of mistaken identity this happened just afternoon time on the 1,000 block of south new kirk street in the city's, grays ferry neighborhood. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live with the very latest on this still developing story, justin? >> reporter: gentlemen, jessica, two victims tonight, three-year old, boy and father of three in his 40's next-door neighbors both shot by a man that somehow got away. in fact, back on the block tonight, one city leader says it is a reminder for all neighborhoods to take a firm stance against gun violence. worried sick helen waited for word that her son in law william pew was okay. she now knows he should be but hours before pew was shot in his tie in front of the home on the 1300 block of south new kirk by an unknown male shooter who let off at least six shots. perhaps a case of mistaken identity say police but that is not all. >> this defendant goes to the next house, 1335, and he opens the door and fires right now it looks like one round, into

the house. >> reporter: hitting a three-year eld boy in the upper thigh. someone took him to the hospital but she fears that what he and her family will come home to she says the block was slow to call to help. >> the complacency of people not to call 911, after you heard six shots outside of your door, where are the morals. >> around here, it is frequently you hear gunshots. so a lot of people just turn the other way. >> reporter: touring the climb scene, councilman johnson says that must change. >> this makes no sense. it is the holiday season. we should not have a family going to the hospital, with a three-year old shot in the leg. >> reporter: we're told this man seen speaking with police is that boy's father. he refused to speak to "eyewitness news" on camera. and his son just three years oldies expect to recover. he was taken to chop for treatment and now back on the ground here, still no word on that shooter, who he may be or

where he has gone. the investigation continuing still tonight. we are live from grays ferry, justin finch, for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". is there a growing rift in new york between city's police department and its mayor with some say he mishandled recent protest before the murders of two officers. this afternoon mayor deplace ohio called for a temporary halt to the protest until the officers are laid to rest. he also took time to meet with their families. offering his condolences. meanwhile police departments across the country are on high alert in hopes of avoiding any further bloodshed. a tense mood in milwaukee tonight, authorities there a announced they will not be charging a former police officer who is white in the deaths of the mentally ill black man. last april christopher manny shot dan trell hamilton 14 times but prosecutors ruled manny was acting in self-defense because hamilton was attacking him with the officer's baton. manny was fired from the force last october because the chief says he instigated that fight.

an emotions are running high among law enforcement following the deaths of the two officers in new york. "eyewitness news" reporter steve paterson went to south philadelphia where some officers are working to develop a tighter relationship, with those they served. >> no justice no peace. >> i understand that they are disappointed. i understand that they are angry. so are we. >> reporter: with all that animosity philadelphia police lieutenant mike is worried about his officers on the street. >> they need to make sure that they make informed decisions and they are safe on the street. >> reporter: but he says he is more concerned about his community and how the streets see them. >> have you guys had any interaction with the police prior to this. >> reporter: the the lieutenant and his officers of the south street detail organized a toy drive for families in the women begins abuse network. they were hoping to collect maybe 200 toys. >> realistically we're almost at a thousand gifts. >> reporter: trace too much to wrap by themselves, so the lieutenant thought it would be a good idea to invite high

schoolers and recent graduate from newman goretti high school. >> where police officers are working one on one with high school students trying to bridge gap between police and community and let them know that what police work is all about. >> reporter: in this case you hear so many anger on the street starting to put face toes badges. >> police officers are still good people. they're in this field because they want to protect people and they want to serve us. >> reporter: the lieutenant says the healing starts with positive interactions, so what better then wrapping a few gifts. >> it is really not about the the philadelphia police department, it is about the impact that we have on people, at philadelphia police police officers. >> reporter: by the way the hundreds of toys and gifts that were collected and donated to the station behind me, set to dispatch nearly a 150 children, this holiday season. we're in south philadelphia, steve paterson for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". breaking news right now, former headmaster of the delaware prep school is convicted on 25 counts of dealing in child pornography.

the 54 year-old christopher wheeler was a former headmaster at tower hill school, each of the 25 counts carries a minimum two year prison term. he is scheduled to be sentenced in march. not a bad day out there for a skate around the blue cross river rink down on penns landing and get that skating in now because it could get slushy with rising temperature and some rain this week. we will get our first lot the forecast with meteorologist kate bilo live on the cb167893 die deck, kate. >> it is just the on advertiser course so to speak the main entry is christmas eve. we will bring steady rain but we will be dog with light rain and showers up until that point. hopefully you will enjoy the sun. the it will not be around for much longer n fact not at all throughout the next few days. we will see it christmas day. storm scan three shows light rain pushing in right area right now. pink off to the west. freezing rain to the west, at least for now you can see

steady rain is still back over the northern plains and upper midwest it will begin here on christmas eve. that is when we can expect heavier of the rain moving through and it will turn windy. that will continue into christmas day as well. we have a freezing rain advisory applicable for poconos region overnight tonight for carbon and monroe counties. a hazardous travel. temperatures right around the freezing mark. that means some of the rain that is falling tonight could ice up on certain surfaces. be safe in that part of the region. otherwise temperatures are in the 40's. forty-one at the airport. forty-three in wilmington. notice right around freezing at mount pocono and it is 37 degrees in allentown. your first forecast for tonight light rain across the area you can probably getaway with a hood. i am right now, but some light rain is possible so you may want to grab the umbrella and know where it is, keep it handy through the next couple of days. we will talk about heavy rain for christmas eve. but i have good news for the rest of the week, and as we head in the weekend after christmas for travelers, things look quiet. we will have the seven day forecast when i join you inside in just a few minutes,

jessica, back over to you. two families are home less firing and fire in the philadelphia's frankford neighborhood. chopper three over the scene on tacony street. no word on the cause of this fire, no one was injured, the american red cross ace cyst continuing those who need help we have an video of other fire from wilmington delaware from last night. you can see the flames driving through the roof of an apartment building on butter nut court. four people were hurt including a fire fighter and a paramedic. they are expected to be okay. the the red cross ace cyst continuing six displaced families. also yesterday just a few miles away in claymont an entire apartment building was engulfed, this is on the 200 block of harbor drive. one person , was killed and another victim was taken to the hospital and dozens more were forced out of their homes. investigators are still searching for the cause of both delaware fires, they do not believe they are connect. fill will a police are looking for this man, shawn

king, accused offsetting fire to the home on the 5400 block of west girard avenue that trapped two people last week. fire fighters were able to rescue them but if you know where he is, call the police. a man is abduct on the streets of southwest philadelphia and tonight they say three of his attackers are still on the loop. he was approached on crescent road before being taken to the second location on chew avenue in the olney neighborhood. police got a tip, they responded to the scene, within suspect was arrested and now being questioned to track down his alleged accomplices. a new lead in the search for missing college student shane montgomery has authorities focusing their search around the schuylkill river. dive teams were back out in manayunk after finding his keys along the river's bank. shane's parents were also standing by thanking the search team. the the last time he was seen was walk toward the river thanksgiving morning.

former sportscaster done ton tollefson calls himself an alcoholic, drug as he prepares to defend himself on charges that he cheated charities out of more than $340,000. two months after pleading guilty, he headed to court on what have would have been his sentencing day last week and withdrew his blue saying he had new information that proves his innocence. he says he is looking for a lawyer to work pro buono since his request for a public defender was denied. >> i talked to a lot of attorneys and hope that maybe a couple teamed up they could split the work load but it is difficult for someone to take it on pro buono but i'm not hesitating to call everybody that i possibly can. >> he says today was his 438th day clean and sober living under house arrest in north philadelphia he plans to make restitution by selling sports and memorabilia. his trial is set to begin january 5th.

some late night recently for new jersey governor chris christie, find out what he is up study cramming like a college student coming up. and thinks an amazing couple, they have fostered more than a hundred children and helped many with devastating medical needs. tonight how they did all that and lost, just about 200 pounds, combined, kate. lets look at is what happening on storm scan three, rain heading our way in time for christmas holiday. i'll have details on that approaching storm coming up, beasley. eagles preparing for final game of the season, chip will share his philosophy on playing a game that has been relegated as meaningless because of the teams late season loss's head in sports.

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new jersey governor chris christie has been studying foreign policy in advance of a possible presidential run. the governor has spent hours, participating in late night conference calls with experts in recent months, the topics have included ukraine, russia, iran and isis. the those calls include a question and answer session as well, and advisors say format is expose governor's multiple point of view and build a deeper understanding of for's fares. easton hospital has agreed to pay a settlement to the federal government to resolve

allegations of health care fraud. the feds say that the hospital billed medicare for procedures that were not performed, only partially completed, or not necessary. two whistle blowing employees, will receive a share of that settlement payment. on cbs-3 healthwatch, this is a special holiday season for a south jersey family who fostered over one hub children. now they are focusing on their own health committed to eating well and losing weight, even through the christmas season. health reporter stephanie stahl is here now with more on how they are doing it and it can be tough. >> it is tough, you know, staying on the diet during holiday is tough for most of us. foster family who hell and dozens of children ended up gaining a unhealthy amount of weight. now they are losing it for the kids. >> thank you. >> reporter: christmas tradition of making holiday traditions cookies with their family is different for trudy and tim mcfalls. they no longer over indulge in sweets. >> i feel better about myself.

>> reporter: trudy has lost 42 points and tim has dropped 120. here's what they used to look like gradually gaining weight as they fostered over 100 children. >> i put it on me. i just focused on kids and their issues and making sure they were okay. >> we were glad to be there. when we had time to eat, we would eat, whatever was there, we would eat. it wasn't always the best food. >> have you been feeling okay. >> they both had stomach surgery doctor brendon o'connor with cooper hospital. they had a gastric sleeve operation, which is less complicated then gastric bypass. >> it is just a removal of a portion of the stomach. >> reporter: is what left behind looks like a sleeve. >> that is right. >> the sleeve operation is a procedure that is done with a minimally inn vase i have approach. we go in and rehave move approximately 80 to 85 percent of the the stomach, so this is designed to limit food in take accounts.

>> reporter: also, say there is an adjustment but it is easy. now they are used to eating healthier smaller portions. tim who had the surgery first gets emotional when he talks about finally being able to do things with the children. >> i feel like i'm the dad i'm supposed to be. >> i wanted to try to get healthier for my kids. i wanted to be able to be there as they grow up. >> reporter: now trudy had her surgery in august. she and tim never had more than seven foster children at one time. they are now taking a break from fostering to focus on their health, gas particular sleeve surgery which does have some risks is only for people who are severely obese. i have a lot more information on this story, tonight on my face bike and twitter. they are a terrific family. >> no kidding. amazing what they have done. >> yes. >> well done good stephanie, thanks. philadelphia shares bike patrol unit, delivers pagan bags of toys to help children of children's hospital to have a merry christmas. collection boxes were found in courthouse's cross the city

and as you can see the public and the officers, were very generous. meanwhile, officers in cherry hill took time out today to celebrate, this season with special needs, and, "eyewitness news" at crown plaza hotel, the at route 70 where the cherry hill fop lodge is held its annual christmas party for those kids. students from cherry hill east and west high school, volunteered their time, and, the the event. well, clouds increased across the region after sunshine early and now we have some rain moving n lets check with our eyewitness weather watcher, temperatures in new jersey and some spots dropped in the 30's. jonathan in haddonfield is reporting, 37 degrees. he says rain developing a clouds, increasing wind out of the northwest. he sent us a photo. just looking glummy with some light rain coming down in haddonfield at the moment. lets head down into delaware where we have 43 degrees thanks to lease a kerrigan. forty-three and cloudy. cold evening.

feeling like 38, light rain falling in wilmington as well. we will head off to the north and west we are looking at 41 degrees thanks to michael, in douglassville, reporting 41, and mostly cloudy conditions, and and, we saw it earlier michael but clouds have rolled n they are here to stay for a couple minutes. if you want to be a eyewitness weather watchers go to cbs philly.com/watchers and you can be part of the team. it is helpful on a tonight like tonight where we have light rain in the area we really want to pinpoint where showers are. lets take a look at jack frost big boulder carbon county where it is foggy. visability has been low through pocono region. we have people out the side on the slopes. still have plenty of snow there. there will be a threat for freezing rain in the poconos tonight as that rain moves n here's the rain coming in. you can see light rain but there is a batch of steady rain across southern lancaster county. watch that one. see pink off to the west. that is where we are seeing freezing rain and ice.

mostly exempt from that. temperatures are still so mile. overnight into tomorrow morning temperatures may rise a bit. forty-one now. thirty-seven in allentown. is there marginal temperatures around mount pocono where it three is two. watch for slick spots in the region. it does turn wet. showers tomorrow. brunt of the storm is on christmas eve wednesday, it is warm. temperatures in the 60's. almost 20 degrees above average. we will have period of rain and strong gusty win. you can see. that showers early tomorrow morning. throughout the day some clouds and showers here and there but it is wednesday from sun up to sundown so to speak. 7:00 a.m. we have got some rain moving through the afternoon and another wave and yet another wave of rain could try to come through in the evening. we will dry it the out throughout the overnight but early christmas morning a few more showers may pass through before the sun tries to peak out christmas take. we will clear it out but wind will stay strong, for the christmas holiday. future rain amounts as we go through tomorrow and into wednesday, you can see by 9:00 christmas eve most of the area has half inch and inch of rain. not talking about flooding

rain but not coming on the great day. a a lot of people travel christmas eve, driving to grand mom ease house for dinner. they will slow you down. low visibility expect as well. overnight cloudy skies, light rain, 38 degrees. mostly cloud which a couple showers. right around 50. christmas forecast christmas eve rainy, wind which a high of 62. christmas day we are back to 55 which is still will mild for this time of the year. normal high 43. we will keep it warm, above average all a week long. sun returns christmas day. friday looks great. sunny and breeze. weekend looks nice as well back to average temperatures on sunday, but we are looking at a good deal of sunshine. traveling home from your christmas destination is not a problem. >> you will not need big heavy coat. >> leave that at home good thanks, kate. >> good evening, everyone, so it is still rush hour out there so expect usual 95, schuylkill, vine, blue route, around mid county toll plaza as well. maybe doing last minute christmas shopping in king of prussia find delays on the schuylkill expressway in that

area lets talk about i-95. i-95 north bound approaching area woodhaven, street road, going to run into this accident compromising the left-hand lane causing a big old delay in that section of the bucks county. we are also seeing speed sensors down in the teens, still, on i-95 through construction zones on either end, in the red on the vine right around schuylkill on the schuylkill itself, definite delays around western suburbs and rine in 20 states is your average on 476, but you also want to watch out for an accident in delaware on 202 southbound at i-95. stay with us as "eyewitness news"

so is what a coach to do, three straight losses, shocked coaches and players with no one to blame but themselves. chip kelly ended his press

conference with the boxing ties tightly laced. spirited exchange when asked if he would sit veterans in a meaningless giants contest and let younger players get experience. >> it would not be fair in any of my beliefs and not fair to any football player if i said i know you are a better player but i will play a younger guy. if you want to go do that, go somewhere else. we get a chance to put the ball on the ground we will play football. >> but the organization has done that before. >> i was than the here before in the two years i have been there we will play football. >> in the two years i have been here we will play football. the that is message from the own tore me. that is what we will do. >> first dallas cowboys getting last laugh, at the link, desean jackson got back at eagles for ending him into exile. four catches for 126 yards, a thousand yard season, most yards per catch in the nfl, chip was asked if he regrets giving jackson the boot. >> we feel confident with what

we d he played really well. he ace good football player. but no, i don't. >> sixers have the night off. they are back in action tomorrow in miami. last night they won their third game beating orlando 96-88. flyers are off until they play wild tomorrow night, yesterday, they beat the jets four-three in overtime in front of the three three-year old net minder rod zep in his debut l calf yah and voracek with the pair of goals. we will be rig

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tonight is james brown. >> brown: tonight, the mayor says halt the protests. new york's bill deblasio as the city mourns two murdered officers. >> the assassination of the officers was an attack on the city of new york, on every one of us, our values and democracy. >> brown: we'll also speak with yipped commissioner william bratton. eric fisher on the storms that could hit holiday travel. who pulled the plug on the internet? and michelle miller on a transformation of high school dropouts after they got a second chance. >> i think that all of us got so much more out of it than expected. captioning sponsored by cbs ths