deciding the future. >> rex tillerson has strong ties to russia and that's what's causing controversy already. nbc10's erain skoem is joining us. senators from our area. rex tillerson is -- russia

has thwarted our sbhooes in the wroouts. has exacerbated a horrific problem in syria. >> both coons and men men december sit on the foreign relations committee. there are 19 members. tillerson's chances of becoming secretary of state are over. that elone republican could be marco rubio. who recently tweeted being a friend of vladimir is not something i'm hoping for secretary of state. >>. >> the senate northern relations committee is set next month.

>> eric coleman and nbc nbc news reports former texas governor rick perry is president-elect trump's pick for -- he couldn't remember the name of the third federal agency he said he would eliminate. and a surprise guest visited the president-elect today, kanye west walked into trump tower today for a meeting with the president-elect. the president-elect said the two are long time friends. west said he thinks it's important to have a line of communication with the person soon to be president. the judge chastised both sides after a shoulting match this morning. the first of two days of hearings, centered on whether 13 accusers can be called as

witnesses. they claim the comedian did the same thing to him. deanna durante has the story. >> reporter: it didn't appear he was scheduled to have a speaking role in court, but he did chime in twice when the judge was asking questions of the attorneys. the judge asked how old is the defendant, cosby chimed in with the year he was born and his birth date. >> fthe fire works inside the courtroom began early between the lawyers in the case.

the women all claim they have been sexual assaulted bier bill cosby. he says he did not it'sify the women in court filings. that promptedmore accusation and a screaming match between the lawyers. the judge told both sides that they did not want him to quote, call on the sheriffs and told them to speak in a civil manner. prosecutors said the 13 women will show a signature pattern by cosby, where he would meet younger women, gain their trust, isolated them, drug them and then sexually assault them. now the defense opposes bringing in those witnesses saying it would paint cosby in an unfair light, saying -- at one point they talked about facebook, instant message chats and posts on facebook. at this point, the defense is

saying that the witnesses communicated with each other. turning now to the weather, taking a live look outside, it wasn't too cold today, but it is going to get a whole lot worse over the next few days. dangerous cold is coming. >> glenn, will it matter this time where you live or is everyone going to feel these low temperatures in our area? >> it's going to be pretty much everyone. the first alert is in effect for our entire area, we get more uniform temperatures when you have this deep arctic air that's coming in. it's for thursday and friday, thursday, the strong gusty winds gusting at 45 miles an hour, the windchills get to near zero, maybe even bezero low zero in p of our area. there's no doubt about it, that's just not going to last

that long, two days worth of this, but thursday morning, we're feeling near 10, in the afternoon 12, friday morning should be the worst, later thursday night close to zero and friday afternoon about 12 degrees. so that's a couple of really how f far -- rough days here. we have some snow that's not reaching here u but up more towards new york state. we will be affected by another more significant storm, over the weekend, that's going to produce some snow, more on the timing of that coming up. >> all right, glenn, the june debate is heating up on the jersey shore. a civil engineer released a report that -- suing the u.s. army corps of engineers to block the dune project from going into

effect. u.s. army corps of engineers and officials say the claims are exaggerated. tonight a search is under way for a man who robbed one philadelphia bank and then tried to rob another. he handed the teller a note demanding money but left empty handed. just 20 minutes later, he did the thing on citizen's bank on garden street. if you recognize this guy you're asked to call philadelphia police. tonight an arrest in the anti-trump vandalism on a philadelphia store. police arrested 34-year-old evan brown accused of spray painting a message there. this was back on november 25. investigators say philadelphia city attorney duncan lloyd was there at the time, and took pictures of the gra kbra

feetity. police say this car was stole on from wood pain and threatened on west oak lane last night. a 13-year-old had just come inside after having taken the crash out when the crash happened. >> i heart one boom and then i jumped and then when i heard the other two, i was like did everybody hear that? >> if she had stayed out here ten minutes longer, she would probably be dead. >> the pursuit went through several montgomery county communities before the -- wood pain police say both men inside the car were arrested. from our south jersey bureau. officials say a 6-year-old boy was -- after a shooting last night outside the victim's home in willingboro.

this was near plum tree lane, police have not recovered a weapon and don't have a motive in the shooting. >> today a judge sentenced robert brand to 2 1/2 years in jail. the businessman was convicted of participating in a scheme to help fattah remain a campaign debt. chaka fattah has until next month to get his affairs in order he starts serving his sentence. the woman -- jill stein collected more than $7 million for the recall efforts, but courts blocked the recall. stein will donate funds to election reform and voting rights groups. members of a cumberland county congregation are trying to move forward tonight after part of their church was destroyed.

the walls caved in and the roof collapsed when the big rig plowed into the building on late sunday afternoon. >> it hurts because we have things set up that we was going to two for christmas and new year's. >> fortunately, no one was hurt, church members left the building just 90 minutes before that crash. >> the eagles are certainly losing on the field, but carson wentz is winning off the gridiron tonight. he will now be the new pitchman for nr gurks, the philadelphia business journal reports the bill is through at least the end of next season. next at 6:00, trusting the process, a significant development on the court today for sixers fans. also ahead, improving the lifestyle for people living in one south jersey city, tonight, how millions of dollars will help revitalize is region.

plus arctic air is really moving in at the end of the week, no doubt about it. and i'm tracking a wintry mix for at least part of the weekend.

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er. governor christie said that-last months voters shot down a bool lot question that would have allowed two new k-- governor christie also said he thinks the state will have -- a game changing investment -- to announce a $13 million housing grant for one of camden's poorest areas. >> nbc10 south jersey bureau reporter cydney long shows -- >> cory booker made light of the long hard fight for federal dollars for camden. one he and senator bob menendez have worked diligently.

>> i've been with him on that fight, we're like "starsky & hutch." >> if camden downtown make it, the american dream is a lie. learned to how $13.2 million, a hud choice neighborhoods grant will change their lives. >> don't let folks tell you, i came, heard this announced, and we're going to build some housing, no this is about what martin luther king called the belovered community. >> reporter: it means branch village public housing will be demoli demolished. it will also make the corridors kids walk to and from school in camden as well as community parks safer. a few months ago, suspects fired an ak-47 from this park striking

a school bus. >> how we make this come true is making sure that we have a competent jekt team thproject t. >> carol arnold says where she lives holds her back from giving back. >> the water, if you don't be mindful will burn you. so i can't be a foster mom. >> she wants to foster kids in a safe neighborhood. >> they said there's so many years, we wait for so many years, when i see it, then i will believe it. so our weather now and tonight's the night if you've been stalling to really pull out that cold weather gear. >> you have to. it's necessary. >> we're going to definitely need it on thursday and friday, we issued the first alert earlier, it was in our forecast probably close to 10 days ago, that's why we do 10-day

forecasts, because there's really not much doubt that this was going to happen. thursday and friday, those are target days, so tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow night, go out and do some shopping and not be frozen like you're going to be thursday and thursday night. the winds, gusting near 40 miles an hour. the windchill, the way it feels to your expose skin, near or maybe even below zero in some spots, 41 degrees and cloudy in some spots. the high today was 44, and we're dropping into the 30s in many of the suburbs, however we do have clouds that are going to prevent it from going down anymore. 41 in tarsdale and 42 in normal warm spot around graduate hospital. there are some returns on radar, this does not appear to be reaching the ground. and this main area appears to be headed toward new york state. so any chance of any kind of

light snow tonight in the lehigh valley, looks to be pretty limited. there could be some late rain showers coming in later on during the night. so as we go through the night tonight and into tomorrow. if you see anything that comes overnight tonight is gone by the morning rush. it's not all that cold to start the day tomorrow, but doesn't really warm up a whole lot. the wind picks up and there we are in the 30s for most of the day. by thursday morning, yeah, now it's cold. we're in the teens, that's temperature, not feels like and we barely get to 20 during the afternoon in some parts of the area, here are the feels like temperatures. not too bad tonight and into tomorrow. we can handle this, we have had it before this month. but now we're talking about something we haven't seen, single digits. thursday morning, single digits

thursday afternoon. close to zero in some spots. doylestown, thursday evening, and into friday morning. and that's going to be the core of the coldest air. but we got some issues for the weekend, because we got the arctic air in place and moisture coming. so saturday morning, i think we're going to have some problems. snow, changing to an icy mix, but by saturday morning, it's raining and it's milder, and it's raining and milder monday morning, and windy and colder sunday afternoon. we have a limited period during the weekend there are going to be problems. look at the change that's going to happen over the next few days. we go from the 20s for highs on friday, to some places getting to 60 degrees. by sunday. we get more into the ten-day a little bit later. and i'm john clark, live at villanueva, coming up, we'll

hear from the cats and the owls about their big five battle tonight, great news for ben simmons u is owls number one pick.

i'm john clark live at villanueva. but first big news from the sixers. number one overall pick ben simmons' broken foot is healing well overall. he actually took some shots today in sneakers. this is great progress. >> when i saw you could see that

smile on his face, it just kind of frees you up. now you can hear about something cool and start doing more stuff, he can start shooting is, so he's just happy about it. >> he walked out on the court in sneakers. and he shot free-throws. that is significant to me. >> that is great to hear. we are at villanueva for villanueva temple, it is a big-fivbig big-five battle. it will decide the big five battle. and villanueva has won 17 straight big five games. the last one that beat hem in the big five, it was the villanueva owls. they are 10-0 this year, number one team in the country. but temple has a history of upsets. 7 of the last 10 years they have upset a top ten team.

but if nova wins tonight. they will have gone undefeated against the bick five. >> i'm not going to think about it. i want to think about how we stop temperature. . >> it's an accomplishment that we'll look at at the end of the year, and that's something that i might have a little bit of bragging rights if that happens. >> they certainly were the best team in the country last year, they haven't lost yet. they got it going on. >> we'll have highlights coming up, and temple has a in football coach. take a look at jeff collins, he was the defensive coordinator at florida and he was co-defense coordinate toor at mississippi state. and he coached fletcher cox. the flyers have won nine straight. shane was practicing today, also

michael delgado will be back for the defense. if the flyers can win 10 in a row, it will be the first time in 31 years. >> maybe somebody different or you know, a different part of our team that has stepped up and ultimately helped us win that individual game. >> villanueva, temple, highlights coming up at 11:00, i'm john clark, we're back right after this. #

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. state trooper accut state trooper accrooper -- going get cold on thursday and friday, and we're going to start off the weekend saturday morning with some snow, potentially accumulating, sheena will have

an updated forecast. up next, nbc nightly news with lester holt we'll see you back here tonight at 11:00. to react. dangerous appliance recall. the largest of its kind in history. in millions of kitchens, do you have one of these in yours? and a matter of faith. a young girl blazing a trail, and