A video originally tweeted by a SNJ Today reporter shows Buena Regional High School junior Andrew Johnson standing dejected on Thursday night in the school's gym after being forced to choose between getting his hair cut or forfeiting.

The chances of a White Christmas are slim to none, but at least the travel to the holiday dinner won't be impeded by bad weather.

A busy night of shopping on the last Friday before Christmas was disrupted, and chaos ensued, when reports of gunfire sent patrons at a Delaware mall running for the doors. State police did not immediately find any alleged shooters, but some shoppers at Christiana Mall were treated for injuries.

A young man in the Army arrived in Philadelphia on Friday after a long journey home. He shared his story with NBC10, which found big crowds traveling through Philadelphia International Airport ahead of next week.

Temple University has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by students at its Fox School of Business. The university was accused of providing false data to U.S. News & World Report to inflate the school’s online MBA program to No. 1 in the country.

Man-man’s family lost their home unexpectedly and the poor guy has since been waiting in a shelter. This sweet and calm pit bull mix is looking for a foster family that can take care of him while he waits to be reunited with his owners.

Police say a large fight between multiple people, not gunshots, triggered a panic inside a Delaware mall that sent patrons fleeing for the exits Friday night.

During the fight inside Christiana Mall, a glass container broke and a metal sign fell to the floor, which immediately sent employees and shoppers running in all directions, the Delaware State Police said.

Officers who were already assigned to security at the mall immediately evacuated the building and diverted traffic away from the area.

Officers searched the mall and the surrounding area but found no evidence of any weapons or shooting, the DSP said.

Multiple people reported minor injuries during the stampede.

A triage area was set up for injuries that occurred to shoppers who fled the mall. One witness, Haley Quickel, of Middletown, who was inside the mall's Target at the time of the initial incident, said the chaos spilled into the parking lot.

"Mostly, there was a lot of people crying and saying they left all their stuff inside," Quickel said. "Everyone was just trying to get out and into their cars, honking horns."

The mall had reopened by Saturday morning and was set to operate during its regularly scheduled holiday hours.

An entire South Jersey town welcomed home Dustin McGunnigle, a U.S. Air Force member who had been overseas for nearly two years. What was supposed to be a quiet dinner with mom turned into an early Christmas surprise as Cherry Hill residents gathered to thank and welcome McGunnigle. “It means a lot. It gives me hope that people still believe in us, people still believe in the military,” he said.

The federal government is poised to quit counting hemp, marijuana's sober and versatile cousin, among the most dangerous class of substances.

Both chambers of Congress voted this week to pass a Farm Bill that removes hemp — cannabis plants with a near-zero amount of the chemical compound that gets you stoned — from the Controlled Substance Act. If President Donald Trump signs the bill into law as expected, growing hemp for commercial purposes will be soon be legal across the country.

What precisely "soon" means is up to the discretion of federal and state regulators, who intend to keep a close eye on anyone interested in planting some seeds.

"It's not yet clear if legalization will have an impact on the 2019 growing season, but certainly for 2020 and beyond we are in a much better position," said Erica McBride, executive director of both the National Hemp Association and the Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council. "This was definitely a long time coming, and it feels a little surreal, but now we have our work cut out for us to make sure implementation is handled in the best possible way."

Here are some tentative answers to what comes next.

—Wait, wasn't hemp already legal?

It's complicated.

Hemp was a cash crop in Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the 18th and 19th centuries, but production was curtailed after World War II amid a marijuana scare. Hemp cultivation became explicitly illegal in 1970 when President Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substances Act, which classified all varieties of the Cannabis sativa plant as a schedule one drug.

Things progressed in 2014 when Congress included a section in the previous Farm Bill allowing institutions of higher education and people contracted by state agriculture departments to grow hemp without a DEA permit. But the bill's vague language left unclear the permitted commercial scope of state pilot programs, and it did not change the Controlled Substances Act to exempt hemp varieties of cannabis.

Since then, almost 40 states have created hemp cultivation and production programs, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Nearly 20 state programs have allowed some commercial endeavors, though Pennsylvania is not one of them.

—So what does the 2018 Farm Bill change?

For starters, simply removing hemp from the Controlled Substances Act evaporates the chilling specter of the Drug Enforcement Administration that kept banks, insurance companies, payment processing and other financial services companies from getting involved in the industry. Now farmers growing hemp can get crop insurance and apply for federal low-interest farm loans, and hemp-related businesses will have much more access to capital, among other opportunities.

The bill allows interstate commerce of hemp products and hemp cultivation and processing for any use. That includes the extraction of cannabidiol, or CBD, a nonintoxicating chemical compound that has a relaxing effect on many users and is already used to treat a variety of medical conditions including insomnia, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy.

—Why all the talk about CBD being a moneymaker?

CBD is definitely having a moment. The World Health Organization recently reported CBD does not appear to cause harm or have potential for abuse, and both pharmaceutical companies and investors with deep pockets see huge growth potential for CBD.

In fact, the federal Food and Drug Administration this summer approved a CBD-based drug called Epidiolex, the first approved drug derived from the cannabis plant. Industry experts anticipated the CBD market would grow to $3 billion over the coming five years even if hemp remained classified as a schedule one drug, and some say opening the door to investment capital could spur a $20 billion market.

—OK, back to the 2018 Farm Bill. Does this mean I can plant some hemp seeds as soon as the ground softens?

Nah. The bill assigns the U.S. Department of Agriculture the task of coming up with some basic regulations overseeing hemp production. Its deadline: "As expeditiously as practical."

The bill also gives states the option to have primary regulatory authority over hemp production as long as they submit regulatory plans to the USDA for approval. For starters, regulators need to know who's growing hemp and where it's being grown, and it needs to test plants to make sure levels of intoxicating THC don't exceed 0.3 percent.

But the bill ensures that growers who accidentally exceed that threshold aren't criminally charged. They will have to comply with corrective action plans developed by state agricultural departments, and growers who violate the THC threshold three times will be prohibited from growing hemp for five years.

—How does federal hemp legalization affect the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture's 2019 program?

You're going to need to be patient. The state agriculture department has a research-based plan and, with no federal rules in place, says it's too late to change course for 2019.

Its application deadline for its 2019 hemp research program is Monday, and the department will select as many as 60 projects in January. Spokeswoman Shannon Powers said the department doesn't plan on extending the application deadline or changing any major program parameters this year absent the new USDA rules.

That means individual applicants shouldn't expect the go-ahead to grow more than 100 acres or to grow, sell or distribute hemp for commercial purposes.

A gray area might be the scope of hemp sales for "market research purposes," which the state agriculture department allows if in accordance with federal and state law.

The department is looking closely for any revisions to its 2019 research program guidelines that may need to be made after the Farm Bill is signed, Powers said, but it hasn't yet identified anything specific.

"Two years of research under our belts puts Pennsylvania ahead of the game, and expands the possibilities for agriculture businesses just that much more," Powers said. "Growers in our research program have already explored options for what works and what doesn't — the challenges they've tackled to date, and the information gathered, positions both growers and the department well to create a successful program in 2019."

—Does hemp legalization create research opportunities for higher education institutions?

Hemp has a slew of potential applications, including but not limited to beauty products, clothing, bioplastics for car parts and more, building materials and housing insulation, energy storage devices for electronics, 3D printing filament, pest resistance and weed suppression and food oils and rope.

But the legal environment had rendered developing any of the more advanced applications cost-prohibitive.

Last year, Lehigh University and Jefferson University began talks about creating an ambitious research alliance to study and develop hemp-related supply chains, tapping some USDA funding to do so.

Lehigh and Jefferson have now signed a letter of intent to establish a "national model for excellence in industrial hemp," Cameron McCoy, assistant vice president of economic engagement at Lehigh, confirmed Thursday. They are working to incorporate Delaware State University into the collaboration as well.

Ray Pearson, a professor of material sciences and engineering at Lehigh, said researchers at Lehigh and Jefferson have been examining some of hemp's potentially more high-tech uses, such as the possibilities for cellulose nanocrystals from hemp fiber.

Hemp cellulose is considered a promising biodegradable alternative to traditional plastics made from nonrenewable petrochemicals. Such advanced applications need to be developed further so farmers have more of an economic incentive to grow the plant.

This chicken-or-egg dynamic has been complicated by the federal prohibition. As long as hemp remained under the federal Drug Enforcement Administration's purview, funding and collaborators have remained scant, Pearson said.

The Farm Bill's hemp legalization opens up numerous research and economic engagement opportunities, McCoy said. A financial supply chain of legal and governmental funding can now be developed, as can a production supply chain establishing how the U.S. can best position itself to provide quantities of hemp needed across various industrial applications.

The Lehigh-Jefferson collaboration will also take a systematic approach to researching the relative value of products and engineering applications derived from hemp's fiber, seed, stalk and hurd (the inner portion of the stalk).

The universities are hopeful the creation of such research and economic development supply chains connecting the interests and concerns of agricultural, business and engineering stakeholders is about to become a lot more doable.

"We are incredibly thankful for the support of Lehigh's leadership, faculty and staff, Pennsylvania's representatives and state agency leaders, and to both Jefferson University and Delaware State University as we explore this opportunity together," McCoy said.

The doors were closed, signs up and even bathrooms off limits throughout Philadelphia's most popular tourist attractions.

Wind and crowds couldn't stop these procrastinators from crossing off a few more items from their holiday shopping list.

A New Jersey high school wrestler was forced to cut his dreadlocks or else forfeit the match.

A weekend of violence continued Sunday in Philadelphia as four more people were shot during what was supposed to be three days of peace before Christmas festivities.

A couple in the Torresdale section of the city was shot in their bedroom as their 2-year-old child lay in a crib in the next room over early Sunday morning.

The man and woman were shot in what police described as a home invasion robbery on the 9400 block of Torresdale Avenue.

The victims, a 39-year-old man and 37-year-old woman, were shot in the back and in the right leg, respectively, according to Philadelphia Police Capt. Drew Techner.

They told police that two men wearing masks broke into their home shortly before 4:15 a.m. and took a safe from their bedroom. The men then left in the victims' silver GMC pickup truck.

Police found the truck abandoned off I-95 near Margaret Street, Techner said. Money and jewelry had been taken from the safe.

The victims were taken to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital and listed in stable condition. Their child, who was in a crib in the next bedroom over but suffered no injures, was being cared for by family members.

Police have not made any arrests, but are sorting through surveillance video in the home for clues.

In the Frankford section of the city, a man was shot multiple times in the lower extremities shortly before 3:40 a.m. The shooting happened near the intersection of Eerie and Torresdale avenues.

Police say the man was taken to a hospital, but his condition remains unclear.

Around 30 minutes prior to that shooting, Philadelphia police responded to more gunfire, this time at the parking lot of an apartment complex on the 3900 block of City Avenue in Wynnefield Heights.

The 30-year-old male victim told police he was at the complex to visit a friend when a suspect followed him and tried to take his watch.

The man was shot in the hip and taken to Penn Presbyterian Hospital, where he is listed in stable condition.

The gunfire continued a violent and deadly streak in Philadelphia that began late Friday night when a 33-year-old woman, 31-year-old man and 29-year-old man were critically wounded in separate shootings in North Philadelphia.

Shortly before midnight that same day, a 35-year-old man was shot dead in the same section of the city.

The bloodshed continued when a 27-year-old man died from multiple gunshots to the head around 2 a.m. Saturday in West Philadelphia. A 36-year-old man was also shot in the stomach and listed in critical condition.

Around 1:30 p.m. that same afternoon, the death toll continued to climb when three people were found shot up in a car on the 2100 block of 10th Street.

A man was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. A woman was struck multiple times by the bullets and pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia police said.

The third victim, a 35-year-old man, was shot once in the head and listed in critical condition. He was also held as a prisoner, police said.

The last few days were supposed to be ones of non-violence, with activists planning the first David Fattah Peace Weekend and fanning out throughout the city beginning Friday to hand out shirts and flyers promoting peace.

Instead, the weekend's violence only added to the death toll.

Instead, the weekend's violence only added to the death toll.

As of Dec. 21, Philadelphia police listed 339 homicides in the city, an 11 percent increase over the same time last year.

That number is now sure to climb.

A couple was shot inside their Torresdale home as their 2-year-old child lay in a crib next to their room when two masked robbers stormed their residence on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. The robbers took a safe from the home and fled in the couple’s pickup truck.

Due to recent flooding in the Northeast, plenty of used cars that have been flooded are being sold to unwitting buyers. While many of those cars are cleaned up, experts warn that looks can be deceiving and that flooded cars can rot from the inside out.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney answers questions submitted by NBC10 viewers. Residents want to know why it’s so hard to get jobs in Philadelphia, why sidewalks get closed during construction and why recyclables don’t get picked up. Kenney also addresses the city’s tax abatement program, as well as its sanctuary status.

Jake Elliott kicked a 35-yard field goal as time expired and the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Houston Texans 32-30 Sunday to keep their playoff hopes alive.

The defending Super Bowl champion Eagles (8-7) need a win at Washington (7-8) next week and for Minnesota (8-6-1) to lose or tie or Seattle (8-6) to lose twice or lose once and tie to get a wild-card berth.

The Texans (10-5) missed an opportunity to clinch the AFC South and also allowed New England (10-5) to take control of the No. 2 seed. The Texans would secure the division title with a victory against Jacksonville next week. They'd get a first-round bye with a win and if the Patriots lose or tie.

Filling in for the injured Carson Wentz for the second straight week, Nick Foles again played like the Super Bowl MVP who led Philadelphia to a victory over New England.

Foles threw for a franchise-record 471 yards and four touchdowns.

Deshaun Watson had two TD passes and ran for two scores.

Watson threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to Vyncint Smith with 2:04 remaining as Houston rallied from a 13-point deficit.

But Foles brought Philadelphia back into position for the win.

Foles was injured on a late hit by Jadeveon Clowney while completing a 19-yard pass to Alshon Jeffery to the Texans 30 on third-and-10. Nate Sudfeld came in and threw an incomplete pass, but Foles returned on the next play. His 20-yard pass to Zach Ertz on third-and-10 put Philadelphia at the Houston 35.

The Eagles ran the clock down and Elliott made the kick to make up for missing an extra point earlier in the quarter.

Watson threw a 14-yard TD to DeAndre Hopkins to cut the deficit to 29-23 with 4:48 left and the Texans got the ball back at their 20 after a three-and-out.

Watson made an incredible escape on third-and-11 and threw 22 yards to Jordan Akins for a first down at the Philadelphia 34.

On third-and-11, he hit Smith deep in the back of the end zone. Smith made an outstanding catch, and dragged his feet to stay inbounds.

Foles connected with Nelson Agholor on an 83-yard TD in the third quarter to give the Eagles a 23-16 lead. Foles fired a deep pass that Agholor caught in stride at the Texans 30 and ran untouched to the end zone, stopping at the 1 and falling backward in for the score.

The Texans had a first down at the Eagles 31 on the ensuing drive but Chris Long sacked Watson, forcing a fumble that was recovered by Fletcher Cox and returned to the Houston 49.

Foles then connected with Ertz on a 23-yard TD to give the Eagles a 29-16 lead. Elliott missed the extra point.

Ertz had 12 catches to break Jason Witten's single-season record for tight ends. Ertz has 113. Witten had 110 catches for the Dallas Cowboys in 2012.

Watson ran in from the 5 one play after Clowney's strip-sack and recovery, giving the Texans a 9-7 lead.

The Eagles scored a TD on their opening drive for just the fourth time this season. Darren Sproles turned a short pass from Foles on fourth-and-2 into a 37-yard TD to give Philadelphia a 7-0 lead.

INJURIES

Texans: WR Demaryius Thomas (right leg) was carted off the field in the fourth quarter. CB Kareem Jackson (knee) and CB Kayvon Webster (thigh) were injured in the first half. CB Johnathan Joseph (neck) went down in the third quarter.

Eagles: LT Jason Peters (quad) got hurt on the first possession.

A man at the Borgata Casino -- who we're calling Harold M. -- turned a $5 bet on three-card poker into $1 million Saturday night at the Borgata in Atlantic City.

Firefighters are battling a warehouse fire in southwest Philadelphia Sunday evening.

The fire climbed to three alarms and firefighters reported heavy fire and smoke conditions.

SEPTA's Route 36 trolley service was affected. Shuttle buses had to operate in both directions from 49th and Woodland to Island and Woodland due to the fire.

NBC10 is on the way to the scene and will update this story.

RAW VIDEO: SkyForce10 was over the scene of a three-alarm warehouse fire in southwest Philadelphia Sunday night. Smoke from the fire billowed over the city.