Skies are mostly clear now and again its frigid and just getting worse unfortunately karen rogers with the details. You dont like a forecast that starts with that, cold and getting worse. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing us over the past few hours the clouds rolled in. We are in and out of the clouds and more than yesterday. Lets look at the numbers, 19 in bethlehem, 18 degrees right now in pottstown. 19 in warminster and 21 in center city and suburbs in new jersey and 22 in browns mills and 23 degrees in smyrna, delaware. Today is no exception. The windchills feel like the Single Digits now in philadelphia. 9 is what it feels like 10 in allentown and minus 5 in mt. Pocono and 17 in cape may. Through the height of the afternoon it will feel like its in the teens. Lets look at this cold air, monday 40 and below average but still that was balmy compared to the last few days, tuesday 33 and wednesday 27 and yesterday was the coldest day in nearly two years, the high of 22 with windchills in the Single Digits and today better than that at 27 degrees for your high temperature. But this is what to expect and the issue with the cold is the prolonged period we deal with this at least the next seven days through the entire forecast we are not above freezing, that is a really big deal. Light snow showers tomorrow and we continue to track that. The coldest timetered looks around the holiday bad timing with that. People want to be outside ringing if the new year sunday evening and for the possible mummers parade on monday morning starting then windchills will be near zero and at times below zero. Well talk more about that in the sevenday forecast and when the snow unfolds. Coming up. Thank you. Keep up with changes to the cold and new years eve forecast on our newly upgraded 6 abc app a free download. A fast moving house fire in new jersey left four people hurt including a firefighters. This this blaze broke out at 1 30 and crews rescued two women on the roof and rescued a man inside. Think stuff like this doesnt happen to you but it can. The family calld this house their home for what would be the last time. This morning, it is been boarded up a total loss after a fast moving fire consumed the house along its 600 block of union avenue at 1 00 this morning. I got a slamming knock on my girlfriends door by the neighbor. He lives in the home but was staying with his girlfriend. His stepdad, mom and sister were asleep but woke up in the nick of time. The stepdad went out side and the two women when to the roof of the home. They were rescued quickly despite the flames and raging conditions. The big factor for us is ice. Water and cold dont mix well and now slippage and everything else. That is one extreme we do have. They will come out and salt the area for us. All three okay pans were briefly hospitalized for minor injuries as well as a firefighter. All three dogs were rescued from the home but dies a few hours later. She was diligent saving the memories and photos. The material things come and go, that is the worst. But my family is okay that is all that matters. As far as the cause of this fire still under investigation but relatives tell me they believe it may have started in the kitchen. Jeanette reyes channel 6 action news. A woman was struck and killed late last night along route 73 in maple shade. It happened at 11 30 at waverly road police say that the victim was hit at the median barrier and pronounced dead at the scene and the driver of the vehicle stopped and remained at the scene and no charges were filed and no word on the identify of that victim. New york fire vest quiters remain on the scene of a deadly fire in the bronx. We learned that the blaze was caused bay a child playing with a stove. Officials say that the flames spread quickly through the Apartment Building because the boys mother left her door open after she fled the fire. A stairwell acted like a chimney and carried the flames through the entire building in minutes blocking the main escape route and 12 people died including young children, close to 200 firefighters worked in bone chilling cold temperatures to rescue a dozen people from the building. President trump sat down with the New York Times at his maralago resort. With no aides present the president spoke candidly about roy moore and north korea and the Russian Investigations. President trump long labelling the Russian Investigation a witch hunt. I didnt make a phone call. I have nothing to do with russia. Everybody knows this. But now in an improm you interview he offers a different view. It doesnt bother me there has been no collusion but i think he will be fair. He defines he trusts bob mueller in the way he says he finds me innocent or my family innocent. If he gets close to Jared Kushner or donald jr. His tune will change. And reverses course on the china stance, now he is reprimanding the country for sending oil to north korea with this warning. If they dont help us with north korea, i will do what i said i will do. I dope think the president wants to get into a trade war or if he pushes back too hard on china and pushing back on criticism his administration is not working well with democrats. We started taxes and dont hear from the democrats, we hear bs from the democrats. Saying in the new year he hopes to work with democrats to overhaul health care and improve infrastructure and other issues. There is more ahead on action news at 12 30, we go behind the scenes of the huge effort to keep the partygoers in times square as they ring in 2018. And he is known for giving back and now chance the rapper is put at the top of a list for his charitable work. We just moved in about four months ago, but the living rooms pretty blank. We did a lot of research online. We just need to have a designer put it all together. Mmm hmm. So, its really nice when clients come in and have. Done some of their own research. What do you think about these chairs and that table . Working with a bassett designer was really easy. Us being young professionals, were so busy. Theres no way we couldve designed it ourselves. No. We love it a Violent Bank Robbery in florida was captured on Surveillance Video police in port st. Lucie say that three men entered the bank Wearing Masks and jumped the counter and robbed the teller at gun point and vest dirts found the get away vehicle but the thieves still on the loose. Newly released video shows a texas cafe owner going toe to toe with an armed robber. You can see the owner wrestling the gun away from the man and the owner fires seven shots barely missing the guy. And houston says the crook gave up and got away in a car. They caught up with them and nobody was hurt. The security in times square will be the tightest ever. They are watching every angle of the crowds sunday night. We when behind the scenes to see the massive security plans. Reporter this morning abc news getting a firsthand exclusive look at the nypds intense security for new years eve. We met up with the three Police Chiefs heading up efforts in the air and on the ground and underground. Unique attacks like the concert shooting in las vegas and the subway bombing changing how police operate. Each one added a new dimension of preparedness. For the First Time Police will screen people going into restaurants and hotels in times square and we flew above with the h counter terrorism. What are your pilots looking for and they commanders and decision , qly entifies threats and well be able to identify them q on the 12th floor or 22nd floor of the building. Millions of people will come and now police close off a wider perimeter than ever before. This is the destination people come from all over. We work with over agencies like amtrak and Long Island Railroad and do a coordinated efforts with them. Aboveground snipers will be and ca 10,000 o missioner giving us a rare look. People from the state police and fbi and people from amtrak and new jersey transit. And from any agency you can think of they will be in the Operation Center that night. You can watch the party in times square right in the warm comfort of your home. Right here on 6 abc. Ryan seacrest will host dick clarks rocking eve. Watch the coverage from new york sunday night right herechne6. And a list of people that gave back in 2017. At the top chance the rapper, the nonprofit do something. Org topped the list celebs gone good. Those in the spotlight that use their platform for good causes and effect social change and Ariana Grande ranked second and rihanna third. Cpping live outside sky 6 hd showing you the ice rink there outf city hall at dillworth park, some people are bundling up and saying you know its cold ice skating makes sense. Get ready bachelor nation. Karen loves this show. We all do. The premier is just days away, about looking for love after his painful breakup five years ago on the bachelorette. And this season is said to be the most romantic one yet. The new bachelor is not that new to bachelor nation. The race car driver made his prime time debut falling for emily maynard. Making it to the final two vying for emilys heart. He realize that i love you. Hoping to find a happily ever after. Instead ending up emotionally devastated and confessing now. The last time i was in love like that was with emily. And that it took much more time than anyone thought to get over the bachelorette. I knew i had strong feelings for her and they grew and i knew i was ready to get married. I was not over it for a long time. Now here for the right reasons and find love with a number of women vying for roses and his heart. Thousands signed up to meet him. Just days away now. Bachelor nation i hope you are getting ready for a romantic journey. And in a sea of beautiful women and they could get mad at me and i dont care. Its far more important to me to go step on someones toes and lose the opportunity and walk away and say what if. What we know there is going to be drama. Its part of it. I am interested to see what happened on the other side. Because there was some drama. And i think i probably only know half the stories. And yes he does fall in love with not one but two women. I didnt know i was capable of having strong feelings of falling in love with more than one person and the end was difficult for me. And aris new journey begin in the new year, watch the season premier of the bachelor. Im ready. Next monday or january 1st at 8 00 on 6 abc. Stole that out of the promo. We are excited. Something to keep us warm. Well need warm thoughts to get through this next week or so of cold weather, let take a look now at stormtracker 6 live double scan and show you that we are dry through the area and we have Early Morning flurries north of the city and all dry now, lets go outside and show you what is looks like, chopper 6 hd was doing flying looking at the delaware and you see the ice we are looking at there, and it is going to get more frozen because we are going be below freezing for at least the next seven days, we are looking at a prolonged period of cold weather and already see that ice now on the delaware. Lets look at the numbers, current temperatures 21 and dew point minus 1. And dry air mass in place and winds westerly at 11 not as gusty as yesterday. A windchill of 9 degrees now in the city. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing bright fine early on for a few hours and we saw the clouds move in and keeping most of the clouds through the day. Lots of clouds and sunny breaks and high of 27 and less wind than yesterday but feeling like the teens at best this afternoon. 2 00, 26 holding at that at 4 00. 6 00, 25 degrees. And 8 00, 22. And 10 00, dipping down to 20 degrees, so its a cold evening ahead. And tomorrows high 28 degrees and we continue to track the snow showers and it looks like well see a coating to one or two places in the higher terrain getting 1 or 2 inches of snow and its coming if earlier by 8 00 a. M. Showing the snowfall from the west. Afternoon hours and doing some running around and events this weekend. And you want to be careful with any untreated surfaces well have the light snowfall through the entire area. By 2 00, 3 00, its wrapping up. Just a few left over snow showers or light snow flurries its a light event and nonetheless walking or driving on untreated suffer as could be tricky, a coating to 2 inches of snow the first half of the day. I want to advance to new years eve and as luck would have it. The timing of the coldest air we are seeing in the seven day is new years eve night into new years day. Windchills near zero despite a temperature of 15. At midnight the temperature is 12 and at times on new years day, if you go out if they have the mummers parade it may feel like below zero. Here is the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast cold today and less wind and more clouds and 27 degrees and a tradeoff there, we have the accuweather alert for the light snow showers tomorrow for the first part of the day. 28 for your high temperature. And sunday another accuweather alert. 22 degrees. Ringing in the new year feeling like near zero and cold and high of 19 with gusts 30 Miles Per Hour it will feel colder than that. Wednesday not as harsh but still own 30 degrees, on thursday we are tracking a possible noreaster, 28 for the high and it may stay off the coast. A cold step day period. All right karen thank you. Lets get you to more breaking news Burlington County new jersey firefighters are on the scene of yet another fire. This a three alarm one on the 400 block of the pemberton bypass. They have evacuated the house and fighting the blaze, no injuries reported but they are working to douse the flames and smoke continues to pour out of the building and we continue to follow that and other breaking news on air and online. 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. 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A way to warm the tummy and the soul. They give of theyselves right down to the delivery day. We love the project and we love Campbell Soup company. A great example of what companies should do. Our mission has two parts to get whole some food to people that need it. For fyi philly im karen rogers. Love it to keep you warm and youll need it. Lets take a look at the windchill tracker, just over the next few hours it feels like its in the teens despite a high of 28 degrees. Clouds and sunshine and a stray flurry today. Thank you, that is it for action news at noon. For karen rogers, david murphy, and Rick Williams and sara bloomquist and the entire Action News Team im Alicia Vitarelli have a great day and holiday weekend. Happy new year everyone. Announcer lets get started. Its time for the chews ultimate tipathon. Thats my jam. Announcer were hanging with the star of the smash hit this is us, Susan Kelechi watson. 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