Its plain old cold outside. Clear skies, look at this nice view from the Comcast Center in center city. Not a cloud to be found just yet. That is going to be changing along with the temperatures. Theyll be warming up. Right now it is 9 degrees in mt. Pocono, pottstown 15 degrees, 18 for mt. Holly and millville, northeast philadelphia at 22 degrees. A cold morning but we will see sunshine before clouds move in during the day. That will lead to a warmup. 25 degrees at 8 00. By 11 00, mostly cloudy skies and 34. The clouds still hang there at 2 00 this afternoon. 39 degrees. Well show you what happens when the clouds move out. Jessica boyington is watching a friday morning commute. We have an accident scene on 295 out in new jersey in mt. Laurel around hartford road. We have a truck with flashing lights. Theres another vehicle behind it and we have Police Activity over here. Only a few cars heading by this area. Not a huge backup right now. Definitely something to watch out for. This is next to one of the on ramps. These vehicles have to go slow when approaching the highway. That could potentially be a dangerous spot if youre heading out the door or starts to become a little bit more packed with cars. Heres the schuylkill expressway around Spring Garden street. No problem either direction. Eastbound from center city from the blue route to the vine, 12minute trip. Average speeds in the 60s. Police say a woman set up a guy by going home with him and helping two other guys beat him and rob him. It happen on east cambria street in kensington. Two men showed up at the house, startedc attacking the guy at n point. Then the woman jumped in to help. Medics took the victim to the hospital. Crews put out a fire in a travel camper parked at a restaurant in the chester county. The scenes broke out around 11 30 last night outside a Cracker Barrel on East Lancaster avenue no one was hurt. Meanwhile, manayunk is getting ready for the mummers. The Mardi Gras Parade is tomorrow. It wi it will be the First Time Since were seeing the mummers after the new years day parade that made headlines. A mummer dressed like Caitlyn Jenner among other outfits. Matt delucia went to businesses in manayunk to ask how this parade will be different. Is there a concern there will be any issues this time . Not among most Business Owners. A lot of them say theyre looking forward to this. One way manayunk will make this better than that is by making this more Family Friendly and having a zero tolerance for any drinking in public. Manayunk started this mardi gras mummers parade last year. This will be year number two. They brought it back because it brought in a lot of business. This is a mile long parade, starting tomorrow morning at 11 00. This will go from sherrs lane to green lane. This is a way to help the mummers as a whole. Theyve been struggling financially lately. The big difference between this and new years day, manayunk wanted to make this more Family Friendly, have more interaction with the mummers, especially for the kids. Some owners on main street tell me after the bad behavior of some mummers on new years day, theyre looking to this event to be a redemption and renewal of faith of the mummers. I think its a great opportunity. Its going to be just the string band. Were not having the other bands that caused a little havoc. The store sfrofronts are dec out in mummers gear for mardi gras. Last year im told about 3,000 people showed up. That was enough, some tell me, to generate quite a bit of money for these shops. Some of the Business Owners tell me they hope this becomes an annual thing even beyond this. Live in manayunk, matt delucia, nbc 10 news. The weather will be nice. Fromc our south jersey bureau, video showing Burlington City police arresting a 60yearold man thats now the center of a lawsuit. Steven conn claims that officers used Excessive Force and that he did not resist arrest. Police contained conns passenger. That happened after the woman had an argument with a wawa worker. His attorney believes his officer saw him try to hide the end of a marijuana joint. Its an old man with an officer kneeling on his back who takes his arm back in an unnatural angle purposefully and theres only one thing that arm can do and thats break. The Prosecutors Office is investigating the allegations. We did reach out to the police department. Were waiting for a response. The Democratic Candidates for president are heading into the home stretch after t. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders each spent an hour taking questions in las vegas. Both criticized trump. Both tried to appeal to latino voters who make up about 17 of nevadas voting population. Should unite families, not divide families. We should not be sending people back to a country they can barely remember or a language they cannot only be able to speak. I was the first person to call out trump. I said enough of this prejudice and paranoia. Both candidates hope to use a win in tomorrows nevada caucuses as a springboard to the South Carolina democratic primary february 27th and the super tuesday races on march 1st. Rivals ted cruz and marco rubio are taking aim at each other ahead of tomorrows gop primary in South Carolina. They sparred over this photo that rubio accused the Cruz Campaign of doctoring while distorting his stance on immigration. Meantime, rubio won the endorsement of South Carolina governor nikki haley, despite calls from the bush family for her to support jeb. Happening today, the body of Supreme CourtJustice Antonin Scalia will lie in repose at the Supreme Court. This morning, there will be a private ceremony and then the public is invited to pay respects. President obama and the first lady will be among those filing past the casket today. A funeral is planned for tomorrow. Flags at all state buildings in new jersey will fly at halfstaff today and tomorrow in recognition of justice scalia. C weather with meteorologist bill henley. 6 08. Its a cold morning. We have the coldest morning of the week today. We will see clouds move in but in spite of that, the clouds will be heading out just in time for the weekend with a big warmup for saturday and sunday. But there are changes ahead for the weekend as well. Right now, 18 degrees in reading. Philadelphia at the airport is 24 and cape may is cold, too. 25 degrees. Look how clear it is at the shore. Just a few, thin clouds over the ocean this morning. Thats a live view from the marquis de lafayette hotel. It isnt going to be sunny all day. Clouds move in as the temperatures climb. Most of the warmup happens this morning. 24 in philadelphia, look at the teens for pottstown and doylestown. Millville is at 18 degrees. Satellite shows we are completely clear to start with but this is what well see moving in later this morning and into this afternoon. Skies turn cloudy but it stays dry today. The forecast neighborhood by neighborhood, 33 degrees, upper 30s in allentown, reading and quakertown. Youll see sunshine in trenton, mt. Holly and norristown. Into the low 40s this afternoon and right up to 40 for cape may and rehoboth. Vineland tops out at 41 degrees. Youll see mostly cloudy skies this afternoon for philadelphia, drexel hill and wilmington all in the low 40s today. But that changes this weekend in a big way. The sevenday forecast with the timing of the warmup and a look at the coastal storm coming our way next week. Thats when im back in ten minutes. See you then, bill. 6 09. Looks like Police Activity on 295. Jessica boyington has details. Where on 295, jessica . We are in mount laurel on the southbound side, around hartford road. You can see we have the Police Activity over here into the right shoulder. The problem and the incident is where we have a truck with flashing lights and another vehicle behind it. Thats where the accident occurred. Its coming from the on ramp. That could be a potentially dangerous situation as you can see more vehicles seem like theyre appearing on the scene right now. When cars actually try to get on to the highway, you can see them start to slow down behind this scene. It would be nice to have a Police Officer with flashing lights behind this point. That might be safer. But it looks like we have more crews arriving on the scene right now with that Police Officer here and flashing lights no huge volume or traffic backing up behind this point right now. Everything is moving along. As the morning progresses it could potentially start to tie things up theres still an accident were watching out for on girard avenue and 57th street inc west philadelphia. Were doing okay. You can start to see yellow right here approaching that scene in this intersection. Take haverford avenue if you want to scoot on by. Vai . While your yard may not look as nice as you want it to right now, at least it doesnt look like this. Well, yes. Well tell you who ashelling out big bucks to clean up its grounds after vandals tore it up. Plus this story. Hard landing. A helicopter drops into the water in hawaii. An update on the people who were inside when it went down. 6 14. A small earthquake shook a north Jersey Community last night triggering a rash of calls to 911. The u. S. Geological survey confirms the magnitude 1. 6 earthquake hit the town of butler, morris county. The tremor rattled nerves but no one reported any damage. From our trenton bureau, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie is calling on a federal agency to make it easier for victims of last months winter storm to borrow money they need for repairs. The governor is asking the Small Business administration to make a disaster declaration for people who live in ocean, atlantic, cape may and cumberland counties. That declaration would free up lowinterest loans. Home owners could borrow up to 40,000. Businesses cowl get 2 million. In hawaii, witnesses of this Helicopter Crash in pearl harbor jumped into action to help the people inside when it hit the water. Five tourists were on board that chopper. Witnesses described the scene and moment of impact. As soon as it hit the water, i saw it splash down. Two people popped out. I jumped in. A teenager remains in critical condition. The ntsb is investigating. It took a bit longer this year but it looks like were getting into pothole season because of the delayed winter. Pothole season has been pushed back a little bit. Now the early problems on the road are starting to pop up again. Experts say the recent weather is a perfect recipe for potholes and expect more in the weeks ahead. Especially on older pavements where you have cracks wherec water can penetrate. The water will freeze. Its the freezing and thawing that creates gaines underneath the pavement. Mechanics say if a pothole jolts your car, dont keep driving around and assume its okay. Get it checked out before it causes a big problem. New this morning, National TransportationConstruction Trade group report says that pennsylvania is one of five states with the most structurally deficient bridges in the country. The report found pennsylvania has more than 4,700 deficient bridges, among them several i95 interchanges in philadelphia, including the bridge over the cottman avenue ramp in northeast philadelphia. Deficient bridges, potholes, we have a lot to deal with when we drive around. Jessica boyington has you cover, though. Thats right. We have a small accident scene on 295, right on hartford road. It is on the southbound side, one truck disabled with flashing lights. Earlier Police Activity, hes moved out of the way with two vehicles involved is on the off ramp. Something to watch out for. Not huge delays right now because of that. In montgomery county, we have reports of a disabled vehicle in lower pottsgrove on heather lane and north Pleasant Grove road. If youre on the blue route, youll be all right so far. This is right around the schuylkill expressway, southbound from the schuylkill to 95, a 15minute trip. Backups now, at 57th street because of this accident on girard avenue. So you can see girard crossing in there. Thats where the accident scene has occurred. Your best bet is to take haverford avenue to get by, vai and tracy. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Its a cold start this morning. Clear skies overnight. Has allowed the temperatures to come way down. Thats a live view of center city from the adventure aquarium. 24 degrees in philadelphia. And the temperatures, because skies are clear, are still falling at this hour, about half an hour away from sunrise. 24 degrees in philadelphia. The wind is not an issue, for most of the area, the wind has calmed down. Just a 5 mileanhour breeze in philadelphia. The won taind taking a break in pocono area. These are high clouds coming in advance of clouds coming in today. Before the clouds arrive, well see a good warmup, especially cold, westtown, 16 degrees, fair meadow farm is at 17 and teens for phoenixville, Chester Springs and tredyffrin township. A cold start. A sunny start, too. The clouds you see to thec wes that will change. The sunshine will be fading as we go through the morning hours. Those clouds come through dry, however, only a little bit of wet weather to the north. Well see the clouds stay over during the day today. They will not last into the weekend. Futurecast showing cloudy skies, snow to the north. We stay dry with this one. The clouds keep on going. Overnight tonight, look how they broke up. Tomorrow, sunshine will be bright. 2 00 in the afternoon, might see showers way to the north. Well be enjoying 60 degrees on saturday. Then come sunday, were watching another area of clouds to the west. The ohio valley, look at the rain moving through southern ohio. Those showers could be here by later on sunday. Clouds move in at 4 00 in the afternoon. The wet weather to the west. By evening, we could see light rain showers and only rain because it will shall too warm for anything else. The forecast calling for a cold start today, clouds increase after morning sunshine and the temperatures wind up in the upper 30s and low 40s this afternoon. The winds stay light today. Sevenday forecast not as cold. A look at tomorrow afternoon, 60 degrees. Bright sunshine on saturday. Well start with sunshine on sun, then the clouds come in with a chance of a lateday rain shower into the evening hours. A little cooler on monday, partly sunny and 48. Were watching a coastal storm which could bring a mix of rain and snow to our area late tuesday and wednesday. Starting off as rain, it gets colder tuesday night, those colder areas, especially north and west will see a wintry mix then back to rain. 44 wednesday afternoon. We stay in the 40s thursday as we dry out. Thursday a high of 44 degrees. Sunny and 60. Crazy. 6 20 right now. Grab your phone or your tablet and go to facebook. Nbc 10 facebook page. Were giving away a great prize this morning. Get this. Win two tickets to a v. I. P. Meet and greet with former contestants on nbcs the voice. All you need to do is answer this question. Here it is. Javier colon won the first season of the voice who was his coach . Well announce the winner around 6 55 this morning. Stay tuned. While youre there, give us a like on our page. Temple Womens Basketball last last night but the game is still a big story. Well tell you what the team did last night that no other team has ever done in history. Happening today, new jersey Motorsports Park is hosting its annual job fair to 10 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. At the thunderbolt raceway in cumberland county. They are filling positions for the 2016 season. Department managers will be conducting interviews at the job fair. For a list of available positions go to our website at nbc10. Com. And todays the second day of two daytona duels. There were scary moments on the track last night. On the final lap, Jamie Mcmurray attempted to block Jimmy Johnson for second place. That sent johnson into the path of kurt busch and other racers. The nascar season kicks off sunday with the daytona 500. The temple Girls Basketball team lost a five overtime heart breaker. Temple fought hard but they came up on losing end, 10097. The owls are now 179 overall. Good morning, everyone. Its Jessica Boyington with your first alert traffic. Right now were watching 95, live around girard avenue. We did have a decision able edi on the northbound side. We usually look at the southbound side. Thats going into center city. Still going okay but climbing up there. More updates on the roadways when i come back in a couple minutes. For now, lets get a check on todays forecast with meteorologist bill henley. Were doing okay weatherwise, too, a few high clouds visible. This live view from the Comcast Center. We have the coldest morning of the entire week, 24 degrees in philadelphia. Thats one of the warmer spots. Im drew smith, live in philadelphia, following a Police Investigation into a violent beating and robbery overnight. Well tell you about the three suspects police are looking for, including one, the victim didnt see coming. Pope versus president ial candidate. Why the pope is telling donald trump hes not christian. So, what moves me . Its the journey. The feeling of doing. Its making choices for a healthier me, a healthier us. Im on my path and i love it. The path to a healthier you starts with natures pa