With foam. I like spending time with h her. After 17 years of service, with two deployments in iraq and afghanistan, quality time is something both nineyearold ariana and her mom cherish. Just us two. So its good to be together and putting this together for us. Giving us a chance to get out of home and do something with friends and other people that are here with us. Russ collins please come forward, sir. Reporter aboard the battleship new jersey sro t volunteer vets like Russell Collins pulling out all the stops. 1946 he served on this ship. Reporter give active duty soldiers from fort dix mcguire the thanksgiving they deserve. Im thankful for this ship and for all the men were going feed here and all their services and all the people we can help. Reporter over at the philadelphia Veterans Home doors open and meals served with love. For 100 homeless or struggling vets who prove its not about the food or the hype but about the company you keep. Im grateful to be here. Theyre grateful to be here. Its just really the essence of what thanksgiving is and what, um, family means. They made it awesome. I had an awesome thanksgiving. Ended up being a beautiful thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving to you, too. Reporter while these soldiers and veterans are grateful for a warm meal and good company this thanksgiving, we are grateful for them. In west philadelphia, sabina kuriakose, fox 29 news. That is for sure. Thought you were busy in the kitchen today try cooking 2800 meals thats what 300 volunteers who join the staff at manna did today in philadelphia. They started cooking at 5 00 this morning to feed the critically ill people that manna serves and once the meals were done, well they were delivered to people who really need them. Manna of course is a nonprofit that prepares and delivers healthy meals and counseling to people who are battling life threatening diseases. It wouldnt be thanksgiving without it, right . The thanksgiving parade marching through Center City Philadelphia for the 96th time today. This years procession featuring 16 giant balloons, 17 floats, 14 marching bands and 34 live performances, and weather, well, could not have been better. We didnt even have to bundle up, mike masco. It was like easter. I know. You know. It was insane. You had the boardwalks phils up today. Beautiful day lets put this into perspective for you. 64 was the high today. A year ago it was 42 and a hint of snow. Big comparison from last year to of course this year. 56 in town right now. We talked together at 6 00 oclock its 40s to the north and the west. These numbers are cooling down from our daytime highs they wont get into the down into the 30s or 20s we saw last night. Were watching this big system out to the west chicago, meme had a, wichita. Look at these alerts these are ice storm warnings. Theyre forecasting west of oklahoma about an inch of ice on the roadways. So if do you have travel plans if youre getting out of town early if youre visiting just know you are going to see some delays as you head well out towards the west. Its mostly clear. Very mild. 57 degrees. Heading out for bargains, 52 degrees at 11 00 oclock. 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning 51. That 51 a launching pad into the 60s all good things must come to an end. Well let you know when they do coming up in a little bit. Dawn . Thanks, mike. Despite a somber mood americans who are living in france are making an effort to celebrate thanksgiving. The holiday taking on extra special meaning to in the wake of the terrorist attacks earlier this month. A u. S. Cafe in paris says its seen more foot traffic in recent days compared to years past. Young man from pennsylvania says, it almost feels like home. I go to American University here in paris, and group of my friends we make turkeys and bunch of dishes. We go to someones apartment and eat together and have few drinks of wine. Sounds fun. The terror attacks in paris left 130 people dead and more than 300 people hurt. Meantime new developments announced today by the leader of france. French president fran choice hollande was in moscow today meeting with russian president vladimir putin. Both leaders say they will step up Partnership Trading information and coordinating strikes to fight isis. France has been focusing strikes on targets in syria. Hollande and putin also said today that syrian president bashir as sad has no place in that country. Putin adding that russia is ready to work with a Coalition Led by the United States to fight isis. Happening now, people across our area are not waiting for black friday to start their Holiday Shopping. They are already out taking advantage of some gray thursday deals. Bargains seems to start earlier and earlier each year. We even found people hitting up the k mart in moorestown, inform, this morning. But now the fun is really about to begin. Fox 29s Jennifer Joyce is inside the toys r us in cherry hill tonight where shoppers and employees are gearing up for a long night. Jenn . Reporter yeah, they are, dawn. Do we even call it fun . I guess its fun for some people. Those people who are out here doing it. They tell us that its actually a great time to come out here and get some awesome deals. The doors here to toys r us in cherry hill opened about an hour ago and its not a mad house at all. But you can see there is a steady stream of traffic of people coming in here. The line formed outside of toys r us about an hour before the store opened. People were in good spirits. They were ready for a night of shopping. Many had already eaten turkey and stuffing and were hoping to burn off some calories while knocking some items off the Holiday Shopping list. We actually just got out about 3 30. We left the house, and we already stopped in pennys and now were in line for toys r us. We had fan tis tick deals. We saved 500 with all the toys. Three carriages, you know, toys. What we do is, all the girls get together and go shopping on thursday. The guys stay home and watch football and we all eat tomorrow as family so our shopping is already done. And then we can just relax and eat. Reporter now dawn, thats sounds fabulous to me. Eating and relaxing on a friday getting it all out of the way today. So people who are out here tell us theyre definitely deals. This is apparently the hot toy for little ones called a beat bow i was talking about it on my facebook page. It apparently gets the little ones up and dancing with this robot here. Its going for 24. 99 but thats only until midnight or until supplies last and there are only a few of them left here. So if youre willing to come out here on thanksgiving, youll definitely get some good sales. Dawn . All right, in advance of tomorrow pots mad house. Thanks, jenn. In other news shooting in southwest philadelphia but the victim has reason to be thankful tonight. Heres a look at one of the scenes that police are investigating at 61st and passyunk. Investigators believe the victim drove that red car here this afternoon after being shot somewhere else. The bullet grazed the mans head but hes already set to be released from the hospital. Thats the good news. So far though no arrests and no word on a possible motive. Police in Burlington County say this is the face of a killer. Investigators say the man caught on surveillance cameras murdered a clerk at the quick and go Convenience Store in willingboro township last night. Officers were called to the scene just after 8 00 oclock. They say the gunman led the clerk matthew missouri into the parking lot and shot him. If you recognize the man here, call police. Idling car leads to thanksgiving day surprise for police in new castle county, delaware. Investigators say they found 35yearold brian perry sleeping in the car this morning which had been running for more than 30 minutes. This was on the 1500 block of maple avenue in elsmere. Police say they also found an illegal knife and Drug Paraphernalia in the car in plainview. The officers then searched the vehicle and say they found add loaded handgun. Perry has been charged with having a concealed weapon, drug possession and other charges. One man is dead after fire tears through his nicetown home overnight. Now investigators are trying to figure out how that fire started. The flames broke out just before 12 30 on the 1900 block of bruner street. After putting the fire out, firefighters discover the mans body on the first floor. Investigators say he did live there alone and there were no working smoke detectors in the home. Authorities have not yet released the victims name. Still ahead on fox 29 news tonight at 6 00 it looked like a scene from an action movie but this wild police chase, well, its the real thing, and it happened on busy new jersey highway. The dangerous moves the driver made and how police finally managed to stop the driver next. Plus trouble in the skies over the famous macys thanksgiving day parade. Why this blimp was forced to make an Emergency Landing coming up. A wild chase is caught on Police Dashboard cameras in new jersey. Palisades park police just releasing this footage of the drama that unfolded on monday. The man behind the wheel of the black chrysler was wanted for murdering his girlfriend in upstate new york. When he crossed into new jersey, on to the palisades parkway, well, state police were right there behind him. At one point, the accused killer crossed the median and continued south into the northbound lanes, and there were close calls as drivers swerved to avoid the speeding car. Police say the chrysler was traveling 100 miles an hour several times during the 20mile chase. The driver eventually crossed back over to the southbound lanes. So the question how did it all end . The suspect, well, he hit traffic in Ridge Field Park and was forced to knots stop. Police moved in, surrounded the vehicle and arrested him. Fortunately amazingly no one was hurt. A blimp flying over the macys thanksgiving parade making an Emergency Landing. You can see it setting down on a baseball field on long island after flying for three hours over the famed holiday parade. The blimp was returning to long island for refueling when the pilot started having mechanical problems. He landed at the field nearby. No one was hurt and the blimp was not damaged. The white house is putting, s put on lock down this afternoon after a man reportedly jumped a fence. He was quickly arrested. The secret service then conducted a ski security sweep. Were toll the president and his family were inside at the time. Here in the United States all around the World Security is extra tight this thanksgiving and fox 29s Joanne Pileggi joins us with more on that. Joanne . Reporter dawn, i think we can all admit this holiday was more about gathering with the family and eating in a festive table with the events happening throughout the country and around the world to which we feel some connection we are all reminded that life is fragile and we can be thankful for peace where we are. The president giving thanks on what he calls this uniquely american holiday. Mr. Obama saying americans give thanks by opening their hearts to help refugees around the world. We turn Lady Libertys light to the world and widen our circle of concern to say that all gods children are worthy of our compassion and care. Reporter security on the minds of Many Americans in the wake of the paris attacks. But most not letting that worry keep them from traveling to see family for the holiday. Meantime, u. S. Troops overseas sharing thanksgiving turkey with nato partners in afghanistan. Giving thanks for those nearby and those back at home. Its really hard to be away from your family but with all the people here that we work really close together, were one big family here. So its nice. Reporter in new york, the mayor was out early to kick off the annual macys thanksgiving day parade saying people voted with their feet by coming out to attend the festivities. Security clearly increased for this years macys parade in new york which for many is the official kick off to the Holiday Season as well as the busiest travel time in the u. S. Dawn . Well, as thanksgiving ends another philadelphia tradition begins. Santa himself showing up for the opening of the german Christmas Market at love park today. In addition to some fantastic shopping you can enjoy thousands of twinkling lights. The love park Christmas Tree, live music, photos with santa and traditional European Food and drink. Admission to free and the decorations this is pretty cool they change throughout the season until the market closes on december 27th. When are you getting your Christmas Tree . I usually wait till the beginning of december. Although today was Beautiful Day to go get a tree. Crazy. I know. It was so warm and so beautiful. It was. The boardwalks were lit up. Everybody was outgoing. Again like an Easter Sunday out there and then, you know, we are going to see one more day of 60s dont get used it to. This is a gift. Well take it. Well take it of course. Heres the shot. Look, airports fine across the eastern United States. Well show where you its not fine coming up in one second. 56 degrees right now. Gentle southerly wind coming in around six bringing in the milder air. 64 degrees this afternoon thats nowhere close to normal. 52 degrees our normal and shy of a record set back in 1999 of 70 degrees. Lehigh valley slowly cooling off. 48 in pottstown. 50 in allentown. 56 in town. You get into the jersey side of thing, 49 degrees. Your planner for the rest of the evening going into the 8 00 oclock hour a mix of stars and clouds, 57 degrees. Mild madness if youre going out to the sales. 53 degrees and nice mild start tomorrow morning, 50 should get us easily into the 60s. So nice and comfortable across the i95 street stretch. You go all the way to the north. We cant even find cool air up towards new england. This is a very good pattern locked in coolest stuff going on across canada and thats in thanks due in part to this area of High Pressure just over the carolinas. We get a southwesterly wind thats a warming wind. But with the southwesterly wind and this big temperature contrast, we have a storm developing. 70 in memphis. Look at wichita. 36 degrees. Only a couple hundred miles of separation a s allowing for a big storm to develop. Its rain on the front side of the storm but how about an ice storm developing just outside of Oklahoma City. So we bring this up because we know friday and saturday any guests watching fox 29 right now is going to be flying out of here. If its Oklahoma City or kansas city you might have delays and then eventually that shifts into st. Louis and chicago. So be very careful check in with carrier if you are heading out the next 24 to 46 hours. If youre staying in town youll enjoy a great night tonight. Into the 40s. Tomorrow morning 45 degrees with a mix of sun and clouds. Getting us into the 60s by tomorrow afternoon. Next threat for wet weather comes in by saturday. 47 in town for tonight. 65 tomorrow. Balmy bargains were getting, dawn. 56 on saturday with some rain showers developing and then cloudy and showers right through the weekend. I cant say thats a nice looking weekend. Temple game will be a little wet, and its going stay wet right into next week. Talk more about that ice storm out to the west. I know people are kind of watching getting a little nervous. Well update that at 10 00 oclock. Sounds good, thank you, mike. I dont even want to say the name. Eagles. Theres no theres no positives right now. I know exactly how you feel. Thats how everyone feels. Theres nothing good to talk about the eagles right now. Well talk about how bad they are. Lions punched the eagles right in the mouth on thanksgiving d day. Another key player gets injured and thei play off hopes look rel real bleak. Coming up next in sports. The eagles, the eagles, the eagles. What more is there to say about the team. After coming out of twenty two straight losses against bad teams, you would have thought the eagles would have came out on fire. Angry, motivated. No. Sad truth is, the philly fans weve come to expect the worse from the our teams in the Philadelphia Eagles gave us something that was even worse than we could possibly imagine. In the Second Quarter the eagles down by seven but at this point they still had a chance. Mark sanchez finds brent celek and celek fights his way into the end zone. That tied the game up right there. But next possession lions come right back down the field. Golden tate walks right into the end zone. Em bar fg. 14seven lions. Carol rolled up under. Broken ankle. The eagles best cornerback out for the game and possibly the season. The lions immediately attack his replacement. Rookie eric rowe had no business being in this situation. Matt stafford bullet to Calvin Johnson for the touchdown. 24seven right before the end of the half. Third quarter more of the same. I dont know why you keep single covering Calvin Johnson. His name is megatron for a reason. Another touchdown over eric ro rowe31seven lions at that point. When youre a bad team stuff like this starts to happen. Sanchez is sacked. Fumbles the ball. Lions recover after the play look the a this sanchez and murray start arguing on the side lines. This is the second week in a roseanne chez arguing with a running back. Eagles get torched 4514. Yo, chip kelly explain yourself. Didnt coach well today. Didnt real dollar anything well today. So very disappointin disappoint. This wasnt the out come i was looking for. That is an embarrassment no question about it. 45 points in two weeks. Got to get it going on offense on the team. Offense, special teams, defense we got to ann continue to play hard. It doesnt get more embarrassing the last couple of weeks what we put on tape. I dont really know what t