Monday morning. Lets take a live look outside. You can see that wind blowing out there. Its going a real issue over the next couple of days. That wind chill, were well below freezing right now and its going to feel colder as the hours continue. This morning we have Team Coverage of the dangerous cold. Nbc 10 drew smith is live in Montgomery County. We begin with first alert meteorologist karen thomas with more on what to expect this weekend and how long this bitter bone chilling temperatures are going to last. Len tines weekend, i know everybody has plans for tomorrow but you want to Pay Attention to the first alert forecast for sure because we got some dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills that are going to sort of grip our region later today into tonight, especially overnight tonight and the early hours of tomorrow morning. Were looking live as people are just waking up and things are moving a little bit. Guess what . If you can spend a few more hours inside today than normal it would behoove you because we gotly cold conditions that will continue as we move on through our saturday and thats really the key as we got a wind chill advisory until 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. The key will be staying warm. You just cant get lulled into a false sense of security when the winds get kicked up, factor in the wind chill thats what it will feel like out there. Right now were looking at current temperatures, 20 in allentown, 20 in the poconos, 22 in philadelphia, 23 in dover, delaware. When we factor in the wind chill value this is what it feels like outside. How about 1 in lancaster. Below zero in mount pocono. 5 below is what it feels like out there. Feels like Single Digits every else with the exception of Atlantic City where it feels like 11. Interesting weekend for sure because were just not used to seeing this arctic front, this arctic plunge of bubble of really cold air. You want to take it easy, bundle up the kids, be careful with the pets out there and you really need to keep a close eye on water pipes and different functions with house to. Were just not used to this type of arctic air moving in. Ill be back with more details on the arctic airplus im tracking another winter storm. Dangerously cold weather is putting some boy scout training to the test. Hundreds of boys from all over the country are participating in the annual valley forge pilgrimage and encampment. Drew smith is live at the camping ground in lower providence township. Scouts have to be safe out there. This is dangerous weather. Reporter thats right. We can certainly feel it, rosemary they are layering up trying have that extra gear on them so they dont feel as much of this dangerous cold. I want to show you what sleeping on. All this snow, frosty padding so they wanted to make sure that there are at least a couple of inches off. They have special supplies to do that. Nbc 10 was out here checking out this, which dates back a century. They learn about what happens during the revoluntariary war. We saw the boys and their leaders setting up tents. Everybody had heavy gear on and no heat source the intents but leaders stayed up through the night to make sure everybody is doing okay. Its time to put their motto be prepared into use. How to sleep on the ground, how to make sure you have proper layers underneath you. In camping you want twice as much layering under you than on top because the earth will suck that heat out of you. Reporter one of the scout leaders out here cheating a little bit. Hes in a car getting warmed up and tents are beyond that. There are hundreds of kids out here. They have been doing good for the most part. Some people are getting up, going to the bathroom but they seem to be staying warm. They got the right gear on. Thats what you want on if you go outside. Have all the layers and keep the exposed skin to a minimum. Now is the time to download the free nbc 10 app to stay ahead of this dangerous cold weather this weekend. Youll find first alert forecast. Firefighters battled flames and bitter cold in of West Philadelphia overnight. See icicles on trees where they sprayed some of their water. Nbc 10 was on dearborn street where crews snuffed out this fire. Everybody inside made it out safely. An update in the bill cosby case. His lawyers have filed an appeal to the Sexual Assault charge against him dismissed. They filed the appeal with the state supreme court. Cosby had an agreement with the former District Attorney of montgomery in 2005 that cosby would never be charged for allegations made bay Temple University employee. A montgomery judge rejected that claim. Thats why appeal has ensued. If you have a pet. Halfdozen owners say people tried to steal their dogs by impersonating animal control officers. Max was still with his owner but not before starring in this viral photo, appearing to show him sleeping in the cold with no food. Pennsylvanias spca tells us thats when people trying to pretend to be Animal Welfare agents went to the home and tried to take the dog away. Max is healthy. An investigation found novi allocations. Probably feel like they are doing the right thing, that they are saving an animal from a bad situation. Seems like having some oversight might be important for various reasons. I dont know what these peoples motives are. Just so you know, this is what a humane Law Enforcement officer looks like. He or she will have a state i. D. Card, real badge and often arrive with a warrant. Two weeks ago nbc 10 first told the story of a philadelphia woman who said that an spca impersonator seized her dog, the real spca did help get her pet back. Philadelphia could soon ban pet from selling commercially bred dogs and cats. A city councilman introduced the aimed to fight puppy mills. Hes hoping it will spur more adoption of rescue Animals Humane Society doesnt know of any pet Stores Selling animals from breeders. But the law would prevent it from happening five in. Tonight president ial hopefuls will square off on the debate stage. That stage will not be as crowded. Well update that four. Donald trump may take his republican rivalry with ted cruz from the campaign trail to court. Why he says he has standing to sue. And capping a career. Allen iverson takes a step towards basketball mortality. Good morning. Im meteorologist karen thomas. We are in a first alert Weather Forecast for this morning. Today. Tonight. And tomorrow. First alert weather weekend simply because we got arctic cold. Bitterly cold outside right now. Hard to believe its going get even colder. We have a wind chill advisory for just about everybody in the area and the wind chill advisory means be on alert simply because winds factored in with very cold temperatures will produce extreme environment us outside. What its going to feel like and advisory will stay in place until 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Current temperatures 10 degrees up in the poconos 20 degrees in millville, 20 degrees in dover. We anticipate those temperatures to be dropping fairly quickly as the winds pick up. This is what it feels like outside. So if do you have to be outside somewhere this morning you just want to spend as little time outside in the environment as you possibly can. Even bundling up, you just dont want to spend prolonged periods of time out in the conditions because it isnt going to ease up. The arctic front isnt even through our region entirely so those winds will continue to push in from the northwest, 20 to 30 miles we can anticipate wind gusts of about 50 Miles Per Hour in some parts of the region. Also patchy snow showers. Thats the call to move on through our afternoon especially late in the day. Mostly cloudy skies, but we cant rule out the fact we have lakeeffect churned up. So lakeeffect streamer showers moving through. So dont be surprised if youre out driving on the highway take it easy. Slippery spots may develop as snow squalls move on through. 6 on this saturday. This morning pope francis is south of the border for a historic trip in mexico. Coming up well show you more of the rock star welcome he received. Plus Atlantic City takes another hit. How the recent blizzard dealt ac a poor hand. You like being picture perfect. You should want your banking to be too. Stop into td bank and well help set you up with picture perfect banking. New customers, open a checking and savings account and you can get a polaroid cube video camera on the spot. At 6 14 on this saturday just about 20 degrees right in philadelphia. Lets head down the shore to cape may, new jersey. You can see a little bit of precip on the ground as meteorologist karen thomas has been telling us weve been seeing light snow showers coming through. Throughout the day there may be more. As the picks up those snow showers will get stronger. The real issue this weekend is bitter cold weather and the wind chill. She will have details throughout the newscast. Now to decision 2016. A slimmer republican field will debate in South Carolina tonight. There are now just five candidates left in the race for the gop president ial nomination. Thats after chris christie, Carly Fiorina and jim gilmore quit this week. Frontrunner donald trump is making more headlines. Yesterday trump threatened to sue rival ted cruz for not being a natural born American Opinion he said hell sue if cruz doesnt stop running negative ads. Trump accused pope francis playing politics with his visit to the mexican board per. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton pitched their campaigns at a dinner in minnesota last night. The candidates gave speeches to a crowd of party members. Both clinton and sanders are looking to win minority support as they gear up for the nevada caucuses and the South Carolina primary. If you want to learn what it takes to go from the campaign trail to the oval office, you can check out the headed to the white house exhibit at the National Constitution center. Nbc 10 and telemundo 52 are proud sponsors of this interactive journey through the political process. Can you create your own ad, deliver president ial speeches and much more. Oh, and by the way, if you go on president s day this monday, admission is free. A quick reminder, white house hopefuls marco rubio, donald trump and john kasich will talk with Moderator Chuck Todd on nbcs meet the press. That comes your way tomorrow morning at 10 right here on nbc 10. In other news this morning a Pennsylvania Cyber School is blaming new layoffs on the lack of a state budget. Agora Cyber Charter school arent saying how many will lose their jobs or what positions they hold. School Officials Say until theres actions in harrisburg schools will suffer. The school serves 8,500 students from nearlyry School District in pennsylvania. Pope francis will his global celebrity this week to shine a spotlight on some of the biggest issues facing mexico. Just mention ad moment ago when we were talking politics there have been some discussion about the pope because hes in mexico right now. Given a rock star greeting last night. His plane was met by mexican political leaders, live performers and cheering crowds. Mexico, by the way, has the most licks in the Spanish Speaking world. Hes expected to tour the country visiting places hit hard by violence, poverty and migration issues. Back here in south philadelphia members of the mexicancatholic community gathered together to watch the popes arrival. This group is from saint Thomas Aquinas church. Flights to cuba is step closer to reality. The United States and cuba will sign an agreement to retart commercial air. Right now only chartered flights are available. The agreement will allow u. S. Airlines to bid on routes for dozens of flights every day. Now news from our jersey shore bureau. Atlantic city casinos are counting their loss revenue after januarys blizzard. The eight casinos topped 190 million last month. Thats down 4 from year ago. Internet gambling was up. Experts say the online action kept a bad month from being worse. Good saturday morning. Im meteorologist karen thomas. Were in first alert weather day because we need to you attention to the forecast. We are talking about near record cold with significant wind chills, dangerous wind chills and as we move through the afternoon we could see sustained winds of five to 25 Miles Per Hour withes up to 50 Miles Per Hour. So its going to feel cold, bitterly cold as we get into the nighttime hours. Currently our temperatures around the region, 10 degrees in the poconos, 22 in philadelphia, 20 trees right now in wilmington. 18 degrees in pottstown and lower 20s down along the shore line in southern delaware. Up in the poke mountains skiers are happy to see the snow. We were watching snow showers earlier this morning but dangerous cold is happening up in the poconos. So even bundling up and hitting the ski slopes, skiers will want to keep their time on the slopes short increments because a prolonged period of time out there with wind chill warning in effect could mean dangerous conditions and so everybody across the region is going want to take it easy. Philadelphia north and west, south and east, just about everybody under a wind chill advisory until tomorrow morning at 9 00 a. M. Will be increasing. As i said bitterly cold out there. Look how our temperatures dropoff. We get colder at 13 degrees by 7 00 than is what it will feel like. Will feel like zero as we get into teeng hours. What does this mean for . Theres potential for frozen bursting pipes. Hypothermia and frostbite. This becomes a reality for people who need to stay outside or want to stay outside for any length of time in these conditions and you cannot forget about the pets, you know, maybe quick jaunt outside but then bring the pets indoors for sure. Live radar showing we do have some clouds around right now for satellite but radar showing we got this lakeeffect snow thats pushing in from the northwest and some of the streamers are making it to the ground. We saw scattered showers up in the poconos bath lot of this isnt making to it the ground because the atmosphere is so dry that the precipitation is evaporating before it can drop. Well continue with the system moving through our saturday. Dont be surprised if you do see an isolated snow squall that moves in if youre driving and that happens you just want to slow it down. Could be some slippery conditions. After the bitterly cold weekend on monday were tracking another storm that is developing right now. Well have the blocking High Pressure in place come monday. We will be cold enough it looks as though when the system move in the moisture moves in it will come in as snow. Light snow monday afternoon. Could become heavy snow monday evening before the warm front pushes in. Our temperatures really take bump up changing to snow over to rain for us. The Higher Elevations could see all snow out of this system but for philadelphia northwest and the outer lying suburbs it looks like rain for tuesday because our temperatures just be warm enough. Lets go ahead and bring out the seven day forecast because we got a little bit of everything for everybody. So, keeping warm weekend. First alert weather weekend we want you to really be focused in on these cold temperatures, strong winds, and a bone chilling wind chill. And that really is going to kick in tonight, overnight into early tomorrow morning. And even tomorrow winds arent expected to diminish tomorrow dill later on in the day. Then were tracking another system for monday. Oh, boy. Karen, you were saying that this kind of weather, its been cold this week but this is very different and thats why its important to really bundle up and protect yourself. Absolutely. You saw wind chill warning. National weather has a wind chill advisory. That really is a warning to let folks know. This isnt just the usual cold that we usually have this time of year. These are temperatures well below average and were fact jorge in these strong winds. Arctic, some people think its a term that gets thrown around to describe cold air. But its from the arctic. So it is that sort of polar feel. I would not be plunging today. No. Because hypothermia and frostbite are real in these sort of conditions. Karen, thanks so much. Well check back with you shortly. Coming up, a sick boy from the trail gets a message from a superhero. Im making you and honorary member of the avengers. Here how this little boy became iron boy. The boss was back philadelphia last night, generations of music fans filled the Wells Fargo Center to celebrate Bruce Springsteen and the e street bands return to south philly. No surprise. It was a sold out show. Heres proof of the devotion of springsteen fans. Tailgaters braved the for the boss. Fans filled the wells fargo park lot hours before the show started. They were prepared. Wore plenty of layers and even brought plenty much hot food to kick off the fun. This week a boy from the trail suffering Cystic Fibrosis had his wish granted to be turned into the Crime Fighting hero iron boy. Robert downey jr. Left him a message as his alter ego, aka iron man. I heard you had quite a day. Its hard work saving the world. I hope you had lots of fun. I bet you enjoyed the helicopter ride this morning i want to wish the best. I dont do this very often, im making you and honorary member of the avengers. On thursday theyearold was picked in a helicopter and tine sydneys Police Station where he put on his uniform. Then iran boon boy defeated ene the steps of the sydney opera house. Later he was awarded for saving the city. 6 28 on this saturday. Temperatures well below freezing. This morning we have issued a first alert because of the dangerous cold. 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