most spots are above the freezing mark and we're tapping into a southerly's wind, the southerly wind in cautions low level causing an; correct, as you look at the fog report, we're down to a half a mile in the city, two miles in allentown two and a half miles in reading, 1.3 miles in dover, i would participate the fog to be an issue for rest of tonight and

even during the overnight hours, we get rid of one badge of precipitation for the start of the week but more wet weather to come. you can see. the leading edge of a cold front that will be working its way eastward as we go throughout the overnight houshs and into the day tomorrow, future tracker 6 showing you that rain arriving by 4:00 a.m. for the city and points to the north and west and it will continues throughout the afternoon, we'll talk about what we can expect with a bit of a weather roller coaster. watching out for the slush with shaqs. temperatures will be rising this is the good news, overnight, which means we're only tracking precipitation in the form of rain by sunday, we'll take a closer look coming up in the accu weather forecast. >> thank you, melissa. if usual up and about early, you found out quickly it was treacherous at times. action news reporter bob patrol cars brooks hit the road. >> at first it started as snow,

upper darby it was falling fast. >> a city line avenue in philadelphia, too, it was coming down all over the delaware valley. then the snow turned to freezing rain. and things got you go: >> it was very treacherous today. it was probably the worst driving i've had in a couple of years. he was up early to take his son to a basketball tournament. his mirror proof of the sticky freezing rain condition >> 45 miles an hour on the turnpike was probably re probably too fast. crews prepared the sistered had 70 trucks loaded with salt, penndot had their 540 trucks in the area to clear the roads. first with heavy snow and freezing rain. it was only so much that could be done. the tires up. a live for your tire air at the wawa that king of prussia with several cars deep. once they hit the road, they started sliding and wanted to make their cars as safe as possible. . i wanted to make sure the cars

was ready. the action news van, engine is run, so cold. so much of freezing rain you can see see icicles started to form on the front, if you do have to head out on the road after this kind of a winter storm please be careful. reporting in king of prussia, bob brooks channel 6 action news. homestretch of the holidaying shopping season, no time to slow down, let's move on to action news reporter live in king of prussia for holiday shoppers out in force. jeaneatte. >> reporter: walter, the craziness that is super saturday is underway right now. here at the mall. believe it or not, experts say nearly half of all shoppers don't have their shopping done by this time of the year, in december, and i got to tell you a lot of these stores are taking full advantage of the eager shoppers with pretty good discounts. >> it's most hectic time of the year. today is super saturday, also

known as the day last minutes shoppers hit the malls in droves >> shopping for christmas presents >> christina a busy mom of three took on mother nature's challenge choosing to take her shopping outside at the philadelphia premium outlets. >> think twice about coming out >> i thought three times, over and over and over again because i have a two month old and it's cold outside and slushy. my feet are wet. >> reporter: the morning started off with slick roads and treacherous conditions. that didn't stop shoppers. >> hasn't kept people away. they maybe started later but there's lots of people trying to get the lack of of their christmas shopping done and get some of the super saturday deals >> at king of prussia, her friends took advantage of this new connecter expansion that links what used to be two separate shopping centers and eliminates the need to go outside >> i like how the you don't have to leave the mall >> there's a lot of people out and it's hard to get to the

stores, everything is -- there's a lot of sales going on. >> no one rose up to the challenge that is last minute christmas shopping, like randy who's daughter's 16. >> birthday is today. >> that can be overwhelming, how is it going >> a little overwhelming. shopping day of the year. my daughter turning 16 years old. able to drive, a little overwhelming. >> coming back out live. i want to give you a look at the roads. if you were out. it is looks nothing like what it was looking like, it was icy and pretty treacherous, things have really gotten a lot better and now it's a little warmer than it was earlier. at least feels that way. you still have time to come out and get the should know done and take advantage of those discounts, jeaneatte, channel 6 action news. folks in south jersey dealt with icy conditions out there as well today.

atlantic city expressway in turnersville, icy conditions slow traffic and in camden, busy clearing and salting the sidewalks right there for the river line commuters. >> this was the snowy scene near the poconos, using snow blowers, shovels and plows, they saw inches of snow up there. allentown received accumulating snow. snow was falling steadily. stick grassy surfaces. millions of americans are dealing with trep russ condition, the blast of water across the region and country, in maryland, slick roads led to a massive pile-up on i95. in the midwest, folks are shovelling out from a significant snowfall while bracing for a deep frees. windchills in wisconsin and minnesota expected to reach 40 below zero. .

stay with 6 abc.com/weather, double scan radar to track the snow and that change over to rain. and check in with our meteorologist on social media follow each of them on facebook and twitter for regular updates. a mother and her four-year-old were forced to jump from a second story window to escape the burning home, this happened early this morning on the 1400 block of north 61st in west philadelphia. firefighters arrived to find the home engulfed in flames with a woman and her son lying on the fronts pavement. both suffers burns along with cuts and bruises, both hospitalized at hahnemann to word on a you say ca for the fire. >> police in montgomery county say this is the man who stabbed his aunt to death yesterday morning in conshohocken. 28-year-old matthew is behind bars facing first-degree murder murder charges, he stabbed 61-year-old catherine wanamaker nearly 40 times he had just been

released and wanamaker was giving him a place to stay. tomorrow will mark one month since an 8-year-old hit and killed by a car in west philadelphia. the community rallied together in support of her family. there was a toy drive at the playground in the city's overbrook section. people donated gifts to open on christmas day. family holding a memorial tomorrow in and releasing balloons. an arrest has been main linked to that hit-and-run. moving on to the latest in the white house transition now. an election tors are set to cast the votes monday,. they will cast their ballots to get him the votes he needs to take office. protests are planned throughout the nation. the president-elect ended the thank you tour with a rally in mobile alabama where he was met by colorful characters. president obama is vowing

retaliation overage russian hacking operations. mr. said he spoke with va vladimir putin and told him if the hacking didn't stop, there will be serious consequences. russia is demanding to see evidence that linked them to the take re attack. the to cia, fbi and director of national intelligence agreed to investigate. the first family arrived in hawaii for these christmas vacation, this as president obama final vacation as the leader of free world. the obamas will stay in hawaii where he grew up. japanese prime minister will visit pearl harbor becoming the first japanese leader to go to the site of the attack that propelled the u.s. in world war ii. much nor come on action news, pope francis said it's better to give than receive for his birthday, what he did for a group ofomeless people.

the flyers dropped their streak. those stories and more when action news comes back.

. john glenn casket. marines accompanied the casket. joe biden spoke to the crowd saying glen was one of thappies he ever knew. >> john would walk into my office with that big smile on his face and i wondered where in the hell has he been? >> reporter: john glenn died on december 8th. the first american to orbit the earth and then at the age of 77,

became the older person in space when he went up again in 1998. he was 95. . pope francis celebrated his 80th birthday by sharing breakfast with eight homeless people inside the vatican. the pontiff offered guest sweets. the meal featured pay the tris, meats, orange juice. the pope looked up to more than 50,000 e-mails wishing him a happy birthday. >> firefighters host add christmas party for families in need in kensington. action cam on scene on kensington avenue for the festive event, plenty of food and drinks along with balloon animals and santa claus stopped by to talk to the kids and hand you out christmas presents. officers from the wilmington police department doubled as chefs to serve up pancakes for kids. part of the second annual cops and kids christmas pancake breakfast event.

took place. ages 12 and under, as you can see, santa claus made a special appearance. these young performers are helping get people excited about the holiday season through dance. today's students from dance fusion and the dance center presents add performance called a festival of lights right there at the university of pennsylvania. the dances celebrated christmas, hanukkah andwansaa. (man) my dad and i have the same eyes.

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straight win, something they've done only two other times, the flyers are the hottest team in hockey not lost since thanksgiving. first period, rookie author first career goal, undefeated. dallas tied up early third, adam crack, cracks, second straight saturday. how about day uv. 90 seconds left. off the post. flyers lose 3-1, of his loss in more than three weeks, ten-game winning streak is over. >> frustrating kind of, get the streak overwith, but we had good chances at the end to tie it up. but, it was a good streak and it was lot of fun >> overall we found different

ways to win in the last while. different guys stepped up. key opportunities, and you know, it's something that i think if they're going tough a little bit later on, individually but as a team, this is something we could have draw upon. >> they can start a new one monday hopefully. if we don't know is not hard enough for carson wentz and company, baltimore has not been too kind to rooks since john harbaugh left the eagles nine seasons ago, a rookie quarterback not one a single game. seventh grade road game tomorrow. they have to find way to protect wentz who's among the most sacked and hit quarterbacks in the nfl. the offensive is banged up but believe in their belonger >> we know that sometimes we're not i'm going to able to protect them set up a. carson has to know how to get the ball out of his hand, it's

another challenge but the guys have, guys prepared themselves well >> i trust those guys, they do a great job, when you can trust those guys and you know they're going to get the job done they're going to give it their all and protect you and everything, there's no, really no stress involved >> nerlens noel is not in a holiday spirit. no, no. the sixers big man is upset with his playing time. he played eight minutes, a career low and sat the bench the entire second half. he said i'm not an eight-minute player, i don't know what that's about. i'm too good to be playing eight minutes right now, that's crazy. well, noel and coach brett brown met today to discuss the difficult situation, trying to figure out how to play all three big men >> it's sad ends me but it doesn't surprise me. you got, nerlens coming in and jahlil and daria moved over.

it's stuff we're going to have to continue to grow >> one of the national champs and number one in the company, villanova doesn't play again until december 28 after losing to nova temple trying to bounce back today again new jersey into technology first half freshman damian moore, the basket and the foul. daniel ding he will drives and kicks it out to mark williams, temple goes on to win 68-63, owls won seven last nine games. lasalle in a jolly mood. deliver as career high 35 points on a one horse open slay. lasalle wins. bernard hopkinses fighting for last time so he says. >> up next on action news taking

a live look from the sky tracker 6, the ben franklin bridge, meteorologist melissa magee has the exclusive seven-day forecast. coming up next.

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you're out and about. right now most spots are above freezing, it's 36 chilly in the city, 34 for allentown, reading and lancaster, coast in cape may 44 and 37 in dover. here's satellite 6 along with action radar, quiet but you look off to the west and we're tracking more moisture rain moving out across the eastern great lakes and back to the ohio valley. this heads our way overnight and throughout the day on sunday, so a bit of a weather whiplash on the way as we head into the rest of our weekend. mostly cloudy areas of fog and drizzle developing bottom out at 37 in the suburbs and 40 in philadelphia for the overnight. we got the south westerly winds, temperatures will be royceing overnight, which why we're tracking moisture in the form of rain. here's future tracking 6, by 4:00, we have wet weather and it will continue throughout the morning and afternoon. we'll talk about what we can

expect as we break down tomorrow and at a day of change on the way. temperatures near 60 at dawn tomorrow. will be wet. calling for, i was from a quart to three quarters of an inch of rain, temperatures by sun set close to 40, so they will be falling fairly quickly throughout the day tomorrow. and tracking puddles that could freeze overnight. also watch for that as the drying takes place later on sunday to monday. future tracking 6, 8:00 in the morning, most spots in the 50, 61 in dover, watch what happens as we go throughout the day and that cold front comes on through by 8:00 p.m. tomorrow, temperatures alo temperatures 95 corridor are in the 30's, the teens in the poconos, big changes, the 60's as you leave the house but dress for the 40's and 30's by end of the day. here's the scluf seven-day forecast. temperatures falling throughout the day on monday it is a much colder day, high temperature of

35. on tuesday, partly sunny. 39 for the high. winter begins wednesday, we're dry, 45. on thursday, mostly cloudy with rain possible, 49 for the high and on friday, clouds to some sun, 45 degrees next saturday a lot going on, it's christmas eve, it's cloudy. and then we have beginning at sundown, temperature has been in the 40's. >> 60 tomorrow, we'll brace that >> early then will drop down to 40's and 30's. >> fyi philly is next and don't miss action news at 10:00 on phl then back again on 6 abc at 11, from melissa magee, jeff skversky and the entire action news team, i'm walter perez, we'll see you at 11:00. 2.17.16 cc script.

segment one >>i'm melissa magee. and i'm erin o'hearn. tonight on fyi philly. merry christmas. our list of festive fun and we've checked it twice! have the kids in philadelphia been good this year? with ideas for the naughty and nice! holiday shopping done fun! whether you're planning a party. it's very festive. or enjoying the sights and sounds. merry christmas santa claus. there's something on our list that will make this your best holiday ever! brought to you by by peco the future is on! animation >>hi everybody and welcome to fyi philly. we are at the strawberry mansion and it is all decked out for the holiday season. this is part of the historic houses tour and they are all decorated for christmas in fairmount park. hopefully by now, you've got the bulk of your christmas shopping done and you can relax and enjoy the sights and sounds of the season. and there are so many things to help spark that holiday spirit. -- at franklin square, there's the spectacular electrical spectacle. there's over 50,000 lights all illuminating ben franklin's genius. it's an 8 minute show every half hour and you can watch by the toasty fire pits. we're here to kick off the holiday season. then head into the new ben's sweets and treats. you can make your own gingerbread houses. you can decorate cookies. there's homemade fudge. vanilla, chocolate, peanut butter, rocky