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all of a sudden, boom. >> boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. >> um, chaos in california when a husband and wife go on a deadly shooting rampage, killing 14 people and injuring more than a dozen others. we're learning new information this morning about those suspects and we will have the latest on the political fire storm that shooting is sparking. but first after a couple of dreary days with rain, and finally starting to dry out, although this is good news on your thursday morning. certainly does presidents feel it especially in december which it should. i'm not complaining. >> i'm not. >> we hear the first twitter, little rant. i'm not complaining. but i wish it was a little will colder. i wish we were seeing snow. >> yes, exactly. >> i have plenty of time for that, like the next three months for that. >> no, settle down now. >> yes, again, at least again we can report sunshine here
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and we are seeing milder air and remaining above average next couple of days. so that part of the story is a good one. so we will go ahead and talk bit. we started off with a look at storm scan three, good place to start. he we have moisture still showing up here nothing verifying at the ground though what you see in portions of delco there is not an issue. this is sort of what we call ground clutter where we see things on radar that aren't precipitation. this is, actual precipitation, and yep, it is snowing across portions of i80, we have alleghenies, that is rolling through central pennsylvania. so those higher terrain areas are in fact seeing some snow but it is having a tough time sticking and that said this is all sort of the sweeping past us off to the north. while poconos might see a quick sprinkle that is about it. everybody else can reza shourd it is drying out and we will see some sun here today. that is why we don't get full sun just a partly sunny day that is expect. 50 degrees at the the airport.
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that is above the normal high already. we are off toia nice mile start, for the standards, we are in the 30's up in the mountains with more northwesterly component so wind flow so that is the thing. x factor effect that is x factor that wind because it will be blowing, basically throughout the day and it is a noticeable breeze. not damaging wind by any stretch but enough to feel it. it will make these values feel cooler then they actually read. expect that it might feel in better than 40's and dress for that. heavier coat is a good idea anywhere today. quick check on that weekend, it is looking awesome, low to mid 50's, full sunshine, both days, and have you put up your christmas decorations yet? you have not, you might want to plan it this weekend. the as we look forward to next week the next shot for wet weather does not come until tuesday, meisha so i do come bearing pretty nice news here. >> just gorgeous, this weekend. i have some friend visiting from out of town, katie, they
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are coming from 20 degrees. crazy. this is 422 at trooper road, we are looking good. you can see evidence by the headlines and taillights we are starting to pick up a little bit. we have some new ramps that have now opened in and around this area. that will definitely help your commute on 422 at troop are road. boulevard headlights moving in at fox street giving you a good view of the boulevard looking good, but of course we will see levels build here as we move in the 6:00 o'clock hour. vine street moving in the east and westbound directions because of the overnight construction is lifting. thinks the vine street expressway headlights moving in the westbound direction at 24th street looking really nice here. it is getting busy on the vine, everybody heard it opened and everybody is rushing out on the roadways. we are traveling at posted speed. now an accident we did have here in horsham, county line road at keith valley road. i haven't had a word what is closed. as soon as i hear that update i will let you know. we have construction in new jersey, route 38, both
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directions between marter avenue and route 206, that right lane still blocked until 6:00 a.m. i will let you know when that clears. nicole, back over to you. investigators believe there are only two suspects in yesterday's mass shooting in san bernardino, california. police say a man and a woman walk in the social services center and opened fire yesterday afternoon. the 14 people are dead, 17 others wounded. police say one suspects died after a gun battle. they are identified as syed rizwan farouk and tashfeen malik. their relatives say they were husband and wife. investigators have not ruled out a link with terrorism and they are lag in the possibility that work place dispute may have led to that shooting. this shooting is generating a debate on gun control. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is here with the very latest on that, jan, good morning. >> reporter: some politicians are pulling no punches after the second mass shooting in less than a week. today those with the power to make changes are sounding off and going after each other.
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a bold statement, on the front page of the new york daily news. god isn't fixing this. a response by the the newspaper to messages of thoughts and prayers, after the second mass shooting in less than a week, and the deadliest gun rampage at 2012 at sandy hook elementary school. cbs news co host nora o'donnell sat down with president obama at the the the white house just after yesterday's deadly attack in southern california. >> we have a pattern now of mass shootingness this country that has no parallel will anywhere else in the world and there is some steps that we could take. >> reporter: obama calling for stronger gun control and democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton doing the same on twitter writing i refuse to accept this as normal. we must take action to stop gun violence, right now. the her rival bernie sanders tweeting mass shootings are an every day occurrence in this country. the it is i can is evening, senseless gun violence must stop. meanwhile doctor ben carson ising using strong language.
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>> again, another hate crime in san bernardino. less than a week ago we had the shooting in colorado. >> reporter: donald trump started his virginia rally with the moment of silence and other g.o.p. presidential candidates asked forethoughts and prayers. democratic senator chris murphy seemed to have a problem w staunch advocate of gun control ever since sandy hook tragedy in his home state of connecticut he said your thoughts should be about steps to stop this carnage, your prayers should be for forgiveness if you do nothing again. >> we should come together in a bipartisan basis in every level of the government to make these rare as opposed to normal. >> reporter: you can see nora o'donnell's full interview with the president on cbs this morning starting at 7:00 o'clock on cbs-3. >> jan, thank you. a local fbi veteran is giving his inshts about the the steps law enforcement in california are taking. hundreds of officers and swat teams swarmed the the area around the office building and it took several hours before they provided a
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briefing to the media. the former agent says the priority is tending to the victims and gathering information as quickly as possible adding that the public is the the most valuable resource. >> old fashion police work still is very effective and that is canvassing the neighborhood, talking to people. there might be people hoff small pieces of information that they don't even realize are relevant or important. >> he says that it will take time to necessity if this was a work place shooting offer an ago of terrorism. stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage as we learned new details about the san bernardino mass shootings. when we're not on tv find us on line at cbs philly.com. 5:37. in business news this morning people share the love and money on giving tuesday and the fed hinted at a hike in interest rates. money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the insuring stock exchange with more on that, jill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. falling oil prices are dragging down energy stocks and with it the the markets. dow jones fell 158-point on wednesday, nasdaq dropped 33.
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it is looking more likely that the fed will raise interest rates at its next meeting next week. janet yellin says the job market and economy look good for a small rate hike. adp says the private sector added most jobs in five months. so unless tomorrow's governmental jobs report is a complete miss most analyst expect we will that first interest rate hike in nine years. cyber monday turned out to be the biggest on line shopping day ever in the united states. shoppers spent american $3 billion with a huge surge in shopping by the smart phone. people were also in the mood to give, on line donations on giving tuesday reached nearly 117 million-dollar, that is 155 percent more than last year. organizers credit social media, forgetting the word out, which does make sense, nicole. >> certainly does, jill, thank you. 5:38. sixers center jahlil okafor is sitting out the a two game suspension after a second
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video emerged of a confrontation. in this video by tmz sports okafor for the a heckler outside a boston nightclub last week. video appear to show two separate scuffles. statement from the team says that in part while we are disappointed with his recent actions we have faith in him as a valued members of the sixers. suspension forced oak for to sit out last night's game with the new york knicks, first quarter, he scores three points to give the knicks an early lead here. innings isers down 17, he does it again, 17 points, and ten board, and four blocks, sixers lose this one by 12 points, so they are now one and 19. better than zero and 19. >> well, major menu changes at two popular restaurants, we will let you know what popular items they are taking off the kid menu. new way to do it even before your first cup of coffee. and a surprising announcement from sandra bullock we have word on the the actress's new role, we will be right back.
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the two suspects from yesterday's deadly shooting rampage in california are now identified as 28 year-old syed rizwan farouk, and his wife, 27 year-old tashfeen malik. they were killed in a gun battle with police just miles from that massacre scene. fourteen people were killed and more than a dozen others were injured. there is still no clear motive. south africa supreme court
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found oscar pistorius guilty of murder. it has overturned previous culpable homicide conviction for death of his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. pistorius could serve an additional 15 years in jail. a 27 year-old man is shot and killed in north philadelphia. it happened at germantown avenue and west moreland streets. no word on suspects or a motive in that shooting. bobbi kristina brown's death is the top yahoo search of 2015. the 22-year old was the daughter of singers whitney houston and bobby brown. she was found unresponsive in the the bathtub of her georgia home back in january. bobbi kristina was in the coma until her death in july. after brown the top five searches included iphone, caitlin jenner, her daughter kendell jenner and the video game mine craft. sandra bullock expanded her family. at academy award winning actress adopted a little girl from lou san a layla is three years old. she has already bonded with five-year old louie whom she
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adopted in 2010. fifty-one year-old ago rest hopes to call attention to the hundreds of thousands of children in foster care in the united states. the that is just so nice. well, two popular chain restaurants are removing soft drinks off the kid menus. applebees and ihop said they will serve them by request. movies late toes turn back on soda consumption by kid. many school districts have pulled soda machines from school cafeterias and menus. cdc reports childhood obesity has more than doubled in the last 30 years. how about skipping the coffee and just brushing your teeth to get a caffeine buzz. i don't know about this but, power energy tooth pass has created a toothpaste loaded with caffeine. company has set up a crowd funding page on indy go go to launch the product. it is slightly less caffeine then a 8-ounce cup of coffee. >> i don't know, katie, what do you think bit. >> for me part of the wake up process is just the the flavor and the smell of the cup of coffee. >> yes, and i'm waiting on the
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hazel nut with three splendas and cream right now and it will be amazing, so, yeah, i don't know how i feel about that. even with the extra jolt during the afternoon, perhaps. >> maybe. >> but i digress. >> but lets check with eyewitness weather watcher network for you, guys we are finding temperatures still above average. normal high in philadelphia on this day of the year is 49 degrees. we're already seeing that in a couple of choice spots. we will start off in the northern most suburbs where john jenkins is reporting 43 degrees in perkasie this morning. the at least it is starting dry but it is feeling cool to him. part of that is we are seeing a breeze pick up which we will discuss. margot has 48 degrees. she too still seeing some included cover out there, and we will get to one more closer to the city where lynn springer kennel is reporting in cherry hill just a lot of cloud but she's also seeing that wind pick up and she's waiting on the sunshine as many of us have been because it is so dreary, not a live picture, let me make that clear. the thinks over fun, festive
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winter graphic picture. only four days until hanukkah begins. average high is 45 degrees. just zero days away. the fact that we have been as mild, we hit 60 yesterday, not bad if you are a fan of the mild air. the as far as astronomical winter beginning, that is still 19 days away, meteorological winter has begun, climatic changes have already started to come our way in terms of is what normal. it has been above average in terms of temperature and christmas just 22 days away. hopefully you got your shopping started. lets look at storm scan next. we are track ago this snow right up and over north of the i80 corridor at this point. this is going to bypass our area, just off to the north. if you are traveling the northeast extension and that interchange you might see a republican gate snow flake but i don't want you to worry about this having a chance to stick or accumulate not here locally and mess of the delaware valley does stay dry but worth the mention because we have not seen purple on storm scan for a long time. school day forecast, we will
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give you a b minus. more than anything because of the fact that we still have some clouds, and especially the fact that the the breeze is still out there so it is cooler by comparison and we will factor in that breeze and it will likely feel in better than 409's in mess locations here today. the that is something you have to take into account. heavier coat is good idea when you walk out the the door and taking the the school bus. looking forward in the forecast we are expecting high pressure to just stay in place. so every day ace above average by at least a degree and majority of the seven day meisha it is rain free with sunshine. >> it looks like a beautiful weekend, crazy to think two days until christmas. time goes so fast. enjoy today, enjoy the the moment. ninety-five, headlights moving in the southbound direction at broad moving toward girard point bridge, looking good here. we are starting to see just up in the distance a little bit of headlights out there but still traveling at posted speeds here. boulevard looking good, moving in the southbound direction, you can see these guys, moving in the southbound direction
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toward, the schuylkill westbound, and once on the schuylkill westbound at city avenue looking good but we are just starting to see volume levels pick up ever so slightly now. we are pushing toward those 6:00 o'clock hour. now is time when we start to see people jumping on the roadways trying to get an early start. this is where we will use some caution, girard avenue slip ramp is closing, completely closing this afternoon. here is your alternate eastbound girard right on richmond and delaware avenue ramp to i-95 northbound. you take that you should be in darn good hands. construction route 38 between marter avenue and route 206, right lane is blocked until 6:00 a.m. i will let you know when that does free up but right the now still traveling at posted speeds so no worries. nicole, over to you. pretty soon we will have to deal with driving on snow covered road but before that happens is there another danger for drivers, deer. "eyewitness news" reporter alexandria hoff looks at the spike in accidents with these animals. >> reporter: caught on camera an officer in kentucky, blind
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sided when a large deer catapults from his windshield and then continues off running, probably the best case scenario during a season's best scanning the shoulder. >> on the side of the road you see a little twinkle. >> reporter: for kent and new castle counties in delaware they have seen 125 dear-related crashes in the past 30 days. they are ranked 23rd in the u.s. in the likelihood of hitting a deer. new jersey is 34th. coming in at four, pennsylvania, where drivers have a one in 70 chance of hitting a deer. >> just to give you an example in montgomery county nearly 200 a month that are pick up. >> frequently people just want to drive their car but first thing they need to do is make sure it stays, there is in leak fluid. >> reporter: with deer damages averaging $4,000, vicky neil of state farm says it goodies to know your coverage. >> you need to have comprehensive coverage in that situation. >> reporter: from headache to heartache involving another motorist only makes things worse so experts say brake
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firmly and don't swerve. >> buckle in because none of your safety feature in your vehicles, air bags, or anything like that will in the work if you are in the strapped in. >> reporter: and then there is the deer. reporting one dead or injured is right thing to do but not always required. in pennsylvania if you are a resident of the state hitting a deer means that the tear dear is yours if you want. same for new jersey and delaware as long as you call police for a permit. alexandria hoff for cbs news "eyewitness news". if everything goes as planned a spacecraft pack with 7,000-pound of science experiment and supplies will blast off tonight for the international the space station. the last cargo run in october of last year ended in a fireball when that rocket the exploded 15 seconds after lift off. investigators blamed failure of one of two refurbished engines that powered that rocket. as long as it gets off the ground cargo spacecraft is to arrive at the space station on sunday. well, before you do any more holiday shopping you have to hear this, how stores are
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♪ >> well, a lot of us dream about winning a million-dollar, right, maybe just once in our lifetime. now imagine what it is like to win it twice. >> yeah. a california man did just that, and he won just minutes apart. talk about a lucky guy, right. that is rodney meadows with the ten million-dollar check from the california lottery. the modesto resident is a regular player. he bought a $30 scratch off at a mini mart ape won a thousand dollars. he decided to buy another which ended up being the ten million-dollar ticket. meadow says he has to decide what he will do with the money. that is one lucky guy. well, millionaires don't need to know the signs of shopping but rest of us do. studies show people are more likely to buy items on the middle of the shelf and items with a price that end in nine, also. rude salespeople in luxury stores can cost customers with
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lower self esteem to spend more. if you think music you hear is random, think again. right music can make shoppers happier and lose track of time. if i get a rude salesperson i'm in the buying anything, walking right out the the door. florida police officer's act of kindness is captured on his body camera, thinks great. mike meredith was on patrol last weekend when he noticed a homeless man whose shoes were shredded. he approached and asked for a shoe size but label in the shoe was worn out. using his own shoe to measure it meredith went to a nearby store where he bought that man >> a guy in the the bright yellow, light fluorescent yellow, he is walking, close to the road and you feel bad for somebody when you go home and you have have five or six pairs of shoes in your closet that you do not even wear and a guy with one pair of shoes that are literally worn out. >> great perspective there. so true. in the spirit of the giving meredith says customer in her
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store gave him her coupon to help pay for the the shoes. it was a group effort. so sweet. we are hearing from the the woman behind a social media post that has been shared more than 120,000 times. here's why, lisa all describing ordered a birthday cake from her local supermarket in michigan. a worker handed her the cake and without looking she went to the check out. that is when store workers gathered around and thank her. the person who wrote on that cake has autism. >> it was instantly something that i felt happy about, and again, all these messages from families who struggle, it just brakes my heart to think of the meanness that people have to endure because they are not just like everybody else. i didn't share it where it says look at her she's so nice. the i shared it so that people would consider, maybe they should be nicer. >> that is a great message. she posted that picture on line where it has been getting attention. at 1.1000 people an hour, were sharing it. she just did the right thing.
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i would like to think a lot of us would do that. coming up next on "eyewitness news", we are live in san bernardino with overnight developments in the mass shooting. most americans consume a lot more salt then they realized so doctor jen is stopping by to talk about easy ways to cut your sodium in take. ugly christmas sweaters, they are in the just bad, find out why business is now, booming, that is coming up next. stay with us, we will be right back.
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the the morning after a shooting massacre is in san bernardino we are learning more about the shooters as we search for a motive. it was a husband and wife who stormed in the holiday party, heavily armed and opened fire. fourteen people are dead, more than a dozen injured, the question is, why? today is thursday, december 3rd, i'm nicole brewer. thanks so much for joining us. we will check weather and traffic in just a moment but first very latest developments from california. authority believe that the two suspects acted alone, police say that the couple walked in the san bernardino county social services center fully armed ready to carry out this rampage. the the two now identified as syed rizwan farouk and tashfeen malik died in the gun battle with
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