Police in south jersey searching for whoever is vandalizing holiday decorations. Those stories in a moment, but first, we all knew it was eventually coming. It is here, were dealing with a cold blast that will stay for a while. Were taking a live look here via sky6 live hd in penns landing. If youre heading out this early hour youre going to want to bundle up, temperatures are below freezing. Meteorologist chris sowers joins us with a look at the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Chris you say its all about christmas. Its got to be cold. Reporter its got to be cold, last year we had the airconditioning on christmas day, it was so warm, 70 degrees. I agree it cant be warm on christmas. Ill give you that one. Reporter ill turn him over no you wont. Lets get you outside, wait until you see whats coming in the seven day. Ill tell you what, its going to get cold. Theres the view sky6 live hd down in cape may. Theres a few clouds, blustery and cold, temperatures in the 20s, windchills, this is the big story right now as jennette mentioned, you need to bundle up in layers. Heavier winter coat scarf hat that did the trick. 19 in philadelphia. 19 in allentown. Feels like ten lonely degrees in the poconos. 18 in millville. Feels like 25 degrees in cape may. Satellite and radar along action radar, heavy lakeeffect snow along lake ontario they picked up two to three feet. For us, sun and clouds today, a quiet start to the weekend overall, breezy and cold, 38 degrees is the forecasted high. It will feel like the upper 20s, low 30s throughout the day because of the wind. Blustery and cold weekend is on the way. Some snow is expected sunday night into monday morning, another bitter arctic outbreak arrives next week. Ill have the details coming up in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Jennette . Thanks for the good news, i think. You can keep track of the wintery conditions this weekend with 6abc. Com weather. Check the chilly temperatures and the hourly forecast and keep an eye on Storm Tracker 6 live radar to see if any flakes will fall where you live. 7 03 a. M. Wilmington firefighters will stay a final farewell to one of their own. Ardythe hope died last week after injuries she received battling an arson fire in a row home in september. A viewing will be held at the chase center on the river front. A funeral will be followed by her funeral at 1 00 p. M. Jerry fickes and Christopher Leach both died while fighting the same fire. Three wilmington fire stations will be renamed in honor of those three firefighters. Governor Chris Christie ordered that flags fly at half mast to honor frankie williams. Services will be held monday at boardwalk hall in atlantic city. Two men were shot and wounded on a north philadelphia street, now police are looking for suspects and motives. Gunfire broke out on the 3000 block of fontain street at 1 30 a. M. Police say when they arrived they found two men with gunshot wounds to their legs. Both victims were rushed to area hospitals for treatment and expected to be okay. Real life grinches are targeting signs of Holiday Cheer in one south jersey community. Police in evesham township are asking for neighbors to keep an eye out for the thieves and vandals on the prowl. Dann cuellar has more. Reporter its the Holiday Season and a lot of people put their heart and soul into their Christmas Decorations outside their home. Last week, ken norcroft set up a Christmas Dragon that his wife liked. He came out and saw it was gone, the thief leaving behind the stakes in the ground. It ruins the spirit of the season. Reporter that same night around the corner in the 100 block, an 8foot tall inflatable teddy bear was gone. I think its terrible and horrible thing to happen at the holidays. Reporter if that was not bad enough, someone vandalsized the christmas vandalized the christmas display. They cut the electrical wires. Reporter Evesham Township Police say theres increase in criminal mischief and theft in Christmas Decorations. We have a dozen reported, but you could double or triple it from homeowners who have not reported it throughout the entire township. Reporter despite those trying to ruin christmas, folks are trying to keep the holiday spirit high. I guess theres grinches out there that think its fun and games to go out and snip wires. Reporter its not fun and games to you. No, its not. Reporter police are urging people to keep an eye on the displays and that of their neighbors if they see something suspicious or someone they have not seen around the neighborhood, call police and let them check on it out. Dann cuellar channel 6 action news. Happening today president elect donald trump Kellyanne Conway will be part of the Christmas Parade in hammonton, atlantic county. The atco native will serve as grand marshall to the parade that celebrates hammontons 150th anniversary. Its a decision that caused controversy. The parade begins at bell view avenue and North Liberty street and ends at the Nj Transit Railroad tracks. Santa ditched a sleigh for a fire truck. They watched the Christmas Tree lighting when the the man in the red suit arrived. The High School Bands helped get everyone in the holiday spirit by playing christmas songs. Luminaries lined the outside of the historic dover house that was built in 1710. The oldest in camden county. With the fire in the fireplace, actors dressed in period attire and greeted guests. One visitor looked right at home on santas lap. We want to see your holiday lights on social media, use s 6abc lights. Send them to our Facebook Page facebook. Com 6abc action news. Or email them to join the action at 6abc. Com. tis the season. Saying goodbye to an American Legend. We have details on the Memorial Service for astronaut john glenn. Plus, when new delveries begin to arrive at the new wing of the Lehigh Valley hospital they will keep you warm thanks to some caring ladies. Reporter jennette, no no moe 60s and 70s afternoon the delaware and the Lehigh Valleys. For some were talking about snow. More to come in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Was a tough day in court for the dylan roof murder trial. He confessed to killing nine africanamericans at a charleston, South Carolina church in 2015. He said he chose the church in part because its the Oldest Black Church in the south. Were beginning to learn more details about those who want to pay respects to American Legend john glenn. The body of space hero and former u. S. Senator will be taken to the ohio state house for a public viewing. A Memorial Service is being planned at the ohio state university. The actual details have not been released. Burial will be at Arlington National cemetary near washington, glen died thursday near age 95678 he was the First American to orbit the earth in 1962. A Texas Police Officer is being praised by the community for his random act ofpatrollingn 11yearold girl walking to school in the cold. She had more than a mile to go before she got to school. Another driver witnessed the gs tur. He takes things you let of his front seat of his car and gives her a ride to school. I thought thats exactly what needed to happen. Thank you, great act of kindness. He followed up with a School Resource officer who is working with the family. He offered to pick the girl up daily if she needs it. What a great story to warm your heart this time of year. That is really sweet. Speaking of warm reporter theres no warm weather outside. Its cold, its the wind that makes it sting a little bit. Otherwise, temperatures are below freezing. Lets get you outside, go live on sky6 live hd. You see the Christmas Tree from our city hall camera our Beautiful Image this morning. Gets you in the holiday spirit. Temperatures will get you in the holiday spirit. Its quiet out there, its a nice quiet morning around the delaware and the Lehigh Valleys. The radar is confirming that. We had snow showers and snow squalls develop around here, the quakertown area stretching to doylestown. It wouldnt surprise me if there are slick spots up here. Everybody else steered clear of that. Be cautious in bucks county. 38 degrees thats the High Temperature were shooting for today, starting out as 26 these are the normals, you can see temperatures are well below average like yesterday and and the day before. 27 in allentown. 20 in the poconos. 26 in millville. The freezing mark of 32 degrees down in cape may. Heres satellite and radar along with action radar. Again you can see for the most part were quiet, whats happening here, you get off the front range theres an area of low pressure starting to develop. Thats going to ride the polar air it will ride that air mass east, it will get in here sunday night into monday morning. The good news, if you dont like snow. Warmer air will start to punch in. It will start overspreading the area, what may start out always snow up through here it will turn into rain sunday night into monday morning. Future tracker 6, combination of sun and clouds. Sunday morning, temperatures well below freezing. Clouds increase, that locks the cold air in, thats why the precip starts out as snow in the lay afternoon hours on sunday. This is Late Afternoon hours on sunday. This is sunday evening. I suspect there will be light snow flying across the Lehigh Valley at that point. Everybody else else more than likely will stay dry. Note the temperatures, mid to upper 30s, its warmer than what were showing here. But it will be cold. Sunday into monday, here comes the milder air working through the region. Everybody changes over to rain, it will be a chilly rain with highs monday in the upper 40s. The take away, mainly rain for philadelphia points south and east. It will start out as light snow north of the pennsylvania turnpike, the Lehigh Valley and the poconos. Even there it is expected to change over to rain by dawn. There could be a slushy accumulation for areas far north. This is the Lehigh Valley and the poconos. The immediate philadelphia area not expecting anything more than programs a perhaps a few flakes thats about it. One to three in the Lehigh Valley and the poconos im leaning closer to one than the three. It doesnt take much to create slick spots. Highs today upper 0s, close to 40 degrees, look for a combination of sun and clouds, windchill in the upper 20s and low 30s. Speaking of 20s, everybody dropping down overnight, allentown, 22, cape may, 28. Speaking of dropping down, later next week. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, 38 degrees today becoming cloudy tomorrow, 37. Periods of rain for monday, 49. That will be the warmest temperature out of the next seven days because the next arctic blast arrives by midweek. 40 degrees, 30, thursday, and fridays high, 30 degrees, windchills in the 20s, gray what do we call that kind of cold . Brutal. Horrific. You love it chris. Reporter im very happy now. As long as as youre happy thats all that matters. 7 16 this weeks art of aging Lehigh Valley hospital is opening a new Family Health pavilion next summer. They are getting help from a Close Knit Group of volunteers. Tamala edwards has the story. Reporter this past weekend the members of the auxillary Lehigh Valley hospital muhlenberg staged a knitin. There goal. 100,000 halts by july. Hats by july. They hope to have Newborn Services for the first time in the hospitals history. How else to bring new joy to a new mom. What are we calling this . Warming babies heads. Reporter they are raising money for a healing garden. They are passionate about their work. Reporter the group has been around as long as the hospital itself. Grace joined the group 22 years ago. Its very rewarding to know that we can make a patient feel a little bit better. Reporter with the knitin they are bringing joy and comfort. As a grandmother who doesnt get to see her grandchildren, it makes me feel good just to do this. Tamala edwards channel 6 action news. Welcome back thank you for joining us, your time is 7 20, were taking a look outside live with kelly and michael at the platt live on sky6 live hd at the platt bridge. Heres a looks whats going on around the delaware and Lehigh Valley this weekend. Its the christmas village, its it is return of germany american weekend. All day today 11 00 a. M. To 8 00 p. M. And tomorrow 11 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. Malvern prep will hold a Free Christmas Party today. Children who attend will receive stockings filled with goodies from santa, plus theres plenty of food and craft and activities and rides on a fire engine how cool is that . That happens from noon until 4 00 p. M. A holiday favorite returns to penns landing today watch a parade of boats decorated for the season with music lights and lots of fun for the entire family at the parade of lights. 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Right now i want to focus on the arctic blast arriving later next week. This is associated with the polar vortex. This is philadelphia right here. The polar vortex will drop in from the North Western territories of canada close to alaska. It will do one of these jobs where it rounds the hudson bay, this body of water here. This whole area turns cold. This gets down to the panhandles of florida. Ice cold next week. If year lucky we hit 30 degrees. The really cold stuff will be the great lakes, where temperatures will be five to ten below. Overnight lows, 25 below zero. We missed out on the really cold stuff, but cold none the less. Arctic front arrives bitter windchills, the coldest air is on the way since february 11th of last winters. Guys . Were not looking forward to that, thanks chris. Turning to sports, now, Jordon Matthews may be returning to the field with the eagles. The flyers look to stay red hot heres saturday morning sports. Reporter flyers are the hottest team in hockey they want to keep it going today at home against the dallas stars. Last time the flyers one 8 in a row, 14 seasons ago, keith primo was the captain. Claude giroux is the reason they are on this streak he is tearing it up. Five goals during this streak. The reason we are winning, we are playing as a team. Everybody is contributing. Everybody is doing their job. The chemistry is good, and steve mason is playing good hockey. He is giving us a chance to win the games. Reporter giroux signing autographs on his top Digital Trading card. You can download it on your phone or ipad to get access to the Digital Trading card. We have to come out and make a statement thats what Jordon Matthews says. He will play sunday after missing last week with an ankle injury. He did not have fun watching from the sidelines in cincinnati. He is itching to return and return the eagles to the win column. Its been a frustrating and banged up season format that yous. Its a recurring theme, but at the same time im still positive. Obvious it was not ideal. I didnt think i would miss my first game at 24. At the same time it could be worse. Im