ten hours it raged on lehigh county. >> you can see the flames there. this is in lehigh county. now, steve keeley is on the scene there now. steve? >> reporter: maybe not raging any more. but still burning. because you can still see all of the smoke billowing up back from one of the major farmhouses, here, you got farmhouses, greenhouses, and it is dark out. you can still make out the big farm on the hill, way up here in lehigh county. and 20 different fire companies, taking part in this. all of them volunteers, so when you talk about ten hours, mike, these are people with real johns, real lives, real families, who have left all of that behind, and are out here in the cold and in the rain all night trying to save the rest of the farm. >> the only way now is the fire started, in one of our shops up there, we don't know why, what, or it was in a warehouse, and they're trying to get it under control. and there is damage. we just are not sure how much yet. >> rural water supply operations which makes it very difficult in a large volume fire, which is what this was. we went to a thir

. >> reporter: we came here asking questions of the lehigh county government services building. we wanted to know what the county did after being asked to investigate the allentown family. the packers, after sara packer lost her job as a social worker, and david packer was sent to jail for molesting two children. >> can i have your name? they're working on getting someone to assist you. >> reporter: at first we were told someone with lehigh county human services would come and talk to us, but after a few minutes. >> whoever is in charge upstairs, they're escorting you guys out. >> reporter: it was not a county official. it was a sheriff's deputy. >> i was told by the head of this department that they have no comment at this time. >> reporter: the deputy said he was told to escort us from the public building. without a camera we were able to go to the offices of a county executive and commissioners. we were told none of them were in the office today. nbc 10 is asking about sara packer and her daughter grace. we know grace was sexually abused by her adopted father david packer and

. >>> a quick update on this huge three alarm greenhouse fire in lower milford township , lehigh county. fire fighters are still trying to bring this blaze, under control burning for almost nine hours. thinks the can shanz farm and greenhouse on spinners town road. the fire broke out about 8:30 last night. there are no reported injuries , and no word just yet on a cause. >>> meanwhile a deadly shooting is under investigation in the holmes berg section of the city >> man was found shot in the head inside his home last night. eye witt the necessary news reporter trang do is live at 8,000 block of erdick street, tran, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. rahel and jim. detectives have a mystery on their hand here. they found a man shot in the head but no gun and no suicide note and other suspicious circumstances, but take a look , it happened in this house here, yellow house you see here, with several apartments, we're told it happened in a rear apartment, on the first floor. now, take a look at this video from the scene overnight, police responded to the 8,000 block of erdick street j

. >>> and, burning for hours, fire fighters are still on the scene of a three alarm fire in lehigh county. we will tell you what is fueling these huge flames. obama care showdown current president and the future vice-president, are holding, dueling meetings to talk about the future of health care law, next move both side are planning. today is wednesday, january 4th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >>> i'm rahel solomon. for the first time this year gang is all back together again. we have weather with katie. >> and traffic with meisha. >> back from the tundra. >> i have to tell you i left all of my winter gear back in minnesota. i'm going to say i missed you guys. i did not miss early a alarm but difficult miss all of you. >> that is worst part about this shift, right. >> yes. >> it is looking like weather-wise things will be pretty cooperative for your first take back as we ease back in here. that is some good news. possibly i little hint of fog still out there, and moisture, a little bit of that residual moisture that hung from the rain yesterday. two straight days of that isty rain. it

berks county and lehigh valley and north hampton county at 1:30 this afternoon. could see rain mixing in. now the rain is more likely to reach a little further to the south. trenton could see light rain showers. even into portions of lancaster. upper chester and montgomery county. 4:30 this afternoon. yes, still going late in the afternoon for the afternoon commute that's 5:30 this evening. watch as it clears out for this evening. that will clear the way for dry starts to february. look at the first week of february and beyond with the ten day on ten when i'm back in ten. >> thank you, bill. about 19 minutes before 6:00 a.m. tuesday, last day of january. >> where does time go. >> got to get you to work. jessica boyington has you conserved. >>> starting off in old city. apartment fire in market street. now blocked between second and front. you can expect a little delay around the surrounding area as well. some of those streets around market street and around where they have some of the blockages off and septa buses detoured around the scene as well. might cause a

if you recognize him, contact police. >> a lehigh county judge has dismissed the murder case againstormer pro wrestling star jim plea super fly snuka. prosecutors say snuka beat nancy argentino to death in 1983. the judge who dismissed the charges says the 73-year-old is not competent to stand trial. snuka's lawyers revealed last month that their client suffers from dementia and only has six months to live. >> ♪ >> to politics now. we're now just 16 days away from the presidential inauguration. this friday. president-elect donald trump is scheduled to receive an intelligence briefing on russian hacking into the u.s. election but last night trump took a swipe at the intelligence community while saying that the meeting has been delayed. abc's janai norman has more. >> reporter: the president-elect throwing shade on the u.s. intelligence community tweeting the intelligence briefing on so-called russian hacking wall delayed until friday perhaps more time needed to build a case. very strange. but intelligence officials say that briefing was always scheduled for friday. it's the latest fro

. >>> crews have been battling a three alarm blaze at a lehigh county greenhouse throughout the night and morning. fire broke out around 8:30 last night, at the dan shantz farm and greenhouse on spinners town road in lower milford township. fortunately there are no injuries, known right now, and no word on a cause. >>> philadelphia police are investigating a murder mystery in holmesberg. >> man was found shot in the head inside his home last night. "eyewitness news" reporter trang dough is live at the scene on erdick street with the very late, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, rahel and jim. detectives have a mystery on their hand here. woman called police after she found her boyfriend shot in the head but there was no gun or suicide note and other suspicious circumstances here. look at the house, thinks the big yellow home. it happened in the first floor apartment, and that there are several other apartments inside of this house here. and, take a look at this video from the scene overnight. police responded to the 8,000 block of erdick street just after 10:00 p.m. for a call o

county seeing rain this morning. the steadiest rain is yet to come. still well to the west. we're seeing just enough rain in the lehigh valley to dampen some roads, berks county and now into lehigh county. rain as the temperatures are too warm for anything else this morning. that's the good news. 39 degrees in philadelphia. we will see ale little bit of a warmup. going be a dreary chilly day. even though it will be above normal for this time of year. 40 is the normal high temperature. 42 degrees at 2:00 this afternoon. occasional showers for the suburbs. cloudy skies. showers a little steadier at noontime. still with us in the late afternoon and evening hours. tends to be the trouble spot this time of year. not this morning. only tracking rain in the lehigh valley. 35 degrees at 10:00. not much warm up here because the clouds and showers and a little bit of an easterly wind. won't be strong. just enough to help get the temperatures this afternoon. 38 degrees right now. seeing some rain in new jersey already. the showers, rain showers on and off this afternoon. the temperatures into the 40s for the shore. just a little

massive fire sweeps right through a greenhouse in lehigh county. the damage to the farm's building and everything inside ranges into the millions. >> and the video from this ugly fight in west philadelphia had viewers demanding we find out what happened. a philadelphia police officer throws a girl to the ground and starts swinging. police claim there is a lot more to the story than what you see on the video. >> it is the first day of school for some philadelphia kids. how the new soda tax is helping them to get a head start on their education. >> plus, there is an old game that has police on alert right now. what they are warning people about. >> can't even keep up. here we go. great to have you with us on this wednesday, we are reunited at last. >> good morning. >> it does feel so good. >> the gang's back together. >> after the new year, happy new years. >> happy new year to you. decide i which lip color? >> light pink. >> i will go with that one. >> today, boy, it will be a nice one. >> yes, it will be our transition day from the rainy weather pa

happening right now on fox 29 morning news, massive fire sweeps right through a greenhouse, this is in lehigh county. see the damage there? a lot of t the farm's building and everything inside, well, costs could range into the millions here, the damage. >> plus, also we have some video from a pretty ugly fight. it happened in west philadelphia. a lot of the viewers were demanding what happened in this one? can you finds out. so we took it to our police commissioner, philadelphia police say this is an officer and a girl in a tussel, but there is much more to this story than what you see on this video. >> also ahead, it is the first day of school for some philadelphia children, how the new soda tax is helping them get a new start on their education. >> plus there is an old game that has police on alert, and a warning for you right now. what you need to know. >> kind of like pokemon go on the go. so there is a warning this morning, that we will tell but. great to have you with us, we are halfway through the week on this wednesday. thomas drayton along with karen hepp. >> good morning to all of you just

the northern most counties, lehigh valley, burkes county could be drops to freezing. a freezing rain advisory has been posted for burke's county, and the poconos until 10:00 tomorrow morning. not expecting a lot of freezing rain, but even a little bit on untreated surfaces could cause problems, so both commutes affected by rain. the evening commute, not worrying about icing but steady rain could cause ponding and slow things down. this is not the only period of rain we expect this week. we talk more about what to expect and the change in temperatures in the forecast, jim. >> thank you, cecily. the new year continues to see violence on the streets of wilmington. four homicides, nearly a dozen shootings in the first days of

. >> developing right now a massive fire guts a greenhouse farm in lehigh county and continues to burne than eight hours later. we're live. >> a new year brought a wave of retirements for the chester police department while residents are concerned city officials say they are not short staffed. >> prepare for a windy wednesday and then accuweather says get ready for an arctic blast later this week in may come with some snow. >> well, let's find out more about that. we'll go over to dave murphy. he's got accuweather and karen rogers has a look at your traffic. good morning. >> off to a somewhat cloudy start and some of you might run into some patchy fog early this morning. you can see there are some breaks to the clouds to the west and we're going to be dry dan it does look like we will return at least some sunshine into play as we go through the morning and afternoon. 44 degrees currently in philadelphia. 44 in wilmington. similar to yesterday. 42 degrees in allentown and reading though and that's a little bit milder than yesterday. 44 in millville. notice how the winds right now are co

. >>> firefighters in lehigh county battling a large fire right now.t's at a greenhouse from what we understand. now, we don't have a lot of information on it. no word of any injuries or anything else at this point in time. crews were called out just before 9:00 in the evening. here's the thing about greenhouses of course. what does it often house? fertilizer. fertilizer of course can be explosive. and can be flammable. so we'll keep all right i've on this one and i'm saying that, i don't know there's anything in there but it actually could be a possibility as to why these flames are like they are. we'll bring you more as more comes in to our newsroom. let's go to your radar tonight rain has moved on out. something else of course is on the horizon because that's what happens one thing moves out, someone else moves in. live look at ben franklin parkway. some places are still drying out from the drenching rain. that was kind of moving on through today. now we've got our eye on a chance of snow. meteorologist kathy orr here for this first forecast at 11:0

we have breaking news tonight from lehigh county a multi alarm fire burning out of control right now the greenhouse complex in zionsville and montgomery and north hampton county calls to the scene to battle the flames and haul in water in tankers, the fire erupted at 8:30 and the scene is north of quaker town interchange along the northeast extension of the turnpike so far no injuries reported. the philadelphia internal affairs unit is investigating an incident caught on video involving a 12 district police officer and a teenager but the da today dropped all charges against 16-year-old pendelton and she was on the may lay on 54 and springfield yesterday afternoon and police commissioner richard ross said she refused commands to back away and admits to smacking the officer in the face knocking off her glasses. pendleton tells action news she was trying to help a friend's mother who was being detained by the police. >> she was dragging me by my head on the ground and car and punching me in my face. >> reporter: a source tells action news the video and witness statements seem to indicat

lehigh valley. just drizzling weather there. burlington county into ocean county, seeing showers due east they're moving. they're going to head out to shore. out to sea. the shore will be cloudy throughout the day. pretty mild too. getting a few rain drops. last rain drops moving through the township and seeing very light rain. sunshine on hold today. clouds with this, but it will be dry at 8:00 in philadelphia. warming into the upper 40s during the morning hours. that's by noontime and it will like like like likely peak in the low 50s. going to stay cloudy. might see a break or two of sunshine. mostly cloudy skies for the suburbs. fog in the lehigh valley will be disappearing and temperatures climbing to middle 40s this afternoon. delaware, most of the showers have come to an end. isolated shower, maybe a sprinkle is possible. most of the day to be able to do away with the umbrella. 50 by lunchtime. new jersey, clouds and upper 40s by lunch time today at the shore. showers end this morning. sprinkle is possible at noontime then we're looking at

a lehigh county judge dropped murder charges against the former pro wrestling star finding the 73-year-old incompetent to stand trial. snuka suffers from dementia. prosecutors allege snuka killed his girlfriend nancy argentine nah no, sir back in 1983. snuka maintained she died from a fall. >> 5:36 now. president-elect donald trump turned twitter to take a swipe at the intelligence community. last night's post read the intelligence briefing on so-called russian hacking was delayed until friday perhaps more time needed to build a case. very strange. government sources insist the meeting had been set for friday all along. trump also used social media to announce his first press conference since the election. it is slated for january 11th in new york city. >>> president obama heads to capitol hill this morning. he'll meet with house and senate democrats to discuss how to protect the affordable care act. the american medical association sent a letter to congressional leaders yesterday. it urged lawmakers to detail proposals to replace current policies if the new administration is serious about

tomorrow morning for berks county lehigh county northampton county into the poconos for the possibility of some icy spots especially during that morning rush tomorrow so for the lehigh valley and the poconos late tonight early on tuesday with temperatures near freezing, there's not a lot of precipitation but you get a few spotty light rain showers. we could see some slick spots on untreated surfaces especially bridges and overpasses first thing tuesday morning. then sharrie it's kind of a dreary tuesday. we'll talk about a warming accuweather forecast and a lack of sunshine this week coming up in just a little bit. >> wow. we can't get these two together. >> well, it's january, so kind of goes every year like this. >> all right adam. >>> employees from the children's hospital of philadelphia spent their day giving back in a number of ways. the action cam caught up with the group spruce up south philadelphia high school armed with paintbrushes and buckets. they gave the hallways and gymnasium quite the nice face-lift. >> and from our new jersey news room people also spent their day off w

. >> developing right now a massive fire guts a greenhouse farm in lehigh county and continues to burne than nine hours later. we're live. >> the new year brought a wave of retirements for the chester police department. some residents are concerned but city officials say that they are not short staffed. >> prepare for a windy wednesday and then accuweather says get ready for an arctic blast later this week that may come with some snow. >> oh, david, so much to look forward to. karen it's been a busy morning on the roads. good morning. >> little mist on the terrace for some low lying clouds. doesn't feel that bad. i've got a fairly heavy coat on and i'll tell you my a moment. right now we have some cloud cover maybe some patchy fog. drizzle on the windshield here or there and we are expecting some breaks in the clouds later on. you don't see a lot of that right now but i expect partial sunshine. so the temperatures this morning are a little better than they were yesterday morning in some cases. 44 degrees in philadelphia. just 42 in allentown. 45 in millville. you might step out and be

nbc 10 news. >>> accusations against a lehigh county nurse. investigators say he fondled a patient and exposed himself to her in a private exam room at st. luke's university hospital in bethlehem. he is charged now with indecent assault. he's also accused of making sexual comments to the victim. >>> to fishtown where a burst water main is still causing problems for residents. video on the left of your screen was taken earlier today along boston street. you can see the massive hole that still exists as crews work to repair water and gas lines. on the right of your screen is what it looked like sunday when the main burst. the water department says work could last for several more days. >>> the coast guard trying to clean up a fuel spill in the delaware river. sky force 10 over the scene. a has hazmat there is well. >>> a potential delay to reopen the former revel casino. they were set to hold a hearing on whether the owner needs a gaming license but the hearing was put on hold because of a last-minute change to a lease agreement. straub says he

county. as philadelphia is drying out at 10:00 this morning, just some clouds that are starting to break in lehigh valley and berks county. the rain in south jersey is moving out to sea at noon time. 10:00, some rain along the coast, by noon time, that's offshore. look at the sunshine breaking through for philadelphia. and that sunshine is going to warm temperatures above yesterday's level. so we hit 54 degrees yesterday afternoon. but we will feel stronger winds. those winds gusting 25 to 30 miles an hour. we'll get steadier winds at 19 miles an hour. that's the wind that's going to start bringing in colder air tonight. get used to the mild weather. it's about to change. 56 degrees. showers clearing this afternoon, sunshine. sunshine tomorrow and a breezy day. 45 degrees a high after a morning low of 35. that's cold air, reinforcing in the area that we'll get to experience this weekend. 20s saturday and sunday morning. very low 40s in the afternoon. a little bit colder on monday. look at the chill that stays with us for tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday. unusually colder next friday. >>> and f

few light showers moving through berks county on the way into lehigh county. if you see any rain mixing with freezing rain, going to be further to the northwest. heading to

weather advisory trim back for bucks and montgomery montgomery county we're still seeing the advisory until midnight nearby in the lehighll you more about a big warmup in our future through the end officer week. ukee >> before you head out the door, watch "eyewitness news" this morning for up to the minute weather and traffic. our morning team starts at 4:30 a.m. >>> emergency rescue comes to the rescue of a horse. alexandria hoff talked to the horse's owner. >> reporter: one-year-old ricky ricardo is understandably exhausted. >> are you he tired? >> reporter: warm in his stable is a big change from the predicament he found himself in just hours ago. as rescuers work to free him from the middle of an icy pass to her pond. >> it was ok until he got to the middle. ice would not hole him >> kim simmons said she never had a young horse venture out over ice before. when her daughter called around 11:00 a.m. to say that ricky was stuck. she rushed back >> for baby, he was relaxed but getting tired >> thick ice on the perimeter of the pond made pulling him out ropes impossible. >> they helped sledge hammers and ice picks tried

tonight, we talked to the family in lehigh county. >> joseph is waiting on word that six of his family members flying to philadelphia from cat tar wi qatar will be okay. his two uncles and their wives and children were detained at the philadelphia airport. they were sent back to qatar. >> going an 18-hour plane riden't thride n and told they were not welcome here. >> reporter: his family has waited for 15-14 years to come to the u.s. and paid thousands of dollars and through the process of immigrant visas and green cards. little did they know while they were in the air, policy on the ground took a shift under the trump presidency. >> they had been approved and for overnight, all that to be taken away in flight. that's frustrating. >> reporter: republican congress member from allentown is urging the trump administration to immediately release the executive order from policy. >> unfortunately, this executive order today is peappears to be . it is having consequences that are felt right here in my community of allentown, pennsylvania. >> it goes against everything he wants to do. he wants

. >>> lehigh county officials say they're not the kind of sanctuary president trump has promised to go after. lehigh has considered a sanctuary county. today the executives said his county has a good working relationship with immigration officials. so he says they need to take no action to comply with president trump's executive order. >>> if you're wondering, sanctuary cities like philadelphia don't always hand over undocumented immigrants to authorities. president trump has vowed to stop sending federal funds to sanctuary cities. >>> now, to chester county where a man was ambushed, beaten and robbed when he showed up for work this morning. it's all caught on camera right here inside that pharmacy in west goshen. the robber gut away with hundreds of dollars in cash before beating the victim again on his way out. nbc 10's deanna durante spoke to the victim's family. >> he doesn't remember a lot of it. he took blows to the edhad. he doesn't know what happened. >> reporter: it was just as the sun was rising and the manager of this rite aid was opening the doors for the day. he didn't kno

berks county, lehigh county and north hampton county. we'll see an end farther south in northern bucks and montgomery counties by 7:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m. the rest of the afternoon looks damp, so does the dinner hour and so does the evening, although things will be dieing down a little bit. the temperatures stay cool, periods of rain and off and on drizzle as you just saw on future tracker. high temperatures across the region, it's damp, up north you'll get up to 40. down south, 47 near cape may and mid 40s in philadelphia. tomorrow an area of low pressure comes up the coast. we'll get mild ahead of this high of 51. more drizzle in the morning and another round of steadier rain in the afternoon. future tracker 6 showing you this picture between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00. as we get into the afternoon we'll be on the look out for a steadier band of rain that will be off and on that will lift off in the dinner hour. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, 44 degrees, off and on rain and drizzle, be careful of icy patches on roads early this mor

the northern most counties, lehigh valley, burkes county could be drops to freezing.rain advisory has been posted for burke's county, and the poconos until 10:00 tomorrow morning. not expecting a lot of freezing rain, but even a little bit on untreated surfaces could cause problems, so both commutes affected by rain. the evening commute, not worrying about icing but steady rain could cause ponding and slow things down. this is not the only period of rain we expect this week. we talk more about what to expect and the change in temperatures in the forecast, jim. >> thank you, cecily. the new year continues to see violence on the streets of wilmington. four homicides, nearly a dozen shootings in the first days of 2017. tonight city officials have a plan to combat the violence. christie ileto is there with wilmington police. residents will see more police in patrol car and on foot patrolling high crime neighborhoods in wigged. wigged. a lot of people we spoke with said this is just a start and not a finite solution. >> i think it's ridiculous the crime. this woman tells "

as you can see and perhaps from time to time a little bit of snow or sleet in parts of berks county, lehigh valley county, certainly into the poconos. not necessarily a lot but just enough and then tomorrow night we finally dry out. this northeast wind gusting to 44, 43 miles an hour, right at the shore right now and it feels like it's 30 in philadelphia, 25 in allentown, 27 in wilmington. it feels like winter out there. and it's going to feel like that during the night tonight. as long as those northeast winds continue, we have more moderate flooding coming with the next high tide. we already had it this afternoon and the back bay's still flooding in many parts of the areas as you've seen with those pictures from atlantic city. the high tide at the ocean occurred at 4:20 in the back bays it's a couple hours later so they're still getting hit by that. tomorrow we got cloudy skies, it's chilly, not quite as cold, quite as windy or wet as what we've seen today but robbinville, 40 degrees, gusty winds. this is an offshore wind tomorrow, so by tomorrow afternoon the ocean is going to be really

weather advisory trim back for bucks and montgomery montgomery county we're still seeing the advisory until midnight nearby in the lehighvalley and bucks county. i'll tell you more about a big warmup in our future through the end officer week. ukee >> before you head out the door, watch "eyewitness news" this morning for up to the minute weather and traffic. our morning team starts at 4:30 a.m. >>> emergency rescue comes to the rescue of a horse. alexandria hoff talked to the horse's owner. >> reporter: one-year-old ricky ricardo is understandably exhausted. >> are you he tired? >> reporter: warm in his stable is a big change from the predicament he found himself in just hours ago. as rescuers work to free him from the middle of an icy pass to her pond. >> it was ok until he got to the middle. ice would not hole him >> kim simmons said she never had a young horse venture out over ice before. when her daughter called around 11:00 a.m. to say that ricky was stuck. she rushed back >> for baby, he was relaxed but getting tired >> thick ice on the perimeter of the pond made pulling him out ropes impossible. >> they helped sl

county and new jersey. that's to start with. showers are clearing in lehigh valley. i'm expecting to see say few more showers later this morning rain showers because it's too warm for anything else. the cold is way back here. moving into michigan and the midwest. that warm air will ensure that we will stay a little rainy this morning, but only rain. then we get clearing for this afternoon. beautiful sunny day for tomorrow. but this is 5:00 tomorrow afternoon. look at that wet weather. that's going to be moving into the area for the weekend. and before it gets here, the temperatures will turn colder. so, on saturday morning at 11:00, we could see scattered light showers. it's a weak system with not a lot of moisture to it. so we could see scattered light snow showers during the day. nothing like we had last weekend. the weekend forecast is calling for sunshine on sunday. we'll get the clouds and colder temperatures on saturday. warm up sunday afternoon. and the trend will be for warming again next week. probably not to this level. 65 degrees this afternoon. 40s tomorr

the lehigh county district attorney's preliminary opinion is that the police shooting was justified. police took a sword wielding man in custody outside of city hall. when an officer confronted the suspect, the armed man pulled out a gun. he was apprehended without violence. the ice rink feet away was evacuated during the confrontation. politics now, president elect donald trump got the goods on russian hacking today at a briefing at trump tower. the heads of the four biggest intelligence agencies told trump vladimir putin aimed at the u.s. election to undermine faith in the process and undermine hilary clinton's potential presidency. putin developed a clear preference for trump. trump said only that it was a great meeting and he learned a lot. he insisted whatever russia did had no effect on the election. >> looks like the american taxpayers will pay for trump's wall. republicans are coming up with a plan to allow congress to pay for fencing, not really a wall, in its annual spending bills. the spending plan will speed up the process but "we'll be reimbursed through renegotiation of

lancaster county and berks county be up into the lehigh valley before light freezing rain as it turns over to rain there. and temperatures warm overnight. what to expect north of the pennsylvania turnpike. freezing rain at 1:00 p.m. and changes to rain, but for the rest of us south of the turnpike it starts as rain and ends as rain with temperatures warming to 40 degrees with a .25 inch of rain overnight. we'll talk about the balmy numbers for the middle of the week and a chance for snow as well in the seven day. we'll chat about it in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you adam. with icy conditions expected to the north and west. 6abc.com/weather has you covered. rely on stormtracker 6 live double scan radar to see which areas will be impacted next and keep updated by following each of our meteorologists on twitter and facebook. >>> an investigation is underway into two violent robberies just minutes apart in the same philadelphia neighborhood. now police say that four suspects may be to blame for both crimes and one victim is telling a story to "action news." sara bloomquist is

. >>> and, burning for hours, fire fighters are still on the scene of a three alarm fire in lehigh countyu what is fueling these huge flames. obama care showdown current president and the future vice-president, are holding, dueling meetings to talk about the future of health care law, next move both side are planning. today is wednesday, january 4th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >>> i'm rahel solomon. for the first time this year gang is all back together again. we have weather with katie. >> and traffic with

what will be coming our way will be falling in the lehigh valley and berks county. this is 8:30 this morning. look at snow moving in. this is high resolution hour by hour forecast that shows just the snow that squeaks into the lehigh valley at 9:30. doesn't last long. there's the tail end for the morning snow showers. then this afternoon, a chance of more snow showers developing. back in berks county and lehigh valley very light snowfall. expecting less than an inch of potential snow for the area. little bit more in the poconos. also a chance of rain showers during the day, but mainly cloudy for philadelphia. you'll see breaks of sunshine in delaware and south jersey. low 40s this afternoon. sunshine tomorrow. 48 high temperature the not bad for first day of february. then koicold returns for thursd friday. saturday. here comes the chance of snow and rain drops too. showers on sunday and delaware south jersey more likely to be rain. could see light snow moving through. areas north and west. especially. then drying out for monday and tuesday. another round of wet weat

lehigh county, single digits in to north hampton. frinld start this morning. clear start for many, but there are some clouds that are just starting to inch in. high clouds. no precipitation. not for us. that stays off to north and west. chance of wet weather returns later tomorrow. good news is by then the temperatures will be warmer. they will be warming up today. don't look for a huge warmup. not going to be sunshine all day like it was yesterday. 8:00 this morning, see the clouds start to move in. going to slow the warm up. 14 degrees at ha hour. philadelphia. 18 degrees by 10:00. while it's in the low 20s for atlantic city and cape may. notice how it stays below freezing even this afternoon. even with breaks of sunshine for redding and allentown. later this afternoon, peeking in the lower to middle 20s today. even at the shore. get closer to freezing for cape may. likely staying below freezing today. this evening, right back into the cold in the teens. won't be as brutally cold tomorrow morning as what we have to deal with for today. so a warmup. comes wit

. >> tha nothe big blaze that hea damaged the chants complex in lehigh county. the fire erupted at 8:30, you see from the air today all the destruction caused by the flames. it is dramatic. lehigh valley correspondent walter perez is live at the scene of the blaze. what is the latest from there tonight? >> reporter: the farm has been around since 1959 and the owners say they are wasting no time in rebuilding the $1 million worth of damage done by this fire. it was a powerful three-alarm fire that tore through a section of the farm in lower milford. this cell phone video shows the flames tearing through the farm's shipping facility along with one of the greenhouses and more than $1 million worth of damage is left behind as fire crews worked for seven hours overnight to get the upper hand but co-owner, lisa miers says ot her first concern was everybody okay. that was my first thought and first concern fire crews kept the flames from spreading to other greenhouses on the property and now the next step is figuring out how this happened. >> at this point there is no

in fact, the hour by hour forecast shows 9:00 this morning. 9:30 upper berks county and lehigh valleygetting light snow. even portions of montgomery and bucks county see light snow. north of king of prussia. upper bucks county. get snow to start with. not going last all morning. drying out to start with around noontime. then there's a chance of some more showers developing this afternoon. snow at 2:00 back into berks and lehigh counties and chance of rain showers to the south. trend is for warmer temperatures. so even if we get a little snow today. 43 degrees will wind up warmer than yesterday. bit warmer tomorrow. first day of february. cold returns for the rest of the week and weekend. weekend there is a chance of more wet weather. today mostly cloudy. most showers stay north of the city. don't be surprised if you see a few snowflakes in philadelphia this morning and a chance of a rain shower this afternoon. sunshine for wednesday and thursday, but a big temperature drop from 48 degrees tomorrow to 38 on thursday. that's cold stays with us. giving us chance of showers on sunday. sno

lehigh county placed two children with the packers. but where are the other 24 kids? >> what happened sickens me. >> reporter: despite calling it a horrific crime, the council president says he wishes information about the county and state investigation had come to them sooner. other members of the council say they didn't know much about the case except what they read in news reports. in north hampton county, deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >>> tonight, mexico's most notorious cartel kingpin is on u.s. soil to face drug trafficking and other charges. this is our first look at joaquin "el chapo" guzman loera as he was handed over to authorities in mexico and flown to new york tonight. the drug kingpin escaped from prison twice and spent years on the run. guzman was recaptured last january. he now faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in a u.s. prison. >>> next, a fake doctor examining students in philadelphia public schools. what happened, and the questions investigators are still trying to answer. >>> plus presidential gratitude. president obama's thank y

. >>> happening today in lehigh county allentown school board of directors will hold a special meeting a new superintendent. >>> and today, bucks county community college will officially open its new science center, we got a preview of the $17 million facility in newtown. it features chem labs and areas where students can collaborate on projects. >>> about a quarter to 5:00 this morning. pretty mild as you walk outside. >> that's not going to be slowing you up. traffic, though -- >> we'll find out. >> jessica boyington has you covered on that end, jess. >> roads are just a little wet. the vine street expressway closed around broad street. in between this point at broad street and the schuylkill expressway. east and westbound, you see the police activity diverted off the vine right now. looks like they might be clearing it out of the way in just a couple of seconds. at least one of the ramps is starting to open. over the last few days we actually saw this clear a little bit earlier than normal. once they get this cleared out of the way and opening up the ramps as well, by 5:00, we shoul

but north of philadelphia through the suburbs, lehigh valley and burkes county, still below freezing. and those spots, slick roadways are possible because of the moisture from yesterday evening. here is a look at the forecast going along through your afternoon. we get up to the 40s today, that's warmer than the 30s we saw yesterday. in the suburbs, right around the upper 30s to low 40s and that is the same for the lehigh valley, about 37 degrees by 4:00 p.m. also note the icons showing sunny to mostly sunny conditions. and that stretches through delaware, new jersey and the jersey shore. as for your temperatures across these locations, we're talking 40s today and 50s to come. a look closer at the warm-up through the next ten days coming up. >>> now to that bringing news. a cab driver gunned down on the job is fighting for his level this morning. nbc 10 was there as police began their investigation on brooklyn street in west philadelphia. aundrea cline-thomas is live at the scene where officers say somebody shot the driver 13 times. >> reporter: yeah, residents here in the 800 block of

berks county, allentown, lehigh valley area that is where we will see pink on radar, that is where weould be seeing freezing rain, northern bucks, northern montgomery counties as well, it is just got to watch and see whether it is wet or frozen when you walk outside the door. it could be a challenge walking this morning. reading, allentown, bridge water, frenchtown is where we have been seeing problems this morning. where we are getting ref heavy rain, concord township, country lake estates, pockets of heavy rain there down to the south in cumberland county and cape may county we have been seeing heavy rain as well so, as temperatures rise throughout the day, everybody eventually will change over to rain. it will be a little delayed to the north of us especially in the higher elevations probably not until after lunchtime. so again, tricky travel up there but 43 degrees by 4:00 in the afternoon, probably, topping off in the upper 40's, today, and 45 is where we're going with the seven day and 50 tomorrow with more rain, that rain with the cold front. so by wednesday afternoon we are se

. >>> a flower farm in lehigh county is vowing to rebuild of the after a devastating fire ripped through warehouses. a few buildings on the farm in zionsville went up in flames last night. it started near a shipping and planting warehouse. the farm owners say a number of,s for easter, including lilies and tulips were destroyed. now despite this set back, the farm said they're glad nobody was injured and already cleaning up and getting ready for spring. >> it's on track to recover. we're getting heat back into the greenhouses to mitigate the loss of any other plants. we have an amazing team of people that pull together and work together. >> the farm's popular restore front in allentown remains under. the cause of the fire under investigation. >>> nbc 10 learned more about what joe biden will do after the white house. one of his aids said biden plans to partner with the university of delaware on an economic policy and domestic policy initiative. just last night, mr. biden's microphone was on when he mentioned other plants. the vice president will also do foreign policy work at the universi

a lehigh county judge said he was not competent to stand trial for the death of his girlfriend.yer said he had dementia and had six months to live. he was 73 years old. >>> police are searching for the person who robbed and assaulted a woman in south philadelphia in a parking garage after 2:00 this morning on south broad street near washington avenue. investigators say the woman was pulling into the garage when a man tapped a gun on the window, demanding belongings. she ignored him and kept driving. the suspect pulled her from the vehicle and hit her. got away with her cell phone and her purse. she was not seriously injured, but the attacker remains on the loose. >>> after three days rescue crews suspended the search for a missing fisherman. finding the boat of christopher hug. but the 45-year-old was nowhere to be found. last heard from on thursday when he called his family to tell them his boat ran aground. coast guard and new jersey state police along with local authorities are all part of the search effort. much more to come tonight. fans reacting to the decision to shut dow

. >> on saturday when it was snowing an suv slid off the road in denver lehigh county. that suv was filled with a team of doctors delivering a liver to a patient prep at thomas jefferson university hospital in philadelphia. instead of waiting for another vehicle, police sergeant derrick took at the team in his police car to philadelphia. >> i think realizing what the donor and the donor's family was going through or went through, and knowing that the person in philly was going to have a second chance, i figured it was timing. >> the doctors got to the hospital in time and the surgery was a success. >> amazing. >>> kate bilo driving us now with a spring like day in winter >> right now feels like april showers, temperatures much more reminiscent of early spring than mid winter. i took an unscientific twitter poll and said do you prefer warmth or cold and cold won. 133 to 119. >> relatively close >> yes, but cold won. >> you're not going to like tomorrow. one day for you cold lovers, we'll be back to winter weather, the rest of january does look like it's going to be warme

. >>> lehigh county is the day to get rid of christmas tree. collect christmas trees and yard waist starting today until january 22. leave your tree curb side. just don't wrap it in plastic bags. looking for fun to escape the show. today learn how maple sirup is made and black smithing works. also a square dancing parade do country. now celebrating 101 year. >>> salem river in cumberland county. coast guard called in to rescue two men stuck in boat saturday night. hoisted the men into d got them safely out of the wa were wearing life jackets and had a cell phone to call for help and they are both fine. >>> let's check your ride to work. usually quiet right now. have an issue to >> norm live it is quiet right at this time. especially early on monday morning. not this morning. northeast philadelphia on woodhaven road, overturned bus. we have it right in camera shot here. see it overto side right now. police activity on the scene. police activity on the scene. no eastbound traffic getting by on woodhaven road right now. cleanup and investigation u

and it's now just starting to edge into the lehigh valley and upper lehigh county. it won't be rain fall all day. we actually get sunshine and another nice warmup before the colder air starts to move in. we'll do the forecast hour by hour when i'm back in ten minutes. first, let's see how the traffic is moving. francesca ruscio with an update. >> well, it's moving. so pretty good. we're watching 95, our

. >> on saturday when it was snowing an suv slid off the road in denver lehigh county. that suv was filled with a team of doctors delivering a liver to a patient prep at thomas jefferson university hospital in philadelphia. instead of waiting for another vehicle, police sergeant derrick took at the team in his police car to philadelphia. >> i think realizing what the donor and the donor's family was going through or went through, and knowing that the person in philly was going to have a second chance, i figured it was timing. >> the doctors got to the hospital in time and the surgery was a success. >> amazing. >>> kate bilo driving us now with a spring like day in winter >> right now feels like april showers, temperatures much more reminiscent of early spring than mid winter. i took an unscientific twitter poll and said do you prefer warmth or cold and cold won. 133 to 119. >> relatively close >> yes, but cold won. >> you're not going to like tomorrow. one day for you cold lovers, we'll be back to winter weather, the rest of january does look like it's going to be warme

. >> last night's huge fire at a greenhouse in lehigh county. took firefighters more than eight hours to contain the flames in the zion ville section of lower milford township. eyewitness sent us this video just after the three alarm fire broke out around 8:30 last night and no reported injuries. >> well, pretty nice day for january. but watch out. a drastic drop is coming, and soon. meteorologist, katie fehlinger live on the cbs-3 skydeck to tell us when the blast of cold air will arrive. katy? >> you know what, jim, i would say as early as tonight, be prepared for very cold conditions. you said it, you know, for january, this is not terrible. expecting low to mid 50's for daytime highs around the region here today. and, normally, we would only be topping off around 40. already above that before the sun came up. so, off to pretty mild start this afternoon. but we've seen clouds coming in and out of focus here, through the course of the morning, now, into the afternoon. and it is actually as we've got cold front, that's passing through, also, in