stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we have a lull in the action, just a little bit of misting going on and we are in between batches of precipitation, the first batch that moved through earlier today is off the coast of new england, if you look at parts of virginia and west virginia, this is the next batch that is moving in and it's associated with a warm front that is lifting through our region, that precipitation will come along with warmer temperatures, however, the problems, north and west suburbs are around the freezing point, winter weather advisories continues for bucks and chester and berks county and lancaster and the lehigh valley and poconos. this is where we have the best chance of seeing freezing rain until 10:00 and after 10:00 even in these reasons, temperatures are climbing above freezing. philadelphia right now this is a rain event, 37 degrees, too warm

for winter precipitation. 47 degrees at the shore. and reading, lancaster and allentown, these are where temperatures are at or below freezing it will take several hours before temperatures rise above freezing. this is what to expect tonight, slick spots early. the main concerns, are bridges and overpasses, and then temperatures are warming and any ice will be changing over to plain rain in the overnight hours, and the morning commute not expecting any icing, we'll talk about a roller coaster with temperatures and a wet weekend in the exclusive accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily. can you stay on top of the changing weather situation, at the new 6abc.com. visit 6abc.com/weather for stormtracker 6 live double scan, both the hourly and seven-day forecast, and our collection of weather related photos and videos. now to video you'll only see on

"action news." 6 abc obtained ex cluesive video of a crash that left a man in critical condition, and now police are searching for the suspect or anyone that can identify the victim. david henry is live at the scene in west philadelphia with the latest on the case. >> reporter: hi rick, that video is rather chilling and of course we'll not be showing you all of it because it shows the moment of impact, let me set up the scene, this is market street, traveling east and west, the car was coming down 59th like that car there, it's victim was crossing between the bridge abutments when he was hit by the car. lets look at the exclusive video, you can see the car clearly, a silver colored volvo station wagon enter the

intersection at a high rate of speed and the man is hit and he drive as way and people come to his aid. he is a black male in his 20s, he has massive trauma to the head and chest and so far they have not been able to identify him and they are seeking help from the public to identify the car, the silver or light colored volvo and on the video you can see the police car pull into the scene 11 seconds after the moment of impact with its lights on, we don't know if the car was being chased or not but the police car was right thereafter impact. police want help if you have seen this volvo and if you know

someone that has a car like that, and has damage now, police want you to call 911 right away. david henry, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. from the "action news" satellite center to a story we are following now, robert williams, a philadelphia rapper known as meek meal, he walked out of prison today a free man, but it was back in july when mill was sentenced to three to six months for violating his probation stemming from a drug case in 2009, his release from a private prison in north philadelphia, means mill served five months and during that time a judge ordered that he undergo anger management. the artist was set to release an album in september. upon his release, mill is expected to be placed back on

probation and is likely to be required to perform community service and will have travel restrictions but mill's lawyers argued against these restrictions saying this artist has to be able to travel to go on his music tours. >> thank you. in manayunk, the weather hampered the search for 21-year-old shane montgomery, is he missing since sunday morning, sara bloomquist is live now with more. >> reporter: monica, that is right, the cold rain is falling today and it made it difficult if not impossible to use k-9 units, they wouldn't be effective at this moment. they are doing a sweep of the waterways, like the schuylkill river and the canal. no boats now in the water because of this darkness. they say it's an exhaustive serve already. they are hoping something turns

up on surveillance video because at this point they have nothing to go on. today the search for shane montgomery happened behind the scenes off the streets of manayunk as they review surveillance cameras coming in from area businesses hoping to spot the 21-year-old seeing which direct he went after leaving the irish pub sunday morning. >> we are getting more in even several days later, we are painstakingly going through it and hopefully we'll see him at some point. >> there is no sign of montgomery since he left kildare's on thursday. they say he accidentally bumped into the dj's equipment and was courteous and was not acting drunk after he left. hundreds of volunteers spent days looking for montgomery and trained teams searched the manayunk canal, there is no active search today given the cold rain falling, the fbi

posted montgomery's picture and the now $25,000 reward on digitalized billboards across the region. police are following up on tips but so far nothing has panned out. >> did someone see shane that night or see him with somebody? we'll try to corroborate it with video we have. we'll keep pushing on it. >> police emphasize they will not discount any tip, nothing is considered insignificant at that point. if you have information contact northwest detectives. i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you sara. >> two men accused of firing shots that killed a girl outside of einstein hospital, will go to prison. they faced murder and other charges, she was hit by a stray bullet september 22nd. gibson was a football player at

father george, and he followed the shots that killed rothman. police in wilmington are trying to track down an armed bank robber tonight. they responded to the williams saving branches today. few details are released about the holdup but police are looking for a white man in his 40s or 50s running on third street. investigators want to hear from you if you saw anything suspicious in this area. >> septa is offering more bus routes in december, to accommodate the holiday routes, in montgomery and plymouth meeting malls, routes 94 and 96 for montgomery and 98 for plymouth meeting, for details log on to 6abc.com. >> from king of prussia to the king of traffic, matt pellman

has the traffic report tonight. >> we are watching the royal delays that is for sure. it's mostly wet in the city and slick spots possible north and west, despite the chance that it's just wet and really slow in both directions, the westbound jam joining up with the delay on the schuylkill westbound out to the boulevard, because of the roosevelt boulevard, it's still locked up at the schuylkill, the crash that we had here is blocking lanes here for a while just cleared out in the last few minutes. extra heavy on the northbound side of 1, off the boulevard, robbins street is still closed because of the early truck accidents. and in new london, a crash along newark road and oxford road and blocking the ramp from the black horse pike in barrington and speeds just in the teens. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> thank you.

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it was a good day to talk weather and that is what happened today, our own weekend meteorologist, chris sowers was at this school assembly to talk weather and chris gave them something to think about and they were wondering about how soon before the next snow day? >> and time for accuweather, meteorologist, cecily tynan is, in here. a mixed back as accuweather predicted. >> the far north and west suburbs we had frozen precipitation earlier and stormtracker 6 live double scan showing a break in the action now and the real concern is the areas farther north and west and the reason why is you can see quakertown, martins creek 30 and pottstown 32 and coatesville 32

degree, these are the areas when the next round of precipitation moves into there will be some icing, south jersey and delaware warmer. an easterly flow off the ocean, the ocean temperature is 46 degrees and the temperature as long the coast generally in the mid-40s, so there it's just been rain. what a difference a day makes though, it's 21 degrees colder in philadelphia than this time yesterday, yesterday felt like spring time and wilmington 22 degrees colder and dover 25 degrees colder and now as we head through the overnight hours, temperatures are actually warming. satellite 6 along with action radar showing what is going on is there is a warm front moving through the virginias and this will bring us winds from the southwest, and that is warmer air and it's coming with precipitation. between now and about 10:00, some of it will be icy in the far northwest suburbs. basically glazing on the cars

and bridges and overpasses, the untreated overpasses are icy and after 10:00 temperatures in the far northwestern suburbs are rising above freezing, so anything that falls will be liquid and will stay lickid. future tracker showing by 8:30 tonight we see round two working into parts of lancaster and the lehigh valley, right over philadelphia at 10:30 and the best bet of heavy rain and then into tomorrow morning, lots of clouds and drizzle in the morning, if we are lucky in the afternoon we'll see peeks of sunshine. rising temperatures, 32 to 37 degrees, those are our current temperatures rising through the overnight hours. anything icy will be changing over to plain rain and tomorrow lots of clouds and early in the day the high is 55 and then back to 46 on thursday, and then it

clouds up on friday, 48 degrees, the weekend is looking to be a great weekend for indoor activities, perioded of rain on saturday, 52 degrees and sunday if are you headed to the eagles game, take the rain gear and showers possible with a high of 52 degrees, will we clear out next week, meteorologist, melissa magee, has the answer in the accuweather forecast. >> we'll take rain over snow. >> much more ahead in the next half hour. >> a thief tries to pull off a heist but it doesn't end up out he hopes, we'll tell you why. and a warning for anybody that ate a hamilton restaurant. >> and that and much more when "action news" at 5:00 doms right back.

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former vikings player, adrian peterson, petitions to get back on the field as professional sports experts weigh in on domestic violence on capitol hill. and authorities are looking for a thief that targeting a woman getting cash. now the details. former player, adrian peterson, says he has a right to be back on the playing field especially in the light of ray rice's case. he pled no contest to child abuse charges against the his on. marcy gonzales has more. >> domestic violence was something weigh auto growing up in our home. >> personal testimony. >> i relate to the 20 million