despite the fire burning, dubai went on with its massive fireworks display. they celebrated the new year about two hours ago and right now are waiting for the new year to start in cape town, south africa. this is a live look at the city, where the fireworks will begin at any moment now. we'll try to bring them to you as soon as they begin. you know what, look at that. in the corner of your screen you see they are celebrating 2016. again, this is a live picture from cape town, south africa. let's talk about this. we want to get you ready for another big fireworks show closer to home. the sugar house new year's eve fireworks will begin just about an hour and if you can't make it down to penn's landing, you can watch it all here on nbc 10. nbc 10's george spencer is live at penn's landing for us to preview the show tonight in a place that you might want to be. right, george? >> reporter: ycvñi/ right in th

correct spot, keith. hard to believe, 5,000 individual fireworks will be used in both of the shows along the delaware tonight. i'm told that this year's sugar house fireworks will really surpass what we've seen in past years and for the thousands of people gathering here right now the blue cross riverrink and along the delaware river water front, you really could not ask for any better new year's eve conditions. >> this is our center position. >> reporter: ken knows his fireworks barge better than anyone, as the show producer for tonight's two firework events, he says the view for families and revelers on the ground here at blue cross riverrink and all along penn's landing will be flashier than ever before. >> i just love it because it's very, like, family oriented, you see everybody here with their grandparents, aunts, everybody's here. i think it's wonderful. >> reporter: good place to spend new year's eve. >> yeah, i really like it. >> our job here is to entertain,

make every second an oh or ah and i can guarantee it will be there. >> reporter: producing the sugar house new year's eve fireworks at that level is a tremendous task. crews have been lining up fireworks and firing each one since monday. the 300-foot-long barge creates an expansive launching pad. this amount of space allows the fireworks to be spread out in the sky. >> right, if you notice on our end positions, racks are angled out. >> reporter: the 6:00 show is sound track to star wars music. the midnight show to a powerful instrumental composition. designing it all takes two hours for every minute of musical sound. >> what we want to do is fill the sky multilayer, so much going on. >> reporter: for viewers either on the ground or home on tv, it combines for a magical experience, an experience that some philadelphia lifers say has changed their thinking about penn's landing and new year's in the city. >> this is awesome. this is what it should be. this is like bringing me back to

coming down here. >> reporter: a lot of people excited about it, back in these live pictures you can see some of the families and revelers lining up here along the water front just out of view of oujt! camera is the barge where these fireworks will be launched from. it is a three-hour trip around south philadelphia and up the delaware for that barge to get in position for tonight, and it is going to be an impressive show. 14 and a half minutes of fireworks at 6:00, then again at midnight. of course, you can watch it here on nbc 10. we are live right now at penn's landing. i'm george spencer, nbc 10 news. >> blue cross riverrink looks like the place to be. george, thank you so much. the sugar house new year's eve fireworks begin in just about an hour. you can watch the whole thing here on nbc 10. we'll be broadcasting them live at 6:00. you can watch here on your couch, too, also watch live from our nbc 10 news app.

glenn, as i just mentioned, a week ago we had record high temperatures, people heading out tonight for the new year's eve festivities, they shouldn't dress in that kind of attire, but still not too bad. >> certainly not too bad for new year's eve. temperatures will be in the 40s. there's a bit of a breeze also, so you're going to have to bundle up. we've been spoiled by this warm weather, too. so our bodies have not adjusted to this seasonably cold weather. flags blowing a little bit out there. it will diminish as we go through the evening hours. we have a lot of clouds out there preventing the temperature from dropping very quickly. you can see that on the satellite, but you can also see that there's nothing to speak of on the radar. temperature now down to 48 degrees in philadelphia, just dropped two degrees in the past hour, and in the next hour it will probably be another two degrees lower. 42 in pottstown and reading and lancaster, but still 51 degrees in dover. and as we go through the evening, there's the

temperatures dropping through the 40s, 38 degrees by midnight. a whole lot colder than that next week. we'll get into that with the seven day in a few minutes. right now at 5:00, a 75-year-old woman in the hospital after police say a gunman robbed and then shot her. happened on edrick street in mayfair while the woman was walking home from the grocery store. drew smith live, detectives with an update on her condition and the search for the gunman. drew? >> reporter: yeah, and she is recovering tonight, keith, but a detective here called her one tough lady. she's going to spend her new year's eve in the hospital, but this crime happened not too far from here. there's evidence of it on several sidewalks, a trail of blood leading you from this woman's home to right where it happened. a woman in her 70s was walking on her way back from the grocery store this morning, it was a routine trip until a silver car drove up here. >> 75 years old, why would you

target an elderly woman? beyond me, i have no idea. >> reporter: detectives say a man pulled up right next to her, showed a gun, and demanded her purse. she tried to fight him off but ended up getting shot in the cheek. >> people walk around here all the time, that's a disgrace, absolutely horrible. >> reporter: the man drove away with her purse with $400 and a cell phone inside. the woman continued home a few blocks away, dropping off her groceries before making a trip to the hospital. >> incredible, tough lady. it's a shame it happened to her. it's the holiday. you know, obviously, her family's shook up. >> reporter: police say the woman works at a nearby school and it's not unusual for older people to walk home with groceries in this part of the city, but neighbors have begun to notice a change here. >> it's really getting bad. i can't even take my grandson to the playground over here. >> my neighbors recently moved, now i'm thinking about it, too. it's getting bad.

>> reporter: back here detectives say they are going to be working around the clock on this case, hoping to make an arrest. right now they are looking at surveillance video and they are going to go back to the neighborhood, see if they can find some more video. as soon as they find an image of this suspect, they promise they are going to get it out to us in hopes somebody will be able to identify him. live in mayfair, drew smith, nbc 10 news. >> thanks. police have identified the suspect accused of robbing two men at gunpoint. police are looking for 31-year-old kenneth jones. they say jones pulled a handgun on two men on pine tree road earlier this month. police say a warrant had already been out for jones' arrest for similar crimes in montgomery county. there's a reward for anyone who provides information that leads to an arrest. we turn now to the latest on the criminal case against bill cosby. today his lawyers insisted politics and not justice were the motive behind his charges. nbc 10 investigative reporter mitch blacher is here with more

on this. hey, mitch. >> charging bill cosby was almost a campaign promise for montgomery county's incoming d.a. kevin steele ran ad after ad questioning why his opponent passed on the charges that he has now filed. kevin steele ran against former montgomery county d.a. bruce castor. >> a former d.a. who refused to prosecute bill cosby. >> reporter: bill cosby quickly became a centerpiece of the campaign. on wednesday steele said charging cosby with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in his home had only to do with the facts of the case. he said new evidence was made public when depositions from one of the civil cases against cosby surfa surfaced. >> reopening this case was our duty as law enforcement officers. >> reporter: thursday on the "today" show, cosby's attorney said the charges have little to do with law. >> fulfilling a campaign promise, not necessarily interested in effectuating justice. >> reporter: cosby appeared frail as he slowly made his way through cameras and questions

before being formally charged. steele filed the charges months before the statute of limitations was set to expire. >> do you think these charges had anything to do with politics? >> i think they do and i think the response probably does. both sides have a political angle. >> reporter: he says charges wouldn't have been filed without good reason. >> if he made a campaign promise, he had some idea when he made it that he had some basis to do so. while he is a politician, he's also an attorney. >> anything you want to say? >> reporter: bill cosby and his lawyers promise a vigorous defense. on the "today" show, his lawyers say there's no interest in a plea deal. he says if it goes to trial it could be hard to find a neutral injury. widespread attention and cosby's notoriety have complicated and perhaps tainted the jury pool. the montgomery county d.a.'s office said no one was available thursday to comment.

yesterday steele said his job is to follow the evidence wherever it leads and whenever it comes to light. mitch blacher, nbc 10 news. >> mitch, thanks. with less than five days left in office, mayor michael nutter took to the podium today with final business to attend to, announcing plans for a project to build a park over i-95. the plan is to cover the highway that connects the city to the delaware river water front. it's part of a mayor's initiative to develop both the schuylkill and delaware river water fronts. phase one of the project is already under way. >> project to cap or cover part of i-95 and columbus boulevard at penn's landing from chestnut street to walnut street with the intent to eliminate barriers to accessing the water front. >> the mayor says the project will be paid for using money from the federally funded transportation improvement plan. i want you to check out this video, a fire engulfed this

63-story building in dubai, and while smoke was still filling the sky, the city decided to go on with its fireworks display. much more on that next on nbc 10 news at 5:00. plus, a terror plot busted in upstate new york. how police say the suspect was planning to attack people celebrating new year's eve. atlantic city get set to ring in 2016 on one of its biggest nights of the year. >> just magical, it's surreal. >> i'm ted greenberg, how people partying at one new year's eve bash will try to break a world record.

look at this, video of a fire at a high end hotel in downtown dubai this afternoon. you can see those flames stretching for several floors around the high-rise hotel's midsection. early reports of the fire started on the terrace on the 20th floor. 14 people were injured, but they are expected to be okay. let's give this a little perspective right now, the building on fire stands at 991 feet tall. that is very close to the dimensions of the tallest building in philadelphia. you guessed it, see for yourself, the comcast center, which stands at 974 feet tall. it's the 19th tallest building in the united states. now, line that up with the building in dubai and it's just 17 feet shorter and just like the comcast center, that

building in dubai today that's on fire, it's the 19th tallest building in that country. think about if this happened in philadelphia, you can see fireworks went off even as smoke from the hotel fire filled the sky. would you imagine if we didn't cancel the fireworks here in philly if the comcast center was on fire, heaven forbid? all right, to this now, a new york man has been charged with planning a new year's eve attack on a rochester restaurant, planning to kill innocent civilians at a restaurant in the name of isis. nbc has the details. >> reporter: on this quiet street in rochester, the fbi says a would-be terrorist was planning to strike. arrested, 25-year-old emanuel luchman, investigators say this christmas week he went to this walmart and bought knives, ski masks, ties, and a plot to stab

people, kidnap people celebrating new year's eve. investigators say he may have been inspired by these isis videos. governor cuomo earlier. >> i think it gets worse before it gets better. good news is, we're up to it. we have heros. we have great law enforcement. >> reporter: prosecutors say he was communicating with an isis supporter believed to be inside syria. the american allegedly boasting, i am ready to give up everything to be in syria with you. i will take a life. i have no problem with that. he has past arrests, spending five years in state prison and may have been radicalized there. he also has a history of mental illness. reached by phone, his grandmother claims he's not a terrorist and that he had to have been set up. an alleged lone actor, residents say they never noticed anything suspicious. >> very scary knowing i live right across the street. anything could happen. >> reporter: the fbi says the plot came together in a matter of days and informants helped track him, who was already

planning something for new year's eve. we just received this breaking news out of germany now. we've been working on this. police have just evacuated two train stations in munich because of a terror threat. one of them is the city's main train station. police have also asked people to not gather in crowds. that's happening in germany again. we'll continue to monitor this situation, again, in munich, two train stations evacuated there based on a threat. meanwhile, back here at home in burks county, a road rage incident turns into a shooting. tonight police need help finding the man behind the gun. the people involved were driving in exeter township. the man driving a newer nissan sentra with north carolina plates. if you can help, give a call to police. from our south jersey bureau, residents have a new way

of keeping informed of emergencies in camden county. the county's office of emergency management has launched a new notification system called swift 911. residents can go to the county's website to register. if you were registered on the old system, you must register again. or you can download the swift 911 app. now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> well, just as we turn the calendar into a new month and a new year, the weather pattern is going to be changing. we're ending december on the mild side, record warmth by far. every single day in december above normal temperatures and, of course, no snow. colder as soon as we start the new year. not bitter cold, but significantly colder. and a dry stretch of weather through the weekend and into parts of next week. we have cloudy skies around, visibili visibility, though, is excellent.

that's good for travel tonight. 48 degrees, the wind is 14 miles an hour, so now we got a wind chill, 42 degrees the way it feels to the exposed skin. it's four degrees colder than this time yesterday. we'll be starting to see some of the cool down here. 42 in reading, pottstown, westchester right now, 43 in allentown, 46 in mount holly and in glassboro. 49 in millville, atlantic city, still over 50 in dover. and it's going to be the last 50 we're going to see for a while. 52 the last couple of days, 46 for the high tomorrow. and then we're down to near average. remember last week it was more like up here. so it's quite a change. just getting down to average is a big cool down. so for december temperatures almost 14 degrees above normal. beating a record by close to

seven degrees. if we beat a record by .2 of a degree that's significant, by one degree it's huge.r&á 6.8 is just unheard of. and that means the average temperature of december is more like what savannah, georgia, average in december. a lot of clouds around right now, but the radar showing nothing. clouds not all that thick. and so we expect a dry night, pretty dry across the country except for the southeast states, and that stuff's not coming up this way. we're breaking up the clouds through the evening, 38 degrees by midnight, and for the mummers tomorrow it's cold, but seasonably cold. the wind picks up a little bit and so by noontime we'll be a little bit breezy, but also up to 40 degrees. for the rest of the night tonight, partly cloudy skies, cold, 32 for the low in philadelphia, 29 north and west.

temperatures only into the mid 40s tomorrow, despite sunshine. yeah, sunshine, remember that? ten to 20 miles an hour winds, then the seven-day forecast, colder over the weekend, but nice and sunny. then it gets even colder early next week. tuesday really cold. and teens in many of the suburbs. take a live look now in q bethlehem, northampton county. you're watching the fireworks show under way, i should say, thousands flocked from around the country to see the 85-pound peeps chick descend for new year's eve. i was mesmerized by the fireworks there. let's take a live look now at sky force 10. it is over penn's landing at the blue cross riverrink and delaware river just below it, getting ready for the sugar house new year's eve fireworks show. the early show starts just after 6:00. we'll be broadcasting it live here on nbc 10.

you can also watch it on your nbc 10 news app. and if you're braver, take a live look at times square. you can see people already gathering for tonight's new year's eve celebration. at least 1 million people will be there to watch the ball drop at midnight. of course, if you'd rather avoid the clouds and watch it on tv, you can countdown to 2016 here on nbc 10. our new year's eve festivities begin at 8:00 with kathie lee and hoda's toast to 2015. then it's a new year's eve edition of "game night" at 10:00, followed by nbc 10 news at 11:00. then carson daly will ring in the new year. maybe you should try to file your taxes early this year. find out how fast the irs says you'll get the refund. plus, how the coast guard is trying to get to the bottom of this strange sight that washed up on the jersey shore.

the irs says you can start filing your 2015 tax returns january 19th. you'll have more time to get your taxes together this year due to emancipation day falling on april 15th. the irs pushed the filing deadline to monday, april 18th.

if you're due a refund, you'll likely get it within three weeks of filing. someone is starting off the new year a millionaire. a $1 million winning powerball ticket was purchased at the sunoco in philadelphia. 12, 36, 38, 54, 61, and the powerball was 22. the mega million jackpot is $130 million. no one won last night's powerball jackpot. that prize now stands at $334 million. the next drawing for mega millions is friday. the powerball drawing is saturday night. thousands of folks are getting set to ring in the new year in atlantic city, and some will even try to break a world record. i'm ted greenberg with the story next in a live report. plus, a disappointment in dover. why the city pulled the plug on a new year's eve festival that local teenagers have been planning for months.

this is nbc 10 news. ♪ >> those are the fireworks and music from south africa. here's another look at the celebration in cape town we

brought you at the top of the show. a look at what's to come as the world ushers in 2016. won't be hard to find a new year's eve party in atlantic city. that's where we find nbc 10 jersey shore bureau reporter ted greenberg. ted, how are they preparing? >> reporter: well, keith, this is one of atlantic city's biggest nights of the year. thousands and thousands of folks are in town to celebrate, and some could even help set a world record. new year's revelers rolling into atlantic city for a night when the seaside resort goes all out. >> it's party time, you know, we're single ladies, what the hell? >> it's magical, it's just magical. it's surreal. >> reporter: teresa will bid farewell to 2015 by celebrating at tropicana. lavish new year's eve parties are planned all over town for atlantic city's most extravagant night of the year. >> it is so filled with euphoria and so much excitement. >> i've been doing it for years.

just old habit. and i just kept it up, you know, i enjoy it. >> reporter: outside the trop on the beach, these guys spent the day getting ready to give people a charge during a big fireworks show over the ocean at midnight. >> all the three-inch mortars and everything are in their tubes, all right, and we are programming them. >> reporter: party goers at the playground pier want to blast their way into the record books. with champagne at midnight, some 3,500 people will try to break a guinness world record for the most champagneykg corks popped simultaneously. >> the record was 2,800 set in italy, so i think we're going to absolutely crush that record. >> reporter: atlantic city had its struggles in 2015, but no casino closures, unlike 2014 when four gaming halls shut their doors. >> and the customers continue to come, they were shared amongst all properties and it was a

positive year. >> reporter: if you want to party and stay over tonight in atlantic city, good luck finding a room. i checked and the casinos and many other hotels in town are completely sold out. live in atlantic city, i'm ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. >> good for a.c., ted, thank you so much. you don't have to wait till midnight to celebrate the new year. this is a live look from the barge carrying the fireworks for the sugar house new year's eve show. they are going to begin in just about 30 minutes or so, and nbc 10 will be airing them all live, so join us for that coming up at 6:00. glenn, a chilly night tonight, though, to start 2016, at least chillier than we've been used to. >> yes. chillier than we've been used to, but as far as a typical kind of new year's eve, not that far off. temperatures in the 40s, but remember christmas eve we were setting records for warmth. the visibility is excellent, so it's really good weather condition for doing the

fireworks here. last night the weather was like that, couldn't see 100 feet up. that would have really been a problem. you can see that a lot of clouds around, but they are not real low like they were last night, not that thick, so not producing any rain. so those are the best kind of clouds for this kind of a night. it's 48 degrees now, but it's 42 in pottstown and reading and lancaster. 51 degrees in dover is the warm spot. so as the new year gets closer, we get closer to dropping into the 30s. the wind drops a little bit, but the wind's going to be picking up and the temperatures are really going to be going down a lot more than that as we head later in the seven day. i'll show you that in a few minutes. you can celebrate the new year with free parking in philadelphia. the philadelphia parking authority will not enforce parking meters or kiosks on new year's day. keep in mind all other parking violations still apply, so don't make that mistake. tonight the philadelphia

police commissioner is warning against a deadly way to revel on new year's eve. we're talking about that celebratory gunfire. commissioner ramsey said his officers will be on the lookout for anyone firing shots. district attorney seth williams says those who fire off shots will be charged with reckless endangerment and could face attempted murder charges if the bullet hits someone. >> the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection, we want people to remember that tonight and to have fun, to be safe, to party responsibly. >> commissioner ramsey also says his officers will be doing extra dui enforcement tonight. and his homeland security unit will be active, although there is no direct terror threat to philadelphia. crowds are already in times square to bid farewell to 2015. it's one of the biggest parties in the world and this year security is tighter than ever. nbc 10 national correspondent sarah dolph has the story.

>> reporter: out with the old and in with the new year. >> going to be a whole new year for us. it's going to be exciting, i think. >> reporter: ringing in 2016 in times square takes more than a little work, starting with the numerals that arrive weeks ago and a facelift to the crystal ball, 288 new crystals were added to the more than 2,000 already in place. >> got to see the ball. >> reporter: a test confetti and ball lighting gave a sneak peek of what's to come, and people were invited to personalize the new year, writing wishes for 2016 on paper that will be mixed in with the confetti that falls tonight. >> i like it. crazy atmosphere out here. >> reporter: with the eyes of the world watching, officials say they've enhanced security with some 6,000 officers assigned to times square, for the first time some armed with long dogs. bomb and radiation detectors

will be present. >> threats have changed significantly from a year ago or two years ago and in response to that, and, in fact, ahead of that in some respects, that's why we have a large capabilities here in the city. >> reporter: measures appreciated by visitors. >> i feel pretty safe right now, yeah. i don't feel that tlhreatened. >> extra careful, keeping eyes out. >> reporter: law enforcement and revelers working together towards a safe and fun start to 2016. and when the clock strikes midnight, more than a ton of confetti will rain down on the crowd, a great start to the new year and a lot of cleanup for crews in the morning. in times square, sarah dallof, nbc news. something strange washed up on the jersey shore, now the coast guard is trying to figure out where it came from. we'll show it to you next on nbc 10 news at 5:00. hey, danny. >> thanks, keith. coming up, chip kelly is out as coach, but perhaps the best in the business is saying it was not the right call.

hear from bill belichick coming up.

expected to be trucked out in the next couple days. coast guard officials are working to find out where exactly it came from. talk about sports. he may only coach one game for the eagles, but on sunday pat shurmur will try to give fans one final victory against the giants this season. danny pommells joins us now from comcast sportsnet. danny, chip kelly's gone, but he did make an impression around the league. >> you're right about that, chip kelly's removal was a shocker to many, including some of his now former colleagues around the league. yesterday tom coughlin said he's never surprised what happens in the league, but that news was as close to a surprise as he's had.

kelly is out after less than three seasons, which included ten-win campaigns. his biggest win this year was over the patriots earlier this month. pats head man bill belichick is widely regarded as the best coach in the league and offered up support for kelly today. >> i wouldn't say it's really disappointing, you know, chip kelly to me is a really good football coach and does a great job, he's done a good job with that team, you know, he'll do a great job there, a lot of the players that were on the eagles are no longer on the eagles aren't really doing too much for anybody else either. >> if you didn't know before he had this run of success with the patriots, belichick was fired by the browns after five seasons and only one playoff appearance in cleveland. who knows what the next stop will hold for chip kelly. that's it for now. i'm danny pommells from comcast sportsnet. well, the countdown is on for the new year and also to the first of two fireworks spectacles along the delaware river water front.

coming up, an exclusive interview with the head of the local company behind tonight's fireworks, sugar house casino.

2016 has arrived in australia with a spectacular fireworks display. you saw it there, unbelievable. thousands gathered along the shore to celebrate the start of 2016 and watch the display. back here at home, just a few minutes away from our own fireworks display to celebrate the new year. nbc 10's george spencer has a

good seat, hey, george. >> reporter: keith, as you'd imagine, this time of night just a few minutes before those fireworks, the crowds are growing here on the ice rink and along the delaware river water front. i'm joined now by lyndie hamilton, who is with sugar house casino. you guys are in your sixth year as the title sponsor of thefireworks over the delaware river tonight. interested, wendy, just your perspective on how this has become such an important tradition for you guys in philadelphia. >> yeah, you know, it is very important for us. we like to do things important for philadelphia. we are a philly casino, our customers and employees are from philly, so anything that's part of the fabric of philadelphia is important to us. we've been doing this six years and having so much fun we can't stop. >> seems to be getting better every year, is that your sense? >> i think so. even this year the 6:00 show especially is really getting blown out a little bit, so to speak, and star wars sound track, it's going to be a lot of fun. >> reporter: the music of the

moment. wendy, right now we're taking a look at live pictures from our camera on the barge, where the fireworks will be launched in the middle of the delaware river. i've been talking to people all day and one thing philadelphia lifer told me today he has never seen penn's landing look this good. got to feel good to be a part of that at sugar house. >> yeah, we love being down on the river here and what's happening down on the river is so exciting for everyone. you have a lot of development right along the river front here at penn's landing. this winter fest is unbelievable. at sugar house we have a lot going on, our river walk is beautiful, a lot of development going on, a lot of great activity here. >> reporter: and talking about development, opens the door for my next question, which is you guys up in fishtown expanding your footprint there, your fishtown location, expanding the casino and offerings. that's all kind of wrapping up or getting close to, right? >> yes. we've been under construction for 18 months.

this project more than doubles our size. it's concentrated on food and beverage offerings. we have seven new venues coming on, event space, a parking garage and a very slow, quiet phased opening happening starting today for the next two months. so every couple weeks there will be new amenities coming on. we opened a little slice of brand new casino just today, so makes the fireworks even more special for us. >> reporter: definitely a big year for sugar house, you guys so important for what's happening here on the river front tonight. we are grateful for what you've done, i know a lot of people who will be watching tonight are, as well. wendy hamilton with sugar house, thank you so much. >> thanks for having us. >> reporter: the crowds out here, keith, definitely growing. you can see some of them behind me, the skaters who are waiting for the 6:00 fireworks in just a few minutes. back to you. >> george spencer on top of that. george, thank you so much. >> reporter: exactly. >> by the way, the sugar house new year's eve fireworks begin

in just about 13 minutes. you can watch the entire show right here on nbc 10. we'll be broadcasting them live during our 6:00 news. you can also watch it live from our nbc 10 news app. and just minutes ago the peeps chick drop took place at bethlehem, the 85-pound peeps chick descended as part of the peeps fest celebration. and the whole event was topped off with a big fireworks show. glenn, 2016 starting out much colder than the end of 2015. >> absolutely. and 2015 has ended up with one of the most amazing months that we've ever seen, december, not only breaking the record, smashing the record. every single day of the month with above average temperatures. but it's going to be colder in the new year, not bitter cold, but significantly colder, and a

dry stretch of weather looks like we could be dry for the next week. the travel was just fine, not having the fog problems of yesterday, we don't have the rain or drizzle yesterday, it's 48 degrees, it is colder. winds 14 miles an hour, so feels like 42, which makes it, again, feel significantly colder than at this time yesterday. 52 degrees today, but only 46 tomorrow, and back close to that average of 41 over the weekend. and we are 41 in quakertown now, doylestown, reading, all 42 degrees. as is kennett square, 45 in wilmington, washington township, and still have 50s, yep, drove and lewes, delaware, still in the 50s. they are going to wave good-bye to those pretty soon. it feels like it's in the 30s, even in wilmington.

38 degrees with that wind blowing. yeah, the wind chill is back and we're going to be feeling that, especially as we head into early next week. here's the cold air that's coming down. seasonably cold over the weekend, but some arctic air is really going to hit new england, and we're going to get a little piece of that come tuesday and into wednesday of next week. and poconos, could be down to single digits, suburbs down into the teens, and then it kind of eases up a little bit, so it's not going to get cold and stay cold. we're going to vary some over the next couple of weeks, but that real mild weather, the record breaking weather, that is gone, at least for a good while. we've got a lot of clouds around, but they are not that thick, they are not producing any kind of rain or snow. and things are fairly dry over the eastern part of the country.

unfortunately, some horrible flooding going on along the mississippi river, at least they are not getting anymore rain, record flooding along the mississippi. and for this evening around here, temperatures dropping through the 40s to 38 degrees by midnight. the wind diminishing a little bit. it will feel like it's probably in the low 30s by midnight, and then for the mummers tomorrow morning, light wind to start off the day and the wind picks up a little bit late in the morning. of course, the temperature starts going up, as well. that's seasonably chilly day across the area. for tonight, partly cloudy and colder. 32 by morning in philadelphia. the wind diminishes, so less of a wind chill by morning, and then a lot of sunshine tomorrow. we haven't seen a lot of sun. it's been a very wet december, as well. and the breeze, 10, 20 miles an hour making that feel like it's even cooler. so mid 40s going to feel kind of chilly tomorrow, and the low 40s feeling colder over the weekend, then colder than that monday.

then the coldest on tuesday. and that's mighty cold. wind on top of that and that is way below average. >> all right, glenn, thank you so much. let's head to new york now, kate snow joins us with a look what's coming up on "nbc nightly news." >> coming up on nightly news, that enormous skyscraper on fire in dubai, pandemonium inside, then the city continues on with the world's biggest fireworks show as planned, sort of surreal. a man in new york is accused of hatching an isis-inspired new year's attack, his plot foiled by the fbi. also an nbc news investigation, the replacement for a medical device associated with dozens of deaths, but now the replacement also has a potentially fatal flaw. that and more coming up on nightly news. >> kate snow, thank you so much. see you about 6:30. disappointment in dover, meanwhile. why the city pulled the plug on a new year's eve festival that local teenagers had been planning for months.

♪ the mummers are ready for their big new year's parade, one of the oldest traditions in the country. today they gave us a sneak peek of the routine they'll do tomorrow. they are wrapping up mummers

fest, where people can check out their costumes and floats at the conventions center. the parade starts at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. it was a new year's eve letdown for teenagers in delaware. they were planning a family friendly event in dover when the city pulled the plug. nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter tim furlong explains why. >> i don't care who's right or wrong, it would be nice to have something, though. >> reporter: monica pretty upset over not having the new year's eve party she wanted to bring her kids to tonight. there were going to be performers and fireworks, businesses were going to stay open late. >> a lot of times people don't normally walk up and down downtown, and when you get in here they start to see other businesses that popped up. >> reporter: at the last minute the city council pulled the plug on the party these young ladies and their friends on the city's youth committee planned. they missed deadlines and didn't finish paperwork. the mayor would love to see a party down here tonight and

insists they did what they could to make it happen but said they probably started planning the event too late, the is needed to be dotted, ts needed to be crossed a whole lot earlier than they were and says it just wasn't going to happen. >> what they did was dead wrong. >> reporter: one council member is pretty fired up, his daughter is on the committee and says if leaders wanted the event they would have been more cooperative and willing to guide the teenagers through the procedures. >> dover lost, the business communities lost, the downtown, who had a chance to extend their christmas season and bring more people down. >> reporter: but the party isn't going to happen. young committee members said they tried to do something positive for the community, they feel the city let them down. >> even though we know we didn't fail, you feel like that because it's like they were looking down on you like, hey, you're a kid. after months of planning, yeah, i'm pretty disappointed. >> reporter: in dover, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. coming up next on nbc 10 news at 6:00, we are counting down to 2016 and nbc 10 is helping you celebrate.

taking a live look from sky force 10 in less than ten minutes nbc 10 will bring you the sugar house new year's eve fireworks on the water front live. jacqueline, and here on the ground the anticipation, the excitement, obviously, building right along with the crowd. coming up, the very best view of this year's expanded sugar house fireworks. and great weather for that. the ball isn't the only thing dropping, though, for new year's eve. so are the temperatures. tracking a much colder start to 2016 coming up.

nbc 10 news starts now. ♪ >> tonight on nbc 10 news at 6:00, we are counting down to 2016. taking a live look from the delaware river water front, where thousands are gathering to ring in the new year. taking a live look from sky force 10. in less than five minutes nbc 10 will bring you the sugar house new year's eve fireworks on the water front. good evening, i'm jacqueline london. and happy new year, count on nbc 10 to have you prepared for your new year's eve plans. chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is tracking some chilly temperatures, but let's go live to nbc 10's george spencer at penn's landing. george, nbc 10 will bring the best seats in the house for tonight's show. >> reporter: yeah, and jacqueline here on the ground certainly feeling the anticipation of the moment. the crowds have been gathering

here, as you can see, a large number of families join revelers of all ages for this 6:00 show and with additional funding this year from sugar house, it will be a show like never before, some 5,000 individual fireworks, 14 and a half minutes, all of it sound track to the star wars theme music and synchronized perfectly by computer. the 300-foot barge carrying all of those fireworks is in place here in the delaware river just beyond where we're standing. we will be watching and bring you the very best view coming up. that is the latest live on the ground. i'm george spencer, nbc 10 news. >> excitement building. for a check on our chilly forecast this new year's eve, let's go to glenn "hurricane" schwartz. this is what it's supposed to feel like this time of year, right glenn? >> absolutely, christmas eve, record warmth, and now it's new year's eve and this is fairly typical. the visibility is