News today. Im tracey davidson. Its cold but this is a way late december day is supposed to feel. Lets get to meteorologist hill he henley with the forecast. High temperatures only in the 40s and thats what well see today. This morning the temperatures are falling into the 20s and 30s. Thats a live view from camel back in the pocono mountains actually Blue Mountain. But theyre looking very similar. Its 15mileperhour wind blowing in pocono. Thats just enough to make it feel like the temperatures are in the 20s and low 30s. While 18 is the wind chill in the mountains right now. Middle 30s for millville and pottstown, trenton and wilmington 36 degrees. We will see clouds to start with but like yesterday, the clouds will be thinning out as the day goes on. And the temperatures climbing near 40 degrees at lunch time today. Another blustery day ahead. Your hourly hour forecast when i come back in ten minutes. But right now kay tie zachary i standing by. Theres an accident on the garden state parkway southbound. This is affecting you if youre going to or from the shore. Its closed between sea aisle and avalon. In abingdon were following a water break on easton road. Its closed between new york road and fits water road. An im just new information about an accident, another one in Montgomery County. Ill have that for you coming up. Holiday shopping now in high gear and its the last week to get the gifts. And stores could be busier than black friday. There are now just six shopping days left before christmas and tomorrow is super sad but today starts a marathon stretch for a number of stores. Jesse gary is live in hafrton county. Reporter one analyst says the key to getting people inside is deals on big ticket items. And then once youre inside, its hard to stop shopping considering a lot of places are offering extended or continuous hours. The kohls chain will be open in 90 minutes and will not close again until christmas eve. Theyre trying to finish the Holiday Shopping season strong. Socalled Super Saturday might be a prescription for their success. The 14. 5 of shoppers plan to complete their christmas purchases tomorrow. Coming up in the next 30 minutes, when getting it by next day shipping just isnt fast enough theres an option for you. Well talk about that in 30 minutes. Jesse gary nbc 10 news. According to experts, today is the last day to order gifts that will make it to you in time for christmas by using standard shipping. You can pay more later on but today standard shipping rates. And you can expect the airports to be packed today as we head into some of the busiest travel days of the year. Airlines by america says today is the business jest day for air travel because many schools get out for holiday break. Overall aaa projects close to 1 million americans will travel more than 50 miles by air or car up 4 of last year. We have new details this morning about the Mental Health of the veteran who went on the killing spree in Montgomery County before taking his own life. The judge says that stone did not give any event of violent behavior. Montgomerys countys Veterans Court treated him after a second dui e offense. The judge issued a statement that read, mr. Stone did not have a record of violence and showed no violent tendencies while in the program. The lone survivor is still recovering. Donors have given mar than 21,000 this year. Flick is talking and hes getting some food down. Happening today, four of the five Philadelphia School staffers accused in a cheating scandal are scheduled in court. The teacher es and a principal are facing charges after Officials Say they participated in a cheating operation to raise the test scores on state standardized exam. Investigators claimed the educators helped the student get the right answer on the exam. An ocean county woman will make her First Court Appearance after her bob cat escaped from its home. She could lose permanent custody of the animal because of the incidents. A change in scenery is coming to one local home. A Lehigh Valley skyline is getting a new addition. Up, up and away, local students get a Second Chance to see their experiments in space after the first try went up in flames. And the racially charged instagram that has a local paramedic answering to his boss this morning. We have new information this morning, students from ocean city schools high schools are getting a Second Chance at a space experiment but lit not happen today. Today was suppose to be the relaunch of the experiment from cape canaveral. The rocket will carry the science experiment made by the students. The original rocket you remember exploded shortly after it launched back in october. Something new is coming to allentown skyline, a new Office Building is going up in the lee high community. It will be 15 stories tall with retail space, offices and apartments. The cost of the project . 130 million. Heres where its going on. The fivecity center will span an entire block, walnut street between 7th and 8th. The largest project to date. Another cold morning. Temperatures if most of the area are above freezing. But the wind is blowing again the morning. Clouds moving through, 37 degrees. Westerly wind at 9 miles an hour. You can expect the wind to pick up during the day. Just enough to make it feel like its 30 degrees in philadelphia. The winds are a bit stronger in the pocono mountains and in wilmingt wilmington, today. 28 is what it feels like for wilmington and dover, teens for the mountains right now. Heading out the door right now, bundle up. You can check out the clouds that are with us. But like yesterday the clouds will be breaking this afternoon. just like yesterday well see clouds but no precipitation today. In fact the weekend is looking dry too. Temperature wills be slowly climbing. Cold to start with. At 9 00 this morning well be just above freeze in the middle 30s in philadelphia. And then the temperatures climb by lunchtime up to 37 degrees for allentown, 1 clock this ach, low 40s for philadelphia. But not much warmer. The wind will still be with us and even though we get sunshine, the temperatures will be struggling to warm up any higher than 40 dez. Its going to be cold and blustery today. Got the seven day when im back in ten minutes. Friday morning, what ive come to learn at 4 40 is a good time to get around the city. Well see if theres any traffic trouble spots you node to know about with kay city zachary. But if youre driving in Montgomery County there are two things for you to be aware of. A water main break and a new accident into the system. Here are the details. Its in white marsh on river road and there are low hanging wires. Be aware of that. The water main break in abingdon, easton road is closed because of it between york road and fits water town road. You can take york road around that. And heres a live look at Lehigh Valley at 22 along airport road. No major shoes issues on 22, 78. Its free and clear of issues right now. Unfortunately cant say the same thing for the new jersey drivers. Theres an accident between sea aisle boulevard and the exit for avalon. Scandal at a bucks county middle school. Next, the suspected sex tape thats shocked the local community and how police are working to find out if its real. Look at this picture, two black men pointing guns at a white officer. A local paramedics Instagram Post that is sparking controversy and the message he was trying to spread. And fresh or fraud, the claims against local Grocery Stores and what theyre doing in their bakery section. Today the Environmental Protection agency will issue new controls for the handling and storage of coal ash for the very first time. There are more than a thousand coal ash pits in 33 states, including pennsylvania. Coal ash is the residue from power plants that use coal to produce electricity. It contains poisons and heavy metals. A federal judge said today the deadline for the epa to issue the regulation zbloos happening today, president obama will hold his end of the year News Conference answering questions from the reporters at the white house. And then tonight the president and the first family will head to hawaii for the holidays continuing a sevenyear tradition. Security experts believe north korea likely had help carrying out that cyber attack. U. S. Officials tell nbc news they believe the attack was launched inside north korea. The white house has not publicly said who it thinks is behind the attack but theres evidence it was carried out by a sophisticated actor with malicious intent. The white house needs for Police Officers and secret Service Agents and a taller fence. The report suggests that the white house fence needs to be raised four to five feet immediately and eventually the entire barrier should be replaced. The review was reached of several Security Breaches of people jumping over the fence. A paramedics picture creates a firestorm and the fire commissioner is sounding off. Derek sawyer says hes unhappy of this racial any charged picture ps. Medic violated the social media policy. Theyre investigating. The message with the post says our real enemy. Need to stop pointing guns at each other and at the ones thats legally killing innocents. Were a professional organization and i expect my member to act in a professional manner. The paramedic who posted the picture works at medic 23 in southwest philadelphia which shares the same blgd as the 19th police district. The picture comes as anger continue to spread over the killings of unarmed African American men by white police. Protests have been popping up all over the country in response to the death os f Michael Brown in missouri and eric garner in new york. Wilmington is hoping to build more trust within its community. Last night the city held a Community Justice forum. Police officers, judges and state leaders answered peoples questions about safety and the use of force by Police Officers. Were here to facilitate a conversation around a lot of the peoples concerns about whats been happening around the country and what are we doing to make things better within our zi. The city says this will be the first of several events designed to foster better relationships between the public and the members of the criminal justice system. Authorities in Bucks Country are still trying to figure out whos behind a sex video making the rounds on cell phones. We first toll you about the tape on wednesday. Yesterday the d. A. Said the children on the video are between 11 and 12. Its not clear if they attend fdr. Police confiscated several students cell phones. A registered sex offender and convicted rapist is back behind bars this time for stalking a 13yearold boy in allentown. Hes accused of harassing and following the young teenager for the last two years. According to records, rappel followed him to school, watched him play in the street and moved into an apartment close tore the childs house. He was arrested on tuesday. I was in shock, you know. Really not in shock. I feel like something is wrong with him. We got a lot of kids here. Rappel was convicted of rape in 199 6. 4 49 right now. The suspect tackled by an off cutie Police Officer and his teenage son inside a busy south jersey drug stores will be in court on tuesday. Weve shown you these pictures. Argument dan murray tackled the armed robber moments after he held the pharmacist at knife point. And the officers son and another customer jumped in to help to wrestle the guy and subdue him. He held a knife to the pharmacist and demanded that she give him medication. I catch him as hes starting out the front door. I tackled him and then my son jumped in and helped me. The suspect has 11,000 worth of stolen painkillers on him. Here comes another cold start this morning. The wind is blowing. But just like yesterday, even though clouds are overhead, it is dry this morning. 37 degrees and holding right now in philadelphia. Colder in the mountain ps. Feels like its in the teens right now. This is Blue Mountain in the pocono mountains. It is going to be a cloudy start there and a windy one ps winds now gusting at 16 miles an hour in wildwood. The temperatures are in the 30s to start with but will be climbing. Radaring wi radar, nothing coming our way. And it looks like the weekend will stay dry. But hes rain as we head towards christmas day. Right now things are quiet. The future radar shows at noontime on sunday well be dry. There will be scattered clouds in the area but any rain clouds will be way to the south. You can see early on monday morning, the clouds far to the south but will be here late monday. Today, clouds ansunshine, breezy, temperatures right back where they were in the low 40s. But with the wind blowing out of the northwest 10 to 20 miles an hour, its never going to feel like its in the 40s. And tomorrow morning well be back in the 30s, down to 30 degrees, a High Temperature of 40. Very similar to today. Though tomorrow will not be as windy as today. Sunshine and clouds on sunday. Winter arrives just after 6 00 sunday evening and then rain arrives later on monday and the rain will come with milder temperatures for tuesday and wednesday. But its a steady rain through christmas eve. 60 degrees on wednesday. Christmas day is drying out. The temperatures will come back down. High temperature up to 49 degrees on christmas. Nine minute before 5 00 right now. Lets check in with katie zachary. We are watching an accident along the garden state parkway southbound. That stretch is closed between sea aisle boulevard and the exit for avalon. Taking a look at the overviews, the interstates in new jersey, 295 theres construction both northbound and southbound right at the 42 freeway. New jersey turnpike youre clear. And then the 42 freeway northbound there is construction right at creek road. It should lift in the next hour. 95, of course, the long term construction that should lift in the next hour. Is not tying anything up and were not seeing the typical volume that well see. We are following a water main break on easton road between york water road and fitzwater road. Also an accident with low hanging wires in whitemarsh on river ride right at bare ron hill road. A first for the first day. Federal, state and local lawmakers celebrated in newcastle yesterday. Its delawares First National park. The community conducted a National Park study and held several hearings before congress announced the state park. Delaware being the only state without a National Park. Thats a distinction im happy to say goodbye. Its been a 13year journey to bring a narcotic park to the state of delaware. Next whabs happening in washington that could be to blame to delay your tax refund. The lay away mixup thats making the Holiday Shopping season a lot more stressful for a lot of parents. Your tax refund next year could be delayed thanks to budget cuts just approved by congress. The head of the Internal Revenue service says the cuts will mean fewer irs agents will be handling the returns. Half the people who call for assistance wont be able to get through to an agent. Congress cut the irs budget by 3467 million for next year. Well its a nightmare before christmas for some k smart shoppers. Theyve been told their their online lay away items have been canceled and those items are out of stock. Kmart has issue an apology. The issue is specific to online lay away contracts, not impacting instore lay away. Amazon launched onehour shipping in new york city. The service is called prime now and it costs 7. 99 per delivery. You can get house hold products like paper towels, shampoo and batteries. But you need to be in enrolled in amazon prime for 99 a year. They hope to offer onehour shipping to additional cities in 2015. Its a dispute thats prompted consumer to sue three shopping chains claiming that their baked goods arent made from scratch in the stores. Theyre claiming that they prepair baked goods elsewhere and just reheat them in their stores. Representatives from the three Grocery Companies say they havent seen the lawsuit and they wont comment specifically on the litigation. A spokeswoman both say theyre not deceiving customers. The lawsuit seeks class action status and damages of at least 100 per customer. Fun times for fan and big improvements to the stadium. One of them is the son of the man who founded the blue rocks 22 years ago. He wants to make the stadium a full walkaround concourse with a kids play area. We want to be a positive light that shine through. The new owners have teams in other areas and have built ferris wheels and zip lines in their ballparks. There are plans for another Music Festival in kent county, delaware. Blake sheldon will be among the headliners at the big barrel Music Festival. The threeday event will be held next june at dover speedway. Tickets are already on sale. The cost 99 bucks for a weekend pass. It will be the third country Music Festival in kent county next summer. Happening this weekend, another Community Celebration for reddings socalled Charlie Brown christmas tree. The city is holding a decorating party tomorrow. Residents can place ornamentance decorations on the tree starting at 4 00 and then a Tree Lighting around 5 30. The city is taking donation to help the homeless and to support the recreation commission. People i think like us have warmed to it. U think theyre going to get a lot of response from that. I think so top. Nbc news today at 5 00 a. M. Starts