49 in philadelphia now. Weve gotten up to at least 50. Its above normal for the temperatures here. But if you think its warm here, its in the 50s, pittsburgh, into cincinnati and even 60s further to the south. Were getting warm air coming in, and then the cold air is going to come in. Lots of ups and downs over the next few days. See all the clouds now, but no rain close by. Thats a lot of rain, though, thats moving up from the ohio valley and the tennessee valley. Its moving in our direction. Lets take a look and see when were expecting this. Not so much through 10 00, but in the middle of the night. And when you get up tomorrow morning, and its not going to be that cold. Look at the temperatures, they dont drop overnight at all. Tomorrow from start to finish, its on the mild side. 48 in the middle of the night at the jersey shore. The rain is going to take a little while to come in, but by tomorrow morning, its covering most of the area. Its going to be a wet day tomorrow. But a mild day, more hours of rain to the north. Of course, Colder Weather to the north. But that is one wet day. Things are going to change. We have some chances of snow, too, coming up later next week. Well get into that in a few minutes, too. All right. You dont have to dodge anything in the way of weather today. Our coverage continues live at the cherry hill mall. Im sure you have plenty of company there. Reporter i definitely did. Im here at the mall. It took me about 20 minutes to find parking. A lot of the shoppers i spoke to say they experienced the same thing. You can see some of those cars looking for a spot to park now. A lot of those shoppers theyre here today, theyre going to be here tomorrow and they are trying to cross off those last minute christmas lists. Its the weekend before christmas, and along with the bell ringers and carollers, come the last minute shoppers. We havent done anything. This is last minute. I always wait till the end. Reporter mike quinn is here to get gifts for his wife and kids. Luckily for him, they made a list. I want lego and minecraft and i even want star wars legos. Reporter checked it, probably more than twice. Legos are super big. Reporter kate and lacy are finishing up their gift getting. Lots of toys for the baby. All of the family. Literally last minute, everything. Reporter lanot everyone at e mall was looking for christmas gifts. For my future exwife. Reporter good luck with that. Those who were snagging the last minute deals tell me theyll be out shopping until the Christmas Eve deadline. Probably till sunday, the 24th. Right before the major dinner. Reporter and mall officials tell me theyre expecting around 150,000 people here over this Holiday Weekend. Reporting live, Miguel Martinez valle, nbc 10. There is a warning for parents from the Cherry Hill Police chief. Think twice before you drop your kids off and let them Wander Around the mall alone. Its not a daycare center, its not a park. If youre going to take your kid to the mall you need to stay with your child. Make sure theyre supervised and not leave them unattended. Police are already using unmarked cars and have undercover officers patrolling the mall. All right, back to the Holiday Travel now. A live look at Philadelphia International airport. Planes coming, planes going. If youre flying and bringing presents with you, this heads up, dont wrap the presents. Security might have to unwrap them during the screening process. Take a look at this, this is the website flightaware. Com that tracks all the flights that are in the air at any given time. You can see how many flights are out there now as people try to get home for the holidays. Others are trying to avoid the cold like this family headed to c cancun. Well see the beach and temperatur warmer temperatures we hope. Not everyone is flying. Some of you are it haddihitting roads. I76 and 676, stuff is starting to jam up. Trains are expected to be more crowded than normal. Youre looking live at 30th street station. Whether it be travel, weather or mall shopping hours, the nbc 10 app is all you need during the countdown to christmas. Tap the app for up to the minute information this holiday season. Adults tossed kids out of a window to save them from a fire this afternoon in kensington. A neighbor caught them. The adult jumped to safety as well. The fire started just after 2 00. Crews had the fire under control in about 15 minutes or so. This is video that we obtained from a viewer. Authorities say four people were taken to the hospital, none of the injuries appear to be serious. An 83yearold woman is dead after she was hit by a vehicle in south philadelphia. It happened around 6 30 this morning at 24th street and washington avenue. A white car stayed at the scene, but a second vehicle, possibly a black suv sped off. Unclear at this point if one or both vehicles hit her. Police are now searching for that suv. New details about a deadly hit and run. Police made an arrest, the driver of the car ran a red light and tboned another vehicle. The passenger in the back seat died. A man and woman in the vehicle did not check on the victims. They just walked away from the scene. They left their car behind. Today agnes lawless was arrested. Officers are still trying to track down the man seen in the video. President trump says he has no regrets in his first 11 months in the white house. The president signed the new tax bill into law. The president said he wanted to keep his word and signed a 1. 5 trillion sweeping tax package before christmas. Its the first major change to how americans pay taxes since 1986. Corporations and the rich get the biggest gains and the middle class and low income families will see smaller cuts. Americans will start to see the difference in their paychecks in february. Consider this very much a bill for the middle class and a bill for jobs. And jobs are produced through company and corporations. You see that happening. Corporations are literally going wild over this. I think even beyond my expectations. President trump arrived in florida for his christmas vacation at maralago about two hours ago. The president decided against having an end of the year news conference. Supporters greeted the commander in chief who picked up a child and lifted him up. One sign caught his eye, it says keep on tweeting, which he couldnt resist showing to the gathering. A shutdown prevented for the second time this month in washington. Congress passed a temporary spending bill to avoid a Government Shutdown so lawmakers can head home for the holidays as well. The president signed that as well. The issues on the table for next year, immigration, healthcare and the federal budget. A historic christmas tradition has been saved thanks to 21st century ingenuity. Organizers feared they would have to cancel the reenactment of George Washingtons crossing of the delaware river. Organizers are donating homemade boats. Police are tracking down the man who officers say shot four men in the street in southwest philadelphia. We have new information since we brought you this as breaking news at 11 00 last night. We learned the expect and tsusp mother of his children got into a fight and she was assaulted. The suspect pulled out a gun and shot all four of them. One of the men died early this morning. The other three are in the hospital. Family and friends will remember a fixture in the community who was murdered. Theres a vigil planned for 85yearold willie kwocooper. He lived on addison street his entire life. People will gather outside of his home at 6 30. Police have not made any arrests. We have new information on a deadly crash that killed three teenagers in burlington county. Police have identified a second victim as a 16yearold nicole ross. Ross and 18yearold xavier wells were both inside a stolen car when it crashed into a pole in tabernacle on monday. The driver of the car has still not been identified. New video shows a vandal in action. You can see someone get out of an suv and throw a rock through the window of a house in south philadelphia. It happened earlier this week on morris street. Police are searching for that suspect. There is no room for passengers on this septa bus. Thats because its stuffed to the gills with toys. Septa employees donated the gifts as part of their yule toy drive. This morning, they loaded them all onto this bus in center city. Now those gifts are on their way to children in need this christmas. Its an amazing outpouring. For this to be our best year ever, the employees really get behind this. And other things that we do to give back to the community. Septa says this year the bus was stuffed with more than 18,000 toys. I want to give you a live look at lincoln financial field in south philadelphia. Three days to go until the Eagles Christmas night clash with the raiders right here with plenty of people in santa costumes expected to be at the game. The birds are looking to bury the hatchet with st. Nick. We head to marshall harris. Theres a fun video out there the eagles put together. Yeah, philadelphia sports fans have been getting a bum rap for years. One of the incidents people try to use as evidence, how horrible the local fans are happened almost 50 years ago. December 15th, 1968, when during the christmas themed halftime show fans pelted santa with snowballs. But now appears the eagles have gotten santa and a snowball to, yes, bury the hatchet. Its fine. Seriously, it was like weird or its fine. Honestly, its fine. Are you sure . Because youre acting kind of dude, were cool. Ive moved on. You know i didnt even want to get thrown. Okay. I was minding my own business. You literally slammed into my face. You were literally the worst santa id ever seen. Honestly . Surprised they didnt throw you harder. I believe aretha said it best, im willing to forget you but i cant forgive. Broadcasters dont bring it up during mondays night game. We have more hijinks at 5 45. The rookies put on a concert singing christmas songs. Unfortunately, this aint the voice. Sounds good, thanks for that. Its the raiders versus the eagles. Were getting you set with eagles game day kickoff Christmas Eve day. 9 30 a. M. Followed by game plan sunday at 10 00. Turning to the weather now, we have a live look at Camelback Mountain in the poconos. They could see a few flakes coming up this Holiday Weekend. We have team weather this afternoon. Steve is looking ahead today the deep freeze thats headed our way. Glenn is starting off with a look at whats on tap for tonight. Its not going to be all that cold tonight. Certainly not feeling like winter has official started. 49 degrees now, despite the clouds that weve had all day. And mid to upper 40s else where. Weve had clouds everywhere, but nobody has seen any kind of rain. Not yet. Lets take a look at the suburb said, chester, montgomery, bucks county, and were well into the 40s. Nobody is even close to the 30s. West bradford and unionville, malvern at 46. St. Davids 47. New hope, ri46. Tomorrow they should be a little bit warmer. After that, may not see temperatures like that for a while. Weve got clouds coming from west to east. You dont see anything on the radar that close by. But its getting here. Its into West Virginia now and it goes all the way back into texas. Thats a large area of rain. And were going to get a number of hours of it tomorrow. Lets go starting at 9 00, the future cast and hour by hour. You can see by the time you get up in the morning, its raining. Least amount of rain tomorrow in southern delaware and south jersey, further to the north it may stay in the 40s and be a pretty rainy day. Thats pretty nasty. Theres saturday night, and the rain is starting to move out setting us up for decent weather on sunday. But it will be on the chilly side, highs only in the mid40s. Then sunday night, Christmas Eve, weve got a little disturbance coming in. Its colder air, and the kids may have to stay up pretty late to see it and you may have to be far north and west of philadelphia to see it, but it may be there, a White Christmas for some people. Poconos, lehigh valley, berks county, maybe upper portions of montgomery, bucks. And then its gone by morning. You know, if you wait till early morning, its going to be gone and there probably wouldnt be enough snow to stick anyway. It would be rain in the philadelphia area. Tomorrow, some of these temperatures, 58 in fairmount. 56 in elwin. 46 in allentown and easton. And southern parts of our area, newark and dover is 62. Rehobeth beach, 64. Thats quite a contrast across our area. Of course, thats why we do neighborhood weather. Steve is here to tell you every neighborhoods going to be frozen next week. Thats right. Saver those 60s you see behind glenn. Ive got the bad news if you do not like cold. Santa is throwing another gift in the mail for the end of next week. Im calling it a winter attack. Anywhere from december 26th all the way through the finish of 2017, we are going to be frigid and then eventually snow covered it looks like. Well keep an eye on that. Lets talk about the cold. This shipment of arctic air that will be coming down from canada will be impressive. This is christmas day. You see all these white, think of that as numbing colors. Lets follow it day by day. Tuesday, youll see that colder air steps into the northeast. You see the purple shadeingsish that means we go from the 50s to likely 30s on tuesday. Notice the colors get pinker, not a good thing for cold air. Thats the cold air settling all the way down to the south as we head into the southern states. If youre traveling this christmas you will be dealing with the chill. The hard hit of cold is friday, saturday and into the beginning of our new year. Now, what about snow . Of course thats the Million Dollar question. Glenn showed you the brief brush of snow Christmas Eve night. Thats out of here quickly. Thats not a big deal. Lets keep an eye on the system oo the we to the west. Thursday, its this system well have to follow across the country. Its in chicago on the 30th. And this particular model, the european model has a heavy hit of snow on new years eve. Does it actually happen . That remains to be seen. The american model is a little bit faster and doesnt have quite as much snow, but it still has a sizable storm. This is what you need to know, each day gets colder next week. Daytime highs in the 20s and 30s. Nights in the teens. Well be tracking that potential snow there for the end of next week, guys . Now to a scandal rocking the ms. America pageant. Contestants are calling for the ceo to be fired. Officials have plenty to say about the scandal. Reporter erin, as you can imagine they definitely do. Both the current and incoming mayors here in Atlantic City tell me they are both shocked and saddened by what they say was the sheer vulgarity of these emails. Ms. America, there she is. I loved it because ive seen it go up and down the boardwalk. The pageant has long been part of the fabric of Atlantic City. Its disgraceful. Its ridiculous. Any woman who would continue to be a part of this, youre not helping the juyounger generatio reporter she was shocked to read the huffington posts publication of the emails. They spoke about a recent former winner, preparing for her new career as a blimp in the macys thanksgiving parade. And brought up accusations referring to her active sex life. Reeves has a 9yearold daughter who competes in dance. When you see your daughter striving to be something on stage, you have to think about whats going to happen when im not there when she gets older. Reporter i spoke to ms. New jersey 2015 and she said contestants do tremendous work in our kmants communities and e these women. The mayor is outraged by the derogatory comments by ms. America organization ceo and other execs, calling the exchanges unacceptable. He says he hopes the organization does the right thing and asks everyone involved to step down. Now, Atlantic Citys mayor elect told me a few hours ago that it might be time for Atlantic City to quote, step out or bow out of the spotlight of the pageant that dates back to 1921. He says number one, its for revenue reasons, then he said this email scandal that it is simply the last straw. Well have more on some of that fallout when we see you coming up tonight at 6 00. Were live in Atlantic City, im cydney long, nbc 10 news. Well see you then. First we want to bring you back to the breaking news, neighbors in bethlehem township are being kept in their homes as Police Confront a gunman. Police say that gunman fired shots at them from a home. Police have surrounded that home and have shut down streets in the area as a precaution. These are some photographs from the area. Nbc 10s drew smith is also headed to the scene. Hell bring us a live update with more information. We have the story of a 100,000 backpack mystery. Someone lost it and now its a matter of just tracking them down. The exclusive story coming up. Plus, police surprise. The unusual items that officers are dishing out to drivers they pull over. Heres a look at the closing bell on wall street, where all three major markets were down slightly heading into the christmas weekend. Michael im thankful that im alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know we are here for you. This holiday season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. Police officers in altoona, wisconsin, are guilty of some pork barrel spending here, but in this case its a good thing. Drivers think theyre getting pulled over for a ticket, instead they get a ham. Yes, a ham. An anonymous donor gave the department 500 to pull off the holiday surprise. That will make for a nice christmas meal. Absolutely. Its a pricey case of lost and found. Police want to track down the owner. One Police Department in bucks county holding onto the back pack. They want to hear from you if you lost it. Another warmup on the way for the weekend, plus were tracking rain, maybe even a few flakes. Its next at my forecast. Loved ones are reunited with family, first thing one man pl