Memphis its 75, dallas its 76 and the next three days well be getting winds out of the southwest pulling up that warmer air. So, if youre heading to the linc tomorrow, 3 oclock for the armynavy game, were looking at record temperatures. Kickoff temperature 66 degrees. By the Fourth Quarter 61 degrees with a mixture of clouds and sunshine and i think some records will be broken in some other cities. Allentowns record high tomorrow 63 degrees. That likely will fall. Wilmington 64. Probably a new record high there tomorrow. Trenton, Atlantic City airport, those records may be beyond roof but i am track reacg warmer air. Well talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. Thanks cecily. Stay with 6abc. Com through the weekend as this record warmth bathes our region. Youll find the latest information from our team of meteorologists and of course stay ahead of whats coming next. In other news tonight the daughter of a local police chief is accused of using offensive slurs and throwing punches in an attack on a gay couple in center city. Katherine knox is fighting the charges against her. Today in court one of the victims testified. Action News Reporter trish harder man is live outside the courthouse with details on todays testimony. Trish. Reporter well, rick, day two of testimony in the trial for katherine knox. A bloody shirt was shown on the stand. One of the jurors actually left the courtroom in a hurry after he looked at photos showing the victims injuries. He later returned though to hear more about the investigation into the beating of a gay couple in center city 25yearold Katherine Knott of southampton is the only one who close to go to trial in this case. Her codefendants Kevin Harrigan of warrington and Philip Williams of warminster pleaded guilty and were sentenced to probation and jail time. Prosecutors say the three were part of a group involved in the beating of a gay couple on september 11th 2014 in the 1600 block of chancellor street alleging that knot took part in the beating and used gay slurs while doing it. Both victims suffered black eyes. 28yearold andrew told jurors his face was broken in several places and identified knot as one of the attackers. He testified girl especially was really intense which i was surprised about. He went ton say his jaw will to be wired shut saying for eight weeks i ate only broth. I lost about 15 pounds. I was emaciated. Witness Michelle Moore said she saw the fight and stayed until Police Arrived saying one was on the ground with blood. I thought he was dead. The other was stumbling around like he was looking for something. Defense attorneys pointed out discrepancies having to do with knots dress chlorinate. Moore testified a woman was punching a man on the ground. She had blond hair. That all i can remember. It looked like she had a whitish and black dress. The victim previousological testified that knot was wearing a white dress. William brennan is a defense attorney sitting in on the case. The defense seems to be doing a pretty effective job of saying that while she was with the group, she was merely present. Reporter now, the judge in this case has issued a gag order meaning that the attorneys and the witnesses are not allowed to speak to the media. The trial is expected to last for about one week. Were live in center city, trish hartman, channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you, trish. Wilmington based dupont is merging with dow chemical to form a Company Worth 130 billion. The two companies have brought the world products ranging from ziploc bags to teflon. The newly re88ed dow dupont will separate into three companies and theyll focus on agriculture material science and specialty products. The deal is going to involve cutting more than a thousand jobs though. Action News Reporter vernon odom will have details on that coming up in a full report at 6 00. There is a delicacy that seems to become very popular this time of year especially if you love ham. In fact its become a growing demand for pork roll in the garden state and for one company in trenton that specializes in pork roll, well, business is anything but a boar. Sorry. Jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic has the story tonight. Reporter things have busy at the case pork roll factory in trenton tucked away in a small building on washington street in chambersberg a staff of 40 cranks out 5 Million Pounds of pork roll a year. Seems like recently there its very popular. People in new jersey are very, very passionate about their pork roll. Reporter with clients like walmart, costco, shop rite, not to mention lots of delis and diners, case is now adding another slicing line like this to keep up with demand. Were going to double this line here so we could actually do double the production. Reporter at cases pork volume made with ham trimmings and seasoning, no fillers. Its loaded into bags that look like long tubes then stone a giant smoker that uses hickory ships. Thats what were known for is the hickory flavored smosh pork roll. We do it the Old Fashioned way. Weve been in business since 1870. Reporter the production line is expanding because business is expanding. Apparently more and more people are finding out about pork roll and they like it. My kids love it. Pork roll and cheese on bread without bred dont matter. Go out of the trenton area they dont know about it. So, its basically just around this area, maybe 20, 30mile area. Reporter developed in trenton in the 18 50s this tasty breakfast treat has become so popular there are now two pork roll festivals in the city each year. Its just been here forever. People think of pork roll they think of trenton. Reporter seventh generation pork roll maker tom hopes to have all the permits he needs in the next month so he can ramp up production to meet the growing demand for pork roll n trenton Nora Muchanic channel6 action news. Well, a big Football Game at lincoln financial field tomorrow night, the 116th matchup between the two schools and traditional festivities leading up to the big event are already under way. The cad dents mid slip men were up with the sun this morning outside the Philadelphia Museum of art doing a little rocky look alike contest that led them up in relay up the famous steps. The huge rivalry has attracted the attention of espns college game day. The show will broadcast tomorrow morning at 9 00 a. M. From xfinity live in south philadelphia. Thats twice this fall. Thats a great tradition. Time for another check of our action news traffic report friday night. Take it live to matt pelman in the action news traffic center. T. G. I. F. Matt. Exactly. Need to put on the battle gear as you get out this evening to play the game that is the friday evening commute. Unpleasant in a couple spots rick and monica like northeast philadelphia where a crash just happened in the eastbound lanes of woodhaven road right by the off ramp fore route 13. This is headed toward 95 and at the moment only some traffic is slowly squeezing by on the shoulder. So, woodhaven eastbound not where you want to be. I would use street road to get to 95 instead. Once you get there if youre trying to head southbound towards that sixers game theres a crash approaching cottman off to the side. Speeds from woodhaven down to cottman just around 12 miles per hour. Demonstration by city hall. Around penn square watch out for congestion especially along broad street. Still have a bad crash in souderton this evening blocking off Harleysville Pike 113. Reliance road gets you around that. Truck flipped over in newark on 95 northbound past 896. Single digit speeds there. You could use route 40 as an alternate but theres also an accident there near peoples plaza by the burger king so stay up on kirkwood highway as urinal. Kirkwood highway is also your alternate around old capitol trail. Westbound lanes blocked because of a gas main break this afternoon. Still a crash involving a pedestrian in voorhees along burnt mill road. The burlington bristol bridge is up right now. We really have something for everyone rick and monica. Well check it again in the next half hour. Well do. See you then. Thank you matt. New class of paramedics ready to serve philadelphia. 32 new medics graduated cadet class today at the Fire Training academy in northeast philadelphia. Among the new grads, greg brown the husbands of 6abc photographer amy. Theres amy right there. Various awards were given to the cadets including honors for Academic Excellence physical fitness and spirit. Congratulations to all. Congratulations to amy. Absolutely. Terrific. Much more to come on action news at 5 00. It doesnt look easy but this new workout promises big results. Ali gorman gives the mega form a try. The kindness of strangers will make the Christmas Holiday very bright for kids in need. The story from trenton coming up. That and much more. Cecily is back with the full forecast for your weekend. It will be very nice when action news at 5 00 continues. And more. A large protest took place in center city today. Chopper6 hd was over the scene as several dozen activists rallied outside of city hall to protest any changes to the citys current antideportation policy. Theyre upset that mayor Michael Nutter wants to revoke philadelphias sanctuary city status. The mayor has vowed to roll back an executive order barring Law Enforcement cooperation between city police and federal immigration and Customs Enforcement agents but any change could be short lived. Mayor elect jim kenney promised to reinstate the policy when he takes office in january. On health check tonight a workout some celebrities swear by and now its come to philadelphia. Thats right. And it promises to be different than other fitness classes and help make your body leaner. Health reporter and registered nurse ali gorman joins us at the big board with the details. It was definitely different for me. Its known as a mega former workout. Its different than a pilates reformer class and in shape magazine last year actress Sophia Vergara says she used it to get ready for her wedding. Now a studio is open in philadelphia so i tried it out. You can just easily move the resistance up and down. Stephanie first gives me a run down on the mega former. Shes the owner of the new sculpt Fitness Studio or sfs in northern liberties. Classes there use the mega former n3s. Its a system of moving platforms, springs, handles, straps and cables. Stephanie says she took a class using the machine in new york city and wanted to bring it to philadelphia. I was never so challenged by a workout in my life. The workout was inves indiana vented by a former french body builder. After my quick tutorial the real work began its a 50 minute intense Strength Training workout. So, everything is worked slow and controlled. Youre going into slow twitch muscle fibers versus fast twitch muscle fibers isnt she says that helps to tone and lengthen your muscles. Hugging of the midline to bring you back up. And it works the whole body including your thighs obliques backside and upper body. The balance work strengthens your midsection and even throw youre not moving fast, it will get your heart pumping. Theresa low started classes a few weeks ago. I love it. I havent been back to my other gym since ive done my first class here. Both she and friend stephanie say it looks a lot easier than it is. And you will see results. For the first couple times i couldnt even walk or sit down. It totally makes you sore all over the place in a good way. If you come two to three times a week in a month you will definitely see some changes in your body. Now for beginners like i was you should start with their 101 class so you can learn the moves and the machine. The first class is 15. Then classes cost between 25 and 30. We have a link with more information on 6abc. Com health check. And the good news for rick, it is not just for ladies. It is for men, too, so i will sign you up. I didnt see any men in that video, though. Didnt get any. Right exactly. Youll be the first. Trend said. Right. Thanks ali. Reducing infant mortality was the topic of this town hall meeting today involving families in camden. Health experts kicked offer the camden Healthy Start Program in some neighborhoods. The city does have twice as high an infant mortality rate as rest of the state. The program is sponsored by the new Jersey Perinatal cooperative. Some deserving children will get a real treat from the Salvation Army this year in trenton. Environmental commissioner bob martin and his staff delivered presents for 200 children today. Workers are organizing the brightly colored packages and giving them out later with names from their angel tree. This is part of governor Chris Christies season of service campaign. Its the holidays. Which means a house full of people who all want to get online. So its the perfect time for verizon fios. It has the Fastest Internet and wifi available. With speeds from 50 to 500 megs. And right now, youll get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for your first year. And with a 2 year agreement, well give you all the premium movie channels for a year. Plus, 400 dollars back. So go online or call now. Get out of the past. Get fios. Ups is reportedly getting slammed with holiday deliveries and it is affecting their on time delivery rate. According to shipping Software Developer ups saw a 6 percent drop in deliveries last week compared to the same time last year. The company has reportedly dispatched managers from its headquarters in atlanta to try work on delivery sites across the country and help speed things up. Fedex numbers were also reportedly lower than usual. Well, just in time for the holidays another new outlet store has opened in center city. They cut the ribbon on the new Bloomingdales Outlet this morning here at the shops at liberty place. Its the first time bloomingdales has come to downtown philadelphia and shoppers say its about time. I like this store. Price is right and i like the way it looks in here. I love bloomingdales. I dont get an opportunity to come to them because theyre too far and its great having them right across the street. To celebrate the grand opening bloomies will offer special sales. It joins century 21 and Nordstrom Rack in offering design are brands at discount prices to center city shoppers. From our delaware news room tonight a wilmington neighborhood has a new grocery store. The seven day Farmers Market opened here on the 3900 block of Lancaster Pike right where the pathmark used to be. The store actually hired back many of the workers who lost their jobs when the pathmark closed. The manager says in addition to Fresh Produce and other groceries this store will focus on international and ethnic foods. This time of year is best spent with friends and family and thats what folks did at Pennsbury High School today. This is the 18th annual Senior Citizen holiday dinner. More than 200 seniors were there from centers throughout the area. They joined students for a full nutritious dinner. They also enjoyed entertainment courtesy of some of the very talented kids. Nice. And still to come can on action news at 5 00 tonight another check of that forecast. All right. Outside sky6 hd showing you a stunning center city skyline. Meteorologist cecily tynan with details from accuweather on the next several days when we can come righ come right bac. We couldnt wish for a better holiday greeting than that. Students from Holy Child Academy in drexel hill performed at the Delaware CountyGovernment Center in media today. They were one of two groups in the spotlight at the event. Some talented singers from spring ton Lake Middle School also took part earlier today. Sounds great. Uhhuh. Time for accuweather at the action news big board. Meteorologist cecily tynan here. What great news you have for all of us on the weather front. I did find some ice though. Well take that. This is the only kind of ice thats fun to be dealing with, the items rink, the river reign at penns landing. You can see a lot of folks out enjoying some ice skating on this very mild night. Remember yesterday i showed you all the snow two years ago. What a difference even one year ago this time period the 11th through the 13th through the weekend we he were below average. Temperatures anywhere from three to 8 degrees below average and we even had a touch of snow looking at today through the weekend temperatures soaring 15 to 23 degrees above average and records will likely fall over the weekend and even on monday. Temperatures right now definitely on the mild side with the cloud cover. Didnt make the records. Philadelphia currently 59 degrees, allentown 51, millville 55, wilmington 58. Cape may 54 and trenton 56 degrees. Satellite6 along with action radar slowing those clouds did roll in in the afternoon during the peak heating of the day. If you look out across central pennsylvania, there are some breaks in the clouds but more clouds across the midwest. So, this weekend is going to be warm but it wont be completely bright and sunny. We will have some cloud cover to deal with and tonight mixture of stars and clouds, again some patchy fog developing. Look at this low, though. The low 48 degrees in philadelphia. That is warmer than our average high for this time of the year. Reading 40, allentown 39, millville 40 and cape mays low down to 48 degrees. So, unusually mild night. If youre heading to the playground to