♪ right now at 11:00 o'clock, it's all about tradition. the delaware town that decorates not a tree but a weed for christmas. we have the story behind this unique holiday custom. viagra for kids. the little blue pill isn't only used to improve sex lives. doctors at children's hospital of philadelphia are using the drug to help young patients battling a life threatening disease. >> and draft day it's a moment one local girl will never

forget. this special surprise she received from a college basketball team. good evening i'm ukee washington. >> i'm jessica dean. those stories and more are straight ahead but we begin tonight with a school scare. a child brings hypo determine mick needles to class. "eyewitness news" diana rocco spoke with a concerned parent and student who saw it happen. >> reporter: second grade students at immediate elementary had exposed to hyper poe determine mick needle by another student who brought the needle to class and now parents want answers. >> she was actually trying to stick kids or make game out of it. my thing it could have hiv, hepatitis c. it could be methadone needle. >> reporter: christina marshall found her seven-year-old son christian had witnessed the incident when the principal called. >> he was nervous because he immediately thought that he would would be in trouble for not telling report roar christian saw another student in his class pull four needles out of backpack and hand three to other students.

>> i saw needles. she was like this keep ya'll away from me. >> reporter: school district are looking into the matter and it's not clear if the student was chasing others or if students were stabbing themselves with the needles. but after getting check at the hospital, no marks were found on any of the students. police became aware of the incident when one child hasn'ted the needle to a teacher's aid and reported getting stabbed in the back. the school district says this is the letter that was sent home to the parents of students involved. it stated a day before the alleged incident. this is all under investigation by the school district, and philadelphia police some of the parents we spoke to say they won't feel comfortable allowing their child back to class until the incident has been resolve. in north philadelphia, i'm diana rocco, cbs3 "eyewitness news". a fire reaches four alarms tonight destroying a camden county auto body shop. chopper three over the seen on the they are hundred block of haddonfield road in pennsauken. a smoke and flames burned out of control. crews balanced the blaze for over two hours.

it was placed under control just before 8:30 tonight. fortunately, there were no injuries reported. philadelphia police release surveillance video avenue laundromat employee fighting with an armed robbery suspect. it happened at king philly laundry on the 5800 block of market street on december 2nd. the suspect fired shot at the worker and pistol whipped him as she struggled in the office the laundromat the suspect goes by the name of saleem. >> the male finally walks out of the business and walks off. we think he's familiar with the area. he obviously notice what time these employees come in. the employees come in around 4:00 o'clock in the morning. clearly notice how to open the door. he sneaks in there without the employees know he's coming in and demands the money. the vick testimony because treated for injuries to his face. if you recognize or know the suspect you are you were to do contact the police. the war of words intensifies between philadelphia mayor michael nutter and republican presidential hopeful donald trump. yesterday the mayor used a curse word while condemning trump's

comments calling for ban on muslims entering the united states. trump fired back with two tweets today. first calling nutter quote accrued dope. and another tweet he wrote, nutter is quote doing a terrible job, should be ashamed for using such disgusting word and referring to me. low live! mayor nutter fired back once again. >> donald trump has not yet figured out the difference between reality show tv ratings and the wild and inane things you can say in that context want it really takes to be serious candidate. >> the mayor admitted he could have used a different word to describe trump. he apologized to the clergy at the press conference for using profanity. disturbing new information in the san bernardino massacre investigation. the husband and wife killers were radicalized even before they became engaged and mary. the fbi director revealed the details today. >> san bernardino involved -- >> f2.

director james comb me told congress the san bernardino shooters were radicalized at least two years ago. >> as early as the end of 2013 they were talking to each other about jihad and martyr dome before they became engaged and then married and lived together in the united states. >> reporter: fbi says they're stream mist views evolved before isis rose to power and before the couple met online. a background check failed to uncover tashfeen's beliefs when she applied for aves to enter the u.s. radicalization could also include enrique marques former neighbor of farook and relative by marriage. cbs news has learned fbi investigating in farook and marques were planning an attack as far back as 2012 and discussed buying weapons but scuttled their plan following terrorist arrests in california late that year. marques purchased two assault weapons used in last week's attacks. federal investigato investigatoe considering charging him with

material support for terrorism. victims and family members were invited wednesday to see the building where the shooting took place. many cried and comforted each other as they saw for themselves where 14 people lived their final moment. many details are still being investigated in the case. including a $28,000 lone farook received from the online lender prosper. >> suspect in last month's planned parenthood attacks went before a judge today with erratic outburst throughout the hearing. >> nobody will ever know the amount of blood i saw inside that place. >> robert lewis dear told a judge he's guilty and declared himself quote a warrior for the babies. prosecutors announced they will be filing 179 counts against dear including murder. three people were killed and nine others were wounded in the november 27th rampage in colorado spring. a philadelphia jury finds the man charged with killing an aspiring teacher not guilty. tonight the victim's family tells "eyewitness news" justice was not served.

bow sable was a minnesota native who moved to the city to teach. prosecutors say marcellis jones shot and killed sable for his i-pod near fourth and south in 2008. with no physical evidence tying jones to the murder, the prosecution was relying exclusively on eyewitness testimony. jones argued he was innocent and witnessed lied. sable's father believes jones got away with murder. >> i'm upset but, you know, ultimately there's another judge. and he'll have to pay the price then. >> jones is already serving a life sentence following a murder conviction in 2012. new tonight at 11:00 a community comes together to remember a fallen hero. philadelphia fire department and lawn crest community fired lieutenant joyce craig with a service at engine 64. candles were lit and stories shared in remembrance of craig who died one year ago battling a fire in west oak lane. she was philadelphia's first female firefighter to die in the line of duty.

rider university's women's basketball team made a special draft pick tonight. >> and they lowered their height standards for this brave athle athlete. rider university had a formal draft party for 11-year-old savannah. she's battling a kidney disease. savannah paired up with the rider's women's basketball team three a non-profit called team impact. >> she's one of us, like, regardless of her age she's just like us. >> great to see how she can still smile even though she's going through all of that stuff. so it really just makes you want to smile and do so much more for everyone else. >> savannah said she was totally surprised by the draft and is overjoyed to be a rider university prong. how about that. >> another mild december day but you haven't seen anything yet. >> by this weekend we may be breaking out the short sleeves, kate. >> that's right. you guys we're chasing record warmth as we head toward the weekend all this warm air from the south starting to lift in. you'll see feel it tomorrow in

fact we'll feel it as early as tonight. by saturday and sunday, that's when the really warm air gets in. i'll tell was the records are and how many could fall as we enter another very mild stretch. jessica? also ahead we have our holiday traditions we all celebrate, and one delaware town they're no exception. sixty three a christmas tree they like to decorate a christmas weed. we'll tell you how this tradition started. vittoria. >> reporter: the borough of clayton is giving frosty a whole new makeover. there's a huge contest happening and wait until you see the creativity. we'll have all the details coming up. ukee? >> tori, see in you a bit. lesean mccoy vents about his former head coach again. what shady said today about chip kelly as he gets ready to return to philadelphia as a member of the buffalo bills for sunday's game. and coming up after "eyewitns news" at 11:00 it is the late show with stephen colbert ton night he welcomes the cast of downton ab brie.

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great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. so simple. get the recipes at walnuts.org. >> caitlyn jenner, donald trump and black lives activist of the. >> many credit viagra with saving their sex live but doctors at chop are using it to save children's live. after open heart surgery he was left with circulation issues that impact his lungs. doctors at chop have found viagra is an effective treatment

for children like him. they say the little blue pill doesn't have the same effect on children as it does on adult m men. >> what have i gag does for people with erectile dysfunction is allow them to regain normal function. so that's quite a bit different than causing an ear rec. by giving a drug like viagra that can relax those blood vessels kit allow for blood to throw through the lungs much more efficiently. >> doctors say viagra can be prescribed off label for both boys and girls who have heart and lung problems. chop is testing a new have i gag like drug designed specifically for children. unusual holiday tradition at tracts many people to claymont, delaware. there was a big turn out for the 18th annual claymont christmas parade today leading the way to christmas weed. it's not what you think. this weed is the type that can ruin your garden and decorating one is a holiday tradition residents started in 1993. >> weed grew up in the median and people decorated it. and somebody stole it. >> it's just us.

i mean it's the same kind of people. that come back year after year, you know. you knock us down. we come right back. >> you can see the christmas weed on the philadelphia pike median at the i-495 interchange. i go by that quiet often. i'll have to stop and put an ornament on it. >> do a little beep beep. >> right now, in clayton, new jersey people are participating in the second annual snowman contest. >> you might ask how is that possible with these warm temperatures? well, who says you need snow to have a snowman contest. any way, our vittoria woodill is live in gloucester county with the answer. vittoria. >> reporter: you salute dollar not need snow to have a snowman contest. i want to direct your attention to some of the folks behind me. you are looking at the borough of clayton special events committee and you know what they do, they try and bring the community together every year creatively to celebrate the holidays and to celebrate the beauty of community. this year for the second time in a row, they did a snowman contest. right.

with no snow. with wasn't of these guys and a bunch of folk got together to do their best to win a prize for the best snowman out of the bunch. take look. welcome to clayton, new jersey. where it's a winter wonderland? there may be no snow on these streets, but every lamp post along delsea drive is covered in snowmen of all kinds. all part of the borough of clayton's second annual snowman contest to kick off the holiday season and bring residents, businesses and families together. >> we work together as a family and made our snowman santa the snowman. >> reporter: you can see the creativity from a mile away. there's 45 total including a nutcracker complete with an ensemble cast. >> angel with wing. hawaii five snow. the grinch a snowman that glows and a santa with a funny nose. (laughter).

>> the bottom of a chair. >> who will sign as top of the lot? >> reporter: who will be the number one snowman? that's the question. and they will have voting boxes all along delsea drive for to you vote for your favorite. but i also want to introduce one of the men who helped make this all happen the mayor of the brrr row of clayton, this is tom bee an company. thank you so much for having me. >> thank you for coming here. we appreciate the coverage. what we're having, we're having christmas at the borough of clayton saturday night starting at 5:00 o'clock to 8:00 o'clock. we're going to have vendors here. we'll be giving out cookies, hot chocolate. we're going to have buggy rides starting at the clayton acme from five to 7:00 o'clock. a great way for the community to get together and celebrate the holiday with everyone in town. we invite everyone to come down. quite an activity for the residents and the community and anyone who wants to show up this year. >> wonderful. do you such an mazing job really

getting the community excited about doing this. there's some amazing entries. i'm very curious to see who the winner is in january. if you want more information about the snowmen contest and also the activity that is you have planned this weekend on saturday, visit cbsphilly.com. ukeeing and jessica, i mean, here's some of your competition. good old bill here looks like a billion bucks. does he not? >> i'm dig dig the mustache on bill. >> mustache and bow tie. >> kind of like yours ukee. just a little bit. a little darker but it's all good. >> little bit. >> thanks -- >> bill bush cher. >> thanks, tori. appreciate it. >> they've got to go with the non snow snowmen. >> or else with these warm temperatures. >> or else your snowman would be a puddle. much like olaf in frozen. >> bang. >> snow in summertime. we'll get a taste of that this weekend. it will feel more like spring at least maybe even like early summer to some folks as we head through the weekend as

temperatures surge well into the 60s challenging record highs possibly even breaking a few records this weekend. got a lot to get to. let's get right to it. we'll take you outside. experiencing a beautiful night in philadelphia. skies are generally partly cloudy but with more cloud cover with winds out of the south, temperatures a lot warmer tonight than they have been for the past few nights. past couple nights in fact saturday night into sunday morning we were down to freezi freezing. monday morning down to about 31 degrees. last night and the night before in the 30s as well. overnight tonight, a big difference outside and here's a look how today was in cape may courthouse beautiful time lapse showing the sun early in the day then high clouds started to filter in through the course of the afternoon. it did turn out a little cloudier in the afternoon all across the area. then it was in the morning and that will be the case for tomorrow. clouds, giving way to little bit of sunshine as well. not the sunny yesterday day we've ever seen that's okay because it's nice and warm. temperatures almost 15 degrees above average for tomorrow.

now we're watching this front moving through central pennsylvania. not quite as impressive as what it looks like on the radar but a few sprinkles could hold together if they move threw our area they'll come through early tomorrow morning probably around three, four, 5am so can't rule out a stray sprinkle. not a huge deal. the bigger story is the warmth take look at these temperatures still in the 50s across the area right now. 52 in philadelphia. 50 in trenton. 53 in millville. little bit cooler to the west sitting at 47 in lancaster but keep in mind our normal high temperature for today's date is 47. we're 5 degrees above that number even right now at 11:18 at night. an indication of how far these temptemps are skewed above avere and look at this from this time last night, huge temperature departures. it's 25 degrees warmer right now in millville than it was at this time last night. 22 degrees warmer than last night in allentown. and 13 degrees warmer right now than at this time yesterday in philadelphia. so another day in the red. take a look at december so far. every day has been above avera average. we're going to be adding at

least another five to seven days in the red right through next tuesday or wednesday at least. temperatures will be above normal here in philadelphia and in some cases we're talking double digits above normal. so it remains to be seen what the second half of the month looks like too early to be talking about will it be the warmest december ever, but certainly making a strong case for here in the first half of the month. temperatures surge up to 60 degrees tomorrow. clouds in the morning thanks to that front. then sunshine in the afternoon. for your friday look for mixture of sun and clouds. highs well up in the mid 60s. and on saturday, same story. turning even warmer. we'll get up to 64 degrees on saturday. so the number you want to keep in your head as we head through the weekend 65 degrees. that's the record for friday. that's the record for saturday. and it's the record for sunday. our best chance to break it is sunday but we'll get pretty close on saturday as well and these are old records. 1931 was the last time we hit 65 on saturday's date. 1923 on sunday's date.

92 years ago. so these old records could come tumbling down this weekend again just another indication of how rare this warmth is this time of the year. for your thursday, clouds some sun mild for december. let's talk about the eagles game because remember another early december game two years ago. 2013, otherwise known as the snowball. 33 degrees at kick off with 8.6-inches of heavy wet snow that fell through the game. big difference this sunday. 63 degrees, 30 degrees warmer, dry, warm, and beautiful. it look like sunday will be a record breaker by 1 degree. the record again is 65. friday, saturday, sunday and monday all four days we're win 5 degrees of a record high. that is astonish and even tuesday and wednesday once we clear the extreme warmth out we're still above average right into next week. >> dry, warm and beautiful. >> there you go. >> hello pro shop. (laughter). >> thank you. >> pat is here with a look what's coming up in sports. >> the bills are in town this weekend. they'll battle the eagles and lesean mccoy, he will not stop yapping about chip kelly.

you'll want to hear this and the phillies make waves at the winter meetings. a big name is on the move. sit tight. sports is coming up next.

>> ken giles began lighting up radar guns earning the nickname 100 miles giles. with the hot stove burning at the winter meets in nashville the phillies have reportedly center giles and that heater packing for houston. it's looking like a four for one deal with the phillies collec collecting three astros prospects and one other player. the headline of the deal vincent have a lasques one its astros top arms in the farm system. giles appeared in 113 games struck out 151 with era of 1.56. back in march chip kelly decided lesean mccoy was not a fit for his system and traded him to the

buffalo bills. ever since, shady has had a chip on his shoulder. nine months later he continues to take jabs at the eagles head coach. during a conference call today, kelly said he hoped to shake mccoy's hand before the bills meet the eagles. shady does not want to hear it. >> like i'm not talking to chip. you know we got nothing to talk about. he can't call me. he can't shake my hasn't. there's nothing he can do with me. you know he can't say bleep to me. i mean as simple as that. >> why can't he shake your hand. >> i don't dislike him. i don't have nothing against h him. but there's nothing -- there's nothing for to us talk about. he knows that. he know me. he know how i am. he know how i act. there's nothing he can tell me. there's nothing to talk about. >> why can't he shake his hand. >> listen, man, chip can't shake bleep at all nothing. he knows this. >> eagles malcolm jenkins was honored today. he was named the nfc defensive player of the week. thanks to a 99-yard pick six against tom brady and the

patriots. jenkins recorded seven tackles, two of which were for a loss. as have we mentioned this football game is on cbs3. start your sunday with toyota sunday kickoff at 11:30. that's followed by the nfl today at noon then at 1:00 it's the eagles and the buffalo bills and then round out your day with nissan sports zone at 11:35 on cbs3. two big five times get to go at the palestra it's always a dog fight. the owls took on penn. led by his former sift tan steve donahue. the nice ball movement here. nelson henry against gets the buck and the foul. he finished with 11 points. temple a little bit too much tonight. this move by junior mark william. two of his eight points and temple is a winner, 77-73. >> okay. >> love basketball at the palestra. >> got to love it. >> used to throw ribbons for the

first buck. bring it back. >> bring it back. we'll be right back.

♪ philadelphia police officers in the northeast helped make the holidays brighter for children across the city. >> eyewitness news at the philadelphia pros steps ant home third and fourth graders from local schools enjoyed the festivities. local businesses donated money to buy gifts for the students and officers from the second and 15th districts helped hand them out. look at those kids having a good old time. tradition has been going on for more than 20 years and police say this ent gets bigger every year. >> i'll bet does it. reminder that our joy of sharing toy fest is underway. please buy a new unwrapped toy and bring it to one of our drop off locations. they will be given to the uso as well as the salvation army and the boys and girls club. you can find a list of locations at cbsphilly.com/toyfest. be right back.

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that's going to do it for us. our morning team is back at 4:30 until 7:00 a.m. for kate, pat i'm ukee washington. >> i'm jessica dean you can find

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