Come record temperatures and now our forecast is showing not just one day of record warmth, we could have three days in record territory, today the forecast high is 56, and that ties the record high, and Christmas Eve the temperatures really surge, 76 degrees shattering the old date of 64 and that is the warm of the day ever recorded if philadelphia and a front is behind it and temperatures ease a bit but still Christmas Day tying the record high of 68 degrees, eye talk about the timing of the rain coming up in the full accuweather forecast. As the rain continues to come and go tonight and tomorrow, check back with 6 abc Storm Tracker weather, use live radar to make sure you know what is coming as we move through the holidays. Breaking now Philadelphia Police gave us new details about the death a psychiatrist inside a seventier city hotel, they say that howard baker was strangled inside of the roadway inn at market, and chad pradelli is live at Police Headquarters now where we learned the new details, what is the latest here. That is right Police Continue to search for the person of interest and they are making Good Progress and they have a better idea of what is happening in the hotel room when they bring him in. Howard baker checked in at 3 00 p. M. On sunday, surveillance cameras show he left his room and returned with a man and after some time they left and baker returned to the hotel the follow evening with another man and the follow morning he was found dead. He was on the floor and naked with a leather belt wrapped around his neck, he was pronounced on the scene, the cause of death is strangulation, police are looking for the second man, captain james clark says investigators are close to identifying him. The second person, a person of interest, a light complexion male wearing a red puffy vest is seen leaving the decedents room at 12 30 a. M. Carrying the victims backpack and his wallet. Sources say its unclear if the death is caused by a sex act or a robbery gone wrong, the 76yearold was a psychiatrist with practices in wynnewood and center city. He told his wife hes with going to the bar to watch the eagles game. The wife did not even know he was there, we are backtracking his lifestyle and whereabouts to get an answer to the questions. So this investigation is very much on going, we reached out to roadway inn and no comment. Breaking right now we have learned that one of the americans killed in afghanistan was from wincoat, Montgomery County, Staff Sergeant peter taub was one of six americans. He served with the air force special investigations and was scheduled at Elsworth Air Force base in south dakota, he leaves behind a pregnant wife and 3yearold daughter. Police say they shot the man who shot three people when they were watching the eagles game on sunday night. Nelson is charged with murder and other crimes, he got into an argument while watching the game in a garage, he got in a fight and started shooting, one of them remains in critical condition. Out going Philadelphia Police commissioner, Charles Ramsey says wants state police to take over whenever a city officer shoots a suspect. This came from the Justice Department who updated their investigation into police, ramsey asked for that investigation after a spike in Police Involved shootings. They made 91 recommendations to improve the department and they havented 21 of them and are working on 61 others. The perception is its biases because it is internal and part of our responsibility is to see to it that we can do as much as possible to guarantee to the public that it is indeed objective. Ramsey says the fraternal order of police is fighting against one recommendation that they should be interviewed within three days of a shooting, and he is against a bill in the state assembly that would stop officials from releasing the name of officers that shoot suspects. Alicia thanks. Police say it was a particularly bad hoarding situation in pitman, new jersey, and now officials there are trying to find homes for 100 cats, new jersey correspondent, nora muchanic, has the story of precious pets looking for a home for the holidays. Reporter they have the sweetest faces and no names and no homes, almost 140 cats rescued from a hoarders house in pitman last week, and they were brought to the animal sheltner clayton where the population exploded. We have room for 140 and we have 290 when we brought in this cats from pitman. The shelter is focused on trying to find homes for all the cats in their care. Our goal is 100 placement that is the control chief, he says that the shelter is so crowded cats are being kept in dog cages. They are stripped of the only environment they know, they are seeing the hands that are reaching for them are not harming them. To reach out and encourage adoption, the shelter offers reduced rates, if you adopt a cat that comes from the hoarding house you can get them for 25, and there is a toward for one deal, two cats for 95, and all the animals up for adoption are screened by a vet, vaccinated. They are all handleable, and a little freaked out. But with a clean environment, the cats are coming around, animal control officers continue to find more hidden in the house on sixth avenue in pitman where they were being cared for by a tenent. That is why they are asking folks to adopt the cats, more ideal would be under a generous familys christmas tree. Looks like the kittens like nora. The temple owls will try to finish their historic season in the boca raton bowl, temple is going for win number 11 on the season but they will be tested by a toledo team that won 9 games this year and averages 39 points per game. Kickoff is tonight at 7 00 on espn. Go owls. Its time for the action news traffic report. Several things i want you to give a hoot about, like this accidents, this isnt good, somebody plowed into the corruption sign from the off ramp to creek road and the police are out here assisting how do we prop up this sign, and an nj dot crew, here and people are many slowing down to see what happened. And its extra heavy southbound off the whitman bridge on this point on creek road, a spot that is normally busy. In clayton a pole came down and delsy drive is now blocked near Howard Street and fairview avenue is a possible alternate. But no issues in the southbound lanes of 55 but the southbound lanes of 95 in wilmington we are watching a crash approaching Delaware Avenue with redescriptions and the result is 12 Miles Per Hour to the concord pike, and high water on james street but that receded. And a crash at the bristol pike. And lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report on this tuesday. Slow speeds on the schuylkill 10 Miles Per Hour and a vehicle stopped along city avenue the southbound side of the schuylkill at president ial boulevard. Well check it again brian and sharrie in the next half hour. Thank you. Still ahead the two president ial front runners trade jabs after donald trump uses a vulgar word in reference to hillary clinton. And Pennsylvania Republicans come up with a plan to fund the state in the shortterm. What Governor Tom Wolf said about it today. And here is a holiday greeting from a member of our military. Hi, my name is ray williams jr. , representing philadelphia, pennsylvania, i would like to wish my family back home a Merry Christmas and happy new year, out at Joint Base Lewis Mcchord washington. Its the holidays, which means a house full of people, who all want to get online. So hurry and get verizon fios. Only fios has the Fastest Internet and wifi available, with speeds from 50 to 500 megs. And right now, for only 79. 99 a month online, you get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for your first year. Plus, with a 2year agreement, fios gives you 400 back, and all the premium movie channels for a year. So go online or call now for this great offer. Get out of the past. Get fios. [gus singing] dashing through the snow careful on the ice keep scratchin, cousin joe. [cousin joe singing] oh gus, youre much too nice [gus singing] a gift for uncle dave, and 1 for auntie jane mom and dad and grandpa zack all get a scratching game [everyone singing] oh, instant games instant games instant games for me 6 new holiday instant games from the p. A. Lottery keep on scratchin former prisoner of war, Sergeant Bowe bergdahl faced a judge today in a case that could lead to a life sentence for disappearing in save tan, he was arraigned during a short hearing and deferred entering a plea on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy the second count is rare and carries the chance for a life sentence and bergdahl has not decided to face a Court Marshall with a jury or a judge. He walked away from his post in 2009 and was captured by the taliban and spent five years there as a prisoner until the government traded five Guantanamo Bay detainees to get him back. He did speak to a film maker, it was first made public on the podca podcast serial. He walked off to bring attention to Serious Problems with leadership in his unit. Bergdahls next hearing is in january. Meanwhile, iraqi forces work close tort center of ramadi today. One of the biggest victories of the Islamic State since they took mosul the year before, the u. S. Coalition is providing air support for the mission. Republican president ial candidate, donald trump, is said to have gone too far with the insult against hillary clinton. He talked about how delicious was defeated by barack obama in 2008, Clintons Campaign staff said today they would not respond to trump but that his degrading language humiliated all women. And the nfl pulled the funding for the study linking football to brain injuries. It was given back in 2012, but our partner at espn says that they pulled the money because the money was awarded to the boston researchers critical of the year, they said the study will go on as planned making no mention of the nfl. Sales of homes plunged in november to the weakest pace in 19 months, sales of existing homes fell 10. 5 , its a set back to an otherwise solid year for the Housing Market and it may have presented many people from closing on sales in november and home prices are rising at more than double the pace of wages, here is a look at closing numbers and today the streak like this one, the dow is up 165 points and the nasdaq is up 2, and the s p is up nearly 18. Fewer americans have high Speed Internet at home these days, that according to the Pugh Research center that found that broadband and smart phones are responsible for the decline, 63 have high speed at home down 3 from 2013, but those that dont have in their home is up 5 over the same period of time. Lets talk about the accuweather forecast, there is a lot to talk about and a big holiday week, lets head to cecily tynan keeping an eye on everything, its a wet and warm forecast and it doesnt feel like the first day of winter, live on sky 6 hd, at Philadelphia International airport where the rain moved out and we have a low cloud deck and that is causing delays, and these delays are multiplies tomorrow, philadelphia reporting, two hour delays, newark, new jersey, jfk and the fog intensifying and another round of rain moves in. Dover 62 and cape may 54 degrees, the next 12 hours, plenty of clouds and temperatures on the mild side and the overnight low 44 degrees and center city 52 and the problem tonight though, is that dense fog will be developing and i think that fog will be with us all day tomorrow. Now satellite 6 along with action radar showing that the steady rain from earlier today pretty much lighter rain has moved off and still plenty of clouds and as i expand this view, we have a conveyer belt of moisture, its a stalled front and what this will do is pull in another round of rain tomorrow and some of that rain is on the heavy side. Future tracker 6 showing at 7 30 in the morning, plenty of clouds and dense fog and temperatures in the 50s, not a lot of shower activity, and the morning commute is not a huge problem but we see how rain is overspreading our region and across south jersey and that continues into the evening hours at 5 00, philadelphia 61 degrees, look what happens tom night, another round of rain and by 9 00, 65 degrees, the record high is 66 tomorrow and i think we have a good shot of tying that and that will not come during the day that comes in the evening, wednesday as far as rainfall, there is a pretty good agreement, we are looking at an inch of rain and some could get 1. 25 inch, this is a good steady soaking, fog with a soaking rain and tying the record high of 66 in the evening hours and thursday though Christmas Eve, this is when we have the effect with the winds out of the southwest, high of 76 degrees, that is an all time record warm day for december in philadelphia and then a cold front that moves through and brings another round of showers and behind that on Christmas Day, not quite as warm but still 68 degrees thark would tie the record high for december 25th, some rain developing in the afternoon and evening hours and saturday temperatures cool off a bit. Its going to be cloudy and on the damp side with a high of 56 degrees, if you head to the linc for the eagles game take the rain gear, people are happy we are not dealing with snow and cold, but not a bright and sunny forecast. It doesnt feel like the holidays. Well make it feel like that inside of the house. A deal to end philadelphias budget standoff does not fall apart. Plus, a shooting caused chaos in the mall what we know about the incident and the person behind it, would you share a hotel room with someone you didnt met, what if you could get half off the bill, coming up in big talkers. A Carbon Monoxide square forced people out of their homes in frankford, on Potter Street three houses were evacuated at 2 30, a co detector woke one couple up and the fumes were coming from a neighbors house and crews ventilated all the homes and no one was hurt here. The city of philadelphia announced a new longterm deal with comcast today, mayor Michael Nutter signed the deal with the cable giant, as part of the deal comcast will expand discounts to low income seniors and expand a network for city government, they get 5 of the cable tv revenues and last year that added up to 18 million. Pennsylvania governor, tom wolf is blaming House Republicans for blowing up a deal that would have ended the states budget standoff. Gop helped to negotiate the agreement and they walked away from it over the weekend, the republicans want to pass a stop gap measure calling it a responsible thing to do. Wolf promised to veto that today and said it would lead to deep furloughs and cuts of programs. Santa is not the only one on santas list so are veterans, the coatesville link teamed up to use their charter buses to deliver gifts to thats that serve our country, today they took them over to the residents and patients of the coatesville Resident Affairs as a thank you this christmas. A police motorcade delivered christmas dinners to families of Fallen Police officers, that includes the wife and children of officer brad fox who was shot and killed in the line of duty in plymouth township. The males for heroes travelled to gilbertsville to drop off the food this morning. Good to see that. Still ahead here today less than 24 hours after his daughter was shot, the father of a 10yearold berks county girl gives us an update on her condition. Plus, whats the deal . Im nydia han youll need a lot of aa batteries for the toys that santa brings, which ones last the longest . Coming up. Action news continues with the reason that a philadelphia priest could be getting out of prison for the second time in three years. Plus is this cute or cruel . One of the most adorable videos on the internet is quickly becoming one of the most controversial. And later she says no angels and no crosses and no cats but her maine teacher was forced to say goodbye to her hello Kitty Christmas tree any way. We begin at 4 30 in berks county where a 10yearold girl is recovering today after being shot sitting in her mothers car. Walter perez talk to the childs dad today, he joins us live in reading with an update on her condition. Reporter brian, that dad as you imagined very emotionality talking about his daughter who remains in the hospital tonight with a bullet lodged in her thigh bone. The victims father says his daughter is having a hard time process what happened. He says she is traumatized and doesnt want to come home from the hospital. He says its hard for him too because he works nights and feels like he should have been there to protect his family, it was 10 30 last night when the young victim was in the passenger seat of the vehicle when her mother rounded the block looking for a parking space. And someone with a gun opened fire and now one of the bullets remains lodged in her thigh bone. They dont believe she was the intended target. She is all but certain this was an accidents, the little girl and her parents lived here for a long time and never had a problem with anyone and the little girl is a real angel. Doctors at Reading Hospital are Still Deciding whether to surgically remove the bullet or leave it there. The dad says, its tough because his daughter is taking dance lessons and wants to be a ballerina, he says quote, we dont know how this will affect her ability to walk much less danc