Around, sheena. Its a huge difference. Take a look across the entire northeast, even farther south into the southeast, close to florida. This is good travel weather. A great if youre traveling tonight, even tomorrow. Friday looks pretty good. So this is really what we have in store for the area if youre heading anywhere locally, even farther off to the west. Nice and dry across the area. Temperatures on the cool site side but definitely milder than what we had. 47 in allentown, 46 in millville. 46 in wilmington and as we go through tonight, its going to be cool. Its not going to get as cold as it has. By 8 00 tonight, mostly clear. 45 degrees and by 10 00, temperatures in the mid40s. So chilly, not as cold as when you walk outside tomorrow morning. Really no matter where youre heading, the weather looks good for it but temperatures will start to warm up. Well take a look at the unseasonably warm thanksgiving forecast and also your thanksgiving black friday forecast and if youre traveling. If you have loved ones on the road right now, take a look at what were facing. This is a live look. Thats the girard point bridge. Pretty heavy traffic right now. Going across the skew cool river perhaps, heading to the airport . Possibly. It looks like its moving. Nbc 10s Deanna Durante has more. Deanna, hows it looking . Reporter were live over the lansdale interchange. You know, the traffic there seems to be moving slowly. Theres gap where people are speeding up. And as you approach quakertown, people hitting the roads. The pennsylvania Turnpike Commission says were in peak thanksgiving time and thats going last until 8 00 tonight. Of course, there are many people who didnt bother trying to travel today. They took the whole week to spend thanksgiving with their loved ones. Hows traffic been . So far real good. Hopefully its not going to be like that. Reporter the need to stop on a long road trip, its obvious . My daughters over there. She lives in princeton. We live in church hill, p. A. Were going to see my mom. Reporter theyre thankful for good weather, friends and family theyll visit. I see what they did. They got an early start and left nearly yesterday or like real early in the wee hours of the morning while the rest of us were sleeping. What was once the biggest day to travel has become a day of rest. Theyve made a vacation out of thanksgiving week. Theyre no longer going to work and heading out to grandmas on wednesday night. Theyre seeing a sharp decline. Theyre making tuesday the biggest day to travel. Yesterday we came in to atlantic city. My parents live out in jackson and then im going see some friends because i used to live in pennsylvania. They know the clear roads will be a thing of the past come sunday. Im heading back probably on sunday. I have to go back to school. When do you go back . Sunday. Sunday late. We hoopering it wont be bad sunday night. Reporter looking live again at the pennsylvania turnpike, northeast extension there, were also hearing from penndot that many of the people that will be hitting the roads at the same time on sunday. So even if you took a day or two ahead of the holiday, you know, the roads are going to be much different shape on sunday. Penndot says the peek travel time will be mid morning to 6 00 a. M. Penndot says it could be anywhere between 2 00 and 8 00 p. M. Were going go over and check out travel conditions in bucks county. Well let you know more tonight. For now were live. Deanna durante. Well see you then. Thanks deerks a na. Thanksgiving eve marks one of the busiest day for train travel. Amtrak says it has added capacity, especially in the northeast to carry all the extra passengers traveling to see friends and family on this long holiday weekend. Folk at 309 street tell us it was a pretty smooth operation there today. It was a little busier than usual for this time of day. You dpef it inially noticed it. Yes, yes. It was easy. Wit as snap. There was nobody at Union Station it was very fast. I sat by myself. Despite today and yesterday, the other pz dbusiness day on t rails will be this coming sunday just as folks are flying. Nbc 10 is your source for all things holiday. How about this. Uber wants to help prevent drunk driving on one of the heaviest drinking nights of the year also known as thanksgiving eve. They can take a blood alcohol test and in return uber will give them a free ride home. Happy to be going home for thanksgiving and lets go eagles. There you go. A shoutout to the birds from wounded state trooper Patrick Casey. Casey left the hospital today. His release comes just after 24 hours during which he wu was hit. Trooper casey took a bullet in the shoulder following this fiery chase and craze. Tonight police are still looking for one person in connection with the violence. Nbc 10s doug shimell was there when trooper casey walked out of the hospital for the homelands. Trooper casey sat in his c trooper caseys father sat in the car waiting for his son. Reporter trooper Patrick Casey still has a single round lodged in his shoulder. He was wounded when chasing a vehicle. I want to they everybody for all their prayers and support. Lets go eagles. Vivany was charged. He said he was grateful they did not kel his son and he said he was very sorry. I apologize for all my heart. Reporter state police still want to question the fourth person in that car, camire lewis. Yes, im feeling much better. Reporter for trooper casey hell be surrounded by family. What do you want to do if your kid wants to be in the army. One person died and others were injured at the intersection in franconia. You can see the cars are completely totaled. Police are trying to figure out what caused the wreck. Elsewhere Russias Foreign Ministry says it was planned. It helped them rescue the surviving pilot. Syrian arm forces say they wenl into rebel territory who they say the sky let is in good help. The other pilot of the plane died. On monday there will be tro troops that will protect the president and other world leaders. Belgian authorities are looking for mohammed abreny. Today Metro Services has partially reopened in russia. The underground system was closed for four days. They continue to guard the stations as the country remains on high alert. Closer to home attorney general Kathleen Kane will find out if she remains in office. The group did not say if kane should be removed. Instead they referred the matter before the full senate. The goal is to determine if kane can continue her role as attorney general without a law license. An apology for slavery. Commissioners plan to send a letter to jack mar cal urging him to sign a proclamation on december 6. That date marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th amendment to the sconce tugs which abolished slavery. A former constable is out on bond after being charged with threat. Peter innaurato put in a pain request but investigators say he never did the work. He was supposed to serve warrants but instead filed fake reports with forged signatures of judges. We have some new video from nbc 10 of a man wanted for robbing a Dollar General store. You can see the man show a gun to the cashier. They say he then demanded money. He did get away with 350. If you know who this man is, police would like to haur from you. Up next, a new look with an old tradition. It will have a different feel this time around. The reason why, straight ahead. Plus, the postal work earth the center of a hate Crime Investigation after this video surfaced. What police say the vild owe shows straight ahead. Its a a reunion in the years. A man who saved a life on the side of the road next. A man who saved a life on the new york city crime unit has this. A woman and her sister were walking down a street in brooklyn. Police say one of the women bumped into danton coley while pushing her baby stroller. He went off, spitting on her, calling her offensive names. It turns out before he died, Frank Gifford had debilitating brain injury. He suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Its found to happen to football players. They often suffer memory loss, anger, confusion, and dementia. Chicago is gearing up for more demonstrations throughout the city. Its the result of a video showing a 17yearold shot and killed by a police officer. The protesters came out last night after officials released the dash cam video showing the shooting of 17yearold Laquan Mcdonald last year. Police say they made a couple of arrests but reported no serious incide incident. They say it shows officer Jason Van Dyke shooting the teenager 16 times. They say the teen had a knife. Prosecutors say that 3inch knife was recovered from the scene with the blad folded sbiets handle. A few hours before the video release, officer Jason Van Dyke turned himself in to police. His Attorney Says he feared for his light. They agreed to pay a 5 million settlement to the family. In just about 16 hours an annual holiday tradition will step off. Were talk about the annual macys thanksgiving day parade. Its happening under the watchful eye of stepped up security. Final preparations were under way less than 24 hours before tens of thousands will pack the streets in management hop manha a glimpse of balloons and floats. We always police that parade with very large numbers of uniformed officers. This year i think youll see even a larger presence. Reporter a show of force in the wake of terror attacks in paris and concerns the next target could be in the u. S. The stepped up skrt will include what please call hercules teams, heavy armed Tactical Units at the first sign of any threat. But officials note there is no specific threat here. Theyre hoping the annual thanksgiving day tradition send as strong message. Personally i believe we cant live in fear. Of course, its on our minds, but, again they want us to live in fear and we feel we cant. So they will celebrate while Police Stand Guard to make sure the holiday is satisfy. Jay gray, nbc news, new york. Of course, you can watch the parade from the comfort of your couch. The annual thafgs pa race starts right here on nbc 10. So travel here, not so bad. Out west, very different story thanks to snow and ice. The combination of frozen precipitation has made travel very treacherous in northern california. Some drives say it took three hours to go only 15 miles. The snowy and icy roads also caused as you can imagine a number of accidents. Well, we have some nice weather in store for your thanksgiving day. If youre doing any of that traveling. And, in fact, we have a warmup in time for thanksgiving, especially as we go into black friday. Unseasonably warm for both tomorrow and even warmer for friday. We could be near high record temperatures that day and then we duo into the weekend and our dry pattern comes to an end. We have showers moving in. Right now its 37 degrees in mt. Pocono. 47 in allentown. 50 in philadelphia, 48 degrees in dover. Soxt . Iq its cool outside. Its just not going to be as cold outside as we have seen recently. Heres a live look. Were seeing the traffic moving here but theres a lot of traffic on the road. If youre going to be heading out, well watch the temperatures drop down by 10 00 p. M. And some areas will be in about the mid30s as we go into tomorrow morning. So its going to be a cool start. A chilly start to your thanksgiving day, just not as cold as we receive the past couple of morning. Nice and dry. Down into the southeast. Really good travel weather. But its when you get farther out west that they start to see the ice and snow developing. Heres future weather. Locally we stay nice and dry for tonight if youre doing any late night traveling and for your thanksgiving day, setting up. Temperatures will be in the low 60s through tomorrow afternoon achlt good tendegree jump for today. At the same time, thanksgiving, 5 00 in the evening, well be watching the weather develop in the middle of the country. This is where we expect travel delays. Its not going to be locally. Down into parts of nebraska. Even through parts of texas. Stormy weather with icy and snowy weather on the backside of that storm system. Slowly it will start to approach the storm area. Heres friday at noon. Warmer temperatures. We stay dry. And then we go into the week and the rain does eventually get closer, so by saturday afternoon we could be looking at scattered showers around. If youre doing any shopping, king of prussia, temperatures will be in the low 50s. By noon, low 60s and even as you go into parts of delaware and new jersey and any of the malls there in the low to mid 60s. Tonight, clear skies. Just not as cold. About the low 40s through the philadelphia area. Then tomorrow well see a nice thanksgiving day. Mix of sun and clouds. Temperatures in the low to mid60s. Friday we get closer to 67 degrees. Some areas could get closer to 65. Then for the weekend we have a chance for showers saturday and even for part of sunday. But temperatures still looking pretty comfortable. So we know thanksgiving is a time for sharing but you dont want to be too generous. We have an important holiday warning for pet owners straight ahead. President obama sparing a pair of birds from becoming a holiday meal on this thanksgiving eve. The president pardoned this turkey named abe along with his friend honest. Get it . Honest abe . Thats what youre looking at. Both birds hailed from california. The names chosen by schoolchildren there. Honest and abe. If you have a pet, weve got pets here at the desk, things to be aware of. Before we give you this warning from veterinarians, we should point out keiths puppies are about 5 months old. I do. He has plenty on twigger. I beal paying close attention to this. A lot of dishes wed for dhafg be a recipe for thanksgiving. Think about it. Stuffing, garlic. Scallions, garlic. That means mashed potatoes are out. Salads and hams to the list. The motive dangerous, bird bones. Actually penetrate through the stomach or intention and cause a lifethreatening infection. You dont want that. Youre probably wondering what you can give your pets. The vet says turkey breast is fine and you can put gravy on your dog food. Coming up, Sheena Parveen will have our forecast. And Deanna Durante is monitoring the weather. Reporter when have you ever seen i95 look so good. We can see on the side streets people are clearly going to the stores or going home. Were going tell you where the problem spots are coming up. Dude, youre kidding me, right . No. And an extra reason to be thankful. A local man meets the complete stranger who saved his life. A story you will see only on nbc 10 news next at 5 00. Dude, youre kidding me, right . No. Oh. It is a reunion just in time for thanksgiving. For months a south jersey mansur. Ed f mans man sefrped tr the man who saved his life. First heres a live look at the ben franklin parkway where friends will gather tomorrow morning to watch the oldest thanksgiving parade in the country step off. Remember what was happening this time last year . I was thinking about this earlier. Yep, thanksgiving, it was snowing. This was the scene in drexel hills one year ago, thanksgiving 2014. Safe to were all thankful. Lets bring in nbc 10s filter alert Sheena Parveen. Sheena, i think people are happier this time around. Its going to be nice and dry and start warming up. We goat into the mid50ts. If youre heading out any time soon and doing some late traveling, its cool outside, not extremely cold. Wont expect it to get as cold as last night or the night before. Nice conditions setting up for us. Look at the clear skies. From North Carolina to new england, perfect travel weather here. Dont expect any type of weather delays of that sort. Were nice and dry locally and we expect to stay this way as we go into tomorrow. So for the rest of tonight, temperatures again will be on the cool side. Just not very cold. 48 by 7 00 p. M. It will be chilly. Then tomorrow morning to start off your thanksgiving day around 8 00 in the morning we should be around the mid40s in the philadelphia area, but if you live in the suburbs of new jersey, your temperatures may still be in the 30s by 8 00 tomorrow morning. Coming up, well take a look at the thanksgiving forecast through the afternoon. Also your black friday shopping forecast and a chance of rain over the weekend. Now lets go to nbc 10s dina durante monitoring traffic for us. What are you seeing out there . Lots of good news if youre on i95. Take a look. When have you ever seen it look so good. Were telling you were nearing the end of what the thought would be peak travel time for the day. They say most travel times will be where theyre going. Sometime between 6 00 and 8 00 p. M. This evening, many people hitting the roads earlier this week. We found a number of travels already at their december tell nation and getting ready for the holiday. 657,000 cars hit the turnpike. An estimated half million hit the roads today. If you found yourself one of the lucky ones today not finding traffic. Youre going to be in the thick of it if you choose to return on sunday. Theyre saying midday to about 6 00 to 8 00 p. M. , thats when they expect the most people to bo b on the roads. But as you can see, thats the latest from sky 4 ten. Deanna durante. Back to you guys. To the story youll only see on nbc 10. A holiday reunion thats been five months in the making. Today a south jersey man meets the man who saved his life on the side of the road. With each step forward rufus graham has been thinking back. Dude, youre kidding me, right . Reporter to the day that forever changed his life. I told you wed meet again. Yeah, you did. A complete stranger that rushed to his side when lifesaving seconds were running out. You remember him . I remember looking at him. I didnt get his name or anything. He spent weeks monthized heavily medicated and in surgery after losing control of his motorcycle. He was thrown off, his leg severed instantly by this sign. No other vehicles wither involved but driver Walter Reaves got out of his car and used the only thing he had at his fingertips. I saw his missing leg first and then i saw him and i saw the blood gushing out of there. Reaves a former nasa armed guard happened to be on his way to new jersey. He took his belt off. Was thinking i was watching a guy like in front of me taking his last breath. Controlling the bleeding absolutely saved his life. Friday marks one week with his new prosthetic leg and with it the chance to give thanks. His girlfriend made the arrangements. It took five6n z months for th to come meant on his progress was the man who saved his life. He thanked him. I d