events of the past 24 hours, also new details, in the search warrant which has just been unsealed by the courts. the bottom line from the press conference that just ended, just moments ago, bradley stone, committed suicide, he slashed himself on death in the field not far from where he lived. he had been a subject have of an intense manhunt in the past 24 hours this was the scene earlier in pennsburg as swat teams once again throughout the day as they had last night and yesterday, fanned out to look for stone, fearing perhaps he may have had additional targets, beyond the six people, that he killed, and the seventh that he left seriously wounded. and, motive, the attorneys say was no, sir clear, and he did not leave any bringings or diary are that would have indicated why. it is believed it was a custody dispute involving his children and d.a. talked about those details. >> the two individuals, nicole stone and brad stone, had ongoing custody disputes, involving the two children and

that was a very contentious, protracted set of disputes and we learned that just last week, he had made an effort in court to try to secure custody, emergency custody of the children and that was de need. >> reporter: search warrant provides for the first time the horrifying, details, as stone went home to home, with his in laws, killing his ex-wife, killing other members of the family, and leaving one man, another justly cut. in fact, that young man, anthony flick, has lost three fingers of his hand trying to defend apparently his sister, mom and dad all murdered right near him but when you read this search warrant bottom line and words that jump out are shoutings of one of stone's daughters yelling mommy, no, no in the horrible moments as their mother was murdered, one of six murders committed yesterday. by the way a fun by rotary

club in the area has now been established, to care for the children. they are now safe and as far as getting any definitive answers as to why this could have happened, the district attorney says simply it was a horrifying experience, and there are no clear answers as to why anyone would do this. we will have have much more on this developing story when we join you live from the emergency operations center later on, from now, live from eagleville, i'm walt hunter, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> there will never be good answers to explain this walt, thanks very much. team three coverage continues now "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt joins us from pennsburg not far from where stone's body was found, david. >> reporter: forensic crews are behind me a couple hundred yards in the woods right now, dealing with the situation of bradley stone's body. i'm told those crews could be out here for a while tonight. after a tense, two days, bradley stone's body in the woods, behind not even a mile,

and,. >> and, it didn't take long before everybody was coming in here. >> reporter: brenda leonard lives a across the street from the scene. she tells "eyewitness news" she saw swat team members, rushed in the woods. >> a lot of people can kind of relax more knowing that we're not in danger anymore. >> reporter: as crews worked to remove stone's body the door on his pennsburg home gone after swat teams spent several hours on monday, looking for him. >> we were all shocked, all of the neighbors and we could not believe. >> reporter: randy lives next door to stone and said he knew the former marine. we were with him when he found out stone's body was recovered in the woods. >> relieved because i don't, i don't want to see anybody else get hurt or get in the gunfight with these guys or anything. >> reporter: coroner's van just arrived here a few moments ago. they are back there right now tending to the scene. we are told weapon that bradley stone killed himself with is also on the scene.

we are live from pennsburg, david spunt for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". family and friends are rallying around a teen critically injured in the killing spree. "eyewitness news" reporter steve paterson joins us live from souderton montgomery county, steve. >> reporter: jessica, in an hour from now the community here in souderton will come together for a candle light vigil, it is not far from here where police say that accused killer, bradley stone walked into a home and nearly murdered every family member inside. the the soul survivor, a 17 year-old boy, now clinging to life. today we spoke his friends, doing something simple and while others say they are doing something purely extraordinary. >> we love him, a lot. >> reporter: if there is any sense in a series of event that feel senseless, to so many, it is right here in this lake. >> anything that we can and will do, we will. >> reporter: seventeen year-old anthony flick is the soul survivor of the shooting spree that claim the lives of practically his entire family.

early monday morning, police say 35 year-old a accused killer bradley stone, entered the flick's home in souderton, murdering his mother patricia and his father, erin. family says he tried to stop stone from killing his sister nina but she was murdered too. flick is in very serious condition at the hospital. >> just diagnosis like why anyone would do this especially family, their own family. >> reporter: anthony's life long friend and middle school sweetheart sarah says she's in the surprised to hear about his tenacity. >> he is so lucky he survived. he had a angel on his back. >> reporter: sarah with the seven other teens and young adult you see in this room, started an on line funding page for anthony, hoping that the money will help when he come homes, in less than 48 hours, they have raised nearly $8,000. >> all we're trying to do is help in anyway we can. we are his family now. that is all he has lefties us.

>> reporter: we will be here for vigil that starts at 6:00 o'clock at emmanuel lutheran church. live from souderton, steve paterson for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> steve, thanks very much. we heard from the souderton area high school principal, samuel writing, we are all very saddened by this unfathomable situation. please keep all of the victims of yesterday's event i and their families in your thoughts. it goes on to say i believe the amount of tragedy may be unprecedented in our community. we are a very strong, positive, and caring family and we will need all of those positive attributes in these most trying of times. recapping the breaking news of this day, manhunt is over for this mass murder suspect brad stone, authorities say he was found dead in the woods, and not far from his home in pennsburg, montgomery county, that discovery, ending a near two day manhunt. stone killed his ex-wife and five members of her family at three separate locations in the early morning hours of

monday, one teenage boy did survive that ram are page and he is in serious condition tonight. well, stay with "eyewitness news", we will have continuing coverage of this breaking story at five credit 30 today, pat ciarrocchi, speaks with a neighbor of some of the victims and talks about her chilling solution, and then tonight at 6:00 "eyewitness news" reporter charlotte huffman will look at the the legal and medical background of brad stone. looking at the weather we're tracking rain moving through the area and we will keep those umbrellas handy throughout the the the evening. meteorologist kathy orr is live from the cbs-3 weather center with more, kathy. >> we have had one line, moving through, jessica and right here, moving through south jersey and delaware, and more rain to the west, that will be rotating through, a little bit later on tonight during the overnight. the as we zoom in you can see along i-95 corridor, there through south jersey along the shore, some heavy rain but in between just some drizzle an area of fog. not a lot of rain so far with this and hopewell, pennsylvania you can see .2 of

an inch, oxford .2 as well. elsewhere, less than that and some areas just a few tenth of an inch of precipitation or less. right now in philadelphia 49. forty-nine in millville. allentown is 44 degrees. it is not cold, but just damp. authentic, scattered showers up to a tenth of an inch additional rain possible. there will be widely scattered, and areas of fog expected, in southeasterly wind and temperatures really just around 50 degrees throughout the the early evening. coming up though we will talk about, temperatures, really taking a turn, and we will talk about when the sun will return and our next chance of snow, that is coming up this weekend. i'll be back with that later in the broadcast, chris. >> thank you very much. a former colwyn police officer is in custody tonight accused of break nothing to his ex-girlfriend's house shooting her to death and wounding her teenage daughter. copper three was over that scene in the 600 block of glenn field avenue and glenn olden shortly after 9:00 o'clock last night. police say this man steven, was angry, have after valerie

more owe served him with a protects from abuse order. >> multiple phone calls, multiple texts, multiple e-mail and text and facebook contacts, eradic behavior and she felt threatened by this. >> her husband shocked him, critically wounding him and ran out a window and ran for help out to neighbors. he is in the hospital tonight and expected to face a host of charges, including murder. in pakistan at least 141 people, mostly children are dead after taliban gunman stormed a school. hospitals were overwhelmed with victims in the city of peshawar, pakistan's military says it killed seven gunman. same group claimed responsibility for trying to kill education activist malala yusef sigh in 20 126789 we will have more including a, interest right with one of the students that survived at 5:30. in sidney, a sea of flowers formed near the site of the fatal hostage situation that left three dead including

two hostages. the dead gunman had a history of disturbing behavior. he was facing charges of accessory to murder, and dozens of counts, of sexual assault. some leaders want to find out yes was out on bail. well, is there much more a ahead on "eyewitness news" at 5:00 including three people accused of beating a gay couple in center city. they will go before a judge today. find out what happened inside the courtroom. plus, imagine getting a letter saying you have hundreds of dollars owed to you and when you go to claim the cash, you get arrested. well, that is a trick police if delaware county used to catch people without standing warrants. i'm syma chowdhry with that story. the tony hackers released another round of data leaks including ominous threats that reference the 9/11 attacks, target movie theaters showing interview, we will have details coming up.

philadelphia officials have been, caught up in an undercover sting operation. seth williams unveiled against state representative vanessa brown and ronald waters. williams says both of the philadelphia democrats took bribes, and brown allegedly accepted a total of $4,000, waters, close to 9,000. >> both officials, personally, appeared, before our grand jury, and, fully, i repeat, fully admitted, taking and neglectly took illegal cash payments. >> this is same uncover operation that thomassin

tynes. earlier she was sentenced to two years in prison. three young suspects accused in the beating of the same sex couple appeared in the philadelphia courtroom for their preliminary hearing today. one of the victims took the stan. reporter tony hanson from her sister station kyw news radio was there. it was an attack, he and her boyfriend were walking in center city when they were attack. first verbally and then physically. he a says there were cursees, and gay slurs. >> the evidence showed without any doubt this was about sexual orientation. there was no other interaction between these people until somebody decided to start commenting to these two gentlemen about the fact that they were homosexuals. then using the worst slurs they could use about them. >> reporter: zachary hess says it was completely unprovoke. defending kevin harrigan with the large group of men and women confronted them with cursees and slurs. words were exchanged and then escalated. he says he was held and

punched. while his partner was punched, he heard his head hit the ground. but defense contend both sides spared, verbally and physically. defense attorney perry, junior represent defendant philip williams. >> my client became involved in this incident after one of the men struck a female and after that, began,. >> the first witness only person that doesn't have any motivation or involvement in this case other than being a witness, unequivocally stated that he saw, her, do nothing. >> reporter: defendants who have now been ordered held for trial, will enter pleas of not guilty. reporting from the criminal justice center, tony hanson, kyw news radio. well, what had mattered in 2014. still to come tonight the years top google searches. >> and then the next time a guy you know gets the flu, you may want to show him more sympathy, that is right, health reporter stephanie

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and is it still going? it is coming in waves. >> yes, we have a couple waves, we have a first wave this have afternoon. right now it is just scattered and more rain, moving in during the late night hours but not a lot. it should not keep you inside. that is the good news. it was a good day to be indoors if you are a student and franklin institute. group of youngsters learned today that weather is really cool. meteorologist justin drabick joined the cbs-3 weather show at the franklin institute. he showed students from rowan elementary school, all sorts of neat weather experiments. you have to love that one including the clouds. this is my favorite. >> look at that. >> wow. >> it looks like a cumulonimbus. they did the tornadoes, thunderstorms, but the kids always go wild, with the cloud. awesome. >> great time. we knew that weather was cool. >> we have always known that good lets take a look where the the weather is really

cool, as a matter of fact, it is cold there and we are looking at some foggy conditions. still some skiers and snow borders are out there this evening. across the region just damp, with some areas of rain, shore getting heavier rain right new and even a little bit of wind. this is ocean city, the boards are wet. no place to go for tonight. weather watches are showing us rainfall but most of them are pretty low, with the exception of this one. mount gretna nearly third of an inch there. bernville a quarter inch of rain, hatfield, jessica reporting 400s of an inch of rain. and if you are traveling to the north and west of philadelphia, the farther you you go, north and west, berks county, lancaster county the more rain you will see. in philadelphia 49. allentown 43. poconos 37 degrees. you can see temperatures fairly uniform with the southeasterly wind. quakertown, pottstown,

doylestown in the mid 40's. willow grove checking in at 46 degrees. and she and here's that heavy banding go through the shore right now. i-95 corridor have some showers. big break and during the overnight a little more rain moving through before we try it out during the day tomorrow. our cold front will swing through overnight, but, we're not going to have cold air tomorrow. in fact, sun will come out, it will be breezy, temperatures will be in the 50's. little bit of lag between the cold front, and the cold air. we will see the the cold air moving in on thursday. temperatures in the 40's. it will be more seasonal and it will stay there for friday with partly sunny skies and temperatures remaining in the 40's. it will be cloudy, as well for saturday, and then we will watch a developing area of low pressure, a coastal storm moved towards us. our computer models are closer together with the the scenario, both are looking like a storm will stay south, and come close enough to bring some rain and possibly some wet snow. overnight, looking for those

showers, to linger, and temperatures in the 40's, that will be mile. during the day tomorrow partly sunny, breezy and mild, 52. this evening for hanukkah, 48 degrees with scattered showers. on the exclusive eyewitness weather three day forecast, after tomorrow, gets colder thursday and friday, here's the bonus, at least we have the sun. and with the cold weather, it puts you in the holiday it three, holiday lights are shining bright across the area. meteorologist kate bilo is live in burlington, new jersey, hi, kate. >> reporter: hi, kathy. you can see this house from the chopper if we flew it over. it is sobriety, so festive out here tonight in burlington township and the showers moved through, they cleared out, it is dry now and perfect, perfect viewing weather for lights behind me. let me introduce to you this family. this is the the mr za family. we have joey, alexis, ron annmarie. they are an ad to go this every year.

you have been doing this for five years, ron, what made you start putting this together. >> started five years ago with a few lights. then it became an obsession. and people expected more and i gave them more. >> reporter: you said you work on this year round. >> yes, it takes me a lot of programming during the off season and then building new things and big installation. >> wow, you said installation began before halloween this year. >> it took me about six years, three or four weeks. >> they are in the just doing this because it is an obsession, you are also doing this to give back as well, right. >> yes, we started and people would give donationness our mailbox. so food pant try a approached me about collecting food and we collect food and money for township food pantry. >> we will talk about that coming up in a little bit. marie tells me that the christmas obsession, also extend to the inside of the house. how many trees inside. >> ten so far. >> yes. >> and there is tons of christmas inside there. >> awesome. >> we have to do than a

interior version of holiday lights next year. coming up we will have much more from the mrz a a house here, send it to break, take a look at friend and family that gathered here for cbs-3 holiday lights. we will be right back.

a ton of injuries to the offensive line, lose your quarterback for most of the season, you will turn the ball over. still 34 giveaways is most in the nfl and a real problem. mark sanchez necessary they must cut down on fumbles and interceptions and he has thrown nine picks in the last seven games and the devastating effect turnovers have on the offense. >> last game, just poor throw

to ertz and it got tipped. later in the game just trying to force it down the field. that is another decision thing. correctable stuff, and stuff, you know, that we have to clean up for next week. >> cbs-3 is place to be saturday, action starts at 3:30. we will have a saturday addition of sunday kick off, at 4:00 p.m. nfl network pregame show followed by eagles and redskins at 8:30. i'm sorry, then at 8:30 the chargers take on the 49ers. all of that action right here on cbs-3. big day on saturday. >> big day of football. >> turnovers are absolutely killers. >> yes. >> that is why for opening kick off. >> that took so much out of the team, and that ball, hit, went straight up and stopped like it has back fins. i feel bad for them. >> you have to pick it backup this weekend. >> just keep working. >> still to come in our next half an hour, we will continue with breaking news, as you know, the body of the suspect

killer bradley stone has been found. police say he killed six people and injured another in that, violent, horrific spree yesterday morning. we will have have the latest in a live report. plus they thought they were collecting unclaimed money but their greed led some criminals right into police custody and all caught on camera. we will be right

well, right now at 5:30, we will continue to follow breaking news. >> manhunt is over for mass murder suspect bradley stone and we're learning new details in this investigation. >> news conference seen right here on cbs-3 a little bit earlier, authorities there say that stone was found dead of self-inflicted cutting wounds in a wooded area, not far from his home in pennsburg. stone was wanted for killing his ex-wife, nicole, and five of her family members on monday morning. authorities say that the former couple was involved in the ongoing child custody battle and stone that had recently lost a round in court. >> when it comes to why people do things we can speculate about things why. i can look at some court filings and say he was not getting his way and he was dissatisfied with that. but there is no excuse, there is no valid explanation, there is no justification of her snuffing out these six innocent lives.

>> a teenager did survive the rampage and is in serious condition. there were three crime scenes, the last one was in lansdale, and, mother and grand mother were found dead. >> let's join our pat ciarrocchi, live in lansdale and pat, you just talk to one of their close friends. >> reporter: chris, that friend is joyce gorman a long time family friend and where she learn about the shootings in this neighborhood yesterday, she told me that she had just, a sick feeling, she knew you that the hill family had lots of struggles inside the family itself. but she never imagined anything like this. >> i never expected him to go and take out the whole family but it is obvious he didn't want any of them to have any input into raising of his two children. >> reporter: joyce gorman had a friendship of 30 plus years with pat hill, the seven five-year old mother of joann gilbert and grandmother of nicole stone. as a confident, joyce was privy to the family struggles. >> nicole's ex-husband was a

very controlling person and he wanted to have the last say in everything, and, he was always taking her back to court which was a financial struggle for nicole, as well, and it was hard on the children. even when he was in the marines and he was away in iraq or afghanistan she was pregnant with the second child, he was in denial that the child was his. nickie had a any of us break down at that time. >> reporter: joyce says through it a all her friend pat was loving and strong. >> she was a great friend, warm and friendly very caring person. hard worker. and i'm devastated to have lost her and her family. >> reporter: joyce and pat work in the rehab unit at north penn hospital. she watched joann as a caring, attentive mother and courageous as she became a breast cancer survivor. well, joyce also told me that she's relieved tonight that stonies dead, however, she

was, she wishes that justice could have have been served. she said, she said this has been a most difficult time for her, she with like to know why, this was his only option. reporting live from lansdale, pat ciarrocchi, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> pat, thank you. stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of this breaking story, we will stay on top of any developments throughout the evening and bring them to you, as they happen. in radnor township police say that eight people, wanted for crimes walked right into custody thanks to a clever loose. "eyewitness news", reporter syma chowdhry has more. >> reporter: imagine getting a letter saying you are owed hundreds of dollars and when you cash in, you get cuffs instead. radnor township police organized this sting operation to catch 46 people without standing warrants. >> there is greed involved here this time of the year and it is what we are looking at with christmas coming about to try to get these warrants satisfied. >> reporter: police sent them fake letters saying they have unclaim money in their name.

>> they were getting a significant refund if they would come in the office. they had to bring in the letter with tell as well as two forms of identification, one obviously being their photo identification. >> reporter: police wore body cameras during the operation, they rented out a storefront and went through great lengths to cover their tracks. >> phones were registered so if somebody googled phone on line it came back to this fictitious bureau as well. >> reporter: within a week eight people showed up and they were taken in custody on the spot. they were wanted for outstanding fines, dui, theft, or theft or burglary. some didn't understand they were just tricked this were taken in custody. tell canned the question if they were still going to get a check could they use that towards their bail, in a very serious matter. >> reporter: radnor township police work with other police departments during this operation. this is first time that they orchestrated a sting operation like this and it won't be the last. >> we will do it again but we won't tell you when. >> reporter: out of eight people arrested five of them paid off fines that were due, two out on bail, facing

preliminary hearing and one is still behind bars. in radnor township, syma chowdhry for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". world leaders are expressing outrage at the school massacre in pakistan, taliban gunman, stormed building tuesday and opened fire, and asal fans owe van marsh reports at least 41 people are dead. >> reporter: due to survive the terrifying attack in pakistan, they say taliban gunman scaled the walls of their school, and shot their way in to classrooms. he made it out. he said that we were doing our schoolwork, suddenly we heard firing and the teacher told them not to be afraid, that maybe it was a drill. police say that the attackers started killing children randomly at the military run school. several explosions, went off as pakistani security forces for the a gun battle with the militants. pakistan's military stopped the siege and killed the

attackers but not before dozens of students died. troops also disabled bombs that taliban planted at the school. pakistan's prime minister called the massacre a national tragedy. a taliban spokesmen claimed responsibility, saying it is revenge, for pakistani forces targeted taliban families. alfonso van marsh for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". well, noble peace prize winner malala you receive sigh said she's hard broken, the taliban tried to kill malala in 2012 because she refused to stop going to school. family of an ohio man shot to death by police officers in a wal-mart is now suing the department and the company. this is surveillance video taken shortly before officers, killed 22-year old john crawford back in august. another shopper, had called 911 saying there was a man with the gun inside that store, in beaver creek. weapon turned out to be a bee-bee gun that crawford had pick up off the shelf. the following month the grand

jury decided not to indict the two officers involved. well, hackers behind the unprecedented sony pictures hack released another round of leaks today and it included threats against the premiere of sony's new film the interview. meanwhile two former sony pictures employees have filed a lawsuit against the company for not protecting their personal information. hackers stole some 50,000 social security numbers, and other key information. good evening, everyone. we are just dealing with rush hour today. you will find it on every major roadway, that you travel on, well, take a look at the vine street expressway using vine street expressway will be a little bit difficult if you are heading either westbound or east bound. delays are on both sides and it is practically the length on the eastbound side and westbound you are heaviest delays are making their way beyond broad street and heading toward schuylkill expressway. as we continue we will take a look at 76, not too far from center city where you will

notice both sides of the roadway will be slow. our speed sensors are just awful, at this point. 4 miles per hour is your average on the schuylkill expressway, if you are traveling, in both directions, throughout your western suburbs, maybe around king of prussia, even around south philadelphia, university there, we are seeing big time delays. twelve is your average on 476, your biggest delay would be southbound making your way between 76 and media check out pennsylvania pennsylvania turnpike give yourself some more time, mass transit looks great. new back to the desk. still to come on "eyewitness news" most popular google searches of 2014. >> posing for a healthy heart getting the yoga a matt could be just as beneficial as a roane i can work outs. we will tell you what you need to know about a brand new study out there. plus... >> ♪ >> houston, they've gone viral, nasa interns are all about that space, and hilarious new parity, we will show it to you, kate?

jessica, you you know what a few rain drops are falling in burlington township but it cannot dampen holiday cheer out here, we have brought the cbs-3 mobil weather lab down and we will have your forecast and still more from this amazing house, and this awesome family on cbs-3 holiday lights. do you want to end is us out to break.

your philadelphia jobs market report. >> cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger is here with more. >> reporter: you may bement to todd suspend your job search for the holidays, base on the they are that i companies are quiet right now but it is quite the opposite. holidays are a a great time to look for a job because many managers are under pressure to fill positions, by the end of year. several companies are also planning to lift hiring freezes after first of the year. you will miss a lot of opportunities if you wait until january 2nd to resume your job search. it is easier to stand out from the crowd during last two weeks of the year because everybody else is taking off, so here's what you need to know. holiday getting to are great for networking. use the gatherings as an opportunity to let people know

that you are a job hunting. ask if anyone knows someone who works at your dream company like aramark or any other place you'd like to work. if you know someone who works at one of your target employers contact them directly yourself with holiday greetings. another benefit of the holiday season is that people are generally in good spirits. more apt to help you or lend advice, use the remaining time of the year to find that jolly job, you may be glad that you did, i'm jill schlesinger for

well, these sights and sound of the holiday season are popping up all over the place now. >> lets check back with meteorologist kate bilo live from burlington, new jersey, kate? >> reporter: thanks, chris and jessica. what a beautiful night it turned out to be now that the showers have in moved through and we are at such an amazing house with such a great family. joining me right now is daughter of that family, alexis, she's 14. when i showed up here first thing she said is i wanted to be a meteorologist since i was four years old. we have granted her a christmas wish and help out with the weather forecast. you will help me with our weather watchers. i will give you the mike. >> um-hmm. >> here we go.

>> ron russell from riverside, new jersey has reported 48 degrees fahrenheit, a little bit of rain. amy says overall miserable day. >> lets do one more. matthew from conshohocken, pennsylvania reports with 48 degrees fahrenheit, a little bit of rain. he says it feels like springtime today. >> fantastic. do you think it feels like spring out here. >> not at all. >> it is a little raw, damp but could be worse. >> but you know snow might be nice with a light rain like this lets go out to storm scan three and see what we have going on, and a couple lingering showers all across the a area. we have moved out the heavier rain drops, here in burlington township. we could see a few more storms before the night is through. lets look at temperatures. you you can see it is not all that bad outside, 49 degrees in philadelphia. 47 degrees in trenton. forty-nine, in wildwood, you know what, good news about this system that came through today, cold air will not come

in all that quickly behind it. we have dryer, brighter days ahead, and, tomorrow, temperatures, in the 50's again. we will see some sunshine out there not as damp as today, beautiful wednesday, it does get colder for thursday and friday, back in the lower 40's but still dry, we will see some sun through the even of the week which goodies news. we have had gray days later. throughout the overnight hours we are seeing cloudy skies. couple of showers through the clearing out overnight. and nice and warm. 52 degrees. partly sunny, breezy and mild. lets take a look at that white christmas probability because christmas, of course, just a few days away now about a week away and we are looking at a probability of less than 20 percent, here in philadelphia, throughout portions of south jersey and a little bit better chance heading up in the mountains but we are keeping an eye on the couple systems. snow showers possible, on sunday. look at your seven day forecast, you can see not any great chances for appreciable snowfall but dry through the next of the week. the next chance of precipitation comes sunday with rain or snow showers, and then we are watching for

tension for a few flakes or snow shower on christmas eve. we will keep you posted on. that we are back live in the front yard of the mrsa family in the burlington township. this family loves christmas. their doggies even named gris world and he is peeking out the door. he wants to be out with the family. joe, how many lights do you have set up here. >> over 30,000 lights. >> reporter: when i asked ron what the plans are for next year what did you say. >> expansion. i'm required to go bigger and bigger every year and i will not let anybody down. >> fantastic. >> we can expect bigger and better things from this family next year. not only that, when they started doing this they started getting donations in their mailbox. they wanted a a donation. they decided to give back. look at what they have set up in front of the house. they have a donation box. almost a cooler for people to donate food items, donate money here. all donations go back to the burlington township food bank. dominic is here, director of the burlington township food pantry. what does this family's effort mean to you. >> i have to thank ron and his

family for doing this for the food pantry, and he has done just wonders for over a hundred families right now. >> wow, thank you so much for all do you. your house ace macing. look at everybody that came out. lets do it on the count of three, ready, one, two, three. >> happy holidays. >> now back to you in the studios. >> happy holidays everybody to out there, clark would be proud. kate, thanks very much. google released this years most popular searches and it appears that we just could not get enough when it came to the death of the academy award winning anchor robin williams, such shocking knees when we learned he was gone. robin williams suicide searched more than anything else on google in 2014. others were excited about the world cup, and worried about the ebola out break. some other notable searches, disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370 and the smart phone game, we could not get enough of, flap i bird. trend to go day, nasa

celebrates a new era in space travel with the song parity. >> ♪ i'm all about that space ♪ >> a group of nasa interns at houston's johnson space center parity megan trayn or all about that space, raise ago wear necessary of the new spacecraft, orion. nasa is hoping to send orion to mars. video has more than 1 million hits on you tube. i have a feeling there will be a much more. still ahead, men verse women when it comes to the flu, why new research says, that men get quicker. stephanie stahl has that story when we come right back.

on the healthwatch researchers say you should try yoga if you are looking for a heart healthy work out, a review of 40 studies, find

yoga may provide the same benefit as aerobic exercise when it comes to lowering risk of heart disease. researchers say that could be related to yoga's ability to reduce stress. also on the cbs-3 healthwatch, the flu season is ramping up and many are predicting it will be a rough one, especially for men. >> especially. health reporter stephanie stahl is here to explain why, do tell. >> reporter: prepare yourself. >> he wants to know. >> many say, that men are big babies when it comes to getting sick. well now this new research says men actually get sicker than woman and suffer more. they say there could be something to the man flu. with the flu vaccine being lessee effective this year, experts are predicting a bad season. influenza is widespread in our area and right now is there new research showing that the flu vaccine is more effective in woman then in men. for women who do get the flu study found they are better at fighting the virus off, in other words, men get sicker

then women. >> are restless equipped to deal with infection? technically yes. >> reporter: reason according to the study conducted on mice is estrogen, female sex had harmone. >> female mice activated a particular enzyme and that enzyme was able to help them fightin nexts. >> reporter: doctor jay, says it may be about simple evolution. >> there is an eye tea there that estrogen, which is needed for women's endocrinosis tempes there because part have of their role is to be nurturers. they have to take care of not only themselves and their families. >> reporter: some women say finally there is evidence backing up what they have already known, men are bigger babies when it comes to getting sick. >> they seem to wine more and they seem to want ride it out longer. >> i think women are worse. >> reporter: what do you think, hoist worse. doctors say this new study could lead to new immune boosting drugs for men, based honest tro again that is safe for them.

for now though doctors say best way to keep from getting sick is to get plenty of rest, wash your hand and get a flu shot. >> you are recording this, playing it later for your family. >> men have been waiting for evidence of this for ions and now, we finally have it. >> you have a little will cold there. >> a little bit. >> extra sympathy. >> living proof of it. >> yes. >> thanks, a lot. >> thanks very much. that is "eyewitness news" at 5:00. >> breaking news right now at 6:00 a manhunt for mass murder suspect bradley stonies over, man accused of killing six members of his own family, is found dead and investigators say he cut himself. finding solace in the senseless act, friend gathered to support one of stone's apparent victims a teenage boy now fighting for his life. kathy? more rain is expected tonight, then it will be turning colder in the seven day, with a chance of rain and snow. "eyewitness news" at 6:00 starts right now.

>> he died of self inflict cutting wound. >> search for mass murder suspect bradley stonies now over. he was fund dead this afternoon just a half mile from his home. his body was found in a wooded area off of fourth street near cool house road in pennsburg this afternoon, that is near his home on the fourth and dodds. stone was wanted for a killing spree, victim, six members of his own family. good evening, i'm jessica dean. i'm chris may. we have heard from investigators just a short time ago, they told us stone was found dead of self-inflicted cutting wounds. they say the former marine killed his ex-wife, nicole and five members of her family and three separate locations on monday. a teenager did survive that violent rampage but is in serious condition tonight. authorities say that the former come was involved in the child custody battle and that bradley, had lost a decision in court.

we have live team three coverage. we will begin with "eyewitness news" reporter walt hunter live in eagleville, montgomery county where the word came today that stone was dead. walt. >> reporter: command center that had been so busy throughout the morning with police, fbi agents, here at the emergency operations center have now gone totally quiet. that is because bradley stonies dead, found not far from his home of a self-inflicted knife wounds and about 1:30 this afternoon, right now the investigation continues, into that death. more details about the carnage he inflicted being revealed in this search warrant which was unsealed, also revealed by the district attorney had a press conference here, late this afternoon. >> this is just a horrific tragedy that our community has had to endure and as we are's all standing here today, i think we're really nu mb by what we have had to go through the past few days. >> reporter: district attorney risa fan