activity. jessica, thank you. happening tonight, memorials begin for the new jersey state trooper killed this week in a head-on collision. matt delucia is live. reporter: those who live near the barracks south of where we are say this really hit them hard and of course here at the state police barracks in belmar, you can see the flag is flying at stafhalf-staff, still the bi question, why did this accident happen. we obtained some of the 911 calls of an erratic driver. 911, what s your emergency. there s a driver in front of me he s swerving on the road. we re doing like 20 miles an hour. they ve got traffic completely backed up, we re doing reporter: the calls refers to the car drive by the doctor as the trooper was responding to those very calls, both men died in that crash monday night. there was a candlelight vigil to honor trooper williams in lee chester hall. in leesburg, new jersey. the exact cause of the crash is under investigation. coming up at 5:00, w
will be below average by tonight into tomorrow and through sunday. now satellite radar image is not picking up much except for some clouds locally it s pretty quiet right now. the weekend forecast a couple days out, notice we could see a couple of flurries from the suburbs and lehigh valley, dry on saturday and tracking the potential for a mix on sunday. erika, we re starting off on the blue route. no big delays on the blue route, at least heading southbound. approaching and moving farther south past that point you see no delays on the map. again, that ramp is closed box of that. and the lanes are still getting by on the blue route. new jersey in carney s point township, police activity reported on 295. dealing with ramp closures in both directions. route 30. exit one on the memorial bridge. taking the new jersey turnpike. we ll end on the 42 freeway. also new jersey. drive times here, different speeds than what we saw yesterday. an accident on froot freeway. four minutes,
states trooper killed in a car crash. water worries. take a look at this video of water running in a philadelphia high school. hear why officials had to shut off the water supplies as health officials are now getting involved. baby jesus stolen. we ll tell you where police found the statue in bethlehem after the suspect was caught on this camera. announcer: nbc10 news starts now. good morning. this is nbc 10 news today. i m rosemary connors. and i m vai sikahema. let s start with meteorologist erika martin with the weather. a big system in the midwest and plains is affecting us, right? oh, yeah, it s due here. that westerly air is going to shift northwesterly. vai and rosemary that means temperatures will get below average certainly tonight into tomorrow. if you look at the bottom of the screen, you will see your local neighborhood forecast, otherwise, a high-pressure system does dominate. even though we are seeing plenty of clouds. current temperature 35 degr
rosemary. the arctic blast in full effect especially tonight into tomorrow. if you look at the bottom of the screen, you ll see your local neighborhood forecast. currently in philadelphia, 37 degrees. we do have northwesterly winds that help gistjust a little bit. moisture here, wider perspective. notice we re getting influence of that lake-effect snow. however, that won t get here until late tomorrow, early afternoon hours with northwesterly push. hour by hour, starting this and getting this through tomorrow. notice that we start to see a little bit of a push. that northwesterly influence. looks like lake-effect snow for parts of lehigh valley and parts of the p.a. suburbs as well. i m look at the forecast, certainly below average for this time of year. and overnight lows in the 20s. and we are tracking the potential for a wintry mix sunday into monday. jessica, with traffic. starting offer with mass transit, we re dealing with 30-minute delays from the amtrak northeast co
lead. and his position on climate change putting a dark cloud over his nomination. and deep freeze. the brutal cold gripping much of the country intensifies as a new storm develops that will impact people from seattle all the way to boston. millions of americans bracing for snow and bitter temperatures. today thursday, december 8, 2016. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today on thursday morning, tamron s here for savannah. good morning unless you re living in casper, wyoming. it s brutal. look at al s map. it s minus 28 degrees. that s the air temperature. that s a 24 degree drop from this time yesterday. we kept asking, that was a real number? don t make it enough. al s going to talk about this polar plunge in a little while. let us begin with some overnight developments in that shooting two of officers near a college campus in georgia. the alleged shooter is on the