Celebration. Lets head over to karen rogers with accuweather and matt pellman has traffic. Reporter i feel like we should have brought the party hats. Its cool and well have sunshine. 48 in philadelphia. 45 in allentown. 51 in millville. Temperatures above average once again today. Satellite and radar showing we have the clouds moving out. The rain moved out last night and we will see sunshine returning to the forecast today. Its been a while, mild, yes, but dismal, ten Straight Days of cloudy skies. The last sunny day was december 20th. 8 00 a. M. , 48 degrees, noon, cloudy, 50. 3 00 p. M. , partly sunny, 49. By 6 00 p. M. , partly cloudy skies and 47. So temperatures hovering just in the upper 40s today, thats still well above average. Wait until you see the numbers in the sevenday forecast. Well take a plunge in the overnight hours, well talk about that coming up in just a few minutes. Reporter good morning to you, karen, the story on the traffic front at this hour is what we dont have. We dont have fog at 309 at the five points intersection where yesterday morning we were so could in the fog. Clearer the roads are damp. We dont have accident any more, it cleared out by the wawa louis road. No delays on i95 southbound near the work season work zone and no delays on the vine street expressway and the traffic in each direction is moving fine. What we have are preparations for the mummers parade. Love park watch out for restricts along jfk boulevard at 15th and 16th. Looking good on the schuylkill expressway and the boulevard. Were getting reports of a bad crash in townsend, delaware. Meadow drive. Use highway one, instead. Alterations we have extra latenight service on the rails and modified on the subways and trolleys. Holiday schedules on patco and njt. One suspect is in custody accused of robbing a woman inside her north philadelphia home. Police say two masked men got into the house on north bank croft street through an unlocked door. During the commotion, the two children started crying. One of the robbers then said could you shut your children up and pulled his gun and fired a shot. Now, police say the one robber accidently shot himself in the leg, both men ran off with 340 in cash. A short time later police were notified about a 23yearold mantua gunshot wounds to the leg at the hospital. Police brought the woman to the hospital where she identified the man as the robber. Police are looking for the second man. The woman and children were not hurt. It was a spectacle that teamed unlikely until yesterday, legendary Comedian Bill Cosby pushed through the throng of reporters charged with Sexual Assault. The first time he has charged for any of the mount be claims associated with 50 women. Cosby has consistently denied the claims. A visibly weak and partially blind cosby made his way into civil court. The 78yearold had no comment. Action news spoke to his attorney last night she declared his innocence. Its sad for his legal team, for his family, that he would be dragged through this, that this would be a political manuver, something of a Campaign Promise as opposed to something that is necessary for justice. Montgomery county First AssistantDistrict Attorney said kevin steel said cosby admitted to giving constan what he claimed was an overthecounter benadryl and his sex was consensual. Take a look at the history of the reporting on the Sexual Assault allegations at 6abc. Com. The people in new seeldz ushered in new zealand ushered in 2016 minutes ago. Up to a Million People are expected to pack time square tonight. Security will be tight this year featuring 6,000nypd officers more than ever before. Katherine scott is live with two new years celebrations. Reporter lots going on as usual during the new years holiday from fireworks, the fancy brigades, 2016 is being ushered in with plenty of philly flare. The big day is almost here, new years day, before the mummers hit broad street they want to make sure every detail is as it should be. They held their annual public rehearsal last night at the Pennsylvania Convention center. This years spectators can expect old favorites and new additions as the mummers march down broad street. This is the judges view when the fancy brigade strut by 15th and jfk. Before you watch the parade tomorrow, dont forget about the fireworks tonight two shows over the delaware they use more than 4,000 devices. The largest shells are ten inches and shoot 800 feet in the air. Each show is synchronized to different sound track and enjoyed by folks on both sides of the river. The first show takes place at 6 00 p. M. , the second one at mid night. Were live at penns landing, Katherine Scott channel 6 action news. Is if youre heading to the early Fireworks Show make it home in time for dick clarks new years rocken eve. You can see it on 6abc starting at 8 00 p. M. Local company pep boys has a new owner, what does it mean for many mo and jack . Reporter its official, carl icon is the new owner of pep boys, 1 billion in cash closed the deal. No word on what will happen to the philly headquarters or the employees, pep boy was started back in 1951 by former navy buddies. 89 do you fell 178 points that put the index down 1 on the year. Futures are indicating higher open. Is if youre wireless carrier is at t say byebye to the two year contract. If new and existing customers want a phone they have to buy it up front or pay installments over a period of time. The new policy set to take effect friday january 8. Just about a week from now. Matt an tam, happy new year. Teap new year to you . Do you have your new years resolutions . I do. To read more i have a long list. Which one do i start with . Reporter i have a long list, lets look at Storm Tracker 6 live double scan around the region right now. Were dry and quiet, it is staying that way. We have our first dry day in a while. Lets go outside and start this day off right, enjoy it looking live at philadelphia international. Weve got some clouds up above, but you know what well see sunshine returning nicely through the region, especially this afternoon. Currently we had fog in the northwest suburbs not seeing that quite as much right now. Philadelphia international is looking good. The sunshine returns to the forecast swells temperatures below freezing for the morning lows. That will be tough to swallow. 48 degrees, mild already. The dewpoint, 45 a lot of moisture in the atmosphere, but were dry today. The winds out of the north at 3, the barometer is rising. Satellite and radar, showing the rain moved out of here. We have lots of clouds this morning, but they are breaking up at this point. The area of gray in the region, those are high, thin clouds. Well see sunshine mixing in with the clouds later today. It will be nicer than it has been. 8 00 a. M. , 48 degrees, clouds, 11, sunshine peeking through and 50. Thats the high today. 2 00 p. M. , 49 partly sunny skies, 5 00 p. M. , 47 degrees, the dreary days ending. New years eve, 50 for the high. Winds out of the northwest 8 to 16 miles per hour. At midnight tonight, the temperature is 40 degrees, ringing in the new year. Tomorrow, bright and breezy. Windchills in the upper 30s for new years day. High of 46 sounds great. Its nice with temperatures above average and sunshine. You have to watch out for chilly breeze that youre going to get as well. If youre stepping out for the Early Morning parade at 59 00 a. M. Windchill will be above the freezing mark. Heres the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, clouds to sunshine today. 50 degrees for the high today. For new years eve partly sunny. 46 degrees for the high, temperatures above average with sunshine cant beat that. Saturday, 43, sunday, most li sunny, 43. Monday, brisk and colder, 37. I want to point out the overnight low, 24 degrees. On Tuesday Morning when the kids are heading to the bus stop it will be 20 degrees colder than it is right now. Big change coming to the forecast. 38 is the high. Were below average those two days. Wednesday its milder. Its kind of a brief 123457 of the cold. 46 degrees with the sunshine. As you look at the sevenday period. Unlike what were showing you, were looking dry and sunny, just returning back to the winter chill. At least we get the sun. 6 11, were following a developing story, dangerous flooding washes away homes in the midwest. The waters could rise today. Bullets fly during a road rage incident in berks county. Reporter were seeing holiday decorations in landslide daily at main and walnut. Were not seeing a whole lot of traffic. Well talk about new jersey after the break. Chip kellys very first draft pick for the eagles talks about his firing next on action news. Welcome back youre taking a live look at the river rink. You can see the action news van him weve got our Katherine Scott down download talking about the two great fireworks displays, one youll see early in the evening for the little kiddies and one late at night for those who can stay out and party. Youve had bad days on the roads, today its been easy. Reporter the difficult today is finding things to talk about. I can always find things to talk about. Were thinking back on the year that was. 2015 on the roads, we had great changes in malvern, more lanes opened up, they are continuing the long term widening project. We have a new traffic in the northbound lanes between 0 and 401. What they are working on now are the center lanes, 6 months down the roads youll have three lanes in each direction. But the work continues. There was a lot of bridge work throughout 2015. Route 23 was shut down from april to october because of bridge construction thats open now. New Valley Forge National park because of the work on the knocks knox Covered Bridge yell springs road is closed until late january. Construction in mount laurel along union mill road at briggs road stay on 38 or use hainsport road or hartford as the alternates. New crash ocean county on the ramp garden state parkway to 72. That will effect you if youre going into manahawkin or lbi. Theres a wreck along dupont parkway route 1 at meadow drive, use highway one in new castle county. There was a lot of construction work 202 met up with i95. This morning everything is open, and looking good on the delaware highways. Stretches of the Mississippi River may see floods crest soon as today. Catastrophic flooding in the midwest is pushing rivers high above their banks. This is video of floodwaters sweeping away what used to be a house in missouri. 24 people were killed in the severe flooding and most of the deaths are people attempting to drive through fastmoving flood waters. Police are looking for the gunman in a road rage shooting in delaware county. Two drivers were yelling at each other, they pulled into a parking lot and one got out and fired a gun. At bullet hit the front tire of the pick up truck. The shooter took off in a nissan with a North Carolina license plate. Theres a cash reward that leads to an arrest. Eagles interim coach pat shermer will hold a press conference equator. Chip kelly was fired owe yesterday. Lane johnson was kellys first draft pick, but he said the man who brought him on was considered unapproachable by many players. Maybe the intimidation factor. Hard guy to approach after some of the changes were made. I dont know what his relationship was with other people, but i had a great relationship with chip. The eagles face the new york giants for the Season Finale on sunday. A christmas theme crisis, firefighters find someone in a chimney and the guy was not wearing a red suit. Our high today, 50 degrees, well above the average high of 41. In the overnights hours it gets cooler, but still above average. It will be about 40 at midnight. Details and the sunshine returning coming up in the forecast. Along with support, Chantix Varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. It absolutely reduced my urge to smoke. Some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. Some had seizures while taking chantix. If you have any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. Tell your doctor about any history of Mental Health problems, which could get worse or of seizures. Dont take chantix if youve had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. If you have these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away as some can be lifethreatening. Tell your doctor if you have heart or blood vessel problems, or develop new or worse symptoms. Get medical help right away if you have symptoms of a heart attack or stroke. Decrease alcohol use while taking chantix. Use caution when driving or operating machinery. Most common side effect is nausea. I cant believe i did it. I quit smoking. Ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. Minutes ago as the clock struck midnight in new zealand. Thankfully we Matt Odonnell updating us. Fireworks lit up the sky in au aukland. Russia is next. Tick tock tick tock maybe a little vodka. [laughter] reporter this is the platt bridge, if youre heading to the airport to get out of town, looking good, a little bit damp. We had the closure of the platt bridge in september. It was the arrival of pope francis to the area which was very exciting. This morning things just a little damp. Traffic on the betsy ross bridge is moving fine. 2016 will be the closure of this bridge. The falls bridge will close for emergency construction it will be closed for 40 days, well be talking about that a lot in the coming weeks. Reporter talk about lots of headaches. 9 00 a. M. , 48 degrees, lots of clouds, im starting to see breaks in the clouds, i think well see that more and more. Noon, 50 degrees, well see sunshine mixing with clouds. 3 00 p. M. , partly sunny skies and 49. 6 00 p. M. , 47 after a dreary stretch at least sunshine returning today mixing with the clouds and your travel weather showing no big problems just yet. We have fog north and west of the city. Not a problem, were seeing no flight delays at philadelphia. Boston and chicago currently raining at this point. No flight delays there. In atlanta, no flight delays, we may see them develop but not just yet. Going on to healthcheck, a new york company said it will offer the First Certified so sheer medical march 1. Million marijuana. They operate a growing facility in upstate new york and plans to open a dispensary in queens in january. The sixers are celebrating their second win in three games. They beat the kings 110 to 105 improving their worst record. They face the lakers tomorrow. Game three of the flyers West Coast Road trip took them to san jose. Goalie steve mason made 29 saves, but sharks scored twice in the third period that helped the sharks beat the fires 42. New on action news a federal grand jury is charged with a friend of one of San Bernadino shooters conspiring to give Material Support to terrorists, Enrique Marquez bought rifles that led to the mass shooting. Enrique marquez is said to go back to court next week. Nobody won the powerball drawing that means the jackpot jump 223 million and a ticket in pennsylvania is match five winner. 12, 36, 38, 54, 61 and powerball number of 22. Christmas has come and gone it wasnt santa that had to be pulled from an arizona chimney. It was a 13yearold boy who got stuck. He fell into the chimney. Crews pulled him out. He was not seriously hurt. But boy is he going to be on punishment for a while. 6 27. Meteorologist karen rogers has the new years eve night call. Well tell you about some cities in europe that are scaling back their 2016 celebrations. New on action news, a young man is gunned down on his bike half a block away from home. Montgomery county charges first criminal charges against bill cosby since young woman accuse him of Sexual Assault. Good morning, happy new new years eve. David is off, karen rogers is here, along with matt pellman. Reporter its breezy, but mild. In the suburbs its 44. Quakertown, 45. 48 degrees in center city. And 44 in chester. 46 in browns mills. 49 in hammonton, 50 degrees in dover, delaware. Heading out the door today were seeing clouds in the morning. That rain is off the coastline, so thats not an issue for us were dry for a change him were seeing breaks in the clouds, well get sunshine returning this morning as you head out the door. Youll see clouds and sunshine mixing in. It will be less dreary than its been. 48 degrees well be holding that at 8 00 a. M. Noon, 50. Sunshine mixing with clouds, 3 00 p. M. Partly sunny and 49. By 6 00 p. M. 47 degrees so temperatures above average getting some sunshine back and were keeping sunshine in the sevenday forecast. Well have the new years forecast and new years day all coming up in just a minute, matt. Reporter last time we get to do the morning commute in 2015. We hope to make it a good one, so far were looking good. Looking live at the schuylkill expressway even traffic on 76 is moving nicely. These are the eastbound headlights passing montgomery drive heading toward center city with no delays, no delays on i95 as you enter the work zone. Southbound near cottman avenue traffic is moving just fine. Were getting ready for the mummers parade. At love park watch out for restrictions jfk boulevard between 15th and 16th. Were getting ready for another opening at the burlington bristol bridge. Head to the turnpike connector bridge instead. In stat ford township, ocean county theres a crash partially blocking a ramp from the southbound lanes of the garden state parkway to route 72 going into manahawkin or lbi. That ramp is partially blocked. In delaware, were getting word of a serious crash dupont parkway. If youre taking a train out of wilmington, delaware, were seeing signal issues near marcus hook and 15 minute delays. A fastmoving fire damaged a house in camden. An action news viewer captured the flames shooting from the house. Nobody was hurt. Neighboring homes did suffer smoke and water damage. It is not clear what started that blaze. As well and new this morning, a young man was shot dead while riding a Mountain Bike in north philadelphia. 7 shots were fired at 25th and west clear field after