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this noon, hundreds of firefighters are called into hope douse the flames at a massive blaze in los angeles overnight. >> and farm-fresh food in the cafeteria. we'll show you where a local school is embracing the idea. >> but the big story on "action news" this noon, is the nor'easter this week that will bring soaking rain and wind. sky6 live hd looking at the center city skyline, clouds are hanging tight today, a chilly and e gray afternoon a precursor of things to come. david murphy joins outside with details from accuweather. we're battening down the hatches. >> reporter: we are and keeping ourselves warmly dressed ahead of the arrival of the storm. we're looking at uncomfortable conditions. in fact it's so ununcomfortable ununcomfortable -- uncomfortable we've had snow showers break out down the jersey shore. it's changing to rainier atlantic city, looks like

there's still snowshowers in parts of ocean county county. it wouldn't be out of the question that the flakes make it to philadelphia later on. cloud cover is easy to see, that's everywhere and it's getting thicker through the morning hours. the temperature, the freezing mark, 32 degrees, allentown, 28. same thing in reading. 34 in millville, milder down by the shore. i've been tweeting out images of the snow showers on my twitter feed, of course i've been saying how it wasn't sticking on road surfaces because of the relatively warm temperatures by the beach. windchills, yeah, you definitely feel it. the winds are running in the low teens right now across the region, and that makes it feel like 22 in philadelphia. we still have a windchill in the upper teens in allentown. bundle up the rest of the way. today at high, 36 degrees well below the average of 46. the overnight low down around 36, as well as temperatures will climb in the overnight hours and then comes tomorrow we have a

winter storm warning in effect in the poconos. there's a watch in the blue counties. that's where we expect a changeover to snow, it could be heavy at times and freezing rain. south of that it's mainly going to be rain as the low center is too close to us and warm air is coming in off the ocean. guys when i step inside i'll talk about the rain and the flooding warnings ahead in the seven day. >> we don't have to shovel rain, thanks, david. follow the nor'easter,/weather we'll be updating current conditions and storm tracker 6 live will show you the path of the wet weather and we'll keep you up to date with the latest accuweather forecast from axe find it all right there right now, 6abc.com/weather. find our "action news" team on twitter always the storms moves up the coast. police in burlington county are trying to solve a mystery. a woman's body was discovered

stuffed into the trunk of a car at a motel in maple shade. the investigation led police to a home in philadelphia. katherine scott joins us live from the city's olney section with the details. katherine. >> reporter: and sarah, maple shade police were going door to door in olney asking about a woman who lived in this neighborhood. you can see them here along the street and some of the surrounding block. philadelphia investigators were here, as well. they galleried evidence from inside a home on the corner. authorities on both sides of the delaware investigating after a woman's body was found in the trunk in maple shade. >> i was on my way to work and they said i can't go anywhere. >> reporter: brandon sample was staying here on route 38 and found his van was taped in the crime scene. investigators gathered evidence overnight concentrating on the

white car in the parking lot. the report came in at 9:30 in the hours after police went door to door in the hotel looking for information. >> they came to my door, like, a little bit before 2:00 a.m. banging on my door and asking me where i was at and i did see anything during the day. >> reporter: we're told the investigation is connected to a missing persons case in philadelphia from last week today investigators from burlington k-89 and the philadelphia -- county and the philadelphia police were at the home. authorities were here to serve a search warrant and went through the neighborhood to learn more. >> officers wanted information on her, i couldn't help with anything. they asked if i knew anything about her. >> "action news" learned that family members contacted police concerned about the victim's safety and police traced the location of the car through an onstar tracking system. police are questioning the driver of the sedan who apparently knew the victim.

at this point there's no word of any charges being filed in this case. the medical examiner has not released a cause or time of death, but we are expecting to learn more from the burlington county prosecutor's office as the day goes on. katherine scott channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. a philadelphia firefighter suffered minor injuries while battling the braise in the city's frankford section overnight. it happened on the 1200 block of arrit street. 8 people from the neighboring building were evacuated as a precaution. the cause is under investigation. two people were seriously hurt when their car crashed into a pole in south jersey overnight. it happened near the intersection of westfield and sherman avenue in pennsauken camden county at 2:00 a.m. police officers say the driver lost control and hit a utility pole. the force caused a passenger to

be ejected. the driver and passenger were rushed to cooper university hospital for treatment. >> police are looking for two armed men who got away with cash and cigarettes from a plymouth meeting convenience store, investigators released surveillance video of the crime on december 2. you can see two masked men enter the store at liberty gas station on butler pike. one man flashed a semi automatic handgun and escorted the clerk away from the register, the other robber filled up a bag with cigarettes. >> the problem that kept customers from using credit he cards in the parking authority kiosks. customers had to use cash at the more than 1,000 pay stations. it appears they are working again. >> well, today marks prince william and his wife duchess kate their first full day in the

u.s., they will be going about their first official visit separately. the future king met with president obama while his wife stayed behind in new york. lama hasan joins us live on the royal visit. >> reporter: hi, rick rick, the duchess is expected to come from the buildings behind me. him while she started off in a posh address in the carlisle hotel now she is in harlem and dealing with an issue important to her. it is a royal day in the empire state always the duke and duchess of cambridge or william and kate as they are affect nately known will and kate. her focus this morning is on children. arriving at harlem at the north side center for child

development. the children are excited to meet her. >> we had to explain to them, she is a real princess. >> reporter: prince william is in the washington to meet with president obama. among the topics to discuss the illegal poaching of animals hoping to lend his star power to a cause dear to the prince. >> i think there is steady visibility is very beneficial for the world. tonight they would head tout to brooklyn to watch basketball as the nets take on the cleveland cavaliers. they are parking in as much as they can as possible as long as the weather holds up. >> they would like to go to the empire state building, but if it is pouring rain that will limit

staking snaps. >> reporter: the duchess is in the one of the most fashionable city of the world. i hope she packed heavy coats because in this part of the world it is very chilly, lama hasan back to you. these airline pictures show police -- aerial pictures show police using tear gas to disburse large crowds of protesters. demonstrators were arrested as they looted businesses. they protested the grand jury decision not to indict white police officers in the deaths of unarmed black men. this picture from the california patrol show the rocks that were thrown at police officers. it was a relative peaceful protest in south philadelphia members of an inner faith group dropped to the ground at the

intersection of broad and pattison staging what has became known as -- become known as a die-inn. >> the eagles face the cowboys next sunday at lincoln financial field. it is their second meeting in a matter of 3 weeks. the 20-14 final made yesterday's game seem closer than it was. the seattle defense barely let the offense hang on to the ball. the offense produced a meager 139 yards 89 lowest gain of any team coached my chip kelly. >> a massive fire in an apartment buildings under construction in los angeles logs. u.s. embassy on edge as

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>> a massive fire erupted in downtown los angeles this morning. more than 250 firefighters battled the blaze that was slated to be a tall resident at structure with commercial space on the lower level. the flames and smoke could be seen from miles away. the fire chief is estimating the loss in the millions of the dollars. another fire erupted three hours later and 8 blocks away at a commercial buildings in los angeles. more than 100 firefighters were needed to douse the flames at this two-story buildings overnight. there are ten businesses housed in the building. nobody was inside when the fire started, but one civilian was treated for smoke. >> a fundraiser is underway for shane montgomery. chubby steaks is hosting the fund a new website is

online to update the public about the search effort. there's a 50,000 reward for information about his disappearance. the trial is underway for a man accused of murdering a philadelphia police officer. raphael jones allegedly fired the shot that killed the police officer in 2012. mcfar land admitted to his role in the crime and agreed to testify against jones.

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>> obviously nothing like that here, but rain on the way. >> reporter: significant rain on the way. storm tracker 6 live double scan shows we're mostly dry, although you can see we are bothered by snow showers that keep popping in off the ocean, they change over to rain and back to snow, it hadn't done a whole lot, maybe coating on the grassy surfaces and non-road surfaces. take it slow, if you see that, we'll see if any of that creeps closer to philadelphia. heading outside mainly cloudy and chilly. we have temperatures in the 0s this afternoon and feeling chillier than that. the current number # # degrees, the -- 32 degrees, the freezing mark, winds at 14 miles per hour. it feels like the low 20s right now that's the story across the region. the temperatures in the upper 20s up north around the freezing mark in the i-95 corridor and mid up to upper

30s down the shore. definitely a day to put on a coat and extra gear if you're outside. wind speeds not horrific but enough to get the windchills down. feels like 26 degrees right now in philadelphia with that 14-mile an hour wind. satellite shows you that cloud cover has been gathering strength we never did squeeze out a whole lot of sunshine earlier. there's the precipitation along the coast and clouds will be with us the rest of the way today. up in allentown we're going for cloudy conditions, 35 is the high, windy and chilly, the clouds getting thicker as the day goes on. down the shore, it's mainly cloudy skies, as well, getting thicker as the afternoon goes on. some of you from atlantic city north are seeing the snow showers. 47 degrees is the high, though, windy and cool down along the beach. 36 is the high in philadelphia. clouds, again, getting thicker and thicker as the afternoon goes, brisk and chilly, the winds out of the northeast building 10 to 20 miles per hour later in the afternoon.

overnight tonight we see them go up to 12 to 25 miles per hour, why? because the center of the nor easter coming up the coast will be closer and the winds will pick up. we'll get rains overnight, rising temperatures, 35 and climbing from there. in the northern and western suburbs as the precipitation moves in it will start out as mixed precipitation, but i expect that to change over to rain quickly. mainly cloudy for the afternoon and evening commute. brisk and chilly. 36 degrees by 4:34 by 5:30 and 33 by 7:00 p.m. we see the numbers bounce up later tonight. in terms of of the rain it will be raving after midnight. 4:30 we're expecting to it blanket everywhere and 7:00 p.m. and noon it's still coming down and it gets better later in the afternoon tomorrow. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast we're going for a high of 36 today. brisk and chilly. 44 with heavy rain at times through the morning and early afternoon tomorrow, and then we

fall back to light showers in the afternoon and evening. thursday, there could be a couple of lingering showers around, but generally speaking we're drying out through thursday, friday, saturday and sunday we're improving to the upper 40s. a lot rain early tomorrow morning and afternoon, though. >> there's much more ahead in the next half-hour of "action news" at noon. we're learning more built failed attempt to rescue american luke somers from al qaeda militants in yemen. a local school is taking the farm to table movement a little bit further. havealicia vitarelli has that cg up. we're tracking the nor'easter that david mention a few minutes ago. we'll be right back, stay with us. skippy!!

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hamilton township worker who tested positive for the disease. >> we're tracking a nor'easter that may bring heavy rain and wind and snow. >> david murphy is at the "action news" big board with a closer look. david. >> reporter: the precipitation down the shore is not connected to the nor'easter, but it's coming in off the flow off the ocean. the mild air is churning over the waters creating rain, but the rain controversy takes the colder air at the surface over at the shore and it does change over above the surface to some of the snow. it's light and come down and produced a coating down the shore. as we continue to watch this through the afternoon, we will be watching for some of that to make it closer to philadelphia and other parts farther inland. rich in estell manor snapped this picture in atlantic