Nbc 10 has issued a first alert. We have Team Coverage to get you prepared. Lets begin with glenn hurricane schwartz on this dangerous first alert. Yeah. And the worst of it is up in the poconos. It will feel like it is 10 to 15 below zero tomorrow morning. We have a nice commute home. Camera is shaking a little bit. It makes it feel even worse. It will be colder tomorrow than it is today. We have the first alert out for the entire area. This is 11 00 p. M. Tonight and 8 00 a. M. On friday. This is one really serious cold stretch that we are going through. If youre going to be outside and 0 to 5 at the lowest in philadelphia by tomorrow morning. Right now the temperature is only 25 despite sunshine. It is 22 in allentown and reading and 11 in the poconos. It is 15 in philadelphia. Well continue to go down as we go through the next several hours. Look at this cold snap. Todays high about 27 so far. We are not going up really. We are going to get a reenforcement of that bitter cold air. On sunday it will feel even worse than tomorrow. This is the way it is going to feel tomorrow. Up to 6 by 10 00 a. M. It wont even get out of the Single Digits for the feels like. Lots to follow up on. Track the brutal cold there your neighborhood with our free nbc 10 app. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with surveillance before a man was left for dead. Nbc 10 is not showing the impact of that car hitting the man. We are live as Police Search for that driver. Reporter yeah, that video shows a 58yearold man getting off of the bus stop there. He was crossing in the crosswalk when a driver hit him and took off. Half of the people continue to drive by is amazing. How many times have you watched this video . A few more times than i cared to. Showed up to work and was quickly visited by police. They want today see street surveillance video. She zbagave us a look. You can see a bus pull up and stop. Police tell us a 58yearold man got off of that bus. You can see him crossing the street on the crosswalk. Stop it right there. You can want see whether the light was red or if he had the right of bay. We see the car speeding off after hitting the man. There were four or five cars stopped. Thats when i realized why did the cars stop . I walked out and i saw there was a dead body. Police showed up about five minutes after the accident. The man was taken to the hospital where he died. Police believe this is the car involved in the deadly hitandrun. It is horrible. Probably he has a family. Reporter we are working on getting more information about the victim. If you have any information that could help police in their information go ahead and give them a call. Nbc 10. Take a look at this fierily crash that shut down the roosevelt over 2knight. The driver was taken to the hospital but is expected to be okay. We have details on a disturbance involving hundreds of teenagers at the cherry hill mall. Five were facing claning charge afternoon. Officers were called to the mall for a report of a large crowd near the jc penney wing. The teens are charged with Disorderly Conduct to resisting arrest. Police say the ins depth involved any where between 701,000 teenagers. Last week they warned against participants dropping their kids off at the mall. A judge ruled there is fluff evidence to send the 16yearold to trial. He said he lied there a statement he previously gave toe police. She charged with killing two victims that were 16 years old. He shot them during an argument back in october. The next hearing is scheduled for next month. President trump plans to start off the new year by meeting with Top Republicans to discuss next years legislative agenda. Mr. Chu some people are scrambling to prepay their property taxes that means people could ben filt by paying more tax in 2017 when there is no limit on that deduction. With the minimum wage set to jump a new report is highlighting the expected impact. About 300,000 will benefit when minimum wage jumps on new years day. It will amount to about 469 a year extra for each worker. A report was put together by a prozbre Progressive Research group that says it still isnt fluff. Take a look at this. A distracted driver lost control of her car and slammed into a house in camden county. It happened near east chest 2k7s n chestnut. It is not known how serious her injuries are. No one was inside the house at the time of the crash. The state is fining a nursing home more than 780,000. Saint francis center, fines come after a number of patient issues were found during inspections in january and august. The state moved to remove their license. Crews had much more than frigid conditions while trying to put out a house fire this morning. A power line fell on top of them one of the fire trucks i should say. No one was hurt. Its not clear how this fire started. The city of philadelphia is dedicating more resources to the deadly opioid crisis. A Response Unit being put together to save. The areas have lochk been a hot bed. Paramedics will respond to the calls. Social workers are also part of that team. The unit will hit the streets this summer. Nbc 10 is committed to covering the opioid crisis. Read generation addicted and find out how they are advocating for clang rig for change right now on the nbc 10 app. Prince harry going one on one with barack obama. The former president told harry that people many leadership roles must be careful when using social media. How do we harness this technology in a way that allows diversity but did you want lead to our society but rather continues to promote ways of finding common ground. President obama never directly mentioned President Trump who has made it is a centerpiece. He is serving as a guest host. I dont know about that. So who knows in that surprise. The British Government is reportedly concerned that President Trump will be offended if he is not invited to harrys wedding. He is set to marry markle in may. Atlantic city mayor accepted a new job. This morning he announced who will take the position of business administrator. Guardian said he will remain a resident apnd plans to commute o his new job. He said there an interview with the Associated Press he couldnt have worpged any harder during his four years in office. The state took over the citys assets and Decision Making power during his time in officer. Family ymca will not move ahead with plans to build a fne septemb center. It was not permitted under an open faced easement. They are looking for a new location. It is a little less imposing today. A large portion of that tree was tri trimmed back earlier this morning. The trimming became necessary after it was determined that part of the tree posed a safety risk for visitors. It was plaptnted on the south grounds in 1835. The library of congress will be cutting down on twitter time in the new year. It will no longer be archiving all public tweets. They archived every single public tweet. Starting january 1st it will preserve tweets on what it calls a select iive basis. Crews are battling flames and brutal cold at the saep cen a house fire. A woman in her 60s was taken to the hospital with burns. Also salt trucks headed there to melt the ice that formed while fighting the fire. While we continue with bone chilling cold look what people are dealing with in pennsylvania. Historic amounts of snow. A total of 63 inches have fallen since last saturday. Did the math here. It is more than 5 feet of snow. People are being urged to stay off the roads until everything can be cleared. In our area dapg rongerous conditions for anybody that has to be outside. Lauren is live in franklin square. Reporter some people have to be out in this weather because they work outside. Others want to be out. Folks are starting to gather here. There is a light show starting here in about 15 minutes. Either way if youre out here youre going to feel the cold. On his front lawn he geared up to clear away the leaves getting ready for what could follow the cold. Just to get ready for the snow coming. It mept stepping outside in the chilly temps. Do you like the cold . No. Cant stand it. No way around it this week if youre going out. Bl being outside is part of your job or just part of your day. At the 69th street transportation scepter karen waiting for her bus in the cold morning air. To me it is colder than any december. I hate this. It is colder than her native california. What did it feel like when you opened that door . Im not allowed to say it on air. Layer, layer, layer. She says she made the scarf herself and she is actually loving the cold. It is so refreshing. When its cold they come for so much coffee. Reporter after mark eddy finishes up his outside chore thats where he is heading to too. A cup of coffee and heating pad and take a break. Reporter you heard the one woman say she uses lots of layers. That is important. We spoke with an emergency room doctor who said that is important. The lay oeers have to be dry. You want to make sure youre keeping all of their extremities covered. That means their hands and ears. You dont want them to get frostbite. Nbc 10 news. All right. Did that woman really say this cold air was refreshing . Rfrmg rfrmg reporter oh, yeah. Hopefully you can warm up by the fire before we see you next time. Yes. Thanks. Th they kicked off the weave got you covered campaign. So many people are out here without any kind of shelter or housing over their head. It is very difficult to survive in this type of environment. This is something we can do to give back to the kplcommunity. The group has 3,700 blankets to hand out. A brutally cold afternoon to be out. You ought to be running really fast. Lets go to glenn hurricane schwartz for an update on this cold air, glenn. Yeah. Tonight and tomorrow morning it will be the coldest of this particular stretch. Starting on sunday it will be even colder than tonight and tomorrow. We have a first alert for tonight and tomorrow for the entire area, tomorrow night as well. Goes to 8 00 a. M. On friday. It is worse in the poconos. It is a feels like temperature there. 0 to 5 in philadelphia. Right now despite the sunshine it is only 25 in philadelphia and in the low 20s in the pa suburbs. It is exceptionally cold for a sunny day even in late december. The average high is 42 degrees. Now, at the airport it is 25 at the moment. It is already down to 23 here. It is 24 in parkwood. Some of these areas are going to get pretty close to single di t digits. It is 25 in philadelphia. Our air is coming from near pittsburgh where it is 13. It is 6 in chicago. 20 to 30 below in central canada. You can see these arrows. A lot of that air is headed in our direction. The feels like temperatures would go through the night. Headed out this evening single dimg dim digits everywhere. It is 4 below in potstown. It is 3 below in allentown. That is pretty cold. It does not warm up much during the day. We stay digits. This is an extended period of cold weather. 1 degree by thursday night and more earl ly friday morning. We start to moderate a little bit going into friday afternoon. 20s will feel pretty good by friday afternoon. And then we continue to monitor this system coming in from the west to produce some snow. This is again on saturday morning the models not very impressive with it. I would call it light snow. The roads and all of the surfaces will be extremely cold. Even light snow can stick on the ground and even min the middle f the day with this kind of pattern we have had. For new years weekend, saturday is a day where we have a period of mostly light snow. It could be more at the jersey shore. Look at temperatures on sunday. Thats the high of 20 in philadelphia. It is 16 in the lehigh valley. It is a high of 18 on monday. In between that we have the eagles game. Brutally cold. Feels like temperatures in the single dimgits by the end of th game. Youre not going to like that either. Good tease right there. Dropping temperatures, by the way. Still ahead at 4 00, the outreach to help some of the most vulnerable that may need it most. A helping happened for families that lost everything in a massive apartment fire. And california or bust, the opportunity of a lifetime and how you can see it unfold right here on nbc 10. A closing bell on wall street. Well be right back. Michael im thankful that im alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know we are here for you. This holiday season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. Let the decorating begin. Designers putting together the floats youll see at next weeks tournament of the roses parade in pasadena, california. One of those floats costs about 250 grapd nd on the low end and half a million on the high end. The rose parade will have local flavor there as well. Love to hear that. The marching bapd prepared to head west. The band will be performs in pasadena new years day. I saw everybody. We have been working on this since august. You can watch it live right here on nbc 10. Eagles have Home Field Advantage for the playoffs. They are already making super bowl dreams come true though. Take a listen. Coming up the surprise that could pt have come at a better time for this deserving fan. It will be feeling like below zero for parts of our area. Ill have your next chance for snow in our weather forecast. Fire burns through apartments leaving people with nothing days after christmas. Was this fire an accident or was it set on purpose . Stuck in the snow for hours ov overnight, what a 72yearold was doing when he fell into a hole on christmas day. Thats next at 5 00. How low will we go . Every was prepared with hats, gloves and heavy coats. Very smart. Youll need to keep the lay oer handy too. This is in allentown. Nbc 10 issued the first alert from this brutal cold. It will feel like its below zero in parts of our area tonight. It is 3 below zero. I guess that air is coming our way. It is hard to deal with. Yeah. Its not just for a night or two. We have an extended period of extreme cold weather. It will be colder than it will be tonight. Tonight is bad enough. That picture you showed, thats one of the places going to feel like its below zero tonight. T its one of the most dangerous tonight. Tomorrow night will be brutally cold as well. Feeling like 15 below in the poconos to Single Digits across the area and points to the south. It is 25 degrees now despite the sunshine. It is 22 in allentown. She was right. The air from chicago headed right in our direction. In minneapolis it is 4 in the middle of the afternoon. We know where our air is coming from and how cold it is. It will be feeling like Single Digits as we go through the night tonight. It is already single dimgits in reading and allentown. The temperature doesnt go down that much because the wind stays up. It will feel like its about 5. At best tomorrow morning in philadelphia ill tell you when things are going to ease up and when we are likely to get snow coming up. Lets take a look right now. You can track the cold in your neighborhood this week. Download it for free. Right now at 4 30 several families are struggling to pick up the pieces after losing everything in this massive apartment fire. A really tough time days after christmas. Investigators look across the lot at the building. You can see where the roof collap collapsed. He came home to find out he lost everything in an apartment fire. We met him as he tries to get back on his feet. The items are a start. The blankets, you know, they can keep you warm especially this time of year. Yes. He was one of several tenants who picked up donations from e community center. Not everyone can stay with family. The red cross placed some of the krims krim victims in hotels. It is still under investigation. They said the fire got a god 1yu6r7 on firefighters. There was a lot of fire in that one unit. No one died. a silver lining. We are all alive. Nobody was killed. That is the most borimportant thing. At 6 00 what the fire marshal said taught him that night community. Nbc 10 news. Here is a look at some of the other stories we are following. Two High School Students were killed when the car they were riding in crashed into a tree. It happened yesterday. The car went out of control and ended up in two pieces. Two passengers were killed. The 17yearold driver was also hurt. They will in Atlantic County we have f new pictures of the Stockton University residential campus. There is even a park garage and Academic Building under construction. A Holiday Gathering hosted bay state lawmaker. Davidson held her eight annual eggnog sip today. She said it gives a chance to personally talk with neighbors while enjoying a holiday treat including eggnog of course. A special performance of the nutcracker offered a friendly performance. The Program Gives guests space to move around, permission to speak and areas to decompress. A piece of the masive power ball jackpot. A wlhopping 337 million. Last nights Mega Millions failed to produce a winner which sets up a historic scenario. Mega millions sitting at 306 million. Only the second time they had excess of 300 million. I have got to play. I have to play that power ball tonight. The higher it goes the more you want to give it a shot. You dont want to misos out. Still ahead, the finishing touching in time square ahead of sunday nights big ball drop. Plus social media and sleep. This type of cold weather is forcing more people to go to the Allentown Rescue Mission to find a warm place to stay. Well explain coming up. Protecting pets in this dangerous cold. It is keeping your Furry Friends safe in this weather. Michael im thankful that im alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know we are here for you. This holiday season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. Frmgs it seems more kids are on their phones until late at night. Lack of sleep could lead to higher risk of depression abdomand addiction. They suggest parents set firm rules. If it doesnt work cut access to your data plan. More pregnant women are smoking pot. Marijuana use among pregnant teenagers is up. There was also a large jump among women 18 to 24. The Health Effects are not known but could ip collude low birth weight and developmental problems. Keeping their fingers crossed hoping their eagles will take it all the way to the super bowl. The team is already making dreams come true next the surprise from coach peterson for one lucky and deserving rain. Im tracking temperatures for the most accurate weather forecast. A helping happened for teachers, where they could go this weekend to get free books and supplies for their classrooms at 35k. 5 00. Get a load of this, the eagles have a great Christmas Gift for a deserving fan. They invited cindy kurr to thank her for the work she has done. She got the idea of making colorful pillow cases for her son to cheer him up during his hospital stay. A decade later they delivered 1 ppt 5 million pillow cases. Today the eagle s thought they would surprise her. Because of all of your hard work and your dedication abdomen everythi and everything you have done we are give you two tickets to the super bowl. Very cool. Shell be taking her husband to the super bowl. We are hoping for that. Ill be talking to her tonight at 11 00. The birds wrap up the regular season. Our hour of coverage starts right here on nbc 10, the official station of your philadelphia eagles. Its a boy. Detroit pistons player and former safor former saint joes player hit the court to reveal the gender of his new baby. It exploded showing its a boy. Some times its a cake. He is excited too. I know. I love it. New york is preparing for its massive party. There are more than 2,600 crystals in all. All new at 5 15 well take you to time square for a closer look at how the city is getting ready for one of the biggest new years celebrations in the world. You can catch the show live at 6 00 p. M. At midnight right here on nbc 10. Well also be streaming the shows live on the nbc 10 app. Its a good thing those are being streamed live at 6 00 and midnight. Oh boy, that will be cold, right if. You have to be dedicated outside there or to time square. You are stuck out there for hours if youre trying to get a good view. Many many many hours. Let me show you what new years eve will be like around here. There we are. It is 6 00. Feels like 8 degrees in philadelphia. By midnight feeling like about 6. Lehigh valley feels like near zero by midnight. Thats not the lowest of the night of course. Monday morning its going feel even colder than that. We have a first alert out for the extreme cold for the entire area. They will get hit hardest with below zero chilling tonight. These go in 15 below and 0 to 5 in philadelphia at the lowest tonight into tomorrow morning. It is 25 now. We are just about to see the sun go down. Temperatures are going to go down after that. So we certainly department get any where near 30 degrees today. The ocean is 40. If we had a wind coming in off the ocean the shore would nt b too bad. The wind is not going to be on the ocean for quite a while. It is 31 at stone harbor. Up in canada a huge area of 30 to 40 to 50 below feels like temperatures. If our air is coming from here we freeze. If it is coming from here normally it is a smaller area you have to keep an eye on. Through tonight it is feeling like single dimggits. Potstown at 6 30. The warm spot feels like 3. Its not so hot. Once the cold eases up it will allow them to move in from the west. It is kerld than tomorrow. Well be right back. Michael im thankful that im alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know we are here for you. This holiday season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. Workers admit their resources are being stretched thin due to recent demand. Its not just cold out here it is dangerously cold. They are trying to fit everybody in those doors who needs a warm place to go. Donations getting dropped off here at the Allentown Rescue Mission are coming at a good time. Always need to layer stuff, layer sweatshirts. Today it was a few more winters jackets that will be put to good use. The nights are dropping down to 25, 20 degrees. We want the guys inside. It is a numbers game here. They have 115 beds. The demand is outweighing the supply. I think it is always making ro room for that. It is coming at a higher cost. We are stressed because we are feeding more. We are stressed because we are housing more. Our electric and heating bills are off the wall. To barry this place and this bed is everything. I have no family here. The rescue mission says they know it could be a long and t taxing winter. Nbc 10 news. We are working on several sorri so stories at 5 00. New at 5 00, the problem from one witness on the stand and the judges plea against gun vie lep violence. Well tell you how low this is going to go in my first alert forecast. Reporter coming up, tips from someone who knows what its like to be out in this cold all day. Michael im thankful that im alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know we are here for you. This holiday season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. A strong message about the murder of two philadelphia teens. Right now arctic blast. We issued an alert because of the cold across our region. People are digging out from a record shattering snowfall. 53 inches fell over a 30 hour span. We are not the only ones. Look at this, 65 Million People across the nation are getting hit hard with this arctic air. How low will we go . You are looking live in center city. Temperatures in the 20s today. Here is the view. Some people are out and about. I will assure you they are moving quickly. Temperatures staying ip sinside they can. Lets begin our Team Coverage. We spent the day with mail carriers in this bitter cold blast. Glenn hurricane schwartz is with us. Temperatures will really take that dive tonight. Yeah. Obviously it is going to be colder than it is right now. By tomorrow morning colder than it will be later this evening. In allentown you can see the flag blowing. It is going to be one of the cold spots. It will feel like it is below zero there. It will feel like it is 15 below zero. We have the first alert out. Those areas are most