kind of snow there, anywhere but in the poconos. so 5:00 it's cloudy, but by 8:00 it's raining. temperature doesn't really drop a whole lot during the night tonight. will drop quite a bit as we head toward next week. i'll have the timing of the rain and the rest of the seven day in just a few minutes. >> all right, glenn. along with your umbrella you might want to keep the nbc 10 app in your pocket, that way you can track the rain in your neighborhood and that same live radar glenn tracks shows up to your cell phone or tablet and will also send weather alerts. now to our delaware bureau where police say a driver accidently crashed her car into her neighbor's kitchen, hit a woman inside as that woman ate breakfast. both women are now in the hospital. nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter tim furlong is live in stanton where he spoke to witnesses there. what a scene, tim. >> reporter: it's unbelievable. everybody in this neighborhood here is talking about it. i want to show you the distance this woman covered. this is what makes it really

interesting. the woman backed out of her house over there, backed into that garage door there, back around this huge traffic circle and take a look, came all the way over here, around that fire hydrant, through the grass and ended up with her toyota inside that kitchen wall. >> i heard what i thought was a door slamming. >> reporter: everyone in the cul-de-sac of this 55 and over hershey-run neighborhood heard it. >> i was sitting in the lounge chair and heard a large bang. >> reporter: nobody could believe it, their neighbor backed her car across the traffic circle and into a garage and then went forward another 60 yards on to the graz and through the wall of her neighbor betty's kitchen. the 73 year old was eating breakfast and pinned under a tire that spun. vicki was able to get out of the car. >> i seen my neighbor limping across the graz and when i ran over to her, i was calling 911 at the same time. then she collapsed. she kept saying it got away from me, got away from me. that's all she was saying.

>> reporter: took 20 minutes to get betty out from under the car. she's out of surgery on her broken ankle and is going to be okay once the cuts and bruises heal. her house, it's going to be a while before betty can move back in. that said, she is lucky to even be alive. >> she was in her kitchen, i don't know how the heck she made it out of there. definitely had a guardian angel. >> reporter: she sure did. i spoke with betty's step daughter, she says betty is lucky to be alive but is going to be okay. the driver of the car is also going to be okay. her daughter came to her house a while ago and seemed angry, told the reporters get back in the car, don't want to talk about it. i just wanted to ask what was going through her mom's head, if she knew any information, she has been charged with reckless driving. tim furlong, nbc 10 news. this just in, the stock market closed moments ago and the losses this afternoon are significant. going to take a live look on

wall street where the dow jones closed down over 391 points, investors really taking a beating in the new year. sharon epperson joining us live with more on what's driving the market down and not just the markets in china to blame this friday, is it, sharon? >> it's not just the markets in china. when people are so excited paying less for gasoline in years, there's a price to pay, the impact that's having on the stock market. that's really the driver here in today's decline. we've seen oil prices drop below $30 a barrel to $29 a barrel, significant slide we've seen in oil prices and brings to question how a lot of energy companies are going to be able to handle this, and also the impact that will have on banks that have exposure to these companies. so we saw the energy sector, financial sector, very badly hit and the result has been a decline that you talked about

nearly 400 points, 500 earlier in the session in the dow jones industrial average. now it is a big drop and drop we've seen all year long. in fact, year to date the dow is down 8%, nasdaq is down 10%. that, of course, very heavily weighted to a lot of technology companies, but you have to keep in mind that we have seen this before, and i know there are many folks out there that are concerned about their retirement accounts and what this means for my 401(k) and should i take all my money out now and put it under my mattress, probably not, because in the stock market this is money you should not need to get your hands on for at least five years or more. so it's likely we're going to see the market come back, definitely over the next five years, but maybe even sooner than that to help you sleep at night. >> yeah, let's hope so, sharon, rough start in 2016. thanks so much, sharon epperson live from cnbc headquarters this afternoon. our coverage of the wall street slump continues at 5:00. we're going to have a financial expert joining us live with advice he would give his clients.

a fire in montgomery county damaged two units of an apartment building this afternoon. sky force 10 over wood view lane as firefighters put out the flames. officials say no one was hurt. now to south jersey, four families face an uncertain future after a fire burned their house down and everything they own. the flames spread through a line of row homes in burlington city this morning. the intensity even shut down a nearby school. nbc 10's south jersey bureau reporter cydney long is live object scene. do they know what caused the fire? >> reporter: we don't have a cause just yet, but investigators are pretty certain the fire sparked on one of the top floors of unit 311. that is the second row home in from where we're standing right now. they say it quickly spread to three adjacent homes in both directions, but due to the instability of these bricks right now, they say it is too risky to go inside to determine an exact cause. >> they found her and she survived the whole thing.

>> reporter: stephanie miller considers it a small miracle her mother and three cats, including 6-year-old roxy, somehow survived as smoke and flames spread fast and furious to her mother's home at 5:30 this morning. sky force 10 was high above. officials believe the fire began in unit 311 and there was no stopping it. >> pattern up in the crawl space and attic, it's open and took off from there. >> reporter: miller credits a neighbor from the home where the fire started and police for reacting quickly. >> he came knocking on the door and my mom happened to fall asleep downstairs on the couch and right by the door, thank god, and she got out, she had a nightgown on. >> four of the 20 people who escaped werer rushed to the hospital with minor burns but are going to be okay. sadly two dogs could not be rescued. miller's mom now forced out will move in with other family temporarily. she's overcome by the emotion. >> there's no words. my mom's handling it okay, it's just what do you do?

but thank god for the community of burlington city for coming and helping us and all the neighbors for their support and love. >> reporter: the brick row homes nearly a century old. so far the cause is not clear. >> we don't know at this time the fire investigator will have to take a look once he get inside. the building is still unsafe. >> reporter: for that reason the fence you're looking at there just went up around the row homes in the last hour to keep people out and keep anyone from getting hurt. we're told two of the four row homes may, in fact, need to be demolished. this as the red cross is helping all those families with a place to stay, food, clothing, and shelter. live in burlington city, i'm cydney long, nbc 10 news. rescuers are looking for 12 marines who were onboard two marine helicopters that collided off the hawaiian coast. the two crews were on a nighttime training mission when their choppers crashed offshore of oahu. a short time ago helicopter debris started washing ashore,

but no sign of marines. investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the crash. police believe a man found lying on a north philadelphia street early this morning was hit by a car. he's now in critical condition with injuries to his head and several broken bones. police tell us broken car parts were found near the victim at 5th and hunting park. authorities are hoping nearby surveillance cameras will help solve their unanswered questions. new information this afternoon on a deadly crash on the atlantic city expressway in 2014 that killed two people, including a 4-year-old boy. rosalyn kornegay of philadelphia was sentenced to eight years in prison today. investigators say she was drunk when she lost control and crashed her pickup truck in hamilton township. her daughter sued the casino last month claiming they kicked her mom out of the hotel with nowhere to go after serving her alcohol. a south philadelphia man learned his fate today, andrew

wallace must complete an anger management course, that dog is severely injured. the bat attack hurt ruby's leg back in september. wallace was also ordered to pay $2,500 to the dog's medical care and do community service. if he does not pay off, he could face a trial. ruby is recovering at home with her owner. happening now, vice president joe biden is in philadelphia to kick off his mission to cure cancer. >> he's set to take a tour at penn medicine's cancer center. going to take a live look inside that center where the vice president will also take part in a round table conversation with experts on the disease. lauren mayk reports on how some have high hopes for the v.p.'s cancer initiative. >> let's make america the country that cures cancer once and for all. >> reporter: the new focus from washington brings light to something personal for patients like kim. >> i had two teenaged daughters,

i don't want there to be a third generation of cancer in my family. >> reporter: diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in 2005, she's been treated at fox chase cancer center. her advocacy work even led her to meet dr. jill biden. she calls vice president joe biden's new mission exciting and long overdue. >> breast cancer organizations, we often talk about if they could put a man on the moon, why can't they cure cancer. >> reporter: it's a moon shot that's a shot in the arm for research already under way here in philadelphia. at penn's abramson cancer center a sort of vaccine for cancer is in clinical trials. >> we can begin to think, as he is thinking big, of a way to using this system to prevent cancer from developing in the first place. >> reporter: he heads up immune therapy research here and says the efforts are already paying off with new funding secured for research. what is actually realistic and possible in our lifetime? >> we're going to look back at this point, 2016, and consider

it the time when everything changed for cancer care. >> reporter: in university city, lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. >> once again, live picture from abramson's cancer center where he's taking a tour of the facility and will then take part in a round table conversation with experts on fighting this disease, cancer. we'll keep you posted and have updates throughout the afternoon. it's official, at least for one powerball winning family. about 30 minutes ago this tennessee family finally turned in their winning ticket, claiming their share of the $1.5 billion jackpot. they even brought along their dog abby. [ applause ] applause greeted the couple as they walked in. lottery officials examined the ticket and they validated it. but they didn't rush to turn in

that precious coveted ticket. >> no, they did something kind of unusual. first they flew to new york city to be on television in an exclusive "today" show interview, john said his wife called him on his way home from work and said buy a couple of tickets, honey. he said he didn't feel well but stopped to buy the tickets anyway, then he went to bed. lisa woke him up with the amazing news. >> so i checked them actually four times and i said, well, i'll believe it when the news comes on in the morning and they say, hey, there's a winner been in munford. >> yes, well, the news came on in the morning. the rest of the family, though, was still in the dark about the windfall. >> i didn't actually know anything really at that point. i went in to work. i worked all day. >> so why did they go on national television this morning? they say their lawyer told them to do it in order to control the whole situation. gets kind of crazy, of course. the winning ticket in tennessee, just one of three tickets that

matched all numbers, the others sold in florida and california. those winners have not yet come forward. workers for philadelphia schools are demanding safety improvements to the district's crumbling buildings after a boiler accident this week. >> just can't be pushed aside as business as usual. >> members of the 32 service employees international union rallied this morning, they say dangerous safety violations and lack of staffing are putting students and workers in jeopardy every day. >> once people are being lit on fire at work in the school district, something has to change. >> a school mechanic is in critical condition from wednesday's boiler explosion inside franklin s. edmonds school. a school district spokesman says they are investigating the accident to figure out what went wrong. to other economic news now, 10,000 walmart workers in the u.s. are about to lose their jobs. walmart announcing it's closing

269 stores worldwide. none of the locations is in our area, most of them are smaller walmart express stores. several months ago walmart's ceo told investors the company pays stiff competition from online stores. chipotle will close all stores to deal with the e. coli outbreak, but only part of one day. february 8th the restaurants will open at 3:00 instead of 11:00 a.m. for an all employee meeting to discuss food safety. workers will also learn about a plan to bring customers back. chipotle trying to earn back customers in the wake of the e. coli outbreak back in november. not long after dropping out of the race for the white house, south carolina senator lindsey graham is endorsing jeb bush for the republican nomination. today senator graham said south carolina will reset the republican race by giving bush the momentum to win the nomination. graham has been a coveted endorsement for the gop

candidate since he holds major clout in south carolina. the third of early voting states. meanwhile, republican front-runner donald trump is keeping up his attack on rival ted cruz today. trump is calling the texas senator's remarks about new york values, quote, disgraceful. >> everyone understands that the values in new york city are socially liberal or pro abortion or pro gay marriage, focus around money and the media. >> when the world trade center came down, i saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than new york. >> and take a look how new yorkers responded to cruz's comments. this is the cover of today's "new york daily news." we blurred out the obscene gesture from the statue of liberty. the headline "drop dead ted" certainly does not mince words. >> statue is not holding the

tablet? i guess not. local nonprofits are finally seeing some cash amid pennsylvania's budget battle. today delaware county distributed checks to human service programs that serve children in protective custody, the homeless, disabled, and also the mentally ill. you may remember state lawmakers voted before the new year to free up cash for schools and social service programs without passing a final budget. governor tom wolf expected to deliver his next proposal coming up on february 9th. this morning students at a philadelphia school celebrated an impressive milestone. >> we're going to college! >> 100% of christo ray's graduating class got into college. highly competitive schools were among the dozens of colleges that sent acceptance letters to 86 seniors at the north philadelphia school. >> we said to these folks that if you work as hard as you can and believe in us, this dream is

going to come true, and we didn't lie. >> the school serves low income highly motivated students of all religions. and to another celebration in philadelphia. >> today would have been benjamin franklin's 310th birthday. did you wish him happy birthday? a day-long celebration in franklin's honor at his grave near independence mall included a wreath laying ceremony. organizers of the event focused today on franklin's work in public health. he was a strong supporter of vaccinations and worked to open the nation's first public hospital, which is pennsylvania hospital in center city. now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> and ben franklin was one of the first early unofficial amateur meet rongts. may have something to do with the franklin institute being so weather driven. now, we're tracking heavy rain around here that's coming

tonight. it's going to rain for hours, but most of that is going to happen while you're asleep. we've got an arctic blast coming for mlk day on monday and bitter winds are going to accompany that. we're going to be talking about wind chills again. 52 degrees, so pretty mild out there. winds south at seven miles an hour, five degrees warmer than it was at this time yesterday. and a couple of days ago it was 29 degrees, got up to 53 today, 52 tomorrow, then dropping to 39 sunday, 29 monday. and remember we're going to have a 20 to 30 mile an hour winds on top of that. so that's going to be quite a change. 36 in mount pocono now. that's the one place that could see a change over to snow during the night. 43 in allentown, 45 in reading and quakertown, doylestown. pottstown is 47, blue bell is 46. northeast philly is 52.

kennett square 46, wilmington 49, mount holly 51. ricetown 53. mild weather across much of the area. 51 in lewes, delaware, 53 in dover. it's even warmer back to the west. 50s here, it's in the 60s in arkansas. so our air is coming from there at the moment, but it's going to start coming from canada, where we've got some arctic air and that's what's going to be coming in for sunday night and monday. here comes the rain, getting closer and closer to washington. once it gets here, it's a steady rain for a good bit of the night. the heaviest of it looks like it's going to hit delaware and south jersey and this is the timing. by 8:00 it's just starting to come into the area. then already getting heavier in central and southern delaware. by 11:00 it's raining practically everywhere, some of it on the heavy side. 2:00 in the morning, it's

raining hard, but look at that, some snow in the poconos. some heavy wet snow, according to this computer model, as that nor'easter comes right off the coast. it's almost ideal track for winter storm, just not cold enough for snow. snow lovers really get frustrated with this. then the wind turns into the northwest and then the arctic air starts coming in behind it and, yeah, it's going to be really cold next week. the rain develops, becomes heaviest in delds aaware and exe south jersey. then tomorrow the rain is over by 7:00 a.m., so the day is pretty much dry, it's windy, it's mild. and then on sunday it starts getting colder. we could see some flurries late in the day. there's the arctic chill on monday and tuesday. wednesday and thursday is not a

whole lot warmer, then we could even see some snow by friday. a beauty queen hands over her crown. >> next, what ms. washington did not tell the pageant before she won the honor that forced them to take it back. plus, easing congestion for drivers on interstate 76. we're looking closer at penndot's plan to turn the shoulder into an extra lane. and a snag in the operation to rescue a puppy from a new jersey frozen lake. the obstacle firefighters overcame to pull her to safety.

this is nbc 10 news. >> well, a new jersey pup is one lucky duck after being rescued from a frozen lake here in west milford. the 6-month-old german shepherd fell through the ice earlier this morning. the terrified dog tried to

attack two firefighters trying to save it, but they didn't give up and finally pulled the pup to safety. ms. washington usa is giving up her crown because of controversy surrounding a dui arrest. seattle police say stormy keffeler was driving drunk on two flat tires when she was pulled over and arrested last april. she is also involved in another investigation involving a professional soccer player who was stabbed last month. police have not arrested anyone in that case. kate middleton has a new job, the wife of prince william will guest edit for "the huffington post" news website for a day in february to raise awareness for children's mental health issues. according to kensington palace, children's mental health is the main focus of her charity work right now. a lot of people looking ahead to a three-day weekend. >> but we have to get through wet weather first. glenn is tracking rain ahead for tonight. glenn? >> absolutely. everybody's going to see rain tonight. some are going to see a lot of

it. grab the umbrella if you're headed out this evening. i'm tracking when this is going to move through and how long it's going to stick around for your saturday next in my first alert forecast. i'm george spencer in sky force 10. it is a change that would impact the daily commutes of more than 100,000 drivers. how penndot may use the existing interstate 76 infrastructure to move even more cars.

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this is nbc 10 news. >> well, the gloves are off, and so are most of the heavy coats and hats here in center city. we made it into the 50s today, but now we're looking ahead to a wet friday night. first alert radar tracking heavy

rain moving in later tonight. >> first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is tracking when that rain will start for us. glenn? >> yeah, parts of the area and southern delaware it's probably going to start by 7:00. it is also going to rain a little way up to the pocono mountains. this is blue mountain, where people are skiing out there now, but it may very well turn over to some heavy wet snow for at least a period of time near the end. so they are going to be in decent shape by tomorrow afternoon and great shape for the next week or more after that. here comes the rain up toward the washington area, of course, going to take a little while before it gets here, but it's a pretty large area. this is a large nor'easter that is moving pretty quickly and that's why the rain is not going to be lasting well into tomorrow, but there's the heaviest of it, looks like it's coming right up the chesapeake towards southern delaware and perhaps cape may as we go through the late night hours. if there's going to be any kind of flooding, that would be the

area. there it is by 8:00, the rain starting into the region. by 10:00 it's raining just about everywhere. there's that small area of changeover to some snow and look at that wet weather. going to be a mild night. not going to stay that way. more on the next arctic blast and when this moves out with the seven day in a few minutes. here are some of the stories making headlines on nbc 10 news at 4:00. police say a driver accidently crashed her car into her neighbor's kitchen. look at this scene, hit a woman inside as she was eating breakfast. nbc 10 at the home as crews cleared that debris. both women are in the hospital, but they are expected to be okay. police cited the driver for reckless driving. sky force 10 over a fire that ripped through four row houses in burlington county, new jersey, just before dawn this morning. four people were burned, including two children. fire officials tell us they don't know what caused the blaze, but they believe it

started in the upper floors. wall street took another tumble today ahead of the long weekend. the dow jones closed down 391 points. plunging oil prices and a selloff in chinese stocks added to concerns about slowing global growth. stocks are closed monday for dr. martin luther king day. right now vice president joe biden is in philadelphia to kick off his mission to fight cancer. this is video of the vice president touring the university of pennsylvania's abramson cancer center just a few minutes ago. now he's taking part in a round table discussion with cancer experts. this is a live look at the event. this mission, of course, is very personal to vice president, who lost his son beau to cancer last year. we will have more on biden's message today coming up on nbc 10 news at 5:00. a major change could be coming to the daily commute for more than 100,000 drivers in our

area. penndot saying it's reviewing a plan to turn the shoulders of interstate 76 into usable travel lanes during rush hour. the change would impact the stretch of the schuylkill expressway from route 1 all the way to route 202. we first told you about this possibility when the study came to light yesterday. nbc 10's george spencer has been reviewing this proposal all day long. look where he is, live in sky force 10 above it all. george, this would not be an easy change. >> reporter: not an easy change. there are a number of challenges, jim, but the payoff could be significant. right now the schuylkill expressway is just two lanes in both directions here, and sky force 10 really gives us the best view of what happens on a daily basis. congestion like what we see usually in the travel lanes right here leaves open the possibility that this unused shoulder space could actually get more cars through more quickly. driving the curve in midday a rare sight here, moving traffic.

and now penndot is considering a plan to turn highway shoulders into travel lanes, intended to keep vehicles moving. or at least moving less slowly during peak travel times. >> i like where they are going, but i'm not sure if i'm 100% for that. >> reporter: if implemented the change would impact about 14 miles of the interstate, the four-lane stretch basically between king of prussia and city avenue in both directions, a stretch used by an average 107,000 drivers each day. >> it's a concept that's one of several being examined. >> reporter: gene blum tells us the plan is one of several under review as relatively quick fixes to the ever growing bottleneck, but it would require overcoming significant engineering and environmental challenges. >> you just can't go out right now and lie down the shoulders of the schuylkill expressway. there would have to be

modifications made to them. >> reporter: the same study is also reviewing more basic changes like variable speed limit signs or other technology to alert drivers of roadway problems ahead. for regulars on 76, alleviating traffic is, obviously, a laudable goal, but many worry about the safety of losing shoulder space to more cars. >> just not enough space, huh? >> not enough space. it's safer for drivers to have a cushion and not be up against a guardrail. >> i think it's going to get jammed up more. >> reporter: even worse? >> even worse, yeah. >> reporter: back now to the live pictures, you can see why penndot and drivers are eager for some way to ease congestion through here and it only gets worse through the rush hour. widening the interstate is nearly impossible with the river on one side and hills and housing on the other side. you even see the railroad tracks that come into the equation. penndot says the study of this plan will be complete in the spring. reporting live from sky force 10

above i-76, i'm george spencer, nbc 10 news. from our south jersey bureau, there could soon be a lot more police officers in cherry hill. a record number of police officer hopefuls are expected to show up tomorrow to take the police exam. today officers gathered and stocked boxes of testing material at police headquarters before taking them over to cherry hill high school, where the test will take place. >> started an aggressive recruitment campaign over the summer, the last summer, where we targeted specific colleges, universities, throughout the region. >> the chief tells us 1,200 candidates will take the test tomorrow, which doubled past numbers. a new start for people in delaware. nbc 10 in wilmington where some lucky residents will soon call home. local leaders gathered to cut the ribbon on market street village, a development of 76 brand new apartments. the affordable apartments are the third tax credit housing problems on market street in

wilmington. sweet news for shoppers. this winter's whacky weather means you'll be saving more. >> we'll show you the bargains you can find this weekend. i'm george spencer for nbc 10 at issue. sunday morning we'll discuss th late rock star david bowie's connection to philly, plus we'll meet the new mayor of chester. he's got a bold plan to help the city move forward. >> i promise to reduce crime by 50%. >> coming up sunday morning at 11:30, following "meet the press" only on nbc 10.

a drug test in france did not go as planned and left one person brain dead and three others facing possible permanent brain damage. the clinical trial was testing a new painkiller compound which was given to 90 healthy volunteers in varying doses at different times. so far six men have been hospitalized and the lab is contacting the dozens of other volunteers.

prosecutor's office in paris is also investigating. not too long ago it would have been unheard of to spot a bald eagle in new jersey, but officials say that is changing. a new survey finds the garden state's bald eagle population is growing. here's a live picture of a nest on duke farms. not a lot of action right now, but experts say there are 161 eagles across the state. five are new. back in 1970 there was just a single pair in the state. to a different bird's nest, a new chief will soon be in charge of the eagles. >> doug pederson going to soon be the birds' head coach. next, who he's being compared to and how former players are reacting to the change in demand. glenn? >> tracking a lot of rain headed for your friday night. i'll have the timeline, plus when the temperatures are going to be plummeting during the long holiday weekend next in my first alert forecast.

this is nbc 10 news. >> hail to the chief, that's the cover of the philadelphia daily news today after the eagles chose kansas city chiefs' offensive coordinator doug pederson to becomelbñt their ne coach. he's the protege of former eagles coach andy reid, who is now with the chiefs. the back cover shows the two together with the headline "little red." >> comcast sportsnet's danny pommells is joining us live now with reaction to the birds picking a new leader before it's officially official. danny? >> hail to the chief, but the question mark at the end there, eagles can't officially name pederson until the chiefs are done in the postseason, which could come as early as tomorrow. however, this will not be pederson's first stint in philly. 1999 pederson was brought in to be the starting quarterback and groomed donovan mcnabb, so pederson knows the city. today comcast sportsnet spoke with mcnabb by phone about the impending hire of doug pederson.

>> this is the next step for them. he's the right move. we will not know. i think a lot of people are still trying to figure out the answers, which is baffling to me of this whole process of the coaching arena of who is going to get an interview, who was coming in, who's going to get offered the job, but for doug and his family, i'm very excited for them. it will be whoever is quarterback for the philadelphia eagles and they'll be able to reap the benefit just like i did. >> coming up at 5:00 we'll hear from another former teammate of pederson, get his take on the expected new head coach. for now, danny pommells for comcast sportsnet. jim, jackie, back to you. now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> yeah, still not feeling very much like football weather today with temperatures getting into the 50s, but it's going to feel like it next week. we are tracking heavy rain first. this is a fairly good size system, a lot of moisture with

it and normal winter it would be snowstorm, but it's not. and we've got an arctic blast coming mlk day on monday and bitter winds, as well, making it feel like it's closer to zero at one point. probably monday night. right now we do have cloudy skies across the area. it's 52 degrees, winds south at seven miles an hour. trying to keep that warm air in here. still 52 in philadelphia, 46 in westchester, 43 in allentown. 36 in mount pocono. that's one area that could see some snow accumulation overnight tonight. maybe a couple of inches in the middle of the night. mixed in with the rain. dover is one of the warm spots, 53 degrees. as we go through the night tonight, not going to see the temperature drop very much. the average high for this time of the year is 40, and we're going to be right there for the low temperature as we go into

the morning, so yeah, it's going to be raining, but it's not going to cool off that much. here comes some of the rain getting very close to maryland, and some of that is on the heavy side, as you can see, heaviest of it is in the eastern north carolina and southeastern virginia. you can also see how fast that thing is moving. by 8:00 or so, looks like the rain could be coming into the philadelphia area, a little earlier farther south and by 8:00, 9:00, it will be getting heavier in southern delaware and in cape may county, for example, there's the changeover to snow in the poconos. got to be in the higher elevations here with this kind of a system, and look at the heavy rain at the shore. that's about the only place that i can see any kind of flooding out of this. and there again, the snow area, 5:00 a.m., so if you're headed out real, real early, that's going to be up there, but by 7:00, 8:00, it's all gone. even in the poconos. now how much rain is going to

fall, not much by midnight, but as we head through the day tomorrow, the least amount of rain up towards the lehigh valley and poconos, the greatest amount of rain right toward the shore. if you get close to two inches of rain, that is significant, especially in the short period of time, so there could be some street flooding in some areas later tonight. the rain develops, becoming heaviest in delaware and south jersey. 40 degrees for the low, again, not very low. tomorrow is another mild day, but the wind really picks up. 15 to 25 miles an hour. the rain is out of here by 7:00 a.m. or so. so the day as a whole is pretty dry. sunday as a whole is pretty dry, too, but chance of some flurries late in the day, maybe snow showers as temperatures start going down. then they really go down on monday and tuesday morning that should be the coldest when we see wind chills near zero. by the end of next week, we could see a storm producing some snow around here.

sky force 10 is over breaking news in philadelphia's strawberry mansion. you can see all of that smoke there, crews are on the scene of a row house fire. the location of this is 31st and west dakota. there are no reports of injuries right now. we'll bring you new information as we get it. again, a row house fire in strawberry mansion, 31st and west dakota street. the late arrival means better deals and more money in your pocket. >> next, winter bargains and how much you could save at the stores this holiday weekend.

a lot of people enjoyed the warmer weather in december, but the temperatures made for a

disappointing holiday shopping season, according to the national retail federation. overall sales only increased 3%, less than the 3.7% the industry expected. retail experts say the mild weather led to bigger than planned discounts on clothing and cold weather items. the unseasonably warm weather is still having an impact on retailers in our area. >> with martin luther king holiday weekend right here, stores are hoping to get you in the door or online to shop. deanna durante shows you where you can find some winter deals. >> reporter: the signs are everywhere, in stores and online, 20% to 50% off. final offers and new deals are heading into your inbox. >> get a good deal? >> i did get a good deal, i did, 20% off. >> reporter: winter weather, lack of winter weather working for you? >> it is, absolutely, not working for my son, but working for me. >> reporter: her son, like most winter sports enthusiasts want there to be more cold and snow to hit the trails. >> this absolutely does not occur until after president's

weekend and if it's a good winter and the winter is fairly cold, we don't go on sale until maybe around march. >> reporter: sales here are unheard of for shop owners who haven't seen prices slash this early in the season ever. >> buy one get one for $1 does include zip-up fleeces and stuff. >> reporter: some are finding deals and heading north for the winter weather, others are staying home and that's helping pad the wallet. at the philadelphia home and garden show, builders say no need to wait till spring, this year's warm weather means you can get your home improvement projects started now. >> with the weather being as warm as it is, we're able to get foundations in the ground, we're able to have guys work a little bit more comfortably outside, which is not halting any phases of projects at this time. >> reporter: steven is hoping to give you ideas and hoping with current jobs ahead of schedule, the warm weather will mean a bountiful spring. in oaks, deanna durante, nbc 10 news. nbc 10 news at 5:00 is next. >> here's keith jones.

>> guys, all new on nbc 10 news at 5:00, a cruel prank or a sinister scam? someone posing as a building inspector scaring home owners in philadelphia. plus, the man who shot and robbed the 75-year-old woman on the street is still out there tonight, but tonight police have new clues that could help track him down. and we have rain moving in for tonight. some of it's going to be heavy overnight, then another arctic blast before the weekend is over. i'll show you that forecast coming up.

right now at 5:00, the roller coaster ride continues. stocks took another dive today. see what's fuelling concerns on wall street. plus, a woman was eating breakfast when this came crashing through her kitchen wall. see the damaging side and what the driver may have lost control. and the vice president comes to philly with a mission. tonight he's speaking for the first time on his new push to cure cancer. nbc 10 news at 5:00 starts right now. going to have those stories in just a minute, but first we begin with your weather. take a look at the nbc 10 radar. all that green stuff, that rain, will be here before the night's over. let's check in with meteorologist sheena parveen. sheena, people headed out tonight will need umbrellas. >> yeah, especially later tonight. delaware, though, you'll start to see the rain first, then more will move in overnight. here's a look at it, heavy rain to our south and approaching the area, too.

locally we're still dry, but again delaware will be seeing the first rainfall from this in just about a couple hours, if not earlier. here's a look at future weather right now, temperatures still mild, still around 50 degrees for part of the area, then we go into 7:00, 8:00, there you see rain approaching from the south. this is going to be mostly on the lighter side, but then we go into 9:00, 10:00, more rain moving up into new jersey, possibly the philadelphia area by 9:00 p.m. temperatures here still in mostly the mid 40s where we're seeing that rain, and some of this rain will be getting heavier. and now we're going into 11:00, more widespread rainfall, south jersey and delaware seeing some of the heaviest rain out of the system, then it will be spreading north and west. notice the poconos, temperatures there keep dropping, even allentown. we're going to watch the temperatures closely tonight, because again we could start to see some of this precip change over to wet snow in areas farther north and west like the poco p