Iain, back to you. All right, scott, thanks much. You can track the weather any time you like this holiday season. Head to our website myfoxphilly. Com and click on the weather tab. They say theres no place look home for the holidays but the question really is, can people get home . Or will the weather snarl their Christmas Travel plans . Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson life tonight at Philadelphia International airport. Shawnette, any issue there is now . Reporter well, iain ill tell was things havent been too bad for people flying out today. Only two flights have been cancel as of this afternoon. And some arriving flights are on just about an hour delay. So it appears a lot of people left for Holiday Travel ahead of Christmas Eve because there was a crowd but it wasnt too busy her at the airport at times. People whos flights were cancel last night did get out first thing this morning. Im told and some flights that were canceled yesterday canceled i say again because of bad weather did actually arrive here today. We did run into some people who admitted they were weary travelers but most are happy to have reached their final destination with a few bumps along the way, yes, but theyre still here before Christmas Day. We were delayed about two hours and sat on the tarmac for about half an hour put it was kind of sweet because we met a bunch of people i fet a farmer telling me about his cows and a woman coming up here to meet her grant kids. It was kind of sweet. So we walked upstairs and saw just only two security checkpoint gates were open so the crowd is start to go thin out. More than it was actually when it was busier earlier this morning. Iain. Shawnette, thank you. In other parts of the country tonight major travel issues. Nasty weather system down south had a lot of passengers camping out at the airport in charlotte, north carolina. At Chicago Ohare Airport people had to deal with delays and canceled flights because of rain, snow and a lot of wind. Christmas eve marks holy night for christians around the world. Masses are celebrated, traditionally at midnight to commemorate the birth of jesus being born at night. Heres a live picture of pope francis celebrating the mass in vatican stow among the faithful this just days after land pasting his staff for a laundry list of sins. Some have spoken out saying the pontiff was merely asking them to examine their conscientious and use the Christmas Season to heal. This mass kicks off busy week for the pope that will include his traditional christmas speech, new years eve Sunset Service and 2015 greetings. Here at home christians also celebratincelebrating christmas. Heres a live shot of the cathedral basilica of saints peter and paul in philadelphia. Service began about an hour ago but there will be another at 7 30 tonight. A Midnight Mass beginning at 11 00. Christmas services will be held at 8 00, 10 00 and noon tomorr tomorrow. Santas sleigh took a quick break from making the worldwide rounds to visit special kids here in our area. Fox 29s Jennifer Joyce reports santa just could not wait to meet these kids and they couldnt wait to meet santa. Reporter hours before Christmas Santa made a pitstop in philadelphia. Merry christmas ho, ho, ho. Reporter to handle unfun initiate business. We came 26,419 miles just to see the william family. Reporter to personally drop off gifts and deliver smiles to the ones who need it most this holiday season. I dont have a sister any more and i dont have a brother any more. Reporter for the first time 12yearold Charmaine Williams is about to spend christmas without her mother, sister and two brothers. All of them were killed over the summer when Police Say Two carjackers plowed into the family on the side of the road. They were selling fruit to help raise money for their church. Since the tragedy its been hard for our family. Christmas is season where family come together, give gifts, share love and were missing a big chunk of our family now. Reporter these smiles all of the support never going to be by yourse yourself. Youve got a wonderful person here. You got a lot of friends it there. Reporter helps lift the family spirits. Were truly grateful. Reporter santa says hes fulfill when he sees families faces light up one by one. Youre apecial brother. Reporter he along with the committee to benefit the children started these door to Door Deliveries 36 years ago inn sparred by children at saint christophers hospital. Just to see him smile going through all the paper and suffering is awesome. He suffers from Sickle Cell Disease and so does this girl. Im real fool style. I want to be one of these wn i grow up make earrings and stuff. Reporter the p. M. Saint chris kids and family whom stan visiting this year are physically and financially hurting. He and his team of elves go out of their way to make sure these children are feeling good this christmas. It made me feel special that he came all the way just to give us gifts. Reporter santa plans to drop off presents to more than 100 families throughout the day today. Then hes heading back to the north pole because of course he has to get ready for tonight. Reporting in philadelphia, im Jennifer Joyce, fox 29 news. All right. Jennifer, thank you. San to had extra help at the hands of students at Nazareth Academy high school in northeast philadelphia today. They delivered hundreds of gifts collected from a massive toy drive this holiday season. In the true tradition of the season, students and faculty say they were happy to celebrate the holiday by making it a better one for others and local Little League baseball star mone davis also doing her part to bring Holiday Cheer this afternoon. She joined city leaders and Community Organizations in surprising seven families with new toys and gifts in south and southwest philadelphia. Nonprofit group unity in the Community Organizes the five year tradition. Known as Operation Holiday help. Each year families in need are nominated by neighbors for Community Organizations to receive a special surprise delivery. Wet weather did not stop those last minute Holiday Shoppers from hitting the stores today. This was the seen at Cherry Hill Mall in new jersey. Believe it or not, retailers say procrastination may actually have paid off as the malls closed tonight and the last shoppers left retailers say late comers will likely found a lot of deep discounts as stores tried to move all that inventory out. If you werent lucky enough to finish your last minute list youll hope santa will somehow come through for you any way. Were following developing story this wednesday evening. Two people rush to the hospital after a car drove through the lobby of a nursing home. Happened at the coax bury village nursing in hokessin new castle county. An 89yearold man was found between the car an wall. He was taken to christina hospital in critical condition. Another person taken to chris which nan with minor injuries. Police are investigating the accident. Police in missouri shoot and kill a teen but they say the circumstances were different than that deadly shooting in ferguson back in august. This incident at a gas station in berkeley was all caught on camera. Police say they were responding to a call when a man pointed his gun at an officer. Thats when police say the officer grabbed his own weapon and killed 18yearold antonio martin. Still with tensions high police were forced to make several arrests after demonstrations and protests turned violent. You couldnt even compare this with ferguson or the garner case in new york. I can assure you that did not happen last neat. We had a policeman responding to a call protecting the residents of the city of berkeley. Police say the suspect in this case had been arrested several times before. Theyre still looking for one person who took off from the scene. Jet blue is offering to fly Police Officers from around the country to new york city so they can attend the funeral of nypd officer ramos. He was one of two Police Officers killed last saturday in what officials are calling an assassination. Jet blue will fly two officers from any department to new york. Ramos funeral is held on saturday. Funeral for the second officer wenjian liu has not yet been schedule. Whats being called a precautionary measure former president george h. Bush remains in the hospital tonight. The 41st president was rushed to houston methodist yesterday for shortness breath. Family Spokesman Says former president bush is only being held for observation. The 90yearold who was recently seen in a wheelchair spent his last birthday in june making a tandem parachute jump in maine. Christmas one local grandfather will not soon forget. Coming up, he thought he lost pressure memories of his grandson but then an angel stepped for. How that person helped make this one very special holiday. Howard. Eagles not in the playoffs. Have some players talking about a personal accomplishment and the head coach talking about the feeling when he lets players know how people around the league look at them. That will be coming up in sports. And coming up in weather, dont put away the rain gear just yet. Yeah, there might be a little bit of a lull in the action but theres still more rain off to the west. The timing of the and when it moves out on Christmas Day. And we continue to follow santa as he make his magical journey around the world. Norad right now putting santa in algeria as he continues to deliver all those gifts. We will continue to track his progress throughout the newsca newscast. Fox 29 spreads Holiday Cheer today helping a boy had has severe autism get anism pad he desperate the needed. Johnni was destroyed on monday at his school and administrator boss not replace it. The ipad was gift from the group Autism Speaks and the only way johnny can monday indicate. When his mom contacted us we put her in touch with Anthony Mongeluzo as fox 29 technology contributor. He met up with the familiar daal and donated a new ipad to johnny. Good for anthony. Montgomery county grandfather holds on to the memory of his late grandson by keeping saved voice males until one day theyre accidentally erased. Fox 29s Lauren Johnson tells us how the kindness of one man helps bring holiday piece for another. Youre in our thoughts and prayers and our hearts go out to you. Reporter ed ohanlon had big plans on saving cherish voice males. I had all the voice males going back to 2007 when people called about john and his issues and problems. Reporter the messages about his grandson john Matthew Shapiro diagnosed with brain cancer. John was our hero. Our super hero. Sixyearold lost his battle in 2011. I just feel so very very sorrow for your loss of john. Words of comfort helped ed and his wife becky threw loss and devastation. You cant buy his. I dont care if you have all the money in the world. 10 days ago trying to adeline of service at home, the messages were mistakenly deleted. I was in state of depression. I mean especially this time of year. Becky was worried her husband would have heart attack. John calm down and, you know, you have to call and well see what we can do. Reporter after hours and days of hitting dead ends ed phoned close friend who put him in to with think man doug. Definitely hearing the background story, tragic thing that happened. For doug called the comcast team in Denver Colorado and four hours later you have 106 new messages. The ohanlons were back in business. Youre in my thoughts and prayers always. On Christmas Eve doug and ed meet for the first time. It meant great to know we were able to resolve it and really give him back something that was so close to his heart. Report roar the greatest gift to this grandfather. Its the best present i could have ever gotten. Reporter and now he adds another super hero to his list this christmas. What they did for me something that i will cherish for the rest of my life. Reporter in blue bell, Lauren Johnson, fox 29 news. Its a soggy Christmas Eve for all region. Heres a live look at the Philadelphia International airport. The rain having a big impact on people trying to get in and out of philadelphia. That rain will be around for little bit while so are these warmer temperatures. Temperatures today in the low 60s. About 20 degrees above average on this Christmas Eve buts we take a look at the airport delays right now, about 110 minutes at the Philadelphia International airport. Not so much due to weather right now, but just due to the volume across the area. Now, were not done with the rainfall just yet. Heavier rain will arrive as we move toward the overnight especially after midnight and early tomorrow morning. So if youre headed out expect some travel and airport delays as well as some wet roadways, so just be on the look out for that. Morning showers on christmas d day. Were you turning blustery. Winds will be gusting up to 40 Miles Per Hour so look at the national radar. Pretty quiet through sections of the south planes, the mitter west right now. Snow for the rockies. Right now were looking at wet conditions along the east coast and also storm conditions in sections of florida. But well zoom in a little closer. You can see much of the rainfall is letting up across the area right now. But dont let that lull fool because once again were looking at heavier rainfall moving in during the overnight but getting a break across the area right now. Just a few pockets of showers right now in parts of south jersey. But heres the batch of rainfall that will move in after midnight and early tomorrow morning off to the west toward sections o upper ohio river valley once begun were getting that lull for several hours if youre stepping outdoors doing last minute shopping, headed to church, and as we take look at the clock, you can see that break but once again, heres 10 00 oclock, a few pockets of showers trying to move back in toward the Lehigh Valley and the pocono mountains much after midnight we start to see better coverage heres 2 00 a. M. And you can see were looking a the some rainfall pretty much area wide light by 4 00 a. M. On christmas morning, were looking at some heavier showers moving in north and west around west chester, norristown, wilmington, smyrna, delaware, down to dover and then it continues to move into south jersey by 5 00, 6am tomorrow morning. Looking pretty wet to start on Christmas Day. But after about seven, 8 00 oclock, we start to dry out and it turns blustery and a little colder well see high temperatures right around midnight across our area and then those temperatures will be dropping throughout the day tomorrow. So numbers right now you can see upper 50s millville, atlantic city, 63 dover, 62 right now in philadelphia. We have 50 in reading as well as allentown. So were looking at temperatures holding pretty steady this evening in the mid to upper 50s. Another round of rain after midnight. Then Christmas Day early showers from 6 00 to about 7am and then it starts to taper off and were looking at gusty conditions winds gusting up to 40 Miles Per Hour tomorrow so hang on to those hats. As far as friday, 51 degrees. So temperatures still above average by about 10, 12 degrees. Saturday 54. A shower chance on sunday. Temperatures near 50 and then well keep some moisture around but temperatures are going to drop into early neck week. 40 on monday with the rain snow mix. Upper 30s tuesday and wednesday. And staying cold for Christmas Eve. So, of course, were continuing to monitor santa right here at fox 29. Well continue to do so throughout the broadcast and throughout the night. Keep it here. All right. Well update you before we get off the air where santa is. Im kind of lucky with the blustery winds i dont wear a cap. I dont have to hold on it to. Youre ahead of the game. Yeah. Give me a good player and teammate in football. Not about personal goals. Hear from one eagle who would give up has personal accomplishments for the team goal. And the head coach has some joy today when he can let one of his players know about a special moment. Thats coming up in sports. The eagles are doing something we didnt think would happen three weeks ago. They are playing the final game of the season sunday at new york. No, no playoffs. No playoffs but some individual honors eagles got five players named to the nfl pro bowl. Now if you have chance to make the playoffs or play in a pro bowl, you know the answer. There can be only one. But for first timers its a great honor. I dont really know how much a pro bowl really means. You know, my four years here i played in one play off game so far. I think that this game is not about individuals much its always been a team. Most team oriened game i think there is around. Another player making it for the first time is a first year eagle Darren Sproles had a great year. Made the pro bowl as special teams specialist. And it was fun for chip kell toll give sproles the news. I was happy for darren really really happy for darren. I think he was genuinely happy himself being 11 years and not ever making it then finally getting the recogni