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WPVI Action News Weekend 7AM January 8, 2017

Making it feel miserable. If youre heading out, there are slick spots out there. If you can avoid going outside, stay inside in the warmth. A good idea to check on he eldey family members and neighborhoods. Speaking of going outside, chris sowers giving us a real feel. Reporter it was not a wise decision to come out here, it is blustery and bitterly cold, my ears are frozen. Youll need to bundle up in layers, youll snead a hat and scarf and gloves to stay warm. One of the problems were running into this morning, because the temperatures are so cold, obviously theres snow all over the place, none of it has melted. Back roads, the roads are covered. Theres icy patches out here, you need to take your time on the roads. Even some of the main roads have slick spots, they did a fabulous job on the main roads in philadelphia. Once you cross the bridge and get into new jersey and delaware, theres more snow out through there, than what the city experienced. Also, when temperatures are as cold as they are salt is less effective. The parking lots and sidewalks, things like that, what appears to be wet is glazed over. Heres a problem i ran into, the fluid i was trying to clean my windshield and the fluid froze, that was affecting the vision. Lots of problems with the cold. Teens for everybody, Single Digits in the poconos. 13 in warrington. 11 in quakertown and 11 degrees in pottstown. Glassboro, 14. Agenda beach, 12. Hockessin, 13 and woodbine, 14 degrees. You factor in the winds, feels like ten below in the poconos, 2 degrees in philadelphia. 2 below in Atlantic City. Salt sat that storm is pulling away, it is moved north into the canadian maritimes. Well have a combination of sun and clouds, and perhaps a flurry north and west. Theres a high of 25. But feeling no warmer than the Single Digits. Speaking of Single Digits were dropping into the Single Digits with actual air temperatures. Ill be back with that story and a warmup, alicia. Come back into the cozy studio stay with 6abc. Com weather for snow updates and stay connected following each of other meteorologists on facebook and twitter. Time 7 03 were following breaking developments in the murder of a Montgomery County teenager grace packer. Prosecutors charged the 44yearold boyfriend of the teens mother of kidnapping rape and murder. Jacob sullivan of Montgomery County was charged with the murder. Bucks County District attorney said sullivan and sara packer the mother of the 14yearold victim conspired to kill the teenager for money. Essence Jacob Sullivan conspired with sara packer, graces mother to kidnap rape and murder her. Thats exactly what jacob as you sullivan has been charged with doing. He did have a coconspirator. Sara packer reported her adopted daughter missing july 9. She did that know full well the teenager was murdered the day before. In october, grace packers dismembered body was found in bear township. We believe well approve this was a rape, murder, fantasy that was shared by Jacob Sullivan and sara packer. And they made this fantasy into a horrible heinous gruesome reality. Weintrob did not say how they expected to profit from the teens death. The mother has not been charged with murder. But weintrob said they heavy to solve that part of the case very soon. Take a look at this action news viewer video, 70 people spent the night in a shelter because of a fastmoving fire in Camden County. The fire left the apartment buildings in ruins. Firefighters did not have an easy time putting out the flames there. Jeanette reyes has the details. The top floor of our unit is on fire. Reporter Camden County crews battled the blaze in government township that broke out at 10 00 at lake view apartment. The fire went from 1 to threealarms as flames shot through the roof and engulfed the entire building the gas leak intensified things feeding flames. The roof across the parking lot was on fire with a giant hole in it. Reporter what were you thinking . Scared, wondering how much it was going to spread and if i needed to get out of the building or not. Reporter there were initial reports of residents trapped inside, but firefighters were able to rescue them. Residents in nearby buildings were evacuated as a precautionary measure, those displaced by the fire many elderly were taken to the office which was used as a temporary shelter until other accommodations were made. 75 residents were displaced and no injuries were reported. Jennifer joyce channel 6 action news. Now to a developing story weve been following for you, a new jersey native who once served at fort dix is officially charged with the airport massacre in florida. 26yearold Esteban Santiago could face the Death Penalty if convicted. Meanwhile, survivors are sharing their emotional tales of sure rivalling, abcs Kenneth Moten has more. We hit the ground and i turned around she was shot in the head and killed. Reporter she was in the thick of the chaos at Fort Lauderdale airport. My husband was shot in the face, the guy next to him shot in the cheek. The guy next to him, he was dead. Reporter witnesses looked on in horror as the gunman released a hail of bullets. He reloaded and walking with his arms straight out. I saw a man get shot in the head. There were people with blood on them. Reporter this man saved by his laptop as hundreds ran for cover. I was crushed up against a conveyer belt. I felt a thud. Later i found out there was a bullet that ricocheted and entered my backpack. Without my backpack 1k39 laptop in the and the laptop in the case, the bullet would have gone through my shoulder blade. Reporter under arrest, Esteban Santiago who threw down his gun and surrendered without a struggle. Fbi agents said last november, the exarmy sergeant walked into their Anchorage Office and was talking about mind control. He was taken to a Mental Hospital for valuation. They working to get thousands of strand the air travelers to their test in any cases. The gunman is expected to be in court on monday. Prepare to pay more when you drive on the pennsylvania turnpike today. A new toll increase went into effect at midnight. The 6 hike affects drivers who use cash and easy pass. The money will rebuild and widen the turnpike and support Public Transportation needs. 7 09. Much more to come on action news, in a new interview with abc news, president obama talked about allegations that russia steered the election in Donald Trumps favor. Highway horror, cars and trucks pile up as drivers contend with slick and dangerous conditions. Villanova returns to the court after their first loss of the season. Jeff skeverski has the cats highlights and the nfl playoff showdown. Reporter it will be bitterly cold today, bitterly cold, blustery windchills and slippery travel conditions ill have the details, plus an extended warm up in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast all coming up next. Im val. The orange money retirement squirrel from voya. I represent the money you save for the future. Whos he . Hes the green money you can spend now. Whats up . Gonna pay some bills, maybe buy a new tennis racket. Hes got a killer backhand. When its time to get organized for retirement, its time to get voya. I need to promote my new busi can make that happen. Et. Business cards . Business cards, brochures, banners. Pens . Pens, magnets, luggage tags, bumper stickers. How about foam fingers . Like these . Now, get 15 off making your company stand out. Staples. Make more happen. A pleasant good morning to you, thank you for waking up with us, time 7 11 a. M. , the action cam live at the Olney Transportation Center along broad street. Youll notice it is not snowing, but its cold, cold, cold. Meteorologist chris sowers says its going to stick around for a while. Speaking of cold, you just came in from being outside, he said feel my hands, they were like icicles and you have gloves on. Reporter by the way, the air is dry and my skin is itch going and cracking. You were saying you were tough, now youre complaining. Reporter lets show you the view in old city, where it is cold there, as well. Temperatures in the teens and Single Digits, just about below zero. Lets flip it over to the radars. Double scan live showing nothing. We have Clear Conditions, no precipitation today, outside of a few flurries later on, that would be about it. Final snowfall totals were impressive, which i will show you in a moment. What to expect over the next couple of days, bitter windchills especially today. Some locations feels like below zero. Well be hanking out in the single hanging out in the Single Digits all afternoon. You have to bundle up in the layers, i mean bundle up in layers. That will do the trick here. Dont forget the hat and gloves and scarf. In pennsylvania, morrisville, 4. 5. Ridley park, 4. 5. Philadelphia, 3 inches thats the official number at the airport. Perkisie 2. 5. Mays landing 8 inches of snow. Glassboro, 6, 7 inches. Dover, 35. 4. Collingdale, 4 inches of snow. Dover, delaware, 4, 5 inches of snow. Most of the state of delaware up through kent and New Castle County ranged between 3 and 5 inches. You go south, Sussex County they picked up over a foot down there. Reading, 13. Allentown, 14. 5 degrees in the poconos. 14 in millville. 19 degrees in cape may. Feels like 19 in cape may. Not much of a wind down there. Zero in allentown, reading, three below in lancaster. Ten below in the poconos, 4 in trenton. Feels like minus one in millville. Even though its blustery and bitterly cold. Theres not much going on across the lower 48. We have a huge area of High Pressure here that brings about Clear Conditions over the next couple of days. Look at these numbers, everybody east of the rockies, actually if this map went as far as west as the rockies. The rockies are cold, as well. 5 below in bismarck, 29 in new orleans. 3 in chicago. Jacksonville, 26. Orlando, florida, heading south for your disney vacation, orlando, florida, 34 degrees. Cold stuff across the country. Heres a look at the windchill values back home. It will feel like the Single Digits with the blustery wind. 8 in philadelphia. 8 below in the poconos, 3 for allentown. First thing tomorrow morning, 4 below in allentown, 4 below in the poconos, 5 below in lancaster, 7 degrees in philadelphia. Forecast for today, quiet day, clouds and sun, windy, flurry north and west, 25. Feeling like the Single Digits. Well see a gradual increase in clouds during the afternoon. Starting out with sunshine, temperatures in the teens getting into the 20s later on. Maybe that flurry north and west after 2 p. M. These are actual air temperatures, 4 for center city. Winds diminishing out of the north 5 to 10 miles per hour. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, winds and cold for today, 25 feeling like Single Digits. Clouds and sun tomorrow. High of 27 degrees. And then tuesday is finally feeling better, were above freezing, 38. Here comes the real warm stuffer, guys, wednesday, thursday, friday, look at all the 50s. As a result 48. If we extend it next week we extend it. If we hit the 50s, the people in florida will wish they were here. Dogs and Delivery Drivers dont always get along, but this is not the case for a boxer and ups driver. 89 dog waits for the Delivery Driver and runs up to greet him. The driver brings him a treat for every delivery to that house. Even in the snow military guards at the tomb of the unknown stay at their post. This is a look at the changing of the guard at Arlington National cemetary. 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During the course of the week it was getting farther to the north on the forecast modeling. The final product was somewhere around there it came up into the canadian maritimes. You have all this cold air out west funneling in on the backside, counter clockwise winds on the low driving the air in. The storm was closer to the close, the cold air added to the fluff factor that makes the snow light and fluffy and piles up easier than the heavy wet snow. Singer sheryl crow said a change will do you good. It is flyers found that out, heres jeff skeverski. Reporter daveaid enough the is enough. This is not what noise you wanted five minutes in, the flyers fell behind one zip. The line changed like a fire against the lightning in the second. Bang flyers tie it at one. Down low, the rebound, its the first lead in four games. They dont give it up. Over a minute later, michael raffle. The flyers scored four times in the second, they go on to win 42. It is their first w in 2 1 2 weeks, yes, this is long overdue. We knew we had to win this one and i think we played good hockey game and put a lot of pucks in the net. Its nice to win a hockey game, its been a while since weve been able to to have that feeling, doesnt matter how well you played in a couple of games along wait. Its important to get the two points. They will try to get two more tonight in columbus. College hoops villanova trying to rebound from their first loss of the season, the last time they lost they responded with 20 straight wins. Jay wright said all the right things against marquette. First half, what was that . It worked, basket and foul. Chris jenkins way downtown. Season high 23 points for jenkins. Second half they pile it on. Josh hart, up manies as many as 30. Temple, st. Joes la salle all winning as well. Eagles fans you think your team is in the playoff drought. How about the Detroit Lions they ever not won a game in 24 hours and have a nfl record nine post season games. Seattle by 20, they will go on to atlanta next weekend. Oakland in the playoffs for the first time in 14 years, they have a rookie connor cook making his firstever start against houston. Its ugly, cook picked off three times, his quarterback rating 5. 5. Texans 2714. They will either get t

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