Checking their cars this morning. Not easy to get out of a warm car to pump gas. The bone chilling cold continues to impact our area. They will dismiss students because of an issue with heat at that school. Glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking this bitter cold and a noreaster that will impact us as well, glenn. Yes. This is the area to be hardest hit. This is in cape may. Accumulating know is quite likely there. We have the first alert out for all of our new jersey counties. This may be expanded farther to the west as we watch new computer information come in to possibly include northern delaware. This is wednesday 9 00 p. M. To thursday at noon. Not a longlasting storm but generally 3 to 6 inches, possibly more at the shore. There will be gusty winds with this. We have dry can goonditions acr the area right now. This is an extremely strong jet stream will have had this. This will dive down and join this off of the florida coast to create a massive ocean storm. Here we are tomorrow morning and things are pretty quiet. Watch what happens by tomorrow afternoon. Starting to get snow in north carolina. The heaviest precipitation is offshore. The strongest winds will be offsho offshore. It is such massive storm that much of the area could be impacted by that. If we still have wind and it feels like 1 in coatsville. Well talk more about the snowfall totals and colder air than this. First comes the cold then comes the water main breaks. Crews are repairing breaks all over the area. People in a number of km communities lost water pressure. They say thousands of people may have lower water pressure. They are warning peecople to lit their use of tap water because of sediment in tap water. Not many people out exercising in this area. Reporter you can normally find people out along kelly drive. So far we have only seen two bicyclists riding by. These types of cold temperatures are causing challenges for people everywhere. Thats a sound you dont want to wake up to. An 8 inch water main broke in front of his home. He has a flooded basement and flooded cadillac. I promoved one car out and t other will not start. Hot chocolate. She is dealing with this bout of cold better than most. I lived in montana seven years. I did you want get cold here like it does there cht l. Turn the heat up a little bit. You know, extr extra blankets. We couldnt help but wonder if she was ready. How cloold does it have to b for you to whip out a coat . Probably 0, so we are getting close. Rfrmg reporter there is paw prints there. We know 125 homes were effected by that water main break. They hoping to get service rezor restored by early this evening. Nbc 10 news. In Camden County officials they say it likely caused a Sprinkler System to burst. They move residents to another section last night. First responders did their best to make sure no one had to be evacuated outside of the building. You can download the nbc 10 app. It has forecasts for your neighborhood and sends weather alerts to your home. Four people injured. In north philly one man shot her in the thigh. At last check that victim was in critical condition. Another shooting in north l philadelphia let one man riddled with bullets. Police say the bullets hit the man multiple times. The woman was inside the apartment that was hit but she was not hurt. Two people are in the hospital after a shooting in german town. A woman and man were hit just before 2 00. The suspects then sped away in a car. Happening right now the teenaged is the in a family massacre over the Holiday Weekend is facing a new jersey judge. They say he shot and killed his participants, sister and a family friend. Law open fofrsment officials. We are learning more about the victim of the shooting death. Her and her older brother escaped. The gun was registered to some one in the family. They also say no one outside the family could have seen this coming. We dont have any history of calls to that home. And then he just opened fire on them. I dont know why. Neighbors say the young man had special needs. More than 20 elected officials are being sworn into office. Larry has just taken the oath of office as philadelphias attorney. He wants to keep fewer people behind bars. He is also opposed to the death penalty. He replaces williams who we signed last summer and then was found guilty of bribery and other charms. Will yaps was sentenced to five dpreer dpre years. She says one of her Top Priorities will be to look at mismanagement there. Time time is now 11 09. Time to check in with jessica boyington. Yeah. It happened a few hours ago, an accident on 322. So route 322 is closed between 295. Portions are getting a delay in back up. That is closed heading to the bridge where some of you may be in a sticky spot. Slow right here because of slow movining maintenance vehicle. We are at a 27 minute drive time there where some of those vehicles are moving slowly. Down to 30s for speeds. Should be about 15 Miles Per Hour like the southbound side. Back to you. Thank you. The eagles have two weeks to prepare for the nfl playoffs. Head coach Doug Peterson will talk to us this afternoon. There are reminders about what could have been with now injure reasonable doubt quarterback carson wentz. We are keeping hope alive. The eagles will play the first playoff game at 4 35 p. M. You can watch it right here on nbc 10. Today is your first chance to start the new year off as a mul multimillionaire. Take a look. The drawing is tonight for 343 million. No one won last weeks drawing. S a frmg no one waps saturd t power ball drawing is tomorrow night. What trump is saying a it a meeting between north and south korea. New year, new babies, the story of how these twins will have different birthdays in date of birth years. If you think its cold now another blast of air is headed our way. Ill break down the timing of it all next. Start the car start the car the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. Ikea. Start the car start the car the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. Ikea. Fire officials believe this fire started on the ground floor and spread into the 12 apartments above. More than 200 firefighters rushed to save lives. 16 people were rescued. The injuries are all nonlife threatening. There are 22 people so far that have been displaced. Crews will be looking for cha caused the fire after all of the hot spots are put out. 12 people were killed in this fire when a toddler ru plwas pl with the stove. It was made worse when the mother escaped without closing the door. It turned the stairwell into a chimney. This arctic blast is impacting airports and public transportati transportation. Blake reports now from chicago. This morning much of the country is kicking off the new year in a deep freeze. Chicago waking up below zero for the fourth day there a row. It is freezing out here. Im from florida. This is craziness. It has been relentless and widespread. Officials urged people to stay home. Texas which is ill prepared for this frigid weather is coated in ice. This Police Officer outside dallas slipping on a highway has a car nearly slides into him. At least five people freezing to death across four states. Polar plunges are a new years day tradition. This came with a warning from organizers. A polar plunge had to be cancelled when they couldnt breakthrough the ice. Some school kids did catch a lucky break today. Dall at many schools the buses would not start because they have been sitt sitting here for two weeks. An ocean storm will impact part of the area with some snow. We issued a first alert for areas most likely to see significant snow. This is northern delaware and maybe even some of the sur bubu. This is wednesday 9 00 p. M. To noon on thursday. In the alert area generally 3 to 6 inches as of now. It could change and more is possible at the shore. It has been so cold well be seeing that snow stick to untreated surfaces as well. 20 degrees in philadelphia. Still a 13 Miles Per Hour wind. It is still in the teens in many of the sur roupdirounding areas. Lets take a look at lehigh valley. We have places in the teens. Reading is 19, fleetwood 18, allentown 17. White hall at 21. Nazareth at 18, bethlehem at 17. It feels like 1 in lancaster, 4 in reading. We still have wind out there. For tomorrow this will be the warmest day of the week. Some places could actually get to above the freezing mark. I have 34 after a low of 13. Wildwood and avalon at 34. Decent amount of sunshine. Nicest day of the week. We have moisture building off of florida combining with disturbances coming in from the west. Here is the general picture. These white lines are intense. By wednesday flight the western edge of this is snow. Normally a track that far out we wouldnt get anything. Boston could end up with a couple of feet of snow plus blizzard conditions. It is really going to pound part of new england. As we go through the afternoon we have upper teens to low 20s. Temperatures not very pleasant. We dont drop down nearly as much. By tomorrow morning we have a few single digit numbers but not near zero. During the day it is dry and upper 20s to mid30s. Here comes the snow. That is wednesday night. You can see temperatures are a little marginal. Well see that snow taper off. How much snow . This is probably in the middle of what our thinking is now. 1 to 3 inches in the philadelphia area. More on that coming up a little bit later. A new year, a fresh start. Well tell you about an announcement on the today show. Thats just ahead. It is official, hoda is firmly the coanchor of today. This has to be the most popular decision nbc has ever made. Kotb has been an a fillin since was fired. Glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking the snow and another bitter blast of arctic air is heading our way. A and holiday chaos for those coming home from trips overseas. Iand i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. First place. Both events . Booyah were an awards family. Youll like them both but love our price. Awardwinning organic cheddar puffs from aldi. Simply smarter shopping. We spotted a couple of people Walking Around the frozen lake. Now on top of the cold we could see snow. Lets get right to glenn hurricane schwartz who is tracking it all, glenn. Yeah. Its going to depend on where you are. In some cases if you get any snow at all it will be a very tricky one with a very tight contrast across the area. We have bright blue skies across the area right now. A huge ocean storm developing in the next day or so. Our first alert covering all of our new jersey counties. It may be expanding westward are later on today depending what it shows this afternoon. This is until noon on thursday. Generally 3 to 6 inchesov of sn. It would stick on untreated surfaces. The wind will pick up with perhaps recordbreaking cold. Down to the south a very strong jet stream here. We have a developing storm over the bahamas. It will be combined with this moving down from the middle of the country to create this massive coastal storm. It will generally track too far to the east. This is an unusually large storm. Thats why it may spread moisture farther to the west than a typical track this type of storm. So by wednesday night and into thursday morning a good bit of new jersey and southern delaware could be effected by that. More on the bitter temps behind this coming up. Bitter cold is having consequences on our ageing infrastructure. Crews are busy today fixing water main breaks. We are live along kelly drive. You are talking to people who say the cold isnt so bad, is that right . Reporter yeah. It is all about perspective. One woman lived in montana. This isnt even coat wearing weather. Cold is causing problems for people throughout the area. I woke up at 3 00 a. M. There was water rushing into my basement. Reporter his basement wuasnt the only thing ruined. His cadillac also took on water. My car wouldnt start at all. I dont like it as cold as it is right now. Reporter kaitlyn and her mom had the same idea as a lot of people. They were grabbing something hot to drink before they started the day. Mom says she will break out a coat when temperatures hit zero. I lived in montana for seven years. Reporter it was cold enough to keep runners and bikers as we creep deeper into the coldest stretch to hit the region since 2004. Youre taking a live look now at the river which is frozen over. I mentioned that there respect too many people. We have seen more people walk along the side of the river to kind of get a photograph than we have seen people just even walking along kelly drive here this morning. Im pamela osborne, nbc 10 news. They are trying to stay warm and stay inside. This arctic blast has been deadly. At least eight deaths across the country are being blamed. A woman found frozen to death in front of a detroit church. Many people are hoping and praying for a little relief. The womans car jumped the curb and went into the water. A drive time rescued the woman. The divers gear freeze while trying to get the car out of the water. You can track this bitter cold by downloading the nbc 10 app. The working vacation is over for President Trump who is back there washington this morning. The president starts 2018 with an am bibitious agenda. They will discuss welfare reform, immigration like the border wall. Tax reform could also be a topic of discussion. I think what we will see is a real push to make the tax cuts for individuals perm naanenperm. Two more democrats will be sworn in the senate tomorrow. Minnesota senator will officially resign from his senate seat. He announced plans to resign after Sexual Misconduct allegations from more than a half dozen women. Next we are just over a month from the start of the wipt winter olympics. Yesterday kelly is reporting now. Reporter south korean president says he sees this as a possible breakthrough. They are proposing say date for talks with north korea next week on the truth village. The top ig is the olympic games. How would north korea send its ice skating teams there for the olympics. Would they march along south koreans. Moon is a big pro poeponent. He has been trying to get them to sit down for talks. Today he said any talks about future ties and relations would have to include the norths Nuclear Program all of this after he decliared the north to be a Nuclear Power saying it is not a threat but a reality. This morning President Trump tweeted sanctions are having an impal impact. Rocket man wants to talk to south korea for the first time m perhaps it is good news. Perhaps it is not. Well see. Athletes from around the world will be in pursuit of olympic gold. Nearly 100 nations are expected to compete. They are all set to host the events. Competition will kick off and run through february 25th. This is your home for the winter olympics. The demonstrations have brought six days of violence. Matt bradley has the latest. Rfrmg reporter protests have gotten more deadly in the last 24 hours. Nine people have dined oved ove. No evidence of any continuing protests but we are keeping an eye out for that. There has also been the death of a Police Officer and three Police Officers were injured. This is a problem because it could invite another more harsh crack down. He is the supreme leader. It is for continues to protest against the iranian regime. It is no surprise he would say that. He has a final say in any political decision in iran. They are not the first time an official has blamed foreign agents. No sign they have tried to start this but its true that iran does have quite a few enemies in the region. Well see if the circle and cycle sur rourounding them. Back to you. Long lines across the country. They Say Something knocked out its Processing Computers for about two hours. This is video from Miami International airport. It meant they created a much slower process. You can see big backups there. Passengers ran into lodge lines at jfk. Customs and Border Patrol officials respearent sure what caused the outage. The safist year on record for aviation. He has been very strict and the good news is there were zero deaths reported last year. They had no accidents or deaths last year. By comparison there were 16 accidents in 2016. Airline deaths have dropped drastically other the last 20 years. Former miss america is taking over the reigns after an email scandal. She was miss america 1989 has been named the organizations chairwoman. The derogatory and sexist emails were leaked to the huffington post. Late last month three Board Members resigned. A former Miss American who grew up will give oversight. She is currently the head of the actors union. Three hollywood heavyweights are part of a coalition called times up. They are among hundreds of hollywood Women Joining the movement. It vowed for support for women in the entertainment business and beyond. Times up will advocate for legislation against workplace harassment. Iceland is now the first country in the world to legalize equal pay between men and women. A new law making it illegal to pay men more than women went into effect. Government and agencies will have to obtain government certification of equal pay policies. Those that fail to provide that will face fines. Ncaa Football Games is set. In the sugar bowl alabama dominated clemson. Crimson tide rolled over the tigers 246. How about this game between georgia and oklahoma in the roads bowl . Did you see this . Tied at 48 a piece in double overtime. They will play alabama for the National Title next monday. Up next, looking for lulu. If you know a pient sized star. A noreaster will impact parts of our area starting tomorrow night. Ill let you know how brutal the next arctic blast is going to be. Thats next. Heres your receipt. Have a nice day thank you. Start the car start the car start the car start the car the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. Ikea. Carrie underwood tells us she is recovering significant surgery to her face. She reported she needed 40 to 50 stitches after the facial injury. The country star said she is grateful the injuries were not worse and she also broke her wrist in that fall outside her national home. The beloved film waitress wowed the audience. She used baking to help her get out of a loveless marriage and find happiness. Now it is heading to philadelphia. Waitress, the search is on for lulu. Here to tell us more is leslie patterson, direct