12mileanhour. Swoeouthwesterly wind. Middle 40s for the Lehigh Valley and suburbs. Notice few rain drops. Thats for this evening. A lot round of rain moving in for tonight. Show you when that arrives with the future cast when i come back if ten minutes. See how the traffic is looking. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. Cameras right around 17th street. We look good so far. You can see both directions just a couple of cars moving in either direction. Southbound may be a little more traffic as we approach the beginnings of rush hour. Also watching a crash out in lower merion. Ending with mass transit here. 65, 95 running two cars short. Might expect overcrowding on that particular train airport train. 403 running 20 minutes late. Check before you go there. Updates on new jersey roads as well when i come back. Developing this morning, new reports that allege that russia may have damaging information about president elect Donald Trumps personal and financial affairs. Nbc news says the reports came from u. S. Officials with direct knowledge of the situation, but none of the information has been verified by u. S. Agencies including the fbi. Russia denies the allegations and all this comes as mr. Trump scheduled to hold first News Conference today. His first since the summer. Meantime a confirmation hearing begins today for rex tillerson. President elect trumps nominee for secretary of state. Today is day two of confirmation proceedings for attorney general nominee. Senator jeff sessions. New jersey senator cory book ser expected to testify against sessions at todays hearing. President obama delivered a farewell address last night in chicago. But just before he took to podium, nbc nightly news anchor sat down with a president at a diner and asked him about his reaction on the night he realize ds he was going to win. There was just surprise. Ting president elect would be the first to acknowledge he didnt run a conventional campaign. Its not clear that he or his team thought they were going to win. You can see lester holts entire interview with the president this friday. Date line nbc prime time special. Barack obama, the reality of hope at 10 00 p. M. Here h. Vice president joe biden. In addition to eight years by president obamas side. Mr. Biden also served 36 years in the senate. Mr. Biden tweeted, quote, january 20 jill and i will head home to delaware the same way i have for 44 years. By train. Serving our country has been the greatest honor. Michelle obama will make final talk show appearance tonight before her husband leaves office. Be on the tonight show with jimmy fallen. The first lady has been on the show twice before. Its 5 33. 43 degrees outside. Happening today, were expected to learn when the case against mont cig anymosignor montsignor the church to be convicted of molesting children. The conviction was thrown out. After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated his 2012 conviction. The District Attorneys Office has decided not to drop charges and prosecutors will be pursuing a new trial. The defense will argue that the detective in the case who interviewed the prosecutions main witness, an alleged victim, gave inconsistent statements about the abuse. They say the prosecution never told them and allowed the alleged viktd to testify anyway. The prosecution is calling that absu absurd. Were expecting to hear from that detective in court today. A judge will hear from both sides at 2 00. Have to decide whether to dismiss the case all together or whether to allow it to go to trial. If it does go to trial, jury selection could begin as early as may 15. Reporting live in center city. Pamela osborne, nbc 10 news. Officials hope a 10,000 reward will help police catch whoever vandalized a northeast synagogue twice. Someone through a rock through a sthan glass window last month. Temple made repairs and past weekend someone through another rock through the window. No one was hurt. 5 35. Former Montgomery County roc teacher is out on bail after being arrested and charged with institutional sexual assault. Was a teacher at north Penn High School until he resigned after being accused with having a sexual relationship with a teenage student. Told police that the sexual encounters happened more than once between november and december. It was a topic of conversation at dinner tonight and you just have to go through and explain thats an abuse of power. Posted 50,000 in bail. Now awaiting trial. North Penn School District relarela relace leased a statement. Contrary to core values educators hold true and never be tolerated instead north Penn School District. Following new details in the murder case of grace packer. Searched the home of a third person of interest. This is an apartment where graces adopted mother and mothers boyfriend lived with another woman. Also newly released document show the adoptive mother was fired in 2010 for misconduct after working for more than 7 years as a social worker in North Hampton county. Sara and her boyfriend Jacob Sullivan are accused of murdering 14yearold grace and dumping her body. New details in the case against accused state trooper killer eric frein charged with killing Pennsylvania State trooper and wounding another trooper outside the Blooming Grove barracks back in 2014. Federal judge awarded 1. 5 million settlement to the family of a wilmington man killed by police while sitting in wheelchair. Officers shot jeremy in september of 2015 after getting a call about a man firing a gun. Cell phone video shows him reaching for his waste after ordering him to drop weapon. Prosecutors did not file charges against the officers. Philadelphia school buses driver is facing charges after police say he went Grocery Shopping while leaving a 7yearold all alone on the school buses. Henry picked up the second grader from Corner Stone Christian Academy on monday. According to investigators, he stopped at a shop right at 67th and told the boy to stay on the bus. A passer by called police, who found the driver in the store. Cant tell a sevenyearold to sit tight on a running bus in west philadelphia. It just doesnt make sense to me. Police charged henry with endangering the welfare of a child. Officers say they also found marijuana on him. The boy was not hurt. Now to south jersey where an effort to educate people about Human Trafficking begins today in camden county. Survivors tell stories at interactive Human Trafficking awareness day event. Today is national Human Trafficking awareness day. Today in the Lehigh Valley, pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf will host a round table discussion on opioid abuse. It will take place at a Treatment Center in bethlehem. Governor is expected to focus on the states ongoing effort to fight addiction. New pennsylvania law now put pressure on doctors to check medical records before they prescribe opioids to patients. 5 39. So much warmer this morning. 43 threes right now in philadelphia with a 12mileanhour wind. Wind that kicked in over r overnight that brought in warm air that made all it will difference. So what came through was rain. Now were already seeing the clouds break. Theres the moon. See it just to the right of the Comcast Center at this time. The moon getting ready to set. Once the sun is up. Well see the temperatures start to climb from low 40 into the upper 40s at lunchtime and then near 50 degrees this afternoon. Chance that some areas will hit 50, but right now. The temperatures are still falling. 37 degrees in the suburbs. 40 at 10 00. Middle 40s this afternoon. See a lot of sunshine this morning. Then clouds start to increase later in the day and im expecting another round of rain this evening, but not during the day in the Lehigh Valley. In fact, the clouds are already clearing this morning. 37 degrees. The wind not quite as strong as in the Lehigh Valley. Wind will be with us, but much lighter during the day. Still out of the top. Just now have to keep the temperatures above normal for this time of year. 46 degrees at 2 00 this afternoon. Like the rest of the area, by 4 00 the clouds start to increase. New jersey, clouds are already starting to thin out now. 45 degrees. The temperature will still come down. Wont see the sun come up until after 00 this morning. Thats when well start to see them warm up into the upper 40s. Maybe low 50s. More sunshine in new jersey. At the shore, cloudy. Stopped raining this morning. That has ended. Ended right before we went on the air the 4 30 this morning. 15mileanhour wind right now. Sunshine and winds below tenmileperhour. Delaware, dry this morning. Roads are wet. That will dry out. 46 this afternoon. Clouds coming in later this afternoon. Already moved offshore. The next round of rain is waiting in the wings to the southwest. You can see it over tennessee and thats going to move in during the evening hours. In fact, the future cast shows those showers during the evening hours, but during the day will be dry. Thats 5 00 this afternoon. There are the clouds on the first rain drops will fall first thing this evening. Show you when it moves out and whats ahead for tomorrow. Ten day on ten when im back in ten. Tharn20 minutes before 6 00 wednesday. Lets get you updated on your ride to work. Nbcs Jessica Boyington has that. Moving through center city. Right now should be okay. Roads wet in some spots. Watch our cameras. Definitely see roads look shiny on the eastbound side here. Same goes for westbound side. Other than that no delays or volume. Construction cleared out of the way 45 minutes ago. Reports of an accident on park road and gravel pike and even further investigation on that with Police Responding to the scene. Reports of really serious icy conditions reported out in mar borough township. Watch for slippery spots across the board. Crash in merion and south gulf road. Route 73 right around cooper road. Roads look wet there as well. No big problems going north or southbound right now. More updates when i come back. Jessica, thanks. Rushing toward a fire. South jersey mayor jumps into action. How he was able to save a little girl from a burning home and the special training that the mayor has. Soda tax help. How several local restaurants are using the tax to give bake back to the community. 5 45. 45 degrees outside. South jersey mayor goes from politician to lifesaver. Saved add girl from a burning home. Over west broad street yesterday morning. The mayor, gary stephenson, Giancarlo Stanton happened to be driving buy. On way to state of the state address when he spotted the smoke. Also volunteer firefighter and former chief banked on the door until the girl inside woke up. Just getting ready to kick the door in. Me and the other gentleman when the girl came down the steps and shes like whats the matter. Im like, honey, your house is on fire. Thanks in part to quick action, no one was hurt in that fire. Philadelphia firefighters are showing off an updated tool to help save lives. Take a look at it. Nbc 10 got a look at new thermal images cameras. Spot heat given off by people which lets firefighters find people through thick clouds of smoke. Should be up and running in the next couple of weeks. Keep you updated. Three philadelphia restaurants taking the sugary drink tax a step forward and paying it forward with matching donations. Owners of hawthorne, cambridge. Also matches the taxes collected and plan to donate the money to the Andrew Jackson school where their son starts in the fall. Today in Montgomery County, military veterans and their families can learn about medical benefits. Holding a special town hall meeting and questionandanswer session to help at the outpatient clinic. Starts at 6 tonight. Some delaware businesses will soon be getting a boost. Yesterday governor announced the new grant for number of businesses in herrington, dover, smer that and wilmington. Receive 20 of money back while building up downtown community. Program will preserve history, but also reimagine downtown areas. It took them just under an hour to haul the animal back on to dry land. That horse is expected to be okay. Harrowing rescue for a lot of them. Treacherous for the rescue crews as well. Yes, and cold. It is not that cold this morning. You will notice it as soon as you walk out. Weve been saying it all morning. Temperatures are above freezing. They are for most of the night for most of area. Couple spots in the Lehigh Valley, really the northern end right around freezing this morning. View of easton and easton is above freezing. Live view from easton. Skies clearing out. Temperatures could come down more. Much warmer than yesterday. Single digits yesterday morning. 40 degrees warmer at this hour. 44 there. 43 degrees in philadelphia and delaware. The Lehigh Valley at 37 degrees. Suburbs in the 30s and low 40s. 37 until yuk Lynn Township and just a couple degrees warmer in parts of montgomery. Jessica boyington did report a little bit of ice near the red hill pennsylvania. Its a possibility. Very unusual with temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s, but a possibility that the ground is so cold from yesterday. It hasnt warmed up quickly. Quite as quickly as the air. Be on the lookout for untreated services and slipping and sliding. Not going to last. Warm air is going to win out and everything will be melting during the day today on the roadways. Temperatures will be climbing in part because of the wind. Look at the winds. 16mileperhour now. Thats warm air surging into dover at 20mileanhour winds. Wind will die down snow or ice on the ground. Dry during the day. This arrives this evening. Get a break during the day. Get sunshine and see temperatures warm up. They go even higher tomorrow. Few showers this evening. 48 degrees this afternoon. Rain comes by over r overnight. First thing dry. Warmer start tomorrow morning for many neighborhoods. 45. 65 degrees tomorrow afternoon. Still below record 72 for philadelphia. Friday 43 degrees. Little bit chillier. Warmer in the morning and turning cooler in the afternoon. Cooler air that will bring the numbers down even more on saturday. We can see a weak system bring some light snow down on saturday. Were drying out on sunday. Then a warmup after monday. Were back into the 50s possibly more rain fall. Dry and still mild on friday. High of 53. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington with a look at 295 in new jersey. Looks great so far. Both directions look okay. Pretty empty in both directions right now. Southbound on the 4 freeway headed up to delaware memorial bridge. 23 minute trip. Arch speeds in high 60s 6789 headed over to delaware be just fine for right now. At least according to drive times and cameras here. Not seeing any major problems here on 295. Over in different parts of new jersey, overturned truck. Franklin route 55 northbound just near route 40. Watch for lane restrictions there. Traffic squeezing by the scene as well. Malfunctioning traffic lights on blast in cherry hill township. Still open. All lanes just around pen avenue. New crash,n avenue\. New crash, no major problems in either directions. Roads look dryer in this area as well. Traffic moving along nicely. Keep you updated the rest of the morning. Starts to get jurnd way. Switching their focus. Well tell you what local malls are doing now that a Big Department store chain is Closing Locations in our area. What they are doing in place of the shops coming up in creative ways to drum out business. Plus, remembering a legend. How the late boxer joe frazier will be honored in philadelphia next. Oh no. Oh no. I hate this belt. Man oh man. Mom, we have a situation. Lifes bleachable moments need clorox bleach. Malls are diversifying to draw in more customers. Instead of Department Stores focusing on restaurants, entertainment and beyond. Seeing an explosion of medical tenants particularly in suburban Shopping Centers and malls where traditionally you never would see that. The Plymouth Meeting mall now has a whole foods as anchor tenant and this spring open a legoland. At this point, cannot allowance replacement for macys store, but whatever goes there will support the mall as lifestyle destination. Family, friends, fans of late joe frazier will gather to remember the boxing legend. The man everyone called smoking joe would have turned 73 today. In his honor, mark his birthday with city hall reception. This year marks the 45th anniversary of joe phrasers gym which is now a landmark. Joe frazier died in 2011. This might be on your bucket list. Have you ever dreamed of singing in front of a crowd of thousands. No, but some people have. Bon jovi could help make your dream come true. Right now the new jersey base rockers are holding a contest on website to choose opening acts for this tour. One artist selected for each tour date including the bands stop in philadelphia on march 31. All you have do do is upload the video of your band or performance. Theyll check it out and let you know. Next at 6. Donald trump in the hot seat. The president elect will hold a News Conference for the first time in six months. Next the questions he could face as new allegations involving russia emerge. Plus online bill battle. Easy way to pay, but what happens if you make a mistake. Nbc 10 responds help one woman track down her money. Next at 6. You are watching nbc 10 today. Three minutes before 6 00 right now. 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