of those victims is just a toddler, shot inside his home. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joins us at children's hospital where the little boy is recovering. jan, good morning. >> reporter: erika, good morning, we're told that toddler, that three year old boy; here at chop this morning, recovering, we're told, at last check, he is in stable condition and will make a full recovery. now, this investigation is continuing, and so is the hunt for the shooter, if you take a look at the video, you can see the scene as it unfolded in broad daylight yesterday. >> this was monday morning, just before noon, on the 1300 block of south newkirk street, in the city's grays ferry section. police say gunman approached a man who was sitting on his porch. the two got into an argument, and at some point the unknown gunman opened fire, striking the man in the leg. well, that shooting may have been a case every mistaken identity, because police say the shooter then went next-door, and opened fire into that home. and that's when this three year old was shot in the leg. we're told the child's father may have been the intended

target. he refused to speak with "eyewitness news" yesterday. meantime we spoke with the adult victim's mother-in-law, now upset with what is indifference to the neighborhood gun violence. take a listen. >> the complacency of people not to call 911 after you heard six shots outside your door, where are the morals? >> i thought nothing of it because around here frequently you hear gunshots. so a lot of people usually just turn the other way. >> reporter: now that adult victim who was shot in the leg was able to drive himself to the hospital. he's also in stable condition, expected to be okay, and again, that three year old, that toddler, here at chop, also in stable condition, and expected to make a full recovery. reporting live from university city, jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> thank you, jan. former head master every elite private school in delaware faces to up 50 years in prison for child pornography. christopher wheeler was found guilty on all 25 counts.

he was the head master at tower hill school in wilmington, before police found more than 2,000 child pornography pictures on his computer. wheeler will be sentenced in march. and, haddon township police need your help finding this bank robbery suspect, mr. is say this man robbed bank on haddon avenue yesterday afternoon. he ran away from the bank after getting some cash. >> divers come up empty in their search for missing college student shane montgomery. dive teams searched the water around manayunk yesterday after finding montgomery's keys along the river bank over the weekend. montgomery disappeared early thanksgiving morning after a night out with friends. >> former sportscaster, don tollefson; looking for a lawyer to represent him against fraud charges. he is charged with clothing people out of more than $300,000 by failing to deliver on sport charity packages. last week, tollefson withdrew his guilty plea, saying he has

new information that proves his innocence. now he needs a lawyer to take his case pro bono, since his request for a public defender has been denied. >> i believe that i'm innocent. i believe as i said in open court this should have remained in civil court because i believe i did not have any criminal intent. >> tollefson is living under house arrest, and he plans to make restitution by selling sports and civil rights memorabilia. his trial is set to begin january 5th. >> 5:33, katie tracking wet weather on the way this morning. hi, katie. >> i certainly a.m., good morning, dealing with showers throughout the day today, some steadier rain by tomorrow in time for all of the last minute shopping plans, that you have, and perhaps travel plans that you have. but i have to say, we're dodge that proverbial bullet on this one in terms of the worse whatever this storm has up its sleeve. it is a very large system, but, it is really going to be coming through with rain and little bit every winds for our

area, and that will be it. storm scan3, meanwhile, showing some showers certainly, but we're going to see them come through again in scattered variety, by tomorrow some of the wet weather likely at its heaviest here. looking around at the area of visibility, our winds is light enough, specially further north and inland, that you are finding some lower visibility reads, watch it us a travel in through the valley regions, into the farmland areas here if you are traveling on say the pa turnpike west, and specially up to the poconos, currently at half mile visibility at mount pocono. taking a look at some of the live neighborhood network temperature readings, also mild start, normal high, in philadelphia, is about 43 degrees or so. so this is actually milder already than our normal high would be. but we're not going to evening out too much more on the thermometer reading here, at best, low 50's, going down toward the shore point, little more moderate, in even the mid 50's, but it is damp, it is dreary, we'll have some showers around here and there as the day goes on, no one part of the day can be a guaranteed dry part of the day. so i would suggest the wet weather gear, not the worse

idea. jess, over to you. >> thank you, katie, good morning, everybody, definitely, err on the side of caution. give yourself little extra time. we don't have much in the way of volume. we go outside on the cameras here, 95, show you what we're talking becomes things starting to pick up just little bit. you can me? real major delays around girard, headlight headed southbound, looking great there, even in the work zone here. northbound, doing fine, also. even though the roadways are little bit slippery, little bit wet. over on the 30 bypass, around 340, things starting to pick up just little bit. moving along great so far eastbound and westbound. now, overnight work out in new jersey, still that's going to be therefore about the next half hour or so. 295 in both directions near route 168, and some moreover night work out in jersey, route 40 near cologne avenue. otherwise the rest of the majors still doing really great. 202 northbound from route 30 into the schuylkill expressway, that's going to take but 13 minutes, and 15 minutes on the schuylkill if you are headed eastbound from the blue route into the vine. currently no problems for septa, new jersey transit or dart. currently no delays at the philadelphia international airport.

erika? >> jess, thank you. new york's mayor makes a passionate plea calling for suspension of protests until after two officers killed in a ambush are laid to rest. despite that request, demonstrations continued in new york city. dozen staged a sit-in at a grand central terminal in protests recent grand jury decision that is failed to indict white officers in the death of black men. >> until these funerals are passed, let's focus just on these families and what they have lost. i think that's the right way to try and build toward a more unified and december end city. >> funeral is her vests for officer rafael ramos set for saturday, while arrangement for doctor wenjian liu are pending with his family arriving from china. >> meanwhile, protests in milwaukee after the district attorney announces police officer who was fired after a deadly shooting won't be charged. the da said christopher manny shot don tray hamilton in self-defense back in april. officials say punches were

thrown on both sides, and the officer was hit with his own baton before he opened fire hitting hamilton 14 times. the us attorney has ordered a federal investigation. meantime, manzie fight to go get his job back. >> erika, the time now 5:37. in business news this morning, the us markets will try to keep moving up during this holiday season, let's check in now with money watch's jill wagner, she joins us live from the new york stock exchange, good morning, jill. >> reporter: good morning, diane, a see if the so-called, investors, economic data, there would be new numb about the gdp, also new home sales. now, both the s&p and the dow opened today at record highs yesterday. the dow jumped 155-point, the nasdaq gained 16. an important warning, as the busy holiday shopping season wraps up. the better business bureau says scammers are sending out order confirmation emails, that appear to be from big

retailers, like wal-mart, target, cosco. but if you click on the linc, inside the e-mail it, actually could be a virus, and it let scammers search your computer for personal and banking information. google is showing off its first self-driving car. it is fully functional. it comes with equipment on the top of the car that let it see the road. google says it is still will include manual controls like gas and brake pedals, just in case. it is hoping to bring this car to market in the next five years. kids may soon be able to live out their dreams, at becoming spiderman. student at stanford university have created paddles. they help humans scale glass walls. they're called grecco gloves, climbing lizard, student have patent pending, and already started negotiating with toy companies. diana, erika, i hope they come in adult sizes, too. i think that looks like fun. >> how about that? i always wanted to be wonder

woman. is that wrong? >> casino of like mission impossible? >> there you go, yes. hello -- how low can gas prices go in we found prices falling below $2 a gallon, not a bad gift in time for the holidays. we haven't seen prices this low in five years. >> here's what you can expect if you're filling up this morning. south jersey has the cheapest gas prices in our area, at 2.36 a gallon, delaware drivers are paying an average of 2.53 a gallon, and it is about 15 cents more expensive in pennsylvania. >> right now it is 5:39. and wedding bells are ringing for a major movie star. we have the word on who just got engaged. plus: >> real touchy. and being that he is my older grandson, you know, i had to do something. >> that boy's grandson has one simple wish for santa. hear the very specific request he wants for his grandfather. and he's already getting

results. >> also talk about one giant gingerbread house. look at that thing. we'll let you agree it takes to build this life size treat. that's real gingerbread used there, at a pennsylvania resort that's coming up.

judge investigators say eight shots fired near 25th and moore streets around 1:00 this

morning. a 33 year old man was hit once in the back. he's now in the hospital. new jersey governor chris christie and others want fugitive joanne returned from cuba to face charges in the s. she was serving life sentence for the 1973 murder after new jersey state trooper when she escaped from prison and gained asylum under fidel castro. >> today is the deadline to mail packages through the post offers if you want them to arrive before christmas. it is also the final day to ship through ups and fed ex. but be warned, you'll ned to pay extra to get your packages thereby the holiday, after all it is thursday t. >> two days. >> yes, down to the wire. >> well, it is not uncommon for children to write letters to santa claus, in fact, i'm sure many are still doing that right now. >> oh, yes. toys at the top of the list, but not julian, he wrote, quote, migrate he is wish is that you talk to my grandfather's boss, mr. john matters, and ask him if he can give my grandfather christmas

day off. ps: if you have time and think i earned it, i would also love a xbox 360. thanks santa. >> little touchy. being that he's my older grandson, you know, toyed do something. >> now, leo shared that letter with his boss, a hotel manager. the boss wrote him a memo saying work can wait until after christmas. no word however on whether julian is getting the xbox 360. but hey, one wish has come true, if he's been a good boy, mable ' just see that xbox. >> i love towed add that. >> don't ask, don't get. >> hey, katie, getting wet weather today? >> we certainly are. if you are having travel plans, we'll walk you through what the situation will be the next two days. checking in with the eyewitness weather watcher network, we start off here little further to the north, charles sent in 42 degrees, he has yet to up load his profile picture but we're waiting on. that will meanwhile nice mild

start. not just for him but for a loft other people a lot of mid upper 40 readings coming up here, dave sent in over the last 25 minute, 44 degrees, and out in reading, pennsylvania, even though we've had little bit of low-lying cloud cover, off to pretty decent start here. damp, dreary, certainly, but milder. sam sending in 47 degrees, see if we can get rid of the blue sheen, having trouble with. that will blue bell, 47 degrees, nice mild start for the day. temperatures rising 5 degrees since midnight he said. but it is too unstable to go shopping. sam is always good, i know, always good for hilarious comment. i love that about that guy. out next to storm scan3, get a check on what's happening out there. generally you can see that if you are looking for snow you will have to go really far off to the north. there is some air masses simply backing way too mild. today mainly scattered showers, throughout the day. we look at this nice wide zoom. i mean, this is huge storm, look at the circulation on this. it is basically taking up two dozen state. so we will be dealing with this for the next two days,

because it is just such a large expansive system. but just rain, folks. just rain. and breeze for our area. so we walk you through. >> this so tomorrow really looks the worse, in terms of the rain, scatter showers, any time here today. but tomorrow, some of the rain will come through heavy it, will come through in pocket, not worried necessarily about any flood potential, but it will slow you down. by christmas day, all clearing out of here, the wind does start to kick in for us, too, and the eyewitness weather seven day forecast quieting down completely here for kwanzaa friday, as well as saturday day, low 50's, still above average, and we finally sunday, monday, get you back into more seasonable territory, so meantime, the next five days, are above average in terms of warmth, nice and mild, but the trade off of course if you are dreaming of it, is that we will not see a white christmas this year. jess, over to you. >> we know i'm really disappoint in the. that will but it is okay, it is warm, i'll deal with it. good morning, everybody, going out on the ben franklin bridge. not much in the way of volume. i'm expecting that this morning's commute will be relatively light, in volume,

but main obstacle we're dealing with the roadways are wet. so we can see from the jersey side, westbound, into the city, moving along great so far. and on the schuylkill expressway, shiny roadways here, at the boulevard, starting to gather, in just a little volume eastbound lanes headed toward center city but still doing okay. out in new jersey, 295 in both directions near route 168, that's going to be out there for the next 15 minute or so, so we can expect some clean up and crews will be getting out of the way shortly. so just be cautious of that. now out in pottstown, route 422 eastbound, reduced to one lane, from stowe road into route 100, that's ongoing work there. currently no problems for the bridges, ben franklin bridge, walt, and the commodore barry doing great both directions, currently no problems for mass transit. septa new jersey transit and dart all running on time with no reported delays. we doesn't want you to forget when on the road get updated information about traffic backups with the new your drive app. you can download the app for iphone and android devices by going to cbsphilly.com/your drive.

three's on your side this morning with some new information about which cars may be the safest choice for you and your family. the insurance institute for highway safety just released it top safety picks offering excellent crash protection. omar villafranca shows us one has the highest marks. >> reporter: despite recent headlines about recalls annex providing airbags, researchers at the institute for highway safety report crash protection is actually improving at a rapid rate with 71 cars winning top safety pick honors, nearly twice as many as last year. >> cars, suv's, pickups, safer than they've ever been before. >> did best among american models, trail international models overall with toyota, honda, subaruu, come to leading the pack when it comes to crash worthiness. >> they're not putting in the front crash prevention systems as rapidly as these other manufacturers. >> small overlap crashes, when a car's front corner banks

into affixed object or vehicle, have been a big safety hurdle for car makers. toyota won high marks for upgrades, the dummy in the 2015rav4 on the left less damaged than it was previously in the pictures on the right. the subaruu out back acura m.d. x, chrysler 200, and 30 other cars, won the top safety plus for optimum collision protection plus additional automatic breaking systems that help drivers avoid crashes altogether. omar villafranca, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". ♪ >> the words this morning is engaged. actress cameron diaz is rocking a big old ring. >> would you expect anything less? the actor anisi set to marry bengie madden, two started dating this spring. and reportedly will wed next spring, the 42 year old actress has date add list of celebrity bows, but jenning i is the first to put a ring on

it. >> singer joe cocker loses his battle with lung cancer. at the age of 70. >> ♪ >> crocker's career sands some 50 years. british blue rock singer known for such hit like you are so beautiful, and that's where we belong. that shot the billboards charts in 1928, won cocker both a grammy and an oscar. one of the most distinctive voices out there, too. >> i know. >> such a lost. >> class glike 5:49 right now. before you head out the door, we'll check on traffic and weather together on the 3's. ahead katie has the latest on some rain. will it and wet christmas? she'll have the answer. >> but first, here's a look at what's coming up tonight on cbs-3.

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>> if your headed out today, grab that umbrella but hey, it is warming up a little bit. won't have to put on such a heavy coat. we will check the forecast, get the details, will it rain on christmas? katie will let you know. >> two days, no pressure. >> i know, both of us headed taught finish our shopping you. >> never know where you'll find the cbs morning elf. every day it is a surprise. >> today specially surprising. walking over to the vending machines. can you see him there? how did he get in there? hanging out with the water bottles? do you see him just chilling? >> how did he get in there? >> he's mysterious. >> he's magical. >> maybe thirsty? just hanging out with the water bottles, our man phil.

>> did the ivan the shelf come back to visit your family this year? post your elfie selfie to post book, twitter, instagram, hashtag cbs-3 and hashtag elfie selfie. we may show it on tv. right now 5:53. we want traffic and weather together. just saying, you want to bring that umbrella if you are shopping today? begin deed, some casino every wet weather gear not the worse idea today, although tomorrow actually end up being the wettest day of the next seven for our area, so big travel day, i think for a the love people, certainly big day for the last minute folks to get those holiday errand off their list. but, we do have wet weather out there right now, and you'll see some showers moving through in scattered variety any time here today. we break it down in terms of travel. today nuisance kind of travel day. tomorrow probably the worse, but really just looking at periods of heavy rain, somewhat off and on throughout the day. rain will be with us all day, but will come through in waves with the heaviest come christmas day, merry christmas to you. definitely going to be cooler

day, but, still too warm for a white christmas this time, jess? >> i know, 62 degrees, that's actually unbelievable. good morning, everybody, coming up on 6:00 a.m. we go outside, check out 422 at oaks. everything looking great so far. eastbound and westbound lanes moving along great, although, they proof to be little bit slippery. you can see some shiny roadways there in the cameras, over on the roosevelt, southbound harbison avenue, first accident in the morning in the outer drive. stay there, cbs-3 "eyewitness

>> check out this life size gingerbread house, pastry chef at the lodge say the work started back in september. you can see why it is huge. that gingerbread house made up of 3500-pound of gingerbread,

and 150-pound of icing. in barrett township, monroe county. >> oh, just how can you not pick off those treats? >> can't say i blame you. looks delicious. >> coming up on on "eyewitness news", three people including a child are recovering after shootings in nearby philadelphia neighborhoods. live for the search for those shooters. >> dramatic rescue at sea after plane goes down in the water. where it happened, and how the pilot of that plane is doing this morning. we'll be right back.

>> a man is shot in a hail of

gunfire, happened less than a mile from where a three year old was shot yesterday. >> this morning's victim walking home from a south philadelphia store when someone fired eight shots near 25th and moore street. the 33 year old was hit once, then managed to run home, and call police. at last check, he was in stable condition. >> just yesterday, in broad daylight, gunfire rang out nearby, in grays ferry, two people were shot including a three year old boy. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo live at the children's hospital, this morning, where that little boy is recovering. good morning, jan. >> reporter: diana, good morning, we're lucky we're not talking about a three year old boy who was shot and killed. >> this was a very close call. as you mentioned, he is here at chop this morning, last check, in stable condition, and expected to make a full recovery. meantime there is shooting investigation continues today, and so does the hunt for the shooter. >> a mid sparkling lights and christmas tree, yellow police tape outline this grays ferry neighborhood on monday, after three year old was shot