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saturday night i'm walterer pest. latest on the search for hit and run driver who left a local woman in the comb. plus giving their kid an educational leg up even if it mean sleeping outside in the cold. hear why moms, dads and kid camped out in the frosty weather just to register for school. but the big story on "action news" tonight is first of a 1/2 pun seven for the delaware valley. snow fell throughout the the night ape left a coating on most streets and sidewalks a across the area. it soon turn into a slushy mess. the don't put those snow boots away just yet. old man winter has another storm up its sleeves. melissa magee is tracking the system and joins us live at the big board with the details, melissa. >> walter, it was a messy start to our week when this nor'easter bringing rain a and even some snow, across areas north and west. we will talk about first, the snow that we saw early, across the region, before you got the that change over to

rain. hough's church in berks county 8 inches. perkasie 6 inches. 5 inches in ewing. four and three and a half at philadelphia international reporting in an inch of snowfall. other part of the storm system was that soaking rain for areas south of philadelphia the estelle manor 1.68 inches of rain. more than inch and a half in west milford. folsom 1.25. and upper dear feel coming with a little bit more than an inch of precipitation. storm tracker six live double scan radar 3-d showing this is what is left of the nor'easter as it continues to work its the way to the north and east. we have drying conditions, on the way. for the rest of tonight. so we will talk about what we can expect as we go through the rest of the evening into tonight. those showers will exit from the west to east direction off the coast temperatures, however, tonight will be fall in the middle to upper 20's which means any wet roads, any slush will quickly refreeze, and ice up and then we're tracking a clipper system that moves in as early as tomorrow night. and into monday morning. so sat the light six with

action radar pulls you off to the northern plains. this is the clipper system we're tracking coming out of canada diving in the northern plains. this will work eastward as early a as sunday night into monday, bringing in another round of snow, take a closer look at the system and we will look at expect snow fall for monday with the accu weather forecast walter. >> thank you melissa. keep track of wintry conditions moving through our area with six abc.com. storm tracker six radar live is always there for you with the seven day and hourly forecast. of course that includes any posted watches and warnings. it is all right there, right now on six abc.com/weather. and it was tough getting around earlier this morning but as noon time approached rain washed away a lot of the remaining slush from major roadways. "action news" reporter nora muchanic has more. >> reporter: just look at how heavily the snow was coming down in quakertown earlier this morning, clinging to branches and weighing them down this couple decided a smiling snow man that they found had just the right look for a snowy selfie.

>> it was snowing by us. buckingham was all done, snow, rain. the a as we came up this way, that is where it was rain and snow. >> reporter: tri-state area was blanketed in several areas of snow. how deep depended on where you are. this is what it looked like on the streets have mt. airy before dawn. if you were out driving road were passable and eventually the rain washed snow away in many places. but drivers say that things were dicey at times. >> i had a guy this morning on 309, stop in the middle of the road. he was cleaning the the snow off his car. i a said this is a bad idea. >> reporter: they call it freezing for a reason. today snowstorm was not enough to stop hundreds of people from taking a polar plunge, into the frigid water of the delaware river. it happen pattern in mini state park at noon time and the goal, was to raise money for special olympics pennsylvania. the the screams give you an idea what it is like to jump in to water that is 38 degrees. >> freezing. i mean it feels like my legs were going to fall off it is

so cold but it is for a good cause. it was well worth it. >> reporter: most people would rather deal with the snow, then a swim like that. >> it is rough. in town it is not the too bad. they did a good job salting. but i had somebody stop on me quick i quickly and i slipped a little bit. >> the the road are wet. some a accumulation up here but nothing down. so it has been easy for us. >> reporter: so this snow event didn't turnout to be so bad, don't relax yet, is there still more coming our way n bensalem i'm nora muchanic for channel six "action news". developing news out of atlanta where two bomb threats forced norad to get fighter jets in the air this afternoon. threats which were sent through twitter targeted a delta flight and southwest flight landing at heartsfield jackson international airport. officials also say this they deem those threats as credible. the flights both landed safely and the planes are being swept for explosives. the the threat originated from

a twitter account that had only 11 total tweets, ten of which are related to threat begins airlines. there is new information tonight, linked to a hit and run in port richmond that ended with a grandmother in a comb a6 five-year old carmen ramos is recovering from severe injuries she suffered when she was hit while her family and philadelphia police are pleading with information to find the the person responsible. "action news" reporter kenneth moton joins us live at the scene, of the 3100 block of cedar street with an up dade kenneth. >> reporter: well, walter, tonight the good news is that the six five-year old grandmother is doing better. the bad nefs, yes, police are still searching for the driver who hit her on the street and left her to die. this is six five-year old carmen ramos a full of life type of woman who just loved to dress up in silly clothes and have fun with her grand kids. but her family says she was almost taken away in an instant on this port richmond street. >> we all heard an impact but i heard my sister screaming,

nobody realized that my mother was hit by a car. >> reporter: family members say three weeks ago on friday, january 2nd, around 5:00 p.m. ramos was about to get in a car on the 31 hundred block of cedar street when a passing vehicle struck her. the impact took out the the passenger side mirror of the dark colored ford explorer before the driver just simply kept going. >> a man has an accident, maybe it wasn't an accident. all they had to do was stop. >> mommies human. the it could have been their mother or daughter or anyone that they love. please step forward and help my mom. help us understand what happened that night. >> reporter: ramos who lives in juniata was here in port richmond spending time with her family for the holidays. she was in a coma, until this week. ramos came out of it she's responsive. she's breathing on her own. >> my mother, she would have helped anybody in the streets. me growing up young i remember her bringing people up the street just to feed them soup, you know, just for lunch to give them something hot in their stomach. >> reporter: now their family is looking for help to find

the hit and run driver of the 195 to 1998 ford explorer, which could still have damage to its front right passenger side. >> once he sees it, and he realizes that he hit a person, he will do the right thing. i know he well. i forgive him. >> reporter: well, police continue their search for this hit and run driver, carmen ramos has a long road a ahead. her family says that she still cannot speak and she will be most likely moved to the rehab center in a few days walter. reporting live from port richmond kenneth moton for channel six "action news". >> kennel, thanks for that report. an investigation is underway in the carbon monoxide incident in the olney section today. two people were sent to the hospital. it happen just before 4:00 this afternoon on the 300 block of roosevelt boulevard. neighbors here complained of headaches. officials say that the situation was under control in about a half an hour. no word tonight where the carbon monoxide was coming from. in delaware, police are searching for two thieves who robbed a bank this afternoon. it happened at the wells fargo

branch on the 800 block of philadelphia pike in bellefonte. investigators say two armed men held up the bank around a noon and fled with cash. one suspect was wearing a mask. there is no word yet tonight if witnesses or cameras got a good lot at other. last night's nor'easter was no match for parents determined to get their children into school lane charter school in bensalem. a whole bunch of moms ape dads as you can see camped out outside overnight in order to be first in line this morning for sign ups. officials say, they are not sure how many spots are opening up in other grades but as for the kindergarten class starting this fall only 125 spots are available a. simply current students are given first crack at opened slots and then bensalem residents and then out of towners. >> i just want to give her an opportunity to hopefully get her into this charter school to do a good job. she's a good student. we give a chance for the students to learn outside of the box. we don't do things the the

normal memory way. >> meanwhile, many of these parents will to have wait until march to find out if their frosty overnight camp out was worth it. so what will philadelphia a look like 15 years from right now. today thousands of middle schoolers took part in the annual future city competition, at archbishop john carol high school, to show us their visions for the city. for months these middle schoolers have been developing new ideas for sustainable farming, in particular in and around cities. first place winners will head to the national future city finals in washington d.c. all right. much more to coming on "action news" tonight, an update on the the islamic terrorist holding japanese hostages. they say only one remains as isis makes new demand. former eagles quarterback donovan mcnabb is in town weighing in on the deflate gate controversy. what he says tom brady should have done. jeff skversky has the story in sports when "action news" comes right back.

volunteers will search again tomorrow for a young mother who disappeared from her home in delaware two weeks ago. keisha hamilton went missing january 11th a along with her two children age four years and four months. the the children were found with their cortez hamilton in indian at next day. cortez hamilton has been since a arrested on charges including child endangerment and assault but keisha has not been seen or heard from ever since. her family is organizing a search which will start at the chest world fire station at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow. philadelphia city council member ken johnson kick off his reelection campaign today. large crowd gather at programs employing people office in center city this afternoon among these showing their support nor johnson former pennsylvania governor ed rendell and philadelphia's mayor michael nutter. well, members of the terror group isis claim a japanese hostage has been beheaded. is is threatened to execute two japanese men they captured

unless they received a 200 million-dollar ransom the deadline passed yesterday. video posted by known supporter shows one of the hostages holding a picture of the other man who was allegedly bee headed. isis terrorist are demanding the release of the female prisoner being detain in the nation of jordan. he was known as mr. cub and tonight the city of chicago, along with sports fans every where, are mourning the loss of ernie banks. banks was a hall of fame slugger and two time mvp who spent his entire career with the cubs never losing hope that the cubs would some day win a world series. a as we know, they never did. even of course during his tenure from 1953 to 1971. after hitting his 500th home run ernie sum up his love of the game by saying quote the richest of a game are in the the thrills, not the money. ernie banks was 83 years old. sports is next.

okay. jeff skversky has a check on sports and deflate gate is not going anywhere anytime soon apparently. >> it the is not. bill belichick is spending more time doing research on pressure, and air then he is the the super bowl and seattle. move over, bill nye the the science guy bill belichick sound like a mad scientist on tv today. patriots coach is talking atmospheric pressure eke lynn brum and temperature, as he trying to deflate deflate gate. belichick says patriots ran their own experiments, to simulate what may have happened last sunday, in the afc championship game that led to the footballs being under inflated. they did not tamper with any of the footballs,ing ising perhaps that the rain cold weather conditions in foxboro, changed the the air pressure in those footballs.

>> i'm embarrassing, to talk about the amount of time, that i have put into this, i'm not a scientists, i'm not an expert in footballs i'm not an expert at football measurements, i would not say that i'm mona alyss a of the football world. at no time was there any intent whatsoever to try to compromise the the inn telling grit of the game or to gain an advantage. quite the opposite. we feel like we followed the rules of the game, to the letter. >> now the patriots, as successful as they have been, have not won the super bowl since beating donovan mcnabb and a eagles ten years ago. since they were found out they were guilty in another scandal spy gate. we caught up with mcnabb to get his take on deflate gate. as a former quarterback he is all too familiar with preparing a fat ball for game day. the here's what mcnabb says about patriots quarterback tom

brady. >> i think that tom just kind of said what was on his mind. i felt that he could have, you know, opened it up more and took a little will bit more responsibility but, you know that is new england and they are going through something right now. but their main focus should be winning the super bowl. >> you want every team to follow the rules. rules are there and put in place so it is a level playing field and so that the game has integrity. it is disappoint to go hear a team you have respect for. >> we caught up with brian westbrook signing autographs in haverford. nhl weekend continues in columbus flyers captain included giroux and jake voracek are no longer teammates. at least for the next two days. they will play on opposite teams. giroux and voracek will go head to head in the skills competition in the break away challenge. voracek is an emerging star, he lead the league in points as he return to columbus, where he remember he started his nhl career.

sixers are in memphis tonight at 8:00 trying to rebound from yet another loss last night. last time they faced grizzlies, sixers lost in overtime, last month. sixers really, 15 to nothing lead to start the game last night against toronto. in the fourth that nine-point lead with six to go, vanishing, thanks to villanova and cardinal dougherty storm kyle lowery. nba all-star now. he scored 17 of his 21 points in the fourth. the the sixers have dropped four in a row overall and eight of their last nine on the road. college hoops, st. joseph's at palestra tonight against penn. hawks considered the the home team tonight in this big five battle. drexel on the run against charleston today. how about the second half damon lee to tevan allen. drexel within two. seventeen seconds left lee for three. yes. and the lead. drexel hangs on to win 53-51. hitting a last second shot at the buzzer. dragons have won two of three.

perhaps getting things going here in the the right direction. >> thanks, jeff. up next on "action news" meteorologist melissa magee has the the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast, stick around.

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okay. time for a final check of the accu weather forecast. and melissa says a more snow is coming. >> i know. >> i didn't say it. >> we get rid of the nor'easter and then sunday into monday we are tracking threat of more snow. sunday looks like a very interesting day,es specially monday. we will talk about the details with that. storm tracker six live double scan radar showing it is dry

and quiet. notice precipitation right now. all of the moisture we had earlier today is moving off shore and moving off to the north and ease. we will show you the picture outside. action cam was outside earlier this afternoon. we are going to give you a shot of logan's square and a memorial fountain it is frozen over. look at the slush, on the sidewalks, and on the concrete. temperatures right now later on tonight will drop below freezing and in the middle 20's which means things will ice up fairly quickly across the delaware and lehigh valleys. give yourself extra time use some caution out and about. some more snowfall totals to share with you. macungie, lehigh county 8 inches of snow. allentown 7.8. martin's creek 7.3. east nanmeal 4.5 inches of have snowfall. burlington 2.8 inches. in philadelphia we pick up an inch, before things transitioned and change over to rain. outside tonight when you look at the the temperatures, most spots in the upper 30's. the wind chills with those west to northeasterly wind makes it feel like 30 in the city. the current wind chill in

trenton 31. beach haven 39. thirty-four in the poconos. current wind chill lancaster of 26 degrees. satellite six with action raid are a. the thinks our storm system we had for a start of the weekend. very messy start here on our saturday. that storm system is departing to the north and east. that nor'easter is out of here just as we say good bye to one storm, we're tracking a clipper system that will arrive, owe sat the light six with action radar shows you that clipper, diving out of the, canada region, moving into northern plains. this will work its the way eastward as early as sunday night into monday. we will time it out and future tracker six showing you most of the day tomorrow we will be dry. 9:00 in the morning. mostly sunny start. and as the day wears on sun will give way to increasing cloud. we're still dry at 9:00 o'clock on sunday night. then we will track that precipitation that will arrive after midnight. it is going to be a colder day sunday night into monday. the air will be dryer. so the snow will stick fairly quickly after midnight, and then the problem it will continue, for the commute tomorrow morning.

and this looks like a prolonged period of snow, where now we will have to allow for that snow to continue for most of the the day, on monday. so, what does this arctic boundary moving through and area have low pressure riding up along that the heavier of the snowfall with this clipper on monday will fall south of philadelphia expected snowfall in the early call, across area in ocean, burlington, counties south and west philadelphia, included in that 3-inch line but three to six south and east of the city and one to 3 inches as you move north. the problem with this clip ever system it looks like it wants to intensify off the coast monday night into tuesday. so something else to watch out for. future tracker six showing thaw storm system and that moisture monday night into tuesday, could pull west ward across the region. so a couple of things to watch out for as we watch the coast monday night into tuesday, key factors, the development of the low, the strength of the storm, and the the track of the system is going to determine the amount of precipitation that we see monday night into tuesday. so, a lot to watch out for in the the short term.

the accu weather forecast is showing you a as we go throughout the day on sunday high temperature up to 42 degrees. sun and clouds. we're dry. on monday light snow for most of the the day it is a colder day, high of 29. the problem will be monday night into tuesday, where we will have to watch the coast with the threat of more snow depending on the track of the system. high of 28. on wednesday, sunny and cold, 30. upper 30's as we get into the end of next week walter. we will track monday, very closely. >> here we go. >> yes. >> it is winter. >> thanks, melissa. world newsweek end is next. for melissa magee jeff skversky and the entire "action news" team, i'm walter perez. we'll you right back here at 11:00 o'clock. >> ♪♪

welcome to "world news tonight." breaking news. u.s. fighter jets scrambling after bomb threats made to two mid-air flights. those planes escorted to safety. the passengers on the tarmac. the bomb squad there, too. what's behind the scare? hostage crisis -- terrorists striking again. this man beheaded by isis. their cruel message and what they are demanding now. deflategate. the patriots coach defiant tonight saying his team did nothing wrong. the scandal over the super bowl. how did those footballs lose air? and, the littlest hero, the 4-year-old who knew just what to do when her mother got sick. >> my mom is really pregnant and she really needs help. how she saved her mom and baby brother, too.