23 in pittman. 23 in audubon. As we move north, 22 mt. Laurel, 23 lumberton. To mercer county, temperatures around 21 at hamilton square. Add in the wind, temperatures slice to the teens flood watch terms of flurries, theres flurries in Northern Maryland now. Some of these flurries may skirt into south jersey this morning. Dont be surprised if you see a few flakes. I dont expect any accumulation. Any accumulation should stay in the washington, d. C. , area where they have Winter Weather advisories at this moment. Future feelslike. 7 00, feels like a balmy 9 degrees in doylestown. 14 in philadelphia. We dont see any improvement throughout the day. Ill wake you through an even more numbing air mass coming up. First well look at traffic with pamela. Traffic is looking good. I think the hardest part of the commute is going to be getting to your car in the cold temperatures. The blue route at ridge pike. You see a few cars on the roadway there. Northbound, southbound lanes looking good. The only issue that im seeing is in cheltenham. A disabled vehicle at rock lane and washington lane. Im not seeing reports that this is slowing things down. Just something to be aware of if you drive that way. Lets look at drive times for route 202. If youre headed northbound to 76, average speeds in the 60s. It will only take ten minutes. Things looking good southbound, as well. Escaping the flames and facing the cold. Fire rips through an apartment complex in Delaware County on a bitterly cold night. Neighbors are left try ting to pick up the pieces. Matt delucia live from brookhaven. Several residents lost everything. Tell us what happened. Reporter some residents tried to save everything they could. One man rushed to save his paintings and his bird. Right behind me is building c along the 5200 block of Hilltop Drive in brookhaven. This is part of a large ko condominium complex. The fire spread quickly. Everyone did get out unharmed. That is the good news this morning. A family of three had to be rescued with a ladder off the thirdfloor balcony. The assistant fire chief said the heaviest fire was on the second floor. And you had one of the big challenges last night being the cold air where you went from the problem of fire to ice. When many residents came out, they couldnt believe what they were seeing, how the flames and smoke grew by the minute. I smelled smoke and knew that there was something going on. Next thing i know, its worse, worse, worse, you hear windows shatter. Every Fire Department in the area is trying to put it out. Reporter fellow neighbors and the red cross trying to help as every one of the 18 units were occupied. Officials are trying to figure out what started the fire. Thank you. An accidental house fire in south jersey cost a woman her life yesterday. Paramedics rushed her to the hospital shortly after getting the call from the scene in washington township. It came in around 4 00 yesterday afternoon. Doctors pronounced her dead a few hours later. Investigators have not said what may have ignited the fire but dont believe it was intentional. 4 34. Philadelphia is one of three major cities suing the department of defense over a gun check system that regulates Service Members who own a gun. They say the military neglected to report them. Leaders argue that failures in the system allowed disgraced air force member devin kelly to buy a rifle used to kill people at a church last month. He had been convicted of assaulting family members several years earlier and should not have been allowed to purchase a gun. The military admits mistakes with kelly and problems with reporting. The pentagon says it cannot comment directly on the lawsuit. As the year windows down, Many Americans are wondering how they need to prepare for the changes in the tax code. This as the president started his job of selling not only the new tax code but the economy, as well. Nbc10 National CorrespondentEdward Lawrence reports from washington. Reporter President Trump says hes now on a working vacation in florida as he travels back and forth to his International Golf course during the day. Weve not seen much of him since christmas, but hes kept his presence on twitter promoting the cuts saying, this will be a great year for companies and jobs. Share prices in corporations are going to go up. Ive heard pundits say, well, that will be good for everyone. Everyone owns stock. In fact, more than half of people dont own any stock. Reporter some economists worry that the tax bill will disproportionately help the rich. And we are underinvesting in lower income americans, especially kids. The dollar invested in a kids preschool education, lowincome kids education will pay you back seven or eightfold later in life. Reporter accountants say we should be prepared for the tax changes, but time is running out. Its ridiculous. Tax season started a month early. Usually the month of december, were going on vacation, taking it easy. Reporter the tax law only allows for a deduction of up to 10,000 on property taxes. Prepaying now means you can still deduct a larger amount on this years taxes. The other recommendation, charities. Many charitable donations will be removed after january 1st. Tax preparers say you may want to make an extra donation of money or items before january if you want to write it off your taxes. Edward lawrence, nbc news. Washington. Lets talk football. Fresh off clinching Home Field Advantage advantage, the eagles players gave back to the hometown. Matt collins visited with people in center city joined by eagles cheerleaders. They played games with children and families who have to spend the family away from home. To see kids and hang out and see the smiles it puts on their faces, in return it puts a smile on my face. Nice to take time out of their busy schedule to do the Little Things and show the community that they are part of the community. I have people in my life that lifted my spirits. To be here with the kids, lift their spirits, put a smile on my face, nothing more you could do. Awesome. Part of the eagles care initiative. Nbc10 is your official eagles station. Birds wrap up the game at the linc this sunday against the cowboys. Our pregame coverage starts at 9 30 in the morning. New york city is preparing for the worldrenowned new years eve party. Crews are installing the crystals on the ball that will drop during the final moments of 2017. The ball is covered with more than 2,600 crystal triangles that will be broken into groups that represent kindness, fortitude, wonder, and imagination much. Always fun. A terrifying knock at the door. Robbers barge into a north jersey womans apartment. The disguise the victim says they used to get inside. A surprise on board. What an airline crew uncovered that forces them to turn back, and the celebrities who shared the story with millions. Welcome back. Well start with the schuylkill expressway and camera at spring garden. A few cars on the roadway this morning. Things are looking good everywhere you look, especially if youre traveling mass transit. Septa, new jersey, amtrak, and patco on time for you. And say youre traveling on the pennsylvania freeways this morning. 95, 76, 476 all looking clear. Im first alert meteorologist steve sosna here with the first alert forecast. Middle of the week, hump day, not a lot of change for the weather at least in the short term. Were looking at the cold air mass settling in. Its comfortable over us. It will be for the next ten days or so. Its downright painful to be outside tomorrow, sunday, and monday. The reason for that, you take the air temperature, combine it with the wind, and the feelslike temperature will drop into the single numbers to as low as 15 below zero in that direction. Neighbors in the Single Digits and teens. Afternoon highs in the teens and 20s. We have snow in the forecast. A lot of people like snow, and other people dont like snow. You have to prepare for snow on saturday. A live look outside now, were we have just dry conditions, its quiet right now. And its cold. Neighborhoods range from 17 in the Lehigh Valley to 19 in the suburbs. 24 in philadelphia now. 25 in south jersey. Well go into the neighborhoods. In berks county, 18 in sinking springs. 19 in blandon. Into lehigh county, looking at 16 for you in allentown and whitehall. 14 in walnut port, 15 by the river in easton. A northerly breeze today at 5 to 15 miles per hour. The feelslike temperatures, 13 now in philadelphia. 13 in trenton. You want to have the hat, gloves, scarves, winter coat, and sunglasses here for today. You need a lot of the works here as you head out the door. Any flurries to the south and east are light. Most not reaching the ground. The south is dealing with another Winter Weather system. And we may have a Winter Weather system to deal with here by saturday. Heres the future tracker showing the potential for snow. A brief brush on friday to the north. Look at the storm system for saturday. This is saturday morning into saturday afternoon and evening. That would depart in time for our new years eve, leaving us frigid. Ill be back with the full ten die forecast in a few minutes. Over to you. She went the whole night without falling. I knew she was due at some point. She was due. Falling in love. A couple speaks about their viral proposal on the ice. And on the lookout. How thieves are now looking to strike during the postChristmas Shopping rush. 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. An exciting morning for students. The bucks county marching band is getting ready to represent our area in the tournament of roses parade. They must be psyched. Members of Pennsbury High School are ready to leave for the parade. Its one of 14 bands selected for the new years day tradition. 400 bands entered the competition to be selected. They beat out a lot of bands to be there. Good luck to them. The float that will appear in the parade are being decorated today. A lineup for the 2018 parade includes floats for dole packaged foods, miracle grow, and more. Thousands decorate the floats every year. New, a pair of earthquakes rattled the san jose, california, area. The strongest, a 3. 9magnitude, hit in an area that often gets earthquakes. People living nearby feeling a jolt, but no injuries or damage reported. Police are looking for two robbers who posed as delivery people to take part in a home invasion. A plan and woman busted in, tied up the woman man and woman busted in, tied up the woman, took cash, and ran off. She didnt want to show her face because the robbers are still on the run. He said, shut up, or ill kill you. What are you thinking . That im going to die. Police are checking Surveillance Video to help find the robbers. Dover police have images of a robber on forrest avenue. The people here jumped the counter of a walgreens pharmacy, took pain pills and took off. Police are still looking for them. New, a tokyobound plane that took off from los angeles had to turn around four hours into the flight after a passenger mixup. This is video of the plane at l. A. X. In los angeles. A passenger boarded the wrong flight and eventually told the pilot. According to the Airline Security procedure, they had to turn around. Model kristi teaguen was on the flight Chrissy Teigen was on the flight with her husband and was live tweeting the situation. Hey, guys, Chrissy Teigen here reporting live at l. A. X. I know you are eagerly awaiting my updates on this situation. After a series of tweets, she said, so many questions, and i have no answers. This person must be mortified. The flight was rescheduled for today. I wouldnt have been happy four hours into the flight. With all the chaos that comes with post Christmas Shopping and returns, the secret service says this is a prime time that counterfeiters like to strike. Store clerks are on the lookout for fake currency. The Federal Reserve says the 20 bill is the most counterfeited note in the u. S. Internationally. Its the 100 bill actually, that is. Experts call the second Holiday Shopping season continues today. Shopping malls across the country were packed one day after christmas. This time it was people returning those Unwanted Gifts or taking advantage of gift cards. Nbc10 spent the day at Cherry Hill Mall talking with shoppers. They all had Different Reasons for why they were out in the crowds. Kind of my fault. I didnt realized id purchased so many things because i wait until the last minute. Gift cards are the best. We can get what we want, right . Electronics, too. We are looking for afterchristmas bargains for next year. The National Retail federation says about 13 of gifts will end up back on the shelf. A lot of people, millions and millions of people millions of dollars will be spent this week because people wait for the sales. Thats what i do. I buy for my kids. For me, i wait until the day after christmas. I picked up two suits, 300, normally 700. Nice. They keep going on and on from christmas. Everybody makes out that way. True. My gift to you, a little snow on saturday. Tracy has been wanting snow really . You been working on it . Ive been trying to create snow for her. The snow miser. You wonder what i do back there. Snow in the forecast on saturday. Be ready for that. That is the day prior to new years eve. A big travel day in and around the valley. The comcoaast center looking noh and west. The tree up. Boathouse row, pretty this morning, but not a pretty feel. That will be the story today. The weather headlines, shots of bittercold air. Tonight, thursday, sunday, monday, the worst of this. Snow potential. Again, saturday looks like our day now where we could see a couple inches of snow. Remember, the ground is very cold. Rock hard and frozen. Anything that falls would stick. By sunday, it will depart. We are locked into the cold, tough round next week. Thereafter, after day ten, we may start to thaw things out. Well have to wait and see. For now, were frozen. 6 is the current temperature in mt. Pocono. Not the windchill. 18 in percocee. 21 in lancaster. The warmest spots, if you will, 27 in wildwood, and 30 in rehoboth beach. Factor in the wind, everybody, you can shave off 10 to 15 degrees off current temperatures. Feels like 9 below in mt. Pocono. 13 in philadelphia. 15 at the airport in the northeast. Heres the radar picture. Again, weve had minor little systems trucking on by. This is moving through northern delaware and Northern Maryland right now. So far, no reports of flurries. Dont expect to see a stray snowflake or two. Part of a system bringing wintry weather to the south. This will exit stage right and not be an issue for us. Well have to dole with another system up deal with another system up the pipeline saturday. High temperatures, 27 in philadelphia. 26 in the suburbs. Another subfreezing day. 25 Lehigh Valley, 29 south jersey. And if youre down in delaware, a good deal of sunshine later this afternoon after the morning clouds and possibly a flurry. This is something that you should take note of. This is the future feelslike temperature. This is today at 7 30. 14 in philadelphia. 9 in doylestown. We stay steady through the lunch hour today. Stepping outside for lunch, you definitely want to bundle up for that. Overnight tonight, 9 00, singlenumber windchills in philadelphia. Even gets worse by tomorrow morning. If youre commuting to work, youre dealing with 14 below in the poconos. 4 below in doylestown. Windchill of 1 in philadelphia. Thats the real deal. Serious stuff. Dress in layers. Then well start to ease up on the brutal windchills by friday afternoon. The cold here to stay around. Ill have the tenday forecast coming up in the next half hour. All right. Cold here to stay. You can track the cold by downloading our free nbc10 app. It has forecasts for your neighborhood and sends weather alerts to your phone so you can be prepared. Well check the roads. Pamela osborne looking at i295 in jersey. Yeah. Things are looking pretty good. You see just a few cars on the road morning. New major problems or trouble spots. This is the camera at route 73. One thing to pass along, cheltenham, theres an accident to look out for on cheltenham at cedar lane. Not seeing reports that its slowing things down. Just something to be aware of if thats the way you drive. It is in the area, and theyre clearing it up. If youre traveling route 422 this morning, things look good for you there, whether youre going eastbound our westbound. Eastbound trying to get to the schuylkill expressway, average speeds are in the 60s. Tell only take byou about eight minutes. An inside look at philadelphias stallest sky scrape tallest screw scraper. Forecasters saying another foot of snow could come down. Im ron allen at the airport thats shut down. A live report later on today. Look for more live reports coming up on the today show. It begins right after nbc10 news at 6 00. Philadelphias tallest building will also be its smartest. The Comcast Technology center is still under construction. The brains and the guts of the build regular already in place and actually working. Water plays a huge role in the new home for nbc10 and telemundo 62. It gets pumped through every floor like blood through veins. The water gets chilled and fills ceiling beams that can cool offices and spaces, cutting down on air conditioning costs. The 14,000 panes of glass are key to the energy efficiency. Look for it, and its transparent. There is magic going on there because theres a microscopic layer protecting the glass from h