Into deep exploration which may send humans to mars. Were going to mars david is outside with accuweather. Reporter we have cloud cover overhead. We have clouds that might allow sun in early, were getting nice breaks down south in philadelphia, in parts of south jersey, were starting out there on the chilly side, 35 degrees in philadelphia. Not much wind, so not much windchill to talk about. These are not bad numbers assuming you dress appropriately. As you step outside to catch the school bus, look for temperatures to hold in the 30s. It stays cold, we have 35 degrees on the Storm Tracker 6 live app, 35 by 8 00. Noon, 42. 3 00 p. M. , thats the high, 44, well be sitting on that at 2 00. Back down to 42 degrees. We have rain ahead unfortunately heading into the weekend. Ill have details on that coming up. Reporter i dont have any mars bars, but i have cookies. I have an overturned tractortrailer on the ramp from the schuylkill expressway 76 eastbound to 202 northbound trying to head toward the king of prussia mall youll see this overturned tractortrailer. We watched the car right there, squeeze by the accident scene. Traffic is getting by on the right shoulder of this off ramp. You can see the emergency crews are out here and chopper 16 heading to the scene. If they have to block the ramp to upright the truck you can bail out after the toll plaza on north gulph road to goddard and to the northbound side of 202. The crash involving the pedestrian at third avenue and west main street has cleared. Traffic lights on the boulevard at welsh road are not working, no cross traffic there. Watch out you for a crash on the new jersey turn southbound of exit 2 taking out the right lane. Thousands of people across the country is have taken to the streets in protest. They are upset about the grand jury decision not to indict an nypd officer. He used a choke hold on the unarmed man who died in the confrontation. The decision comes after another grand jury in ferguson decided not to indict. Protesters blocked the streets in midtown manhattan. Grand juriers did not decide grand jury did not indict daniel panteo. He apologized to the widow. I dont accept his apology, he is still feeding his kids and my husband is 6 feet under. Eric holder announced a civil rights investigation into the matter. The grand jury decision society off protests in philadelphia, as well. John rawlins is live outside city hall with more on that. Good morning, john. Reporter good morning, tam, by many accounts there were considerable attention as several hundreds protesters decided on the yuletide event. The scheduled sounds of the season at times drown out by protesters at the Christmas Tree lighting at city hall. The protesters outraged by the deaths of Michael Brown and eric garner. We cant do nothing anywhere. But things need to be disturbed if we are going to shake things up. Reporter the protest started with a socalled diein at 30th street station. People out here are trying to ruin it for everybody else. Its a good thing. They are performing while they singing, hands up dont shoot they doing it for Michael Brown its a blessing. Reporter Philadelphia Police kept the protesters for the most part civilly separated one man was arrested when he crossed the barricade. Our job is to allow the 30 test and allow the event to takes place. So far weve been successful in doing that. That was our only goal and aim. The septa police chief tweeted about the of the events here, strangest scene ive ever scene, protesters and cheerful holiday music. Fast moving fired damaged homes in south south West Philadelphia. The smoke damaged a neighboring house there are no reports of injuries. Red cross is helping 16 families forced out of their homes in levittown, Bush Administration county. An artificial Christmas Tree was too close to the heating element sparking the blaze last night. One firefighter was injured, he has been released from the hospital. The reward for helping police finds a missing chester student stands at 31,000. Hundreds held a vigil for Shane Montgomery last night. His father fought through tears as he spoke to the crowd. We miss him and love him and we want to get him back. We have hope and faith that we all feel. I think its a testament to the kind of kid shane was, the amount of people who showed up here tonight. The 21yearold was last seen early thanksgiving morning he was shown the girl at k eu6789 killdares in manayunk. The bouncer said montgomery apologized to him and seemed in good health. Fast food workers will hit the street across the nation to protest low wages. Airports workers a the Philadelphia International airport and home care workers have joined to walk out across the country. The protests will tames in 160 cities including in philadelphia. Workers are demanding 15 an hour and union membership. Many in the area are enjoying gas prices at below 3 and others are seeing it at 2 a gallon. Good morning, matt, 2 a gas is back. One gas station in oklahoma is at 1. 99. Other parts of the u. S. Could see prices in that range soon. As for the philadelphia area a gallon is 2. 91 according to gas buddy. Com. The army wants a new gun, the army has been using the bore beretta. A new pistol contract is considered a once in a lot of onceinalifetime opportunity. Stocks are up at a an all time high, futures are up. Sriracha craze a new beer, it will be made rogue ales. Talk about a drink that carries a punch. You know what, maribel, i suggest the shakespeare stout. Its a stout and its chocolaty. Beer recommendations what more can you ask for other than good weather. Reporter Storm Tracker 6 live double scan shows were dry for a change, unlike the last couple of days. As we look outside we have sky of at the airport. The camera is locked down and not bouncing too much because we dont have a lot of the wind out there. Were dry for a change which is nice, next rounds of rain will work in during the evening on friday. As we look at current conditions, 33 in wilmington, 33 in allentown and 32 in trenton. 26 in millville. Not a lot of wind, but cool enough for a coat and gloves and hat, as well. Satellite shows you there are breaks in the clouds locally and we have a shot at early sunshine, but then the thicker clouds to the west will march across the state of pennsylvania and well wind up transitioning to more and more cloudy conscious as the day goes on. In allentown, 42 today, clouds on the march, chilly conditions, but not windy. Down the shore were going for a high of 44. Clouds increasing at the shore. Chilly conditions we could see early sunshine and the clouds are thicker in the morning and afternoon. 44 is the high, chilly conditions, winds out of the northwest at 6 to 12. 35 degrees by 8 00. 41 by 11 00. If you want to hold off running optional errands until later this afternoon or outside chores, i think ill do painting outside. 44 degrees is the 2 00 p. M. Temperature that will be the high. Tomorrow we have a high of 46. Similar, cloudy skies for the 0 most part well be watching rain out to the west that will create drizzle in the afternoon, but tomorrow evening theres the chance of rain. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, were going for a high of 44 this afternoon. Sun and clouds, tomorrow, mostly cloudy 46 degrees for your high, again, some afternoon drizzle possible, but the rain really holds off until after dinner tomorrow evening. If you have plans to go out to dinner and movie or anything else across the region and it is not raining as you head out, be sure to keep the umbrella handy, when you come out of the Movie Theater or restaurant its going to be showering across the region. Cecily will have an update tomorrow on the whole situation. Saturday, cloudy skies, high of 53. A change to the forecast, though comes sunday where it looks like the system gets off the coast in time to bring us a brisk and cooler day, but dry and mixture of clouds and sun, that will be great for eagles fans big game against seattle. Monday and tuesday youre dry, next chance of rains to be wednesday. 6 12, ahead on action news, police say they are following new leads on a shooting in a berks county barber shop. Bullets showered people inside. A spacecraft will go higher and further into deep space than nasa has gone florida gonna generation. Reporter new crash in Montgomery County we have details when details continue on this thursday morning. [prof. Burke]when youre really only covered for this. Or how you figured you were covered for this. When youre actually paying for this. You might be surprised at whats hiding in your coverage. Talk to farmers and get smarter about your insurance. We are farmers bumpadum, bumbumbumbum [announcer] call 1800farmers and see how much you could save. Welcome back youre taking live look from chopper 6hd over the 202 where it comes off the schuylkill expressway, 202 northbound, this is a busy area this time of the morning. It is at a standstill because of an overturned tractortrailer accident. Lets go to him right now. Reporter a little bit dark out here, but were hearing the tractortrailer was carrying newspapers. Crews are on the scene. You can see a number of Police Officers and fire truck, as well. This is unfolding on the ramp from the schuylkill expressway, 76 eastbound to 202 northbound. If youre coming away from the turnpike toll plaza right there and jump on the ramp and head toward the king of prussia mall youre facing restrictions this morning. We have seen traffic getting by on the shoulder of the ramp. Information we see a car coming right now him they will attempted to that. The bottom line is, if they have to shut down the ramp to get the tractortrailer out of here, i want to help you out with alternates. Lets pull in the waze app and show you the alternates. Coming out of the toll plaza there along the schuylkill expressway eastbound you can bear off to north gulph road jump on that and take that to goddard boulevard and run around the mall, mall boulevard to get back to 202. Well watch that situation this morning in king of prussia from chopper 6 and sky 6. Meanwhile, were watching a crash in lower providence close to the Wells Fargo Bank on ridge pike. Theres an Construction Zone on 422. This was an awful accident in the work zone. The new restrictions took effect yesterday. One lane in each direction. Broken down vehicle in Deptford Township 42 southbound is cleared. No northbound delays just yet. Brand new to action news we have Surveillance Video of a gunman who shot up a barber shop in berks county. Indeed the video shows the gunman opening fire at the all stars barber shop in reading the day before thanksgiving, he wounded four people, one of the victims is in critical condition, police say that was the second straight day the same gunman opened fire on the same barber shop, 11 people including women and children were in the barber shop during the first shooting. Nobody was injured in that incident. New at 6 00 a. M. , police in the Lehigh Valley are closing in on the person behind the act of vandalism at a district judges office. 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Theres the high around 42 degrees around 2 00 and sitting on it by 3 00. 42 by 6 00 p. M. A bit on the chilly side today. Nationally on the radar. A little bit of rain and some mixed precipitation out to the north of saint louis and into western kentucky and heading east. Choppy stuff on the west coast, as well. As we look at Philadelphia International on the board, no major delays, all green aircraft from top to bottom and no rain from philadelphia to chicago, all the way down to florida. Happy trails, tam. In less than an hour, nasa will take its first step in deep space exploration. This might send humans to mars. The orion spacecraft will blast off for brief trip 3600 miles into space. Nasa said the craft will take americans into the solar system by the 2030s. The cdc has issued a Health Advisory to doctors about the current flu vaccine. It may not keep you away from a miserable go around with the disease. 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Fast food workers have hit the streets across the nation including in philadelphia to once again protest low wages. The action cam is live outside a mcdonalds in north philadelphia where you see people on the picket lines trying to convince people to support higher wages for lowwage earners. These protests are taking place in 160 cities in the u. S. They are demanding 15 an hour and others are demanding union membership, airport workers will join the fast food workers in walking out this morning. 6 28. He wanted to go to a strip club. So he stole a vehicle that happened to be a ambulance. Hey its mister monopoly. And the new Monopoly Millionaires Club lottery game. Where you have 3 ways to become a millionaire. First, win the top prize of up to 25 Million Dollars when you match all the draw numbers. Or win 1 Million Dollars when you match all the club numbers. Or you could win up to one Million Dollars as a contestant on the exciting new tv game show in las vegas. 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Dress appropriately and you will be fine. 35 degrees on Storm Tracker 6 live app probably still around that by 8 8 00. By the time you get out of school around 3 00, it will be 44 degrees, that is the high. We have rain ahead in the forecast, unfortunately it does hinder part of the weekend, ill have the latest from accuweather including an update on sundays forecast, matt pellman thats just ahead. Reporter almost, friday, but for this thursday morning were watching number of issues including a situation in king of prussia. Chopper 6 is over the scene of the overturned truck accident on the ramp from the schuylkill expressway to the northbound lanes of 202, you see the crews on the scene you may be able to make out the truck, its dark, the truck is on its side on the ramp. It was carrying newspapers. Weve been seeing traffic squeeze by on the righthand side of the ram