reflects itself in our politics, as opposed to it being so polarized and so nasty, that in some cases you have voters and elected officials who had more confidence and faith than a foreign adversary than they have in their neighbors. you know? and those go to some bigger issues. you know, how is it that we have some voters or some elected officials who think that michelle obama's healthy eating initiative, school nutrition program is a greater threat to

democracy than you know, our government going after the press if they're issuing a story they don't like. right? i mean that's an issue that i think we have got to wrestle with and we will. people have asked me how you feel after the election and so forth and i say, well, look, this is a clarifying moment. it's a useful reminder that voting counts, politics counts, what the president-elect is going to be doing, is going to be very different than what i was doing and i think people will be able to compare and contrast and make judgments about what worked for the american people. and i hope that building off the

progress we have made, that what the president-elect is proposing works. what i can say with confidence is that we have done worse. that i can prove. i can show you where we were in 2008, and i can show you where we are now. and you can't argue that we're not better off. we are. and for that, i thank the american people, and more importantly, i thank -- well not more importantly, as importantly, i was going to say, josh ernest. for that i thank the american people, i thank the men and women in uniform who serve. i haven't gotten to the point where i've been overly

sentimental. i got to the point where i did my last christmas note tphoto l and right at the end of the line, the members of the marine corps band come in and i took a picture with them. and it was the last time i was going to take a picture with my marine corps band. i got a little choked up, but i was in front of the marines, so i had to tamp it down. but it was just one small example of all the people who have contributed to our success. i'm responsible for where we have screwed up. the successes are widely shared with all the amazing people who have been part of this administration, okay, thank you, everybody. >> president obama reflective there as he approaches the last

few days, or month of his presidency, what will be the longest news conference of his presidency, and what we expecteexpect ed, a lot of the questions were about whether the russians did have involvement in the u.s. election. confirming the russian hack, but not necessarily suggesting what the intent was. >> it seemed to me what his intent today was to try to de

deescalate the partisanship. and the way of convincing the president-elect. if he ee's skeptical, other republicans, he went out of his way to separate the election result from what russia did. i was struck by, he was a bit defense about how forthright, how much of a sense of urgency there was early on in letting the country know, the people know about the russian acts, kind of deflected and put it on the news media, that the news media was more obsessed with the subject of the e-mails than the hacking itself. he's pained about how he's leaving. you can see it, he's pained about the political climate. he's pained about the fact that there's political demonization, there was more rawness i thought at the very end of that press conference. it wasn't whimsical, it was obviously very reflective, but he seemed -- i can't put my finger on it, but just very, very upset about how he's having to exit. >> and the president's goodbye

there, he left the room, saying that the family will take their next annual vacation in hawaii. we have been reporting on the russian connection, we'll have more of cynthia mcfadden's report on nbc "nightly news." i'll see you then on nbc news new york. ready to roll out, 20 minutes of nonstop news begins with preparing for a winter blast. penn dot crews get ready for snow. over the next 12 hours, most of the area will see snow, ice and rain. you can see the approaching system on first alert radar right there. what you will see will depend on where you live. >> regardless of your location, it is cold out there, just ask this construction worker in wind

sorry, warming his hands by a hot piece of equipment. the good news, a weekend warmup is on the way, we're going to see a little bit of warmup over the next 48 hours. >> we have a team of meteorologists to do just that, glenn "hurricane" schwartz, sheena parveen and erika mar teen. let's begin with glenn and the timing of all this. >> yeah, the roads are going to need to be prepared because there's going to be a combination of snow and ice and we have expanded into the first alert into much of new jersey and northern delaware,s there p.a. suburbs, lehigh valley, in that first alert. generally this goes from 11:00 tonight through saturday morning, for a wintry mix, icy

roads. 4:00 to 8:00 a.m., starts as snow, going to ice and freezing rain. the icy mix, 8:00 a.m. to noon and that spreads from south to north, then in the afternoon, pretty decent weather, soared night plans, it's going to be pretty mild. we have got cloudy skies out right now. you can see a lot of the snow back to the west. it's not especially organized into one big storm so the timetable is a little bit patchy as you can see with the future radar. here we are, at 11:30 at night, the snow developing, so even dover, warmer air is coming up, there's no doubt about that, it's just a matter of the timing and how heavy the precipitation is, whether it's snow or ice, because there you go, later on

during the morning, all you got is rain around the area, but that icing could cause some significant problems. meteorologist sheena parveen has the breakdown of what areas are going to get hardest hit. >> right now we're going to focus on the ice tomorrow morning. it's going to be a dangerous time to be out on the roadways so i suggest you wait until the event is over. this is 6:00 a.m. saturday, snow, far north and west of philadelphia, including the philadelphia area, but there you see the ice, rain through most of the south jersey and delaware. but the ice could be in northern parts of newcastle county, extending into philadelphia, parts of gloucester and camden county, closer to the delaware river, and parts of chester county as well as delaware county. so you see the pink here, that shows us where we could see an icy mix that brings freezing rain that freezes on contact and

creates very dangerous driving conditions. now we're looking at 3:00 in the morning, the icy conditions continue to move a little bit farther north. most of montgomery county, and most of bucks county, upper bucks county could be seeing some snow at this point. and upper bucks county could be seeing a changeover from snow to ice. by 9:00, the ice makes its way up into the lehigh valley, before that it will be just snow, then that changeover to ice, and for the lehigh valley, the yiice there as well, movingp into the poconos, but during the majority of the hours from sun rise and that's when we'll have the most amount of icing, even around 9:00 a.m., still seeing a possible icing event. coming up we'll take a closer look at the afternoon and what your sunday looks like. the city of philadelphia is getting ready by loading up salt trucks. the salt's main and secondary

roads throughout the city. the goal is to get the rain and the snow to falling. >> give yourself plenty of space, give the drivers a chance to spread the salt. >> the streets department has more than 50,000 tons of salt available and will have 70 trucks on the the streets. now to nbc10's deanna durante. >> this is the first test of the winter season? >> reporter: they have spent the last couple of days here in center township, taking the roads equipment and putting the snow equipment on them. this time they say they don't expect to plow any snow. they have done this hundreds, if not thousands of times.

>> we'll have water trucks fill up a stall, so all we do is call the guys in, and off they go. and they'll come back with another round and refill. >> when it comes to the snow, do they know what to look for? >> we typically do all the main roads first. >> while some towns spend the days before the storm brining in plymouth township. >> when it starts the sleet or the icing, that's when we get out on the streets. >> reporter: and this year, a new weapon in the snow removal arsenal. a brand-new salt dome, the second for the township. >> holds around 800 tons of rock salt. then we have our old salt on there and it holds approximately the same amount. >> reporter: two years ago a lack of assault and an

overabundance of winter snowstorms, the city ran out and they have been sitting on this stockpile since the summer. >> as soon as this storm's over with, we'll call for more salt. so we're always filled. >> reporter: and those trucks are filled with 8 tons of salt each, they expect them to be filled up again, once, maybe twice more before this storm is over. also a word of caution, they're asking if you see any of those trucks on the road, in this township or other townships, stay as far back as you can. reporting live in plymouth township. >> as we wait for the winter weather to arrive, the sun is about to set on a frigid freud. this is a live look at eighth and market. folks around there won't have to shiver for too much longer. erika mar teen is live at penn's landing.

>> reporter: we do have much warmer temperatures in the works, but that's not going to happen until saturday and sunday, glenn was talking about that earlier. the deal is at about 11:00 tonight, we'll start to see those developing clouds moving into the area, temperatures are going to be in the 20s, however as we get this go into motion, pausing at juliette, notice we're going to see a southern push in those winds, that's when we're going to see the temperatures climb into the 20s and 30s. keep in mind temperatures will climb steadily very quickly, due to that southerly push. however that rain will remain cold. coming up in just a bit, glenn will have your full forecast. now whether it is the approaching snow or the swing in temperatures, you can get your

neighborhood forecast any time by downloading the nbc10 app. news continues here with a scare at an elementary school in south jersey this morning. sky force 1 over new jersey townships, where the paramedics were called where two students were unresponsive. >> brandon, naturally there were some confused parents today. >> reporter: this school officially dismissed about 30 minutes ago. students left with a letter to their parents, which got a copy of that letter. a lot of panic. it's not a scene you expect to see around lunchtime in any school. police around wilson township camera wasn't allowed inside, but we learned moments earlier a

first grade teacher called the school office saying two students were on the floor unresponsive. brendan foster was on his way home from work. >> i got a call from my sister saying that her two kids dropped and she didn't know why and she wanted them out. >> reporter: after the 6-year-olds didn't respond to the nurse, all tmedics checked the two students in an ambulance and determined they were fine. we saw other parents opting to check out their parents early too. >> they didn't give us any explanation, they said they were going to send a letter home, i think that was poorly handled. they should tell you what's going on. >> reporter: camden county and the health department found nothing wrong with the school building, the two twin brothers will meet with their family

doctor. police have a suspect in custody for the stabbing death of a woman inside a montgomery county home. investigators say 6-year-old catherine wannamake was inside her home. right now a suspect is in cust d did awaiting arraignment. president obama just spoke out about the russian hacking during the election. erin has more. >> reporter: at his year end news conference, the president side the hacking controversy should not become a political football. the fbi is now backing the cia's conclusion that russia in fact interfered in the presidential election in part to help then candidate donald trump. an nbc news report this week said that russian president

vladimir putin personally directed the hacking operation. now president-elect trump has said in the past he doubts the reports the russians were behind the hacking of democratic information. today president obama said that he hopes that once mr. trump takes office he will take foreign interference in american elections seriously. president obama sa president obama criticized the media for what he called an obsession with the hacked democratic, e-mails. however he stopped short of blaming the hacking for hillary clinton's loss. he also responded to criticism that he hadn't said enough about the hacking before the election. >> at a time that anything that was said by me or anybody in the white house would immediately be seen through a partisan lens, i wanted to make sure that everybody knew that we were playing things straight. >> there was a scary moment

during that news conference when one member of the media appar t apparently passed out. the president called for the white house doctor. and even though obama side that clinton's e-mails were hacked, he insisted that the election itself was not hacked. coming up, glenn's complete forecast as we get ready for a blast of winter. plus cutting the costs to college. >> plus an unusual plan to make it happen. coming up, where some students are about to start crashing the state's forecast. here's a look at the closing bell on wall street, stocks ending the week on a down note. he gets a lot of compliments.

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two all know that college can be expensive. 10 or a students next fall. all the money will go to their senior hosts. winter doesn't officially arrive until next week, but who's paying attention to the calendar, when it already feels like winter here. >> we have a live look at boathouse row, it's down right cold. we brace for a weekend winter blast. glenn? >> and that blast going to start off with snow in much of the area, and we're getting new information on how much each

part of the area can expect to see. >> there's breaking news in mantioch.

today the dangerous cold, tomorrow the snow and ice, crews across the nbc10 viewing area, preparing for a winter blast this weekend. the philadelphia trucks ready to hit the streets later tonight. >> the first alert team tracking snow and ice. you can see this system making it to our region. what you see will really depend

on where you live. >> right now everyone's dealing with frigid temperatures. we found a cross country team braving this bitter cold, and also getting in some practice in east falls, with the hats on and the hoods. do they all have gloves? no, what are they thinking? the first alert weather team is hard at work. >> this is when our exclusive neighborhood weather really comes into place, because the impact will vastly depend on where you live. let's begin with glenn and the timing of all this. >> we have been talking about this for a long time, we issued the first alert two days ago for a good bit of area, philadelphia, new jersey and northern delaware, philadelphia

was already in the first alert. this is generally from 11:00 p.m. friday into saturday morning. going to last different times through different areas. accumulating snow an icy mix and slippery even icy roads and even ice accumulation on trees and power lines in some locations. so from 4:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., we are snow changing to freezing rain and sleet in part of the area, and that icy mix changing to rain from south to north across the region, that's when things are going to be changing. in the afternoon, it's fine, everybody's above freezing, and at night, we're warming up even more, this is what it looks like as we go through the night tonight. temperatures are rising, and by 6:00 a.m., snow in philadelphia, snow in p.a. suburbs at 29. snow in the lehigh valley, of 28. delaware, getting close at 31. 32 in much of new jersey and

just raining at the jersey shore. that's part of what neighborhood weather is all about. and we're going to be seeing that snow come in from the west, this is the area on the radar as you can see, it's growing and it's moving eastward, and watch what happens as it goes into the morning hours, by 5:00 a.m., we have a large year of snow across the region, but like i said, the warmer air is coming up from the south, and that is going to change snow to ice, the ice is going to be, i think the biggest problem with this storm. meteorologist sheena parveen is breaking that down for you. >> let's talk about the ice, because like glenn just mentioned, the ice is going to be the biggest problem. so we'll talk about the most dangerous times here to be on the road. the ice is shown by the pink and look how much it covers down to our south and west. for them, it could be a pretty prolonged ice storm. by 6:30 in the morning tomorrow, this is when we'll see ice

moving into the philadelphia area, parts of northern delaware county and some of our neighborhoods in new jersey right across the river or at least right near the river. then we're going to go through time here, about hour and a half, now we're looking at early in the morning. the pink is spreading to the north as the warmer air moves to the south. the snow still farther to the north, parts of montgomery county, most of bucks county, most of chester county, even berks county, all seeing icy conditions, this makes driving very dangerous. and the problem now is that the ice does look to be lasting longer. in norristown, pottstown, all these areas, west chester, by 8:00 a.m., you could still see ice falling. then before 9:00 a.m., should be mainly snow falling and accumulating and then we'll see

ice. even upper bucks county and berks county as well. farther to the south near philadelphia, we should already be seeing a change over to rain, but the ice is going to be the biggest problem on the roads in the morning, so wait to leave until after 9:00. drew smith is live in norristown where penn dot is preparing for the freezing weather. >> this is fully stocked, this is as much salt as you'll see all season. they are ready for this. they say this all started on thursday when they started their deicing program. tonight this is going to be a busy place. the timing they say is good because it's going to be happening in the overnight hours, and because it's a weekend, but that doesn't mean it's going to be a quiet weekend

here. they're mixing that salt with sand and they have been treating since thursday with that anti icing program. the salt trucks will begin to roll out around midnight when the snow begins to fall, and after that if they need the plows for major accumulation, they'll be moving those out as well. we're going to be heading down to another part of this salt yard to watch a demonstration of them loading the heavy equipment they brought in. and we'll turn that around for you later on in the newscast. we're live in norris town, i'm drew smith, nbc10. >> you can get your neighborhood forecasts any time, you just have to download the nbc10 app. we're following breaking news in america manayunk.

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maybe not 90-degree temps. a live look at i-95 in delaware. >> brutal temperatures about to be history, but not before a weekend winter blast. >> and that cold air we have is going to help produce this snow and ice problem we're going to have. an updated time line of what you can expect where you live. next on my first alert forecast.

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for you. >> you feel like you've been violated. >> reporter: kendra peterson says she was taken for $144 when she responded to an e-mail to purchase disney on ice tickets for her 5-year-old daughter. >> i didn't think anything of it. >> reporter: when her tickets never showed, she contacted the company and it showed there was no record of her making a purchase. so she contacted the credit card company to see who took her money. she found complaints from ticket fulfillment services and she found people who said they too were hoodwinked out of money. we tried contacting the company for comment but all we got was this -- >> i'm not the first person, i don't think i'll be the last. >> reporter: here's how you can protect yourself, the pennsylvania's attorney general

says make sure the e-mail or website is legitimate. there should always be an s after the http, than sures the site is secure. so i do want to tell you, there is some good news about this. i had a viewer who heard about this story and stepped up and bought the tickets for the little girl and her mother. >> oh, that's really nice. >> isn't that nice? as a matter of fact she was so happy about it and she was so appreciative. this is what she had to say. >> hi, i just wanted to say thank you harry hairston and nbc10 for sharing my story. thanks to you guys, me and my daughter have two tickets to see disney on ice. thank you again. >> but the real thanks goes to those who offered to buy those tickets. they didn't want to go on camera, they just wanted them to enjoy the show. we have a live look at the

art museum light here. the weekend is off to a brutally cold start, but things can be changing in a major way. >> they will, and it's the weekend where a lot of people spent last weekend getting their final shopping errands done. so you want it to be somewhat mild. >> it will be briefly mild, sunday morning if you want the mild weather, and the best thing you might want to do for this weekend, is sleep in for tomorrow morning, because you may miss some of the worst weather for the weekend. and if it was a weekday, it would be a pretty awful rush hour. we alerted you three days ago, way ahead of any threats. berks county, lehigh valley, pa suburbs, philadelphia and new jersey and northern delaware. from 11:00 p.m. tonight, until

8:00 tomorrow morning. temperature well below freezing of course, the wind now it's picking up out of the south, trying to bring warmer air in here. but it's got a long way to go, doesn't it? it feels like temperatures are in double digits for the first time in a while here. philadelphia feels like 14, but you saw the wind out of the northwest. we have got to watch these temperatures hour by hour neighborhood by neighborhood, and stay tuned tomorrow morning for that. we will have these kind of details. cookstown 22. we got a long way to go to get to the freezing point. walnut port 21, easton 23. temperatures are going to go up tonight, but not a lot. not enough to go over freezing. here's some of that snow developing across the midwest. that is moving in this general

direction. in general, the timeline early on, snow to ice, sleep through it. icy mix to rain, from south to north. yeah, sleep even later in the lehigh valley. in the afternoon, drier and milder. nice travel weather, nice travel weather saturday night too. the weekend is not a loss. tonight into tomorrow morning, there's the snow developing, there's the temperatures in the 20s, it sticks on untreated surfaces. 5:00, it's freezing in most places, but down south, it's warming up already. warmer air coming up, at 7:00 a.m., it's only 30 in philadelphia. the snow may be cut off, now you've got some icing, some sleet or freezing rain posing some slick conditions and below freezing elsewhere across the year. but see the yellow and orange coming up? yellow is rain, green is rain. it's not going to last all

morning. and here we go, later on during the morning, we actually see the rain quit, saturday afternoon, it's not exactly balmy, but it's mostly dry. saturday night, mostly dry and it's getting warmer, and then her we go on sunday, some rain coming in, but look at these temperatures getting up near 60 degrees, 60 in pottstown on sunday. mostly rain southern delaware and cape may county. 6:00 to 7:00 a.m., in much of central delaware, toward vineland, as we go farther to the north, wilmington area, medford, 7:00 to 9:00 a.m., after that, you're okay for traveling. 9:00 to 11:00 a.m., west ches r chester, king of russia, buckingham, trenton. the farther north you go, you're going to have to wait, 11:00

a.m. to 1:00 p.m. about an inch across the philadelphia area, up toward trenton, 1 to 2, bucks, mochbt montgomery county two to 4 inches. a convoy of cars rumbled through the streets of philadelphia today. sky force 10 was overhead as they made ware they around. >> that story straight ahead. where things come from? how they get here? what they're packed in? it's a lot of stuff. and these things add up. that's why we recycle. [vo:]it's nice to know that raymour and flanigan is proud to be a leading recycler-

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sky force 10 over a fleet of pick-up trucks hauling donations to south philadelphia. the food was collected for the nonprofit organization phil abundance. nbc 10 was proud to participate in the event. most of those served by phil abundance are working people who have fallen on hard tiles. >> it's a cold day, today many people are asking, do i get food or do i keep my house? and what we're here for is to make sure they have something to eat. >> and today's convoy brought 338,000 pounds of food for people in need. that's twice what this same convey brought in last year. we are working on several stories for nbc10 news at 5:00.

next, they're counting their blessings. >> i have my son, and this could be a much different christmas than it's going to be. and it's going to be a great christmas. >> her son was shot at 7 times while serving as a police officer. what this mother says about facing the accused shooter in court. and we're tracking snow and ice for a big part of our area starting tomorrow. coming up, the timeline and what you can expect. >> plus, princeton university rocked by scandal. the offensive messages that got the entire swim teams suspende. coming up.

right now at 5:00, loading up. road crews have been all day making sure their trucks are ready for a weekend weather blast. >> thanks for being here at 5:00, between now and noon tomorrow, most areas will see a mix of snow, ice and rain. >> but the big questions are when and how much? tonight the first alert weather team has new details on your first alert forecast. >> so glenn, how soon before the snow starts? >> in some parts of the area, we're talking about 6 or 7 hours. we issued a first alert for this

two days ago. now we're expanding it to just about the entire area except for southern delaware and southeast new jersey. from 11:00 p.m. friday into saturday morning for accumulating snow, icy mix and slippery roads and maybe even icy roads and maybe even accumulation on roads and power lines in the morning. 4:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., snow changes to ice, freezing rain, 8:00 a.m. to noon, from south to north, it changes over to rain. the afternoon is just fine. mostly dry. and at night, it's just fine. so just sleep later and the day will be okay. we got cloudy skies now, the snow starting to get closer, the area expanding, and so everything is coming in on schedule, close to midnight here as you can see, some of the first snow moving in, of course