you can get news at any time by downloading the abc app. i'm george stephanopoulos. >> good afternoon we begin with breaking news, an amtrak train has derailed in washington state. one car fell off a bridge on to a busy highway during the morning rush. >> this image shows the scene on interstate 5, 40 miles south of seattle. amtrak said the train was 501 carrying 75 people. the train had just begun using a

new high speed route this morning. >> you may remember philadelphia was the scene of a major amtrak crash two years ago, in may of 2015, 8 people were killed and 200 injured after amtrak train 188 derailed in port richmond. it was traveling 106 miles per hour in a 50-mile an hour speed zone. investigators determinedded that the engineer was -- determined that the engineer was distracted by an incident with a nearby train. the criminal charges were dismissed in december. you can see see more on the derailment at 6abc.com. turning to accuweather, we have a mild change, we're expecting temperatures in the mid 50s, it's not so bad out there today, either as we look at the ben franklin bridge. it's a big change when we ended

the workweek on friday when snow brought the evening commute to are a grinding halt. let's go over to david murphy. >> reporter: sarah it's nice to talk about a positive change in the forecast. we have clouds digging down out of the northwest it will be a clouds and sun mix the rest of the way. 45 degrees currently in philadelphia. 46 in trenton. 40 in in allentown. beginning to get the number up there a little bit. 44 in reading, 49 in wilmington, 50 in millville. 44 in cape may. as we go through the next several hours we'll wind up with high temperatures that are better than what we had over the weekend and better than last weak. 47 degrees by 2:00. 48 is the high at 3:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m., 43 taking until 10:00 p.m. tonight to get into the upper 30s and not going too far below that in the overnight hours. when you look back at last week, this is a nice change. wednesday the high was

31 degrees and we had the 1.4 inches of snow falling in the morning commute. thursday a cold high of 37 and friday back down to 29 degrees with 2.2 inches of afternoon snow that snarled the evening commute. as we take a look at what's been going on since then. over the weekend, a little ridge has built. the cooler air has been shoved back up in the north and locked in place. we have highs in the 40s and today we expect the upper 40s and tomorrow the mid 50s, another slight cool down with the cool air coming back in as we head toward the arrival of winter solstice on thursday. rick we'll take a look at the holiday weekend it's beginning to come into focus, i'll have that on accuweather. >> all right, david. on the eagles front, it wasn't easy or pretty, but a win is a win. the birds rallied from a 14 point deficit to beat the gients. giants. after fans worried about nick

foles taking over for carson wentz, there's a big sigh of relief today. bob brooks has reaction from the eagles fabs following yesterday's tough win, bob. >> reporter: hey, rick, like you said it seemed like all it took was one win with nick foles to reassure everyone that anything is possible that includes a super bowl run. >> i'm wearing an eagles hat and eagles sunglasses. julian is one of the thousands and likely more of the excited eagles fans. it was the first full game without carson wentz. just about everyone we spoke with thrilled with quarterback nick foles in the offense. have bowl bound? >> yes. >> all in for the eagles and root for nick foles. >> reporter: it's safe to say on on -- optimism is close to an all time high.

>> i'm going to watch them through to the super bowl. >> reporter: bold prediction. of course, everyone misses carson wentz, but it seems everyone has the enter bowl ors ushes you burst mine set heading into the playoff. >> they know this is an opportunity these chances don't come around every year. >> carson wentz got hurt and you see what happened, we going to this bowl, i'm happy, you happy, everybody happy. let's do it. >> reporter: up next, the raiders on monday might football there's no doubt that the eagles and company have the city's whole support behind them. rick back to you. >> let's switch live to south philadelphia where eagles coach peterson just started taking question in his day after news conference. we'll hear more about the victory at 12:30 p.m.

tom wolf is calling for the resignation of state senator daylin leach amid accusations of misconduct. the report quotes anonymous former staff members who accused leach of behavior ranging from highly sexualized jokes to inappropriate touching. wolf cold the senator a leader on important policy issues, but his conduct cannot be excused. leach blames the accusations on an unnamed political opponent and has never touched women. thousands are stranded because of the massive power failure at the airport in atlanta due to a blackout caused by an underground fire. we go to atlanta at that with more. -- atlanta with more. >> lights flickered once.

>> a couple of minutes later it went out again. >> reporter: the lights are back on the hartsville jackson international airport. but that doesn't mean the travel headache is over. >> now we're all just waiting to get out of here e. a complete nightmare. >> i was going to try to get to birmingham, not. >> reporter: it could be days before passengers make it to their final destination. >> some 30,000 people were surrounded by darkness after a massive power failure sunday afternoon. >> it's a nightmare we have to go through the tunnels that are pitch black. >> sat on the tarmac for five hours. >> reporter: the blackout caused by the fire from an underground facility. it knocked out the backup system. georgia power investigators are trying to determine the cause. >> it will take the remainder

of the week and fix the cable this week and have all the service back to normal operations by the end of the week. >> reporter: 400,000 people are expected to pass through airport this year. if you have a layover here you could be stuck for days. >> a controversial abortion bill will get the official veto today from pennsylvania's governor lawmakers passed the measure to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. governor wolf planned to veto bill. he plans to do so today at 1:30 p.m. at city hall. two people were injured when a dart bus collided with a car. it happened at 7:00 at lancaster pike and barely mill plaza in

wilmington. a bus ran a red light and crashed into the other driver. both suffered non-life threatening injuries. a man caught on camera taking decorations from a local neighborhood. >> plus we're down to the wire for holiday delveries when you must mail out your gifts if you want them to arrive by christmas. >> david murphy is back with the seven-day forecast from accuweather when "action news" at noon continues. in a moment.

yeah. intriguing. maybe-- (beckett) castle. coming. to our top story from washington state an amtrak train had a has derailed we're looking livety catastrophic scene, a number of emergency vehicles here. as we reported at least one of the cars fell off the bridge on to a busy highway on interstate 5, 40 miles south of seattle, we've been reporting casualties and injuries, although we're trying to determine how many. >> several cars were struck by the derailed train on the highway. multiple motorists were injured on the roadway, we're told by authorities no fatalities among the motorists there are casualties reported on the train. one eyewitness saying only the back car, the rear of the

locomotive is still on the tracks. the rest of the cars are hanging over the overpass. this is a mass casualty incident unfold in washington state. the train derailed crossing a bridge over busy interstate 5 in washington state. the train has traveling south of seattle happening before 8:00 a.m. coming down on to the highway there, this is in the area of joint base lewis-mcchord and motorists are being warned to avoid the area. the backup stretching for miles as you can see numerous emergency vehicles on the scene. a major story unfolding here in the pacific northwest we'll continue to monitor on the air and online at 6abc 6abc.com. rick. >> all right, turning to other news, a mother and three children have died in a house fire in new york city. the 40-year-old woman and her young children with the killed at 2:30 a.m. at a home in brooklyn. the children's father and

teenagers were injured they are hospitalized in critical condition. it is believed the fire was accidental in nature, but they are trying to determine the exact cause. president trump is said to deliver a speech outlooking -- outlining his new foreign policy strategy, protect the homelands promote american prosperity and peace through strength and advance american influence. president trump is expected to give the remarks at the ronald reagan building this afternoon. congress is on the brink of passing a sweeping tax reform plan. it slashes corporate tax rate from 39 to 20%. the house is expected to vote tomorrow followed by the senate. republicans are confident they have the votes, they hope to send the bill to the president's

desk by the end of the week. pope francis celebrated his 81st birthday with an extra large pizza. the pontiff invited 6 children to join him at the pizza party. the pie was 13 feet long so there were plenty of slices to go around. happy birthday to the pontiff.

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advantage of overnight shipping or next day air. the u.s. postal deadline for first class mail is tomorrow and december 22 for priority mail express. the nation's biggest shipping companies expected to deliver a record number of package this holiday season. the force was strong for star wars the last jedi earning $220 million in the u.s. and canada. worldwide it pulled in $450 million making it 5th biggest movie debut ever. star wars was produced by disney, the parent company of 6abc. a new study from the university of cambridge found the average wine glass has grown 7 times bigger in the last three years and more rapid growth in the last two decades and wine drinking doubled in the same period. researchers believe the larger

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philly proud. santa made a stop at st. christopher's hospital in hunting park. it was flyers legend bernie apparent who -- parent who was joined by mrs. claus and the elf. the toys were collected by the ed snyder youth foundation. >> nice to see bernie parent who is such a legend and making people smile. >> there are so many things to make us proud to call delaware

valley home. to see what else make us philly proud go to 6abc.com slash proud. >> >> reporter: i love bernie parent a great guy and giving of himself charitably. no precipitation, drizzle during the early commute. looking outside we have squeezing sunshine out especially in the southern portion of the region, in places like cape may. nice and bright on the beach. chilly down the shore, but overall not a bad day building. the temperature in philadelphia is up 2045 degrees, the wind out of the west at -- is up to 45 degrees. the winds not a factor today. with temperatures higher than the weekend, we're up 3 degrees over yesterday. 45 in philadelphia. 46 in trenton. allentown which started out cooler is still cooler at 40, but not bad. 43 in reading, 49 in wilmington,

up to 50 in millville and dover, 44 on the beach in cape may where we saw sky6 live hd. there are clouds digging in from the north and west. we have sunshine in the southern half of the region. cloudier the farther north you go, overall we'll see a clouds and sun mix in the afternoon. it's not a bad day, milder over the weekend and better last week. sun and clouds, milder in allentown and the rest of the lehigh valley. 45 degrees there. down the shore, sun and clouds. in philadelphia we'll go for a high of 48 degrees. looks like we're on track to see that. sun and clouds a bit milder than it was over the weekend and winds staying light, as i mentioned all day long. partly cloudy and chilly tonight, dipping to 38 degrees, but really not all that cold overall some of the outlying suburbs get down into the mid 30s, and again, winds overnight tonight, very light.

of course last week we had the dip in the jet stream ushering in the cold air setting the table for light snows poorly timed for a couple of commutes. over the weekend we saw the jet stream push off to the north now it is farther to the north and west that's allowing the milder air in today. tomorrow we expect to be even milder. tomorrow morning in the 30s, chilly to start out, but getting into the 50s in the afternoon. i expect to get up into the mid 50s by 3:00 p.m. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, a bit on the milder side high of 48. you need a coat, overall it doesn't look bad. a mix of clouds and sun. tuesday, breezy and beautiful. high of 56 degrees even some of the cooler areas we're going a lot of cooler than that, or milder than today, i should say with temperatures in the low 50s. wednesday, partly sunny, there will be a front coming through tuesday night into wednesday. it will be dry, no precipitation

with the front. we're looking at the numbers dipping 45 is the cooler high. thursday, it's the winter solstice, winter officially arrives at 11:28 a.m. in the afternoon appropriately enough it will be the cooler high of the week, 42 degrees, lots of sunshine. on friday, that's when another warm front lifts through the region be we'll have more clouds building, 352 is the high. we'll have a chance of afternoon and eveng rain arriving. the best chance late in the day or evening, it will be light rain and drizzle. saturday, 61 degrees with a cold front coming at us, and more sprinkles and showers during the day. christmas eve, santa might have to whip out the rain gear as he and the sleigh and the reindeer pull into town sunday night. it's cooler and there's the chance of rain arriving in the afternoon and evening. right now on the bubble on how to call christmas day. there's a decent chance it's

overcast and damp, but probably about that 49-degree high. we've had worse, but a lot can change and the models have been disagreement on christmas. >> christmas eve do you think we'll see reindeer? >> spelled both ways. police are looking for the thief who stole christmas decorations from from a local neighborhood. plus we'll have the latest on the derailment in seattle, an amtrak train derailed over a highway. there were 75 people in the train where it went off the track there. train 501 derailed 40 miles per hour south of seattle. we're monitoring the mass casualty incident in the pacific northwest. more news when we come right back.

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the suspect. eagles coach doug peterson talked about a big win over the giants. it was a giant let down by the defense, but a win nonetheless. a massive rescue effort is underway in washington state. an amtrak train jumped the track and landed on a busy interstate. it happened south of seattle. one train car landed on the interstate and one dangling off the track. several cars were truck by the train according to law enforcement officials. at the scene we are hearing there could be multiple fatalities and injuries. the track was upgraded for commuter service. amtrak real time tracking had the cascade train traveling at 80 miles per hour. it's too soon to say if speed played a role in the crash. speed was in the