traffic on the roads, low visibility doesn't help. the airlines do not enjoy this on a holiday weekend. but the rain is not as heavy as it was a couple of hours ago. we can see the lower half of the buildings. a couple hours ago, we couldn't even see that across the river. radar shows just about the entire area getting rain. there are some patches of heavier rain out there. but not so much around the philadelphia area, montgomery, bucks county, delaware, chester county, new castle county, camden county. basically getting lighter rain. but at the shore it's getting heavier. cape may, we see bolt of lightning here near cape may itself. we've got heavy rain up there. little patch of heavier rain around east and we saw that a half hour ago, too, still coming down fairly hard. there's another batch in

lancaster county that we'll keep an eye on, heavier rain down by washington. we're not done. not close to being done with it. we're not done with the temperature climb. up to 62 degrees in philadelphia. 63 in millville. the record for the day is 66. we could get up there before midnight. visible's up a little bit now at philly international. a half mile reported at wilmington and it will get more dense as the night goes on as the rain tapers off. look at these temperatures. look at the wind and the chance of lightning in the middle of the night. more record warmth. 70s coming up. more on the temperatures and when the next round of rain is coming with the seven day in a few minutes. >> that rain is taking a toll on roads out there. this is a look at the blue road and darby road in halverford.

mercer county, this is the seen a while ago. 295, route 33 in hamilton township. traffic not too bad but you can see rain slicked roads here as well. pretty much everywhere. delaware, for instance. how things looked along route 13 in dover. plenty of people passing through here in coming days. many taking advantage of plummeting gas prices, too. nbc 10's george spencer talking to peep as they begin holiday travel. live along the schuylkill expressway. what's it like there? >> reporter: all afternoon tracking how this holiday rush has been unfolding. the christmas crowds are out but springlike rain and fog impacting travel across the region throughout the day. just checked in with penndot and with the turnpike authority to connect on roads. those agencies aren't reporting

widespread problems. they are reminding drivering headlights must be on in weather like this headed out. authorities predicting a record breaking holiday for the purn tyke, more than 4 million vehicles between now and new year's day. at the airport, our team has been keeping tabs on the arrival and departure times. today our cameras captured some crowds there. the newest information at 5:00 is that hit or miss delays lingering there at the airport. really, it seems rail travel has been mostly immune from the weather impacts today. we've reviewed arrivals and departures through philly. most trains leaving and arriving within ten minutes of scheduled time. checked and saw one of the departures about 35 minutes late. for drivers, hitting roads, planning to taking 76, you will not be alone, if you're coming through center city tonight. bear that in mind.

one thing we have been seeing is that the traffic conditions have been changing, spot to spot throughout the day. that is the latest live along 76. george spencer, nbc 10 news. >> thank you. before you get on the road, this is important now, heading to grandma's house or the airport, download the nbc 10 news app. find the latest weather forecast, traffic conditions and airport information as well. following breaking news. a montgomery county man is dead after being shot on his front porch. incident happened in abbington. a male suspect pulled up, fired from his vehicle. police arrive the. after a confrontation, the suspect shot himself. suspect taken to the hospital. a crew on that way. stay with nbc 10 for the latest on the deadly shooting. new information about an arrest in the case of a psychiatrist found murdered in a

center city hotel room. his nape is manuel baez. he's homeless and now charged with killing howard baker, a psychiatrist with offices in center city and wind wood. housekeepers found the body monday in the floor of his room at 12th and walnut. he was naked, with a belt tied around his neck. backpack and wallet were missing. an autopsy determined baker was strangled. again, a homeless man is under arrest for the murder of dr. howard baker. new information about the owners of the north philadelphia day care where a child died last week. the department of health and human services has ordered a second location owned by the same people closed. sister's child care was shut down after a 10-month-old girl died. the second location operated under the same name and also in

germantown has an expired license and isn't suitable for child care. right now at 5:00, any hope that pennsylvania would have a state budget before the new year, it's over. today members of the house refused to vote on a spending plan, and they also left harrisburg. deanna durante joins us live from the state capitol. the senate just voted but that doesn't -- that spending plan doesn't have support from the governor, right? >> reporter: it doesn't appear so. it's a budget that the house of representatives in pennsylvania had voted on on december 8th. and a senate spokeswoman told me that the senators felt like they needed to be, quote, the grown-ups in the room here. >> there's nothing else to do with them not here. >> reporter: around lunchtime house republicans called it quits leaving for the holiday without passing a spending plan. >> waiting for a tax package.

if that tax package cannot come to fruition it's time to admit we need to take things off the table, take pensions off the table, take liquor off the table. i certainly think we should take income tax and sales tax increase off the table and pass a budget that can get 102 votes in the house, 26 in the senate, the governor to sign it, move on wo our lives. >> reporter: republicans promised to vote for a general appropriations bill that would open funding to school and social service agencies. >> it was going to go to the governor's desk. they said we were kidding, we're not voting and they fled town. now we're here by ourselves with nothing to do and nothing to send to the governor's desk. >> reporter: the senate did vote to send the budget to the governor's desk, one he has denounced. senators voting on a stopgap

budget one the governor is expected to veto. live outside the capitocapitol,a durante. right now, a man accused of helping isis is staying in jail. the judge ruled the 19-year-old aziz is a dangser to the public and may plea if he's released. accused of using twitter to build up support for an attack in the u.s. 57 different accounts traced to his accounts. threatened to behead president obama. his lawyer says there were no guns in his home. he has no money or a passport and no way to travel outside the country. police say this suv that collided with a septa trolley but was was stolen. both men are in critical condition. investigators say the hyundai was trying to make a right on to

gray's avenue when it smashed head-on with the trolley. all 27 people on the trolley went to the hospital. they're all expected to be okay. a grand jury has indicted a walmart truck driver for a deadly cash involving tracy morgan. the jury charged roper with vehicular homicide, aggravated assault in the crash. morgan and several friends were injured when the truck crashed into the limo. morgan's friend was killed. roper's attorney tried to have some charges thrown out yesterday. he argued the morgan settlement with walmart didn't give roper a chance for a fair trial. some of philadelphia's finest making christmas brighter for a group of deserving kids. nbc 10 in wynnefeed, several police officers delivered gives to turning points for children,

helping kids across philadelphia. the goal is they become reunite the with families. today they got a special delivery. officers who made those special delivery of the toys today are from the 15th district. if you thought twice of going back to chipotle, sales have dropped after an e. coli outbreak. now making changes to bring customers back. what they're doing differently before they make your order. >> back off! go this way. >> plus, chaos at the airport. what has police and protesters at odds. >> it was forward where he was sitting. had been further back i don't want to think of what might have happened. >> take a look. we'll tell you what came crashing on to the road and landed inches from an unsuspecting driver.

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back off. >> protesters turned violent at minneapolis-st. paul airport today. the black lives matter protest moved into the terminal, also plked roads outside, too. passengers couldn't get inside, and those that did, well they

were caught in the chaos. >> what do we want? >> justice. >> when do we want it? >> now. >> the protest had to be closed down because of the disturbance. demonstrators want authors to release video of the shooting of a black man by police last month. a woman accused of intentionally driving her car into crowds at the vegas strip was arraigned today. authorities say holloway's 3-year-old son was in the car on sunday when she barreled through crowds on the sidewalk injuring dozens and killing one person. holloway back in court next month. a massive recall involving explosive air bags blamed on an eighth death in the united

states. made by japanese company takata. the teenage driver's death was likely caused by the air bag. several other deaths attributed to the air bags. 23 million called in the u.s. this miraculous rescue in china. after more than 60 hours buried in a landslide a migrant worker found alive. rescuers say he was saved by a door that fell on him but gave him enough space to breathe. more than 70 people are still missing there. three days ago, a mountain of construction waste, mud collapsed and flowed into an industrial park. imagine this.y+y driver in california thankful he wasn't hurt after a boulder smashed into his truck. take a look. a man's pickup, the blue one, boulder fell off the cliff and hit just in front of where the driver was sitting. further back, things could have

been way worse. >> definitely appreciate what i got going, keep everything in perspecti perspective. >> no one in that vehicle was hurt either. we turn to more attacks and accusations only the presidential campaign trail. nbc 10 correspondent looks at the politics driving decision 2016 today. >> senator ted cruz blasts "the washington post" for what he calls tasteless attack. the newspaper ran an editorial cartoon, cruz as organ grind somewhere his two daughters as monkeys. >> folks want to attack me, knock yourself up. i signed up for that, that's fine. >> reporter: the editorial page editor usually looks at all cartoons but didn't look at this one. he added in a statement, it's generally policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. but the cartoonist didn't back down tweeting ted cruz has put

his children in a political ad. don't start screaming when the cartoonists draw them as well. cruz says the "the washington post" did the right thing, pulling the cartoon off of its web page. >> it's not complicated, don't make fun of a 5 and 7-year-old girl. >> reporter: unwritten rule not to go after the children of candidates. but the 016 race to the white house has no play book. >> when the dust settles, out of his presidential race, i think the rules of presidential campaigns will forever change. >> reporter: the jabs keep coming between donald trump and hillary clinton. >> i thought she quit. gave up. >> reporter: clinton called trump's tone hateful. >> bigotry, bluster, bullying have become his campaign. and he has to keep sort of upping the stakes. >> reporter: despite all of 0 the back and forth, new cnn poll shows struftrump's numbers kee n

climbing. first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> real rainy day out there but temperatures have climbed into the 60s on our way into the 70s. tomorrow's the warmest december day ever recorded in philadelphia. we've got a rainy rush. it's raining all over the place. at least most of it is not heavy. we're going to be smashing christmas records across the entire area during the day tomorrow. and we do have more rain coming before the weekend is over. also more record high temperatures. we continue to see the low visibility and the wet roads out there. we don't have dense fog like earlier. but that may redevelop later tonight. we're now up to 63 degrees. winds east-southeast at might have been feeive meals an hour. mt. pocono k 52. 62 trenton.

62 in glassboro and mt. holly, atlantic city international. 63 millville. and a lot of these places are in the 70s. so, we get up to 66 towards midnight tonight. if we go above that, there is a record for today. getting a record tomorrow. may get a record friday with 70. and probably get another record sunday with 71, only day not getting a record is saturday, when it's cooler. pretty warm for this time of the year. philly's record 64 set last year. a question of how much we're going to break it by. atlantic city, allentown, wilmington, red, mt. pocono, everybody should be setting records tomorrow. why? it's even warmer back to the west. 66 in senatety right now. 64 in st. louis. 74 in little rock.

while it's near freezing up to the north. this temperature contrast is creating nasty severe weather, tornadoes in the midwest. we have some areas of heavier rain but also breaks. heaviest is the shore right now. cape may county, stone harbor up toward atlantic city. all moving towards the northeast. we even had lightning strikes. heavy rain for another hour or so. we also have heavier rain between washington and baltimore coming up toward the philadelphia area. we're not done with the heavier rain. there's severe weather in illinois and india na. other rounds down south with tornadoes on the ground right now as a result of the tremendous energy going on in the atmosphere. you can see the temperatures going up as we go through the evening. you don't see that too often. and actually getting to 70 degrees by midnight, at least in

delaware. and then during the day tomorrow, look at how many hours are at or above 70 degrees. we have showers, maybe a thunderstorm tomorrow, but when we get record warmth in the wintertime, it's generally peaks like an hour or two, this is hour after hour. so just about the entire day is going to be at record levels. rarely see that. very strange day tomorrow. and a little bit of a break saturday, cold air starts coming in by monday. changes four next week. record warmth tonight. rainy conditions, dense fog, temperatures up and into the 70s tomorrow. morning fog. a couple of showers, maybe thunderstorm but not all day rain like today. then we have a chance at another record christmas day itself near

70. cool done a little saturday. eagles play temperatures in the 50s and back up to 70 sunday before cooling down. >> next finalist in the choir competition decided to do modern christmas song. don't miss performance, next. christmas gift courtesy of the fab four. >> one, two, three. ♪ what fans can do for the first time starting tomorrow.

♪ >> midnight christmas eve, live stream all of your favorite beatles tunes. apple music, google play, a few services carry the fab four's musical catalog. talking 17 beatles albums. span from with the beatles in hard day's night to abbey road and let it be. a finalist from the choir competition at 101.1. the arts s academy. all i want for christmas is you. ♪ ♪ ♪ i don't want a whole lot for christmas ♪

♪ there is just one thing i need ♪ ♪ i don't care about those presents underneath the christmas tree ♪ ♪ i just want to call you my own more than you'd ever know ♪ ♪ make my wish come true all i want ♪ for christmas is you ♪ yeah, i don't want a lot for christmas, there is just ♪ ♪ one thing i need i don't care about the presents

underneath the christmas tree ♪ ♪ i don't need to hang my stocking there upon the fireplace ♪ ♪ santa claus will make me happy with a boy on christmas day ♪ ♪ i just want to call my own more than you could ever know ♪ ♪ make my wish come true all i want for christmas ♪ ♪ is you >> wow, they sound awesome. congratulations. finished your christmas shopping yet? if you don't want to deal with the crowds, we've got different ideas for last-minute gifts. right turn, we follow breaking news out montgomery county. a man shot on his porch, then police confront the suspect a short distance away.

update on breaking news we've been following out of montgomery county. a man shot to death on his front porch. aun aundrea? >> reporter: i'll move out of the way, you can get a better look. detectives focusing efforts on

the minivan where they cornered the suspect, police say the suspect pulled out a gun, so police then pulled out theirs. police say that suspect shot himself, witnesses however have a different story. they say that police fired the shots that wounded the suspect. this started blocks away, after 2:00 this afternoon. police say the spuspect drove u and shot a man sitting on his front porch. the names have not been released. police say that the suspect was taken to the hospital but his condition is unknown. that's the latest here in abbington. >> thank you. also, see the raincoat there, pictures, messy start to the holiday weekend. talking umbrellas out as people ran through the rain to do last-minute christmas shopping. today's rain making for a wet commute as holiday travel rush

kicks into high gear. look at the traffic. a live shot. south philadelphia i-95. expect company headed out there. aaa figures nearly 47 million americans will travel 50 miles or more between today and sunday. highest total in eight years. glenn "hurricane" schwartz, it's the rain, the fog, made traveling difficult. >> yeah, fog not as bad as it was earlier today. rain, though, it covers the entire region. some on the heavy side. we've seen a couple of lightning flashes indicated on radar here. let's show you what's going on. first, philadelphia area down to wilmington, chester county, and across the atlantic city expressway, not much other than light rain. but there's a -- area of heavy rain out of baltimore, right up i-95, right toward the philadelphia area, this area came from southern delaware,

right off the jersey shore, long beach island nailed right now. atlantic city getting nailed. and ocean city as well. another area of heavy rain lancaster county, now getting into burkes county, that will be approaching the redding area within the next hour or so. there's that area coming right up i-95 from baltimore. right toward wilmington, philadelphia eventually within the next hour. so. might be light now but it will be getting heavier. 63 in philadelphia. upper 50s across the rest of the area. and that temperature is just going to keep going up. we've got rain throughout the evening. and even after midnight, computer suggesting thunderstorms possible. if we get up to 68, that would be a record for today with more reports to come. we'll get into that. plus next rain with the seven day in a few minutes.

>> quite the scene today, a sea of blue at roan university's police officers from around the state and country paid tribute to a new jersey state trooper. mccarson died last week after crashing his patrol car. how friends and officers and honoring his memory. the head of the new jersey place used tough and smart to describe 30-year-old fallen trooper eli mccarson. >> it can be any one of us at any time. it always in the back of our minds. >> reporter: police from all over new jersey and well beyond, california, texas, wisconsin, majority who never met him, consider him a brother and a hero for his service. this lieutenant from the nypd. >> wanted to show support for one of our police brothers, let

him and his family know we are behind him 100%. >> reporter: loved ones including the father shared long embraces with friends. 30 years old, old evidence of five, newly married, just sworn in to protect new jersey in february of this year. he died while responding to a call. his cruiser struck a telephone pole. >> spoke with the brother last night, they're facing a very tough challenge to go in and talk about eli and their loss. >> reporter: trooper mccarson eulogized by one of his four younger brothers who shared win of the last tengt messaxt messa received and obsessed with spider-man and "star wars" growing up. you're my brother, best friend and hero, i love you, dude, may the force be with you. a powerful force of strength in numbers when the mccarson and state police family need it

most. cydney long, nbc 10 news. >> before today's funeral, police officers throughout the delaware valley got together for breakfast. part of the holiday meals for heroes. honors families and local fallen officers killed in the line of duty. it's a chance to experience the same loss. >> they share a common bond nobody else smars. i don't know how they feel. they know how they feel, they get a chance to talk, see each other. they look forward to it. we look forward to doing it. it's something we're going to continue for years to come. >> families given holiday dinners to tax home and enjoy. >> from the nbc 10 investigators one day after learning a contractor stole tens of thousands from a customer is going to jail. an early christmas gift to the family he scammed. the investigators tracked down daniel, police couldn't find

him, following the report, police arrested him and later turned him over to montgomery county. he pleaded guilty to duping homeowners out of thousands of dollars. we caught up with one today. >> heed aadmitted responsibility. we are expecting full refunds, of course, over a period of time. >> sentenced to 6 to 23 months in jail, ordered to pay more than 60,000 in restitution. after e. coli got 50 people sick, onions will be dipped in boiling water before chopped, cilantro added to freshly cooked rice. 60 samples of every 2000 pounds of steak tested before sent to stores. a similar program implemented for chicken in coming weeks.

53 people infected with e. coli, nine states including two from pennsylvania. the cdc hasn't identified what triggered the outbreak. execute eves may never know what made those people sick. >> people are picking up last-minute items. south philly traditions.

several memorable moments of 2015, here are just a few pics. the pontiff, pope francis' history ex-visit to philadelphia. visited the u.s. for the very first time, making a stop in philadelphia late september and addressing thousands of pilgrims at the world meeting of families. recently, the war of words between mayor michael nutter and donald trump closer to me. trump called the mayor, quote,

low life, after nutter used expleive to refer to trump in a news conference. had twitter world abuzz. eagles trading star lesean mccoy to buffalo where he yes threw his helmet against the locker when the eagles beat him. in return, eagle got alonzalonz. put a spotlight on chip kelly and how he handles play ers. go to nbc 10 news app. >> memorable moment tomorrow with all-time record. rain lingering. temperatures going way up. what you can expect as we head hoo into christmas eve. on "nbc 10 news at 6:00," police officers get records from the north pole after someone

stands the presents from when 4-year-old girls.

if your christmas shopping isn't done yet, don't worry, you're not the only one. why not think outside the box for last-minute gifts. >> robert wilson has gift ideas that are different. thank you for joining us.

>> thanks for having me. >> for kids, buying a share of stock, for instance, contributing to education plan. or even helping them start a business. that's a pretty interesting one. explain that for me. >> well, perhaps your child is getting a little bit of entrepreneurial mind-set. buy gifts that help them start a business rather than learning how to be a great employee. perhaps get them a nice camera, they can become a photographering start that business, or a new lawn mower so when it starts getting warm they can get to land escaping get they'll something that will help them earn money instead of showing them how to spend money. >> constructive things, especially landscaping. if you need last minute gift, people rely on cash. some feel uncomfortable with that. any other suggestions. >> if you know someone

struggling with managing their money, this device coin, consolidates debit cards, gift cards on one device so you don't have to carry around different things. great way to manage money. you know someone struggling with high phone bills get karma wi-fi device here. you don't have to pay this month by month. pay as you go. you pay for wi-fi and you don't have to have the expensive data plan. >> you can make a charitable donation, pay for advice. what's that? >> the greatest gifts sometimes people wouldn't buy for themselves. maybe pay for somebody to get advice, financial planning, health or personal training or maybe friend has two left feet and want to get them dance lessons. these are great. they probably wouldn't get them for themselves. >> fund your 401(k), look for

extra tax credits, see if you're on the state's list of unclaimed pro property. we shouldn't feel bad? >> no you worked hard all year. enjoy a little bit. that website, missingmonthey.co. make sure you find it. >> robert wilson, great pointers. thank you for taking the time. >> happier holiday would be if the eagles within this weekend. do or die for them. berds have to get a win over the redskins to keep playoff hopes alive. john, a big game anyway from division rival but now the season's on the line. >> yeah. chips are all in. if the eagles lose to redskins not only playoff window be slammed shut but they will watch their opponent celebrate a divisional title on their home field. while the eagles prepare for their biggest game of the

season, they did have something worth celebrating, a few did. fletcher cox one of three named to the pro bowl. sproles and peters will be joining him. cox's first trip to hawaii. cox acknowledged, also a separate message for the redskins. >> one of my goals but i think the biggest relief for me, when we win we win on saturday. >> guaranteeing a win? >> yeah, guaranteeing a win. you think we're going to lose? no. >> that's the attitude you want to take. hear from sam bradford and the latest injury news imi'm john boruk. >> nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> we have a christmas eve for the ages weatherwise coming and the temperature already climbing

to get to the point. it's climbing with rain. a rainy rush, rainy evening much of the night tonight. smashing records on christmas eve. beating records by more than you could imagine. and more weekend rain after this round ends. that's not going to be the end of the rain for the weekend. of course, everything is wet right now. but it's not as foggy as it was earlier today. 63 degrees. 20 degrees above average and it's going up from here. east southeast wind five miles an hour. 66 degrees is the record for today. we could get there or beat it by midnight. we're definitely beating the record tomorrow going for 76. we may break the record on friday, christmas day. and likely to break the record on sunday. only day we're not going to break the record is on saturday. get a little bit of a break from

the extreme warmth. temperatures in upper 50s to near 60. 63 blue bell right now. wow. 62 mt. holly. 63 washington township. and in wrightstown. all of the places will be in the 70s. the only please that won't be, the beaches because of the wind off the ocean. visibilities getting better across most of the area by they'll go back down later tonight. records for tomorrow, not that hard to break, 64 occurred last year. we are just going obliterate that record. philadelphia, warmest december day ever recorded in philly. and maybe for some other parts of our area as well. watch these temperatures go up. we're close to record levels by 11:00 tonight. and the other thing that amazing me, number of hours that we are going to be in the 70s tomorrow.

normally when will you set an extreme recording skyrockets for an hour or two and goes back down, a front comes through, not happening tomorrow. 70s or 60s hour after hour after hour. temperature tomorrow morning, 40 degrees above normal. now, here's the rain. one batch coming up i-95 toward philadelphia. hitting wilmington first, of course. this other batch from southern delaware. still clobbering atlantic city, long beach island. it's tapered off in ocean city. things moving fairly quickly from southwest to northeast. and this other area coming up from washington, things may taper off after that. this is an area getting severe weather now, indiana, another area in alabama and mississippi.

horrible severe weather out there. record warmth coming tonight. rainy, temperatures rising. dense fog. and then going into the 70s tomorrow. question of how high in the 70s. and record's only 64. fog in the morning, chance of shower or thunderstorm, it will not be hour after hour of rain like today. friday, a chance of showers as well, near record levels again. we drop a little bit on saturday. still 15 degrees above normal. sunday, another record before we cool down monday. pennsylvania police officer charged with lying about being attacked. how she's responding now that she's accused of forcing a manhunt for a suspect that never existed at 6:00.

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christmas is a holiday with a ton of traditions and a lot involve food. a difficult job today, we toured the food scene in south philly. >> macaroni, lobsters, tilapia. making a bunch you want to come

over. >> we do. dolly's making a holiday feast just like her mother did. >> tradition. right? >> that's right. >> that's what it's all about, honey. it's all about the italian people, tradition. >> reporter: tradition brings cook here every year the day before christmas eve. >> i grew up eating seven fish for christmas eve but nobody else -- new york else has patience so they continue to my house. >> reporter: the air rans aren't just about the seafood. >> peppers. pepperoni. >> reporter: tradition for melanie and her son. >> it's our day. we come down here, get our christmas stuff. >> reporter: this year, they're a trio. the family also spends the day together. >> every 23rd. >> reporter: starting a termini brothers. >> a lot of canollis and don't stop. >> reporter: they collected a haul. >> cheese, lunchmeat, forks.

>> reporter: how long will it last? >> like a night. >> reporter: something that may last longer that than food, fabulous lights. another holiday tradition. south philadelphia, lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. next on n"nbc 10 news at 6:0 6:00". >> holiday rushes don't get much wetter than this. problems on the road and the airport as people head to their holiday destination. i'll keep tracking that rain to let you know how long it's going to stix arougo ing to stick around, how crushing the christmas eve record temperatures in the 70s tomorrow. all new at 6:00, real-life grinch broke into the home of twin 4-year-old girls and stole their christmas presents. how police officers are making sure the girls never know.

nbc 10 news starts now. >> right now, "nbc 10 news at 6:00," messy rainy mad dash out of town, first alert radar showing steady rain around the area, complicating everyone's holiday commute. >> live look at conditions along i-95 south philadelphia. slow moving now as thousands of drivers are getting in and out of town. >> holiday hurry continues at philadelphia international airport right now. 90,000 people shuffling through today.

tracking delays if you're flying out tonight. i'm jim rosenfield. >> i'm jacqueline london. we could be breaking records for travel and weather. >> to crush high temps on christmas eve and christmas. >> for the trip out of town, bringing you live team coverage. >> and nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. for how long will it keep raining? >> for much of the night, and we have a batch of heavier rain moving toward the philadelphia area. conditions are going to get worse in the next hour or two. of course, streets are wet, visibility's not great but not as bad as it was earlier today or as bad as it's about to get. you see the area of heavy rain up i-95. we have about three different areas of heavier rain that are moving through parts of the area. this is the area from baltimore, coming up