Low 20s. Well see how cold its going to be for new years day and also have the latest on that weekend storm with the sevenday in just a few minutes. Organizers are putting the finishing touches on their costumes and routines for one of philadelphias signature new years events. The mummers parade starts brit and early. Rosemary connors is at penns landing. For some of the competition is already under way . Reporter it is. Theyve been practicing for mummers fest been performing for the public eneach other. Theyve been keeping tabs on each other. What theyll be watching the fancy brigades inside of the Convention Center or brave the cold temperatures outside on broad street from city hall to washington avenue this year either way, the mummers are looking forward to entertaining you. Theyve memorized the moves but practice makes perfect. Golden crown hopes their clubs aladdininspired performance will bring them bragging rights in the mummers finale. Tomorrow is our big day. Tomorrow is our super bowl. You throw it all out there. Reporter billy is following in his footsteps, burke, a lifetime mummer and lead organizer of the brigade is teaching bill went importance of this family affair. Were in here competing against each other but everybody gives a helping hand. I love the excitement how they build these things and theyre not ready until the last minute. I cant believe it half the time. Reporter even theres no prize money anymore own the mummers have had stronger participating in the past these performers still promise to ring in the new year with a special show. Ill be there front row, center. Ive been doing this 56 years. Im not lying to you, this is the best show ive ever seen in 56 years. Incredible this year. Reporter of course it is. So much going on in philadelphia, tonight, of course, as we mentioned there are the Fireworks Shows at 6 00 and at midnight. A short while from now we should see the barge with the fireworks, loaded with the fireworks make its way out on to the Delaware River. Organizers say on the penns landing side where we are theyre expecting about 20,000 people to watch the show. Reporting live on the water front, im rosemary connors, nbc 10 news. Lots of company out there naturally with you thats of people lining the industries of philadelphia as the mummers make their way down broad street you can expect road closures in center city, of course and in south philadelphia tomorrow. You can follow the mummers as they move down broad street with their coverage on nbc10. Com. Access it any time by downloading our new nbc 10 news app for the iphone. Its free from the apps store. Heres a holiday tradition for the dinner table, nbc 10 at the canooli house of pork. Customers came from as far away as delaware some of them buying entire pigs. Theyre not getting a whole pig, theyre getting a small roast pork to put in their oven. Its a big pork holiday, whether its ham, roast pork roast beef, sauerkraut and pork. This is the house of pork. This is where to go. Why does everybody do this . The meat will bring good luck in the new year to whoever eats the pork. Three, two, one. Happy new year and who said new years eve parties are just for the grownups . Nbc 10 at the Delaware Childrens Museum in wilmington for a new years rocking noon. Children didnt have to stay up past their bedtime to play games and enjoy arts and crafts. Three, two, one, happy new year and confetti showered children at this museum for its annual countdown to noon. They celebrated with dancing. Look at this little guy go. Kids also saw the ball drop. Wow, he is really feeling it isnt he . He sure is. As well as they got a chance to see the performance from the characters of alice in wonderland. Bring that little boy back. Happy new year there you go. Chilly temperatures werent enough to keep these kids away from toasting the new year at the brandy wine zoo in wilmington. They saw several animals in their habitats as the zoo counted down to noon. After months of preparation, new york city ready to ring in the new year. Nbc 10 National Correspondent sara dollop is live where more than a Million People watch the crystal ball drop at midnight. Lots of excitement there. Lots of excitement, jim and renee renee. This is one of the biggest celebrations in the world. Tonight, times square is shut down in order to transform into this massive street party. Bundled up and ready to celebrate. More than a Million People are prepared to ring in the new year in iconic times square. Be here in winter coat coats, scarves, freezing our tails off to watch that big, beautiful ball drop. Reporter its worthy to so many for a trip across the country or a trip across the pond. The whole buzz just everything amazing place. Theres so much to take in. Reporter organizers spent hours making sure it lives up to expectation. Happy new year. Reporter a test confetti drop. And some new panels on that sparkling crystal ball. Every year waterford replaces about 10 of the crystals on the new years eve ball. Theyve been a wonderful partner. Reporter security is as tight as ever. Authorities say they know of no specific threats but will be on high alert with radiation detectors and plain clothed Police Officers patrolling the crowd. Well be controlling the city by air, by sea, on the ground and in the subway system. Reporter every last detail organized to ensure 2015 gets off to a safe and celebratory start. And practice makes perfect, of course organizers have had that dress rehearsal for that ball several times. Now this crowd here is just waiting for the real deal. In times square im sara dollop nbc 10 news. New Jersey Transit is helping people get a ride to and from their new years eve destinations. There will be extra trains running from new york city to new jersey tonight. The lines will have more trains and longer hours. But officials want you to know they will be strictly enforcing the ban on open alcohol containers statewide. That includes trains light rail and buses. And septa is adding Additional Service to and from the trenton station to handle travelers attending festivities in new york. The 30th street, suburban and jefferson stations will be open until 1 00 in the morning. There will be allnight service along the frankford lines. Kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb will have a starstudded toast, along with carson daly at 11 30, back to carson daly, and the countdown live from times square. Thats all live tonight at 8 00 starting right here on nbc 10. They want to make sure people are celebrating the new year safely. Today commissioner Charles Ramsey and d. A. Seth williams reminded the public they should not celebrate by firing guns into the air. Also joining them was joe. In 1998 one of those celebratory bullets hit joe in the head. At just 11 years old was paralyzed on the right side of his body. Since then hes had 33 surgeries. This tradition needs to stop all around the world. But if we could just stop it in this city, im all for it. Last year police had 114 reports of gunshots fired on new years eve. On an average night theres usually a maximum of 10. Serious misconduct allegations against this case worker with Family Services this afternoon. Hes charged with sex, extortion. Police say a woman came forward in august to complain about gregory bunkley. She claims she was intimidated and coerced into performing sex acts because he would use his position to take away her children. Neighbors demand answers. So far, police and prosecutors are providing few answers. Nbc 10 brought you this story as breaking news last night on nbc 10 news at 11 00. Nbc 10s mitch blocker live this afternoon in bridgeton where the investigation continues. Mitch tell us where things stand right now. Reporter well jim and renee, at this point, the Cumberland County prosecutor did not want to talk to us about the investigation or shooting. In fact she only wanted to issue a press release. This is a real sentiment in the neighborhood. The press release, its under investigation at this time the investigation is ongoing. Reporter the investigation starts at the corner of south avenue and henry street in bridgeton where neighbors say they are used to hearing gunfire. Dawkins heard some stuff night. He had one hand on the door getting out like this and just started shooting. Reporter two bridgeton Police Officers opened fire on a car they were pulling over in this intersection. They say they saw and recovered a gun you can see a bullet hole in the windshield. Multiple witnesses say this man was in the passenger seat of this car when Bridgeton Police pulled it over. Police say he died. I was the closest Family Member that could get here and i wanted to be here to try to find out, you know, whats going on. And we still cant find out what is going on. Reporter keisha springs is reeds cousin. She said he had a 3monthold son. Now hes not going to be able to watch his first son grow up to even enjoy earnnjoy his life. Reporter we still dont know the reason for the stop or who caused the officers to start pfeiffering. Jennifer webb mccray would only say the shooting is being investigated. A gun was recovered. Thank you very much. Reporter the officers who were both involved in this shooting, they have both been put on administrator leave until the investigation is over. Live in bridgeton, mitch blocker, nbc 10 news. Thank you, mitch. Medical examiner is expected to perform an autopsy on the man who die at the hands of police after he allegedly tried to run over officers with his car. Police in Delaware County followed joseph panccini. He allegedly put his car in reverse and accelerated, slamming into a police cruiser. He posted several videos on youtube making threats against Law Enforcement officers. Investigators believe he had Mental Health problems Haverford Township Police were investigating him after he made threats against Police Sunday at the la fitness on westchester pike. Philadelphia Police Released new information about a deadly hit and run catch. Teresa posey was hit and killed in the homesburg section of the city last week. A headlight lens was left behind. Using that police have come up with new details about the vehicle involved. They say a dark colored ford pickup or tow truck from the model years 1987 to 1991. There would also be damage to its left front end. The family is devastated friends are devastated. Were trying to piece it all together. We did follow some leads, none of them panned out. Were looking for additional leads. Were hoping to get some over the holiday weekend. Police searched the area. Now to the latest developments in the crash of airasia flight 8501. Bad weather and choppy seas kept divers from searching the water today. Search crews have recovered seven bodies. Officials believe many more will begin washing up on nearby beaches. Sonar images have found what appears to be large parts of the plane but strong currents are moving that debris. About 100 relatives held a Prayer Service today at the surabaya airport in indonesia. The service was led by a church that lost some 40 members. Two american ships, the uss sampson and the uss ft. Worth have been dispatched to help in the search. The weather unfortunately is not looking good for the next two or three days. That is slowing us down. Its still unclear what brought the plane down. Investigators are hoping to get those answers once they find the cockpit and data recorders. Nbc 10 has new information about this airport emergency at philly international that happened nine months ago now including that the pilot shouldnt have been at the controls. Nbc 10 investigator Harry Hairston tells us what did you find after reviewing the documents . I spent all afternoon going through the two faa reports. I shared this report with an expert who tells me the pilots were lucky no one died. Im very troubled by their report. Reporter this faa report suggests the pilots of u. S. Airways flight 1702 failed to properly respond to the planes warning systems. Should that plane have ever left the ground given the information in this report . Oh, no they should have never commenced to takeoff. Arthur wilks says the report shows the pilots didnt enter the necessary data into the plane. They got warnings that the system was not properly set. And the information that they needed was not properly in there. Reporter but walt tells me above zl the pilots shouldnt have been in the cockpit. The report shows the pilot took a stress test two days before the flight. Doctors gave the pilot a sedative and a narcotic. The report says the pilot was not to fly for 60 hours but came back to work just 45 hours after taking his last dosage. These drugs have the ability to impair ones attention. And of course now we have an incident that relates to ones failure to attend to the business at hand which is to make sure the airport is properly configured for takeoff. Reporter the faa report shows the flight reached 70 feet before the pilot believed the plane was not safe to fly. Walt tells me thats when the pilot, running out of runway made the emergency landing. That landing damaged the planes tail and forced the nose landing gear to crash and collapse. Two of the 149 passengers suffered minor injuries. Walt says the pilot and first officer failed to do their jobs and got lucky with a safe landing. How dangerous could that have been . That could have been a horribly fatal accident. Just moments ago i spoke with the u. S. Airways spokes who tells me they cannot comment until the ntsb finishes its investigation. The ntsb expects to wrap up their investigation next spring. For the investigators, Harry Hairston, nbc 10 news. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. We have sunny skies but very chilly temperatures while walking the dog there, nbc 10 along main street in manayunk. Last day of 2014 has brought the coldest day of the month. And tonight its likely to be even colder than last night. And new years day also on the cold side. We continue to have the wintry mix in the forecast for at least a part of saturday for at least a part of the area. It will be briefly wet and warm before another blast of cold air comes in next week. Citizens bank park the phillqs completed a trade this afternoon. More on that later obviously. 32 degrees with a 14 mileanhour wind so it feels like its 22, even at this hour. Just imagine how cool its going to be this evening when you head out. So obviously layers are needed but at least you dont have to worry about snow or ice. 29 degrees in westchester 20 in the poconos. 31 in millville, 32 in dover. Obviously these temperatures are going to go down during the evening with the clear skies and the low humidity and the wind diminishing somewhat. The wind chill is 20 in allentown and lancaster, low 20s in many other parts of the area. So headed out this evening, new years at midnight 27 in philadelphia, north and west. 19 degrees and it will feel even colder than that. And tomorrow morning, the mummers, 27 at 8 00 a. M. 10 00 a. M. 29 with some wind. So the wind chill, again, will be lower than that. By noon were only up to 33. Now, at least we do have dry weather so traveling conditions are just fine. But thats not the case out in the southwest states. That storm is what is going to be coming our way. Sheena will have more on that in just a minute. And as we go through the futurecast theres no issue, even until saturday morning. But watch what happens as we go through the day. Theres 2 00 in the afternoon, still nothing going on. But at least some of the computer models show that by dinner time 8 00 were talking about sleet for the most part. Very little snow. Sleet north and west that will change to rain not so much by midnight but by sunday morning. And its all rain across the entire area and really warm for at least a little bit. Clear and very cold tonight, 23 for the low in philadelphia. 15 north and western suburbs. Tomorrow sunny, breezy cold although not quite as cold as today. That wind will create that wind chill issue. On friday 43 degrees. Saturday, thats the afternoon mix, mostly sleet late in the afternoon to rain overnight. 60 degrees sunday. No, thats not a misprint with showers and then much colder for early next week. Today the search for these suspects police say they had some bad intentions when they went into a local business. Enter a dog that changed everything. Ready for a raise . A bump in pay is coming for tens of thousands of people in our area. How the new year will bring new money to their pockets. Also first night flop. Nbc 10 analyzes the fun and free Family Friendly new years eve events from past years that are disappearing and the reasons why. And the priciest place to party. The local seaside city that will cost you dearly. Just to pop the champagne at the stroke of 12 00 and spend the night there. Find out how much. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Take a look at this video, stranded in the snow more than 100 people were forced to spend the night in their vehicles in california. Blizzard conditions made a highway impassable in the San Bernardino mountains around the los angeles area. Firefighters worked for hours overnight to rescue people and take them to nearby shelters. This is all part of a big storm system in the southwestern part of the country. Even giving some snow to las now. A lot of wet weather spinning around arizona parts of Southern Nevada and also southern california. As we zoom in, you can see, just around phoenix, rain just to the north around flagstaff snow even around the las vegas area. A lot of rain and snow mix here. This is not looking like a very pretty start to 2015 for those people in las vegas. A very cold night for them. And the cold air tonights to funnel down Salt Lake City coming in at 18, phoenix, arizona, 43. Las vegas 41 degrees. And later tonight, las vegas will be right around the freezing mark. So this is one area of the country well keep watching very cold and seasonably cold weather. Locally we have cold weather, too, to start 2015. Glenn will have the details coming up. The interview may be seen in north korea after all. An activist says he plans to launch balloons carrying