More sunny conditions. Were seeing less cloud coverage, more sunshine, a bit windier in the forecast, as well. So take your pick on your saturday or sunday. There are some differences between the two. The next focus is going to be in your next workweek. Thats when rain returns to the forecast and its something well get to this just a bit. For now, though, your current temperatures. 45 in philadelphia and 38 in allentown. Temperatures well above freezing in some areas. 46 in dover. Look at atlantic city, 47 degrees. And in the mid 40s to kick off the morning. This is certainly a mild start to the day for us, especially foss those that are getting that early start to the shopping. On radar and satellite, were staying dry. Any activities moving off to the northeast and well be left with those clouds this morning. In fact, some of the thicker clouds, theyre going to start to move off, as well. That will allow us a little more sunshine but this flow is picking up some stronger winds. Coming up in a few minutes, we will track your wind speeds for your saturday and your sunday plus well get into more detail about that rain potential and how long it lasts coming up. Now to that breaking news that weve been watching from overnight. Former cuban president fidel castro is dead at the age of 90. The current cuban president raul castro announced his brothers death last night. The tiny island nation brought the world to the brink of nuclear war in the 1960s. He defied the power of ten u. S. President s during his half century rule. Coming up, well take a closer look at Fidel Castros life and his impact on the world. Kindan americans in miami are celebrating the death of the former dictator. Cars filled with streets and crowds packed the sidewalks in little havana. All morning long, well be following the developments related to his death. You can read more about the communist leader right now on the nbc 10 app. Back in our area in philadelphia, an innocent bystander is recovering this morning following a Police Shootout involving a gun man who was also shot. Monique braxton is live outside police b headquarters to fill us in on what happened here. Monique. Hi, rosemary. This morning, as many as seven Philadelphia Police officers are off the streets while internal affairs and east detectives investigate the shooting that claimed that injured two people over in kensing toni kensington. The crime scene spread about a sixblock area after attempts by Police Officers to stop a gunman ended in a shootout. Initially, officers attempted to stop the armed male in the 1900 block of clementine. When he ran, officers chase dollars him to the 3,000 block of helen. Investigators say he he he fired at them there. They returned fire, but the gunman continued running to the 2900 block of amber street. These five officers that engaged him at that point in time discharging their weapons, striking the male multiple times in the torso area of the body as well as the lady. We saw as many as 20 casings on the street. Weve learned the gunman is 33 years old in critical but stable condition. Weve learned during this shootout, a woman in her mid 30s was hit in the calf. She has been treated and related from the hospital, as with well. Were going to stay on top of this investigation and let you know the very latest. Live for now outside police headquarters, Monique Braxton, nbc news. News from overnight, an investigation is under way after a Cherry Hill Police cruiser and a car crashed on route 70 eastbound near kingston drive. Its unclear what the extent of the injuries may be. Route 70 was shut down for a while, but its now back of. In south philadelphia, investigationers are looking into what caused a brinks armored truck to flip over. Sky force 10 was over the scene just before 11 00 last night. The trucks driver and passengers were able to climb out safely. S. W. A. T. Officers guarded the area while other officers transferred the cash to another armored truck. Nearby a short time later, two drivers slammed into a Police Cruiser at the base of the plat bridge. The road was blocked off because of the brinks truck crash. The drivers of those vehicles near the plat bridge along with the Police Involved were not injured. Today is Small Business saturday and shoppers are encouraged to buy Holiday Gifts at independently owned stores all across the area. The cam dent county town of hattenfield got things started last night with its candlelight shopping. The mom and pop shops are decked out in holiday decorations ready to welcome shoppers today. Haddenfield will keep the focus on shopping through the end of the year with the candlelight events happening every friday night. Philadelphias manayunk neighborhood kicks off shopping at 9 00 this morning with Tree Lighting at 5 00 this afternoon. Now, if you plan to do some shopping in philadelphia, dont worry about feeding the meter. Parking is free at metered spots after 11 00 this morning. That does not include can loading zones, so keep that in had mind. The deal runs every saturday through new years day. Shoppers can park at certain lots throughout the city for a flat rate of 8 bucks on saturdays and sundays. Retailers at the mall like king of prussia are hoping to see big crowds all weekend long. King of prussia hops to see 500,000 people by monday. Management tells us theyre not buying the projections that show inperson retail sales may be down. However, we know since 2011, black friday profits have been shrinking. The Worlds LargestRetail Association tells us only 100 Million People shopped yesterday. If that estimation turned out to be true, it would be the lowest black friday shopping day since 2011. No, no, look around you. This is an amazing turnout. I can cyber monday picks et up. Although i like black friday better, i think cyber monday picks it up. This is the most important time of the year for retailers. Most expect to do 30 of their total business between now and christmas. As you head out in search of those deals this weekend, the nbc 10 app is your complete guide to Holiday Shopping. Make sure you download it for free. Youll get the forecast plus weve got all the Holiday Shopping trends and a list of the stores that are offering the deepest discounts. 6 07 right now on this saturday and we continue to follow the breaking developments in the death of cuban leader fidel castro. Coming up a little bit later, well take a look at the local connection 209 cuban leaderss long rein involve ago convicted cop killer in new jersey who escaped to cuba. And france foils a major isis terror plot. Still ahead, the latest on the arrest in this case and how the plan was set to play out. Welcome back and very a morning. Wooep were looking at cape may right now and you can see its still dark out there. And at sunrise, well start to see the picture picking right back up to the 50s. Its a quiet start out there. No longer seeing any showers, but we saw some scattered activity move through early into the evening yesterday, which is what we expected. Looking at your current winds, theyre still pretty light, too, around 5, 10 Miles Per Hour for the start. Theyll start to strengthen as we move into the afternoon and theyll move into sunday. Sunday, winds will be stronger. Here you can see the winds increasing 10 to 12 Miles Per Hour and thats from 8 00 to 11 00 in the morning. Notice the temperatures start to go climb into the 50s with more Sunshine Building in by 11 00 a. M. At 49 degrees. Here is a comparison for those chilly days that were looking at particularly into sunday. Today, 53 is the forecast temperature. It will feel pretty similar because winds arent going to affect us too much. Gusts to 29 Miles Per Hour. Tomorrow, though, gusts pick up to 30 Miles Per Hour. That doesnt seem like a huge difference, but its going to be enough, especially with temperatures a little lower. A high of 50. The feels like will start to drop. 44 is the best we do in the afternoon. Mornings even chillier. Well track and talk more about your weekend conditions and the chances of rain moving back into the tenday forecast. All of that coming up in a few minutes. President elect donald trump works through the Holiday Weekend as he rounds out his cabinet. Coming up, well run down his latest picks and talk about the effort gaining steam for a recount in several states. There morning, were staying on top of breaking news out of cuba. Fidel castro is dead at the age of 90. He was considered the father of the cuban revolution, taking on a soviet style of communism. His rein was marked by the bay of pigs standoff. Taking a look at the celebration in the Early Morning hours, cuban americans escaped, many to miami, to escape castros rule. Well have to see how this all plays out following can a Fidel Castros death. Theres no answer yet as to whether castros death will lead to a change in status for new jersey fugitive joanne chesimard. She escaped from prison in 1979 and later fled to cuba. She is considered new jerseys most wanted fugitive. In other news this morning, in pakistan, a mill assistant group is claiming responsibility for a deadly attack on a mosque at an army facility. Two soldiers and all foreinsurgents were killed in a shootout. The army says 14 troops were wounded in a suicide attack. A faction of the taliban has claimed responsibility. We are learning that french officials thwarted plans for a large scale attack. Richard engle reports from istanbul on the suspects styes to isis and the concerns for american travelers. Reporter france, already under a state of emergency after isis attacks killed more than 200 civilians since 2015 foiled a major and imminent isis plot, the base of the alleged terror cell was in starsburg where the Christmas Market is already up. Four suspects were arrested there and another in marseilles on sunday. But the orders, french officials claim, came right from the soits leadership. French Authorities Say the cell had automatic weapons and plans to acquire more. Screen grabs, the potential target t and a handwritten letter professing loyalty to isis. President hollande congratulated the Security Services for preventing a large scale attack. Just this week, the state department issued a trafg alearn warninging credible information claims isis plans attack around the Holiday Season. Why now . Isis is taking a beating on the battlefield in syria and iraq and Security Experts expect isis or sympathizers will try to avenge losses in the middle east with attacks overseas. They try and link up with individuals theyve already planted in the west or they try and send individuals out from behind the front lines. Isis may be under attack, but that could make it at least in the near term even more dangerous. The paris prosecutor said four of the five suspects are french, the other moroccan. Two have said to have come here to turkey about a year ago and visited the Syrian Border area. France thwarted this plot, but u. S. Officials are convinced more may be coming. Richard engle, nbc news, is at all tan bull. Back in our area, we now know more about the victims at a shooting at a south jersey mall. Here is what weve learned since yesterday morning. Demon cotman was shot and killed outside the Hamilton Mall around 1 00 yesterday morning. His brother was shot in the leg. Weve confirmed the victim who died was arrested in march for being uncooperative in connection with a shooting inside the taj mahal casino in atlantic city. Its unclear if the two shootings have any connection. Police have not made any arrests in yesterdays mall shooting in mays landing. At the jersey shore, dozens gathered to remember a young boy who disappeared 25 years ago. A vigil was held yesterday at Cape May County park south which is why mark heinball was last seen. The 1 examined the heinbaugh mystery which is among the 1 of missing children cases that have no clear answers. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. And were starting out with a look at our temperatures this morning. Another pretty mild morning for us with low 40s across the board in your new jersey neighborhood. Is right now, checking in values like clayton at 42 and pitman at 44. Pensville at 45 and we track along further to the notice. Hopewell township, 38 degrees. Most of us, the aside from princeton, sitting above freezing. Were in the end of november, were creeping up on december. Were talking all these holiday celebrations. We cant complain about the temperatures, especially foss of this of you trying to get out and do some shopping on this had saturday. Radar and satellite, a close view of our region shows us we have a good amount of cloud coverage in our area. But notice, further along to the west, not quite as many clouds. Were going to try and see as this progresses along to the east, some breaks by this afternoon. Still clouds out there, but a mix of clouds and sun. Going from mostly cloudy to partly cloudy conditions. Otherwise, just along that northern edge, we see some very isolated rain showers that are moving through, but it is rain for the most part because as we just saw, temperatures are starting out mostly in the upper 30s and low 40s. Your hour by hour forecast, the wide view shows the snow does sit directly to the north of us, not affecting us, so it stays out of our forecast. Its a dry saturday. Clouds hanging around through mid 30s. Overnight, saturday actually clear out for the most part and we do see by sunday those Clear Conditions continuing, meaning more sunshine in your sunday forecast. Also going to see that flow start to pull in. Winds continuing from the northwest which will strengthen those wind gusts as we move along here and we will see a windier forecast by sunday. Todays future wind gusts, around the mid 20s. About 25 Miles Per Hour. A little stronger along the shore. We go overnight these winds will dip just a bit down to about 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour. Thats at 6 00 a. M. Sunday morning. As we go into sunday afternoon, yet again start to go boost these numbers. Mid 20s with to close to 30 Miles Per Hour for your wind gusts meaning we will notice the windiness on sunday. On top of that, cooler air moving in. So temperatures are a bit cooler sunday. You mix in the stronger winds and the feels like temperature dropping down to about the mid 40s outside philadelphia. Here is a ten day on ten. Temperatures today, 53. Tomorrow, 50. But feels like about mid 40s. More sunshine by your sunday. Partly cloudy to mostly sunny by sunday. Into monday, clouds start to redevelop in the low 50s still. Take a look, though, warming up tuesday, wednesday. Low 60s. With that, tuesday, wednesday and even thursday morning, rain in the forecast. Turning now to the trump transition, the president elect is spending the Holiday Weekend working on filling out his new administration. Donald mcgann will serve as white house council. Hes Trumps Campaign lawyer. Mcgann received his law gri from Wider University and hes a former charm of the s. E. C. Mcganns job would involve putting between between president elect trump and his business dealings. K. T. Mcfarland will serve as the National Security adviser. She has experience in both ford and reagans teams. Meantime, wisconsin is going to start its first president ial recount in state history. Green Party President ial candidate jill stein requested the recount. Shes vowing to do the same in michigan and in pennsylvania. Mr. Trump held narrow leads in all three states. Theres no evidence of election tampering. 6 22 right now on this saturday. Ski season is about to kick off in the poke knows, but the resorts could still use a little bit of help from mother nature. Well tell you when youll be able to hit the slopes, next. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Cable cant offer that. Only fios can. 6 25 right now on this saturday. Ski season is almost here. This is sa live look at Camelback Mountain resort up in the poconos. All is quiet this hour, but its going to be busy over the next few days. The snow guns were firing yesterday creating that manmade snow you see right there. Nbc visited Blue Mountain ski resort in cash kwon county where the trails have a foundation of machine made snowpack, but it needs to get cooler for the snow guns to cover the entire empty. Last year, the poconos struggled a bit among one of the warmest decembers in history. This year, things appear to be better. Camelback and can Blue Mountain hope to open the trails soon. Today, a town will celebrate the start of the season with a parade, bands, dancers and holiday characters. The parade will include the philly fanatics and the mummers. Wilmingtons Christmas Parade begins this morning at 11 00. The will minute ton jcs 53rd annual Christmas Parade kicks off the Holiday Shopping season. There will be marching bands, parades and santa c