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Slashed. Reporter not just hers, nine cars in all. Angelo cruz owns two of them. Upsetting, you know, on Christmas Eve, christmas. Who needs that . Reporter the video is too grain flee to identify the vandal but it appears he or she is riding a bike stopping at each car just before two. A crews spent the day as she ising th assession the damag. Im going to try to do away without the insurance. Sad to see people have no heart, no feelings and come out and damage someone elses property. Im offering free tires. Reporter when he heard about the story on action news, bob everett of two sons auto salvage in southwest philadelphia offered free replacement tires to those affected. I couldnt believe people actually do this this time of year. Its the season of giving. Were hoping here at two sons to give back. Reporter and right now police have not publicly said whether they have a suspect in this case. If you know anything about who may be responsible for this is please give police a call. Reporting live in north wood, jeff chirico, channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you jeff. Wilmington Police Searching for multiple gunmen involved in a shootout this afternoon that happened about 2 oclock in the 100 block of van buren street. Police arrived to find 12 shell casings scattered along the block. Two homes and two cars were shot up. Police say fortunately no one was hurt. Homicide detectives continue looking for leads and witnesses in the Christmas Eve killing of an elderly shop keeper marie buck. Man dressed in a dark hoodie and clothing walked into that bucks store at sixth and titan saturday morning just after her and husband left. Thats when the gunman shot her 12 times. Then the gunman left not taking anything. She was a unbelievably warm loving person and the worst people didnt deserve to die like that, not alone the best. Family and friends say buck never had trouble with anyone and during 43 years of running that store she often let needy people have food on credit. They say christmas wasnt the same without seeing buck dressed like santa and they hope someone can find her killer. Concern is growing tonight over this missing woman and her great granddaughter from south jersey. 71yearold Barbara Briley and little fiveyearold la mier was traveling to North Carolina over the weekend. The family have not heard from them since they stopped to get gas in virginia Christmas Eve. They were traveling in a rav4. Hamilton Township Police are assisting in the investigation. Two alarm fire heavily damaged this house in collegeville Montgomery County this afternoon. Chopper6 overhead. The fire broke out aroba 4 00 on march wood drive. Officials say the blaze started in the garage then spread to the home. Yes everyone got out without injury. The caution still under investigation. A live look at Center City Philadelphia from our Temple University sky6 camera. Beautiful picture tonight. Some warm wet weather on the way before temperatures later take another tumble. Lets go live outside to meteorologist Melissa Magee in for cecily with the accuweather ups and downs. Hey, melissa. Hey, monica. We were pretty up today although it was on the cloudy side and dull and gray across the region. Right now in philadelphia were coming in at 46. 34 for reading. 38 in lancaster. 33 in the poconos. Weve got an easterly wind coming in off of the atlantic right now so we are dealing with some mist and drizzle at this hour. Temperatures will be coming up. 62 out to the west in pittsburgh and 68 in charleston, west virginia. Thats because of a warm front that will be lifting northward as we go throughout the rest of the evening and during the overnight hours as well. The evening planner showing you were up to 47 at 7 oclock tonight, still cloudy and misty outside. 8 oclock 48. Holding at 50 degrees at 10 and 11 oclock tonight. Well talk about the headlines and what we can expect, a few showers, mist and drizzle on the way overnight tonight and a big warmup on the way by to us. Also tracking changes for rain later this week. Well take a close look at the forecast and let you know how long this rollercoaster in our temperatures is sticking around with the full and exclusive accuweather seven day. Monica. All right, thank you. Meantime the weather was held up for holiday travelers, it has held up folks coming in and out of Philadelphia International airport. Thats where action News Reporter john rawlins is tonight. John how have the operations been there today . Reporter well, its been generally uneventful monica. Sometimes the 26th of december can get really busy here but not today. Looks like a lot of folks decided to stay put. There has been some Severe Weather to the north and west of us but it really hasnt had any impact here. After a christmas weekend hugs and kisses at the airport dropoff. With christmas falling on sunday, Many Employers made today a company holiday. There appeared to be fewer flyers than on a normal day. Shortly afternoon, the wait to show a boarding pass at the terminal c security line took less than a minute. Arriving passengers also surprised. Not busy at all. Like i sat at the food court. Maybe a third of it was full. Reporter harsh weather that hit the Northern Plains slowed Aircraft Operations at minneapolis today. Passengers from some other major airports reported crowds but say getting to philadelphia surprisingly easy. This woman flew from chicago ohare. The plane was packed but the good news is it left on time and there wasnt any issues with any of the weather, it didnt back things up. It wasnt that crazy from denver cause then we had an early flight. It was at like 7 00 so there wasnt many people there. This morning no lines or anything to get through. We actually got into charlotte about a half hour early and then today we left right on time from charlotte to here and made it in about 20 minutes early on this flight as well. Reporter youre looking at a live picture of folks picking up their luggage a las vegas flight. It came in several minutes early tonight. That has been the story through much of the day as flights are either on time or in some cases early. Some that weather in the North Central states in minneapolis is affecting thing. Theres a flight due in here at 8 oclock probably wont get here until about 9 30. For the most part its been an uneventful day for most of the travelers coming in to phl. Thank you john. While the airport may not have been packed today malls around the Delaware Valley certainly were. Folks were in search of post holiday deals eager to spend their new gift cards. Bob brooks live at the Cherry Hill Mall for us. Bob whats the shopping situation tonight there . Reporter monica, good evening ill tell you what, if you dont mind crowds and want some real good deals this is the place to be right now. Take a look behind me. You can see the walkways have been packed with tons of shoppers. You might bump into a few shoulders but if you can fight through that were hearing today is the day to shop. Just about every store front at the Cherry Hill Mall youll see signs for sales. Some stores even marking things down at 80 percent off. Some shoppers say the sales and crowds today might be bigger and better than that of black friday. Its even crazier today. Most definitely. Reporter thats may. She came out with her pants a tradition after the holiday mom what did you get. I have a lot of stuff. I have old navy, what is this. Modells. Reporter Sporting Goods stuff. How are the sales today, good. Very good, yeah. Reporter if you can believe it mays dad paul started the tradition. He likes think ahead. After christmas you shop for next year. Reporter for Courtney Johnson the new tradition is she simply gives her four boys cash on christmas. She says she stopped liking the presents she got them. I just gave up. Before it was gift cards. Now they can walk out without losing the money i give them cash. Reporter now they can pick out whatever they want even if is hot pink timberland boots. Hi mom. Businesses like whoops macaroon say today might be their biggest year. Reporter dorothy had to take back these pajama pants to victoria secret. They were too small. Reporter she says the line was 30 minutes and didnt want to wait. Its annoying. Im hot and ready to go. Reporter certainly hope everything worked out for dorothy and this is a live look at what it looks like right now at here at the mall. Its slowing down just a little bit compared to when we first got here but the mall is opened until 10 oclock tonight. If you want in on those deals thats how long you have until. For now reporting live at the Cherry Hill Mall bob brooks channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you, bob. In Center City Philadelphia it was a saint Holiday Season is coming to a close. Crews were breaking down the Christmas Village that surrounded city hall. Its one of the citys biggest holiday attractions. More than 80 vendors sold wears from thanksgiving to Christmas Eve. Coming up on action news tonight from inauguration to the passage of the beverage tax philadelphia mayor jim kenney talks about the issues that have kept him busy in his first year in office. A pep rally under way right now for the Temple University football too. Ahead a preview of their matchup with wake forest in the military bowl. Melissa. And monica, storm tracker6 live double scan radar 3d showing you a cold front off to our west. That heads our way overnight tonight and early tomorrow morning and temperatures will be rising because of that. Details coming up with the accuweather forecast. All right. Well have those stories and much more when action news continues in just a moment. A Drexel University professor is defending a controversial social media post. On Christmas Eve George Ciccariello maher tweeted all i want for christmas is twenty eight genocide. The professor said his message was meant to be satire. Drexel released a statement calling the comment deeply disturbing. University Officials Say theyre taking the situation very seriously and they have a meeting to discuss the matter with that professor. It has been nearly a year since jim kenney was sworn in as mayor. Vernon odom sat down with ken flee to reflect on his first year in office and to look ahead to whats next. Reporter mayor kenney flashes something of a is that correct casarcasticsmile. Hes a busy man who just last week wore a christmas costume to the delight of young children. I think if you walk around smiling all the time youll go crazy. Reporter the mayor is reflecting on his victory over opponents of his sweet and beverage tax soon to be implemented. We have Nine Community schools up and running. Well have 25 before the end of the term. And were moving forward with rebuild. Reporter Police Community relations appear to be stable and improving since he phased out the socalled stop and Frisk Program that triggered so many charges of illegal racial profiling. Aggregate pedestrian stops are down, weapons confiscations are up. Were stopping the right people. Reporter how do you explain that . Common sense, discipline, training. Reporter what about the federal probe of Union Boss Johnny Doc tea . Hes constantly in the fbi headlights. They have the files from mayor kenneys campaign but the mayor says hes done nothing wrong and hasnt heard a thing. He is a friend of mine and we grew up together but i dont know what the federal government doing or not doing and i cant really speculate. Reporter as mayor kenney looks ahead to the new year, one of the most intriguing and unpredictable questions on his mind, what could he look forward to from the Donald Trump White House . Hes talking about big Infrastructure Projects for cities and states. Im all for that cause that means jobs. We do we do disagree on some issues relative to immigration and other types of socialers. Reporter will president trump, for example, take away federal funding because philadelphia clinging to sanctuary city status refusing to turn over nine criminal undocumented workforce immigration authorities a threat donald trump made on his road to the white house. Im vernon odom channel6 action news. Fios in the house dave this fios party is da bomb fo shizzle its tv totally ahead of its time. Yo, let me check that. Oh snap. That x1 voice remote is crunk and it lets me search with the sound of my voice. What should i watch . Things have come a long way since you got fios. [nervously laughs] whats fios . Fios has fallen behind. Dont fall with it. Xfinity x1 will change the way you experience tv. Jamie is here with sports. Temple versus wake who will win. Temple. Im calling it. Temple owls putting the finishing touches on preparations for tomorrows military bowl against wake forest. Lets take a live look. There are the cheerleaders. Its the temple alumni pep rally in downtown washington, d. C. Going on as we speak. Owls fans and the cheer squad excited to see their team vy for their 11th victory of the season. They decided they wanted to come down here. They said coach make eight business trip for us. Put together a schedule thats going to be all about winning. The leadership, the guys know that, you know, if we dont come for a fight we cant lose this game. We just ready to go out there tomorrow, try to get this w cap off the season, get this 11th win i think thats the most important thing right now is trying to get this 11th win. That way we could make history again. Eagles get back to work tomorrow to get set for their final game sunday against the cowboys. Lets talk big picture. What does this team need to be successful next year. Nfl analyst paolantonio has his take. Carson wentz is your franchise quarterback. He extends plays. Hes got moxie and smarts. Hes touch he fights. Big picture number two. The defense needs to be fixed. They need to get a play making cornerback. A socalled shut down cornerback either through free agencies or the draft. Somebody where you can put him on the number one wide receiver and you can go get the quarterback and the second thing that needs to happen is jim schwartz remains the defensive coordinator, this team must blitz more. Schwartz must blitz in 2017. I agree. Blitz, okay hope sixers fans took a nap and had some coffee today. The sixers out west. Theyll take on the kings tonight at 10 30 p. M. Our tim time. The villanova wildcats atop the ap poll. They play wednesday against depaul but all eyes looking ahead to saturday when they visit creighton. Congrats to good guy and eagles linebacker connor bahrain got a future wife from santa this christmas. He instagramed this picture with his new fiancee laura flashing her new bling with the caption whew Merry Christmas yall and had an engagement wing emoji. If you cant get a super bowl ring you go with the next best thing. Theyre both winners. Thank you. Melissa magee with that accuweather forecast coming up for you next. Well be right back. Going to be an unusually warm day tomorrow. Lets find out the details from Melissa Magee. Real warm. Youll notice the increase in temperatures early tomorrow morning. Well show you whats going o on. A frontal boundary moving through. There could be a few showers. Theres some mist and drizzle outside already right now. Heres a picture outside. Sky6 live in hd look at the ben franklin bridge on this monday evening. Weve got a mostly cloudy sky and an easterly wind certainly having an impact on our temperatures. Right now in philadelphia, were coming in at 46. But its just 34 up in the poconos. 38 in lancaster. Milder right along the coast, fledge beach haven and the upper 40s for Atlantic City and cape may. Visibility is certainly an issue with that moisture coming in off of the atlantic. Were down 2 miles in Atlantic City, same thing for reading and allentown so definitely give yourself some extra time if utility on the roads. The clouds, the mist and the drizzle will be with us as this frontal boundary comes through. So heres satellite6 along with action radar. Mostly cloudy right now. You can see some frozen precipitation we had across our region earlier today lifting off to the north and east. This warm front lifts to our north and well widen out the picture. You can see weve got a cold front stretched out across the great lakes back through the ohio valley. Not a whole lot of precipitation associated with this but what you will notice is an increase and a rise in our temperatures. So, right now in philadelphia were actually coming in and coming up. Temperature at 46. Its 64 in cincinnati. 74 degrees in memphis. You notice off to the north and west much colder. Just 14 in bismarck, north dakota. 35 in omaha, nebraska. 41 degrees in chicago. So, the milder issue comes in tomorrow and the cooler air rushes in behind it as we get into the middle half of our work week. Over the next 12 hours were tracking a few showers. Well bottom out at 39 in lancaster, 38 reading, 47 in millville, 46 trees in philadelphia for the overnight low before temperatures rise overnight tonight. So, 8 oclock tonight future tracker6 showing up a couple of showers. Yeah, we have that mist and drizzle overhead and as you wake up tomorrow morning as the front comes through a couple showers will be around in the poconos down to lancaster. But heres the overall setup for us on our to us. Early morning showers. Then its mild by the afternoon coming in at 62 from for an early Christmas Eve<\/a>, christmas. Who needs that . Reporter the video is too grain flee to identify the vandal but it appears he or she is riding a bike stopping at each car just before two. A crews spent the day as she ising th assession the damag. Im going to try to do away without the insurance. Sad to see people have no heart, no feelings and come out and damage someone elses property. Im offering free tires. Reporter when he heard about the story on action news, bob everett of two sons auto salvage in southwest philadelphia offered free replacement tires to those affected. I couldnt believe people actually do this this time of year. Its the season of giving. Were hoping here at two sons to give back. Reporter and right now police have not publicly said whether they have a suspect in this case. If you know anything about who may be responsible for this is please give police a call. Reporting live in north wood, jeff chirico, channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you jeff. Wilmington Police Searching<\/a> for multiple gunmen involved in a shootout this afternoon that happened about 2 oclock in the 100 block of van buren street. Police arrived to find 12 shell casings scattered along the block. Two homes and two cars were shot up. Police say fortunately no one was hurt. Homicide detectives continue looking for leads and witnesses in the Christmas Eve<\/a> killing of an elderly shop keeper marie buck. Man dressed in a dark hoodie and clothing walked into that bucks store at sixth and titan saturday morning just after her and husband left. Thats when the gunman shot her 12 times. Then the gunman left not taking anything. She was a unbelievably warm loving person and the worst people didnt deserve to die like that, not alone the best. Family and friends say buck never had trouble with anyone and during 43 years of running that store she often let needy people have food on credit. They say christmas wasnt the same without seeing buck dressed like santa and they hope someone can find her killer. Concern is growing tonight over this missing woman and her great granddaughter from south jersey. 71yearold Barbara Briley<\/a> and little fiveyearold la mier was traveling to North Carolina<\/a> over the weekend. The family have not heard from them since they stopped to get gas in virginia Christmas Eve<\/a>. They were traveling in a rav4. Hamilton Township Police<\/a> are assisting in the investigation. Two alarm fire heavily damaged this house in collegeville Montgomery County<\/a> this afternoon. Chopper6 overhead. The fire broke out aroba 4 00 on march wood drive. Officials say the blaze started in the garage then spread to the home. Yes everyone got out without injury. The caution still under investigation. A live look at Center City Philadelphia<\/a> from our Temple University<\/a> sky6 camera. Beautiful picture tonight. Some warm wet weather on the way before temperatures later take another tumble. Lets go live outside to meteorologist Melissa Magee<\/a> in for cecily with the accuweather ups and downs. Hey, melissa. Hey, monica. We were pretty up today although it was on the cloudy side and dull and gray across the region. Right now in philadelphia were coming in at 46. 34 for reading. 38 in lancaster. 33 in the poconos. Weve got an easterly wind coming in off of the atlantic right now so we are dealing with some mist and drizzle at this hour. Temperatures will be coming up. 62 out to the west in pittsburgh and 68 in charleston, west virginia. Thats because of a warm front that will be lifting northward as we go throughout the rest of the evening and during the overnight hours as well. The evening planner showing you were up to 47 at 7 oclock tonight, still cloudy and misty outside. 8 oclock 48. Holding at 50 degrees at 10 and 11 oclock tonight. Well talk about the headlines and what we can expect, a few showers, mist and drizzle on the way overnight tonight and a big warmup on the way by to us. Also tracking changes for rain later this week. Well take a close look at the forecast and let you know how long this rollercoaster in our temperatures is sticking around with the full and exclusive accuweather seven day. Monica. All right, thank you. Meantime the weather was held up for holiday travelers, it has held up folks coming in and out of Philadelphia International<\/a> airport. Thats where action News Reporter<\/a> john rawlins is tonight. John how have the operations been there today . Reporter well, its been generally uneventful monica. Sometimes the 26th of december can get really busy here but not today. Looks like a lot of folks decided to stay put. There has been some Severe Weather<\/a> to the north and west of us but it really hasnt had any impact here. After a christmas weekend hugs and kisses at the airport dropoff. With christmas falling on sunday, Many Employers<\/a> made today a company holiday. There appeared to be fewer flyers than on a normal day. Shortly afternoon, the wait to show a boarding pass at the terminal c security line took less than a minute. Arriving passengers also surprised. Not busy at all. Like i sat at the food court. Maybe a third of it was full. Reporter harsh weather that hit the Northern Plains<\/a> slowed Aircraft Operations<\/a> at minneapolis today. Passengers from some other major airports reported crowds but say getting to philadelphia surprisingly easy. This woman flew from chicago ohare. The plane was packed but the good news is it left on time and there wasnt any issues with any of the weather, it didnt back things up. It wasnt that crazy from denver cause then we had an early flight. It was at like 7 00 so there wasnt many people there. This morning no lines or anything to get through. We actually got into charlotte about a half hour early and then today we left right on time from charlotte to here and made it in about 20 minutes early on this flight as well. Reporter youre looking at a live picture of folks picking up their luggage a las vegas flight. It came in several minutes early tonight. That has been the story through much of the day as flights are either on time or in some cases early. Some that weather in the North Central<\/a> states in minneapolis is affecting thing. Theres a flight due in here at 8 oclock probably wont get here until about 9 30. For the most part its been an uneventful day for most of the travelers coming in to phl. Thank you john. While the airport may not have been packed today malls around the Delaware Valley<\/a> certainly were. Folks were in search of post holiday deals eager to spend their new gift cards. Bob brooks live at the Cherry Hill Mall<\/a> for us. Bob whats the shopping situation tonight there . Reporter monica, good evening ill tell you what, if you dont mind crowds and want some real good deals this is the place to be right now. Take a look behind me. You can see the walkways have been packed with tons of shoppers. You might bump into a few shoulders but if you can fight through that were hearing today is the day to shop. Just about every store front at the Cherry Hill Mall<\/a> youll see signs for sales. Some stores even marking things down at 80 percent off. Some shoppers say the sales and crowds today might be bigger and better than that of black friday. Its even crazier today. Most definitely. Reporter thats may. She came out with her pants a tradition after the holiday mom what did you get. I have a lot of stuff. I have old navy, what is this. Modells. Reporter Sporting Goods<\/a> stuff. How are the sales today, good. Very good, yeah. Reporter if you can believe it mays dad paul started the tradition. He likes think ahead. After christmas you shop for next year. Reporter for Courtney Johnson<\/a> the new tradition is she simply gives her four boys cash on christmas. She says she stopped liking the presents she got them. I just gave up. Before it was gift cards. Now they can walk out without losing the money i give them cash. Reporter now they can pick out whatever they want even if is hot pink timberland boots. Hi mom. Businesses like whoops macaroon say today might be their biggest year. Reporter dorothy had to take back these pajama pants to victoria secret. They were too small. Reporter she says the line was 30 minutes and didnt want to wait. Its annoying. Im hot and ready to go. Reporter certainly hope everything worked out for dorothy and this is a live look at what it looks like right now at here at the mall. Its slowing down just a little bit compared to when we first got here but the mall is opened until 10 oclock tonight. If you want in on those deals thats how long you have until. For now reporting live at the Cherry Hill Mall<\/a> bob brooks channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you, bob. In Center City Philadelphia<\/a> it was a saint Holiday Season<\/a> is coming to a close. Crews were breaking down the Christmas Village<\/a> that surrounded city hall. Its one of the citys biggest holiday attractions. More than 80 vendors sold wears from thanksgiving to Christmas Eve<\/a>. Coming up on action news tonight from inauguration to the passage of the beverage tax philadelphia mayor jim kenney talks about the issues that have kept him busy in his first year in office. A pep rally under way right now for the Temple University<\/a> football too. Ahead a preview of their matchup with wake forest in the military bowl. Melissa. And monica, storm tracker6 live double scan radar 3d showing you a cold front off to our west. That heads our way overnight tonight and early tomorrow morning and temperatures will be rising because of that. Details coming up with the accuweather forecast. All right. Well have those stories and much more when action news continues in just a moment. A Drexel University<\/a> professor is defending a controversial social media post. On Christmas Eve<\/a> George Ciccariello<\/a> maher tweeted all i want for christmas is twenty eight genocide. The professor said his message was meant to be satire. Drexel released a statement calling the comment deeply disturbing. University Officials Say<\/a> theyre taking the situation very seriously and they have a meeting to discuss the matter with that professor. It has been nearly a year since jim kenney was sworn in as mayor. Vernon odom sat down with ken flee to reflect on his first year in office and to look ahead to whats next. Reporter mayor kenney flashes something of a is that correct casarcasticsmile. Hes a busy man who just last week wore a christmas costume to the delight of young children. I think if you walk around smiling all the time youll go crazy. Reporter the mayor is reflecting on his victory over opponents of his sweet and beverage tax soon to be implemented. We have Nine Community<\/a> schools up and running. Well have 25 before the end of the term. And were moving forward with rebuild. Reporter Police Community<\/a> relations appear to be stable and improving since he phased out the socalled stop and Frisk Program<\/a> that triggered so many charges of illegal racial profiling. Aggregate pedestrian stops are down, weapons confiscations are up. Were stopping the right people. Reporter how do you explain that . Common sense, discipline, training. Reporter what about the federal probe of Union Boss Johnny Doc<\/a> tea . Hes constantly in the fbi headlights. They have the files from mayor kenneys campaign but the mayor says hes done nothing wrong and hasnt heard a thing. He is a friend of mine and we grew up together but i dont know what the federal government doing or not doing and i cant really speculate. Reporter as mayor kenney looks ahead to the new year, one of the most intriguing and unpredictable questions on his mind, what could he look forward to from the Donald Trump White House<\/a> . Hes talking about big Infrastructure Projects<\/a> for cities and states. Im all for that cause that means jobs. We do we do disagree on some issues relative to immigration and other types of socialers. Reporter will president trump, for example, take away federal funding because philadelphia clinging to sanctuary city status refusing to turn over nine criminal undocumented workforce immigration authorities a threat donald trump made on his road to the white house. Im vernon odom channel6 action news. Fios in the house dave this fios party is da bomb fo shizzle its tv totally ahead of its time. Yo, let me check that. Oh snap. That x1 voice remote is crunk and it lets me search with the sound of my voice. What should i watch . Things have come a long way since you got fios. [nervously laughs] whats fios . Fios has fallen behind. Dont fall with it. Xfinity x1 will change the way you experience tv. Jamie is here with sports. Temple versus wake who will win. Temple. Im calling it. Temple owls putting the finishing touches on preparations for tomorrows military bowl against wake forest. Lets take a live look. There are the cheerleaders. Its the temple alumni pep rally in downtown washington, d. C. Going on as we speak. Owls fans and the cheer squad excited to see their team vy for their 11th victory of the season. They decided they wanted to come down here. They said coach make eight business trip for us. Put together a schedule thats going to be all about winning. The leadership, the guys know that, you know, if we dont come for a fight we cant lose this game. We just ready to go out there tomorrow, try to get this w cap off the season, get this 11th win i think thats the most important thing right now is trying to get this 11th win. That way we could make history again. Eagles get back to work tomorrow to get set for their final game sunday against the cowboys. Lets talk big picture. What does this team need to be successful next year. Nfl analyst paolantonio has his take. Carson wentz is your franchise quarterback. He extends plays. Hes got moxie and smarts. Hes touch he fights. Big picture number two. The defense needs to be fixed. They need to get a play making cornerback. A socalled shut down cornerback either through free agencies or the draft. Somebody where you can put him on the number one wide receiver and you can go get the quarterback and the second thing that needs to happen is jim schwartz remains the defensive coordinator, this team must blitz more. Schwartz must blitz in 2017. I agree. Blitz, okay hope sixers fans took a nap and had some coffee today. The sixers out west. Theyll take on the kings tonight at 10 30 p. M. Our tim time. The villanova wildcats atop the ap poll. They play wednesday against depaul but all eyes looking ahead to saturday when they visit creighton. Congrats to good guy and eagles linebacker connor bahrain got a future wife from santa this christmas. He instagramed this picture with his new fiancee laura flashing her new bling with the caption whew Merry Christmas<\/a> yall and had an engagement wing emoji. If you cant get a super bowl ring you go with the next best thing. Theyre both winners. Thank you. Melissa magee with that accuweather forecast coming up for you next. Well be right back. Going to be an unusually warm day tomorrow. Lets find out the details from Melissa Magee<\/a>. Real warm. Youll notice the increase in temperatures early tomorrow morning. Well show you whats going o on. A frontal boundary moving through. There could be a few showers. Theres some mist and drizzle outside already right now. Heres a picture outside. Sky6 live in hd look at the ben franklin bridge on this monday evening. Weve got a mostly cloudy sky and an easterly wind certainly having an impact on our temperatures. Right now in philadelphia, were coming in at 46. But its just 34 up in the poconos. 38 in lancaster. Milder right along the coast, fledge beach haven and the upper 40s for Atlantic City<\/a> and cape may. Visibility is certainly an issue with that moisture coming in off of the atlantic. Were down 2 miles in Atlantic City<\/a>, same thing for reading and allentown so definitely give yourself some extra time if utility on the roads. The clouds, the mist and the drizzle will be with us as this frontal boundary comes through. So heres satellite6 along with action radar. Mostly cloudy right now. You can see some frozen precipitation we had across our region earlier today lifting off to the north and east. This warm front lifts to our north and well widen out the picture. You can see weve got a cold front stretched out across the great lakes back through the ohio valley. Not a whole lot of precipitation associated with this but what you will notice is an increase and a rise in our temperatures. So, right now in philadelphia were actually coming in and coming up. Temperature at 46. Its 64 in cincinnati. 74 degrees in memphis. You notice off to the north and west much colder. Just 14 in bismarck, north dakota. 35 in omaha, nebraska. 41 degrees in chicago. So, the milder issue comes in tomorrow and the cooler air rushes in behind it as we get into the middle half of our work week. Over the next 12 hours were tracking a few showers. Well bottom out at 39 in lancaster, 38 reading, 47 in millville, 46 trees in philadelphia for the overnight low before temperatures rise overnight tonight. So, 8 oclock tonight future tracker6 showing up a couple of showers. Yeah, we have that mist and drizzle overhead and as you wake up tomorrow morning as the front comes through a couple showers will be around in the poconos down to lancaster. But heres the overall setup for us on our to us. Early morning showers. Then its mild by the afternoon coming in at 62 from for an early High Temperature<\/a>. This cold front moves off to the south and east on wednesday, High Pressure<\/a> returns, partly sunny but much cooler, High Temperature<\/a> coming in at 44 degrees by wednesday. Heres the exclusive accuweather 7day forecast. A few morning showers tomorrow. Otherwise its warm, a High Temperature<\/a> of 62. Partly sunny and cooler on wednesday and at 44 for the high and still 44 is where we should be or if not two ticks above average by then. On thursday, on and off rain, a High Temperature<\/a> in at 46. And in the wake of that on friday windy and much colder, only 40 for the high. Saturday clouds and sunshine for new years eve, a High Temperature<\/a> of just 39. Its going to be chilly as we ring in the new year, 2017. Clouds and sunshine on sunday for the first day of january, a High Temperature<\/a> of 48. And monday a mostly cloudy sky with a High Temperature<\/a> coming in at 47 degrees so weve got those showers to deal with early tomorrow morning, month today. Not a whole lot of precipitation expected but milder early in the day as you step outside by 6, 7 oclock temperatures already in the middle and upper 50s so very warm for us tuesday. Terrific. Thank you so much melissa. A local sports arena is being transformed for a major event this week. 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