Correspondent steve croft. Cloudy this morning an a warmup coming. Theres a warming trend on the way here. And fully for the most part i think you start the day with with sunshine. Clouds should build plateer on. For now the chill in the air is in part because we dont Vice President that blanket of cloud cover to trap the heat in. And so as a result we found a lot of temperatures this morning in the teens and Single Digits and but that warming strend is on the way for our area. Take a look by especially wednesday. We expect to sort hit the top of the roller coaster hill here but then well start to level off as the week progressing, arm high is at its cool theingt time of year and this is cool test gets with average high of 40. Thats usually where we bottom out. Granted you can have a lot of ebb and flow and were all averaging everything out here and we had our fair share of colder than average and milder than average and this is typically the chillest part of entire year. Heres where we stand. Storm scan nice and quiet. Were expecting clouds to build with time and thats going to limit the cooling that will take place later on tonight. Heres where we stand now. 2 trenton, 23 millville, 23 ac and 27 milly and you get the idea and colder outlying burbs out to the north and mount pocono six this hour and even though you start the day off bright and chilly you start to the moderate up. Im not tell you it will be worthy of winter coat by 00 but 44 is not as harsh as weve seep in years past and last monday we couldnt break out of the 20s we expect with time to see the temperatures rebound above average. It comes with a price as it tends to do. Another around of rain on the way. Later in the show when you want the umbrella and time that out for you and of course how warm will it get. Ill have the answer in the 7 day later on. Meisha. All right. Katie, thank you so much. Good morning, everyone, happy monday to you and happy mlk day for you. Look at new jersey. Creek road, certainly starting to heat up now as we push towards 6 00 hour and we can expect that on monday morning and even on mlk day which today will be a little lighter than we typically see on monday. Right now, 42 looks like this in new jersey and girard starting to build levels there as well. So does it look typical . I would say so. Typical. Maybe lighter than normal but starting to build on 95. Bird eye view of 95 this is what you can see nice crawl there everybody is is cruising around with no problems an we have construction chestnut is blocked between 15 and 16 and will use to need alternate someson youll have to take. Also 2 route between san toga and 24 that one lane blocked 7 a. M. And main bulk of rush will run you through thursday. Heads up on that. Because it is mlk day were running modified schedule. Check this out. Septa city buses and trolleys and new Jersey Transit buses make sure to schedule schedules online you need do so. Reminder Schuylkill River wall repairs still out there mlk drive and this will run you between 9 a. M. And 3 p. M. And 9 p. M. And overnight through friday back to you. Meisha, thank you. A. A local uwish family is vandalizes. This is separate from the synagogue. They spray painted graffiti on to it over the weekend. The congress graition leaders asked to step out to Eyewitness News and just two days ago someone broke 16 cameras in the parking lot. In tack homey this happened around 7 last night the suspect got away with drivers gray 2 2008 chevy malibu. If you have any information call police. Martin luther king, jr. Is inspiring a nation of people to get involved in the day of service. Of course today Martin Luther king, jr. Day and to honor the civil rights area thousands in our area are doe mate nateing their time. Volunteers are gathering at give girard clem. This is a huge event. Youre suitly right, huge event at gir Girard College college its king king jr. Day of service and specifically at the hub at Girard College. To find out more about what goes on here is Todd Bernstein back with us good morning. Good morning again. What goes on here . I mean you got thousands of volunteers. You have a ton of Different Things happening so give us a little bit of insight into tha that. Girard college alone 5,000 volunteers doing about 100 different activities in this area its hand on service prom ekts this a kids carnival right know. To it with kids learn about Martin Luther king and doing fun things like creating i have a dream mobiles and civil rights murals we have a jobs fair for 500 job seekers with 25 employers andelth care and civic expo and all capped off later today by philadelphia orchestra 27 annual Martin Luther king tribute concert. When you founded this 2 years ago what were you hoping for. Hoping for a couple things. One it was not just about service. It was really a way of learning more about dr. King and honoring his memory and making it real and living. But, to bring Broad Coalition for people together that might not ordinarily interact to find Common Ground and breakdown barriers and build relationships all through serving together and actually doing something that could have a positive effect in the community. Speak to us about the great paintings happening throughout Girard College. 2 years of student murals. We invite student from six different schools throughout the region of all authors and denominations to take on an assignment like the one today has to do with education and it was based on article dr. King wrote 70 years ago for moore House College Student Newspaper about the value of education. And that is now surrounded by this wonderful project of creating 250 mini libraries for up conventional places in the city where adults take kids like rawnd row mats, nail sam ones, barbershops, health fair fairs. If people want to give their them. They can go online and find project mlk. Org and call our Office Beginning 7 00 21585 2158511181. Got the number thank you todd appreciate it. My pressure. It will be i big day at Girard College. If you want to come out and volunteer you can do so here or check the web site as todd sai said. Raich sglel back to you. Thank you. And unone of the things is let freedom ring. They will bring liberty bell for a bell ringing. Bob casey will be among the guest for the ceremony. For the First Time Ever Pennsylvania State stoorz are on for Martin Luther king day and other state holidays. Theyre that offering liquor control board to operate on thanksgiving day and Christmas Day and trump and and this follows week in twitter rant aimed at john lewis. He found hillself in jumps cross hairs following exchange dozens of house dim kratz said they plan to skip mr. Trumps inauguration some in soup port of lewis. Days before swearing in president elect is talking of imminent replacement for obamacare he says will provide insurance for everybody he made deck rar ration to Washington Post to save president obama Signature Healthcare law and he took to twits to ask followers if out owe going cia director john brennan was the one that leaked fake news. And protesters took to the streets to defend the affordsable care act. Hundreds earth gaed outside temple hospital. Republicans in kong guess have taken steps towards dismantling the health care law. Many speakers voice frustration sghz we have a man getting ready to gk president that head she want to make America Great again . How will you make America Great again if you take my medical coverage and all these 20 million folks medical cover rob jennings and say youre going to make America Great again. Bob casey was one of the officials in attendance. With less than a week left in the white house president obama sat down with steve croft for a final interview. They met one last time inside the state signing room at the white house last nights discussion was back on president highs and lows as commander in chief eight years later he says hes ready to move on. Im looking forward to getting out of the bubble and im glad that that im leaving this place at a relatively young age at 55 so i have the opportunity for a second and maybe even a third act. The president went on to discuss other pressing ib use such as national security, washington gridlock and president obama successor president elect don bell. Funeral arrangements were not released for former pro wrestler Jimmy Snuka Superfly he was charged in connection to death of former girlfriend and those charges were dropped earlier this month. Jimmy snuka was battling dimensions sha and stomach cancer. He passed away in florida. And controversial Mega Church Pastor bishop eddie long died. The Senior Pastor of the new birth missionary khur. Passeded away sunday morning after battle aggressive form of cancer he was strawn. Critic of samesex marriage in 2010 he set sled a lawsuit against men that said he pressured them into relationships. And the case of samsung note gal am axey fires. And this morning answers about her favorite character principles leah. Principles leah. And well right back. Im val. The orange money retirement squirrel from voya. I represent the money you save for the future. Whos he . Hes the green money you can spend now. Whats up . Gonna pay some bills, maybe buy a new tennis racket. Hes got a killer backhand. When its time to get organized for retirement, its time to get voya. Speculation surrounding princess leah role in the franchise has been put to rest following death of carrie fisher. Addressing rumors on star wars. Com they posted that lucas film has no plans to digitally ce create carrys performance. And hidden stars continue to shine. Octaveia spencer brought out a showing of film los angeles movie this morning. They encouraged families to attend for free who couldnt afford the movies. What an incredible movie it was to see it. Yes. To see africanamerican women in that role and women in roles of science and contributing so much. Absolutely. I love these old stories that almost get buried and you know the reason they call it Hidden Figures and theres so many stories like this in history and i love that we are starting to hear a lot of them. You wonder why we didnt know prior built we know now. Search a good friend. I know you and jim are like you got to see it. I would watch it again and between and againen totally would. F i have it to. Rain building into the region again. Let look outside. Storm scan, at the moment a a hint of cloud cover and this holds off for us today. This is quiet day for Martin Luther king day of service and certainly anything else you may have going on as well. And quickly i want to show it out for you and show you the storm system does that look messy, heavy rain, Central Plains region up look a Christmas Tree with troublesome weatherer that way. Far cries from issues youre is facing. Well get to that. Let me take you outside 1st and foremost. I want to take you to the western suburbs outside of philly. Checked in with a nice clear sky but coiled, 23. Its looking like a great day as we are seeing the same thing here echoing sentiment. Great day to help out and volunteer in the community. Off to the northwest we go chilly 15 this morning from eileen. She ha a couple of clouds in gilbertsville and not really a big deal this morning. You see a clear sky. She also mentioned warming up a car and scraping off the windshield is something you have to do if you have to hit the road early n this morning. And lip checks in with 23 in cherry hill nice friday but factor in the time to possibly have to thaw out the car about you hit the road. Theres nasty looking storm system ought of our this is a far cry from the issues they place on the plains and continue to face. Period of rain is the story. Going further west, leex, portions of poconos, freezing rain initally is a possibility into tomorrow morning as this gets underway. Rain is not impressive maybe quarter inch at max and could be with us majority mid to Late Afternoon and its a warm front. Lives us to its name. 56 we peak wednesday and keep low 50s into the weekend. Not shabby meisha. Thank you so much. Happy monday and schuylkill taillight are and while were doing pretty good i would say foi for monday morning they heat up quickly and were holding steady. Everyone is still travel around and posting and on a busy sunday morning were looking at this. This is westbound a hot of schools are closed and a lot of kids will be home as well. Some tlelts and overall nothing to be conditioned about. Well have a modified sketch for mlk day. New Jersey Transits butions running modified. Patco speed like looking norma normal. Advice and check schedules online and talk about construction coming up in the next 15 minutes. Rahel over to you. Meisha, thank you. The search continues for missing ocean county fisherman they began the search friday after an empty fishing boat was found in jeffrey leggio little egg harbor. He contacted a relative saying his brought ran aground but he did not need assistance. And timely some relief for residents in fish down feeling with massive sinkhole this is update that gas the sink hole opened up eight days ago after a water main break box ton sheet. Nick deem as Carol Erickson has tied at the age of 7 known at little nicky he took over crime family in 1981 and was screwed as hot headed and angry harrisburgry. 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Lee he jury long will the charges are latest developments in scandle that prompted lawmakers that vet todd impeach south koreas accident. A wild night of Severe Weather no extext left cowboys fans stuck after their power play. Hard rain and mornings of many fans stuck inside the at t stadium well after the game. And as we mentioned the dallas lost game, 3431. Come find out what was untupd after sunday reds of years he. Years he. And what we come back. Quiet sally near beijing one of the most underrated tour aiingt tractions. The shen quan gorge there are cascades to amaze the visitors. They expect 150,000 tourists to see the ice cascades. I would pay to do that too. Nrs china newly discovered buddah statue is sitting undisturbed for hundreds of years. Dates back to the ming dynasty. Top of bud afters head appears when the water level drops and remnants were found below the power. Eyewitness news serious sdm and weekend of violence the way a Family Member spribz the teenager shot and a Jewish Community targeted and local congregation work waking up this morning to find vandalism on one of their religious structures its not the first time it happened. Just too tall a driver realizes a little too late just how high the trucks roof is. The place for this accident that happened and its all caught on camera. Helping Community Comes together. And happy mlk day to you. Monday, january 16, im rahel solomon. Jim donovan is off and katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this morning. Many people headed out to the service projects. Looking at the roads. Theyve been looking good all morning long. Congestion levels more serious accident in new jersey let me goat that in a moment. Yes. At least the weather is cooperating you vuingt interest to do it but you know it means of course well see sunshine out there today. Cloud do build over time. Its game overall. Storm scan quiet and hypothetical of cloud cover well off south, south of baltimore and d. C. That is a cloud deck approaching with time here and thats also a sign of things yet to come. Now, looking at one of the live Neighborhood Network cameras outside fro
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