"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy.

good afternoon sara bloomquist is off and in the news a limo driver is shot and killed behind the wheel the investigation into the deadly attack and one local neighborhood is covered in ice what caused this mess along a city street in philadelphia? but the big story is the coldest weather we have felt in decade. the city of trenton hit a record oh of zero. and the entire region is in a deep freeze chopper 6 hd giving us a birds eye view of the frozen schuylkill river oil reporter eva pilgram is outside on the bitter cold with how folks are coping but first lets get the latest from melissa magee, in for david murphy at the big board. >> hi rick, it was a cold start to our friday and record cold in

elections, the record was 1 set in 1979, today coming in with a record low of 2 degrees, trenton coming in at 0, 2 degrees as well in dover so making some new records this morning in those locations. this is what you felt when you stepped outdoors this morning. 35 degrees below zero. and along the coast in lakehurst it felt like 18 degrees below zero and not much recovery. 26 miles per hour in wilmington and 27 miles per hour gusts in beach haven current windchills are still below zero, 3 degree below in philadelphia 7 below in trenton and 6 degrees boo low

in wildwood. temperatures are at zero if not below for the rest of the day. we are tracking snow on saturday and changing over to a messing mix. >> thank you melissa. meanwhile, the warm is causing all kinds of headaches, this car is frozen in place right outside of the owner's house, he tells "action news" that water is tripping from a vacant home immediately turns to ice, it stretches through much of the road in the overbrook park section, "action news" is waiting to hear from the water department in what they plan to do if anything. and epva pilgram is outside in

the biting winds and you remembered your hat today. >> reporter: yes, the sun is out and it feels better than it did earlier this morning when we were out. >> here is this thermometer, you take the reading it's staying negative 14 in the shade and that is why it's so important to bundle up when you head out this morning and this afternoon, for the people that commuted into the city early this morning, it was brutally cold. >> too cold to be out. tremendously cold today. cold i want to go to work and get into the warm and. >> it did not give these people a pass for not going to work today. >> very four to five layers, a sweater and fleece and hoody. >> it's heavy walking. yes, yes. >> septa crews came in to get

the rails heated and moving. when temperatures drop this extreme equipment just doesn't work the same. >> wires when things expand in this kind of cold things contract. we slow our vehicles down to make sure we are not coming off a wire and coming off a problem. >> riders say they knew this morning it would be bad it doesn't matter how many layers you put on nothing blocks this kind of chill. >> stay in. >> yes, if you can just stay inside. the sun makes it look like it could be warm outside but the sun is lying to you this afternoon it's cold. once you hit the shade and the wind hits you it really hurlts so bundle up as you head

outside. we are live in center city, eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. of course as the temperatures drop stick with 6abc.com/weather, there we have both the hourly and seven-day forecast, so you can be prepared so matter how cold it gets. a 60-year-old is in critical condition after being hit by an suv, paramedics found her lying on the concord pike and he was taken to the hospital with head and chest injury,s the driver did not nearby. a taxi driver was rescued from his cab after a head-on collision with a suspected drunk driver in center city philadelphia. the roof was torn from the taxi and he is in critical condition,

the driver faces various charges including dui. a deadly attack on a limousine driver remains under investigation, at least two suspects were involved in the shooting last night. vernon odom is here with an update on the case. >> reporter: rick, at this hour, police have not released the name of the victim the limo driver they do not believe this is a robbery as this investigation goes forward today. the murder went down in olney at 9:00 witnesses told police there were two gunman that opened fire outside of the limo that later crashed into a telephone pole and the suspects fled on foot. >> there is no obviously right now that he was robbed. that is definitely a

possibility, often time cab drivers, or in this case limo driver often times it's robbery, it's something we'll take a look at. >> police do not believe this was a robbery attempt. they are saying little more, there are many surveillance cameras in that area including at that nearby septa station in olney and they'll be taking a look and detectives are gathering surveillance foot able to catch up with the two murders this hour. >> thank you. homicide detectives are looking for the gunman that fired seven bulletses into a car killing a 39-year-old man. the gun fire erupted in north philadelphia on silver street the victim was pronounced dead on the scene. officials are still working

to determine how a drug resistant super bug spread so quickly at a hospital in los angeles including an 18-year-old student who has been sick for months now. car be travers is following the story from washington. >> reporter: good afternoon rick, officials at ucla are apologizing for the stress that this outbreak is causing their patients and they have put even stricter guidelines on sanitization. they are scrambling to contain the drug resistant bacteria known as cre. the super bug is believed to have been spread with contaminated scopes, they are

inserted down a patient's throat with a microscopic camera used to look at organs. so far there are seven confirms cases and the outbreak may have contributed to two deaths. >> the patients developed severe fevers and sep tx is. his prognosis is guarded but optimistic. >> they followed the guidelines for sterileation of the scopes there is literally no

antibiotics to be used to treat this bacteria. >> karen thank you. back here excitement is building on penn state's campus today, the largest student run philanthropic event is about to get underway it's called thon, the 46 hour dance marathon raises millions to help fight pediatric cancer last year all the students involved raised more than $13 million for the cause, the action cam will be in state college all week long by the way and look for chad pradelli's live reports starting on "action news" at 4:00. still to come, we are two days away from the oscars. and police are cracking down on what many of us forget or refuse to do in the winter weather the punishment for drivers that do

not clean the snow off their cars. and melissa magee is back with another look at the seven-day forecast from ac warn.

there is another twist in the road rage killing in las

vegas. they believe the suspect is the gunman that killed 44-year-old tammy myers last week. they believed that the shooting was random but now tammy's husband says that he was no stranger, and that his wife gave him money and tried to teach him how to be a man. >> he knew where i lived. we knew how bad he was but not that he got to point. we learned that myers and her son who was armed when looking for the man in the road rage incident and a second suspect may have been in the credit wa rousch. and now a man walked into a school and tried to nap a student. joshua brown walked into a school picked up a 7-year-old

girl and tried to walk away with him, the boy started shouting that brown was a stranger and he dropped the boy and ran out and was found hiding in a nearby backyard. state troopers in new hampshire are findingedinge ing people that do not clear the snow off their car. the driver was forced to wipe it off before he was allowed to keep going. hollywood boulevard is bustling with just two days left until the 87th annual oscars the focus now is on the finishing touches including painting and polish of these giant statues we'll find out how the real statues are handed out in our next half our as alicia vitarelli looks at the voting process in l.a. and

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tracking its way eastward and there is a threat of snow, the action cam and chopper 6 hd out earlier today and this morning giving you a shot of delaware river and the battleship new jersey you can see the ice surrounding the battleship, it's a concern with the temperatures below freezing. philadelphia 12 degrees the dew point minus 10 and winds outs of the west at 14 miles per hour. temperatures outside this afternoon in the lower teens if not the single digits. 9 in allentown 12 in philadelphia and the winds are constant 12 to 15 miles per hour from the northwest. it feels like 3 degrees below zero in philadelphia and allentown 7 degrees below and 6 below in wildwood. here is satellite 6 along with

action radar we have plenty of sunshine overhead with a mostly sunny skies with the arctic high pressure in control. temperatures stay well below average, we have the die planner 3:00 this afternoon, temperatures in the teens, same thing 5:00 this evening 13 degrees is the number at 9:00 tonight and you'll want to dress for windchills below zero. fast forward into saturday 9:30 in the morning sun giving way to high clouds and into the afternoon hours you can see by 2:30 in the afternoon tracking low pressure coming up from the tennessee valley snow breaking out from the poconos through the 95 corridor it continues at 5:00 in the evening across the region. as far as suspected snowfall 1 to 3 inches in philadelphia and 3 to 6 inches as you move across northern chester and bucks and

points to the north and west. this storm system will transition over to rain later in the day can you see a quick change over to rain in areas of south jersey and mix at the i-95 corridor and snow to the north and west. but it's the mixed precipitation in our northwest suburbs changing over to rain in most locations intosaturday we are tracking the evening snow and rain into saturday or sunday i should say with a high of 46 and back down below freezing into next monday. but the weekend is tricky especially saturday. >> thank you melissa.

"action news" at 12:30 continues with rick williams sara bloomquist and meteorologist, david murphy. >> hello again here are the story stories we are following at 12:30. arctic air is breaking records in the area and the dangerous cold is threatening people

around the area. and later we are just two days from hollywood's biggest night, alicia vitarelli takes us inside of the voting process for sunday's oscars. but first, we begin with breaking news out of center city, a suspected bank robber is arrested on the ben franklin parkway, chopper 6 hd through over the scene a short time ago. the suspect robbed a susquehanna bank branch and he was tracked down, and no word on the man's identity yet is he in police custody after a short chase that ended on the ben franklin parkway. and now the details on the dangerous cold in our region and what mother nature has in store this weekend. in trenton, wilmington and dover the records were