Of the soil. Reporter hollow underneath. Even though the road bed is still intact, the sinkhole opened up a void. Reporter bethlehem water Officials Say nobody was injured here but the damage is extensive and this sinkhole could continue to expand. We found severe Property Damage to the one house across the street where a large sinkhole opened up. In our investigation we started to find a little bit more extensive damage and extensive growth of the sinkhole. You can see these crews back out here live, working to get this road back and level. The goal is tonight to make this turn into a road again. At least there wont be a whole over the next few days. Theyll close this section off, again, that fears that the ground underneath us cowl be unstable and there could be more collapsing, at least small collapses in the area nearby. Live in bethlehem township, randy gyllenhall, nbc 10 news. Tonight at 6 00, two words you dont want to hear together. Holiday storm, rain or even snow could be on the way just in time to interrupt your thanksgiving travel plans. The nbc 10 First Alert Weather Team is tracking this threat. Lets begin with chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. Renee and jim, we first mentioned this to you yesterday at this time where we expected a storm to develop offshore and it may be close enough to the coast and Strong Enough to bring rain back in, just in time for the big travel day on wednesday. And as the storm passes by, brings down cold enough air, rain could change to snow over a portion of the area. Again, during the busiest travel day of the well, just about the year. We have cold air that comes in after that, too, affect something of the rest of the holiday. More on that coming a little bit later. Lets go over to meteorologist Sheena Parveen with more on the huge temperature swings coming. We have a big warmup before the rain and snow next week. Temperatures wilin near record warmth. Believe it or not, we get random days where we are very warm. Not tonight, though. Cold tonight, 34 in philadelphia, 26 in pottstown, 27 lancaster. Mid20s in millville. Look at the warm air down to our south across many of the southern states. Temperatures 60s and 70s. This air will be moving in over part of your weekend. The warmest day this weekend will be sunday. The mild air keeps on moving in for monday and we are talking about record warmth as we start off your week next week. This does, however, come along with a little rain. Glenn will show you the timing on that and talk about next weeks storm. Thats all coming up. Get ahead of the storm with our nbc 10 weatherc app. Youll get updates sent straight to your phone. Its a free download. Get it by going to nbc10. Com. Disturbing details are now emerging in a family shooting in burlington county. Police now say a mother is the one who shot her three children before she turned the gun on herself. Two of the children died. Nbc 10s south jersey reporter cydney long is live in tabernacle, new jersey. There are sad details about why no one elle in the house heard those gunshots. Reporter that is correct. Police say the gun they discovered was near where the mother was lying, it is an older model revolver but this mother used a pillow to muffle the noise of those gunshots sometime between 5 00 a. M. And 9 00 a. M. Thursday morning. What remains unclear, a mystery tonight, why she would carry out such a horrific crime. All four victims were found in the same bed. Which is identified as the bed belonging to the mother. Reporter police say 44yearold Jeanine Lepage intended to take her own life after shooting three of her own children, nadia, alexander and nicholas, ages 8 to 14. But somehow she and alexander, 11 years old, survived the gunshots at pointblank range in the Early Morning hours thursday. Detectives say this investigation is far from over. Motive is not one of those things well be able to talk about today. We may never know with certainly depending on the condition of lepage what that motive was. Reporter police say they are still seeking information from friends and loved ones, including that of a possible text message sent from one of the children to a classmate at school. A lot of information has come into the detectives which includes that piece of information. We are actively pursuing a lot of different pieces and leeds. That is one of them. I cannot comment on that beyond the fact that we are aware of that information. Can you tell us what the message said . No, i cannot. Reporter police tell us they were also able to quickly locate the father yesterday afternoon and rule him out as a suspect. They do say the father of the children killed is fully cooperating with the investigation into the mothers past. Friends and loved ones have set up a Memorial Fund to help pay for the childrens funerals. Find that information on our website, nbc10. Com. Im cydney long, nbc 10 news. Thank you, cydney. New at 6 00, governor corbett signs an execution order for a convicted cop killer, Christopher Roney will be put to death for killing a Philadelphia Police officer in 1996 during a bank robbery. Baird was a 44yearold mother of two boys. She was gunned down at a pnc bank on rising sun avenue. Roneys execution is set for early january. Mixing politics withc pancakes. Pennsylvania governorelect tom wolf joined the urban Affairs Coalition for the groups breakfast today. The coalition works to unite government with businesses and neighborhoods to improve the quality of life for people. Wolf says Pennsylvania Needs healthy cities in order to be a healthy commonwealth. New at 6 00, another Philadelphia Charter School is going to close. This is the third in just a few weeks. School Reform Commission voted to close the Charter School in german tonight. The school board says it will appeal this decision. Amani, one of the oldest Charter Schools in the city will stay open during the appeal. President obama is selling his landmark policy on immigration and republicans are vowing to stop him. We know we can do better. For years we havent done much about it. Today were doing something about it. We will not stand idle as the president undermines the rule of law in our country and places lives at risk. The president s executive order offers deportation relief and work permits to 5 million undocumented immigrants. So far, republicans have not yet figured out how they can roll back the plan without turning off hispanic voters. One local organization is closely watching developments in the immigration battle. Reverend luis cortez jr. Is the president of esperanza. Cortez has worked with politicians on National Immigration reform for years. He says the president s plan helps the u. S. Economy by generating tax revenue from the currently untaxed and undocumented immigrants. While some people feel its okay for the deportations to continue, they are leading to a lot of broken families which in the end actually costs us more money. Reporter cortez Hopes Congress will have a conversation on the issue and take action on comprehensive immigration reform. And theyre off. A federal judge expected to make a decision today on whether Sports Betting can begin in new jersey. A good for betting would be in defiant of the federal government and the countrys biggest sports leagues. Any decision likely will be appealed to a higher court. New jersey officials see Sports Betting as a way to help the states struggling horse tracks and casinos. New at 6 00, finding a parker spot in philadelphia can be a real pain. How about a Smartphone App that lets you reserve the parking spot. If the city council gets its way, that will never happen. Apps allowing you to bid for parking spots are up and running. Yesterday, Philadelphia CityCouncil Passed a bill that would ball all parking apps. Anybody caught using them would have to pay a 250 fine. And how the philadelphiac marathon may affect your weekend plans. Plus, this burst of cold weather is creating problems at the jersey shore. What you need to know to protect your property as the temperatures drop. Glenn . Im tracking a storm that could have an impact on your thanksgiving travel plans. Could bring rain or even snow. Dont miss my exclusive nbc 10 first alert forecast. Theres confidence. Then theres trusting your vehicle maintenance to ford service confidence. Our expertise, technology, and high quality parts means your peace of mind. Its no wonder last year we sold over three million tires. And during the big tire event, get up to 140 in mailin rebates on four select tires. This is nbc 10 news. Today is National Adoption day and here at nbc 10 we work all year to help find forever families for children in foster care. Our wednesdays child segment profiles kids who want a home. These are just some of the faces youre seeing of children who now have loving families as a result. Great pictures. Vai sikahema has led our efforts since 2004. In that time weve featured 488 children. And 297 of those children have been placed with a family. Thats a 60 success rate. Vai was in center city this morning with more good news. For the record officially weve opened the court of common pleas today on National Adoption day. Well call the first case which is number reporter with this, judge Kevin Dougherty opened family court for the legal adoption of ten philadelphia children. It was a day of celebration. I like your dress. Thank you. Reporter youre pretty. Thank you. Reporter it was a fashion show. It looks gorgeous. Thank you. When i left the prison stm i left wanting to make a change. For me, its to make a change in his life, in his life that he would have a family and good upbringing. Reporter congratulations. Were happy for you. Thank you. My two grand children that im adopting today. Yay let me introduce our good friend, vai sikahema. Reporter order in the court. Thats what happens when you put a wannabe lawyer up here in family court. I just want to say this to all of you. This is a happy day. I do hereby order and decree layla love as well as dillon lewis now are officially and will always be your children. [ applause ] reporter in family court, center city philadelphia, vai sikahema, nbc 10 news. We know vai puts his heart into each one of those stories. You can make the dream of a forever family come true for any wednesdays child sponsored by the dave thomas foundation. Go to our website, nbc10. Com and search wednesdays child or call the National Adoption center at 1866doadopt. A blast of cold weather is creating soggy problems at the jersey shore. Thats because some home owners havent yet winterized their homes and unprotected pipes are bursting. Take a look at this outdoor shower at Harvey Cedars on long beach ilan. Water sprayed from a broken pipe. So far ocean citys had more than two dozen leaks from frozen pipes, most at Summer Vacation homes. Plumbers tell nbc 10 people just arent ready for temperatures to drop this low this early. This year, everybody was trying to stretch it out to thanksgiving, i think. It just didntc work. The cold weather hit us early this year. I think a lot of people were unprepared. Reporter its important to remember that repairing a leak is not cheap. Plumbers tell us it could cost between 200 and 600 bucks just to fix an outdoor shower. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. We have another very cold night tonight. By monday, its going to be feeling balmy out there. In between well be tracking some rain before the weekend is over. Record warmth likely in at least parts of the area on monday. And some travel troubles possible for the day before thanksgiving and a big travel day. Right now we have 34 degrees and clear skies. It feels like 27 and the wind has diminished. The temperature really did today, too. 50 yesterday, 37 today. And then its going straight up. Look at that temperature rise. In just a few days. Then its going to go right back down. Right now we are in the 20s in parts of the area. 26 in pottstown, 24 in millville. We have lots of places going into the teens. Allentown could set a record for the low temperature. The wind is much, much less than it was earlier today. We were gusting to 30 miles an hour. Now its less than ten miles an hour everywhere. We have dry weather tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow night into sunday morning. By sunday afternoon, clouds are coming in but the rain holes off, it looks like it till sunday night, maybe some of the heaviest of it in the middle of the night while youre trying to sleep. Were drying out by the morning rush on monday. Its not lasting that long. It could be heavy for a period of time. It looks like we have good weather for the eagles. 54 degrees by the end of the game. This is a storm were talking about. We talked about it yesterday, forming off the east coast and one computer model had it yesterday. Now theres more starting to come on board. More consistency in this. Still way ahead of time, so we dont know the details yet but it looks like it could be close enough to spread rain in and then as the cold air comes in, change over to snow. And that is wednesday, wednesday night. The big travel time. Clear very cold tonight, 23 for a low in philadelphia. 15 in some of the suburbs. Allentown, a good chance of a low temperature record. Very good start tomorrow, mix of sun and clouds. Temperatures in the mid40s. Very little wind. It wont feel nearly as cold as today. Then sunday of course feels warmer. The rain holds off until sunday night. The record warmth comes on monday. Theres a chance of a shower there. Tuesday, we start to cool down. And by wednesday, were cold enough for rain to change over to snow. Some wet snow, likely. And even some snow showers possiblec on thanksgiving day will be so cold and coal for black friday, too. Skyforce 10 over a house fire in camden county. A grandmother and grand daughter were pulled from this burning home on West Highland avenue in gloucester. Right now, they are in critical condition. A package stolen right from someones front step in south philadelphia. We have Surveillance Video of the whole thing. Take a look here. You can see this woman walking along reed street last friday afternoon. Watch the reflection against the window of this mini van. The suspect appears to open someones screen door, grab a package and takes off. If you recognize the woman there, police want to hear from you. Take a look at this. Its being called the Charlie BrownChristmas Tree of reading. City leaders say its ugly, pitiful and sad. Theyre planning to take down this tree. Its just a little too bare and theyll put up a new one on monday. There will be a decorating party for the new tree on black friday. That tree is a little bit thin, definitely. Coming up, well hear from mark sanchez and lesean mccoy. Plus, could the sixers have added motivation against the suns tonight in well tell you all about it, next in sports. Whats possible today . Wifi access in more places then ever before. All your favorites in the cloud and on every device. A home you control with the touch of a finger. News and entertainment that informs and delights in ways you never thought possible. Comcast nbcuniversal bringing media and Technology Together for you. I thought itd be bigger. dad theres nothing i cant reach in my subaru. vo introducing the allnew subaru outback. Love. Its what makes a subaru,a subaru. This is the xfinity sportsdesk, brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. Live and in your living rooming, im danny pommel. The eagles are two days away from their meeting with the titans at the linc. Part of that bouncing back lies with this gentleman, quarterback mark sanchez who struggled at times during the eagles 5320 loss. Mettenberg mettenberger, the titans are 28. Heres sanchez on improving. Youre always competing against yourself and trying to be better and be the best version of yourself for your teammates. So thats really where the competitive side comes in and then more than anything like we just talked about, you want to win. So thats really our goal each week. This is a really fun job when youre winning. Ill just try and keep winning. A big game from the man called shady would go a long way to be in a bright spot for the eagles and be successful for the remainder of the season as well. Sk has been hard to come by for lesean mccoy this season thus far. This year, as far as yardage and everything thats happening, you have to earn it. I want to earn everything i get this year. I know everything about myself. c i dont think anything has changed. Lesean mccoy doubled as an astronaut after practice. Couldnt resist. The winless 011 sixers host the suns tonight. They could have extra fire as they take on the suns and former kentucky guard eric bledsoe said topranked kentucky would beat the sixers in a sevengame series. Today bledsoe backtracked from that statement after speaking at the morning shootaround. I have a lot of respect for nba players. I was joking around. They were coming off a huge win. Yes. They were playing good, whatever the case may be. All right. Speaking of college hoops, big one tonight as temple takes on number four duke. Part of the coachs cancer classic. A 9 30 expected start. Thats sports, im danny pommel. Renee, back to you. Ready, set, run. Thousands are sprinting to philadelphia with their sights set on making it to the finish line. Race weekend includes the marathon, Half Marathon and several other races. 30,000 runners will lace up their shoes for the weekends events. Thats 60,000 fans will be out there cheering them on to the finish line. Take nbc10. Com along with you for race weekend. Our news and weather paps will give you the latest forecasts. Plus, know about traffic deto detours. You can always count on nbc10. Com. Well be right back. A host of weather changes. Huge temperatures. We may