through center city streets, they came down market street, they headed up, 16th street right in downtown center city philadelphia. they did tie up traffic as they walk down middle of market treat but protesters so far here of been very peaceful. now all of this started just after 4:00 o'clock this afternoon at what protesters were calling a die in, at 30th street station, there, just after 4:00 o'clock this afternoon many protesters lied down there in the busy 30th street station and then moments after that die in was complete they then took to the streets and began marching through center city, eventually making their way, back inside city hall where right now, again protests are continuing to be loud, and they continue to make sure their voices are heard but as of right now we have no indication of any sort of arrests or any problems associated with the protest. reporting live tonight, at city hall, i'm todd quinones for cbs-3 "eyewitness news".

>> all right todd we will keep an eye on everything. in new york breaking news as a grand jury has declined to indict a police officer on criminal charges in the choke hold death of eric garner. a confrontation caught on video. unarmed man was stopped in staten island on suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes in july. amateur rid ohio shows garner refusing to be handcuffed and officer daniel pantleo putting again inner a choke hold as that maneuver is banned under nypd pol willcy. new york's mayor reacted to this decision just moments ago. >> this is now a a national moment of grief, a national moment of pain and searching for a solution. you have heard in so many places, people of all backgrounds utter the same basic phrase, they have said black lives matter. they said it because it had to be said. >> mayor deblasio says the just advertise department will investigate garner's death. well, philadelphia police need your help tonight as they

look for suspects in the beat ago this was caught on surveillance video. take a look at the incident that happened back on november 15th at north fourth street. a 17 year-old young man was walking home just before 1:00 in the morning when he was attack by these three suspects. he was beaten, and lost consciousness, in the streets. >> he just has a broken jaw, lost a number of teeth, and some other damage to his face. it will be quite sometime before he is actually healed. >> a $1,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and convictions of those suspects. a triple shooting in king sessing has left a man in critical condition tonight. two others were also injured and the search is on for a gunman. investigators say at least five shots were fired by four men, just before noon time at 54th and pardonnal. the crowd ran in the convenient store, one weapon was recovered and police are reviewing surveillance video hoping to get a better look at their suspects.

a new jersey woman faces animal abuse charges and humane officials have taken all of her horses. this comes a week after the iteam's charlotte huffman first reported allegations of abuse at her exclusive investigation. tonight, charlotte has this follow-up. >> reporter: this is what we saw when we went to monica thor's barn in swedesboro last month, a horse struggling to walk, requiring support to stand up for long. others sawhorses in her care in similar shape. >> it is devastating, when you see it, your heart breaks. >> reporter: critics claim new jersey department of agriculture and spca for dragging their feet while investigating allegations of abuse. states investigation began more than a year and a half ago. since then, three horses have died. >> there is no excuse why these horses continue to suffer. >> reporter: following our first story, horse lovers gathered outside thor's barn to demand action. >> we're here, where are you. >> reporter: they came from rescue groups to offer help

authorities say that they needed nerd to act. >> they say we don't have money, we don't have trailers, if a dead horse needs to be removed, what will we do. now that we are here showing you guys we want to help. >> reporter: late yesterday authorities stepped in. the spca seized all seven of thor's horses and filed two counts of animal cruelty against her. >> we're so happy horses have been rescued. we want to thank iteam and animal advocates and legislators who all stepped in. >> reporter: today thor said she was on her way to say good bye to two of the horses being put down due to foot infections which she says was caused by the glue she used to attach their shoes. >> listen, i made a mistake. i used a glue two or three years ago, we started with this glue in 2011, yes. it was my mistake. ii didn't know that this was going to happen to my horses feet. that was something i didn't mean too i didn't mean to do

this to my horses. >> reporter: state is evaluating five remaining horses deemed overweight. th or says she would never intentionally cause the animals arm and believes that heele them again soon. >> i will find myself an attorney and i will get my other five horses back because all of those horses were training, they are lunging, i had them on the race track. i am going to get my horses back. >> whether he gets those five horses back will be up to a south harrison township judge, and in an arraignment date has been set for late january, and at that point, she will have an opportunity to plead guilty or not guilty to those charges. >> you will be at that arraignment. >> absolutely. >> thanks, charlotte. need to to know, temperatures were on the warmer side today, it was still a mess thanks today long rain. "eyewitness news" in haddonfield where many people dodged rain drops as they made their way around. meteorologist kathy orr is tracking very latest weather system and what comes next, kathy.

>> the the good news is skies will be clearing tonight, on storm scan three and you can see along i-95, 40's to the north and west, south and east still some 50's down the shore but that will be changing soon. poconos we are at 35 degrees. wind becoming west to northwesterly indicating our cold front has moved through the region, colder air will be filtering in. by the 7:00 o'clock hour still fog and mist, chilly breeze by 9:00, 11:00 expect clearing skies and temperatures around 49, or 41 degrees. coming up we will talk about when the sun returns, how much colder it will get, and weekend rain, will it be wet for birds. >> she was hit by a pick up on roosevelt boulevard. police say she was hit this morning in the northbound,

outer lanes near ryan avenue. that little girl was a student at little flower catholic high school and he was walking to the bus stop at the time. police say that she was hit in the crosswalk, and we talk today, with some of her classmates. >> it is horrible, we know that she was absent with you we didn't think a tragedy would happen. >> we know when she's not in class because she is a really good person. >> investigators say victim did sustain serious head drama, the driver of that truck did stop at the scene. a vigil is underway in west chester university for student shane montgomery who went out with friend in manayunk night before thanksgiving and never came home. "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt is live at the university with more, david. >> reporter: this vigil just began. friend, family, complete strangers people that don't know shane montgomery are here tonight. they are getting ready to light candles here a very serious atmosphere here, obvious lie we were with folks in manayunk as they were

hanging up flyers, missing person flyers. as investigators penitentiary more time searching in and around the schuylkill river for hain montgomery, his aunt ran the show inside the saint john the baptist rectory, goal, put up as many missing posters as possible. >> shane is still missing, somebody knows something and we need to find him. >> reporter: maryann whitman join montgomery's friend to put up new posters with updated information. >> whether that is hanging flyers or just sharing something on facebook, getting the word out there, we have to keep, keep going. >> i need my best friend back. >> reporter: ryan mcgillaway is shane montgomery's roommate and says he is increasingly frustrated were not knowing what happened. >> even the most insignificant information is are important and it is unreal that nobody has come forward yet. >> reporter: but mcgilla away says he needs to stay positive for shane's sake. he said positive means productive and that is what montgomery's family needs.

>> we will do whatever it takes and we will in the rest until we find shane and we bring him home. >> reporter: looking around there are several hundred people here and more people coming out as i'm talking right now. this is on missing persons poster beer eag around campus and manayunk and philadelphia. the official reward $31,000. i'm david spunt, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". well, american civil liberties union is making a bold statement in delaware. >> state's charter schools are under fire for being too private and excluding, tax paying families, but aclu is saying coming up next, carol. abraham lincoln men for his hats and his writing,es specially this new one, that story is coming up. temperatures will be falling fast, across the delaware valley, and then it turns rainy for weekend. we will look at a the forecast, seven day, including eagles game day coming up, hi beasley. eagles are prepping for that big match up sunday with the seahawks, shady mccoy has

been focus all season. at will has number one defense in the game. we will get shady's thoughts on their d coming up in sports.

we are following breaking news protesters at city hall tonight. >> it is latest protest begins the grand jury decision out of ferguson, missouri, it is a noisy protest. our todd quinones is at city

hall with the demonstrators right now, todd? >> reporter: well, chris, it is quite the scene here. we are live inside the courtyard here at city hall, take a look over my shoulder here and as christmas carols are playing in the background for tonight's christmas tree lighting ceremony, protesters upset over the michael brown, grand jury decision are chanting, tree lighting ceremony it to take place at 8:00 o'clock, it is in the clear just how long protesters planned to remain but we hud say there are plenty of philadelphia police officers here on hand and as of right now protesters certainly have been loud, they want their voices heard but right now protesters have been peaceful in their demonstrations. that is story reporting live tonight inside the courtyard here at it i hall in center city, todd quinones, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> todd, thank you. civil rights complaint has been filed against charter schools in the delaware's red clay conn ol dated school district. lawyers from the aclu says

special admission requirements for charter schools are contribute to go a resegregation of delaware schools. they a families of means can navigate the system better leaving students of color or students with disabilities with fewer educational options. >> this is public fund, this is public money that is being spent, to provide advantaged education toss families of students who are already advantaged and we thought that the playing field needed to be leveled. >> it is just important to take steps like this so that we are having more honest discussion about the rolls of diversity. >> reporter: aclu wants to stop new charter schools in delaware from opening until a effective desegregation plan is implemented. >> it is an old letter with new insights on a famous president, abe happen lincoln wrote the newly discovered letter 165 years ago before he became president. our carol erickson tells us he had all of the instincts of a great political leader.

>> reporter: displayed in the union league room containing more lincoln head then a coin purse a rare old letter from old abe himself, offered for sale, for a lot of coin. >> $40,000. >> reporter: steven rob, a document dealer miles, because he knows this letter ace hot commodity in the historical market. lincoln's letter to friend walter, written in january, 1849 shows that the freshman congressman and future president was in political novice. lincoln let walter davis know he would try to get him an administration job. >> what was surprising in the letter is person got fired in order to effect this was his own law partner's father. >> reporter: i am many political fall out because behind lincoln's face, an early brilliant mind for politics. >> rewarding friend, politics business that. >> reporter: to do that lincoln wrote to walter davis who helped him get a patent, it is distribution of the offices should fall into my hands you should have something. in the just something but a lincoln under lined something, and further letter instructioned to keep quiet

about the political maneuvering. >> it will perhaps be better for both you and me for you to say nothing about this. a as in, keep your mouth shut. >> there has been worse advice this letter behind lock and glass offered for a firm 40,000 washingtons, became a railable when an unnim library discover it in the drawer and decided it had sale value. the lincoln might not agree. >> wow think it was an awful lieutenant of machine toy pay for his autograph. >> reporter: glimpse that politics in matter when where or who is always politics. in philadelphia, carol eric on for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". the damp, dreary weather is about to be replace by clearing skies and some colder temperatures. our eyewitness weather watches are showing us temperatures in the 40's and in some spots clearing skies, already, hallies reporting 46 degrees in collinswood a big improvement from last night to the north and west of philadelphia, last night the we were talking about freezing

rain, well, not tonight in norristown it is 46 degrees. and david is saying, have a nice evening, everyone. it is cool and cloudy, to the north and west we will go lets go to bethlehem where the temperature is a cool 41. keith is saying wind out of the west at 8 miles an hour, pressure steady which our front moving through and beautiful picture with those clearing skies about an hour ago, a little bit of the moon shining through there. looking good there. if you would you like to be an eyewitness weather watcher we would love to have you join our team. go to cbs philly.com/watchers. a across the delaware valley we had some fog, earlier this evening, now, we are seeing it dissipate with dryer air moving in with the cold front. live neighborhood network takes us to broughtheadsvillain this is what it looked like during the day-to-day. temperature right now 39. temperature has been cold truth date there wind west at 2 miles an hour. over the course of the day we could see snow melting and dryer air worked in with the cold front.

we saw fog beginning to lift and at the very end you can see some better visibility right now winds west very light. in philadelphia 47. 40 degrees in allentown, poconos. it is only 35. quakertown pottstown even doylestown checking in at 41. 44 degrees in willow grove. high pressure builds in tonight, skies clear, tomorrow unshine, haven't seen that in a while but temperatures chilly for your thursday and clouds will begin to roll role in late in the day with those high clouds. friday a in mostly cloudy day as a cold front and warm front approach from the south and the west but this air will be milder, so we will be seeing some warming temperatures by the weekend but look at that big area of low pressure to make sure it stays fairly wet at least for saturday, possibly into sunday. lets look at these rain amounts. rain moves in friday night, by saturday evening, about a half inch in philadelphia and trenton to the south and east, less, to the north and west, close to an inch of rain in some spots. overnight tonight skies clear,

it will be easenablely cold, 34 looks cold but that is where we should be for this time of the year. wind west. during the day on thursday, sun increasing high clouds, this is what the sky will look like during the the afternoon, high temperature a cool 45 degrees. and heading to the link, lucky enough to have one of those ticket for sunday pack the puncho and maybe winter coat underneath because at kick off we are talking about 44 degrees, northeast winds at 0 miles an hour creating a chill, and a chance of some rain. computer models are splitting on how much rain, it could end up being a rainy go forbidder, and on the exclusive eyewitness weather seven day forecast friday 47, better weather for saturday as far as temperature is concerned but it will be wet, shower chances continue on sunday, and monday, 47, turning cooler tuesday and wednesday, and wednesday will be a bit of the blustery day. >> it is december, after all good yes, right. >> we have a short break from the rain so we will enjoy that while it last. >> i like this positive

attitude good thanks, kathy. and at 6:20 we have a really busy commute so far, out on i-95 around 322, an accident, blocking out the left-hand lane here and partially, police activity right there in the center median as everyone head north bound toward commodore barry bridge forced off in the right two hand lanes there causing quite a bit of backups and speaking of backup, vine street expressway camera here causing problems out in center city, vine street expressway local, we have a lot of detours due to protesting and police activity the on the scene blocking off some on ramps. we seem to be opened as of right now but problems between 19th and 23rd street and protest have a a lot of police directing traffic around the entire city hall area with a lot of people in the area, market street and broad street are going to be completely stack up at this time. now rest of our majors 422 westbound from 202 into oaks a

12 minute trip and really heavy on the schuylkill expressway heading eastbound from the blue route in the vine street press way that will take you about a half an hour. in problems in new jersey on route 38 westbound at route 130 and an accident pushed over into the shoulder there and out in chester county route 401 at the route 202 and another accident push over into the shoulder. stay there,

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well, we will continue our study of the key match ups for sunday's game against seattle. they have the number one defense, we have a red hot shady mccoy. shady we saw begins dallas is difficult to keep bottled up, seattle will be a big test but mccoy seems to play his best against bigger challenges, here's his thoughts on seattle will's defense. >> they are a fast group. they hustle.

they play hard, physical group, and they work well together. they work well from lineman all the way up to the back end, and they are will solid. >> some players here, some players there. i think they are all even around and they are all good players. >> the sixers need to be careful, they can tie the nba railroaded for loss toes start a season tonight when they take on minnesota at 8:00. right now they are zero and 17 and in keeping with the plan but i think they need to be careful because timber wolves are just four and 12 and playing without three of their best players due to injure. so we can mess around and accidentally get a victory, be careful boys. it was another road loss for the flyers last night in san jose, they were heading to overtime and gave up winning goal with 12 seconds left in the period. they have lost eight in a row on the road and tonight, they will play on the road, against the duckness anaheim. sixers need to be are careful tonight. >> we have a plan. >> we have a plan.

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"eyewitness news" keeping an eye on breaking news, looking live at city hall in philadelphia, the latest protest begins ferguson grand jury decision. a gathering there tonight to light city hall christmas tree is scheduled to take place at 8:00 p.m. we will continue to monitor this situation and we will have latest on "eyewitness news" returning at ten on the cw philly and 11:00 here on cbs-3. thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00. >> "cbs evening news" is next. they will have have reaction to the new york grand jury's decision not to indict a police officer who was involved in an attack that killed an unarmed black man, plus meet the woman, challenging the law that prohibits them from driving, that is next on the "cbs

evening news". >> pelley: tonight, another city, another grand jury, another controversy. for the second time in just over a week, a white police officer is cleared in a fatal confrontation with an unarmed black man. >> i can't breathe! i can't breathe! >> pelley: jim axelrod is in new york. this is what can happen when a shipment of cell phone batteries gets too close to heat. so why are they being carried on passenger planes? bob orr has that. and holly williams in saudi arabia, where brave women are refusing to take a backseat to men. >> the car for the saudi women has become the symbol of wanting our voices to be heard. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.