind of. adorable pooch faces accusations of slaughtering a family's christmas decorations. puppy eyes did not help out for josey after tearing apart a stuffed elf crime committed by the way. the san juan can county sheriff's home in new mexico she's on house arrest except for her walks and her jail pinstripes. >> that's amazeing. >> speaking of amazing. ben franklin parkway. >> it is coming down. >> kathy orr. >> the city had a rule a couple years ago that they didn't plow if it was less than 2-inches. are he been that? >> so we'll see if that's still the case. >> it could be 3-inches you said said. >> yeah. so we'll see. >> all right. we'll see what happens. the city i think will get one to 2-inches. it's ending in delaware. take a look. ultimate doppler and the know is going to be out there through the early morning hours. it should be out most of the area by dawn. >> 4am "good day philade >> here we go, great to have you with us this morning live look along the parkway happening right now all across the delaware valley, bitter blast, snow falling overnight of course making for a slow start this morning. >> so we've got crews all over taking pretty picture right there. we'll show you pictures from where ever you live all over the delaware valley morning. good morning thanks for joining us as we wake up early, not even 4:00 a.m. >> lots to talk about. good morning karen bob scott, good morning, it is a beautiful site driving around, maybe little tricky this morning. >> definitely going to be tricky. it is just enough to make it tricky but not enough to give anybody a day off. >> let's check on the roads in a minute. >> yes, we talk about that snow coming in last night certainly it did. it came in pretty rapidly as well. take a live look at ultimate doppler showing you the bulk of the snow fell between ten p.m. and 1:00 a.m. you can see most of it has ended across the region, we still have some light snow to get through off to the north and west, so we will be watching that throughout the morning time frame. but those temperatures, they're still cold. many locations are still below freezing. so icy patches on those roadways and also, we are looking at some light flu that's will continue to move through the delaware valley. early on this thursday morning, so, allow extra travel time, winter weather advisories are still in effect and looking at some problems on those roadways. so as far as what's been happening, you can see that most of the heavy snow fell overnight. but north and west, lehigh valley poconos still looking at some of the light snow, off to the western part of the state, you can see that will rotate through specially north and west. so in purple those are the winter weather advisory, until 10:00 a.m. that does include the philadelphia area. but look at the temperatures, it is cold, in the 20's, north and west, we have upper 20's to low 30's in south jersey, delaware waking up to temperatures upper 20's and low 30's, so slick roads icy patches out there. a few additional light flurries there could be an additional coating but most of the accumulation has already occurred. so cents as we go hour by hour 5:00 a.m. north and west, lehigh valley, the northeast extension, still looking at some light flurries, into the pocono mountains by 6:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m., it is out of here, actual will he see sunshine later on in the day. so temperatures will top out in the upper 30's for philadelphia. low 40's, bob kelly, down the shore. >> sounds good, scotty, thanks for the update. tick-tock 4:00. it will be tricky this morning, all about the location as he just showed us more north and west the city you go. see the snow. now the major roadways are in good shape. they were treated yesterday with the brine and of course, some volume on the overnight. it is getting to the major roadways we'll have the problem. first accident,

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