i think we'll all see a long time ahead john avalon or on public stage of this world. and i think we'll all be glad what we met him on this stage tonight. and let me tell you about the other star i bet all of you think you know mark grove those of you who have been coming here for many years have is seen him on this stage with a possible exception of middleton mark has been on this stage more than think other human being, period. he was here as the director of the obj library from 2009 until they left last february. but he was very prominent before he came to this library. he was had a historian on the presidency that was well known throughout the country. he had been the editor of "newsweek." he had been president "time" in canada and written where two books on the presidency one of them called second acts. saying what some so presidents did after they elect the presidency. the other book called baptism by fire. of what happens with presidents that come into office at time of crisis. now lyndon johnson i heard chastise him once about fact that lyndon johnson node a bo

so take a liquor listen to mark avalone and what he had to say about >> i'm surprised that is not the message coming out of washington and expanded tax credit out of wider income range the benefits of the bill is flowing to families and people not getting as much benefit are individuals or couples with no children especially knows in high state and local tax areas like this d.c. area. >>> let's take a welcome at more of the winners if you will that afterloan outlined. middle class families these would be familys with dependent children because of this expanded childcare tax credit, more controversially other winners would be very high earners and then corporations that controversial decision to redouse the corporate tax rate to 21%. now let's look at tax reform losers if you will. unfortunately you find those in our area. two examples from avalone single high erpers and married people with nohi dependent children and people who live in the high tax areas you might call them losers from the tax bill they won't see relief that people who have children in the middle class may see. and so

thank you, mark avalon. we wanted to look back at images come here.at people consume and talk about crosses over the computers and screens. we wanted to introduce you to chloe coleman a photo journalist with the washington posts. thanks for joining us here. >> thank you. >> you're so far away here. >> love that. >> take us through this. >> we wanted to look at some of your work and talk about some of these images because i think sometimes they say a picture speaks 1,000 words this really does. tell me about the image of donald trump. we'll start with this. >> i'm a photo editor at the "washington post". >> i saijo >> i am a journalist but i would like to point out that these photos are by really talentsed photo journalists. this particular image is by "washington post" photographer jabin boxford covering the presidency throughout 2017. >> jabin is so talentd yes. >> if you look that it says right away the relationship of this president with press corps. >> we felt that is not only one of the ongoing stories of 2017 but one of the most important storie

avalon -- falling in avalon new jersey, mobile 6 is driving along dune drive.x cohen is doing this for us, thanks. firefighters are battling 6 major wildfires in southern california. the brutal santa ana winds making it difficult to bring the fires under control. trump has declared a state of emergency. marcy gonzalez has more from the burn zone. >> reporter: neighborhoods lit up for the holidays ravaged by flames. $4,000 acres were scorched in fewer than 1 hours. >> the fire was -- 12 hours. >> the fire was coming right at us. >> reporter: ten thousand residents evacuated. 4 injured trying to came. 85 homes damaged damaged or destroyed. crews racing to save others camping the family inside this house off guard. all six wildfires burning in southern california are fueled by strong santa ana swindz. >> -- winds. the winds are so strong stronger than i've ever seen it. >> when it hits the midwest there's no stopping it. when the santa ana winds come in there's no stopping them. >> reporter: two los angeles fires between 30 and 40% contained. the damage left behin

a live look at the pier in avalon. temperatures are in the 40s ahead of a few days of roller coaster temperature changes ahead. glenn "hurricane" schwartz is here with the most accurate forecast, glenn. >> yeah. it is definitely cooler today than it was yesterday. we do have and i creased wi inc. we have a lot of clouds around. the temperatures are down a good bit from yesterday. remember we were in the upper 50s. it is 43 in allentown and 48 degrees in dover. and so that high of 58 yesterday, that's a thing of the past. we have already hit 50 early this morning but this afternoon's high about 46, tomorrow about 42 and then we start going back up again. so roller coaster. look at all of the clouds out there right now, but nothing in the way of rain until you go down into north carolina and that is moving straight to the east and not effecting us. we are getting clouds from the northern edge of that system. temperatures will be going dune little bit. this evening we are dropping down into the 30s. even lehigh valley dow

feeling like 5 a big 15 in avalon. that's the warm spot tomorrow morning.n the afternoon, as you notice, it really hasn't warmed up. avalon is gone down to 13. that settings us up where it's only 5 below in doylestown. so that's going to be the worst of it. at least for this week. it was a possibility of the early next week it could end up being even lower than those numbers. friday afternoon we're still in the single digits. so this is really freezing weather. we also may see this area of snow coming in from the west. it will be a big storm. over the weekend itself, so saturday is the day with the best chance for some snow. it's a high of 22 degrees in philadelphia. we could see some single digit lows early next week. >>> we have the cold, but look at this. 53 inches of snowfall in 30 hours. that's what people in pennsylvania are dealing with right now. lake-effect snow brought a white christmas and shattered state records for a two-day snowfall. >> tis the season for returning the unwanted christmas gifts. >>> how to maximize your cash and save time and m

avalon already got their footprint in the backyard of this community. how much more do they want? the interest in taking the parking that will be impacted is a hostile act. it's clearly known what will be done by city college in planning for it. it has -- it weighs the value of students against the value of property. be careful about the code words that you are hearing. you heard underutilized land. i would invite you to go to the open space and try to call it underutilized, below which is a three-story parking lot. it's vacant. hotelers would love to build a hotel on that. you can partner with city college and create a solar farm, a solar garden. >> okay. thank you. thank you. all right. next is ms. kristie wang. are you here? good afternoon. how you doing? >> i'm kristie wang, spur community planning property director, focused on good planning and good government. you are probably familiar with our work on sustainability and resilience, but i'm working on housing. i'm here to support your government's work to make this site available for mixed-income housing and other uses like

avalon, ocean city, probably the snow falling there.antic city making that transition over right now. and that's where we are going to see the initial snow. look at this system, it's moving off to the north and east. you can see it sort of bulges out as it's moving across parts of maryland and barely touching west virginia. the thickest part of this system that's going to arch through our area has yet to get here. it stretches all the way back into the deep south and this is going to be the track that it takes. let's time it out for you. the temperatures generally are above freezing right now. that's why we're not seeing a steady snow. watch what happens. we go from 4:30, we see the snow down there in delaware and south jersey and the jersey shore. 9:30 tonight it moves just a little bit further to the north. not too far. we get into about 2:30 in the morning. now we're up to millville, dover, you're seeing snow. not to wilmington yet. not quite yet. atlantic city, you're in the snow. not philadelphia, but look at the temperatures, the

rive riverview, cape may, avalon, dennis, we go right up to atlantic city looking at some of that light snow. maybe switching over in galloway, not as far north as waterford or winslow. we're not seeing it in those places yet. this is a look at the system, you can see it stretches all the way down to atlanta. it's got to make its way through our areas, it's going to take 18 hours to do it. this will be very long event. timing, temperatures above freezing, they will be above freezing for much of the area at 10:00 tonight. south jersey and southern delaware. watch what happens at 2:30 tomorrow morning. it starts to move northward. we see the transition to below freezing and between about 7:00 tomorrow morning and noon, everybody is in the snow. let's check out another area for snow totals, let's go to philadelphia, steve? >> all right. and you see dry bare ground, nothing happening right now at the art museum. when you check in this time tomorrow night, snow will be blanketing the christmas tree there. it's quiet in philadelphia. you can see the live radar, we don't have any snow close by

it's 25 in avalon. 30 in cay may point. that's the warm spot in the area. and 26 at the philadelphia airport. how low it will go and then any more snow in the forecast coming up. >> thank you, glenn. a live look inside the lake. and tomorrow's game will be a frinld o frigid one. eagles take on the cowboys in the regular season and weather will no doubt be a factor and a live picture of the river rink at pen's landing where the finishing touches worked out for tomorrow's fireworks show. some are still enjoying the winter wonderland. drew smith is live on the ben franklin parkway where people are shivering as they take in the sights this weekend. >> reporter: there were a lot of people out here tonight. since the sun has gone down, most people have gone. but the mummers parade, it's going to be slippery and cold out there. here to celebrate new year's eve and celebrate with the fireworks tomorrow and in the snow with hats, hoods, scarves and gloves but some visitors aren't complaining. >> it's like to 20-degrees warmer down here. this is like spring. >> repor

meantime, four inches possible in avalon. three inches possible in dover. looking at one to two, possibly three inches in isolated spots in the philadelphia area. but less north and west. it is going to be a snowy start to saturday. and there may be lingering showers during the army/navy football game that starts at 3:00. more of a wintry mix. temperatures just above freezing. i'm not looking for a lot of accumulations but not exactly great weather. by evening hours, temperatures come down. a cold day today. breezy, 40 degrees this afternoon. the snow falling, accumulating during the day. 32 in the morning. 34 in the afternoon. then it is freezing up saturday night. we drop to the 20s. sunshine is back on sunday. we'll be dry on sunday, but a chance of scattered snow showers on tuesday. here comes another blast of cold on wednesday. the winds will be blowing. 29 on wednesday afternoon. the 30s for thursday, friday, and saturday. next sunday, a week from this sunday, we'll be back in the low 40s. >> all right. thank you. >>> 6:23. coming up, closing down. a

we have cnn political analysts david gregory and john avalon.'s put it up for people here. repealing obamacare, infrastructure program, reforming welfare entitlement programs. david, do you think we have those in a right order, or they may come in a different order? >> i think they may come in a different order. and i would add the unexpected. whether it's the mueller investigation, another supreme court vacancy, the investigation around the mueller investigation or supreme court vacancy or some other shock, something in national security and foreign affairs. could make any kind of agenda just stand still or never get started. i still think that the potential promise of a trump presidency is to take on something that he may know something about which is infrastructure. a way to work with democrats. maybe the well has been too poisoned at this point. you know, welfare reform is certainly an area that i think certainly the speaker of the house, paul ryan, would like to take on. he's taken it on before. in an election year when it hurt him, the las

is tax reform plan going to have on economy and joining thus morning to talk about all this mark avalone and pete, mark, thanks forever joining us this morning. we know a little -- mark i felt bad in the last couple weeks. every time you come in we didn't know what we were talking about basically because we didn't know parameters of tax bill. we know two different versions exist. but a lot of people i've been talking to are very concerned of loss of deductions that your state and local taxes are going to be no longer applied. what kind of kchtions have you been having to people as they look forward. >> upper middle class anrubts individuals living in states like par mar, california, new jersey with high state medical tax and high property taxes they may actually not get a kax cut. so that's what the concern has been. and there really say tax cut for lower earners through working exemptions and folks on high end that see a drop in tax rate. upper middle bracket could actually get slight increase because of loss of salt deduction state and local income tax. >> that's fwhoot was pro promise

avalon, 19 the feels-like temperature. a all-day cold for us today. doppler radar and satellite, we're in the clear now. that will change come tonight. once the wind settles down, look at the clouds starting to move in. that's at 7:00 this evening. the temperature will be in the 20s, and here comes a chance of some snow showers during the late night and early morning hours. by 2:00, some light snow in reading and allentown, patztown. this is -- pottstown. this is the area i'm looking at an inch or less, a dusting in philadelphia. it will be moving out during the day tomorrow. we'll look at when temperatures will finally look a bit warmer with your weekend forecast when i'm back in ten. >> see you then. >>> 4:10 on this frigid wednesday. let's find out what the roads are looking like. >> even getting from your house to your car, wherever you're going this morning, you're going to want to bundle up. i'm sure a lot of car heaters are working on overdrive this morning. what's it looking like on the schuylkill? >> yeah. i was happy this morning that my car

by then, we could have four inches on the ground in avalon with about an inch to two inches for trentonwilmington. you see how it really tapers off north and west. snow is coming tomorrow. today, breezy, mostly cloudy. up to 41 this afternoon. the snow developing on saturday will spread inland. 40 degrees the high temperature. with the temperatures peaking around 40 degrees. it's going to be difficult to see significant accumulation in our area. cold enough for some of the colder surfaces, for snow to come down on saturday. by sunday, we've got sunshine, it's back, 38 degrees. monday, 42. and then another round of snow later on tuesday, looking likely. by wednesday, we're clearing out. and it gets cold. 27 degrees wednesday. then look how cold it stays next week. for thursday, friday, and saturday, we are in the 30s. and then finally, a little bit warmer next sunday. that's a long way away. >> a little bit warmer at 43? >> that's the warmest on the ten day. 48, we won't be near that for the coming days. >> i can't take my eyes off the weather tomorrow. thousands of middies and cadets wi

i spoke to journalist and "daily beast" editor-in-chief john avalon who's been following the year's twistsrns. so here we have a year-end legislative victory, a very, very rare one, but nonetheless, a big one for donald trump. this tax reform, first time since ronald reagan in the '80s. how significant is it not just for him, but for his base, his voters? >> from a political standpoint, it's a big win for the president, and he needed it. there had been no major pieces of legislation. republicans were staring the prospects of not having a big legislative win with unified control of government. they got it done in a record amount of time when they focused on politics. that said, the devil's always in the details. this is not a great bill if you line it up with what the president proposed and promised to do. he billed it as a middle-class tax cut. this is not a middle-class tax cut. it's focused overwhelmingly on the wealthy and lowering corporate taxes. he billed it as a tax simplification, something conservatives have held out for a long time with good reason. needs to be done. this doesn't

. >> good times across south philly as mummer's nation readies for strike the avalon string band chew street at tasker definitive came out it will roll out monday. >> you want to go on new year's day. it's not when they cancel and have a week later. >> philadelphia glittery and eye-catching new year's day tradition will be met with subfreeze iting temperatures and biting wind and we're told the string band association voted against marching monday but was defeated by 3-2 outcome. charlie cook plays sax. >> there's a couple hours in the cold and it gets stuck yes. >> he worries about it look locking up in the cold. >> fist of all you have to keep yourself warm and keep your fingers warm because you're holding a brass metal instrument. >>> on the other side of town lots of work left to be done in south philadelphia strins band 28 and porter. >> it's all about being on tv and props. >> guys here covered headed to toe in flightier were adding touches to haunted western salon scene they'll perform for judges and some changes to parade will allow for performers to stay warm. >> the city all

cited ten dash through two that actually lists the dioxins that were detected in the air sampling and avalon and so i think it sort of contradicts a statement that's on line. what they've got to realize is that you know here we are really. denying service member the human right to life by denying them that special a tell period by denying them the benefits by denying a connection. to a correlation to the. you leaving widows without benefit you need children without benefits we shouldn't have to fight you've already fought in the battlefield there's no it's there's no reason why this should be happening in america's backyard who shouldn't have to fight for benefits. well basically what i want to say is that i go beyond saying it's inaccurate i'm saying that it's a lie that there is clear evidence and the institute of medicine has published their big huge report which is like hundreds of pages and i've looked at it they are talking about how these burn pits cause and what kinds of illnesses they cause so therefore what they have put their putting on their website is a is a is a life because th

a sad day avalon it's good to see you it's a landslide victory for george weah what gave him the ads why did you. just you know would simply because the liberian people decide that they don't want had no other units a party that didn't feel that this is the time but judge. with over eighty percent of the young people. what's in judge we are in doubt he'll intimacy as them so they will want to you know you need to potty that was exactly what what the vice president and this event is teaching compared to kind of judge we're ok so young people voted for him for change and he's relatively new to politics and he's chosen ex-wife of imprisoned warlord charles taylor as his running mate is there any concern about jewel howard taylor's role in the new government now. every round is that she has a wealth of experience in politics she has been elected twice as the senate in zero four nine years each so she's completing a second term now that would be complete eighteen years so she has a woman i guess feelings when it comes to politics unlike george weah so she brings experience on board with t

a live look at avalon where there's hardly anybody on the beach. it's pretty but it's cold on the beach right there. this air isn't going anywhere any time soon. >> glenn "hurricane" schwartz is tracking the chill. it is cold and getting worse. >> we're going to long for days like today by the time we get to the middle of next week. clear skies in easton. one of the places in the lehigh valley that's going to be coldest into the next couple days. feels like below zero before the week is is out. the average high is is 42 for this time of year. we cooled off sunday. cooled off more on monday. today is so far up to 33. thursday we go down even from that. our high on thursday may not even be. 25. 32 in philadelphia. 26 in allentown. and we have just enough wind to make it feel like it's 20 in philadelphia. 16 in allentown. these feels like temperatures are going to be maybe close to 15 to 20 degrees below this. here's what it's going to feel like tomorrow. we get up feeling like 14 in philadelphia. and as the sun comes out and heat up, it doesn't feel

this is a live look at avalon. a beautiful day out there. not a sole on the beach. >> first tlaks. not talking major snow. chief meteorologist tammie souza has the details in the most accurate weather forecast. >> if it's going to be a few flakes. we're going to go with that. it's still warm for that. nonetheless, we're going. to see the snow flakes here and there and maybe across philadelphia and the suburbs. everything is quiet on doppler radar here. but not too far to the west across williams port. we have snow showers taking place. we have a rain/snow mix making its way into the lehigh valley. a lot of that not hitting the ground. we have gusty winds that are creating a lot of lake-effect snow off of the eastern great lakes as well. let's walk you through hour by hour what's going to happen tonight and tomorrow. we'll continue to enjoy mainly clear skies. that activity to the west basically dries out because we have a fairly dry atmosphere in place. you see what's coming up from the south. we have a coastal storm that's going to lift not tomorrow, tomorrow night and into saturd

. >>> turning to our first alert weather, taking a live look from our camera in avalon, cape may county beautiful scene. >> pretty mild and a good weekend to put the decorations up on the house. it's going to change pretty fast. >> and some rain on the way, too, right? >> we have rain on the way and i hope you get those decorations up. this was your window to do it. 47 in the pennsylvania suburbs. delaware, 49. 51 in south jersey. jersey shore, 53. philadelphia, 51. yes, we have cloud cover. a few peaks of sunshine but we'll watch those clouds continue to thicken as the evening wears on. in b in bedminister, 48. oxford, 48. very popular numbers. so we're very comfortable, in the upper 40s and low 50s right now. let's zoom on in to philadelphia. it's 51 at the airport. 52 at society hill. 49 in parkside. 51 for all of you. we're looking at 52 in parkwood. so it's comfortable. we should be 49th time of year for our daytime high. we exceeded that today. we're going to do it again tomorrow and then you best get ready for winter and here's why. we're going to see rain showers tomorrow. we'll

strangely, there is not a crush for christmas buying over at avalon flooring so if you had are looking for some hardwood now is the time to get in there before the mad last week of christmas rush at avalon flooring right next to toys-r-us, across the street. >> i have never received flooring for christmas. >> i haven't either, something new. >> yes. >> back splash. >> don't be surprised if there is a few boxes of parkay on your desk when you get back from vacation. >> thank you. >> all i want for christmas is my two front floors, tiles, parky. do you remember that commercial parkay. >> butter. >> butter. >> it is not butter. >> it is parkay. >> parkay. >> how does it feel to work with old men. >> stop it. >> you guys aren't old. >> i'm sorry, bob. >> if you ever wanted to work in like a rest home you will have perfect experience for >> we were talking music i would be right there with you. >> i know that. >> but not butter commercials. >> park kay. >> no, paray. >> it says right on your lid, parkay butter. >> butter. >> is that vick tayback. >> i like the parkay. >> alex, is this jen o

senior political analyst john avalon, editor in chief at "the daily beast" and senior political commentatorng news getting blowback for choosing him as a final. >> everyone should have guessed. mistakes were clearly made. you read the article, they're saying, look, this is sort of like "time"'s person of the year. it's impactful but it wasn't the best decision. >> i actually fundamentally disagree. they were very clear. and by the way, this just happened in utah. orren hatch sawas said in utah be the most influential utahan of the year. they sort of condemned some of his behavior and they were not plattering at all. the point is the measure of the prize or reward or recognition is the influence that person has had on society for that year. where i dislike the choice is that i actually think this gives richard spencer way too much -- i even hate saying his name on television -- but it gives him way too much credit. what has happened in the last year is there has been this emergence and maybe a little bit of a consolidation of white nationalist neo-nazi sort of fringe groups who have gotten a

there is a long history with data not to drive the skepticism that avalon has mentioned. i am not a soviet expert, but i would think that there could potentially be common ground about a narrow and concrete norm we will not interfere with the operation of election machines to switch their votes. we will not tamper with those names. would we be willing to agree to a norm that we will not influence any other state election ever? because that is a very broad norms that would include not funding ngos that were trained to assist in democratic elections. it would have to be a very narrow norm, but if it were we will not literally hack for an election machines, we could get on board with it and i don't know, but it's possible the russians might be willing to get on board. if not, how does the like-minded conversation go, while you could develop a slightly broader set of norms that people would agree with that might include, for example, not interfered with narrowly defined critical infrastructure during peace time. but then, the question is that is nice nato countries have all a

but the question is beautiful shot in avalon now.utiful as we round into your christmas weekend? >>> right now on nbc 10 news today, booker threatened. we'll explain how federal agents are taking special steps to protect the new jersey senator. >>> thawing out. the melting should move into higher gear today as temperatures take a climb. >> focus on foles, the backup becomes the starter this afternoon as the eagles try to win without wentz. >> foles did help us get to that victory last week. >> he's good, he's solid. >> we are confident. i'm rosemary connors. >> and i'm dray clark. we've had a rough couple of days, snow and freezing temperatures. this morning help is on the way. let's get to the very nice forecast. warming. that is the focus

arctic blast coming late next week you really need to take those things into consideration. 18 in avalon17. 21 in cape may points. feels like temperatures, again, this is what you need to dress for this morning, feeling like single digit cold right now. 13 below in mt. pocono. 4 above in millville. 17 in the marina in atlantic city. here is how you plan the day. temperatures feeling like the single digits in philadelphia, the suburbs down through the lehigh valley, the jersey shore in delaware. buy a plane ticket to get out of the cold. coming up at 6:18 the ten-day forecast and walk you through brutal blast number three. >>> all right, thanks for that, steve. ready to bloom. not here but out west, i suppose. volunteers are putting the final petals in place for an annual new year's day tradition. we'll take you to the rose parade preparations in california next. here's your receipt. have a nice day! thank you. ♪ ♪ start the car! start the car! start the car! start the car! the ikea winter sale. wooooooo! get up to 50% off select items. now through january 10th. ikea. >>> new york police

but temperatures at the beach, 26 in avalon, upper township, dennis township. it's going to get worse than that. we have dry weather over us right now. clouds starting to come in. this is the area of snow. it's not a huge storm. it does not have tremendous amounts of moisture. it's not going to redevelop off the coast. but it is going to hit very cold surfaces. so it's going to stick. it could start as early as 5:00 a.m. or 6:00 a.m. by 8:00 a.m. covering much of chester and berks county, much of delaware. it may take a little longer to reach the shore. midday hours should be a peak, maybe starting to taper off in southern delaware by then. that's a steady snow and it's an accumulating snow. there we are 2:00 and it's still snowing in new jersey. it's really taperer off in philadelphia. it's not going to last all day. it should be lasting for a good number of hours. and our computer models continue to show coating to perhaps an inch or two at the most across the area. not exactly big differences from north to south or east to west. here we go with the feels lik

avalon at 53. delaware at 52 degrees. so it's definitely warmer tomorrow. then warmest on saturday.here comes that rain on saturday. showing another computer model here and into saturday evening. but then dry out on sunday. what is then, another area moisture comes up from the southwest. and now we're getting into the colder air too. some of us look like we're dpoing to see some snow. christmas eve, snow in the po poconos. snow in the lehigh valley. berks county possibly down to bucks, montgomery, chester counties. don't think it's going to quite make it down to philadelphia or delaware or south jersey. it's not that far off. going to have to keep an eye on that. some of this in the darker colors could accumulate. especially in the poconos. that is christmas eve and christmas day. here we are at 9:00 a.m. it's just about to end. so we could end up with a wet christmas morning across much of the area. then we dry out. it gets cold. let's take a look at the weekend overall. 60 degrees. sunday is generally dry. a morning chance of rain with a little bit of snow to the north and west. a

. >> reporter: a celebration was underway at avalon string band at two street in tasker after hearing from a vote among five divisions that the parade will get on. >> they were cheerful you wanting to on new years day. it is not the same when they canals he will it and have a week later. >> reporter: philadelphia's glittering eye catching new years tradition will be met with sub freezing temperatures and biting win, the string band association voted against marching on monday, but with was defeated in a three-two vote. charlie cook plays the saxophone. >> after a couple hours in the cold it gets tough, yeah. >> reporter: he worries about it locking up in the freezing cold. >> biggest challenge is, first of all, you have to keep your stuff warm fingers warm because you are holding basically a brass metal instrument. >> reporter: parade route is line with barricade the city will set up heating tents and warm bus's long the route for the mummers. >> city allowed to us keep our buses with the band so as you necessity if we need to get warm we can jump on the bus for any period of time. >>

take you down to the jersey shore. 38 right now in summers point. 36 in avalon. 38 in stone harbor. 35 in wildwood. 33 at the courthouse in cape may. and so it's not a terribly cold night. not a lot of wind out there. it's just one of the typical december nightings where you need to have the winter coat and attire for you. it's 36 in wilmington. 36 in allentown. 28 in mount pocono. so it's winter and what do we have for you? a warm-up coming our way. starting tomorrow, after we get through tonight with temperatures around freezing and a chilly friday morning, our holiday weekend is looking mild er for the start of it. temperatures near 60 in philadelphia on saturday. a few scat ered showers. don't get used to it. we go to the deep freeze. i'll have that coming up. >> don't forget to download the free nbc 10 app. you can get the forecast tr your neighborhood 24/. all you have to do is tap the app. >>> a philadelphia pawnshop worker fights back when a man comes in to rob the store. video shows a man walking into the pawnshop last month and pulling a gun from his waistband. the person wor

we have john avalon and reporter and editor at large for cnn, chris cillizza. >> did you see the headon going on when i was asking that question. >> i have a great way to get out of questions i don't want to answer. thank you for having me on the show. >> i'm going through a tunnel. >> okay, back to the story of the day. what is the big picture here of roy moore's loss and doug jones' win. >> this is a roll tied through virginia to alabama last night, and a lot of washington analyst thought even though roy moore was an extreme candidate and even though the allegations that the gravity would take hold with red state conservatism, i think we saw two things. there's such a thing as too extreme in american politics, still. as chris documented, it's about the overall profile. he always had problems winning over suburban districts. if you look at the demographic break, it's between suburban and rural, and suburban swung hard against roy moore last night. >> i think that's right. just one other thing, base, excitement, and then this matters to 2018. the democratic base, if you told me the af

what about this precedent that awe group of lawmakers can say avalon, we don't like your face.you have get out. >> that is an issue. there are methods for dealing with senators is, right? there is censure. >> they have an investigation against franken. >> correct. and i think it's better to let that process go forward. in the early 1990s, 19 allegations of sexual misconduct. very serious. ultimately there was a 10,000 page report. and he left the senate despite being recently re-elected. there was an avalanche yesterday of senators, democrats coming out. untenable situation for al franken. it is clearly a political calculation because the democrats admirably have to say we have moral clarity when it comes to condemning roy moore. >> do they have moral clarity if they do it to achieve a political purpose? >> they are trying to make that contrast clear. here's the larger problem. it is not just the president. it is also about the alleged. six women have come out. incidents occurred primarily before al franken was senator. that's an interesting question about what is the statute o

avalon seeing a burst and atlantic city will be seeing it fairly soon. in southern delaware they're getting a mixture of rain and then sleet. visibility tells us how heavy the snow is. look at the visibility in reading and lancaster. that's it, no more accumulation for you guys. pottstown's visibility has gone up a bit. so has philadelphia. we only see a quarter mile visibility in mount holly right now. that's the heaviest snow. wilmington, half mile. and northeast philadelphia and trenton, fairly heavy snow. but not quite as bad as what we saw a half hour ago. 9:00 through midnight we'll see the skies clear. of course, the temperatures are low enough already that anything freezes. snow and ice, steps, sidewalks, and roads. tomorrow morning, of course, things are icy, snow covered. you've got to get rid of it. the sun comes out a little bit. starts melting things. late in the morning, but in the afternoon most of the melting will be taken place. when the sun goes down again tomorrow night it's going to refreeze. you want to get rid of everything tomorrow

. >> reporter: a celebration was underway at avalon string bandon two street at tasker after hearing word saturday from a vote among five divisions that the parade will go on. >> they were cheerful you wanting to new years day. it is not the same when they cancel it and you have it week later. >> reporter: philadelphia's new years day tradition will be met with sub freezing temperatures and biting wind. the string band association voted against marching on monday, but was defeated in the three-two vote. kelly cook plays the saxophone >> it is tough. >> reporter: he war business it locking up in the freezing cold. >> biggest challenge is, you have to keep yourself warm, keep your fingers warm because you are holding basically a brass metal instrument. >> reporter: parade route is lined with barricade, the city will set up heating tents and warm bus's licensing the route for the mummers. >> the city will allow to us keep our buses with the band, so if we need to get warm jump on the bus for a period of time. >> if you are planning to come down here, gloves, hat, scarves, layers, layers

so, i spoke with a certified financial planner, mark avalone about this.sten. >> there always is a risk with owning one stock just because kanye owned apple that doesn't mean each person should go out and buy apple. investing is a custom decision and certain stocks can trail the market for a long time but overall this is a really good way for young people to see that their idols, the people that they follow are buying stocks and investing in america's best companies. >> so, there you go. he said overall it thing, maybe it gets young people talking about investing. but i had to at least bring up the point with him, i said what if young people who don't know anything about stocks or any age really so, well, kanye bought adidas, i should, too. he said everything -- it's individual. >> think through it. talk to an expert but it's good that maybe it gets young people talking about investing. >> those are nice stocking stuffs when you're a millionaire like kanye west and you can afford that kind of cash in stocks so to each their own. thank you ronica. >> you're

. >> reporter: a celebration was underway at avalon string bandon two street at tasker after hearing word saturday from a vote among the five divisions that the parade will go on. >> they were cheerful. you wanting to on new years day. not the same when they cancel it and you have it the week later. >> reporter: philadelphia's glittering eye catching new years day tradition will be met with sub freezing temperatures and a biting wind , string band association voted against marching on monday but was defeated in a three-two vote. kelly cook plays the saxophone >> it gets tough. >> reporter: he war bits locking up in the freezing cold. >> biggest challenge is, you have to keep yourself warm, keep your fingers warm because you are holding basically a brass metal instrument. >> reporter: parade route is already lined with barricade, the city will set up heating tents and warm bus's long the routes for the mummers. >> city allowed us to keep our buses with the band so if we need to get warm we can jump on the bus for a period of time. >> reporter: it is bitter cold out here, if you are pl

talks will now focus on trade and security with many jobs potentially at risk the bric cyclone tix avalon into the pocket al-jazeera london. as president donald trump has declared an emergency in california and plates additional eight s. six wildfires continue to sleep across the southern part of the state the fires have forced more than two hundred thousand people to leave their homes over the past five days allan shuffler reports from one of the worst hit areas and to a county. when the wind dies down the helicopter crews go up here taking advantage of morning call to attack the thomas fire northwest of l.a. the largest of the fires burning in southern california it's now ten percent contained but still growing a slight break in the weather has helped firefighters in some areas and the fight ahead is all about how hard the wind blows and how dry the hills are there's three factors that influence fire behavior fuel weather and topography. weather is a huge factor it's the most variable factor that fire for wildland firefighters face across the region fires have burned through more than s

i'm sure there's quite a few, so let's bring back joanne lipman, john avalon, and sally buzzby.ou telling your journalists at the end of this year? >> it's a great question. washington reporting and what is happening in the trump administration is really the most important thing that's happening in the world at this moment. what we try to constantly talk to our journalists about is make sure you are not just focusing on that. there are things that are happening in the world, the rise of china's influence, what russia is doing, what people outside of washington in america actually think about what is going on in their country. and don't become obsessed with that just that one story. go out and say what's the impact of the policy decisions that are being made? cover the world and make sure that people aren't losing sight of all these things. the accountability journalism in washington is -- has been and is likely to continue being the most important thing that we do in the coming year. it is what is of interest to the globe. but make sure you're talking to real people too. make su

john avalon and mark updegrove. john is a true, rising star in this country in the media and journalism world. john got his start as a speechwriter for rudy giuliani, both when he was mayor of new york and later as presidential candidate. john avlon today is editor in chief and managing director of the "daily beast", but he is way more than that. he is a very active writer in this country. every major magazine has seen one of his pieces. moreover, he's on television all the time. you can look at cnn, look at msnbc, , you can look at pbs, yu can look at c-span and you will see john avlon. i will also tell you he is a prolific writer of books. he's written multiple books. the one that's most prominent, the most spotlighted is about washington's farewell address. and he reminds us that that is truly topical today. because in his farewell address, washington warned this country against excessive partisanship, greedy self-interest, and foreign powers that might affect our elections. [laughing] think about that. if that's