Poconos where the raining, reporting visibility of 1 mile. If you are traveling, we are looking at travel delays not just in the midatlantic and also Severe Weather in the midwest. Philadelphia reporting close to two hour delays. Chicago ohare right now, newark, new jersey, 208 minute delay, new york city also delayed and well talk Severe Weather out to the west, and Christmas Eve and christmas warmth coming up in the accuweather forecast. Orlando is the place to be cecily. The day before Christmas Eve one of the busiest travel days of the Holiday Season, its weather making it difficult and causing delays for travellers. Gray hall is live at Philadelphia International airport, we are looking at just about 1 hour delays right now. Indeed we are, brian it appears that the morning was the busiest. And lets give you a glimpse of what is happening at the airport. Here is one of those check point areas, and as you can tell not too busy at all, that is good news for travelers, what is the story of the day, most people telling me travel has been really good. Pack your patience. Its advised youll need if you travel today philadelphia employees say make sure you arrive early, lines are long as everyone scrambles to get to their holiday destinations, aaa predicts millions will be flying and stress and delays can be expected but travelers say its pretty calm. Everybody that works at the terminals are annoyed because of all the travellers but not for us, we love tropical disturbance. I expected people to be screaming but it was okay. Others have a case of the holiday blues trying to visit family. The flight was super full and went through a lot with my dog on the plane and they were not accommodating for him and it was ridiculous. Some places seeing two hour delays and so far in philadelphia, departure delays are averaging 30 minutes, if you travel American Airlines, make sure you are headed to the right terminal, they have increased their presence, that means there are terminals on both sides of the airport. If you havent flown since the summer or last Holiday Season and if are you looking for u. S. Airlines, there is no u. S. Airlines, here its American Airlines now. We want to remind you if are you headed to the airport check in with the airline the rain is causing delays and head to the airports website phl. Org, there is great information if you are traveling today, that is the latest from the Philadelphia International airport gray hall, channel 6 action news. Brian and sharrie back to you guys. Thank you. As gray is keeping an eye on the skies, we are watching the roads this afternoon and the weather is not helping us either, matt pellman is keeping things going or not so in the traffic department. I wish i could push them along quicker that is for sure this afternoon. Brian and sharrie that is the opposite of the airport, this morning things were busy at the airport and the roads so much, this afternoon not as busy as the airport but the roads are jammed solid, so many of them there are accidents not helping us out. This is exton approaching 100, an accident in the right lane and i believe its out there blocking the shoulder, as you come east of business 30 approaching 100, you are barely moving and stick with business 30 instead. And it slows farther west from 282, roosevelt boulevard, had is what so many of our roads look like, very wet and light fog and a whole ton of traffic, northbound side is jammed solid from the schuylkill to broad street and backed up from fox to the schuylkill and if you try to get to the schuylkill on 26th street, the tunnel, the ramp there is flooded out. And flooding along 95 northbound allegheny, several disabled vehicles as well. Leaving us with single digit speeds and an overturned vehicle on 423, and an accident approaching 425 approaching the side at 52 and washington township, 47 delsy drive is close, you may want to use greentree road. And still cleaning up the overturned tractor trailer there. Lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report on this hump day afternoon. In delaware as you come off the bridge and head towards 95, its also jam packed. Lots to talk about this afternoon brian and sharrie lets talk more in the next half hour. Thank you. And take action news with you over the holidays, load up the mobile devices are you giving or receiving this christmas with the 6 abc news and Storm Tracker and events apps, and they are available with much more for the apple app and google play stores. Breaking right now, police have charged a homeless man with a murder of a philadelphia psychiatrist, inside of a center city hotel. They say that emanuel killed doctor breaker, he was found dead with a belt around his neck and they have not said anything about bail for baez yet. Police say the driver of the car tried to make a right from 49th street on to grays avenue and hit the trolley headon, both men in the stolen car are in the hospital in Critical Condition and they are both under arrest. There are 26 passengers on the trolley at the time, vernon odom has more details on the stolen car and the suspects, and hell have a live report coming up at 4 30, this is 54yearold Harry Lawrence of yardley, charged with multiple counties of sexual abuse in a case that investigators call disturbing, it started decades ago and is developing today. Lawrences wife owned little joys day care out of their home in bristol and then falls township. Victims now in their 20s are coming forward saying that lawrence who had full access to that day care molested them while in their wifes care. Just watching the interview with the predator, you can see that he manipulated the victims, like the classic pedophile would, and had open access to numerous, numerous kids. The couple is now divorced and that day care has since been closed and more victims are coming forward. Police tell us today if anyone has any information or wants to come forward with their story to please give them a call, its a very open investigation, right now lawrence is held on 250,000 bail in bucks county. All right alicia, thank you. Right now in newcastle, the bodies of americans killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan this week, are being delivered to their families, that includes Staff Sergeant peter taub, a native of wincoat and graduated from ltenham high school in 2004. For a few hours this morning there was hope in harrisburg that after six months of negotiations, pennsylvania will finally have a budget but this afternoon the deal has since fallen apart with the state house and senate at odds over what should happen next. Action news reporter, john rawlins in the capital today. He break its all down for us. We in the house are ready and cannot vote on a budget without an attack. Despite the seasonal sights and sounds, tuesdays optimism, there could be a budget deal that evaporated today. The senate has yet to say which taxes are yet to be hiked. Some folks you hear a sales tax or a personal income tax. Senate republicans respond there are no specifics until the house deals with major pension reform. There is no new revenue without a pension bill. They are creating pain for schools in january. We heard from the city of philadelphia, i dont think mr. Hite or anyone else is bluffing, i think well see School Closures and maybe them the grown ups in the room will get together and resolve interest one way or the other. But House Democrats urged the passing of a spending bill without knowing the kinds of tax hikes. The budget got past and the funding mechanism and the tax code was passed later. With you they want to hear the details first. We need to know what the tax package entails, its one thing to say youll spend it but how do you get the money out there. Will the house pass up the pension bill will the deal resurface or will the budget stalemate drag on . John rawlins, channel 6 action news. Still ahead here today, a new poll on the race for the white house, find out where all the candidates stand. A fierce battle going on in iraq and the u. S. Is involved in what makes this fight different from the others. And Merry Christmas from the beatles, a p something announced for the fans of the fab four. Now a greeting from one of our service men or women. Hello im pfc wallace from Bravo Company and Regional Medical center in germany, seasons greetings and happy holidays to everyone especially my family. I love you guys and cant wait to see you. Iraq sent more troops to the city of ramadi today as they try to retake the town from isis, reep enforcements are taking the neighbor adds they captured its sunni fighters trained by the United States and iraq lost control of it earlier this year, if they are able to retake it will be the first major victory not involving kurd or shiite fighters. Amnesty International Says they have killed 200 civilians instead. Russians strikes are a serious failure of International Law and may amount to war crimes, they came into area where there were no military target targets pres here at the big board now, the latest on vote 2016, the new poll numbers out today and they are favorable for gop frontrunner, donald trump, he maintains his strong lead among his republican contenders at 39 this even as trump continues to defend himself from criticism for comments he made about clinton, comments her came pain calls disgusting and degrading and the last time someone was this far ahead in the polls was george w. Bush and he went on to win the nomination. Think he has a good chance of winning the nomination. He has a 2021 point lead but the same polls say he would have a harder time in a general election, half of likely Republican Voters say they would have a better chance of winning the general election with someone other than trump. Time will tell, alicia thanks. The woman accused of plowing her car into the busy sidewalk of the las vegas strip, 24yearold Lakisha Hollaway is facing hit and run and child abuse chargers. And acknowledged she would be in jail for the holidays, hollaway allegedly killed one person and sent dozens to the hospital on sunday, prosecutors say she intentionally meant to hurt people. She plans to plead not guilty. Merry christmas from the beatles, the fab fours music will be available on streaming service for the first time. Every beatles album and kplilations will be available. There are options for those looking for the music and the beats kept their music away until this point. Probably a big hit. I think there is a lot of interest in that. And interest in our forecast. Yes, because its raining out there and shows no signs of stopping and making a mess of the commute. Cecily tynan is standing by with more on what comes next. Hi brian and sharrie, a perfect day to be home wrapping gifts or writing the christmas cards, not a good day to travel and we are not alone. Its a wide view off double scan live radar the eastern seaboard a steady stream of rain we are dealing with, if you look across the midwest, you see the boxes in red, those are tornado watch boxes, its a vicious squall line sparking weather in the midwest and cold enough air they are getting snow near minneapolis, so tough travel day, on one of the busiest travel days of the year, now locally double scan live radar shows a solid band of generally moderate rain and if you look to the south of cape may, the yellow and orange, that is working its way up to the north and this rain is with us through the evening hours, temperaturewise though, its pretty mild, 61 in philadelphia, allentown 57, wilmington 57, millville 63 degrees, we have problems with visibility, not widespread dense fog but patchy fog, Atlantic City airport, two mile visibility and wilmington a half mile and allentown 4 miles. So the heavy rain and the low clouds and fog causing problems traveling. Future tracker 6 showing at 9 00 tonight, the rain will be here and temperatures will be rising, this is a warm front, so at 9 00, 65 degrees and the record high is 66 and i think well be beating that and temperatures continue to rise at 2 00 in the morning, the rain is out of here and 69 degrees, tomorrow morning Christmas Eve, you wake up at 7 00 in the morning and the rain is out of here and well have cloud cover and fog and temperatures off to the races, tomorrow we are looking at a record high for Christmas Eve, but all time december warmth. The warmest Christmas Eve 74, we are really shattering records, millville 74 and wilmington 73 and cape may 69 degrees, well some some sunshine so take the kids to the park if you want and if you head to services on Christmas Eve night could be a spotty shower ahead of a cool front, temperatures are mild and you dont need a big coat, by 8 00, 66 and by midnight 62 degrees, we are talking about record warmth and sunshine with a late shower possible with the cool front and friday Christmas Day, more clouds and sunshine and rain developing late in the day, the high though, another record warm day, 70 degrees, on saturday, periods of rain as we start kwanzaa, take the rain gear to the linc for the eagles game saturday night and the high rebounding up to 70 degrees on sunday, i know some kids that like to ski, my children, ill let you know if there is any cooler air next week in the exclusive accuweather forecast. Im turning on the fireplace no matter what. Youll be sweating. Still ahead, a 911 call over an elf on a shelf, what happened when officers showed up to a new jersey home. And its time to say goodbye to a new jersey state trooper who died in the line of duty. And why the experimental drug that has been keeping him alive is being pulled, well explain. Ok, were here. Heres dad. Mom. The twins. Aunt alice. You didnt tell me aunt alice was coming. Of course. Dont forget grandpa. Can the test drive be over now . Maybe just head back to the dealership . Dont you want to meet my family . Yep, totally. Its practically yours, but we still need your signature. The volkswagen sign then drive event. Zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on a new jetta and other select models. We are still working to learn the name of a man that was shot and killed on the street in mown airy, the victim was found between two parked cars on the 66 hundred block, police say he was shot multiple times in the chest and not who shot him or why. Family, friends and fellow officers came together today to say goodbye to a new jersey state trooper who died while on duty, a wall of officers lined up in the rain outside of Rowan University for the funeral of eli mccarson, he was responding to a call win his car hit a utility pole, he got caught in the wreckage and died later at the hospital. He graduated from the Police Academy in february and got married in september. Mean while, Police Officers in Lehigh County will carry a life saving antidote to overdoses, all Police Officers as well as officers on its task force will carry narcan to help people that overdosed on heroin, the number of americans dying from heroin quadrupled from 2002 to 2013. Septa workers played the role of santas elves, septa collected 10,000 toys and they stuffed the toys into two buses and delivered them to several different agencies, this is the 35th year for septas annual toy drive. And these students at the universal Creighton Charter school celebrated with a special concert. There were three performances for students and parents, students wore festive clothing for their heritage and various holiday traditions. Philadelphia police set out to make a familys christmas merry after a grinch stole all the childrens presents. And 200 people spent the morning in the hospital after a stolen suv slam nood a septa trolley. Coming up in a live report. Action news continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, Sharrie Williams, and brian taff. 4 30 now and action news continues for the reason that an 8 trip to wawa could cost a margate officer 38,000. And he is now fighting for his life but this time its a losing value, why this army veteran is denied access to the cancer drugs keeping him alive. Move over hollywood, philadelphia is the real tinsel town, we go to a factory where 85 of the tinsel in the world is made right here in the city of brotherly love. First, the morning commute ended in the emergency room for two dozen people in southwest philadelphia, this after a stolen suv slammed into a septa trolley on grays avenue sending 200 people to the hospital, but the most serious injuries were reserved for the driver of the suv and his passengers. Vernon odom is live outside of Hahnemann Hospital where the injures were taken. Reporter sharrie, passengers from the route 36 trolley that were injured in that mishap this morning are still being treated here at hahnemann for injuries they sustained in southwest philadelphia, the passenger in the stolen suv remains in grave condition at this hour. At 9 00 a. M. The driver of this stolen suv lost control going at high speeds and ran into this septa trolley, his passenger in the white hyundai is now hospitalized and may not survive and the driver is hospitalized at this hour. I talked to some passengers from the 36 trolley and they talk about their horrifying experience. It was a very, very loud boom and crash and all of us we just all were so hurt, i hit my face and fell forward, i mean i am really sore and just pray that the people in the other car are living, because it scared everybody. He is a big jerk. And slide up in the seat before me and hit my face on the window. Everybody was flying around . Yes. And they hurried up and rushed us off the trolley. Reporter the driver was taken to the hospital for treatment and released. Septa officials would not let him comment on the accident in south