And allentown, 7 below in mt. Pocono. And by tomorrow morning, more of this arctic air moving in from the great lakes, its going to keep that arctic air in here, even if the winds die down, its going to feel like its close to zero in west chester, allentown, doylestown, everybodys in the Single Digits, philadelphia at 5. Its not going to warm up a whole lot on saturday, but not this bitter cold. After that, were setting up for some snow to in spread through the area. Hats, gloves and scarves for just about everybody as they got off the bus at the charter school. Crews were loading the salt on to trucks to get the roads ready for what lies ahead this weekend, and that includes snow for many areas that will change over to rain. And sheena, youve got updated information on all that . And it depends where you live, were going to see snow moving in at the start, were going to see an icy mix and then rain. Were going to have a mixed bag, it will be cold at the start and then were going to warm up very quickly. Because of whats happening saturday morning, we have a first alert for philadelphia, pennsylvania suburbs and the lehighal valley for snow and wintry mix. Its going to start at 11 00 p. M. Friday, well start to see the snow approaching, its going to run through saturday morning, and then it will change over to rain, icy mix and slippery roads. Youll really just want to wait to see that change over to rain to get out on the roads. Heres a look at future weather, theres the area of snow were looking at tomorrow evening now. Now were looking at 1 00 a. M. Saturday, the snow moving into the poconos accumulating. Its going to be cold enough so anything that falls at this point will be snow. Starting to see it more early saturday morning. This is 6 00 a. M. But most of south jersey and most of delaware is mainly rain. Where you see the pink, thats a icy mix, could be parts burlington county, berks county, thats the icy mix. Then you see the snow through the lehighly and other suburbs in pennsylvania. Then by 8 00 a. M. , so not too long after it begins, well have a pretty good south wind, that will start to warm up the atmosphere and change a lot of this over to the rain, but if youre in the Lehigh Valley and the poconos, youre still seeing snow at this point. Continuing moving north by account in the morning, icy nix now up near the poconos, the warmer air moving into the Lehigh Valley, so a good portion of the area is changing to rain by 9 00 in the morning saturday. Coming up, well take a look at your entire weekend forecast and more about the bitter cold for tomorrow. Most of us have a warm place to go to protect ourselveses from the bitter cold. One of them is the joseph house in camden. And thats where cydney long is tonight. Reporter its difficult enough to be outside in conditions like this for a matter of minutes, but imagine if those moments turn into hours. So if the sun goes down tonight, this is where camdens homeless will be pouring into, josephs house is quiet for now but not for long. As an escape from the biting cold, wind and major drop in temperature, the love and warmth could be felt at josephs house in camden wednesday night, those les fortunate celebrating with a party. Josephs house hit capacity. Unless youre ready when a cold blue night really hits, youre wondering, if im at capacity, what happens. But now that plan is in place. Reporter unlike the beginning of last winter, josephs house has a partnership to keep the homeless safe and warm if they become overwhelmed. There are two different organizations we can call, to check do they have capacity and if the answer is yes, theres also a fellow that provides transportation. We basically advise all Emergency Personnel that if they see somebody who is homeless and out on the street and does not have a place to turn, that they do pick them up, that they do refer them to some place where thigh can seek shelter. And theyre not lacking clothes, socks and personal hygiene for those in need, but for some 3,500 people every night, they always need help staying afloat during the winter months. Do we need help . Absolutely, will we keep the heat on . We hope we can. Reporter and many of camdens homeless did spent the day at the Camden Library or getting a warm meal at the soup kitchen. Due to funding, the soup kitchen dont open until 7 00 at night and josephs house will hit capacity here tonight. The First Alert Weather Team will be working throughout the weekend to bring you the latest forecast for your neighborhood. You can watch them on air or go and download the nbc10 app. You can get our exclusive neighborhood forecast there as well or track the snow and rain on the interactive radar. Other news, the donald trump thank you tour has arrived in pennsylvania. At the Giants Center in hershey, pennsylvania. Nbc10s drew smith is there live where people have already started lining up out there in the cold for tonights event, right, drew . Reporter painful cold, but still thousands of people, this does have the feel of one of the campaign rallies, although that campaign is over, you can see the merchandise still selling. We have seen people from all over pennsylvania, tons of new jersey license plates out in the parking lot. And we met someone from new jersey and new york city. These lines formed early, like i said, thousands of people all bundled up because this is truly dangerously cold out here, but that shows much these people want to see the president elect. These are the folks who were tuned into this campaign, they continue to be focused on the issue, and now theyre here not only to congratulate the president elect but also to make sure he follows through and delivers for them. I think hes much more humble now. He said from the givening, hes not a politician, hes not a professional speaker. But i think hes calmed down quite a bit now and hes only going to get better and better. I think its gone quick and well, half the guys are out of the swamp which is nice and half the guys know what theyre doing inside the swamp, so maybe they can tread water for a while. Reporter trump has two cabinet positions to fill and we know at one of the two thank you rallies he held, he announced some picks. Trump expected to be here at 7 00. Were going to head through the security line and see you on the inside. 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Where police say thieves are targeting retirement communities and what you can do to protect your vulnerable relatives. A jury has found dylann roof of the Charleston Church shootings but their work isnt finished just yet. Look out . And slipping and sliding with this school bus and more snowy weather is moving this way. The First Alert Weather Team will have the timing and the totals for your neighborhood next. The jury has found dylann roof guilty of all 33 federal charges that stem from last years massacre at that church in south carolina. The jury deliberated less than three hours. The selfdescribed white supremacist admitted to killing nine people at the historically black church in charleston in june of last year. The jury will have to decide next month whether roof will face the Death Penalty or his life in prison. He also faces the Death Penalty in a separate trial set for early next year. 24yearold walker appeared in a chattanooga courtroom, walker charged with five counts of vehicular homicide and police say a sixth charge will be added. The bus was traveling around 50 miles an hour in a 30 miles an hour zone when it went off the road slamming into a tree last month. Police say walker used his cell phone at some point on the bus before the crash. Many points in the county are dealing with sub zero temperatures plus snow and ice making driving a real mess. Take a look. Look out look out neighbors just watched helplessly as a snowy street proved too much for this school bus in portland. There were some students on the bus, but fortunately no one was hurt today. Its hard to believe when you look at this video, but only three people with minor injuries after this major pileup on a pennsylvania interstate this morning. 59 cars and trucks, including 22 tractor trailers were involved in this crash around 8 00 a. M. In this snow covered 880 near falls creek. The road was shut down for. Today some shoppers braved the cold in search of some hot deals. A couple of the shoppers even said they took the day off in hopes of beating the crowds. Its cold out there, but i did come prepared. This is part of the fun of it. All part of the fun. Coming up at 6 00, nbc10s Deanna Durante will have more shopper who is arent letting the cold stand in their way. You know what i found out today . I need heavier glus. Let get your first alert forecast from sheena parveen. Its going to stay feeling like the Single Digits and i dont know who you can walk outside without gloves on. Its bitter cold, were still feeling a lot colder than the actual temperature and then we have a wet weekend in store. Clear skies looking out at center city, thats going to help us stay cold tonight and the wind is going to continue, its very windy outside now, thats going to continue in the overnight hours. Temperatures currently are 20 degrees. Thats the actual temperature. But when you factor in the wind, look at what it feels like outside, this morning in philadelphia, it felt like 9 degrees. Mt. Pocono feels like below zero. Take a look at our wind gusts, close to 30mileperhour wind gusts in philadelphia. Wilmington seeing a 30 mirror wind gusts, and yes, the wind again is going to continue tonight so its going to keep feeling like Single Digits. Heres our feels like, late tonight, 11 00 p. M. , its still going to this cold, as cold as it feels right now, then we go into tomorrow morning, still feeling like Single Digits for your friday morning. Some areas north and west feeling like close to zero again. Tomorrow afternoon, we start to rebound, feeling around 20 degrees, but it wont be as bad. Heres a look at the weather system way off to our west, not very organized, but this will eventually get organized and affect us this weekend. So we have a first alert out for philadelphia, briefly, pennsylvania suburbs and the Lehigh Valley, the time frame is mostly going to be 11 00 p. M. Friday through saturday morning, were going to start to see the approach of snow very late friday, that will continue throughout the morning on saturday. But we expect accumulating snow to start changing to a brief icy mix which will cause slippery conditions and that will change over to rain. The is going to warm pretty quickly and any frozen precip will change over to rain. 2 00 a. M. Saturday, you see the Lehigh Valley, the poconos, possibly berks county starting to see some snowfall, and some accumulation there too, new mexico new jersey, delaware, chester county, berks county, thats mostly an icy mix there. 8 30 in the morning, we start to warm up even more with more of a south wind, spreads elsewhere a little bit of a break as we go through the second half of the day on saturday, so things kind of quieting down, but then it comes back again on sunday, it will be rain through the day on sunday, late in the day sunday, we start to get much colder, so well be watching for any of that to possibly change back over to snow on the back end of it. Shouldnt be long lasting though. As far as the totals are concerned, less than an inch or so in the philadelphia area, not very impressive. 1 to 2 for our pennsylvania suburbs, 3 to 6 up in the poconos. Were mostly in the mid to upper 20s, saturday, were going to see warming, thats why well see the change to rain. And sunday will be another warm day, more details on this coming up. With just 16 days left in 2016, a very important part of the new year arrived in new york city today, standing at 7 feet tall, the numbers 1 and 7 received a precelebratory lightinging today, they are adonted with close to 500 led bull s that will light up when the clock strikes midnight new years eve. A new act of kindness is sweeping the country. See how people are using light poles to send a warm message this holiday season. A set of conjoined twins born joined at the head. They were separated during a marathon 20hour operation. Doctors say they are pleased with how the 15montholds are recovering despite the fact that they have battled infections and seizures. Brandnew scarfs are turning up taped to poles and trees in continental square. Each one has a note saying if you need a scarf to stay warm, take one. Then they have a bible verse. I think its very considerate that people are leaving them because some people dont have proper things to keep warm. Other act s of kindness have popped up all over the country. And help us share stories of kindne kindness. The goal is to inspire a million acts of kindness through the holiday season. And we want you to get involved. Use the sharekindness. We have also been asking for your holiday photos. This photo was sent in by mark stableler. There are 35 homes on his street decked out for the holiday. Look at that display. And heres another photo sent to us by kristen fuller. Nbc10 wants to see your creative holiday photos. Use the nbc10holiday and share your photos on facebook, instagram and twitter. Were going to be posting them online and showing them of them here on nbc10. Its Graduation Day at the cathedral kitchen in south jersey. But these students arent getting a dilemmlem diplomat diploma, theyre getting another chance in. Thieves targets retirement communities at the jersey shore. And heres a live look at the Christmas Village in center city. A chilly night out there for shopping as this bitter cold weather is going to stick around through the morning commute. The First Alert Weather Team will have the temperatures for your neighborhood and the latest snow forecast. Thats next at 5 00. The wind made it tough to walk around outside in haddonfield where temperatures dropped into the 20s. And with the wind, it feels a lot colder than that. Some of you woke up with snow your windows and cars. A light dusting covered these cars and the ground. Were going to see just about everything over the next few days, cold, wind, snow, rain, then temperatures near 60 degrees. Thats going to keep the First Alert Weather Team busy, wouldnt you say . Were going to start with the bitter cold, because thats happening right now, it will continue into tomorrow, then well start with the snow and icy mix starting off the weekend. Temperatures have dropped into the teens in many areas, pennsylvania suburbs, 19 degrees Lehigh Valley, also new jersey and delaware, temperatures around 20 degrees, actual temperatures, but we still have the wind outside, its gusting 20 to 30 miles an hour. And it has gotten colder throughout the day. This morning it felt like 9 degrees in philadelphia, now it feels like 5 degrees. Coatesville has dropped to 3 below zero. About 30 minutes ago, coatesville was reporting 1 degree below zero. Vineland feels like 5 degrees, Atlantic City 6. Tomorrow morning, heres the feels like temp for that. It is still going to be bitterly cold. Doylestown, allentown, west chester, all feeling close to zero, the rest of the area Single Digits. Aside from now were going into the weekend, and we have a first alert out, pennsylvania suburbs and the Lehigh Valley, thats snow and a wintry mix. That will start 11 00 p. M. Friday, and go through early saturday morning. A brief, icy mix before it changed over to rain. That is the point in time where we will see slippery roadways, so if you have to head out there, you might want to wait until it changes over to rain. Heres future weather, 2 00 a. M. Saturday morning, snow begins, could see some falling in berks county, Lehigh Valley and pocono. Early saturday morning, 7 00 a. M. , mostly rain in new jersey and south delaware. A change from an icy mix possible through the philadelphia area. Still at 7 00 a. M. , we could see an icy mix through berks county and moving into the Lehigh Valley. Then we see that change over to rain, by about 7 00 to 8 00 a. M. , this may change a little bit as far as the timing is concerned, so make sure you