weather is no concern at all 6:00 o'clock straight up. this weather is certainly no walk in the park. "eyewitness news" in rittenhouse square where a new year, brought the same, bitter cold. good evening, i'm ukee washington. jessica's off tonight this winter weather will be here for a while as well. meteorologist lauren casey know all about that and she's on our sky deck right now with a lot current temperatures, lauren. >> thanks, ukee, i have been out here for three minutes now and i'm getting pretty miserable. it is, just so cold, and we know that is just as soon as you step outside just appear ing cold, new years day now the third coldest, on the record in philadelphia, dating back to the 1800's. check out our low temperatures this morning, 4b low, in mount pocono. langhorne, one below. zero in quakertown.

one in chad ford. same case in mays landing and philadelphia was 2 degrees shy off the record low temperatures at 6:00 this morning. we're at 18 right now in philadelphia. sixteen in trenton. 13 degrees right now in allentown. sixteen in ac. but what it feels like temperatures, sub zero in mount pocono, we're at two in allentown. feeling like one in lancaster. feeling like seven right now in philadelphia. and overnight tonight, and early tomorrow morning, a lot of us to have head back to work, after the long holiday weekend. it will be feeling like 10 to 15 below in the poconos, zero to 10 below in the lehigh valley, zero to five below in center city and suburbs. zero to five in southern delaware and coastal new jersey but this isn't even as coldest air of the season just yet, i will let you know whether that arrives and tracking a nor'easter in your full eyewitness weather forecast in just a few, ukee. >> come on in, thanks. frigid temperatures didn't slow down the strut for today 's mummers parade, the spec the spec particular california was almost postponed because of the weather but officials

ultimately decide the show news go on. "eyewitness news", reporter alycia nieves joins us from the pennsylvania conventioner where fancy brigades should be competing for top honors, alycia. >> reporter: i was hoping this group would be up but they just wrapped up, a big one getting ready to set up. fancy brigade are doing all this after being out in the cold most of the day along with the mummers like those in the string bands this group, they faced serious challenges to entertain their could crowd along the parade route bitter cold weather during this years mummers parade had many performers dancing. not just to entertain but to stay warm the freezing temperature had some mummers especially those who had to play instruments, worried, now about how the weather would affect their performing. >> we are all prepared for the war. it wasn't that bad. we thought it would be worse. >> reporter: wayne journey saw his fingertip would freeze

when he played banjo with the greater overbrook string band but he managed to hit, every note. >> pure adrenaline, just excitement. >> reporter: for other band though it wasn't as smooth sailing. >> it was pretty bad, horn players kept freezing up. >> reporter: fralinger string band had some of their instruments freeze just before their performance on broad and sansom street but were able to thaw them out in the nick of time. >> we got on our buses, warmed up the horns, came out tuned, and we rocked. >> reporter: rock they did as the end of their performance they had the whole crowd involved in the circle of parade goers, eventtained. >> that performance was so much fun to watch just like the one, fancy brigades is in here expect to go up until about 8:00 o'clock tonight and then at ward ceremony and after that, it is waiting on those january 1st until next year to do this whole thing

over again. reporting live, alycia nieves for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". golden slippers had foot warmers inside today that is for sure. a leash, thank you. frigid temperatures are something to contend with as crews deal with the water main break in the roxborough section. they say it was a 10-inch water main that ruptured on the 600 block of james town avenue tonight affect something businessness that area a small geyser sent a river of water flowing down james town highway. officials are investigat ing what sparked this house fire in abington township montgomery county. interest happened on the 2200 block of pleasant avenue just after 4:00 o'clock this afternoon. fire fighters were able to get the flames under control in about an hour, or so we're told and no one was hurt. i mean this whole camp play quarterback, i don't, i don't dislike nick fels but what you have seen out of him coming in the playoffs, right

now we are 13-three. first round, bye, home field advantage. we cannot just put in nick foles, no. >> other quarterback did better than foles. i feel bad, there is a lot of pressure on him now. >> yes. >> this is philadelphia. this is what happens. we keep our heart in the game. then we will see what happens, you know, hopefully the defense shines because that is all we got and we will go from there. >> eagles nation, it is all we got. >> telling it like they see it >> a lot of folks are worried. sports director don bell, it is interesting to go see what the coach has planned for the bye week. >> i love the eagles, man. >> yes. >> the passion just overflows. >> for years. >> emotional times watching this season. eagles have made just one super bowl appearance in the last 37 years, with a first round bye, adding home field advantage they have a rare opportunity to do it again. but first they have to win two more games. the bird wrapping up the season with a six to nothing

loss, to the cowboys, yesterday, at the linc. fans were freezing, and offense was just as cold, unlike the pass, the bird will use their extra week to prepare. after they do their work, they expect the home crowd to follow through on saturday january 13th. >> we fully expect the stadium to be rocking with the eagles fans. our fans have been great all season long. we cannot wait, we cannot wait until then. listen, we have got time to get some guys healthy, get some guys fresh. our defense is playing extremely well right any. you get in the post season you have to play great defense and run the football. that has been a formula all season long. we have to get back to that obviously and we have a lot of confidence moving forward. >> now coming up late inert show, in sports, how doug pederson plans to use the bye week to prepare, for the playoffs. so, interesting going from fans speak to coach speak. >> yeah. >> you know, it is a difference in thal dude there

as you would expect. >> for the record i'm not worried. >> you shouldn't be. >> don't you think nicky's better than trent dilfer. >> i think niko owe. >> back in the day. >> yeah. >> when they had a good defense. >> i also think that nick's better than what we have seen over the last two weeks. >> yes, do i too i'm with you on that. >> so is there room to grow there. >> let's do that man. we have a week, two weeks to talk bit. >> it is on. >> yes. >> philadelphia's knicks december trick attorney ace monk several elected official whose will be sworn into office tomorrow. larry krasner will take the oath of office in the morning at the kimmel center in center city. the democrat ace long time civil rights attorney, he succeed former d.a. seth williams who resigned in june after pleading guilty to a corruption charge and is now serving a five-year prison sentence. >> to the best of my ability. >> to the best of my ability. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. >> applause. >> atlantic city has a new mayor tonight, frank gillian was surrounded by family at his swearing in ceremony this afternoon. he is a former atlantic city councilman and native of the

resort town. three council at large members were also sworn in today. well, two families with ties to philadelphia were among the 12 people killed, on vacation, when their plane crashed in the mountains of costa reek a charter flight crashed yesterday while on its way from the beach town to the capitol of san jose. and one of the victims was william steinberg, a university of pennsylvania student, in the class of 2021. he was traveling with other members of the family who are from scarsdale, new york. >> they are great people, and the kid are great, i feel like , they are the family that right to to emulate. >> another family originally from montgomery county but most recently living in bellaire flashings were also among those killed. they were doctors, mitchell and leslie wife and their two children hanna and ari. national transportation safety board is assisting in the investigation. a 16 year-old boy is in police custody and facing murder charges for deadly

quadruple shooting on new years eve in monmouth county, new jersey. officers were called to the home on wall street, in long branch, just before midnight, and the teenager is accused of killing his mother, father, sister, and a elderly family friend, who lived in the family's home. the teen's grandfather and brother were not hurt. police are investigating the shooting as a domestic incident. still to come on "eyewitness news" tonight, running for a reason, and that reason the memory of a brave little boy that had people braving this bitter blast, to pound the pavement. why this run is so special to people lacing up their shoes and even some who are not. tori. it is a cold new years day but this is the place to spend it, i'm here with manual, czar , nicki, zach, we are at roychester park and they have a frozen pond that does -- well, let's just say this, nicki, sometimes pond does not always freeze. >> no, unless we get this weather. >> well, this weather is a

good thing for you guys, coming up more in the pond in the meantime how do we get warm around here? lets go to your house, nicki.

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perfect weather to make snow up the mountains in the poconos this birth stretch is helping to pile up the powder, a live look from jack frost, big boulder, coming up in just a few minutes from the skis, and snow boards to the skates, and, we will have another check of your forecast with lauren. she's standing by. but first a crowd braved the cold in west chester to remember a young boy who died of cancer. they took to the streets for annual 5k walk/run benefiting the stanley's dream foundation , named after stanley edward a gifted student who dreamed to go to college. he died of brain cancer in 2002 at age 14. his mother and father kept his moth's live by raising money for cancer research and college scholarships. >> we just want to thank everyone who has come out

today, on this, blistering cold day, to celebrate his legacy, and to start the new year off right. >> after the event, runners gathered inside to collect prize and meet withstandly's family. foundation has raised more than 200 you this dollars since its inception. well, township tradition returns, thanks to the bitter blast, our vittoria woodill is live in abington montgomery county. she left nick's house to show you frigid fun that they have all been waiting for, tori. >> reporter: yes, i was just asking how long have you been out here. >> two or three hours. >> reporter: two or three hours. my no business to fall off a few minutes. manual is smart one. he has been out here a few minutes. happy new year, everybody. can we say happy new year to everybody. >> happy new year. >> we are live in abington at roy chester park. lets make an opening so our folks can see what is behind us. this is frozen upon. you will hear more, in the story that we put together, but this doesn't happen every

year. this is something that that you guys have grown up seeing in your neighborhood, but, not all the time, it is, where you have a fresh sheet of ice, to skate on. take a lot at story. we will come back and explain how this gets done and how it gets maintains, that is after this, take a look it are. >> reporter: while the ice frozen over in this pond in roy chester park may look bitter, and cold, this is everything that this neighborhood could have wanted in fact it is all they have been waiting for. >> last couple years it hasn't froze. so we basically had, we will get like a slushy mush, and kid will walk through it, and end up being kind of terrible. so we got luck think year. >> reporter: the flick family lives across the street, has been skating on this pond for years thanks to the township who fills it up and even supplies the net. >> the best part about having a skating rink right outside

your house. >> it is fun because then i to say can we go, can we go now. >> reporter: they have experienced ups and downs. >> i slipped on a chunk of ice and i hit my head and split it opened. i got eight stitches. >> reporter: wow, war scars. >> reporter: every minute spent on the upon taking a shot, isn't taken for granted, because this neighborhood knows they will have memories foreign ever, even the frost is fleeting this get in are inasmuch as we do that it is only a certain season of the year. it will only be here for hopefully a couple weeks but it could be less than. that we have to take advantage when they are older, hopefully they will be able to think back and be like remember that one winter when the ice was perfect and we were out there every day. >> reporter: you'll remember this forever, right. >> yes. >> you know zachary, you were telling me, big kid, little kid, everybody plays together. >> yeah. >> it is great because one of our friend he is one of the youngest over there and he is

getting the ball a lot and taking it up to the net. >> i mean how cool is that. >> nicki, were you saying this is like a family around here. >> yeah, well, like i live right there and like we know, everyone on the street, and there is little kid, is there big kid and we all get together. so like everything is, works out right and everyone, knows each other and like there is nothing -- >> is there nothing better than that family unit, you know what i mean, sarah, community coming out, having a good time, it is freezing but it is all good. >> yes. >> that thumbs it up. >> happy new years. we have other folks we will bring them in too. we will send it back to you guys at the desk but a big happy new year from abington. only thing i forgot today were my skates. >> yes. >> you wear a nine? i don't have any. >> i don't think she wears a nine, either that might be a problem. >> i wear a six. >> nicki has a nine. back to your house, let's go.

>> bingo. nick's like i live over here, skating rink over here. >> neighborhood party, in the cold. >> be careful of those ponds indeed. it is cold enough for that pond to go frozen. >> oh, absolutely. >> on frozen upon. >> on frozen pond, yes. temperatures have not been above freezing in philadelphia since 3:00 p.m., last monday, and so we have been sub freezing for a week now, it will end up being a longest stretches in history. and temperatures, right now, well, they are no where near freezing. getting a live lot tundra of center city philadelphia. 18 degrees right now our current temperature. westerly wind, little brisk at 9 miles an hour. still feeling more like seven, so 7 degrees at this hour. 13 degrees is your current temperature in allentown. sixteen in trenton. we are at four in mount pocono we have had that saturday snowfall and it really hasn't been able to melt over the last couple of days.

pristine earlier, broadhead ville in the poconos. the snow covered, grass, there , yeah, we will have a chance to see a few more snowflakes as we head into mid week. in the poconos yeah, that snow was not melting, wind chills overnight last night and early this morning, 25 below in mount pocono. feelings like nine below in reading. feeling like seven below in ac five below our wind chill temperature this morning in philadelphia it feels like right now five below in the poconos. feeling like two in allentown. check out these values for portions of the deep south and gulf coast. feeling like 11 in birmingham. twenty-five in new orleans. it feels like 30, right here right now in houston this cold arctic air has penetrated all the way down to the gulf of mexico and then we will get a reenforcing shot of this arctic eras we head into the end of the week, so our forecast high temperature for up this coming friday is 16 degrees, in the city, the coldest, high temperature ever for that date, 14 degrees,

setback in 1904. yeah, storm scan three showing us quiet conditions as a couple of flurries, right now across central, pennsylvania, but we are watching this nor'easter, we will have a nor'easter, that will move off the coast line, strong in intensity just how close, will that nor'easter track to the delaware valley and what kind of impact will it have? how much snowfall. where will we see most snow. snow chance wedding night into thursday, when winds start to pick up, and models different on the exact track but this does look like a snow event down the shore for the new jersey coastline as far as philadelphia, and the immediate suburbs, some models giving us no snowfall, some models giving us significant amounts of snowfall, so stay tuned, to that evolving forecast, but overnight tonight, no snow. mostly clear, bitterly cold down to 11 degrees. tomorrow, cold, mostly sunny, high temperature at 26 degrees we will try to make a shot at freezing as we head into wednesday, 31 degrees and not as harsh and keeping a close eye on that nor'easter as we

head wednesday night into thursday. that is the coldest air of the season, 16 on friday. how about five saturday morning. >> yes. >> just five, that is it. >> just five. >> one, two, three, four, five >> now don bell has sports. >> we are talking about the big man tonight. brand new injury for joel embiid, we will have an update plus eagles offense looks rusty but couple players offer a solution to the problem, sports coming up nex

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it is a few walk throughs leading up to the dallas game, veterans want them to return to rigorous practices as they get set for playoffs. >> biggest thing we need to do and biggest thing this team need is practice. i think last two weeks we have tried to, you know, get some work in but, i think it is important. but, you know, toning down rep s and taking away some of the physical things i think, we just have to get back after that. >> i think that can help us out a lot. it need to help us out a lot. obviously, you know, we have in the played that well, these last two weeks, so we have to get out there and we have to run this stuff. we have to get it right. >> veterans necessity, they know is what up. >> like you the flyers are off today, they host penguins tomorrow but both teams have who three out of the their last four. rangers and buffalo sabres , the winter classic from city field, is it cold? we have overtime, and blue

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