With several events including a wreath laying ceremony and a public concert at the lincoln memorial. This is a look now at the u. S. Capitol, where president elect trump will take the oath of office at noon on friday. It will happen on a huge platform on the western end of building. Security will be very tight. Nearly 100 demonstrations are planned this week. The National ParksService Received five times as many applications for demonstrations than normal. Officials are planning for between 800 and 900,000 people less than the 1. 8 million who turned out for president obamas first inauguration. Trumps team is working to boost turnout by posting ads on facebook and twitter. Meanwhile, the Senate Continue to hold hearings on president elect trumps cabinet choices. Het, education, labor and pension is considering tom price for health and Human Services secretary. Democrats are expected to grill price about his plan to replace obama care. Also happening now, the Senate Environment committee is hearing testimony on president elect trumps nominee to head the epa. This is a live look at the hearing for scott pruitt, whos oklahomas attorney general. At the same time, a live look at the Senate Commerce holding a hearing on the confirmation of wilbur roth. Critics contend he ran businesses that shipped jobs overseas. Nikki hailey to be u. S. Ambassad ambassador. He was in washington last night to host the dinner. Guests included mike pence and more than 100 foreign diplomats. Mr. Trump expects an unprecedented turnout at the inauguration. They announced they think were going to have record crowds. I saw the bikers for trump. I dont know if id want to ride one of those, but they like me. The president elect is back in new york today where he will sit down with new york governor andrew cuomo. Governor cuomo says he hopes to use the meeting to focus ong the needs of new york state. Mr. Trump will return to washington tomorrow. For preinaugural events, you can count on us to bring you complete coverage of the. Look for our live reports from washington starting this afternoon at 4 00. Today, president obama will meet with the press for the last time as president. His final briefing happening this afternoon at the white house. This is video from a briefing he gave in november. Now, your nbc 10 first alert weather. A dreary wednesday. First alert meteorologist is tracking the clouds for us kind of a gray forecast. Not rainy like yesterday, but areas like cape may, you see very gray outlook. It was foggy earlier this morning, the fog has thinned some. Now, its just patchy, but p the clouds are really going nowhere today. What we see here, the clouds are over our area, then you see the light green. Right now, even into near wilmington. Whats happening here, some of it isnt making it to the ground, light sprinkles at best. Thats all well see today. Now, temperatures started out pretty warm this morning because of the clouds that we had overnight, so through the rest of today, were going to see temperatures a little warmer than they have been. Making it to about 50 degrees in philadelphia. Thats at 4 00 in the afternoon. We stay on the cloudy side. Cloudy at 48 degrees by 6 00 and well see the clouds overnight into your thursday. Suburbs, upper 40s, 47 degrees. Around 4 00, maybe a peak of sunshine, but doesnt look likely well see anything more than that today. In the Lehigh Valley, 43 degrees in the afternoon. Up to 44 by 4 00. Wouldnt be surprised if a few spots make it to about the upper 40s. In delaware, 50 degrees at 2 00. Well stay around 51, 52 for highs across delaware at h 04 0 till around the same value. In new jersey, thats the same along the jersey shore. Temperatures upper 40s to around 50 degrees as well. Thats for today. Tomorrow, more warming and more sunshine. Well talk about the conditions for your thursday stretching right into the weekend. Coming up. Well see you shortly. Former president george h. W. Bush is expected to be released from a houston hospital in a few days. The 92yearold is resting comfortably and responding well to treatment. President bush and his wife said they did not plan to attend fridays nag ration because of mr. Bushs health issues. Philadelphias top prosecutor said williams will have to pay 62,000 in fines for failing to report sources of income and gifts on city finnell statements. They included sports tickets, gift guards and points toward hotel stays in Atlantic City. Some of the gifts came from Defense Attorneys in philadelphia. Williams is apologize iing and promising to win back the trust of residents. Critics are calling for him to resign. A bouncer faces a murder charge for allegedly shooting and killing his bar manager in the german town neighborhood. Edward morgan was arraigned at midnight. Investigators say the bouncer got into a fight with the manager at sharons little spot bar monday night and shot him three times. A south jersey man accused of murdering his estranged wife will stay in jail until his trial. Nbc 10 was the only news station in court as he refused to answer the judges questions yesterday. Hes not answering . Police say he stabbed taro shay watson to death inside her home last month. It allegedly happened in front of the couples 12yearold son. Prosecutors called him a grave risk to the community and the judge ruled he should be held without bail. This morning, the search is on for the man who robbed and beat an 18yearold woman at an Atlantic City casino. It happened this month at the brgata. The man followed the woman to her hotel room where he beat her and stole her money. Police have released these surveillance images of the man theyre trying to track down and identify. Anybody who recognizes him is asked to call police. Now to the Lehigh Valley where authorities plan to file charges against a man whom they say ran into a school yesterday wearing pa ja ma pants and socks. He was also high on cocaine. It happened at a Charter School before classes began. The suspect was armed with a screwdriver. Right now, he is in the hospital. 43 degrees outside and jessica is watching the traffic. Through center city, were really quiet, actually. Our camera on 8th street show that traffic moving along both directions with no problems or delays. A truck though has been there for a little bit. Maybe an hour on the eastbound side. Thats traffic moving east boubd towards 95, but you can see no problems there because of it. Theres crash that just came into the system about five minutes or so on broad street around whites road, so watch for that. Construction on the boulevard that will cause delays until about 3 00 this afternoon. Northbound and southbound, watch for restrictions. That will be until later this afsh. Well see those delays. Checking with 95, and the bloomer, pret it much clear everywhere. Watch for small, slippery spots. Other than that, your drive will be dpood. It is okay again to sit on the wall in written house square in philadelphia. The city overturned the ban after backlash from the community and even from the mayor. Crews took down four no sitting signs from written house square house. Philadelphias parks and Recreation Department put up the signs last week in an effort to cut town on vandalism. The city working on a different plan the deal with concerns about care and maintenance of the wall. Lbgtq leaders are lawn fing the creating change conference in philadelphia today. The fwoel of the conference is to help freedom, justice and equality for that community. Today, delawares new governor will sign his First Executive order on the future of the States Economic development office. John carney was sworn into office in dover just yesterday. Hell focus on helping small businesses, lowering crime in wilmington and fighting drug addiction. A dead humpback whale will likely stay there until it washes out to sea. The whale had been there since last week and coast guard believes that its too dangerous to move it. Staffer frs the Marine Mammals stranding center are trying to figure out how the 25 ton mammal died. They say it does not appear the whale was hit by a ship. Pennsylvania will start accepting applications for growing, processing and selling medical marijuana next month. Applications are on the website and can be submitted starting february 20th. The States Program is expected to be up and running be by next year. Simple university u is renaming its school of media and communication in honor of former local tv executive, lou cline, who taught at temple for more than six decades. The new name also recognizes a multimillion dollar gift he and his wife janet made to the school. 11 minutes past 11 00 on this wednesday. President ial pardons, reaction to president obama commuting the sentence of trans jepder Army Intelligence officer, chelsea manning, this as more people are expected to be granted clemency before mr. Obama leaves office. Well have the story. Zblmplgts and a look at radar and satellite. Still tracking cloudy conditions and sprinkles out there. Well talk about when the sun returns to the forecast coming up. We were screaming 4 34 president obama holds his final News Conference later today and is expecteded to face questions about his b controversial decision to commute the sentence of chelsea manning. The former army analyst who has served seven years in prison for leaking classified information. Andrea mich el roel reports. This morning, president obamas decision is drawing fire from republicans. In statements, paul ryan calling the move outrageous. Senator john mccain calling it a grave mistake and senator tom cotton, an afghan war veteran saying we ought not to treat a traitor like a martyr. He was known as pradly as the time of her arrest, but announced her identity a day after she was con vigted. Mannings attorney spoke about it on today. I think the ultimate goal is to be comfort bable in her skin. Manning has twice tried to commit suicide since becoming incarcerated in an all male prison. She wanted to give information to the American Public that she believed they deserved to know. In 2010, robert gates described the leaked damage this way. Is this embarrassing . Yes. Awkward . Yes. Consequences for u. S. Foreign policy, i think fairly honest. At her trial, manning apologized for her actions, the audio obtained be by cynthia mcfadden. Also tuesday, president obama pardoned james cartwright, once one of his top military advis s advisers. He pleaded guilty last a fall the to making false statements to the fbi about leaks to david sanger, involving a joint u. S. Israeli cyber attack. Appealing for leniency, he wrote the judge that the general was not the original source. An appeals senior official helped persuade the president. Then he started to cry. That was Andrea Mitchell reporting. Happening right now, defense secretary ash carter is holding his final pentagon briefing. Hes expect ed to respond to president obamas decision to come meet mannings sentence. Carter opposed the move. Right now, hes talking about his time serving as defense secretary. He grew up in Montgomery County. New this morning, russia will allow nsa leaker, edward snowden, to remain in the country for at least a few more years. They said they have extended his residence permit. He fled there in 2013 after leaking thousands of secret documents to reporters. The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people in orlando will be back in court today in california. She appeared in court yesterday to face charges. Today, shell have a lawyer appointed and plans to be made to transfer her back to florida. Her family claims she had no quidea her husband planned the attack. Prosecutors say she also lieded to the fbi after the shooting. Were learning that today, three earthquakes rocked central italy in an hour. If quakes shook the same region that suffered a series of deadly earthquakes last year. The first was 5. 3 and hit the region north of they were felt as far as rome. There were no immediate reports of injury. Offices, banks and shops were e rack b b b vak waited. Elsewhere in rome, official asked parents to pick up their children, but they were seen going back into the classrooms after crews conducted safety checks. Back here in the u. S. Bad crash. Take a look at this. All caught on camera. This is in oregon. Freezing rain caused a truck to end up in the middle of the highway yesterday. One semi managed to narrowly avoid it, but you saw a second couldnt. Slammed right into it. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but the crash did shut down the highway for quite some time. Now, your nbc ten first alert weather. Yikes. Our temperatures have been above freezing, so, weve had no concerns of icing and right now, were looking at numbers in our philadelphia neighborhood, were starting to climb towards the 50s. 42 andorra. Graduate hospital at ha degrees and 43 in buckleton. Over to parts of pennsylvania suburbs and were seeing about same. Low 40s currently. So, 43 degrees. In west township, sitting at 42. West bradford township, those low 40s. We see just a few spots that are still in those upper 30s. 39 degrees, the ground is above 32 degree, were good because we have moisture out there. Not really tracking rain today. So much as a few sprinkles and left over damp conditions from yesterday because of some rain in and out throughout the day. Here are the cloudy conditions. Its kind of the gray, then the spots of green, mostly just going to be very light sprinkles at best. Starting to move over to the bay here into south jersey, but again, this is very light rain thats barely going to make it to the ground. Not causing any issues for you. You may run into a little spot area of light rain. Heres a look at your neighborhoods today. Mostly, just gray and cloudy. 50 degrees. Upper 40s for summerton. Lehigh valley, mid to o in some spots, possibly upper 40s. 45 degrees for allentown. New jersey, 51 degrees. Trenton, 49. Oes ocean city, 49, Atlantic City, 49 and 50 degree, cloudy today, not seeing a lot of sunshine for our wednesday. All the moisture we saw yesterday heres a look at the hour by hour. Tl the clouds, they dont really go anywhere. Theres some spotty chances of showers. About 5 00 p. M. This evening, but thats not really going to be the highlight of the day. Then overnight into hurz morning. Now, weve cleareded out the clouds, so were starting to see sunshine after several gray days in row. This looks to be one of the few sunny days in our extended forecast, so we keep it clear through thursday. Through 7 00 p. M. No rain for thursday. Dry and temperatures will climb more as a result. Forecast wind, 10, 15 miles an hour. Youll see sustained with those winds starting to shift from the east and coming in more from the northwest. Could see some gusts around 20, 25 miles an hour, but thats about it for today. This is a nice day, kind of a calm and gray day. Your forecast high, thursday. Constant, mild forecast moving forward friday at 52. Saturday at 54. Some showers friday night then the better chance of a good system passing through r thats sunday as we move in through the evening through your monday and into tuesday. Monday, well be windy and the heaviest rain is likely. Temperatures as well into the upper 40s, but look at the overnight ls in the mid40s. Another batch of rain thursday of next week. Philadelphia ranks high on a list that might leave you just a little p by squeamish. Still ahead, what the new report says about some unwanted visitors lurking in our homes. Plus, news that will have you reaching for another cup of joe. Why researchers say people who drink coffee tend to live longer. This weeks wednesdays child is a bright and active boy hoping to find a forever family to love and support him through every step of life. If youre a College Basketball fan and he is, this is a dream come true. Getting a tour of the pa silties and hanging out with the basketball team. They got in a little oneonone pick up game. Believe me, this kid is can shoot the lights out. Guy can shoot it. Basketball or football. Which would you rather play . Basketball. Why basketball and not football . B i dont know. 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