>> good afternoon. sarah bloom squiingt off. in the news republican senator lyndsey gram dropped out of the race for the whitehouse.

and three men are shot during an argument as they were watching the eagles game at a home last evening. the big story on "action news" at noon is investigation into yesterday's deadly crash in northeast philadelphia. three women died when their car slammed into a parked truck and burst into flames. today we're learning more about the victim as police work to find out why the truck was stopped in the first place. "action news" reporter annie mccormick is live outside of the accidents investigation unit in north philadelphia with the latest. annie. >> and rick, friends have identified two of the women killed in the crash. police are still working to identify all three. they say that at this point it's not clear if alcohol was a factor in this investigation and it's still ongoing. more than 24 hours after the fiery crash that left three women dead a memorial at rhawn and torresdale continues to grow. stephanie williams came before work this morning to light candles. >> they are friendly and we

were at the bar around the corner they had a big heart for everybody around. >> dozens held a vigil sunday night. friends identified two of the women killed at 25-year-old imoni hill and gia afgarian the camaro they were in was traveling fast headed torresdale 3 a.m. sunday and the camaro crashed into a parked tractor-trailer carrying herb size and fuel from that went to another causing it to go up in flames. witnesses tried to help and the had matt team responded. >> witnesses on the scene said that they could hear people screaming from inside the car and attempted to rendered aid to them but he could not get to the vehicle due to the flames. >> by monday morning only cable crews remained at the scene and charred remains were hauled away sunday and neighbors are frustrated that drivers with constantly speeding here and truckser leave their rigs here on torresdale stopped for days at a time.

>> these tractor-trailers pose a danger. >> yes, they're always there i lived in this neighborhood for 40 years. tlair always there. >> and the operators of the tractor-trailers were not in vehicles at the time of the crash and it's not clear if they face penalties for being parked owe on the side of the road. annie mccormick, "channel 6 action news." rick. >> annie, thank you. trashy and chaos on a las vegas strip after a car jumps a curb and slams into a crowd of people. police have a woman in custody as the investigation continuesment authorities believe the woman intentionally drove on to the sidewalk two times last night hitting pedestrians in front of casinos and hotels. one person was killed. five other victims remain hospitalized. police say the driver is having her blood tested and being held in jail while charges pending. a 3-year-old child was in the car with the suspect and was not hurt. no word yet on a motive for the crash. >> and back here, two people

were flown to hospital this morning after serious accident in wood land township, burlington county. 6 was over the collision involving two vapz on route 72 after 6 a.m. near warren whit whiting road. both injured people were trapped and had to be recued from their vehicles. new jersey state police are trying to determine what cause the accident. and philadelphia police are looking for the man that shot three people in west oak lane during an argument last night. and it happened before midnight here on the 8300 block of gilbert street. officials say the argument erupted as the four men was watching eagles game in a garage and it's not clear if they were actually arguing over the game itself. and a 51-year-old suspect alleged opened fire on the three others killing one of them. and the two other victims were taken to einstein hospital. they know who the suspects is and have not released his name yet and he's not been apprehended. >> investigators say a space heater is to blame for a fire in newark, delaware this

morning. around 10:00 the flames broke out of the home here on the 200 block of edge hill drive. firefighters got the fire under control and not before one man inside suffered smoke inhalation and he was type christianne hospital. investigatetors say a space heat anywhere the bedroom was placed too close to combustible materials. there were no smoke alarms in the house. two adults and five children live here but now they will need another place to stay. and on the weather front, winter officials arrives before midnight tonight and will hartdly feel like it as we countdown christmas this week and maybe chillest day of the week with temperatures in mid 50s as we look live from sky6hd wilmington now not a lot of sunshine at this hour and in fact we could see overcast skies for most of the week and we will still stay on the mild side. christmas will not be white but warm. with more opt forecast meteorologist karen rogers is in for david murphy at the big board. hi, karen. >> hi, rick, you saw that image

with sky6. we have lots of clouds above. we are on the mild side. 51 currently in philadelphia. 49 pittsburgh and 47 roanoke and 57 richmond. when you change this to the 24 hour temperature change we're 11 degrees warmer than we were that point yesterday. it's quite a jump in 24 hours it was feeling the winter chill over the weekend not the case today where temperatures already in the 50s even soaring from there. satellite 6 and action radar showing we have a good amount of cloud cover through the region and you can start to see holes in the clouds here or there and getting a little sunshine breaking through and you can seat rain throughout to the west. that's going to be moving in overnight tonight and tomorrow so today, during the day, we're dry. what can you expect as you head out for your evening commute. we will keep the cloud covers. break here or there in the clouds. mild, dry, no problem if you run errands and get ready for the holiday or commuting home by 4 p.m., 55 degrees. high today 56 coming down from

5:30, 5 3 and holding 50s, even at 7:00. mild night overnight. i want to show you stormtracker 6 live 3-d this is the rain on the way. today is the dry day. and the next couple of days we're expecting rain. we will have all the details on that coming up in the 7 day forecast in just a few minutes, rick. >> all right. karen. we'll check back in later. thank you, turning to politics the republican race for the white house is smaller today. and senator lyndsey gram says he is 2kr07ing out. meanwhile there's a new feud between hillary clinton and donald trump after saturday's democratic debate. megan hughes is following the latest developments from washington. megan. >> reporter: rick, good afternoon, donald 2ru78p is calling hill he'll a liar and the democratic front runner is on the defensive. he has kept fact checkers busy from celebrating 9/11 in new jersey and matt lauer in a

phone interview with a today show he wants apology from the democratic front runner for unsubstantiated statements. >> i will demand an apology from hillary. she should apologize. >> the demand stem from this claim made during saturday "abc news" democratic debate. >> he's becoming isis's best recruiter. they are going to people showing videos of donald trump insulting islam and muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists. >> clinton's campaign unable to prove a video exhibit. >> do you have a particular video in mind. >> he's being used in social media. >> one viewer staffer and two us is spended and bernie saunders says he's sorry for campaign breach of voter database. >> yes i apologize. >> on the sgxt op size lyndsey gram announces he's out. >> i'm us is spending my bam pain but never any commitment. >> they're crisscrossing new hampshire. mark owe rubio in rochester.

>> i want us to be the united states in america. the new hampshire primary is 60 days away. trump has sizable lead in the polls there. cruz, christie and rubio all close for the second place spot. in washington, megan hughes, "channel 6 action news." rick. >> megan, thank you. today is the deadline for atlantic city to refund the borgata hotel casino. more than $62 millionment mayor done guardian says the city cannot afford to pay the tax refunds by a tax court and brigatta is ordering the city to play that could lead toe city assets or municipal bankruptcy filing. >> it's another disappointing monday for eagles fans. birds lost to the cardinals last night lincoln financial field and they must win the finalal to games in order to make the playoffs. final core, 40-17, eagles were

within reach after the half but turned it over on three straight drives. coach chip kelly talked about last night's meltdown. >> biggest disappointment was we did not tackle well. and that's really write look at it defensively we didn't tackle offensively we turned the ball over. >> the good news we have to have a short memory and learn from this one and get ready for saturday it's coming quick and next two games are really important. >> eagle koz clinchp nfc east and playoff spot if they beat watch ton sunday and giants on the road on january 3. still to come on "action news" at noon comedian steve harvey makes a big mistake on live tv and his apology after he announced the wrong winner at the miss universe pageant and also a fake bomb discovered on a packed plane. vehicletors have a than custody for the scare that led to 34-7b8g landing. those story as and a check of the forecast when "action news" continues. first here's a holiday greeting from one of the local service members who is serving away if

from home. ♪ my name is staff sergeant an astaishia friday with the 557 expedition arie red quad ron from new mexico and i wanted to wish everybody back home merry christmas and happy new year especially mom, dad, and scott. christmas and happy new year especially mom, dad, and scott. have a good one. pa

>> rescueers in china serving for people missing following a land slide. more than 30 buildings buried or damaged when a massive pile of soil and waste class f clas classed industrial park near hong kong. this is the fourth major sdaingt to happen anyone china over the last year following a new year's eve tam is period me shanghai and capsized cruise ship and massive warehouse explosion near beijing. >> americans are feared to be among dead in suicide bomb attack in afghanistan. nato says six of soldiers were

killed that tack today on joint units and afghan patrol outside gwam air base and three others wounded nato not confirmed nationalitys of victims and taliban claimed responsibility of attack in email toll associated press. a man is in custody in connection with bomb hoax that forced air france flight make an emergency landing and all 459 passengers and 14 crew members arrived savely back in paris today. the flight, to paris. landed in kenya yesterday after what looked like a bomb was discovered in the airplane's restroom the man in custody ways passenger on the flight apparently. and the second largest school district in new hampshire is closed today due it a threat of violence. police say administrator received the detailed threat in email yesterday and message made reference to two specific schools. but authorities chose toe close all schools in the district as i precaution and officials are now working to determine ft.

threat was credible. in the meantime all schools are expected to reon tomorrow. >> american astronauts sit out on a space walk of the international space station and had to fix a jammed rail car. nasa one year space man scott kelly and astronaut timothy copra was put on the task and it stalled outside the orbiting lab and had to release brakes. space venture more than 250 miles above early was not planned they had to get a cargo ship filled with food and supplies can dock there on wednesday. >> meanwhile a private company is trying to launch a company. space x set to launch falcon nine rocket from the cape can after val florida later tonight the company's space flight were put on hold since one of the rockets exploded in june. unmanned flight was delivering cargo to the international space station. today's mission will try to safely land a rocket after

flight allowing ings to reuse it and make flight far cheaper. >> "action news" at noon, gas price milestone reached over the weekend and find out how police are repaying-year-old girl that gave way all of her own birthday gifts to help other children. those stories and much more other children. those stories and much more when we come right back.

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>> well the average price of a gallon of regular lar gas dropped to $2 nationwide. aa says it fell to the $2 level

officially yesterday. more than two-thirds of station as cross the u.s. have been selling gas below that price over the last few weeks. so far this year the cheaper gas put an estimated $540 back in driver's pockets. gas in philadelphia going for 2.22 down from 2.68 a year ago according to aaa. and employees at ups gearing up for buzzest day of the year tomorrow the company expects to deliver 36 million packages a mill ormore than last year. reserveers say online sales account for 50% of shopping during the holidays it leaves fedex and ups with 947 million packages to deliver between black friday and christmas eve. >> turning to "healthcheck" at noon researcherrors discovered another possible benefit from one particular diet. a study found a high fat low cash plan may be effective at treating schizophrenia.

australian scientist found positive effect in mice they weighed less and had lower blood sugar levels after the die theet. it may alter certain brain chemical. it's become a weight loss method for body builders and used to manage epilepsy in children. >> the "action news" team is working on stories tonight binning 4:00 including reason some are calling christmas classic baby it's cold outside one of creepest of all time speaking of christmas we're at the home trech forbe the holidays from hopping so wrapping to cooking alicia vitareli has last minute entertaining to make it look like you spent a lot of time and money without putting in a lot of either. >> in the meantime accuweather is right around the kovrner as we look live at sky6 along the ben franklin bridge. meteorologist karen rogers will have the forecast when we come meteorologist karen rogers will have the forecast when we come back.

>> meteorologist karen rogers is back now wenter officially arriving what 11:48 tonight? >> yes t and it will feel like springtime. >> my kind of weather. >> perfect sense. >> stormtracker 6 double scan around the region we're dry in philadelphia and surrounding area an you can start to see near harrisburg showers move in we've been talking about still late, late tonight and tomorrow as well. and so the daytime today staying dry. let's go outside and see what it looks like right now. why don't we? the action cam out and about and you can row on the schuylkill. it's not too cold. there's a lot of things people enjoy this time of year they normally can't do because temperatures mild. it's pretty good. let's check numbers. 51 right now in philadelphia. dewpoint is 32. so still pretty low. there needs to be air saturated before the showers move n winds

southwest picking up. a gusty breeze out there and out of the southwest mild. currently 15 miles an hour and barometric pressure falling and satellite 6 and action radar showing lots of cloud cover and see the clouds break up here and there and some sunshine. here's the rain trying to move in. i think we'll stay dry during the day and that hits us late tonight into the overnight hours and couple wet days coming up in the 7 day forecast. here's a wider look at that rain. so that front is still out of here ahead of that we have milder conditions and it's milder than it was over the weekend and although lots of clouds and here comes the rain on the way and it's tonight and tomorrow. we will start to see that. and look ago head by 3 p.m., 5 56. that's the high today. and maybe not terribly pretty day and maybe not a lot of sunshine out there and mild. you can run around and get errands done whatever you need 5 p.m., 50. we'll hold temperatures in the low 50s. check out the overnight low. this time of year 51. so in the overnight hours we're staying well above the average

high. and even for this case. we're talking about very warm conditions even though the winter solstice is approaching it happens tonight 11:48 this is when the sun's direct raise are over the tropic of capper corn and we have longest day and night and that will happen before we know it. future tracker 6 we can advance the rainfall. looking at:30 in the morning on tuesday and you're seeing rain here or there through the region and periods of it on and off at 4:00 not looking tear bally wet. this is new model run and we're seeing a few showers around here or there and tomorrow, it will be wet at times and we'll see even more potential for rain coming up in the 7-day forecast and really looking to christmas eve. record warmth. we may shatter other record high as temperatures go into the 7 0s. you can can see that in the dlusive accuweather forecast 7 day. mild today. 66 for the high. tomorrow we have some showers around at times.

64 for the high. it won't rain all day. on wednesday, the potential for dense fog and it's going to be rainy, 66 for the high. tieing record high on thursday record warmth for christmas ev eve. record is 64. 741 what we expect with shower showers. and on friday, mostly sunny skies and we're dry for christmas day and 64 degrees. still well above average. saturday as you start kwanzaa 59 for eagles you could see a period of rain and sunday cloudy and damp 59. so temperatures going way up there, rick. >> all right. thank you, karen. >> a child in massachusetts made a gesture for other kids in need. 9-year-old savana donated her own birthday gift for toys for tots and the fifth grader brought it to the local police department and the officers shared her again rossty on fashion book page and her story as gone viral. police thanked her with a certificate of recognition at her school and a $100 gift card and there's more to come in the next half hour of "action news"

at noon. "star wars" shatters box office record over the weekend and millions of the franchise newest installment brought in is moving to theater areas round the clock. and plus unique exhibit is on display at the pennsylvania academy of fine arts. we'll take you behind the scenes in this week's 6abc loves the arts. those stories and more when we loves the arts. those stories and more when we come right back.

>> hello again sarah off and here are some of the stories on "action news" at 12:30 driver under arrest in middle of las vegas strip and search for aflewen saturday teenager is intency fewing. and they are but out an award for his arrest. >> pope francis to vatican officials in the annual christmas message. now the details one woman was arrested during a deadly crash middle of las vegas strip >> randy has hor. >> rick, we learn the woman killed on the las vegas strip in hit-and-run is a 32-year-old woman from arizona ar. police say the driver, who is now under arrest. is african-american woman fro