the 40-degree mark, coatesville, pottstown, quakertown, doylestown, all at 41 degrees. 42 in kennett squaree clouds are preventing the temperatures from dropping faster. we still have a 50 out there, 51 degrees in lewes, delaware. say good-bye to the 50s for a good while. the wind chills in the 30s now. bundle up if you're headed out for your new year's eve activities. and then after that, you're going to need the winter coats as we go later on here. so we've got seasonably cold air coming in saturday and sunday, then a real shot, some arctic air going into new england. we're just going to get on the edge of that, so monday and tuesday and wednesday of next week, really cold. things are going to ease up a little bit later next week, so it's not like we're going to get into the deep freeze and stay there, but it is going to be a colder month of january. we don't have any precipitation around for the rest of the evening, we have temperatures dropping to 38 degrees by midnight and for the mummers tomorrow, it's chilly. the wind increases later on during the morning. for the rest of the night t

in just three years the mushroom drop has attracted more than 3,000 people to downtown kennett square. >> it's also fun to look up and see people all around, so all of the apartments invite their friends around and you can look up and they are all partying and having a lot of fun. >> six, five, four, three -- >> reporter: many suburbs have figured out there's more to new year's eve than just times square as the chicks rising and dropping happens again, as well. >> that looks like one whole row. >> reporter: back in mushroom land, mike and rich determined they can replace the l.e.d.s for this year's new show. >> we're having an early raising and lighting of the mushroom for families with young children and invited the seniors from the retierm villages in the area. >> reporter: but mushrooms at midnight are always worth the wait. and for the sleep-prone in philadelphia, we're happy to announce there's also going to be a new early fireworks extraf gan za show, as well. doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >> thank you so much. as you heard doug say, if you can't wait till midnight, you can celebra

situation, fire crews on the scene, but not seeing any flames shooting out. 46 in quakertown. 46 in kennett square. we're kind of used to temperatures at this hour being above the average high, 44 is the average high. that also the temperature in cinnaminson. 46 in dover, delaware, rain arriving later this morning, but roads are dry right now. >> an update on a deadly police shooting case that up ended the city of chicago. a jury indicted chicago police officer jason vandyke for shooting laquan mcdonald. he shot him 16 times. it includes 6 counts of first degree murder and official misconduct. he remains free on bail. he is scheduled to be back in court tomorrow. >>> authorities in texas are searching for 18-year-old ethan coach. he avoided jail when lawyers argued he was too spoiled to understand his crimes. he is missing,s mother is missing, police think the pair may be on the run. >>> a minnesota mom took home a big prize with her amazing half court shot. at first it looked like it missed, but after the floor it bounced into the basket. they raise the most money during the school fundraiser, he

the temperatures now down to 48 degrees in kennette square, 46 in wrightstown. those areas had clouds a little bit thicker. we have 46 in blue bell, 47 in pottstown and 46 in quakertown. we'll talk about how much warmer it's going to get and if there's any rain in a few minutes. >> thank you very much. >>> the philadelphia district attorney's office demoted three lawyers linked to porn graphic e-mails but still some say it's not enough. three senior prosecutors found with pornographic e-mails on their state owned computers will no longer be supervisors starting today. seth williams transferred the men to other departments in the district attorney's office but they'll still get their full pay. a spokesperson says the office just wants to put the matter behind them. city council and several women's groups in the area want the men fired. >>> switching gearing, after a highly successful season, temple university made a move to keep its football coach around for a while and announced matt rhule has agreed to a six-year contract. he's a finalist for the eddie robinson

kennett square bills itself as the mushroom capital of the world. >>> for the first time, comedian bill cosby is facing criminal charges in a sexual assault case. he is free on a million dollars bail after appearing in court in montgomery county yesterday. authorities charged the 78-year-old comedian with aggravated indecent assault just days before the statute of limitations ran out. prosecutors say cosby gave andrea constand pills and wine and assaulted her at his montgomery county home 12 years ago. no charges were filed at the time but prosecutors reopened the case after court records from a civil suit filed by other alleged victims became public in july. cosby's next court date is january 14. cosby's attorneys say "we intend to mount a vigorous defense against this unjustified charge and we expect mr. cosby will be exonerated by a court of law." cosby attorney monique pressley appeared this morning on the "today" show. >> he knows he has a legal name is intent on defending him until he is exonerated. >> she says cosby is not guilty and there will be no talk about a plea bargain. at

cool, but not always bad as -- not as bad as some spots, kennett square, 39 degrees. 42 in glassboro. 36 in woodbine in the 30s in delaware. these are the spots where there are fewer clouds and we're getting the surface heat loss. if you're running errands you might want to wait until later on. 48 by noon. the high is 52 at 3:00 p.m. unlike yesterday we'll have less wind out there, so a comfortable day to get out there and walk to the store and get exercise today, tam. >> thank you, david. >>> you can find the seven-day forecast and live look at storm tracker 6 live double scan radar at 6abc.com/weather. >>> two thieves in delaware stealing holiday cheer from front porches in new castle county. one of the victims got them caught in the act. police released this video from a home in bear. the ups driver drops off three boxes and a silver car backs into the driveway and a man in a steelers jersey gets out of the passenger side and puts the package also in the car -- packages in the car and speed off. police have warrant out for their arrests. not nice. >>> 5:23 in the wake of the announ

with light winds are these are not that bad. 44 in kennett square.uth jersey, 40s and 30s, 49 in hockessin 46 in dover, delaware. 47 degrees by 9:00 a.m. noon, 60 and a high of 65 degrees. if we hit that it will be a record-tieing high in philadelphia. a mix of sun and clouds and light winds. beautiful out there, matt and tam. >> you can find the seven-day forecast live look at double scan radar at 6abc.com/weather. >>> dell they will walt -- don donell walton got a call from k matter saying they are layaway has been paid off. >> thank you for doing this, that's really sweet of you, and so kind of you to not know us and go in and pay for our layaway. >> she hopes the layaway angel sees her story and knows how much a simple act of generosity means for her family. >> for the second year, the kentucky police gave out cash instead of speeding tickets. they were give $100 after being pulled over after $10,000 was made to the sheriff's office. the money had one condition that it go to those who need the most. >> reporter: they enjoyed giving the money out

let's check the temperatures, martins creek, 42. 450 in pottstown, 45 in kennett square. 50 degrees in center city. 47 in browns mills. 51 in dover, delaware. no fog today. isn't that nice you'll see sunshine, even better news, windy we could see gusts up to 35 miles per hour. watch for that today. >> >> reporter: i'm erin o'hern live in the satellite center where we are following the latest developments on the mass shooting in california. new this morning, we have learned that the two suspected shooters were killed by police, they've identified as syed rizwan farook and tashfeen malik. now farook was a county employees and in attendance at a holiday gathering at the facility where the shooting happened. he left angry and returned with malik and that's when the shooting started. authorities have yet to rule out terrorismin the incident. we're following the story closely and will bring updates later this morning. back to you. >> five students in north jersey are under arrest. police say they were planning to set off a bomb at a high school. the elementary school students who were ten an

already just in the last couple of hours, picking up close to a half inch of rainfall already in kennett square. same case in bethlehem. about quarter of an inch in norristown, about little over .3 of a tent of inch in princeton, new jersey, temperatures though at least not dealing with a bitter cold rain. 54 degrees right now in philadelphia, close to 60 in ac. 59 degrees right now in millville. but storm scan3, showing us, packed in with the precipitation, really everyone being touched by the rainfall. it started off kind of sprinkle, light intensity, now noticing those darker colors popping up on our radar reflect, radar pocket indicating some heavier rainfall starting to push into part of delaware, and southern new jersey. and this afternoon, you know what to expect, steady rainfall, some pocket of heavier rainfall, start to come to ends as we head into the early evening hours, and rainfall totals, through this event, half inch to possibly an inch, and maybe even some higher than an inch in some locations, especially on our shore points, where we will see some of the heaviest rainfall as we

upper 40s for new holland and coatsville and kennett square. down across new jersey it's 51 hammonton and 49 both ewing and cinnaminson at this hour. 50 hockessin and lower 50s smyrna and dover. here's the issue the rest of tonight low level moisture tapping into east or northeasterly wind more in the way of cloud cover clashing with frontal boundary lifting north. give yourself extra time tonight and for that matter early tomorrow morning we're down to 3 miles in city and same in reading and 2 1/2 in plan castser and .8 in pocono poconos. and again dry with low beams on and allow extra time. satellite e6 and action radar this is why we have the moisture creeping through. there's frontal boundary lifting north which is why we have the light rain and showers overhead at this hour. all part of elongated system and stronger one across central and southern planes later tonight and throughout the weekend there's significant snow on the way and to east of snow you have severe weather break out across areas in eastern texas. moisture lift north and wi

network temperatures again extremely mild. 60 degrees still in ardmore. 58 degrees right now in kennett square. hainesport reporting 56 degrees. and so far this month, we've had four, 60-degree days in philadelphia. now the record for the month of december dating all the way back into the 1800's is 860-degree days that happened in 1998 and 1951. and we do have more 60-degree days and even a 70-degree day in the forecast. and we'll talk more when to expect this warmth and when it all comes to an end coming up. >> all right, thank you so much. president obama is applauding a historic agreement on climate change. today in paris nearly 200 countries agreed to fight global warming by limiting greenhouse gas emissions switch from burning oil, cole and class to solar power for decades to come. president obama says more work though still needs to be done. >> even if all the initial targets set in paris are met, we'll only be part of the way there when it comes to reducing carbon from the atmosphere. so we cannot be complacent because of today's agreement. >> wealthy countries including the united stat

currently it's 59 warrington and 54 center city and 57 kennett square and 57 new holland and down acrossing nnl it's it 54 in sea isle city and 53 ewing and browns mills and upper 50s in cinnaminson and 58 in dover. you look at visibility this is big concern through the overnight hours tapping into southwesterly win and low level moyt tour to contend with. down to five in reading and up to 6 in allentown and lehigh valley. down to four in wildwood. keep in mind as you go through the overnight hours first thing tomorrow morning. here's reason why showing you patchy areas of drizzle even sprinkled across interior portion of the southeast. we tap into the south wrlly wind there's a warm front it would be on the mild side and again tap into moisture tomorrow morning. 8:00 tomorrow all about the numbers. 50 in philadelphia at that time and 53 poconos and 55 wild sha shay. numbers keel on climbing by 3:00 tomorrow in middle to upper 60s. 68 philadelphia and 65 millville and we'll be flirting with 70s come tomorrow. the 7 day forecast showing you high of 7. if we hit that we'll break the record

. >> there is no better place to feel the joy of the holidays than at longwood gardens in kennett squarester county. our vittoria, is inside the conservatory celebrating the sounds of the seasons. tori, it is beautiful in there. >>> gorgeous and loverly and really you guys i feel so tranquil and peaceful. looking at that, if that doesn't make you think of the beauty of the holidays, i don't know what else. here at longwood gardens they are pulling out all the stops to make sure that you really have a dazzling and memorable experience. including not only are you surrounded by gorges trees and flowers and plants exquisitedly decorated you also have the sounds of the season playing as a back drop. take a listen. ♪ >> reporter: elegant energy, amidst lovely, lush, longwood gardens. all season long smells and sounds will sway you into the holidays. with festive flourishes and daily musical performances like the philadelphia bronze. >> ♪ >> reporter: a group of white gloved ringers started in 2008 out of bryn mawr. that came to dazzle the crowd with delightful dings of delicate gold bells. whi

. >> there is no better place to feel the joy of the holidays than at longwood gardens in kennett squareer county. our vittoria, is inside the conservatory celebrating the sounds of the seasons. tori, it is beautiful in there. >>> gorgeous and loverly and really you guys i feel so tranquil and peaceful. looking at that, if that doesn't make you think of the beauty of the holidays, i don't know what else. here at longwood gardens they are pulling out all the stops to make sure that you really have a dazzling and memorable experience. including not only are you surrounded by gorgeous trees and flowers and plants exquisitedly decorated you also have the sounds of the season playing as a back drop. take a listen. ♪ >> reporter: elegant energy, amidst lovely, lush, longwood gardens. all season long smells and sounds will sway you into the holidays. with festive flourishes and daily musical performances like the philadelphia bronze. >> ♪ >> reporter: a group of white gloved ringers started in 2008 out of bryn mawr. that came to dazzle the crowd with delightful dings of delicate gold bells. whi

we pick up couple of feet looks like out of the stormment but the rain is our big story, kennett square's the highest observation that we've had so far. just really just shy of .8 of an inch at this point. ambler, just over half inch, and the list goes on, but not done yet. i would say, give it until about lunchtime for the rain to really be wrapping up. so we could add another half inch plus to those totals before we're all said and done. then the chill starts to settle in. happy new year, folks. we ring in 2016 on much chillier note. but frankly, meisha, it is much more seasonable by then. >> yes, we just got to get this rain today, katie, thank you so much for that. good pointers, as always, and i will tell you what, pack your patience, today. look right behind me. this is where we just had accident cleared. schuylkill westbound right around city avenue. in fact we had two, off ramp block for little while. that will got cleared. then we had another accident here just got cleared as well. but seeing all of this heavy traffic because of the string of accidents that happened right here,

the right lane and in westchester, watch for a wreck on franklin street and market street, at kennett squarecame down at longwood road and walnut road and 95 several accidents and slow speeds in both directions and 295 in mercer county a crash taking out a lane and giving us speeds in the 20s there. and we have more things to talk about brian and sharrie. we'll be listening. cecily tynan and accuweather is up next. >>> we are about to kick off the 12 days of christmas and cecily tynan at least four of them will be record breaking. >> yes, feeling more like spring and today heading out you need the umbrella. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that we have a solid wall of rain over us and it's really heavy right now in cape may, reeds beach and garden state parkway moving up to the north and ocean city is on the edge of that, and this is pushing in and there is more rain on the way and philadelphia now we are not looking at the reds and yellows but the greens and this is a moderate rain and it continues through the evening hours and after midnight is when it all tapers off, temperature-wi

54 at kennett square, normally a cool spot, but that's not cool for this time of the day, this time ofg. 58 in wilmington. and 57 in ricetown, 56 in trenton. and 55 in beach haven, 54 in woodbine. some of those clouds came through earlier in a bit of a break now and more clouds out to the west, but no rain with them. these are mostly high clouds and you get sunshine through those clouds. and if we get enough sunshine we're going to set some records. this is tomorrow, and the record for philadelphia is 65 degrees set way back in 1930. got a good chance of beating that. wilmington has an even better chance of beating a record. record 64. allentown's record is 63. reading's record is only 61. they have the best chance of beating the record tomorrow. and for the army/navy game, 67 degrees at kickoff. cools down all the way at 61 by the fourth quarter. and for the eagles game the next day, it could get up to 70 degrees by the third quarter. and it's going to be a very warm evening, too. 50 degrees for the low in philadelphia tonight, unseasonably mild with patchy fog towards sunrise. that's

david and 70 kennett square and chester 69. center city 69. levittown 68. cross south jersey 68 buna. take a look at gandy beach on the delaware bay maybe stripe striper fishing it's cooler on the bay thanp further inland wind and it's actually you're getting a bay breeze colling off the coast in item better land koupdy as well as the coast in kaich may county as well. negative else. "action news" radar keep it partly to mostly cloudy this afternoon. they're high, thin cloud. the sun will still beat right through that. and it should be a nice looking day. the receipt of the afternoon will say cloud and sun and warm. expecting a high of 72. that will be the new record high. we actually already broke the record now 72. the third warmest temperature ever recorded during the month of december. 73 is all time record any time during the month of december and that happened a while ago. we're getting in chaterd temperatures here once the cold front koss i'll have details for you and cooler numbers why the 7 day. >> now to "action news" reporter in south philadelphi

and saturday down to 39. 48 degrees in kennett square.as is wrightstown and these temperatures with southeast wind. the ocean is more than 10 degrees warmer than normal as well. so it's not that cold anymore. we can see all of this rain that continues to move across the area and into the area of full phil all in it right now with some moderate to heavy rain, delaware county getting it, the lower portion of bucks county right around the trenton area and there's more to come down in delaware and near smyrna, more in maryland. it's going to come straight up i-95. yeah, it's going to be really wet for the next, let's say, three hours. and then things may start to taper off. but that's a large area of rain, it's going to take a while to get out of here. here's the futurecast. we go through the afternoon. this is just in and you can see by 3:00 we're already starting to taper off a little bit but we're really going to be seeing the improvements between 4:00 and 6:00 this afternoon. big change across the area. and the amounts of rain as we go th

of december so far, 60s, 70s a bound, yesterday mild, and very, very soggy was the trendment kennett square too far from an inch and a half of rainfall yesterday, philadelphia airport, picking up about an inch, palmyra picking up about .9 of an inch, quakertown well over half inch every rainfallment storm scan3 showing us quiet conditions for most every us. still moisture off shore, as cold front is exiting the east coast, could see some of the shower activity sneak up as it is trying to right now producing maybe few sprinkles down toward cape may. could see some of the shower activity sneak in very light in intensity over the next couple of hours, for the first half of the morning future weather showing us that, this shower activity mainly well east of philadelphia, clouds still in place across parts of southern new jersey by midday clearing out very nicely, into the lehigh valley as we head into the early afternoon. and then for the second half of the day clearing out for everyone, mostly clear as we head into our friday evening, so don't need to care the umbrella along, but you will like

degrees, reading 56, pottstown and doylestown 58. 57 in blue bell. 58 in washington township. 56 in kennett square, one of the relatively cooler places trenton at 57. and as we head to 56 in beach haven, 62 degrees in lewes and in dover, delaware. patch of clouds come across in the middle of the afternoon, that prevented the temperature from going even higher, got stuck at 60 for a couple of hours. then a break now and more clouds coming in later tonight and into tomorrow and the high temperature, of course, will be determined by how much cloud cover we get. the atmosphere as a whole is plenty warm enough to support records saturday and sunday. the record for tomorrow is 65, going for 68. record for sunday, 65, going for 70 degrees. that record set in 1923. we have some other records that are vulnerable, too, wilmington could be broken, the allentown record and reading record might be one of the easier ones to break, as well, predicting five degrees we're going to break the record by. that's pretty significant. and for the army/navy game tomorrow, 67 degrees at kickoff and the eagles game on sunda

as is kennett square, 45 in wilmington, washington township, and still have 50s, yep, drove and leweslaware, still in the 50s. they are going to wave good-bye to those pretty soon. it feels like it's in the 30s, even in wilmington. 38 degrees with that wind blowing. yeah, the wind chill is back and we're going to be feeling that, especially as we head into early next week. here's the cold air that's coming down. seasonably cold over the weekend, but some arctic air is really going to hit new england, and we're going to get a little piece of that come tuesday and into wednesday of next week. and poconos, could be down to single digits, suburbs down into the teens, and then it kind of eases up a little bit, so it's not going to get cold and stay cold. we're going to vary some over the next couple of weeks, but that real mild weather, the record breaking weather, that is gone, at least for a good while. we've got a lot of clouds around, but they are not that thick, they are not producing any kind of rain or snow. and things are fairly dry over the eastern part of the country. unfortunate

temperatures across the live neighborhood network dropping into the 30s in kennett square and in hainesportardmore at lower merion high school. schneider middle school in bensalem 40 degrees right now. temperature map reflects much the same. some spots in our colder spots down toward millville in the 30s. allentown at 43. philadelphia we're at 41 right now. but it feels colder out there. still a breeze to contend with tonight. and most of the area feeling about 5 degrees colder than the thermometer would have you believe. so it feel like 36 in the city at the moment and it feels like 39 degrees in allentown. but we are continuing to dry out. today was kind of a transition back to quieter weather. tomorrow, high pressure is in control. still a bit of a breeze but not as bad as today. it's sunny and seasonably cool with a high near 50. saturday lots of sunshine notice what happens. take look at the wind bashes. they calm down with that high overhead saturday looking great. sunday either better. on the warm side of the high the green shading working its way temps may make a run for 60 in spots

. >> we drove up from philadelphia, to kennett square to drink in one of the largest christmas displays we are on baltimore pike in chester county, pulling up to longwood gardens. and if there is any time of year you want to visit the gardens, it is this time. this only being about 30 minutes away, you know, it is a great time to come during the day or come at night to see the light. >> for years this has been where families finds holiday spirit. >> and here is the centerpiece, display that people wait all year long to see, a beautiful 4-acre garden under glass. there are 16,000 seasonal plants inside, decorated in a new theme every year. this year's theme, fountains. the passion of longwood found earth, pierre dupont. and many were built brand new this year. >> what you are looking at now our exhibition hall. >> display designer jim south on and his team create holiday displays that are stunning both in sunlight, and at night. >> now i would like to show you our conservatory, with our largest tree ever under display, 25-foot cut tree, all decorated with a color pallet. >> oh, wow. so i

. >> we drove up from philadelphia to kennett square, to drink in one of the largest christmas displays> we are on baltimore pike, pulling to up longwood guard edges, if there is any time of year you want to visit the garden, it is this time. >> being 30 minutes away, great time to come at night to see the lights. >> for years there is has been where families finds holiday spirit. >> and here is the centerpiece. display that people wait all year long to see, a beautiful 4-acre garden under glass. there are 16,000 seasonal plants inside. decorated in a new theme every year. this year theme, fountains, passion of longwood founders pierre dupont. and many were built brand new this year. >> what you are looking at now is our exhibition hall. >> display design i shall jim sutton and team create annual holiday displays, that are stunning, both in sunlight, and at night. >> now i would like to show you our eastern conservatory with our largest tree ever on display under glass, 25-foot tree, all decorated with the color pallet. >> so i would imagine this is it. >> yes, it is all blue, white, si

his handlers did rush him to the university of pennsylvania's new bolten send in kennett square.e a plant that he shouldn't have. >> the plant there we suspected in bill was azaleas which contain a toxin there can can cause gastrointestinal upset. >> after treatment bill the goat was good to go. he'll be feeling a lot better when he trots out on the field tomorrow. >> ♪ it's the holidays. which means a house full of people -- who all want to get online. so it's the perfect time for verizon fios. it has the fastest internet and wifi available. with speeds from 50 to 500 megs. and right now, you'll get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for 79.99 a month online for your first year. and with a 2 year agreement, we'll give you all the premium movie channels for a year. plus, 400 dollars back. so go online or call now. get out of the past. get fios. >> going to be warm and sunny. we're not even talking about a vacation destination. >>> this is here. >> yes. no, you cannot wear flip-flops this weekend. you need to get a pedicure before that. they'll be sawing those things. it's been aw

kennett square 56 and other side of the delaware we go seeing mid 50s as well.d glassboro a5 a56. cinnaminson 59. and on the board in atlantic city 63. satellite 6 along with action radar we have a warm front all the way up here. so even new england it's not just us. winds out of the south. southwest here. this is all warm air. flooding the region. we don't have a snow pack up here the southern provinces of canada and grounds bear and great lakes ground bare you have to go to planes to get snow on the ground and rockies and couldn't nental divide west temperatures cold. we've been enjoying mild weather. if you head to lincoln financial field you'll enjoy mild weather again. kickoff temperature 67. high clouds, light breeze by 4th quarter 68 wow guys. >> all right. the big story on "action news" sunday morning is our weather. we're enjoying highest temperatures ever for mid december. great for eagles game. >> tailgaters don't have to pupdle up when they heed to the linc. rare treat for mid december. fans will be comfortablely war warm. a whip could put the pirdz