It is december 5th, im karen hepp. Thomas is off today. Hi bob kelly. We will let him sleep today. Sleep in. Yeah, happy monday. We have some messy weather out there. It is rain for most of us and the road are wet but yound wests surfaces, and snow. I know that word, just that word alone freaks us all out. So anyway bus stop buddy is here with the umbrella if you go out maybe within the next hour, hour and a half hell even count their precipitation falling. Were down to clouds at the airport 30s and 40s your temperatures out there and bulk of the precipitation is moving toward the shore. There is some in the center of pennsylvania that may head our way but heaviest of the rain and or wintry mix that we were going to get is already happening and it is still happening. Still wet. 40 degrees. 7 08 is your sunrise time. We will sees sunshine today at the surface most of the temperatures except in the mountains are a bit above freezing. 40 degrees in the the city, 38 in wilmington. Over in Atlantic City it is 41. It is rain to start. 50 degrees, and the sunni merges by lunchtime, skies should clear overnight te more rain heading our way and then a big temperature plunge, bob kelly in the seven day forecast, coming up. You said it right, earlier 5 02 temperature is the key this morning. Heres a live look from quakertown, quakertown interchange of the northeast extension where there is an accident between quakertown and Lehigh Valley interchange. There is that four letter word, snow, laying on the grass surfaces, surface. The heres a look at least high valley interchange where again, bridges and those overpasses are slippery, they be the Road Conditions. The snow is only laying, sticking to the grass, not to the road surface but further north you go obviously the temperatures are lower. The heres a look at the northeast extension heading in to the Lehigh Valley tunnel. The it looks like we have wet roads on the northeast extension. I hope that penndot in that district are out and about putting town layer of salt for everybody leaving the trent door we have got some rain drops, cheerios i like to call. This is a live look at the plea route 476 near mid county. It looks like Lansdale Quakertown is at the deciding line where if you wake up north of Lansdale Quakertown we will see some white stuff on the grass. Everything else is just wet but again it all depend upon the temperatures. We have heavy rain heading us down the shore. Ben franklin bridge wet behind the ears and no problems at least at the moment the the Atlantic City expressway dealing with an accident westbound at hammington that is exit number 28, police are on the scene there. Crash on the lincoln drive right at city line avenue and a new traffic pattern coming into center city on the ben franklin parkway right in front of the franklin institute, karen, back over to you. Im glad you mentioned Lansdale Quakertown area because that is where jenny joyce is headed. You know people cannot drive when there is the water on the ground, jenny, i wanted toe what the conditions have been like as you have been driving along. What is going on. Reporter good morning, karen. We are seeing rain, steadily fall here. We are driving live along route 202 in the area of exton, photographer chris fox here just mentioned that there is some ponding on the roadways so that is certainly something to be careful of. We know that areas north and west of philadelphia have a better chance of seeing that wintry mix today. We are on our way to quakertown right now, current conditions, where we are hanging out are above freezing at rough liz 37 degrees. We were receiving reports of slippery Road Conditions overnight so if you experience any issues p facebook or twittee will spread the word. Karen,t go watch games last night in wisconsin and chicago and to see that snow coming down. It was so heavy. We are not goinganything like tf course, but the beginning of the winter season, the unofficial winter season and we are starting to see cooler temperatures and of course when we get that wintry mix people tend to not be as careful thinking it is just a little rain but you have to be mindful that the roads may be slippery out there. Karen . Especially because we have so many leaves still down that havent been pick up. When we have wet leaves we have seen some accidents and we know there will be more, jenny, thank you, we appreciate it. Right now police are investigating six heroinrelated deaths around the city of philadelphia, they have all happened within a matter of hours. Five in one neighborhood kensington. Let get out to steve keeley with the very latest on all of this, steve. Reporter marriage of the heroin and fentanyl is making the high incredible on the streets here in kensington and making the death toll just as high, as well, and here we go another deadly day, thanks to another deadly batch of heroin being sold sunday. And if not for philadelphia fire andposuperstars the numberd from a street sale sunday higher then just six. Quick response, quick diagnosis and quick action saved so many more lives. Many people overdosed on this powerful little packet they sold here on the streets of kensington and saved by heroin narcan similar to another deadly daze last month wavhe ing dale here in this area so many that battalion chief in the Philadelphia Fire Department that the crews ran out of theer using so much in a single day. After that we spoke to those who use heroin and those who sees heroin users every day. They want to make money, they d who it hurts, and they are cutting, they are cutting the trucks with all different things. Every year, it gets worse and worse. Heroin around here is real bad. It heroin out of control. Nothing going to change, they close one corner, they are off in another corner and it is a shame. Fentanyl is is first hundred times shore powerful then morphine as it the is what is killed prince and so many here on the streets of kensington too karen. Dont be surprised police and Fire Department people say if that number of six jumps up beyond that heroin users take the drugs in the privacy of their own car or bedroom and are not found until days later sometimes. We did so many store thinks year of broken hearted families lost their young people to this discord that ace affecting so many of crimine underway at scene of the dea fin california. Thirtythree people he others. Crews are continuing to search through debris, families are desperate liz waiting for word abou ones, they are asked to provide dna. Today our District AttorneyNancy Omalley did activate a criminal investigation that came on the site and working in concert with our other Law Enforcement partners. Reporter mayor of oakland announcing criminal Investigation Team has been act sprayeded at site of the massive warehouse fire that killed dozens of people late friday night into saturday morning this is as the agonizing search and recovery just continues. With the debris we are going bucket it full by bucket full. When we find a victim we have to stop, we have to then conduct an investigation, it has to be thorough, it has to be documented. Reporter fire fights announcing on sunday that some victims, four teenagers. Have to tell thaw we have 17 yearold victims. No small children, but teenage children who are still children in our eyes. Reporter investigators say they have several days of work as family and friend desperately wait for answers. I am like everybody waiting to hear, he just did what he wanted, he was living his life. Reporter recovery effort also hitting close to home with the sheriffs department. One of our deputies that we work with lost his son in this fire. So were still dealing with that as we continue to deal with the other victims. Reporter warehouse was home to an Artist Community and crews say conditions inside made it a death trap, almost impossible for people to escape, as the flames went through the building. In oakland, california, adam housely for fox 29 news. Happening right now, a change intact particular in the recount of pennsylvania. Green Party Candidate jill stein is changing course after saying she would drop one statewide recount and plan for another. She will go to federal court. She tweeted out saying on money will escalate recount 2016 in pennsylvania and file to demand a statewide recount on constitutional ground. The people deserve answers. She will be holding a News Conference today in front of the trump towers up in new york to announce that. She says recount could determine if the Election Results were manipulated by hackers. This is not about donald trump, thiishillary clinton, itt about my campaign or about gary johnson. This is about american vote hours deserve have to have a Voting System we can trust. I say to her give it up as it seems like they are doing in pennsylvania for a very simple reason, even your friend in the Clinton Campaign have admitted that these recounts will not change any results. Stein is also spearheading a recount effort in michigan and wisconsin states that were very close where Republican Donald Trump won narrowly over democrat hillary clinton. Speaking of the president elect his short list for secretary of state has gotten big her this morning. He is widening his search of potential candidates. We have another name on the the list how about former utah governor and ambassador to china john huntsman. We have been hearing about retired general david petraeus. We know mitt romney and rude i guiliani. Heres some good sports news from the weekend, penn state and temple ceiling the deal on saturday. The both their conference football championships. Penn state amazing coming back from a 21point deficit in the big ten title game. Thirtyeight31. Bee were robbed miss you had out on the College Football playoffs. We will go to the rose bowl january 2nd to face u. S. C. The coach, he gets a press i big bonus, 350,000 will dollars and, of course, lions third trip to the rose bowl. How about those olds. Celebrating an a ac champion ship win over navy. Temple taking a decisive 34ten victory saturday in the first conference championship since 1967. What a long way they have come. Team goes back to anapolis foret december 27th, in the the military bowl. And we will have more in sports coming up in just one minute and what do you want to talk about . Let us know on twit error long. Fox 29 and we will talk coming up next on our news, no more feeling guilty, your favorite foods, Peanut Butter bread, wine, beer, go ahead those socalled some of them actually good for you. Lets take a live look outside and sees is what falling from your window, that is radar right now over our area. We can see they are getting white up there, in allentown area, if you have any wintry mix, sleet, snow tweet us some pictures of that. We would love to show that off. Use our fox 29 morning news we will be right back. This holiday season, my good friend gave to me 7 powerball tickets 6 match 6 chances 5 cash 5s 4 cash 4 lifes 3 pick 3s 2 Mega Millions joe happy holidays, rita. rita thanks, joe man what a great gift announcer Pennsylvania Lottery tickets make great gifts, like the new 1 million snow bank. joe happy holidays and best wishes from the lottery in my opinion the most beautiful street in philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin parkway even when it is wet. That is all it is in the city right now. Were around 40 degrees here. Northwest in the overnight hours we did see a little bit of white stuff coming down. We still see a little bit more as we head into northern pennsylvania, and upstate new york around allentown there may be a few light rain falling around philadelphia, it is all about temperature and what is happening where that temperature is at or below treeing at the surface, so, there we are up around edison, new jersey that part of the turnpike, you may see snow but for south jersey it is all rain and at jersey shore the heaviest rain still falling in cape may, i, moving through pretty quickly. It is 36 degrees in lancaster above freezing. Thirtyfour in reading. Down south in woodbine it the is 40 degrees. We have wrightstown at 37. Again, above freezing. Were still stuck in freezing at perkasie. Valley forge 37. Thirtyfour in allentown. It may not be a slick road on the surface but may see snow on the grass, this morning. Everything is out of here by 7 00 it looks like and then we have sunshine for rest of the the day. But dont rest on your laurels because we have more rain moving through in the afternoon probably three ocloce will get rain and that lasts through the night time hours but it is gone for the morning rush hour on wednesday. Th plunging temperatures. As we head in th were talking about 48 degrees as our average temperature, we were right supposed to be with that high of 48. We saw some sunshine with the rainy start today, and 53 later. Then reasonable temperatures, through tuesday, and that late take rain, wednesday, thursday and blustery and much saturday,s really going to feel like wintertime you got it, 5 17. Good morning. Call this a dry run, ar what ise with that white stuff depending upon wintry mix and where youre beginning your heres a live look at Henderson Road at gulf road at ramps forpressway. Heres the traffic light for that Henderson Road interchange, as we look real close right here, we have got heavy rain. Right at gulph mills interchange of the schuylkill and we have an accident there in the back road. Little further are north, all temperature and your location. Heres the quakertown interchange where snow is sticking to the grass surface on road surface but we have an accident northbound on the extension between quakertown and Lehigh Valley sticking to the grass surface and then up near Lehigh Valley right before the tunnel again, snow, on the grass. Even in downingtown, at the downingtown interchange, so north and west of the city, is where the temperatures at the same time that precipitation came through leaving us with white stuff on the grass. Again, sue mentioned this will be out of here by 7 00 i just hope that the pen to the crews north and west of the city and even township crews were outputting town that layer of salt where you need it. You dont need any salt in the city. Ben franklin bridge is just wet but expect slower than normal speed this morning because of the rain or that wintry mix. An accident west on the expressway near hammington, whatever you did over the weekend i hope you used the waterproof extension cord to plug in your Christmas Lights because that is what were looking for. We are looking for best decorated houses in the area. Get ready for another trip of the v heres what it looked like on the front line of the carottos in west chester. They had all of the animate even had big old santa claus that was blowing. Remember bobble seven out there on the front lawn, kid had a great time with hot hme al decorated, post them to your facebook, twitter on Instagram Page and fox 29 lights contest so i can pull them up, show them on tv and one night this week we will hit the road and broadcast live from somebodys front lawn during the five andast, ka, back over to you. 5 20. In tennessee the death toll has wrist tone 14 after those fires in gatlinburg. Last monday high wind brought embers down from a fire in the great smokey mountains andng mon 17,000 acres. 134 people were injured and almost 2,000 buildings damaged, a pastor and two daughters were among those killed. Church leade mother heart broken. I want my daughter and grandchildren back. I want to wake up night mayor. I thought we would find them alive. Folks didnt get a warning, it turnsennessee Emergency Management agency said they had planned a mass text message to tell people to east vac wait but it was of pows and a loss of cell phone reception. Mounting tension after plans for dakota denied, army core of engineers turned down governments request for a permit. So that all means that last leg is going to be rerouted at least for now. The House Speaker paul ryan is slamming that tweeting, this is wig government Decision Making at its worse. I look forward to putting this anti energy presidency behind us. Now hundreds of veterans, also joined so many of those demonstrators out there in the cold and standing rock, they have been protesting this construction for months and they say they are still going to stay there they claim that the gas pipeline is endangering the environment and cuts across sacred native american land. Decision on sunday will make many of these people out here happy because there have been protests all around this country this was one in olde city. People standing in solidarity with those protesters in north dakota, police shut down traffic as the group made its way down market street. How about this lots of things are happening all around this world especially with our world leaders, another possible blow to europes economy, italys Prime Minister is, stepping down. The matteo renz i will announce that after losing a key referendum on constitutional reform. There are fears his departure will plunge italy into Political Uncertainty and economic turmoil. President sergio mart rel a will replace him. We have seen the euro start to tall. Fidel castro is laid to rest after a week of mourning and nationwide tour of his ashes in his country. They were placed inside a tomb at the cemetery in santiago. Sundays ceremonies came on the ninth day of official mourning, dictator ruled that communist nation for decade before stepping aside in 2008 and let his brother rule. The just last year president obama moved to normal ice relationship with cuba after decade of severed ties. Our own joyce evans is in cuba