there's a mixture of indy dav venport and myself, roxanne shante/my north philly girl.'s an anita baker/michael bolton combination. >> that's a combination. >> michael mcdonald. it they both have la, la, la. there's a combination of that. like i said we've been freestyling through this project so i never really know what voice is going to come out next. ♪ somebody is checking for us this time ♪ ♪ and i'm sorry you're about to get left ♪ >> i think one of the amazing things about you is the privilege that you have you don't just keep isolated to your family or friends. you're also building things for people. you have a non-profit and charities. talk about some of that work you're doing. >> i'm from north philadelphia and i focus my energy into north philadelphia. camden gets a bad rap too. you're from camden. that's where the thugs are, that's where the killers be. if i came from there, you know, and i think i'm pretty well rounded, i think i'm, you know, modestly intelligent, and i'm -- i love my work ethic. i'm a hard worker. if i come from there, i know that others li

the main area of snow has been moved toward the north, up the toward philadelpa we've seen some snow bands toward philly. for our area, not much in the way of that, like we saw last night. we saw some areas that did see some that snow. cold overnight tonight. very windy overnight tonight. temperatures dip don into the teens. and then we've got a storm system that i think will bring us snow on thursday. i'll talk more about that coming up a little later on. >> thanks, doug. >>> winds, severe weather does hit people in oneocal county here. we'll have a new high-tech tool to battle the winter stuff coming at us. all have you to do is go online. >> john schrien is live in rockville, maryland with what's being done to keep residents safe after a snowstorm. john? >> as cold as it is out here, the good news is, we haven't seen any significant snowfall just yet. as can you see here, we are here with plenty of snowlows ready to go, they're sitting here i' l id. montgomery county wants residents to know where the plows have been. >> this year ace snow immeately reminded me of last year. >> the dusting gave reside

north and southbound that looks pretty good. >>> a desperate search will resume in -- 62-year-old phillis bin was driving and following her friends back to her hotel late saturday night when she game separated from her cars. miss bin has not been seen since. >>> as steve paulson mentioned the bay area is bracing for another storm yi week leading to a wet christmas day. showers are expected today a long with the possibility of more lightning. if you missed it mother nature put on quite a show during last nights storm. our ktvu cameras captured this dramatic scene as lightning flashed over the bay bridge. >>> there was plenty of rain with that light anyone. the downpour created flooding at one mobile park. a water pump failed there just as the heavy rain began to fell. >>> we just checked with pg&e for you it's still trying to get the power on for a few hundred bay area homes and businesses. in the south bay 106 customers have no power. 90 on the peninsula. 80 in the east bay. 60 in the north bay. pg&e is hoping to have power restored in the next couple of hours. >>> the u.s. postal service for dig of the year. today is that d-day

north and enter to to the west. kent county in delaware, and advisory remains in effect from southern jersey of to philly.n advisory for a light coating of snow and slippery conditions. the temperatures will fall pretty quickly overnight. 18 in oakland, 21 in westminster and 20 in chestertown. the winds will stay like overnight and the light coating of snow will cool the temperatures even further. the temperatures are looking pretty cool tonight. 14 to 21, as the preconditions with light winds at 5 to 10. tomorrow, i think we will get above freezing. of sunshine, above freezing temperatures. that light coating of snow will probably be gone tomorrow afternoon. it is all because of a fast moving area of low pressure that is going through the carolinas as we speak. it is part of the pacific storm that is moving its way to the southwest. this will maybe make the turn of the coast saturday night. there may be some snug -- some sunshine early in the day on saturday. just depending on how far off shore, that will determine what are we can't turns out to be. if it stays off the coast -- what our weekend turns out

north carolina and eastern virginia, maybe cape may, new jersey. but we will see some snow showers across the appalachians and i-95 corridor. overall, the i-95 corridor will see some snow in d.c., philly, even new york city. maybe a dusting to 1 or 2 inches. the big snowstorm will not be here, but attention goes back to the west coast. more rain and snow towards next week. carl? >> weather affecting a lot of lives as people move around the country. paul, thanks. >>> president obama is with his family tonight in hawaii for their holiday vacation. after getting some early christmas presents in the last days of the lame duck congress. nbc's mike vicara is traveling with the president tonight. he's in honolulu tonight. mike, good evening. >> reporter: no sooner had the president wrapped up those victories back in frigid washington, he was off to andrews air force base outside of d.c., on air force one flying ten hours to hawaii, his boyhood home. arriving just before midnight, he came down the stairs with members of hawaii's congressional delegation, received the flowered garland of the island, the lei, and 11 days of r&r, starting with a workout at a marine base close to where he's stayi

north bay. up toward 680. speaking sports news cliff believe has it reached a deal on a deal with the phillies.it is a five-year $100 million deal. it is still the 32 year-old, left-hander has to pass a physical but at the five years or the hundred million he action pass 6 your offers for one under 38 million. he felt he belonged in philadelphia so he joins work, he was in philly before he introns other strong pitchers, reuter holiday god's world, call hamill's people are saying they are favored to take all the way. >> for a 49 year-old resident are teaming up for new venture montana and the arco want to build a luxury hotel sports bar and entertainment next to the 68,000 seat stadium. the three business partners have a meeting with officials but officials say sunday that the council will not take any action until after the new year. >> we'll be back with more in just a couple of minutes, team coverage of the weather, traffic as their rain has begun a live look here marin county, the roadways are slick he might one leaves much time. we will be right back.

north of it. the cutoff is very short here. look at washington, d.c., roanoke, picking up snow. but philly will pick up a bare, little light flake here. we'll go through all of this weather and tell you what's expected over the next few weeks when we come back. george? >> sam, thanks. >>> we're going to washington now. big announcement for president obama today. he'll say we're making tentative progress in the afghanistan war, when he releases his official war review strategy this morning. but there are new signs it will be a hard sell with the american people. a new abc news poll shows a record 60% of americans say that the war in afghanistan has not been worth fighting. that means the afghan war is now as unpopular as the iraq war under president bush. jake tapper is at the white house. we've seen early reports on this review. it's a carefully-conditioned headline of progress. the president says specific components of the strategy are working well. and they're just operational gains. >> reporter: that's exactly right. and the headline in this review is that all of the gains that the revi

philly and washington. so maybe around the back side of that but that's a slow moving system. 40s, palo alto at 41. some light rain will make it on the north coast. but this system, the ridge is developing right in the middle and that's going to build north as this builds north. that will drive this south tomorrow. and this could be an intense little system for a couple of hours evening. today, though, we start off with the fog and we find t emperatures, in the 40s, mostly sunny after that fog burns off. some of it might be stubborn. 50 to 55 by noon. mostly fair. 50s, mid-50s for some, fairfield concord in there, upper 50s las got toes, san jose and morgan hill at 58 degrees. cloudy, rain moves in tomorrow evening. takes us into wednesday morning. then the cold air comes in. cool and breezy comes in. not bad friday morning. >> it may turn out to be a happy new year for storeowners when they look back an their holiday profits. the national retail federation predicts sales whether jump 3.3 %. that would make this year, the best holiday shopping season for retailers since 2007. many stores were trying to keep the momentum going by offering m