digits for us. lets begin with cecily outside our studios with the latest. >> i'm make this fast, i can't feel my face, it's brutally cold and it will get dangerous tonight. the national weather service issued advisories for our entire area 15 degrees below 0 for our morning commute. strong winds out of the northwest pulling down the coldest air mass of the season the wind gusts currently 31 miles per hour and wind gusts 30 in trenton and 29 in wildwood and wind gusts of 31 miles per hour in the poconos. so the current windchill is 5 degrees in philadelphia. that is brutal enough but what these winds are doing they are pulling down more brutally cold air mass, the windchill in green bay 23 degrees below 0, and chicago feels like 21 degrees below 0 and that is the air mass that is settling in overnight.

the arctic front is moving through and touching off a few snow showers and a few isolated snow squalls and there is one snow shower moving through lakewood and another one just south of lakehurst in northern ocean county and elsewhere we are dry. this is what to expect tonight. gusty winds 15 to 35 miles per hour. the coldest air mass of the season with sub zero dangerously cold windchills and also do remember that we had a little bit of melting today tonight there will be a refreeze and icy patches with slick spots i'll talk about the cold to come and within we climb out of the deep freeze when i come inside of the warm studio for the accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily. looking live outside with sky 6 hd overlooking the atlantic city shore, not the ideal destination, but trenton folks had to spend the day outside for their work and i always feel so bad for them. nora muchanic joins us with

that. >> reporter: hi there monica talk about a challenge working outside in this stuff is absolutely awful it doesn't matter how many hats, gloves and scarves and heavy coats you have on, you still feel the cold, the only happy place right now is inside. >> i'm so cold my legs are frozen. >> it's not a good day to be outside. >> no it's not. >> a brutal day to be outside. these trenton workers are removing the lights outside of the city hall in shifts. >> better safe than sorry don't want to get frostbite. many forces to be outdoors were bundled up from head to toe. >> i have lots of layers my warm boots and my scarf and my gloves and my big puffy jacket. >> many layers under here.

>> with the windchills in the single digits a big day for the mission the day center was full and preparing extra beds for the homeless tonight. >> in the last two nights we see a drastic spike with individuals coming in off the street later at night saying i just can't deal with it tonight can i please come in. i was out there this morning waiting for them to open. and my feet were already frozen. you freeze to death out there. places like the senior center are welcoming the elderly to come for company and a warm place to pass the day. >> we talk and have games and just awesome, and it's warm in here too. the city has an advisory for landlords reminding them to keep the heat to 60 degrees during the day and lower at night. it brings big problems for heating systems. >> it freezes and that is

dangerous for the tenent to be there with no heat. >> take a look at the flags flapping in the breeze near the trenton transit center, it's bitter cold out here, the city is telling tenants to call their landlords if there is a problem and if the heat is not fixed promptly, report it to the department of inspections. you need to bundle up. live in trenton, nora muchanic channel 6 "action news." >> nora your tears will turn to icicles get inside. we want to you check out the new features we added to the storm tracker 6 app, report your weather yourself. tap the icon showing your current conditions and add a photo, or send a digital postcard using your may bele device, share it with your family and friends download the 6 abc storm tracker app for free right now.

people are taking to the streets tonight all over france grieving the horrific attack that happened in paris today. this peaceful demonstration is happening with hundreds gathered there some holding signs saying we are charlie. new tonight we know officials have identified the men they are looking for two of them are french men and the nationality of the third person is unknown right now, but france is on high alert after a dozen people were left dead. the killers of course still on the loose. around noon time in paris three masked gunman stormed the offices of the french satirical magazine, charlie hebdo it's known to poke fun at politicians and religion they would hear the attackers shoutding god is great in arabic it includes staffers and a police officer and a door man at that building. french officials have launched a massive manhunt for the men that

escaped in two get away cars, president obama made remarks condemning these attacks and secretary of state john kerry reiterated that americans are standing with fran. >> they may wield weapons but we in france and in the united states share a commitment to those that wield something that is far more powerful. not just a pen but a pen that represents an instrument of freedom not fear. >> police now have what they believe is one of the get away cars forensic investigators will run dna tests on that car to see if it gives them any clues. and while vigils are being held in france where the attack happened, people around the world responding to the tranlic killings hundreds packed the streets of london many of them holding pens in support of the journalists and cartoonists that were murdered today. the message is free speech lives

on. world news tonight with david muir has more on the gunmen and how the u.s. hopes to help the french. a scary moment this morning when people witnessed a tractor trailer slamming into an overpass. chad pradelli is live with more. >> reporter: hey monica when a tractor trailer hits an overpass it can be down right scary that was the case for the driver it happened on the 42 expressway. it created gridlock the accident did traffic didn't look like this until 3:00. two massive gas tanks when tumbling on the northbound lanes of 42 freeway at 10:30 this morning after a tractor trailer slammed into the browning road overpass, josh archer was in the southbound lanes when one tank barrelled towards him, i'm telling my wife hurry up step on the gas. i thought it would come at us.

>> it ends with a multivehicle crash that senfour people to the hospital. >> pray to god there was a survivor and no kids in the car but it was bad. >> state police say that the victims only suffered minor injuries but all the northbound lanes of 42 didn't reopen for nearly four hours and traffic was backed up for miles it's slow what you see here. just waiting and waiting and waiting. >> we have been in traffic for an hour and maybe moved five miles i want to say. >> than is not good when are you trying to catch a flight to alaska dylan and his fiance were visiting ocean city and it looks like their trip is getting extended. >> we are mad because we missed our flight and because flights to anchorage are limited.

>> police have not released the name of the company attached to that tractor trailer. >> i'm live in camden county bellmawr, chad pradelli channel 6 "action news." >> all right thanks chad. speaking of traffic lets get a check of the "action news" traffic report midweek. >> lets go to matt pellman in the traffic center. those people want to get home to anchorage because it's probably warmer there. >> people want to get home for hot soup, they are getting stuck in a few delays eastbound side a little bit of slowing from montgomery drive on into downtown at the vine street expressway. 11 extra minutes on the travel time. one doesn't in jenkintown near summit avenue by the hertz and one near chestnut street near the deli, fire and police are helping you around chestnut tree

road. and gloucester county this afternoon watch out for a wreck on 295 approaching 47 and on the black horse pike in washington county there is a crash involving a pedestrian, right there by the dump. we'll check it again coming up in the next half hour. >> thank you. more to come on "action news" wednesday night. if you are trying to shed a few pounds in the new your, researchers say there is a way to make sure your results are ac rate. ali gorman has the details coming up. >> and more on the health of boxing legend muhammad ali.

divers an an unmanned underwater vehicle found the tail of the missing plane in the java sea it comes 11 days after 8501 disappeared from radar with 162 people on board. the all important cockpit voice recorder and black box are in the cockpit tail.

boxing great muhammad ali is back home after suffering an infence ali's family says he is thrilled to be back at home and is looking forward to celebrating his 73rd birthday. >> now they are sounding the alarm on binge drinking and it shows that six people die every day from drinking. ali gorman is live at the big board with that story. >> the cdc says that adds up to 2200 deaths per year, alcohol poisoning happening when a person drinks a toxic amount of booze for their body, lack of coordination laborered breathing and passing out. these are signs you have to take someone to the emergency room. the cdc says more has to be done

to address the problem. if you like avocados or guacamole eating an avocado a day could decrease your bad cholesterol level they put three people on different diets low fat without avocado and moderate fat with avocado and moderate fat without after cato. it lowered it by 13 points and lower overall cholesterol but the study was funded by the avocado industry we do know that avocados offer a good source of healthy fats and if your goal is to lose weight in the new year, people from finland say you should weigh yourself on a wednesday. they weigh themselves all year

and wednesday is the day where your weight is least likely to flux wait some people gain weight over the weekend but the goal is to be consistent. the same scale the same amount of clothing and same time of day and same time of week, that is what i would recommend. keep it really consistent. >> if are you trying to lose weight it's recommended you weigh yourself once a week, if you want to do it every day take the average of those numbers so in this case, it would be 160 and are you not looking for big weight loss, you want to lose 1 to 2 pounds per week and you are more likely to keep it off rather than losing a large amount quickly. >> still to come a retailers that say destination for teenagers is dealing with falling out.

apparel company, wet seal is closing hundreds of stores across the country. they say that their financial condition is dire, because of

that they are moving forward with shutting down more than 330 stores. the closures leave nearly 3700 full and part-time employees without work and four stores in our area have plans to close. the philadelphia city controller says that the apartments and recreation centers are in need of better monitoring. an audit was released in center city the accounts that total $2 million were reviewed. he said from the start of the audit his team got a lack of cooperation from the members of park and recs council. >> this raised our awareness for potential fraudulent activity. >> he said that some of the rec centers could not provide any accounting records and some had checks with only one signature and not the required two and information on a former treasure was given to the district attorneys office. college internships were on

the mind in the urban league they had the second college internship fair on blue market street. comcast and childrens hospital and many more came to recruit future interns and possibly workers. good luck to everybody. admission is free on martin luther king day for philadelphia's african-american museum. thanks to a donation citizens bank gave $25,000 while mayor michael nutter and others watched the day of volunteer is on january 19th. people can get in to see special activities like dances and arts and crafts and more. m. papa:better ingredients joe:better pizza. peyton:better football papa:papa john's.

(vo) at jennie-o, we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride ten miles for tacos. we thought we'd show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco, made with jennie-o ground turkey, cooked thoroughly to 165. (mom) i'd feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. (woman) i think that they're light and they're just fresh tasting. (vo) it's time for a better taco. (kid) the tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. (vo) make the switch. look for jennie-o ground turkey at a store near you.

time for accuweather at the "action news" big board. we are in for a rough ride weather wise. >> first we had the snow and then the ice and now we have the sub zero windchills heading our way in addition i want to show you something we don't get to talk about this much. a frozen spray advisory this was tweeted out by the harvey cedars police department, the winds will push the spray from the ocean on to surfaces and

that is where they freeze solid so everything along the beach will be coated in ice, i put a call out to my twitter followers to show me pictures of people being bundled up but nancy showed me her cat in a meow, snuggie alert tonight. this is a good reminder to make sure your petted stay warm in this cold air. this is the coldest air mass since last january, 21 in philadelphia right now, the high didn't even reach the normal low for this time of year. reading 17 and wilmington currently the windchill is 4 degrees 5 in philadelphia and 1 in reading but tonight the windchills will drop down well below zero in parts of the viewing area. satellite 6 along with action radar showing an arctic boundary moved through in the afternoon hours this brought a few isolated snow showers. bringing winds

from the northwest up to 35 miles per hour tonight and this will have an impact on the temperatures and the windchills, temperatures tomorrow morning in the teens and single digits however you factor in the winds these are the windchills, an arctic attack tomorrow morning, windchill advisories are in affect and the lehigh valley we are looking at windchills 10 to 15 degrees below zero, the i-95 corridor in philadelphia 5 to 10 degrees below zero and the jersey shore not as brutal but dropping as low as 5 degrees below zero. the five-day at 5:00, tomorrow we stay cold all day long despite sunshine the high only 22 degrees, that is 18 degrees below normal. factor in the winds and the windchills will be in the single digits. on friday temperatures moderate for one day 34 degrees, above

freezing and another arctic boundary moves through on friday and brings us clouds and a flurry and saturday we drop down to the 20s, 25 degrees and sunday back up to 36 degrees and monday 39 degrees, but that will come with some rain or snow showers and behind monday we stay unsettled i'll talk more about that in the full accuweather forecast. >> tonight is a snuggie alert. even for cats. >> already wearing mine. thank you. tmi.

"action news" continues with adam joseph rick williams and monica malpass. hello again here is what is happening on "action news" tonight. authorities in bucks county says that thieves took their pick of empty homes to rob. cold weather is prompt can people across the area to protect the most vulnerable citizens, we'll explain how. folks will save or spend more this winter depending on what they use to heat their homes. >> now the details, several buck county residents came home from celebrating new years eve. to find out they were victims of a crime. a burglar or groups of burglars

broke into five homes while fem were away. it happened in the stoney hill and woodlands developments. whoever did it knew what they were looking for. sara bloomquist is live on sin sinabar lane. >> reporter: this has been unnerving for residents on new years eve probably between 9:00 p.m. and midnight. the burglars hit nine homes walking away with valuable jewelry police released surveillance video of homes taken in robberies two philly necklaces this distinctive gold and pearl necklace and this gold county communion bracelet from venezuela when the homeowners were away someone broke into the houses located a mile apart.

>> the person or person goes to the back door and they go into the house and they don't ransack anything, they bypass computer equipment and tablets and things like that and seem to be focused on jewelry, residents came home and found the items missing, the tl was nothing to be done to stop it the suspects knew when to strike. >> they were out and joying the new year and that is the way they started off their year. >> police say that such nighttime burglaries are rare around here, but some residents were not surprised to find out that these new spacious homes were targeted by thieves. >> there is money here, and the crooks are going to come. >> perhaps in a pawnshop or jewelry store or for sale online can't the police right away. >> we think the public can help

us with this. >> now can you take a closer look at the stolen jewelry on our website at 6abc.com. if have you any information or happen to come across these items, contact lower makefield township police right away. i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> all right sara thank you. now to the other big story tonight a bitter blast of cold air is moving across our area, windchills remain in the teens and it will get colder as the evening goes on because of the dangerously cold windchills, many have issued code blue warnings this is dangerous for the countless homeless people living on the streets. in camden the new vision day homeless center is offering hot meals and a break from the cold temperatures. >> we have built partnerships with other organizations to provide other services when

they leave us they are able to go places to get them indoors and out of the elements. >> they are extending their hours to make sure people have a place to go and stay warm. >> philadelphia is under a code blue right now due to the cold, if you see a homeless person outside you are urged to call the number on your screen. remember you should also bring your pets inside during this cold spell. in delaware that state has declared a code purple and volunteer shelters are up and running running throughout the week and a place to sleep for anyone that needs to get out of the cold weather. >> we have people out looking for folks and letting them know that the shelters are open and available and welcoming to people. >> and residents who see people in distress are urged to call people at the code purple hot

line by calling 211 to get that person help. cecily tynan is at the big board with more on how long this cold spell will last? >> we have one more day of this before temperatures moderate and back into the deep freeze for one day off the weekend. the windchills are not just uncomfortable but unhealthy. a windchill advisory is posted for 9:30, windchills will drop as low as 15 degrees below zero, the reason why you step outside, you feel the cold winds winds out of the northwest 35 in philadelphia 38 miles per hour at the atlantic city airport and this wind is delivering us the coldest air mass of the season. it's already cold in philadelphia it's 5 degrees with the windchill however, there is much more brutal air to the west. pittsburgh 12 degrees below 0 with the windchill and the windchill in green bay 20

degrees below 0 and that is the windchill that the poibs will be dealing with tomorrow morning. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we got rid of the snow showers for the most part and a few flurries with the arctic boundary moving through and now really all we have to worry about is the cold. the winds 15 to 35 miles per hour. the coldest air mass, windchills below zero and a few more icy patches with a free freeze we'll talk about the cold air and within we get a break in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily. the "action news" morning team has the latest in the air and on the roads catch up with matt, tam, david and karen it all starts at 4:30 tomorrow morning. lets go to john rawlins in center city this morning. you may be paying less money to heat your home this year? >> with natural gas it dropped

significantly several years ago, that stablealized for the conaumer, the big savings is fuel oil. >> in the five county area, there are about a million natural gas customers and peco it has edged up from 54 to 57 cents per 100 cubic feet that costs the average household $4 more a month. pgw that pay more for gas saw a small drop. the big change -- fuel oil. with crude prices down, fuel oil has followed. this is the price it peaked in late june to $3 and now dropped below $1.20. >> right now the homeowners are saving approximately $1.20 a gallon. >> it's $1.20 less and yes. >> phones are ringing off the

hook. >> you get 150 gallons are you saving $150. the drop in prices he believes good for consumers and the economy. >> it's giving them some extra income to spend on something else that will drive the economy. >> consumer daniel carson bought a tank full as for the money she saves. >> i have a little one it goes into savings for college and stuff like that. >> he did not see this price drop coming. >> i thought maybe 20 to 30 cents but not a dollar. >> it keeps sliding? >> yes it keeps slide and i don't know when it will end. >> prices for fuel oil and gasoline are tied to crude oil prices. live in south philadelphia john rawlins channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. speaking of keeping warm this winter we invite to you

check out the new features we added to the 6 abc storm tracker app tap the icon matching your conditions and share a photo. select your favor ilt weather pick and share it with your family and friends. download the 6 abc storm tracker app for free right now. in other news a delaware county man is behind bars, charged with several counts of chirld pornography. edward kern surrendered to police yesterday. is he charged with 25 counts among other charges. he is set to go before a judge next week. a former baltimore ravens cheerleader charged with raping a teenage boy, 47-year-old molly shattuck is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old who was one of her children's classmates. the encounter happened at a

vacation rental and shattuck was indicted in november on charges of third degree rape and unlawful sexual contact and providing alcohol to minors. a west philadelphia neighborhood woke up to a soggy mess after a water main burst in the middle of the street. a car got stuck in the hole where water was pouring out on south conestoga street. one man said he came home from the grocery store and found several inches of water in the basement. >> i put milk crates down there and got the stuff off the floor i had almost $15,000 worth of tools in that basement and i can't afford to lose that. >> service was interrupted while crews made repairs to the water main and neighbors have had problems with that same main in the past. >> thank you sharrie. time to get a look at the

traffic scone out there midweek. matt pellman is in the traffic center. i think we'll have you go outside and report the traffic. >> he wants to see you shiver. >> lets start that in april. a couple of months. this afternoon we are watching sun glare on the roadways including here on 95 southbound, giving us heavy delays from the airport to 320, heavier than normal because of the sun glare from mercer county into bucks look for a crash at the scutter falls bridge taking out a lane and causing slowing and not the night to stand on a train platform, we have delays a half hour behind on the trenton line because of amtrak signal problems. still the crash to watch out for along chestnut tree road. there is also one in hatfield along schwab road. and east rock hill, we have a donkey loose on the roadway, you don't hear that every day. loose on butler lane, that is a

pain in the neck but i'm sure he is moving along before too long. >> maybe he'll head into the bureau. >> all right all right. more to come on "action news" wednesday night. the excited embrace between chris christie and cowboy's owner jerry jones getting attention from angry football fans it caught the eye of several state lawmakers. and cecily tynan is here for adam. >> if it makes you feel better the windchill advisory extend all the way down to florida, i'll tell you how long we stay in the deep freeze misery loves company there you go. and jaime apody has flyers injury news.

new jersey governor chris christie continues to be embroiled in controversy over his friendship with dallas cowboys owner jerry jones he was shown on national television celebrating and hugging jerry

jones in his box in dallas. some state democrats are looking into the probe to see if he violated violated ethics laws. a christie spokesperson says he accepted the tickets as a cowboys fan and did nothing improper. the flyers got a win last night but it came at a cost. >> jaime apody live in the sport center with more. >> the flyers finally snapped the losing streak but they may have lost goalie, steve mason in the process. after the team skate mason said he hurt himself in the save in the third period. mason wouldn't say what the exact injury was but it was not related to the back injury. what was i pressive was he

stayed in the game and here is what the goalie told us today. >> i need an mri and that is cause for concern, i will cross my fingers and hope it's nothing serious. >> you were out there and it felt like something wasn't right. i took to shots from reiser and it was bothering me since the last game and it didn't feel good. i'm getting it checked out. >> simmons put him on his back and again on his first shootout attempt. they won their first shootout says he december 30th of 2013. >> i think it was a full calendar year since we got a shootout. after i was watching the highlights last nirt, it's kind of weird but like i said it's a good start and we have a lot of work to do. it's a long road but we are up for it. florida state quarterback

jameis winston announced he was leaving to go to the nfl draft. and mariota has a lot of hardware already, but this is the trophy he wants. >> i would trade the heisman to win this, it means more to me than the heisman, no disrespect, it's a team effort and you know it's something that as a team we really strived for and working for. >> you can catch the big game ohio and oregon state on pennsylvania saturday at 8:30. the flyers did their best to replace the coal one young man got in his stocking. >> young cole fisher was disgusted to open a christmas gift to find a sydney crawford

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meteorologist, cecily tynan back inside. i never saw you want to get in so bad. >> i was outside at 4:00 and the wind hits you and your mouth can't work. >> you never experienced that before. >> the good news is stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that we is had a few scattered snow showers and they have moved out and they were associated with an arctic front that is bringing this bitter blast of cold weather overnight. the action cam is looking at dew dewers plazaing there are patches of ice around you will want to be careful, roads are icy in some spots. almanac 24 degree high is

colder than or normal high for this time of year and tomorrow morning it will get colder 21 degrees and wilmington 18 and allentown 16 and reading 17 degrees and factor in the winds millville 4 and 6 in philadelphia and 1 in reading and dropped to 1 degree below 0 in lancaster and the poconos the windchill is 10 degrees below 0. the satellite 6 along with action radar showing the clouds are beginning to break and the arctic front is moving through and opening the door for this kind of air mass, international falls, the windchill is 23 degrees below 0 and this is over us for the morning commute tomorrow. tonight bitter cold, 2 to 8 degrees, not quite record cold but getting close. within a few degrees, the record low is 2 in philadelphia we'll be 6 degrees above that and you

factor in the winds extreme south jersey and cape may and central and southern delaware windchills in the single digits central new jersey the i-95 corridor, 5 to 10 degrees below zero and the northern suburbs 10 to 15 degrees below 0 and the poconos dropping to 20 degrees below 0. bundle up tomorrow morning and limit your time outdoors temperatures run 15 to 20 degrees below average and windchills will be in the single digits tomorrow will be the most brutal day of the week. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast brisk and mostly sunny and cold tomorrow the high is 22 degrees and on friday temperatures not that bad up to 34 degrees, but another arctic boundary moves through and this drops temperatures back into the 20s on saturday 25 degrees, that is the last of it for a while. on sunday we bounce it back to

36 degrees and increasing clouds and monday is looking unsettled with rain or snow shower and 39 degrees the first half of next week not a lot of sunshine and mostly cloudy and temperatures will be more seasonable. afternoon highs in the upper 30s, you wake up tomorrow it will be tough to step outside at all when the windchill is 15 degrees below 0. stick around we'll be right back.

the search for three gunmen in france what we know about the gunmen. and customers are looking for fresh fruits and vegetables, we'll explain the rush on fresh vegetables and real hear when temperatures will bounce back. those stories and more coming

up. for cecily tynan sharrie williams and rick williams can and it's entire "action news" team i'm monica malpass.

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, cecily tynan and jim gardner. this is the sound of terrorism today on the streets of paris. the worst terrorist attack in france in a half a senry. three men wearing hoods killed 12 people and wounded 11 more as

they attacked the offices of a french magazine. at this hour the gun money are still at large. the big story on "action newws" is the frantic search for suspects in this morning's horrific attack. the target was a satirical magazine magazine. charlie hebdo that targets islamic extremists and the prophet muhammad. police believe they have identified the gunmen two of them brothers who must have known what they were doing attacking the editorcal meeting of the full staff demeanor straighters showed their and shows signs saying sweet charlie i am charlie referring to the name of the magazine. david henry i