miss america scandal, the top leaders in atlantic city stepped down following leaked e-mails. dashing in the rain. last-minute shoppers brave the elements and the parking to get that perfect gift. and what a mess. water continues to pour into a street creating traffic and water problems. >> announcer: nbc 10 news starts now. right now at 6:00, damp and dreary. mother nature delivers wet weather two days before christmas. it's rained through most of the day. as you can see from the first alert weather radar, the rain is slowly moving out. it's been a very busy day at the airports. the nasty weather out there has cause the a few flights to get delayed. check with your airline before heading to the airport tonight.

good evening. will you need that umbrella tonight? or have dinner plans? let's go to steve sosna? >> the answer is yes, you'll need an umbrella. this is the last round of rain. if you're walking out the door in philadelphia, or the nearby suburbs, we are looking at a steady to moderate rain right now. you're seeing the rain coming down at this moment, but the other big story is the mild temperatures, it's 60 in philadelphia. that was the high for the day, 61 at the northeast airport. even right now it's 60 degrees, but look what's happening to the north and west. there's chilly air. that will be will be coming in our direction tonight. the temperature trend, we're at 55 degrees, by 9:0049. i think the rain is done by about 10:00 or 11:00, the breeze

kicks up and the temperatures drop. it will be a cold night tonight. make sure you have the hats, scarves and gloves if you're out overnight. i'll walked you through christmas eve night and another system toward the end of next week. and if you're out and about, make sure you download the app to track the weather in your neighborhood. if you're getting a new phone for christmas, make sure you also have on our app. to other problems, a water main break is creating a real mess in the northern liberty. water has been flowing for hours now, we're live at the scene. this is impacting homes and businesses and restaurant, aundrea. >> reporter: some businesses decided to close because there was going to be no business today. they are replays that broken pipe.

not only do some residents not have water, but no gas or electricity because of the flooding, the owners of talia's have been holding out hope all day. >> nothing. nothing here. nothing at all. >> reporter: but a water main break during what would have been their morning rush, shut off their water service. >> it's frustrating. i don't do no business. >> reporter: it eep seeped into some cellars, damaging hot water heaters. 11 problems are affected. >> we're working to get access, and put the new piece in. >> reporter: it's a process that will take a few more hours. back out here live, you see even after the crews fix this water main, businesses have a mess to clean up. these cellars are flooded out. after that's dried out, they're going to have to assess the damage. reporting live in northern

liberties. nbc 10 news. thank you, a scaral one delaware county mall. everyone had to evacuate because of a small grease fire at a pizza place in the food court. the fire was put out, no one was hurt, and everyone rushed babb in to fib shopping. that doesn't stop these people. they were had lists to check off and vendors offered unique finds. pack your patience if you're headed to the malls on this super saturday. it's going to take a while to find a parking spot. president of the extended hours and special deals -- we're live at the cherry hill mall. how is it, drew? >> nice and busy inside the mall. the real misery is happening in the parking lot with a steady downpour. these people are lucky enough to

have somebody drop them off. there's very few parking spaces near the entrance, but some people enjoy this shopping, but for others it's an unintentional, but necessary scramble. >> what's your favorite thing about christmas? >> giving presents and getting presents. >> reporter: the deadline is here. christmas eve is just hours away. ed kids are loving everything about it. >> opening presents. >> and playing with the snow. >> reporter: no snow today. instead shoppers are dashing through the rain to get inside. >> thank you. >> reporter: it always seems to come down to the wire. >> i work under pressure. i work without pressure, but i get it done. >> reporter: there are still plenty of deals and discounts. off the shelves and under your tree. no wait for online shipping when you come here. people will wrap the gifts for

you, too. >> santa claus is going to be good to the burke household. i can't tell you what's in it, because if this airs, they'll know. >> pick a man's pocket every 25th of december -- >> combining their eagles and christmas spirit to spread cheer summoning the shoppers. >> annually we go to the maul and kind of make fools of ourselves and make people laugh. >> reporter: the jones family is not scared. >> it's crazy, but nice. everybody seems excited. >> reporter: taking advantage of the final hours of shopping together. >> merry christmas! >> and peace on earth! >> reporter: mostly peaceful down here at the maull, you can try to get it at the store here after clicking on your phone here. those extended hours end tonight. the mall will be closing here at 11:00. >> everybody in the holiday spirit. drew, thank you.

not everyone had time to make it to the stores diaw, if you're looking for last-minute gifts, you still have some options. kohl's stores like this one are open 24 hours through 6:00 christmas eve. toys "r" us is doing the same thing. doors are occupy around the clock until 9:00 p.m. examines each. we have a few suggestion, and take a at our gift guide. a story impacting the miss america pageant. the top three leaders are out. this afternoon the ceo, president and chairman all resigned just days after an e-mail scandal. yesterday dozens of former miss america contestants signed a pet tickets. the e-mails were leaked to the "huffington post." the outgoing president apologized today to the former miss american contestant whose

weight he joked about in e-mails. a 4-year-old girl is recovering after being shot in the leg last night. you can see where bullets pierced a windshield and the hood of this car. witnesses told investigators that the girl's father had just parked and got her out of the car around 11:00. that's when a carry with four men inside made a u-turn and opened fire. police are still searching for those men tonight. a family lost a teenager to violence. this morning julian deshields was shot several times and died this morning in chester. police say the murder happened near 9th and keystone road. no one has been arrested. still ahead tonight at 6:00, chaos around the state capitol. new information about the gunman targeting officers and why the fbi still needs your help. also ahead, a tragedy at the zoo. the animal rescue as their home goes up in flames.

agencies are investigating a downtown shooting spree from yesterday. investigators are asking anyone who knows anything about him to give them a call. police say yesterday al mafdi fired shots at a capitol police officers, then followed a trouper into a neighborhood where he continued to shoot. >> she's going to make a full recovery, and that's the good any here. no one else was injured, but this could have been a really tragic incident with this individual. >> police ended up shooting and killing al ma if. di. they do not have a motive.

allegations airing the office of a conductor. earlier this week, four women came forward detailing the alleged assaults which they say that happened between 1985 and 2010 in a number of cities including philadelphia. he says he plans to defend himself. yesterday the philadelphia orchestra stripped him of husband honorary title of conduct or conductor laureate. they rushed to move animals as quickly. a 9-year-old aardvark died in the fire and they're searching for four missing meerkats. the zoo says it plans to reopen tomorrow. coming up next, early christmas celebration, were there as officers pull smiles on kids' faces. one teen even got a car.

christmas eve snow? some of you may not only be visited by santa tomorrow night, but where some neighborhoods may be snow.

there a better gift than the guest of life? that's what these folks were doing at spring garden. donors were getting gifts in return. everyone who gave got a free long-sleeved red cross t-shirt. philadelphia's 12th police district held its annual christmas party, providing lunch, a movie, time with santa and bags of toys. 70 kids were invited to the party. the event is sponsored by the district's caps and kids program. to south jerky 18 years old jamere kirby got so much is

more. the nonprofit grants wishes to foster kids. he asked for a bike after his ways stolen. the williams town high school student was blown away by the surprise. he also received free driving lessons and a job offer from outback steakhouse. congratulations. there's a new way to track santa claus this year. amazon's echo device can now answer you if you ask alexa, where is santa? you can ask his location once you enable the function on his device. norad tracks santa's every move tomorrow. we'll track santa at 6:00 and 11:00. now for the welt, let's go to steve sosna. >> it looks like santa may see some snow here tonight, no for you there's anything but in and out out there. we'll see though shows -- it won't be raining the entire

night. we'll see the rain pushing off the cost. coast. what we're looking at, some no north and west of the city. this will not by a white excels for you. but you better believed it, there may be a coating of snow open. either way, everybody gets the christmas cold. it would be a punch of cord, and the feels-like temperature going into the lower 20s. it's 60 out right now, so that would be a shows to the systems. we have rain airwise. as you move past the wool grove, it looks like heavier rain there. this whole system pulls out

later tooj. make sure if you have the light jax now, you break back out the heavier coat. you'll need it. temperatures all across the area are peretz mild. 60 degrees or better across northern newcastle. we have temperatures in the lower 60s. this looks ache a march oy -- but once we get the cold front out of here about 11:00 tonight, the temperatures will start to tumble. 36 in philadelphia, 31 in allentown, 32 in coatesville. tomorrow during the day looks absolutely okay. if you're out and about traveling, last-minute shopping, check out your neighborhood. temperatures in the middle 40s, and we'll see clouds on the increase the second half of the day. then we have to talk about this. this is the potential for the christmas eve night, snow mix or rain scenario.

hi, santa. maybe santa will come in from the west as the snow will be coming in from the west for us. we start the even hours with just clouds. by 9:00 you see the peppering here of green. that's some sprinkles breaking out. by the time you go to midnight mass tomorrow night, have ahn unbrilla with you. and snows north of interstate 78. back into the storm may end some snow early monday more, you may see a bit after dusting there or slushy coating, but it doesn't look like this would by a shovelable snow. take a look at the 30s, but feeling like lower to middle toss. that coincides with the eagles game on monday night. so what we have ahead of us next week is, ouch, it's going to be painful cold. check that out.

temperatures will be struggling to get out of the 20s, teeth-chattering weather from wednesday, thursday, get your longjohns, your gloves and there's that potential storm system into next weekend. >> folks will be waking up possibly christmas more and see some flakes? >> a bit on the cartops in philadelphia. maybe a white new year's. not so bad. >> you won't please everybody. >> right. steve, thanks. here's john clark with your sports. >> doug pederson will he play hess eagles starters, even if they wrap up homefield tonight? he'll tell us of hi decision. and joel embiid is back, and he had a big effect right away. we'll show you, next. snee michael: i'm thankful that

i'm alive and have a second chance. james: i'm thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. darlene: i'm thankful to be able to help people in crisis. vanessa: i'm thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. christie: new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. but if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know: we are here for you. this holiday season, choose help. call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj.gov.

time to check in on what's coming up on "nightly news." good evening, jose. >> good evening. tonight the holiday rush hampered by holiday storms, causing chaos for millions trying to make it home for christmas. plus a report with inflammatory comments by the president, the white house furiously pushing back. a consumer alert about hot holiday gifts. are some of the high-tech toys allowing hackers to spy on our kids? that in a couple minutes when i see you on notwithstanding. now it's time for sports. >> good news, jalen mills, wisniewski and barnett also

practiced for the eagles today. he's going to give all of them off on christmas morning to spend time with their families. that's pretty cool. if the packers could win took, eagles would already clinch home field advantage during the playoffs. no matter what, he's going to continue playing his starters. >> i think it's important to continue to play. if we're fortunate enough in that position to rest, i'll make a decision at that time, but i think it's important that we continue to play. 100-yard rushing and receiving games have been few and far between. just four totals 100-yard games, and nick foles continued that. no one ran for 250 yards, and went to four different receivers. they have a bunch of different

weapons in the red zone. nick, is the all part of the game plan? >> you don't really go into a game thinking that. you go in understanding whew offense, understanding the opposing defense and where you want to attack them. it just so happens through the course of the game, based on progressions, different coverages, different blitzes, that different guys get balls. >> it's a festivus miracle. joel embiid is back. so take a look, everybody is helping him back. that's amir johnson, trust the back rub there. first possession, first points of the game, that's a joel. he had a nice assist to pun simmons, but turnsout continue.

after this play right leer jerryd bayless. sixers with 14 turnovers. they trail at half time. flyers tonight in columbus, claude jury ruse says when you have a bad game, you want to get back at it. it was a bad game last night. the flyers got down 2-0 in the third period. two of the sabres' goals were empty-netters. he's going to start his 11th straight game tonight. >> i wanted that one tonight, and we didn't get it done. i let the first one in, and i thought wen they kind of sparked. that can't really happened. >> most give us a chance before we win that game, you know, i don't think we'll win too many games if we're playing like that inch the phillies maid their

biggest mo this offseason. there's another christmas -- does starting santana have any effect on getting more -- we're going to try to add the best pitcher we can. the the trade market is very expense so we just are to make scherr we find the right balance, the right fit. >> phillies fans would like to see that. denise will have sixers, flyers, and make a vikings loss, and the eagles could wrap up the number one seed tonight. >> we'll see you, john. we have so much to talk about in the ten-day forecast. >> there's a lot to remember. you're much better than i am. let's get to the ten-day forecast, where we have your

examines each day. that's an issue let's say from the pennsylvania turnpike northwa northward, where you'll see messy weather tomorrow night. i don't think it's substantial snow, but maybe a coating to an inch. monday we have the birds game, we have christmas, some high winds in the forecast and cold. 38 degrees. tuesday we continue to step into the cold, 35 degrees. on wednesday, a reinforcing shot, which may come packaged with a flurry in the morning. and all eyes on a potential storm, and then easy cold to start 2018. >> a lot going on. thanks so much. that's the news for now. we'll see you tonight after the football game.

tonight, the race is on, millions of last minute travelers caught in the chaos of holiday storms, making a travel mess. an explosive new report incendiary comments about immigrants, allegedly made by president trump behind closed doors. what he's accused of saying that has the white house pushing back. top leadership in the miss america contest is out amid e-mails surfacing. the surprise show in the sky that had a lot of people wondering if they had just seen a uso. are hot holiday toys allowingke