Snow, sleet and rain. As we look live outside you can almost feel the cold just from checking out the Winter Wonderland picture in spring mountain, Melissa Magee joins us with an update on the latest condition. Skiers love this weather but not everyone. That is right bundle up with extra layers, because temperatures once again on the cold side. Right now in philadelphia we come if at 22, 21 in allentown and 19 in reading and lancaster, and cape may 23 and the windchill is a factor. The windchill up to the north in the poconos just 3 degrees 19 in reading and 14 in trenton and wilmington coming in at 16 degrees. Some changes are headed our way, a lot of folks trying to get out on this friday doing traveling this time of year. We look at the board from philadelphia boston and chicago and down to the south in orlando and atlanta and across the southern plains, no weather related delays right now, but things change into the overnight hours for the midatlantic and the northeast. A Winter Weather advisory is posted and goes up at 10 00 p. M. Lasting through 11 00 a. M. On saturday. Well be tracking snow and then eventually freezing rain and liquid precipitation across the delaware and Lehigh Valley. And future tracker 6 showing you overnight youll track the moisture and move on through. It starts out as snow north and west and then the mixed bag of precipitation and rain to the south across jersey and delaware. The big picture showing you a mess on our way, and a lot to track, saturday morning through midday we track snow sleet ice and rain, and saturday afternoon and night a lull in the activity and temperatures are rising and that causes us to get rain into sunday morning. A lot to go over we have the deal tails in the exclusive accuweather forecast. A lot. Thank you melissa. Meantime, road crews are spread out across the region stay ago head of the Winter Weather, bob brooks live in northeast philadelphia with a look at the preparations already underway. Reporter rick, preparation is key in anything and that stays the same for winter storms. Look behind me here, the 6 highway yard, they dumped a lot of salt into the truck and if it gets nasty out we could see freezing rain and they want salt ready to unthaw it. The goal is to get prepared. The city of philadelphia is loading 70 trucks and have 50,000 tons of salt at their disposal and the weather could get in an of they overnight. We are loading the trucks to salt the streets in the city. The snow could turn to freezing rain, chopper 6 hd we saw penndot crews dumping brine in langhorne. Be patient with us, well get out there if there is freezing rain there is not much to do but wait for the temperature rise but well salt and keep the streets clear as much as possible. People we spoke to in the city say its not the type of cold you get used to. This is the kib of cold that makes you want to stay inside all day. It certainly is that kind of cold. Another live look you see again they are getting some of those 70 trucks ready with the 50,000 tons of salt in case it does get nasty out tonight. And the keyword is patience if it does start to freeze, give them time to clear the roads. Bob brooks, channel 6 action news. Bob, thank you. Firefighters had to deal with sub freezing temperatures as they battled a large house fire in burlington county. Two firefighters are treated for smoke inhalation here in southhampton township. The blaze broke out at 12 30 on the 500 block of ridge road. They called in a tanker truck for more water. And two Police Officers are row kofg from an earlier morning car crash. Their cruiser collided on broad street and snyder avenue with another caf at 2 00 a. M. The officers were taken to the hospital but none of the injuries were lifethreatening we are told. Princeton university suspended their mens and womens diving teams. A report came about offensive material being shared by student athletes, the decision about the remaining athletic schedule is pending the swim and dive has two meets and the Ivy League Championships as well. Police say that several packages have been stolen from doorsteps in philadelphia. This video shows a man taking a package from the 100 block of morris street last week. And then a man was caught taking a package from the 100 block of carp enter street as well. Philadelphia sheriffs deputies were on a mission shopping for toys and gifts to give to needy children part of a toy drive to make sure no local family is forgotten this christmas. Annie mccormick has more. Remembers of the Philadelphia Sheriffs Office were dispatched to the five below store for an important job. Buying gifts for kids that need a little help. Disabled veterans families and family shelters and schools. Its just all the way around we are trying to reach as many families, the less fortunate. The list of who they are helping has expanded since it started years ago. The sale of these tshirts raised more than 5,000 for the gifts. We have sheriffs shirts with a nice toy drive on the back, and the proceeds are used for the toys. Match making the list and checking it twice they carried the goods away until its time to play santa and deliver them to the children. This is awesome and touches our heart for many of the offices. Santa has a sleigh and the Sheriffs Office has their own transport van and entire fleet. They will use the vehicles to transport the toys to the kids starting tomorrow. Channel 6 action news checking sports the Philadelphia Eagles only have three games left in the season, the 58 birds face the 76 ravens, both veered in Different Directions after starting the year with three state victories. The ravens are rebounded to remain in convention for the playoffs. There is more ahead on action news at 12 30, some holiday decorations may pose a danger to pilots. Well explain the warning from the federal government. And new information about the person that murdered a woman on a running trail in new york city. What police are saying about this unsolved case. When we come back. A gunman with a violent criminal past is in custody after shooting a Police Officer in the head during a chase. They were locked in a standoff in the city of mount vernon. They stormed the building using tear gas, the Police Officer that was shot remains in intensive care unit . We have new dashcam video in western pennsylvania. It started early Tuesday Morning troopers say when they tried to pull over a suspicious vehicle the suspect drove off and he held a gun to a female passengers head and threatened to shoot her. He began shouting im going to kill her and pushed the point harder against the females head. And then an officer opened fire and shot the suspect and was treated at the hospital and facing multiple charges. The woman he threatened is doing okay. Investigators are searching for the person that murdered a woman after she went for a run in new york city. She was killed back in august and they developed a profile of the person responsibility. Lindsay davis has the new developments. Reporter new York Police Say they are closer than ever for identifying the person for christinas murder. We are still getting tips. She was seen here in this video, jogging into a queens park in august just moments before her murder. Police are releasing the profile of the suspect, likely a male that may have lived in or frequented the park and was a familiar face to others and that the suspect may have had cut cut to his hands or face. And changed his appearance. Profiles are based on experience and what you find at the scene and common for people that commit sexual assaults in parks to have frequented or lived in the parks. This is prompting prosecutors to appeal to new york state for authorization for a new time of testing. We have dna from her neck and fingernails from the same person. Familial dna testing by matching with them to potential relatives already in the system. Something that the victims father is pushing for as well. It will fine a relative of the killer, a brother or father or a son. And this person, that they locate must be a criminal. His father returns daily to the jogging pass where his daughters life ended brutally. I go back daily, its Peaceful Place for me and i can think there. He goes with the hopes that the person responsible comes back. Lindsay davis, abc news new york. President elect donald trump has nominated Campaign AdviserDavid Friedman to serve as the u. S. Ambassador to israel a sign of possible changes to the u. S. Policy changes with their dealings with israel. To recognize jerusalem as the companys capital and move the embassy there to tel aviv. Other administrations have not made the move because of security issues. The faa is warning people that their holiday decorations could cause problems for pilots, the federal Aviation Administration is concern that new Holiday Light displays to project lasers could shoot past the houses and into the sky to distract pilots. They say make sure the projection box is not aimed too high. Several the companies that make the laser light say that the products comply with faa guidelines. Facebook is taking new steps to crack down on fake news stories, it will focus on the worst offenders and joined force with abc news and other Fact Checkers to separate the real stories from the fake ones they plan to use a red label saying its being disputed by a third party. And a link to help people decipher if the story is real or fake. And people can have mcdonalds delivered to their doorstep to three cities in florida. They will begin testing them at 200 restaurants in tampa, orlando and miami. Customers can offer off the menu and deliver through uber eats. And still ahead on action news at 12 30 another check of the forecast for you, as we look live outside. Sky 6 hd showing you a sunny but chilly picture of the ben franklin bridge. Melissa magee has an interesting weekend for from accuweather when we come right back. Nasa now has eight new eyes in the sky to monitor hurricanes in space. They launched micro satellites into space. That rocket took the satellites up to orbit each are the size of a carry on suitcase, the 157 Million Mission can measure wind speeds even through heavy rain and that should improve forecasts of hurricane intensity. Speaking of intense, the weather is pretty chill. Its chilly today and then the snow and the mixed bag and rain. A lot to go over. Here is stormtracker 6 live double scan radar you can see its dry right now but snow is starting to gather to the sound. South jersey and delaware. Yet to make it to the ground. Things will moisten up through the overnight hours into the day on saturday. We track all the precipitation across much of our region which is why the Winter Weather advisory is mosted. Right now in philadelphia 22 and the dew point at 4, the air is really dry and the pressure 30. 48 on the rise, winds out of the northwest at 3 miles per hour. And north and west of town in the teens and 20s, 20 in tannersville and 21 in slatington and 22 in center city and down in new jersey, 4 in hammonton and ewing and 26 in smyrna. Here is satellite 6 along with action radar its pretty dry and quiet across our region work have a few high clouds across the area and sun give ways to increasing clouds as we go through the afternoon as we track that moisture that will eventually make its way into the delaware and Lehigh Valley. Its cold and never feel like 28 degrees with the westerly wind, dress for windchills in the low teens and the low 20s across the region. Overnight tonight, more clouds and we track the snow that aives really after midnight, we bottom out at 24 degrees in philadelphia. Here is future tracker 6 at 6 30 in the morning, we have snow along the i95 corridor from the areas north and west. But not too far behind we have the frozen precipitation on the way, 8 30 in the morning we fine the transition from snow to sleet. And rain across south jersey and delaware. Holding on to the snow for the Lehigh Valley and up to the poconos and 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow rain for most locations, we get a break if the activity and its not until we get into sun morning that we track another batch of rain that heads our way. As far as the front end snow, no accumulation in south jersey and delaware, and a coating to inch of philadelphia and interior sections of south jersey and 1 to 2 inches in allentown, and up to the poconos you find the to 5 inches of snow before you get the gradual change over from snow to rain. On sunday the eagles are at the ravens in baltimore and they are taking them on. 2 00 p. M. Is the kickoff. 49 degrees and rainy and dreary and Fourth Quarter 45 with the northwesterly wind. Here is the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast still cold today and that snow arrives after midnight and a high of 28, saturday snow to start and then changes over to ice and then rain. And the longer you are to the north, the longer you will find the transition, a high of 48. On sunday its cloudy with periods of rain and High Temperature up to 60 and then sunday night well bottom out at 27 and then its cold once again on monday. A high of 34 and we stay in the 30s on tuesday and then the 40s return with the arrival of winter next wednesday. Winter is not here yet . Thank you. Its expected to be a big weekend for star wars fans, rogue one hit theaters last night. The first stand alone star wars movie and follows the story of a group of rebels trying to steal the plans for the death star. Die hard fans enjoyed star wars themed drinks and a band and star wars food before the movie. Action news spoke with fans inside. It was amazing. Really awesome. Its star wars you kidding me. It was exactly what i was hoping to expect from it. I dont know how to put into words its like crazy. Rogue one is produced by a division of disney the Parent Company of 6 abc. Topping our people scene, actor and producer, Ryan Reynolds has a store on the alcohol why walk of fame and the actor dedicated it to his father but his daughter james stole the show, the 12yearold ran to the stage and held up the microphone. He and his actress wife blake lively have another daughter born in september. This weekend its part of the fyi holiday special and karen rogers takes us to a one of a kind shopping spot in old city. Art in the able in old city is a dock vails lovers paradise. We want to be the home bar supplier. Accessories and unique mixers. Stuff you dont see anywhere. Honey suckle sour mix. 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Windchills will be in the high teens and low 20s. 26 in allentown and sun giving way to clouds and we are tracking the wintery advisory for tonight starting at 10 00. Thank you. Finally folks are flocking to the small town of rudolph, ohio, because they want the cancellation stamp on their holiday mail. The tradition began in 1976 to celebrate the towns name and the post office became special rudolph postmarks and now brightens peoples holidays around the globe. We are tracking the Winter Weather heading our way. Well check back in with road crews and the latest from a having remarkable success with technology in the classroom and helps children with vision issues, well show you how it works coming up today at 4 00. Now for meteorologist, Melissa Magee, david murphy, and the entire Action News Team im Rick Williams have a nice afternoon. Aholidays are about joy again. Where days are filled with magic instead of madness. At t. J. 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