Winds gusting nearly 30 Miles Per Hour and 40 this afternoon, and riding in on the wind is cold air. Temperatures have been plummeting overnight. Right now thintiv philadelphia, are in the 30s, just above freezing. South philadelphia also at 30 degrees, at 5th and warden. The winds, gusts at 32 Miles Per Hour in wildwood. 26 Miles Per Hour winds gusting in philadelphia topping out here 35 Miles Per Hour, possibly a little stronger at times during the day. The wind is blowing a few clouds through the area, and there were some snow flakes that tried to fall out of the clouds, but thats all fizzled and no sign of any on the horizon. Plenty of cold. Today youll feel it. 33 degrees at 8 00, and 39 degrees at noontime, and in the low 40s this afternoon. Well have to deal with the wind chill through the day. Todays stores are preparing to welcome the procrastinatorpr. It is the last weekend before christmas meaning a crush of shoppers met by a flurry of final sales. Nbc 10 Monique Braxton is live this morning, and kohls is doing Something Special for shoppers looking for last minute deals, right . Reporter they are, rosemary. They now 24 hours until 6 00 christmas eve, less than a week away until christmas. Today is Super Saturday. Look at the parking lot here. Weve seen all of maybe five workers coming out, looking really, really tired, working no doubt around the clock since thursday making sure the stores are stocked. We also have seen a few employees going inside. Now, shopper track says Super Saturday is the second largest day for sales and traffic in stores. Behind black friday. After a season marked by warm temperatures, the slow store traffic, a boom in online spending, all of this means fewer people headed out to stores like kohls, and retailers are keeping fingers crossed that changes today. Several retailers are getting a jump start on the deep discounts commonly found after christmas. Things like coats, sweaters, and boots already deeply discounted starting this weekend in stores again like macys, kohls, kmart, and sears. Now, the early bird specials just got underway here at kohls. The managers tell us they run until about 1 00 and hope people show up and take advantage of that. Well reach out to the first shoppers to arrive and what their feeling is, their mood, and how much money they hope to spend in an hour. Monique braxton. Thank you. Police give the allclear after a threat evacuated businesses in delaware county. Sky force 10 was out last night where police investigated a situation in a walmart and nearby riteaid. Nbc 10 was on scene on the ground as the bomb squad arrived just after 10 00. Police responded to a phonedin threat. They checked out a report of a suspicious package left under a car, this as police and k9 units searched the stores. A shopper explained what he witnessed. Everybody just hustled to get out, get out to the car, sat there, got fuel up, figuring out what was going on, and the girl next to us on the way out, she said something about underneath her back tire, and the cops went to go, you know, over there and start looking, backed up, cleared the area, got everybody out. A Police Helicopter scanned the roof of the riteaid a mile and a half away from the walmart. Investigators have not said if they found a suspicious package. Today, pennsylvania lawmakers vote on a tax plan that could help end the states budget battle. Its. Almost six months now since pennsylvania had a budget. The lack of a spending plan has been hurting cashstrapped School Districts and social service agencies. Governor wolffs office says they are confident they have the votes in the house for the tax bill. There could be an increase in sales tax or personal income tax. They expect after the tax plan is settled, other votes on the budget should follow. Issue resolved. The Democratic National committee is restoring voter files to the Bernie Sanders president ial campaign hours after he sued the pear. The dnc disciplined the Sanders Campaign for accessing key volter data from Hillary Clinton campaign. Nbc 10 news caught up with the sanders staffer. I did not download voter file data. Sanders fired josh from philadelphia. He says he was not trying to be sneaky. Nbc news learned for 40 minutes, the Sanders Campaign searched key clinton voters and information. The Campaign Manager accused him of trying to sabotage the bid for the white house. Sanders bid for the white house. This issue is likely to come up at tonights democratic debate thats happening tonight. Hillary clinton, martin omalley, and Bernie Sanders square off in new hampshire, the state with the first in the nation primary in less than two months. Tomorrow morning, house speaker, paul ryan, sits down with chuck todd for an interview on meet the press, and on tomorrows show, chuck talks with Bernie Sanders. Thats coming your way at 10 30 in the morning on nbc 10. I view it as the same thing as somebody hag a glass of wine. Marijuana decriminalized in del delaware, but what does that mean . Where can you smoke it . Breaking down the new laws coming up. Then, a former Police Officer accused of stealing evidence. Well explain what it means for the cases he was involved in in delaware county. Nine minutes after 6 00, hour away from sunrise, and well see the sun, but we have to deal with this all day long, that steady, cold wind this morning. It is in the 30s most of the areas. A few spots dropping in the twep20s. Its 34 degrees, 15 degrees colder than yesterday in philadelphia. Winds steady at 15 Miles Per Hour, gusting at 30 Miles Per Hour. Futurecast shows 7 00 this morning, 30 Miles Per Hour gusts in philadelphia. Winds stay with us at 1 00 this afternoon. Strong winds around in the evening hours, and, in fact, a bit stronger this evening at 7 00, 35 Miles Per Hour wind gusts, and topping 35 Miles Per Hour in reading. A windy day with cold, gusty conditions, blowing the clouds out and a lot of sun today. Warmer weather, not that far away. Your sevenday forecast when im back in a few minutes. Eagles excitement is building, the football bus in town for the game with the cardinals. On the bus, check out memorabilia, have fun with social media, all kinds of things. Its a lot of fun when fans act with the bus and see everything on sunday night football. We have a lot of good energy here and its cool to see. Looking to get on the bus . Well, its going to be outside xfinity live before the eagles game tomorrow from 2 00 in the afternoon until kickoff. Cant make it . Dont worry, we have you covered for tomorrow nights big game. At 6 30, the pregame special playoff push live from lincoln financial field and kickoff at 8 30. After the game, dont miss highlights, interviews, and reactions on nbc 10s eagles game day final. Next on nbc 10 news today. Not sneezing or coughing as much . A different flu season from years past. I will finish what you started. The force is with disney at the box office as star wars is smashing records. A look at the unprecedented numbers after the break. Mmm. Nothing like johnsonville breakfast sausage. Delicious and packaged with nothing to hide. No secrets. Just like our family. Well there is one. Folks, im not your grandma. Just a handsome kind hearted drifter who wandrered in years ago and stayed for all the yummy sausage. Feel bad about lying. Nap time. I got her. Seriously . I feel like i just woke up. Ha ha ha fully cooked johnsonville breakfast sausage. We dont make sausage. We make family. And sausage. New video of president obama and his family leaving california and headed for holiday vacation in hawaii. President obama and his family landed last night. The president met privately with the 14 families of the terrorist attack victims. Meanwhile, investigators learn about the alleged failed plots of farook and his friend. Court documents say the two planned to kill students in a Community College they attened with another plot that involved dropping pipe bombs on a freeway and shooting stalled drivers. Crazy want to hurt so many people you know. Hes now facing conspiracy charges in the plans. Weve an update this morning on a harrisburg teenager accused of supporting isis. Take a look. This is 19yearold jaleel, accused of using twitter to build up support for an attack in the u. S. 57 twitter accounts traced to his house. In one tweet, he threatened to behead president obama, and feds say he tweeted about pennsylvanias gun laws writing, quote, pennsylvania has light gun laws. Its very easy to arm yourself. Mixed verdict. This bucks county woman could face jail time for the role in an attack on a gay couple in philadelphia. A jury acquitted knott of felony charges in the assault, but found her guilty of four misdemeanors. Yesterday, the jury agreed with witnesses saying she shouted slurs and hit a man in the center city attack last year. She turned down a plea deal that two of her codefendants accepted. They got probation. Some juries were not satisfied with the verdict. I think in her mind she had no idea why she was there because she saw nothing wrong with what she did. Thats that is so bad. Sickening to watch her try to explain that those words were okay because they are not okay. Knott is free on bail until sentencing in february. She could get probation or as much as two years in prison. Delaware county prosecutors say drug cases will not be affected by the arrest of an officer accused of stealing from the evidence room. Brad ross is a 17year veteran of the Upper Darby Police department, arrested yesterday and charged with stealing pills, money, gift cards, and more from the evidence room. Prosecutors say he became addicted to prescription pills and stole to feed his habits. Nobody expected him, you know, to be a thief. Nobody expected him to commit criminal activity. He was a respected officer, and its a shame that he engaged and decided to go down this course of action. Ross resigned from the Upper Darby Police department in march. Hes now out on bail, ,000. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. 17 minutes after 6 00. December arrived. Winds are blowing. Thats cold air thats rushing into the area. Look at the flags on top of the aramark building in center city. Winds at 30 Miles Per Hour and temperatures inspect lower 30s. Clear skies clearing out nicely in northeast philadelphia. Temperatures down to 34. Millville in for a lot of sun in an hours time, 33 degrees. Thats when the sun comes up. The temperatures will be a little lower at that point. Cold enough for snow making in the pocono mountains. Thats blue mountain. Busy this morning. Theyll be able to make snow this morning and afternoon as temperatures in the mountains should be below freezing. Gusts at 26 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. They have been stronger at the shore, settling down in wildwood, but thats not going to be the end. Its not a. Well see the strong gusty winds throughout the day. The wind chill is a factor throughout the day. Now 19 degrees, colder in pottstown, 22 in wilmington and northeast philadelphia. A cold, blustery day. Riding on the wind is a few clouds, scattered clouds, but mainly, well see sun today and well see temperatures climb, but its going to be a typical december day. We have not had many of those in the last month. Gusty winds, cold, temperatures in the upper 30s and 40s. Tomorrow morning, coldest of the season so far. 28 degrees, but with sunshine, well see a nice warmup sunday afternoon and less wind too. 45 degrees the high temperature. Sunny but cold, especially in the eagles game, sunshine for tailgaiting, but the temperature drops throughout the evening and wind up in the 30s. Close to 35 degrees colder than last week game. Monday, though, a warmup. 55 degrees, breezy with mostly cloudy skies monday. Then the clouds take over on tuesday. We will see scattered showers, but even with the showers, the temperatures will climb up to 60 degrees after a milder morning tuesday, 48 to start with. That warmup continues right on through christmas eve. Sunshine wont find it wednesday, 65 degrees, and record temperatures, 71 degrees to break the record of 64 that we set last year on christmas eve, and friday, 55 degrees, breezy, cooler, but a lot of sun for christmas day. Folks in delaware no longer have to worry about going to jail if they are caught with small amounts of marijuana. As of yesterday, the drug is officially decriminalized. Nbc 10 Delaware Bureau reporter, tim furlong, explains the new law. I view it as the same thing as somebody having a glass of wine. Reporter this woman proposed decriminalizing marijuana in delaware, now the 19th state to do so. Crack, heroin, cocaine, Something Like that, absolutely would not be having the conversation. Reporter to be clear, its not legal in delaware, but if caught with an ounce of it, theres a civil fine, not the 1150 fine, pay the fine like a parking ticket, no prison sentence, and no criminal record. The law is clear its illegal for anyone under 18 to have any marijuana, and nobody will be allowed to sell it or use it while driving. Theres a number of restrictions on where you can smoke marijuana. If youre caught with marijuana and committing another crime, theres circumstances in which you could find yourself in significant trouble. Supporter of the law say it basically just allows people to smoke marijuana in the privacy of their home and keeps people from having a criminal record that prevents them from getting a job years down the road. That person comes to me saying, you know, im trying to find a job of the whats holding you back . I got arrested for pot 1 years ago. Reporter surely many people in Law Enforcement disagree with the changes to the law. Some see marijuana as a gateway drug, and some argued this opens a door for kids to try it. Some supporters of the changes hope they lead to more changes. Delaware has a medical marijuana dispensa dispensary, and some call for the full legalization and sale to the public. Delawares governor said that will not happen on his watch, nbc 10 news. A break from the flu. Health experts say flu season is off to slower start this year, a change from the last three flu seasons. You may remember doctors offices were filled in the last few years with patients and illnesses peaked late december last year. Scientists in new mexico lab used mathematical modelling to predict theres a 67 chance this flu season will be mild. Last year i think we had three or four inches of snow on the ground. Folks have been enjoying ice cream in december in whats known as Christmas City usa. Not your average Holiday Season, but shoppers tell us this year is better than ever. Details coming up. Soon, more cameras watching you on the Atlantic City board walk. Well tell you where they are going up and why some think its the wrong place. This is nbc 10 news. Theyre real. Its going to be a very big weekend at the box office. Its been big since star wars game out, this is expected to surpass 250 million, surpassing the record opening of justic ju krrgs world in june. Many graduated from the Police Department yesterday, joining forces in three coupes and the Delaware River port authority. There was a special moment when family members who work in Law Enforcement pinned the badges on some of the new officers. I got pulled over and youre giving me a present. Oh, mied go, thank you, guys. Can i hug you. Christmas gifts rather than traffic tickets, a Surprise Police in florida near tampa had for some of the drivers this week. While one officer stopped drivers and took down their information including what was on santas list, another officer in a nearby store would fill that order by radio and then deliver it. Police in florida say the presents are way to spread Holiday Cheer and build trust in the community. Its beginning to look a lot like christmas well, its a busy weekend in bethleh bethlehem, the city known as Christmas City, usa this time of year, packed with all shoppers, and merchants say the springlike weather is good for business, and now with temperatures feeling wintery, visitors say its a nice change of pace. Actually kind of nice to have it a little cooler today. Feels more holiday. Its warm inside the tents. Not snowing. Thats kind of disappointing. Holiday events like this ice sculpting display go on all weekend. Countdown to christmas is on. Have you finished shopping . Monique braxton is following some procrastinators. Checking in with her in a moment. Bill . Rosemary, feels like a december day. Temperatures for saturday and sunday with cold gusty winds typical this time of year, but there are changes ahead. Thats a live view in center city, inching closer to sunrise. The skies are mostly clear, but cold. 35 degrees at 6 28. More people protect their homes with state farm. Talk to a local agent or find one at statefarm. Com right now on nbc news, a bomb threat sent shoppers running from stores last night. An update on the investigation next. Im Monique Braxton live outside kohls. Folks are not running because of a bomb threat, but cold temperatures into the stores here. Well see whats happening after the break. December for a day. Okay, maybe two. The whipping wind is finally making it feel like winter, but dont get used to it. Youll be surprised by how warm it will be on christmas eve. Welcome back. Im rosemary connors. Its 6 30 on saturday. Lets get to the weekend weather now with bill henley. Sounds like we have to get through the winterlike weather first before we get to be in florida,