♪ ♪. ♪ ♪. ♪ ♪. action news delaware valley's leading news program. with meteorologist melissa magee jeff skversky. sarah bloomquist and walter perez. perez. sunday night in the news we're ending 2017 with a coldest weather we've seen in years what you can expect for new year's eve and new year's day. plus the eagles lose in rare form today against the cowboys at the linc. but the big story on action news is the celebration to ring in the new year >> from time square to penns landing and across the nation, millions of people are braving the cold weather to greet 2018. we have team coverage of this new year's eve christy let toe

at penns landing where the fireworks are about to get underway and trish heartman are finding out how people are coping. >> we begin with cecily tynan and the latest accu-weather forecast. >> i feel like i'm the lucky one because i'm inside's today's high official high in philadelphia 20's. but we hit that at 1:00 in the morning, the afternoon temperature never rose above 17 degrees just brutally cold right now in philadelphia, it's 14 but we still have that wind out of the northwest so you flash in the winds, the windchill is only two degrees, the winds have actually slackened off a little bit over the past half hour, last half hour they were two degrees below zero the winds will be picking up and the temperatures will be dropping and that's a combination. satellite and radar showing the clouds from earlier have moved off, which typically you think that's great but the problem is, there's no clouds to insulate the earth good

radiational cooling, drs. dropping the winds picking up. if you're heading out to celebrate new year's eve to ring it in. dress in as many layers as you can, maybe take the hand warmers, the gloves the scarfs, the hats, temperatures dropping to 13 at 9:00 by midnight 11 but those windchills will be below zero so do be careful and this cold air mass stays through the day tomorrow, but the wind will be picking up the national weather service issued a wind advisory going into effect at 9:00 until 10:00 tomorrow morning, this is for windchills as low as 20 degrees below zero those will be the windchills in the poconos future tracker showing 6:30 in the morning 19 below zero in the poconos the windchill in philadelphia four below, even in the afternoon windchills in the single digits i'll talk about when we could climb out of this cold air also track the opportunities for snow in the seven-day forecast. sarah? >> we're in it for awhile. thank you cecily. >> let's head out to center city

and action news reporter trish heartman been finding out how people are coping with the cold. trish? >> reporter: i'm coping with the cold by doing next to a fiery heat lamp this my ideal live shot location if i have to be outside. here at the ice rink. the cold is not stopping people from enjoying new year's eve. plenty of bundled up and enjoying new year's eve by hitting the ice in these last couple of hours of 2017. earlier today, let's take a look at some video eagles tailgaters braced the cold before the 1:00 eagles game outside of lincoln financial field. that game, of course, didn't go quite as we would have liked but the fans show up in any weather as we know decked out in all of their warmth eagles gear we also stopped by for the south philadelphia string band on passyunk. we know how the cold affects the string band instruments especially the horns but the

show must go on and the mummer's day parade will go on tomorrow. these band members went through their western themed parade routine one later time in the bitter cold, ready to strut. we spoke to people and found a couple from california here in town for a wedding in for quite a shock when they got here. >> i'm probably wearing three pairs of pants. i bought this jacket. i bought a whole new wardrobe for philly >> we had to buy a wardrobe to come here and when we left it was cold for us like 65 degrees so this weather is just ridiculous. >> reporter: it's ridiculous. folks have been taking lots of breaks to warm up in the cafe we will be doing the same in a moment to warm you mean. we're live in center city, trish heartman channel 6 action news. let's head over to penns landing where everyone including

our christie lleto is bundled up. they're underway christie? >> they started just a couple of minutes ago pan over here you can see they're lighting up the sky over the delaware river. one of the biggest bashes 1200 people expected to be in this spot watching the fireworks go off. not including those lining the streets and the river to take part in the spectacular light show. organizers have been working around the clock to prepare for the festivities the fireworks are set off on two barges floating in the delaware river, we're told that 4,000 shells of fireworks are going to be released by 12,000 different devices that's 8,000 pounds of explosives for this show. it took three days for a crew of ten to set up the barges and 400 hours to design and core graph and build the displays.

clearly this is the spot to be if you want be here on new year's eve to watch fireworks they have food music skating and of course, the main attract are the fireworks, this lasts until 8:00 then starts at 10:00 for the fireworks of course on new year's eve for midnight. live here at the waterfront christy ileto channel 6. meantime tens of thousands have packed time square to watch all the live music and of course the iconic ball drop. here's a look at time square new york city of course there are barricades there for security purposes. but they're ready for the show to start tonight and for that countdown to begin. of course, we'll be following all the fun in time square after tradition continues here on 6 abc. ryan sea crest will host new year's eve and coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. turning to sports and the eagles ugly loss to the cowboys.

>> it was a rare loss for the birds. but thank you fully the game didn't mean much jeff skversky with a look back if you have highlights? i don't know if you do >> i don't have any. you can see the weather call cecily. the bottom line, the eagles do not want to be going into the playoffs playing like this. they better sort it out in two weeks. the only thing colder than this new year's eve weather, the eagles offense. ice cold regular season finally. they lay an egg at home for the first time in 12 years, nick foles and company looking out of sink heading into the playoffs. eagles fans braving the cold to see the finally against the cowboys, carson wentz getting mvp champs. eagles cowboys scoreless, nick foles and the offense dropping passes, tori smith foles later picked off in the first under thrown, the eagles start one for 20 on third down the last two weeks. foles leaves after a few series and the cowboy leave philly with a win sack prescott with a

touchdown six zip lowest scoring game in the 57 year history of the eagles cowboys history. but doug pederson is not worried about them heading into the playoffs >> it's tough am i concerned? i'm not concerned. it's not the one person one guy, there's enough to go around. you know, it's tough in the situation where you know you're kind of maybe only going to a quarter series and you're coming out. but still got a lot of confidence in the guys. >> i told you. no highlights. i warned you >> at least we heard from coach >> hopefully things will be better in two weeks, who they will playoff they will find out next sunday >> thank you. 25 homes are without water this evening following a massive water main break in philadelphia's fox chase section this morning. several of those those are dealing with flooded basements and making it more did you not,

the temperature causing some water to freeze over jeaneatte reyes has more on the big mess. >> reporter: on last day of the year, the flores family found themselves abruptly ending plans to ring in 2018. they're packing up to head to their daughter's home after a water main flooded their basement with four and a half feet of water >> this is the second time around with the city. with the water department. keep on doing the same thing over and over again. nobody gives a hoot about nobody. >> this morning we came out and it was just gushing out of the ground over here and over here. >> reporter: crews at the fire and water department upon the 9 block of trail street which soon a sheet of ice as the water receded revealing ground water re also mud alonidewalks and yards, hoses pumped the water out of homes and back on to the street adding a new layer of ice >> it is what it is. cold out. but it's all we can do is wait

to see what's happening. >> reporter: neighbors say they called the water department thursday and friday after noticlike. >> unfortunately the is very, very busy. we have several water main breaks happening every day, going out for customers that are calling you out leaks in the street service lines broken as well. we don't turn every water main off broken or that could be broken because if we did that, we'd be turning off a lot of homes. >> reporter: there are currently 25 homes without service. the water department is saying they should have that back by the end of the day. reporting in fox chase, jeaneatte reyes channel 6 action news. on action news, fire forces dozens of residents of the delaware county apartment building out into the cold on this new year's eve. we'll have the latest on the investigation into what caused it. we'll take you to several places around the globe where it is already 2018 that and more when action news at 6:00 comes right back.

. the blaze broke out at the forest creek apartments on the 300 block of north front around 2:30 investigators say a transformer box shorted out causing a fire. the building was evacuated and power turned off. red cross tells action news people in 84 units of the complex had to evacuate. the residents waited in the colsiness busses arrived. another fire in kensington send 5-year-old to the hospital. firefighters were called to the 2700 block of c street after 3:00 this morning they found flames shooting from the first and second floor of the house, several people inside were forced to jump to safety. the boy was taken to st. christopher's hospital for minor burns we have an update to a

story out of collingswood camden county. a man has been charged in the stabbing deaths of two women in the attempted murder of a third. investigators say 48-year-old colleen ground nel and 41-year-old alicia mcklosky were found dead around 5:00 last night. 34-year-old mark was on scene when police arrived. he's charged with multiple counts of murder, no word on a motive for these stabbings. one colorado sheriff's deputy was killed and four others injured in what authorities call an ambush. two civilians were also injured. it happened in high land ranch a suburb south of denver deputies came under fire from the moment they went into an apartment trying to talk to a suspect in a bedroom. the suspect was shot to death. hours earlier for a noise complaints but returned after reports of a disturbance. news sunday will have the latest on that shooting and the

investigation coming up at 6:30. after action news. we'll be right back.

jeff skversky is here. we knew the starters wouldn't play long but the outcome >> not so much. everyone is worried except for nick foles and the eagles they say they're confident they will be fine come the playoffs because they know what they are capable of. ice cold that sums up the offense nick foles and the eagles s for first time 12 years. if this is what's to come in the playoffs it will not be a happy new year. the eagles are not smiling against the cowboys, so out of sink even donnie jones forgets to take off his pants, foles

goes into the playoffs one for 17 on third down, tori smith drops that. smith again incomplete. foles looks way off. later in the first gets picked after fumbling a snap. foltz foles done for the day and sudfeld plays the rest of the day. look at him roll, 22 yards, end of the third, sudfeld on third down he is incomplete. eagles start one for 20 on third down the last two weeks the first eagles cowboys game scoreless ever heading into the fourth final points. sack prescott throws a touchdown to bryce butler eagles lose six zip shut out at home. finish 13 and three, time for the most wins in eagles history but a tough went to head into the playoffs looking like this.

where the eagles will host the playoff games two weeks jamie does not make you feel good about those chances. >> i guess it doesn't, kelsey pointed out the first team hasn't been practicing much the last two weeks because doug pederson has been trying to get the legs back for them. he thinks that had the biggest effect of all. he thinks they will get back to hard core practices the next two weeks and he thinks they will be fine. so sure, now we wanted to see to be confident from notes, but foles said i'm good to go >> i feel confident, i know the guys are confident in me. i played with a lot of these guys and coaches i'm excited to get ready for playoffs and keep this thing rolling >> the biggest thing wto do offensively especially is we need to practice. i think last two weeks we tried to get rest in and to get guys legs back and i think that's

important. but taking a away from some of the physical things and stuff like that i think just have to get back >> these guys got to understand this is it. this opportunity may n for anybody again let's step it up have great two weeks of practice. let's get ready >> that will get you fired up because, hey, we're bumped there's no carson wentz we're wondering what could have been but there's a still a lot that could be eagles win one more game on this field an this field will be the site of the nfc championship. my photographer's water bottle formed ice inside jamie me apody channel 6 action news. the road to the super bowl goes through the linc. eagles have a buy before playing the first playoff game in two weeks, they will not find out the opponent until next sunday there's endless possibilities including falcons and seahawks,

vikings clench a win over chicago getting it done vikings 23-10 the two teams behind the eagles in the conference they get a first round buy as well and they're 13 and three like the eagles. >> thank you jeff. >> quick break for action news when we come back. really? really? really? see zero in a whole new way. get zero down, zero deposit zero first month's payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. now with the people first warranty.

2018 has arrived in many parts of the world, in dubai the world's tallest building was the backdrop for incredible light sound show in hong kong fireworks stretched nearly a

mile. and a million people watched fireworks in sidney australia. this year, the bridge was in rainbow colors to mark the legalization of same sex marriage. >> cecily told us if you're mere in our area best place to watch the fireworks is on your television with the foot tea pjays. >> do you want to be outside to bring in the new year? looks like 2018 we will warm up but not till the second week of january. >> it's here to stay another week. let's go live on sky 6, they look this cold air at the ski resort spring mountain you can see pretty good coverage of snow. it is cold air they've been able to make tons of snow but skiing tomorrow windchills will be dropping down to the 20 degrees below zero in the poconos. another thing i do want to make note of, another good thing is that our sun sets are getting later. the sun setting at 4:46 helen posted this photo from

willingboro new jersey, showing the beautiful sky and also the frozen snow covered rancocus creek and it will not be melting any time soon. the accu-weather highlights will show you not only is it going to be cold a stinging winds will welcome in the new year, wind advisories in effect for windchill it's 20 degrees below zero in the poconos, philadelphia we will be below zero and more intense arctic air will be coming at the end of next week, looks like it could be tougher than this one. you're heading for new year's eve for the fireworks for all the festivities, bundle up. 16 degrees how many times are we going to say 16 degrees right now down to 11 by midnight and windchills dropping down below zero. actually, temperature even a little bit lower than that right now in the 16 degrees, we've now dropped to 14 degrees in philadelphia our afternoon high we only hit 17 the daily high was 20. but we hit that at 1:00 in the

morning so the afternoon even colder than the wee hours of the morning, allentown wilmington 11 cape may 18 you factor in the wind be windchill is important it's the way it feels when you factor the wind feels like 2 in philadelphia, 2 below in reading, three in trenton 18 below zero in the poconos. that windchill advisory is in effect overnight tonight from 9:00 until 10:00 tomorrow morning. satellite and radar showing clouds clearing out from earlier today and what this is allowing is even colder air to settle in this week. they thought last week was cold this week colder so if you're heading to the mummer's day parade loads of sunshine is the good news, temperatures in the teens those wind gusts near 30 miles per hour windchills will be stuck near zero future tracker showing tomorrow morning, three below zero at 7:30 in the morning and then even by the evening hours, windchills generally in the single digits. the exclusive accu-weather seven-day forecast, blustery, frigid for the first day of the new year, 19 but windchills

around zero, tuesday still cold 26, wednesday likely the warmest day of the week, could briefly touch the freezing mark. on thursday, 27 degrees still watching the coastal looks like offshore storm could bring a touch of snow right along the shore points depending how far west it tracks. this will bring us colder air friday and saturday. 18 degrees on friday saturday 19, sunday, still cold, 25 degrees, partly sunny but signs that temperatures will climb up close to average. average high is 41. it will feel like a heat wave. >> bring that >> cecily thank you. world news sunday is next right here on channel 6 >> for sharrie williams, cecily tynan walter perez sarah bloomquist we'll see you back at 11:00.

tonight, breaking news as we once. >> five deputies shot seconds apart. at least one dead. the suspect firing more than 100 rounds. the neighborhood on lockdown. our team on the scene. times square on ice. more than 1 million people bracing for possibly one of the coldest new years on record. the potential danger for the crowds watching the ball drop. plus, extreme cold and wind chill alerts from texas to maine. ring of steel. times square surrounded by unprecedented security. snipers in position. special police dogs on the street. new year's scare. the arsenal seized inside a hotel room. police recovering an assault rifle, shotgun and ammunition.