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the f.b.i. is here with our state and local partners, as well as our partners from the a.t.f. and we are here to essentially treat the-- assure that all the wound read extracted, and ultimately, public safety is the number one goal at this point. and we will work as a law enforcement community to assure that we have done everything we can in our power to find, locate, and apprehend these subjects. at this point, i know one of your questions is going to be is this a terrorist incident? i will tell you right now, we do not know if this is a terrorist incident. so we start from the beginning, working with our local partners. we take the presumption is may be, it may not be, but we will work hand in hand with them from the beginning. if things change, we are here from the get-go, and there is no steps lost as the investigation proceeds. at this point, i'm going to turn it back over to the chief. so very quickly, after the initial response, we have several hundred people that were in the building that are not
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injured. those eople have been taken to a location and they are part of the investigation. in addition to, that we know that this is a human incident, and this is a tragedy, and we know we've got a lot of folks out there that are very concerned and very worried about their loved ones that may have been at that facility today. we have set up an area at the hernandez center at the corner of thid and sierra way in san bernadino for family members to go for information. we will push in information out to that for those family members as we can. also, the sheriff's department put out the crime tip hot line number. if anybody has any information, we'd very much like to hear from you. so with that, i will take a couple of questions, start with rob. >> reporter: do you have any information on this event that was happening, that apparently upwards of three gunmen stormed into? >> i don't. i have heard everything that it was a meeting to a potential, like, a lunch-type gathering, maybe for the holidays. that's not confirmed. that is very preliminary. it's my understanding that most of the people that were wounded, moment of the victims were all
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centrally located in one area of the facility. >> reporter: have any weapons or body armoanything like that been recovered? >> in terms of the employees, it's my understanding this facility has both state and county employees, as well as folks that work for a number of organizations. the inland regional center serves a number of organizations that treat mental illness-type issues and that sort of stuff. i know that state and local county employees work there. i do not know if any of them are the victims or who they are at this point. >> reporter: do we know if any children are among the victims? >> i do not have any information that any children were involved. >> reporter: have there been any weapons found. >> reporter: the weapons used and the number of people involved, given what you have in the way of and he was witness accounts, would you characterize this as an organized event? what were these men using and shooting at people with? >> preliminary information indicates these are people that came prepared, that they were dressed and equipped in a way to indicate that they were prepared, and they were armed with long guns not handguns.
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i do not know what type of long guns. >> reporter: how were they dressed. >> i do not know we do not have any weapons recovered at this point. >> could you move a little bit. there's a shadow. >> reporter: can you ask for clarification. you said upwards of 14 ? what does "upwards" mean? >> the preliminary number we have right now is that there are 14 people that are deceased and our count is another 14 people that have been taken to various hospitals for significant injuries, potentially related to gunshots. we also have a number of other people that may have had some minor types of injuries-- they fell down in the course of fleeing or something of that nature. but roughly about 14 we believe are wounded. >> reporter: were witnesse witn. >> reporter: inside the video that might give you video evidence of what happened? >> i would imagine there are but we're not that are that far into the investigation yet. >> reporter: would you mind repeating the nuts and bolts again? the whole thing? let's-- >> the building is still being
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searched. is there the possibility that there are more deceased or wounded inside of that regional center? >> i think that that could be a possibility, yes. i don't think we're comfortable saying no at this point. >> reporter: have the bomb technicians recovered anything which is or looked like like an i.e.d. in the building. >> as the teams were going through the building searching for the suspects and searching for victims there were some things in the building that were not immediately identifiable that caused them some concern. as a result of that, we have techs on site checking some of that out. i do not know if they were brought in by the suspects. we do not know if they are bombs of any sorkt just simply things that as our teams were moving through said that need to be looked at. >> reporter: they haven't taken anything apart or destroyed anything? >> i don't have any information on that. >> reporter: one step to the left, please. thank you, sir. >> reporter: have you found any vehicles that you believe are related or left anywhere nearby? >> not they know of at this point. >> reporter: have witnesses said the gunmen said anything? did they say anything? >> we don't have anything specific from those witnesss.
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we're in the early stages of talking to them. >> reporter: do you have any other active scenes at this point? >> this is the only active scene we're working. >> reporter: what about security tapes that may have been shot? >> that is part of the investigation. i just don't have that at this point. >> reporter: can you talk about the suspect's vehicle, darker s.u.v.? you can talk about that? >> that's all we have. very generic, upwards of three suspects, darker s.u.v. >> reporter: the suspects were in camouflage ginever heard camouflage. >> reporter: what were they wearing? >> just to be clear, upwards of three. does that mean there could be more than three? >> i have repeatedly been told the number is three but keep in mind this is information that flowing in as people are talking to witnesses very quickly. as we put everything together, some of these may change. we know these are fluid situations, and some of the information we put out now may change a little bit in the future. >> reporter: is there any description about these suspects? >> as far as people in the area, we're doing everything we can to keep this area safe. we arecracying other facilities in the area that we think may be similar or may be somewhere, but
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we don't have any information or any credible threats to any other facilities at this point. but, obviously, we're all on a heightened sense of alert. we would ask the public that they be on a heightened sense of alert, that they're watching out for those things, and if they come across information contact us and let us investigate it i put out what i have, just three suspects. >> reporter: were they wearing masks, chief? >> one report i heard masks were involved but i don't know that to be definitive at all. >> reporter: do you have any active leadses you're pursuing right now? >> yes, not going to talk about. >> reporter: did the gunmen say anything at all during the attack, during the shooting? >> not that i'm aware of. >> reporter: any sort of threats made prior to this incident? >> that's part of the investigation. we're not going to talk specifically about that right now. >> reporter: i'm not a media person, but-- and i just want to say thank you for all the chiefs, all the fire chiefs and everything for your response. i appreciate that. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: how long did the attack last? do you have any idea how long it
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lasted? >> a few minutes. >> reporter: based on how well armed--... >> pelley: so, troubling news from police chief jared burguand, of the san bernadino police. the gunmen involved in this mass shooting have gotten away. the police don't have a description except one witness described a dark s.u.v. the chief said that 14 people are dead, 14 people are wounded. he cautioned that that number was preliminary and could change. this was an assault on a california state office building. it occurred about three hours ago. 14 dead, 14 wounded, and the police chief describing a situation in which police officers went into the building, did not find the gunman. he has said that witnesses have
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described as many as three gunmen, and as the chief put it, they were dressed in military-style gear. they were equipped, as he said, they were carrying rifles, not handguns. and they have gotten away from the scene. a dragnet all over southern california now for the people who perpetrated this attack. we're going to go back in and listen to the san bernadino police chief jared berguand. >> reporter: how long were they inside shooting? >> i don't know specifically. several minutes. >> were they still there when the police arrived, when initial responding officers arrived. >> we don't know. our police officers have not engaged or exchanged gunfire with anybody but we don't know if they were on scene when we arrived. >> reporter: i don't know if you covered this or not, were the vast majority of the dead or wounded in one centralized location in the facility?
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>> yes, in the same general area of the facility. >> reporter: in the conference room? >> reporter: i'm sorry if it's assumption, chief, that they targeted that particular room, those particular people? >> i think we're a little too early in the investigation to even make that assumption. we don't know what the motive is at this point. >> reporter: did they take humans at any point. were people tied up and held in a room? >> we don't have any information that they took any hostages. >> reporter: what kinds of weapons do they use? can you describe what kinds of weapons they used? >> long guns is what i've been told. i think there are people that speculate what type of long guns those are, but i have-- i don't want to put out a specific type of gun. i just want to say it was a long gun not a handgun. >> reporter: rifle or shotgun? >> they came in with a purpose. they came in with the intent to do something. >> reporter: there was any threat made to the facility prior to this incident? >> i don't have specifics on that. so with that, with that, we're going to cut this off. we will be back every hour on the hour to provide an update, even if we don't have anything specifically, we will come back
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to you every hour on the hour, at least for the next several hours to provide an update. >> reporter: at the top of the hour? >> at the top of the hour is fine. >> pelley: that was the police chief, san bernadino county, jared burguandto, recap, the suspects have gotten way. they do not have a description of the suspects. 14 people are dead, 14 people have been wounded. we have a witness to all of this on the phone now. her name is sally abdel-mcgee. you can tell us what you saw and heard? >> i was in my office in building two, and i had a really big window to my left. you know, i was working, it was just a normal day, and then all of i of a sudden i heard shots fired, and it was from an automatic weapon. so, you know, it was very unusual, why, you know, why would we hear shots. so i kind of made a joke and i turned around and my office
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mate, and, you know, said, "what the heck is that?" and i said, tsounds like gunfire." and we both look out the window. as we look out the window, second set of shots goes off-- pop-pop. hoff. and we saw a man fall to the floor, and we just looked and we saw three men dressed in all black, military-- military attire with vests on, holding assault rifles, and they-- they opened up the doors to building 3. and one of them opened up the door to building 3. he starts to shoot-- you know, shoot all over into the room. that's the room we typically have conferences in or trainings or just, you know, some odd events. we're social workers.
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we help consumers-- we help people with disabilities just to live better lives and for inclusion, and we advocate for them. we're not doing anything controversial. we're not-- we're helping the community. i don't know why someone would target us. that room has-- had an event in there today. i don't know what the event was or what was going on, but... i don't know. i don't know. and we just heard more gunshots go off. i got my phone. i-- i reached for my phone. i called 911. and i just hid under my desk. i didn't see any more. i just heard more gunshots go off as i was talking to dispatch. and we just-- we went into my manager's office, locked the door, barricaded it. we heard running and things happening upstairs. we didn't know what was going on, so we stayed there for a
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while. about-- about 30 minutes later, someone came to the door and knocked on the door, but we didn't, obviously, answer. and then another, a few minutes later, someone came and took us into a secure room, and that's it. that's all i-- that's all i say. >> miss abdelmageekyou describe to me in as much detail as you can, what did the gunman look like? >> i couldn't see. he had a black hat on, and from my view, all i could see was just a black hat, and black long-sleeved shirt, possibly gloves on. he had black cargo pants on, the kind with the zips, or the side and the big, puffy pockets. he had a huge assault rifle, and he had extra ammo. he was coming ready for-- h was coming ready for something, to
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reload. i don't know. he had magazines. i couldn't see what else. i saw-- it was-- i just saw three dressed exact let's same. >> pelley: you're certain that you saw three men? >> yes. i don't know if it was-- i don't know if-- i know the one that shot someone was a male for sure. and it looked like there was two males. the third one i could just see legs. there was kind of a tree blocking. but that's it. >> pelley: there's a-- there's a manhunt going on for these men. and the police do not have a very good description at this point. so were they-- were they caucasian? >> it looked like-- it looked like their skin color was white. again, i couldn't see, and i'm in the next building, so i couldn't-- i couldn't see details, just the shock of it
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all. i -- >> did you notice-- did you notice hair color or anything about their height or wait? >> they looked like they were athletic built, and they-- they appeared to be tall. >> pelley: hair color? >> i can't-- i can't-- i can't, really. i can't really give any more specifics, just looked like they were taller and more athletic build. >> pelley, of course. and would you say younger? >> i-- i can't. i can't say. i didn't-- i didn't get a good-- >> pelley: did you hear them say anything? >> i'm sorry? >> pelley: did you hear them say anything? >> no, unfortunately, i'm in the other building, so i could see. i can't hear anything other than gunshots. >> pelley: did you see them get into a vehicle? how did they-- how did they make their escape? >>, you know, i didn't see
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anybody come or leave. list an awkward >> pelley: we're having a little bit of trouble hearing sally abdelmcgee, describing the gunmen to us. we're going to try to reestablish that telephone connection with her and see if we can hear her clearly again. but this was the best witness description that we have heard yet. she said that she was in her office looking out a window in this office complex where the assault occurred. she said that she clearly saw three gunmen, all dressed in
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black, armed with what she described as assault rifles and extra magazines. now, that would match what the police chief in san bernadino told us just a few minutes ago at his news conference. the chief told us at that point that there are 14 dead, 14 being treated in emergency rooms. he said that those numbers could change, that that was the best estimate they have now. three gunmen, apparently reported by multiple witnesses, three gunmen dressed in black. one witness said that they saw the gunmen leave the scene in a dark s.u.v. but that only description that we have, and, clearly, at this point in time, the police are desperately trying to get together any witnesses, any description of the gunmen that they possibly can. several people, maybe a couple of hundred or more, were evacuated from the building.
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some of those people, like sally abdelmageed, are going to be witnessed. police put them in buses and have criffen them to a safe place where they will be interviewed and they may come up with a more exacting description of the suspects. but right now, there are three heavily armed men with semi-automatic or automatic weapons somewhere in southern california having just murdered 14 people, shot 28 people at this state office building, and the police do not know where they are. the police officers went through the building, the inland regional center, which is a state of california office building that houses services for the developmentally disabled. police went through those buildings, the police chief told us, room by room, and did not find the gunmen. he said that his officers have not exchanged fire with anyone.
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so it would appear that the gunmen were in the process of leaving or were gone by the time the police officers got. all of this began right at 2:00 eastern time, 11:00 on the west coast. we're watching a live picture of the highway there right in front of the brlg this massacre has occurred. so to quickly recap exactly where we are right now. there was a mass shooting at a california government services building in san bernadino, california, east of los angeles. it happened a little over three hours ago. 14 people have been killed. 14 people are being treated for wounds in the emergency room. multiple witnesses have described three men dressed in black with assault rifles and
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multiple magazines. the police chief in san bernadino said it was as if the men were on a mission. those men have escaped. they are somewhere in southern california. the police do not have a good description of them or their vehicle at this point. we will be following this story throughout the day. we will be back on the air with any major developments. we're going to have much more about this on your local news, on this cbs station. of boom, it just, you know, just boom, boom, boom, boom.
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>> we continue to follow the breaking news in southern california, a mass shooting at a social services center in san bernardino, california east of los angeles, initial reports from police indicate 14 people are dead and more than a dozen are injured. right now police are searching for three gunman, the gun man were reportedly wearing military style a tire. hello everyone i'm ukee washington. i'm jessica dean. the this is unfolding at inland regional center in san ber nature dino, we are told that center serves people with developmental disabilities. the lets look live from that scene. you can see heavily armed officers every where, traffic, of course, stopped in the middle of the road. eyewitnesses say many locked themselves in their offices upon hearing the gun fire, based on witness accounts there were multiple buildings. so they were locking themselves their offices during this time. stores, other offices, schools in that area have all been placed on lock down, and cbs the news reporting danielle nottingham is at the scene
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with the very latest. >> reporter: emergency responders scrapple told treat multiple victims after gunfire broke out at inland regional center 60 miles east of los angeles. social services facility serves people with developmental disabilities in the area. terry petit says his daughter and number of other workers are hiding inside the building. >> she said someone had come in and started shooting and they ran in the office and hiding with some other people. >> reporter: his daughter has been sending him text messages from inside. >> shooting at my work, people shot in the office where they were there. >> reporter: police are searching for one or more gunman law enforcement teams evacuated dozens from the the center including paul's son garrett. >> they have now extract him out of the building and getting ready to transport them off site to some other place. >> reporter: law enforcement source tells cbs news that the bomb squad is in the process of, neutralizing a potential explosive device left at the scene. danielle nottingham for cbs-3
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"eyewitness news". once again here's a live picture from the scene. police say suspects may have left a area in the dark colored suv, this is seventh mass shooting in america in the past five months, at least 14 people are reported dead, 14 more injured. it is still an active situation, of san bernardino california, east of los angeles, still a massive police presence, in that area, once again, the authorities believe the suspects have fled and the search is on. that is right, massive manhunt now in southern california, they are placing buildings and schools in that area on lock down. you have to remember they are on pacific time so many students could possibly still be in school right now. in the meantime president obama a spoke with cbs news anchor nora o'donnell in the last hour and emphasized need for gun reform legislation. >> is there steps we can take to make americans safer and we he should come together in a bipartisan basis at every
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level of government to make these rare, as opposed to normal. we should never think that this is something that just happens in the ordinary course of events because it doesn't happen with the same frequency in other countries. >> we're beginning to get more and more eyewitness accounts from the ground there and one eyewitness described the scene as something like a shooting range. >> it was across the street at a hotel when shots started. >> i was outside and i heard, a shooting range. the just shots. being shot like crazy. just i mean, a a lot of shots, and i came out and we had, seen a black suv, flying down the the street. when i thought it looked like one guy was wearing, military fatigues, and after that, just seeing all of the police and have been start coming through. >> still developing tragic story details about the shooting are still continuing to come out. >> lets take a broad picture at what we know, for sure
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right now. we know up to 14 people have died, more than a dozen others have been injured, and authorities are saying that number could rise. official with the building where the the shooting occurred, said it happened inside a conference area outside groups had rent today. we also know three suspect shooters have fled possibly in a black suv and a enormous manhunt is now underway searching for those shooters, and that includes locked downs and shelter in place order across the san bernardino area, again, right now no one is in custody and they really don't have have a good description of what these suspects looked like, only that they fled in that dark suv and that they might, you know, have have certainly been on the loose. we will continue to follow the mass shooting in california, and bring you the very latest as it all happens during this newscast. we're expect to go hear from them again at 6:00. we will bring that to you as soon as it happens, and of
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course always available at cbs philly.com. as we continue tonight search for missing vineland mother and her babe comes to a tragic end. both were found murdered and their alleged killer is in custody. "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan is at the vineland police department right now to tell you more, cleve. >> reporter: ukee, family says that the man police arrested for this double homicide, i the estranged husband of the victim needy ramirez, and, allegedly there was april argument on friday the same day, ramirez and her three month-old daughter difficulties a period. passionate hugs and prayers tuesday night as family of 34 year-old neidy ramirez and three month-old genesis ramirez feared missing mother and daughter were victims of powell play. >> mother and daughter. >> reporter: by this morning vineland police announced missing persons case was now a double homicide investigation. as they were reaching out to people who know ramirez well, 34 year-old ricardo santiago
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turned himself in, family say he is ramirez estrange husband, police said he killed neidy and baby genesis. >> he voluntarily came in and through questioning the investigation broke open and he was charge last night. >> reporter: police say santiago helped find bodies in a remote undisclosed location in the western cumberland county. the the couple have a son together but little genesis is another man's daughter. >> they were co parents and it appears there was some sort of disputing on. >> do you know which day that dispute happened. >> we believe friday. >> reporter: police say santiago killed ramirez and her daughter on friday, the woman was last seen that day in this vineland laundromat and her suv was found saturday on route 55 in gloucester county but family didn't report her until monday when she didn't show up at shore job. she has been a faithful employee there for ten years and today co-workers set up a memorial in their break room. >> everybody has been here, we
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stopped for about 15 minutes so we could do a prayer for her. >> reporter: santiago is expect to be arraigned tomorrow and being held on one million-dollar bond, police won't say how they believe he killed ramirez and her daughter, autopsies are pending. reporting live from vineland, cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". sixers rookie jahlil okafor is in hot water after a video surfaces of a violent encounter. that video from tmz sports allegedly shows the nba star attacking a heckler. "eyewitness news" reporter todd quinones is live at the wells fargo center with more on this, todd. >> reporter: the boston police department wants anyone who may have gotten involved in that fight to come forward. the video released by tmz shows evidence of the second violent confrontation involving jahlil okafor, after an exchanged of word video shows sixers rookie parentally getting involved in a fight. the the camera quickly pans away but later shows a man,
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bloody on the ground, struggling to come too. last week tmz released another video of okafor fighting outside a boston nightclub on november 25th, 19 year-old had just apologized for that incident. tmz says fight shown in the new video occurred after the first altercation. we caught up with 49 wip sports radio program director spike eskin to talk about the video. >> would i imagine somebody with the sixers knew he got in more than one fight that night. it is a little, he doesn't seem like that kind of guy. it is weird to see him so violent i guess. >> reporter: boston police tells "eyewitness news" that they are actively investigating the incident portrayed in the video released last week. boston police say they are aware of the video release today and encouraged anyone involved to make a report so they can add it to the original up investigation. the 19 year-old has not been charged with any crime but video is an example of how cell phone cameras can bring on additional scrutiny for star athletes.
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>> if somebody said on twitter, wow, sixers and players in the 80's they used to punch people all the time and get in fight but this is not 80's it is 2015 and everybody is held to a different standard. >> sixers executive vice-president of the operations laura price say there would be a statement. it has been over four hours and still no statement from the sixers. by the the way sixers play new york knicks in new york. reporting live from south philadelphia, todd quinones, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". todd, thank you. still to come on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" we are continuing to machine for latest from the mass shooting in california, as authorities continue to search for three suspects. then unbelievable video from a police dash cam shows what many of us face on area road, deer dart ago cross the highway, we have to tell you the deer in this video is okay more on the other side we will be right back.
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and now at 5:30 we will continue to track breaking news a mass shooting at a social services, center in southern california. police estimate that there are 14 people dead, and more than a dozen injured, and three gunman remain at large. good afternoon, major investigation is underway to try to find these suspects. >> and a big law enforcement presence remains in san bernardino at inland regional center where we're told it serves people with developmental disabilities. the the president and ceo of the social services center says this shooting took place in the conference area at a group that was rent to go day. stores, office buildings and at least one school nearby all went into lock down, and we also know that at least ten patients, are at hospitals near that scene. lets take a list friend a woman rushing to with her daughter who was shot.
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>> unaudible. >> just a horrific day for so many people, police say the gun man were wearing military style gear. eyewitnesses to the shooting described just a frightening, scene. >> sally ab deal mcgee was operate nothing a adjacent building where they saw the gun man open fire. >> i turned around to my office mate and said what the heck is that? she turned around and said it sound like gunfire, and we both look outside the window as we look outside the window and we heard shots go off and it is pop, pop, pop, pop and we saw people go to the floor. then we just looked and we saw, and, military a tire, and, hold ago salt rifles. >> all right. lets take a live picture now, from the the scene, you can
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see the the presence in by law enforcement, first responders and cars that have been pulled to the side of the road. it is an active manhunt right now, specifically in san bernardino in southern california and there are three reported gunman that reportedly fled in a dark colored suv. the problem right now is authorities don't really have a dea tailed description of these three suspects. so they are certainly looking, every where, for these reported three suspects, that fled the scene, and we also know, that at least what they were calling upward of 14 people are dead, upward of 14 people are injured, and authorities say that number could very well, continue to rise, this afternoon, and evening. >> those same law enforcement officials will be updating the tragic events there in california, this evening, i believe, every hour, on the hour. they are scheduled to return at 6:00 o'clock in about 20 minutes or so, we will of course take that when it happens, if we don't, the the network coverage will, indeed.
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that building where all this happened some 670 plus staff members there provide services to the mentally disabled and their families. the as you can see there were police vehicles, bomb squad, fbi, authorities are are on the scene in full force and once again the search continues for three suspects who fled that scene. >> and ukee, we heard with scott will pelley when sally abdul mcgee whom we just heard from minutes ago, she said we are social workers and we are trying to make peoples lives better, trying to help people, you can imagine the utter shock and dismay and horror that is unfolding at that place this afternoon. be sure to stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of the mass shooting where we're monitoring the story in our news room and as ukee mentioned we will bring you latest developments as they happen on tv and anytime at cbs philly.com. new at the 5:30 relief for amtrak crash victims. an attney representing those injured and those killed now says he strongly favors having a grand jury look for answers in the tragedy. "eyewitness news" reporter walt hunter tells us new
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developments come as congress agrees to a raise the damage limit to compensate victims. >> it would be a welcomed idea to have a grand jury i am paneled and hear the evidence. >> reporter: attorney tom kline says he strongly favored convening a grand jury to look for answers and possibly file criminal charges in the deadly may 12th amtrak crash that killed eight and injured more than 200 others. many still wanting to know why the train with engineer brendan bostian was going too fast. >> many of our clients have expressed concerns regarding the conduct of mr. bostian who was going 106 miles an hour in a 50-mile an hour zone. >> we would absolutely like to speak to the engineer. he has yet to speak to us. we would like to speak to him because we have a lot of questions to ask him. >> reporter: the detectives say his team at east
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detectives division is moving forward with their criminal investigation and once they receive preliminary ntsb findings they will turn over evidence to the district attorney, who will decide, whether to file charges with the option of using a grand jury to assist him. >> thinks still a active investigation. we had to let go a little. but we're still investigating. >> reporter: meanwhile for victims and their families word from congress that approval of the measures raising the damage cap from 200 million, to 295 million is expected soon. >> we are pleased that this was one fight which was won for the victims. >> live here at east detectives division citing the pending investigation, d.a. declined comment on whether or not he will convene a grand jury. finally a call to the office of the attorney for bostian, had a worker telling me that the attorney was out of the country and would not be available for comment. bostian has not been charged with any wrongdoing.
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live from east detectives division i'm walt hunter, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> all right walt, thanks very much. caught on camera a very close call for a police officer in kentucky after he crashed into a deer. check out this dash cam video, the the officer was driving down the road when suddenly, the deer slammed on to the hood of his car and then flipped over. amazingly that deer right there just shook it off and ran into the woods. the officer's car didn't fair quite as well as it did suffer some damage. new at 6:00 tonight deer danger in our area we will tell you why a delaware officials want drivers in the first state to be very cautious, we have got warning for you coming up at 6:00 o'clock. on the cbs-3 healthwatch a look into your medical future by measuring how you walk. health reporter stephanie stahl is here to explain. >> reporter: this is a very you been usual study. thinks about all the highamers disease, people can have early stages for year and show no obvious symptoms. now this new research find
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that walking the the way people walk, could be an early independent case. walking slowly, not income good shape could be an early indication of alzheimer's disease according to new research. >> study was building on existing data, that it pays to be fit. >> reporter: study published in the journal neurology found a connection between slow walking speed and elderly and the amount of protein build up in their brains. that build up has been associated with development of alzheimer's. something that ann and dave longworth are hoping to avoid. >> we walk 30 minutes a day, at least. >> reporter: brisk walks are part of their daily routine. >> walking is supposed to be good for your hard and warding off alzheimer's. >> reporter: researchers say a slow gate could signal possibility of alzheimer's before people show clinical symptoms but not always. >> is there so much causes of being a slow walker, which has nothing to do with brain function. >> reporter: doctors do say that staying active physically
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and mentally is known to help prevent always highamers. now an estimate $5..3 million americans have alzheimer's disease, most are elderly and woman and while it can sometimes be treated there is no cure. you know, doctors tell us finding it early is so important but it is hard to find, slow walking may be something that they want to look more closely at. >> keep an eye on that, thanks, stephanie. still to come on "eyewitness news", nation's best italian restaurant is in our area we will tell you all bit, kate. >> more rain through evening hours but we have a nice sunny stretch of weather to talk about in the seven day forecast, i will have it coming up when we come right
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recapping our top story a mass shooting in san bernardino, california, at least 14 people are dead, more than a dozen injured inside of a building that provides services to developmentally disabled adults. we're told an outside group rented a conference room
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inside that building. police say there is as many as three suspects currently on the loose, possibly in a dark colored suv. officials are planning another update shortly and you will be able to watch it right here as soon as it happens. >> we will have the the latest on "eyewitness news" at 6:00 followed by special hour long addition of the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. as we continue tonight, surprising record set this black friday, according to the fbi guns were a hot seller for shopping holiday. in fact, the organization said it did more than 185,000 background checks for searches on november 27th. that is most background checks ever processed in the single day surpassing a previous record set in the days after the massacre. across the country folks are learning what philadelphians have known for a while, some of the best italian food is right here in our city. >> celebrity chef mark vetri, vetri restaurant was named business italian restaurant by time out america in the
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country. it describes meals at the restaurant as once in the lifetime. another local spot in collinswood is ranked 20th the on the list. "eyewitness news" spoke to vetri to calls it an honor. >> we're working hard, you know, we're doing the best that we're able to do and, you know, if certain folks recognize that and they put us on this awesome list with other restaurants, that is awesome. >> all this comes after vetri agreed to sell most of the restaurant to urban outfitters. the vetri the chef's first restaurant is in the included in that deal. kate bilo joins us now, with a look at a forecast and very similar to yesterday, really. >> yes, it has been another ugly, rainy day but good news is the end is in sight. storm scan three you can see back edge of the rain pushing out and we have much nicer weather. we had a few days of rain. the rain stuck around long after it was welcomed but now several days of sunshine should make up for that.
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lets look outside, and take you out to our, beautiful rooftop view of the sky line, center city philadelphia you can see cloud are in place. low cloud and fog, obscuring tops of the building, it looks better then it did this time last night, not much better. here's a time lapse how day shook out at leadership academy in philadelphia we will set this into motion and you can see it is a cloudy, rainy, gray, glummy day, morning was quiet and then in the afternoon some steady rain started to come through. you can see rain falling obscuring buildings there in the distance. still on storm scan three we have light showers and steady rain down the shore at the the moment. one batch has now started to lift off north. this is batch of showers impacting harrisburg area heading up toward mount pocono, lehigh valley but worst of that should miss philadelphia to the north. you can see center of the storm rotating through great lakes and front is just about or at least line of of showers is about to move off shore but front is off to the west and it will not move out until later this evening. once it does temperatures will
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drop pretty considerably overnight compared with where we have been last couple nights. fifty-three in reading. fifty-nine in philadelphia 56 in millville. fifty-seven atlantic city. you can see cooler air behind that front. it is only 33 in chicago. forty in cleveland. thirty-seven up inial people a and michigan. visability are low, mount pocono visibility down to .3 of a mile. atlantic city airport visibility .10 of a mile. watch out for patchy areas of fog around through remainder of tonight. still a few showers around between seven and 8:00. that last line moves through. we will clear it out by midnight skies are clearing with the clear skies that means temperatures will drop quick are overnight. we will start tomorrow with some cloud, a morning sprinkle will here or there and it is not most sunny day we have seen with the cooler air aloft, shower cannot be ruled out but it will feel better just at least to see sunshine tomorrow. this evening a few showers watch for fog still. we will clear it out overnight, we will start to turn cooler and breezy and feel that difference as we
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head into tomorrow. during overnight hours, showers early, clearing late we are down to 46 degrees for your overnight low. wind southwest turning westerly at ten to 15 miles an hour, throughout the day tomorrow things looking g partly sunny, breezy, 52 for your thursday high, wind west and notice it is strong, zero to 20 miles an hour wind for your thursday but all and all a how nicer day then what we have seen this week. here is your seven day forecast, and tell you what lets look at that sun stretch that begins tomorrow and continues right through the the end of the week and through weekend as well. friday 50. sunny and cool. saturday we're up to 52, sunny and beautiful. sunday and machine well above average highs in the mid 50's with sunshine both days, hanukkah begins sun take evening, great start to that holiday. ukee and jessica, back over to you. it is not easy for those living with an hiv diagnosis today patients from a north iladelphia recovery house, get their diagnosis aside as they experienced the beauty of dance. reporter cheri greg from our
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sister station kyw news radio has this story. >> ♪ >> reporter: they danced, bowed and for an hour these members of the compare community living room, were ballet dancers. >> i am moving muscles i didn't know i had. >> reporter: barbara kicked a drug addiction 14 years ago, battling an hiv diagnosis and the recent death of her husband but she is getting a leg up and for a while she's a kid again. >> i like it. i can do things when i was younger. >> reporter: this comes thanks to the partnership between pennsylvania ballet and art reach, a route that gives under served communities access to the arts. the the attendees pick a class, and then watch the pros at work. >> every time we get a group coming in it is just wonderful. >> reporter: sarah cooper works with the ballet and said their joy is in the smiles and surprised faces that discover ballet for the first time. >> anyone that we can invite
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into our home and have them see what we do and in a intimate way is a win. >> next week there is ballet experience that will culminate with this entire group gets to go to the academy of music to witness the nut cracker, first hand. >> what does this opportunity represent for you. >> respect. respect. >> reporter: an experience that demonstrates grace and endurance is beautiful, something that they have learned while overcoming their challenges. in center city cheri greg for kyw news radio for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> how boot to full is that. >> sometimes it is nice to hear music, move, enjoy. >> we need to feel good today, no doubt about it. still ahead, cbs three is excited to be helping boys and girls club give some kid a happy who will will day. and this weeks story of brotherly love find out how boys and girls club help children succeed through a story of the man who was once a kid hear himself, coming up
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recapping our top story right now a mass shooting in san bernardino, california at least 14 people are dead and more than a dozen injured inside a building that provides services to the developmentally disabled adults. we are told an outside group hat rented a conference room inside that building. police are also saying that there are as many as three suspects on the the loose, possibly in a dark colored suv. now officials are planning another update very shortly and you can watch it here live as soon as it happens. >> we will have latest on "eyewitness news" at 6:00 followed by a special one hour addition of the "cbs evening news" with scott will pelley. >> we want to let you know we will have brotherly love tomorrow, due to today's breaking news. in other news it is one of the hottest gifts this holiday season and now concern is growing over whoever boards, after some had un expectedly burst into flames. more reports are surfacing that the self balancing
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scooters are catching fire. it is unclear how many whoever board caught fire, no recalls have been issued. >> i came outside, turned it on, i came down the sidewalk not even probably 100 feet and it exploded, boom. >> last month in the uk london fire department responded to two fires and warned users to keep watch over devices as they charged. consumer products safety commission says consumers should report any product safety issues. more parents working full-time child carries a necessity for many but rising cost for caring for children is price something families out. >> with parents looking to save anyway they can three on your side consumer reporter jim donovan has some advice. >> reporter: when three month-old connor was born first time parents nicole manditto and just continue sternberg weren't ready for high cost of child care. >> difficult not expect child care to be more expensive than my rent. it would be the most expensive, item in our budget right now.
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>> reporter: since they can't afford day care the couple works opposite schedules to watch their son at home. >> we never get to see each other with her working overnights and we working days. >> reporter: accord together bureau of the labor statistics the cost of nursery school and child care has listen 168 percent since 1990. so how can you cut down the cost? opening up a pretax flexible spending account at your job can help. also, take advantage of the tax credits for day care spending, provided by the irs. >> you probably will be saving several hundred dollars a year by using one of of these pretax plans. if you combine that with the idea that you will be, using the tax code to help you out we could get in the thousands of dollars a year. >> reporter: something connor's parents say they will look into. >> anything would help. >> that was jim donovan reporting. the that is "eyewitness news" at 5:00. now at 6:00 we will continue to monitor very latest from the deadly mass shooting in san bernardino, california. the suspects remain on the
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lose. our natasha brown will update is in a moment. tragedy in south jersey a mother and her baby found dead we're on the scene with the very latest on the investigation. plus a suspected swindler in bucks county an accountant accused of stealing more than a hundred thousand dollars from her 100 year-old client and police think she may not be the only victim, kate. after a second full day of rain, it is coming to an end. we have much better news in the seven day forecast. the i will that have all for you, it all begins right new on "eyewitness news" at 6:00. i called her and she said, she was scared. >> pan nick california, breaking news from san bernardino as officers searched for shooters in a deadly assault that left more than a dozen dead and more than a dozen injured. this is all happening at a social services center about 60 miles east of los angeles. hello i'm ukee washington.
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i'm jessica dean. "eyewitness news" reporter natasha brownies tracking very latest from our cbs-3 sat center. what is the the latest. >> reporter: story is still unfolding at this hour, more than a dozen people killed, four injured and those numbers are fluid at this point and could ultimately rise. rye now there is a massive manhunt for at least three gunman throughout to be behind carnage in california. a frenzy response to a mass shooting with mass casualties and injuries in san bernardino, california. emergency responders scrambled to treat multiple victims after gunfire broke out at inland regional center 60 miles east of los angeles. >> up to three people entered the building and they had opened fire on people inside the building. we do have some preliminary numbers upward of 14 people that are dead and upward of 14 people that are injured. >> reporter: social services facility serves people with developmental and mental disabilities in the area. one

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