>> 24 hours tracker dogs tracked the effort and release of trackers high and low and far there's no sign far there's no sign of vega.

>> the search and rescue teams are still canvassing neighborhoods and at o point the family got reports the 5 the family got reports the 5-year-old was picked up various points around town and those d up dd end leads and the fily tells "action news" they're hoping for the best and fear t worst. >> and aentown police called in air support and for more resources on ground aubrey a south t last known location of missing yr-old vega. >> he's outgoing a adventurous and he can go pretty far. >> really. >> is that what wore ry >> is that what wore juries you. >> yes, a lot i don't know wt he's getting into and where he's staying at and how he's sure vaiving. >> she says her autistic brother bolted from the family new year's eve party 11 thursday night wearing minimal clothes and carrying ipad they believe no longeras a charge. >> as time continues t ay what's the

fear for yo >> if he starts dying oy because ever the cold. >> cold wther is most serious challenge at this point in time challenge at this point in time. >> k-9 river comb the rivers and parks for a clues and asking residents for tir safety to stay out of wooded areas in effort to maintain integrity of sble trail or scent. >> we ran up and down streets and been in sheds. >> and tt's the trying thing about it to a point it's almost 24 hours. >> it that reality becoming cause for concern for family members. >> i hope hs finding something warm at least cover probably you know trying to get his own warmth and body heat. >> now police eooking for surveillance footage in the area to try ttrack the boy's movement and ye with information is asked to contact allentown police. reporting le in allentown christie ilefo "action news." >> thank you, christie.

let's switch live to meteorologist am joseph. christie said the temperatures are adding aitional urgency to the search and they're going below freezeing. hovering right aund the freezing point across much of the area and specifically allentown our number presentsly is 34. that's two degrees above freezing. but again, this temperatures but again, this temperature dipping towards freezing. we have not really seen all that much iwinter season. so nobody is acclimated to this kind of weather. so it's a bitf shock to anyone's sm and as we look at winds now that continuedo pull out of westerly rtion no matt whaert air temperature is it fls below fezing aa wide and ina allentown one of the cooler spots now with the wind chilla cing in at 25 the wind chilla coming in at 25. and temperatures as we go through the overnight hours the temperatures will drop in the lehigh valley to 26 degrees with clear s and wi the rest of and majority also into the 20s and then you factor into the wind that remains uthroughout the overnight hoursnd even through saturday morning at 7 through saturday morning at

7:00 those wind chills will remain ithe l and mid 20s. well below that freezing point and we're not going really bust above freezing with winds chills through the weekend d we'll chat about arctic air also arivering and ' have timing on it all monica cong up in eull accuweather forecast. >> thanks, adam. >> there are ways to enjoyhe chilly weather, of course, this is a live look from sky6hd at the blue cross river range in penn's landing dolks findinginal hour of ice skating e. and roari fire nearby and families gather around fire pits for warmth at the ice rink lodge tonight a bundled up in coats, arves a hats. it's feeling far more wintry than ihas for the past month. >> glitz and glitter of the mummers parade is over tonight and festive memories are fresh in my people's mind. this unique pladelphia sell blaition features music and chance dances and competition on a new oup do bad and

they have both sides to gets a view of costumes and back drops and dges look for i group tell the best story for this performance and it's a sh local divisions practice and plan for all yearlong and it's a family affair for many competitors involving again raiings of performers. >> it's a great tradition it's fun to get everybody out and great way to end the holidays and wonderful. >> it 116th afwor this tradition. >> >>. >> the real sc tackle is inside the convention center where fancy brigades zzd crowds with highly core graphed routines and costumes d hh tech wizardry and mmotifs included video games and philadelphia zoo e youngsters played their le here of lions and judges awarded top prize thisear to golden crown for its performance er the scare performance ever the scarecrow's dream.

shooting stars second for fancy brigade and saturn alien was third. for the string band south philadelphia strumd the way to the top and heather nohn barren sinning captain. [ chrs ] and so it is no surprise that the club house for south pladelphia string band is rocking tonight as the action cam arrives they have plenty to celebrate not oy wherehey victorious is is their first win in 41 years how about that? >> and but the mmers parade was n without ctroversy this time after around. critics are leling acquisitions of ra acquisitions of racism and homophobia saying some performances were more than just d taste and then there is also t assault of a parade goer and alleged gay bashing incident and "action news" reporter chad pradelli spoke with a victim of that attack and has more on this year's ctroversy. >> the two ac were

performed in the comics division and finnegan new year's brigade and the only incidents amarred this yr's mumme parade and he was attacked by mue for being gay. >> the comic a was fin beg goes for the cold. they rto caityln nr side by side with fruit loops box. >> i said to people around us they're ting it on said this is not gng to be good and everyone around us actually did we u fruit loops box is rally inappropriate. >> president of the comics division tells "action news" there is no intents to harm or degrade anyone with perform as and that sort of satire h been around 116 years and this video obtained by "action news" reveals a much uglier de of someone marching with t finnegan brigade. >> and it appears the hatred extended

yd e parade route and john holes said he was walking eog when two mumers in red, white and bl outfits unate in the aly began shouting home owe phobic slurs. >> i turned eto say co your jets and his buddy jumped in and punched me in the face. >> the alleged offensive acts didn't d there. sam r. struters performed their act fiesta toiesta wi pointed faces. joe betty is a spokesperson for the mummer organizations. >> people need to be cog distance of what they're doing. >> 99% of mummers do not engage in ofnsive behavior and mummers have increased diversity this year and he ak knock there's needs tbe more over more over sight. finnegan said they cannot be responsible for actions of a few members. we showed beattie addressing parade spectators. >> when you see something like

that it's uncategorically wrong. that should not happen and like i said there are thousands and thousands of mummers and if one guy drunk sd that kind of thing it's not going to be tolerated. >> and mayor e jim respokened to sensitive acts on twitter callinghem bad and hurtful to many philadelphians and human relations mssion release aid stement that reads in part me needs to be done to end these public displays of bigotry. in center city apradelli "channel 6 action news." >> and about 50 protesters from the black lives matter movement demonstrate ang the parade true as wl today angry ooaf what they say was last of prosecution in cases of t ear rice and brandon tate brown. protesters hope to aringet mummers for history of race mummers for history of racism. and police bike patrol officers lined up to kp protesters off the parade u and authorities say two people, a man and wan were aested f brieflynterrupted the parade procession. >> a frightening situation for

residents of philadelphia's lawndale stion when atray bullet came through the send floor eir ho this evening. it happened in the 500 block of glen estreet about 5:00 and another bullet pierce aid car window and fortunately no one was hit and investigators do not have auspect so far. 6. >> and a gloucester country police officer is recovering tonight after being t alleged drk dver. it happened in elk township new jersey 1 a.m. and vestigators say jacob w rpondi to emergency car on buck road and the policeman was treated and released and pickup driver was not hurt and is charged tonight. >> do not o -- d cter city philadelphia tonight and it will be that for way a while. doors were closed for good three hours ago as major renovation project gets underway. the new gallery will transform into tt shopping center d except the

pan tt use east entrance will have to use a different way toet inside. >> and bill cosby's wife will have to testify ia def nion case against him filed by 7 alleged victims and camille cosby asked she be spared and a federal judge ordered her to be does he posed yg couple's private conferences are notro tektd more than 40 women accused him of drugging them and sexually assaulting or raping them bill cosby denies the aegation and he was arrested in separate sexual assault case in montgomery county and charged last week. >> and united states supreme court sce returned this home of hilton new jersey all to swear in mayor. >> i kly. >> do solemnly swear. >> that i will support the constitution of t uted states. >> and cotitution -- >> judge asilio offered the administration

to an audience of 100. she slected for a four year term a led mercer county if term and led mercer county term and led mercer county township till 2012 aer being corrupted of -- convicted of corruption. >> findi aning notice eagles lt game against the giants and shoot ago tack in israel captured in surveillance israel captured in surveillance. motives are still something of a mystery tonight. and president explainseon and president explains reasoning to ta executive action on gun control this year action on gun control this year. >> winter weather teens and 20s to the north near the dn bay and this is aiming straight bay and this is aiming straight. we'll talk about that plunge in accuweather. >> we'll show you "action news" will be right bk.

>> they're uming him to turn himself in and three others were wounded by gunfire brat attacker fled. >> st. louis country executive lifted state of emergency that was in place there nearly a week due despread foding and maramack river dropped significantlyasing teptions in that county and the death toll from devastating wiptser flow in the midwest has risen to 22, recovery of n by in southwest missouri. >>♪ up forgettable in every way♪ >> well aretha franklin

tonight says natalie cole was one of the eest singers of our timing and that's one of the many tributes for the singer who died in los angeles daughter at king cole and rose to me her own mark in the music world and according to family natalie cole died of complication fm ongoing health issues. she was 65. >> and as president obama starts finalal year in office he says his n year's resolution iso move forward on unfinished business including dling with g violence. mr. omcalled it epic his weekly address and dected staff at the white ous to look into ttial executive actions on gun control and on monday he will meet wh attorney general letta lynch to s what might be possible to keep gu tf the hands of dangerous f. >> we know we cannot stop every act of violence. what try to to stop en one if congress did something, anything to protect our kids

from g violence. >> steps could include stronger background checks onun purchasers. >> wear brings good news for drivers according to aaa. gas pricesre at their lowest for nry 1 since 2008 and national average stands at $2 a gallon a expected to go lor and experts predict they could drop to 179 next month because of slow demand and big smraiz on rwide market. lower prices in 2015 by the way save the average dver 550 a year and lctively saved americans $115 billion. >> "healthcheck" at 11 sticking to new year's resolutions and experts say one y tsuccess is making small adjustments and building towards your goal. for example, you're not going to go rght from the couch to running mar thonz but to get more psical activity add walk more physical activity add walking to your routine and you don't need to shoot for 10,000 and add up more a more over

the years. another shawl change 2459 reepz big benefits to get nor sleep. believe it or tt lowers blood pressure and stss levels give you levels giving you more energy throughout the day. >> oh, my god. >> it was a od d f a dip in the atlantic today. you may n think so but hundreds did they took the plunge at the 9 street bridge after running a 5 k to reason a hero mign for designated drivers. this couple got married midnight new as and this i how they spent e first day in costume of course. their first day married. >> not as chilly as ars past by the w and ocn temperature ave 50 which is well above rl. camel bk mountain is reopening forkiing and snowboarding and hoping the customer forecast f chilly weathernd snow

this weekend. >> during the day they may have to cease operations ding the day because of temperatures and definitely during the overnight definitely during the overnight. >> it will drop. >> it will drop definitely beginning of next week and hopefully run or two onext week for those skiers and snowboarders. as we look adouble scanll is quiet here on you? ye e day night if that's even a term as we look at double scan not much going on whatsoever we had a few oing flurries to the lehigh valley and poconos earlier toyen aip and but december 15 last month temperatures .7 degrees ave normal and tt's largest departure from normal philadelphia has ever seen since records ghun late 1800s. more than likely we'll not see a month that is ts far above normal in our lifetime again. but you never say never. as we look at temratures seesaw in 2015 atmosphere always tries to balance itself

out somehow and at the beginning of 2015 if you remember last february those temperatures are rning 10 degrees below average. because of all of thece storms and at the end of the year december 13.7 above and it eanes it el out and we had two brutally historic no 2015. as we look at temperatures 34 allentown and 35 reading and 33 wilmington and 29 mlville a brian barrens they're protected from the wind and n soil and that allows theemperature to drop a little bit faster than other areas. when you look athe wind chill feels like 25 in lehigh valley and 29 plan cast erin teens in poconos and bow freezing to all areas along i 95 and a lot of clouds from earlier are now pushed way off south and you can see elearing set up up from boss storngs n york city yes, i philadelphia, washington, down i-95 a that will set up for a pretty nice start to the weekend and the baby blue y will be back sunny, chilly, light breeze 32 70 in the american and 10:00 temperature of 37 dn

the afternoon tomorrow those temperatures will go back into the lower 40si the sshine and but with the freeze wind chills are going to remain on in the 30s. the entire afternoon. and after tt blow torch december with 13 days in the 60s an70s the jet stream lifting north it will breakdown and hd back down to the south and head back down to the south. and that's going to allow a northerly winds to drain from erin d pulling temperatures in e0s. the accuweather forecast sunny and chilly and 43 poem tomorrow and 46 surprised and wind dmilz 30s both da and temperatures in the 30s and arctic front passes through and lots of clouds and passing a flurry or two. that's about it. the core of the cold is here tuesday. 31 for a high temperature overnight lows in the teens f most suburbs and ewe're back to s it doesn't la long, wednesdaytrsday friday clouds build thursday and the next system comes in on friday

and n't nwith the cold air early on ithe week and at this pot it looks like a chilly ia week from now enjoy sunny weekend. >> all right. thank you sir. happy new year to you. >> t first baby born e new year in r region me into the wld in south jersey little madison 12:01 virtua in mount holly. she weighed in healthy 8 pounds dad ce d mom nicole and dad james never thought it would be so exciteing. i'm pretty sure she'll be excited to be othe news she'll think oh, mmy i'm fame us. >> seeing her makes me want to pick her up and hug her. >> i understand baby had i son the first i for the sweet couple

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this has been medifacts for delsym®. >> jamie is here with sports. prepping for sday's game which is coming quickly. >> and it's almost over. >> thankfully. >> the new year will begin with end of eagles season a two days from now the meadowlands putting in n preparations for giants who also have nothing to play for but aong situation.

>> ow on earth wl these gs bring themse toll compete in a fight that means absolutely nothingnd after all iweek nothing and after all this week's trauma here's how and why. >> we're prideful players this season has not been what we wanted and it's failed season in our eyes as a player you want to go out there and ultimately dioning for the next coach an think people will be pridef out that. >> a l of guys in e locker room know why ey're here and to a certain gw you have to mourn for a day or two and kind of get over iand try to win ball game. >> and i do not envy jeffy lurie rht now. three years ago srday he fired ay reid and set out to fired andy reid and set out toen sure the right guy for the job and now look wre they are job and now look where they are. he cannot afford to mess this up again. so says panalyst ron jaworksi. >> it is absolutely critical that the idelphia eagles find e g coach for this city. and i believe it's important

that the coach is the r the kind of guy that understands the fans of pladelphia. and their passion to win. their passion rhe philadelphia eles. a coach that wears his emotions on his sleeve. it's very, very important that the eagles organization gets this rights. >> and coming up the sixers look to make it three tf four out west and what is going on here? on the eave of their bl ga penn state gets carry away when

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>> how about those sixers left for the west coast and all of a sudden ewon two ree and tonight a great shot this make that the of four facing a ks team they've already beaten without kobe bryant out with a sore shoulder covington out wi three and jaleel okafor there niceittle baseline drive. right now they're gng back and forth the sixers with one point lead in the first half. >> and grand daddy of them all was, well, a blow out. this is very first place. christian mccaffrey gone. 75 yard touchdown and also returned a pt 56 yards for a score. and 368 all rse yards smashing e record and cardinals crushed iowa 45-16 on eave of tax player bowl against georgia penn state fans t worry th not what the it looks le nobody was injured. this justappens to be tny lion tradition of carrying seniors off the field

aer the last practice. aas you nee there's rus techniques when ue 320 pound defensive tackle takes four guys dot job. >> wow. >> it's a goofy yo honor seniors and those seniors really deserve. it you know obviously those guys are the guys that stuck around when lhe sanctions wentz out and they're all great guys and deserve that. >> i'm wondering, years from now in your final news kalingt will rick williams carry you off the se way. >> i to hope not. >> we'll walk arm and arm. >> don't nto dthat to s back. >> special new year's dinner for homeless was serd up tonight in philadelphiat happened chosen 300 ministries on lancaster avenue and families in the neighborhood often have to choose between paying rents or feeding families a chosen 300 distributes 350000 aa ar to the homeless in philadelphia and pottstown. via nice. "jimmy kimmel live" xt followed by "nightline" and

"action news" continuest 5:30 for jim gardner and monica malpass have a good night and great weekend.

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