The wee hours of the morning. Its here by day break. Brief mix in the Lehigh Valley in the poconos. Rain for the rest of us, drying out early in the afternoon. Were looking at generally about. 25 inch of rain, the northwest suburbs about half inch of rain. Ill talk more specifically about the timing when it moves out and whats behind the system coming up in a full accuweather forecast. Lets switch live to jeff chirico at the king of prussia mall. Whats the situation there tonight . Reporter hey, jim. The mall just closed a couple of minutes ago. You may see some shoppers leaving the mall with their lastminute gifts. Now there were plenty of sales and lots of holiday spirit here at the mall but shoppers seem to tell us that they saw something that was missing, and thats the crowds. Are you going to be able to wrap it up tovent . Absolutely yes tonight and tomorrow. A couple of drinks along the way. Reporter at king of prussia mapping out strategies to beat the clock. Scouring stores for that special gift or christmas cheer. Wanted to soak up the holidays in the mall. The music and the decorations and what not. I feel like im better under pressure. Its not chaosed, its controlled. Reporter like every year, he waited to start his shopping until the last day. This year he says it was noticeably easier. I feel like the crowds this year and the traffic this year is much better than previous years. Easy, just walk through and get what you need. Reporter there was plenty of room to walk and lines were short. At walmart earlier in the day we found plenty of parking spaces. Some speculate Online Shopping is to blame. Most has been online but the Specialty Stores here and things like sizes, colors, you want to feel some things. I like a little bit of both. I like shopping online and spending time together. Reporter studies show 76 of americans will shop from a mobile device. Convenient, yes but that could be to blame for poor sales this season. Theres no profit at all. Reporter will you be back here next year . I dont think so. Reporter despite the online trend, some say malls offer something the internet cant. Its nice to see the Christmas Decorations and see the people. Reporter get you in the spirit . Yeah. Get you in the spirit. Reporter and if you havent started your shopping or may have a few things to get. Youve got plenty of time here. The mall is open from 8 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. I just might see you there. Jeff chirico, channel 6 action news. Now we have a developing story. Actress carrie fishers condition has stabilized after she suffered what has been described as a massive heart attack. It happened on board a plane today. The 60yearold fisher is of course best known for playing Princess Leia in the star wars movies. She was running to los angeles from london. We have some passengers, nurses assisting the passenger, unresponsive passenger. Paramedics met the united flight at the airport and rushed fisher to ucla medical center. Her brother says she is now out of emergency and being treated in the icu. He is asking fans to keep their prayers up and the family remains optimistic. Quote, she is a real survivor and always has been. And i would expect the best from this. And that is now to some breaking news about a foul odor in the air. We have been flooded by calls from action news viewers reporting a sulfur smell in south philadelphia, camden and gloucester counties. Fire crews are checking the area refineries but they are not sure yet which one is the source. Pgw is telling us that there are no leaks and no high levels of natural gas causing concern. But there is that odor. A 44yearold man has died tonight from a motorcycle accident involving a septa bus. Police say the biker collided with a mini bus at 6 00 at penn and bridge streets. Fortunately nobody else was hurt. A ups driver came under fire while out on his route today in chester, but kept his wits about him after being grazed by a bullet. The delivery man made a quickthinking decision to drive to a nearby car dealership where he new ambulances are often serviced. He came in here because he knew it was safe. We always have police around, we service chester vehicles and we take care of the paramedics. Sure enough there was a paramedic here that took him right in and took him up to the hospital. Police dont believe the ups driver was the intended target. Rather he was likely struck by a stray or crossfire shooting at 10th and highland. A multiagency search is under way for a burglar who has been breaking into Stores Across three counties. Police are trying the same suspect. The spree started november 19th. Investigators say the burglar breaks into stores overnight by shattering glass doors with a hammer. He is lightning quick, in and out within minutes, before Police Respond to the alarm call. Authorities realized that he is hard to identify, covering his face in the surveillance. But they hope seeing his getaway vehicles, an older models mercedes and a minivan might help generate some tips. Investigators think careless smoking started a fire that killed a man and left six families without a place to stay going into the holidays. The 2alarm fire broke out at 1 30 this morning in the 400 block of east high street of pottstown, Montgomery County. Neighbors at the apartment complex were able to rescue several children. Even that before firefighters arrived. A suspect in the berlin truck attack was shot and killed this morning by police near milan, italy. Two Police Officers asked to see the papers of a man hanging around a train station, but anis amri pulled out a gun and shot one of the law men in the shoulder. The other officer filed the fatal shot. Authorities say a. M. Ry had taken the train from berlin passing through france and into italy. Now officials want to know why he was there and if there were people there helping him. The fbi and Homeland Security are warning of terror threats to churches in the United States this weekend. Isis has published a hit list of thousands of churches, calling on sympathizers to attack. The federal bulletin to state and local police makes clear they are not aware of any specific plot aimed at any specific church, but theyre asking for vigilance about soft targets. Mixed signals today from president elect trump. He released what he called a very nice letter from Vladimir Putin that calls on trump to act in a constructing and pragmatic mary to restore cooperation between the two countries. Trump has sparked an uproar in this country by saying yesterday that america must enhance its Nuclear Capabilities. Trump was effectively answering putin who said first that strengthening his countrys Nuclear Capabilities should be a chief military objective this coming year. And so the question can be asked, are we entering a new arms race. The head of Lockheed Martin has told trump that she is committed to bringing down the cost of the f35 war plane. Trump said yesterday because of what he called a tremendous cost and the cost overruns of the plane, he would ask boeing to price out a comparable plane. But the lockheed ceo says she knows trump wants the best for the lowest cost to the taxpayers and we are ready to deliver. A historic italian market mainstay has announced it is closing its doors after more than 100 years in business. They opened on 1910. After decades of the daily grind, Third Generation owner says hes looking forward to resting in retirement. The shops last day will be new years eve. A wellknown philadelphia Fitness Company live method has abruptly gone out of business and both the owner and her clients are beside themselves. Action News Reporter dann cuellar is live at center city studio. What happened here . Reporter well, jim, this shocking and unexpected shutdown of this popular workout studio has left a community of women devastated. The owner telling us tonight that she is working feverishly to regup but until further notice the studios are closed. Its a special place. Reporter stephanie was devastated when she arrived at the live method studio, an establishment for women only, to find it shuttered. All access denied. So a community of women are really important to me have been following on instagram and people have been posting all day about how devastated we are. Reporter the owner of live is seen here in a previous report. She has been operating her studios in rittenhouse square, old city and the main line for 11 years now. She tells us by phone she had to shut down after her assets were sized. This happened as she was trying to open a new york city studio and got into a battle with a landlord and lost. Ive been trying so hard to negotiate with him, was blind sided. Reporter unable to pay her employees and pay the bills, she was forced to abruptly close yesterday. For followers, commitment to its members was unlike anything theyve experienced eltion where. How she supports us, how to eat, how to be, how to be strong women, how to value your body and your image. Reporter but she is promising her members she will be back. I guess what i will say is just be strong that well be back and better than ever. Reporter she says she will also work on getting members whatever money is owed to them, she seems really committed to making things right. She just doesnt know how long its going to take. Live here in rittenhouse square, im dann cuellar, action news. Still to come on action news, america breaks the decades of practice over israel in the un. And after a dramatic standoff the surprise discovery of what attackers used to hijack a plane. Plus the story of the elderly Delaware County man with dementia who ended up 900 miles from home. Well show you his reunion with his family. The rain is moving in, details on when it moves out and track some big swings behind this system in the accuweather 7day forecast. And jamie apody with the sixers taking on the suns and the owls ready to go bowling when the news continues. Dwo hijackers are being questioned after they forced a plane to land in malta. The hijackers threatened they had guns and a grenade but Officials Say the weapons were replicas. After a standoff this morning the hijackers surrendered and released all people board. They were demanding the creation of a new party in libya and wanted asylum in europe. It happened at the Un Security Council today. The United States broke with past practice and abstained as 14 other members voted to condemn israel. The Security Council told israel it must stop building settlements on the west bank and in East Jerusalem calling them a violation of international law. The u. S. Has blocked such a proposal for years but the Obama Administration says the settlement Building Blocks prospects for a twostate solution so it abstained to let the proposal go through today. Health check at 11 00, test results are showing an ebola vaccine to be highly effective. Clinical trials have shown this newly tested vaccine may be 100 effective. It prevented everybody involved from being infected. Pharmaceutical Company Merck is expected to askproval of the vaccine sometime next year. Brandywine zoo is losing its only tiger. Next month the tiger will be transferred to the bronx zoo as part of a conservation program. Candidate for breeding, for mating. Tigers are endangered with fewer than 500 existing in the wild. She was born in the st. Louis zoo and has been at brandywynn for the past five years. She is moving to new york. An elderly father has been reunited with his daughter after police found the missing 18yearold man more than 900 miles away from his Delaware County home. Jody tarbut the ton who has dementia left his home on saturday for a quick trip to the store but he got lost. He ended up driving all the way to alabama. Tarbut ton was able to find a Police Officer and ask for help. He looked up his license, realized he was listed as missing and in danger. His family flew next day. Just our christmas miracle. Really so good to have him back. Tarbuttons truck is being towed back. He has promised to stay close t from cecily tynan and accuweather. I guess the Christmas Eve forecast begins early christmas. Thats true. Early Christmas Eve, some rain and it moves out pretty quickly. All in all a pretty decent forecast. Storm tracker 6 live tobl scan showing were dry out there now. Some moisture trying to move in evaporating before it hits th n at some christmas lights. The action cam was in lower moorland Montgomery County this is the 2400 block of dale road looking great all lit up for the holiday season. Temperaturewise its not that harsh. 39 degrees in philadelphia right now down from our high of 46 which is 3 degrees above normal so our mild trend continues. Atlantic city 38, trenton 37, wilmington 38. The poconos close to freezing. 33 degrees. So we do have that freezing rain advisory in effect for the far north and west suburbs but really mainly this is going to be a rain event and its going to be a quick hit. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing heres the cold front that will move through tomorrow and with it will come a round of rain the first half of the day. So timing it out for you future tracker showing 6 30 in the morning the rain is here and you can see a little bit of that icy mix. Some pockets in the Lehigh Valley and the poconos, its not going to be a lot of freezing rain and by lunchtime its already drying out west of philadelphia, still some light rain across south jersey and delaware, but even that moves out quickly. By 2 30 the rain is gone and the clouds are breaking for some sunshine. So about a quarter to half inch of rain, but its all out of here. Dry conditions for Christmas Eve evening. At 6 00 for any services, partly cloudy, really not that cool, 42 degrees. And midnight the services when santa may be arriving, 36 degrees, dry conditions. And that leads the way for High Pressure to build in on christmas day. I love these graphics. Doesnt that just put you in the scene . Youve got the fire going, the presents under the tree. Outside, plenty of sunshine. Very pleasant at 8 00. 37 by noon, 45 and by 5 00, 46 degrees. The exclusive accuweather 7day forecast, we get some rain in the morning, maybe sleep in or wrap some presents. You can go out shopping in the afternoon, it will be dry for hanukkah, happy hanukkah. Dry for santa. 48 degrees. Sunday for christmas just a beautiful day. Mostly sunny 48. We warm things up on monday. Its cloudy, a few showers possible late in the day. Kwanzaa begins on monday. 50 degrees. Tuesday waking up a couple of showers, partly sunny, breezy and mild. Look at this high, 57 degrees. I wouldnt be surprise if some areas touch 60. It cools town on wednesday, our next storm system thursday. This is rain not snow. 46 degrees on friday. Temperatures begin to cool down with a high of 44 degrees. Some areas especially north and west you sleep in until mid morning, you can just miss the rain altogether. Its a quick hit, the rest of the weekend is just great. Happy holidays. Santa took a break before his big night to visit some kids in Montgomery County. Action news is at the Huntington Valley fire company tonight as santa got ready to take a ride in a fire truck. Volunteers helped pack hundreds of candy canes that santa passe. We chased our dreams, and now were seeing them come true. The power of shark tank is back. Woman this has been a long road and a lot of hard work, and its all coming true. Some businesses are born in hell, and this is one of them. Ohh. Sixers in action in phoenix. Yes. It was looking good for a while. And then what happened . I dont know. The coach said he wanted to use the road trip to figure out what to do with his sticky big man situation. They started the game in fephoex sixers to the 13point lead in the halftime. Fourth quarter, he just had 6 points. The suns would raise the 10point deficit and they now lead by 14 late in the fourth quarter. It was a game that didnt matter for the eagles but their big win also came with a big loss. Matthews done for the year after suffering a herniated disc in his neck that will require surgery. Through the air, carson wentz in the second quarter. Defense also would come away with three interceptions last night. This one was under 10 seconds left to steal it. After the birds finally pulled one out. To finally finish one like this, we knew we could do it all along, we were struggling, obviously. But to finally finish one it puts a good taste in our mouth for sure. Weve been so close for a lot of these games this year. A few plays different each game and the outcome is different throughout the season. Its good were starting to pull ahead and close some of these tight ones out. Were going to win this game and give us momentum going into next week. The guys get to home go and enjoy christmas with their family and come back on monday and get ready to go beat the cowboys next week. Hey carson wentz was that eagles win on your christmas list. He responded sure was. By the way allen makes a , 8drw time to go bowling. The temple owls arrived in annapolis yesterday after some towering of the capitol in washington, d. C. , they held their first practice this morning. I think the loss to houston last year in the championship game and the loss to tow lee dough is putting our kids in a different mind frame right now. 11 wins have never been done before. Thats not our mind set but it will be a blessing to go out there and get this for the university. Finally tis the season of giving and some nfl players enjoyed playing santa. Joe flacco gave all his line men stem. Estimated 42,000. Has a 120 m contract he could afford that. How about Ezekiel Elliot who gave all his line men vehicles. The this is a guy who made less than 500,000 thisseason. Those things are 16 grand apiece. Granted i dont think hes going to be poor. Hes probably going to have a lot of endorsement deals coming his way shortly. I guess. But thats a very generous thing to do. If only they were Virtual Reality systems at 42,000 a piece. Jennifer aniston, tom ford. For cecily tynan, jamie apody, Ducis Rodgers and the entire action news time, im jim gardner. Have a wonderful holiday weekend. Good night. Its a Winter Wonderland of great viral videos as we wish you happy holidays right this minute. Baby, its cold outside. The perfect time for a vacation adventure. Maybe do some little ice climbing. How two guys take on one of the toughest clips out there. That is beautiful and treacherous. A sweet kid spots something on the tree. Look theres a note. The moment it leaves you the best present ever. What is this . A lot of people decorate houses for christmas but this goes to a whole other level. The showstoppers to make you the top of the block. Come on
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