♪ right now at 11:00 o'clock, a philadelphia officer struck by a hit-and-run driver and thrown into the windshield of another car. tonight, how that officer is doing and the search for the person who hit him and ran. a live-saving donation. the new equipment on board one mainline community's ambulances is designed to safe pets. how it works and the people behind this important contribution. >> and we have told you about the popularity of those lays

laser christmas lights. turns out they're not only a hot item for homeowners. police say they're also popular with thieves. why this novelty is an easy target. good evening everyone, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm jessica dean. we begin tonight with the search for a man police say hit a philadelphia police officer with his car and then took off. >> the officer was rushed to jefferson university hospital news" reporter david spunt is now with the latest on the officer's condition and the investigation. david? >> reporter: ukee, i just got off the phone with police source. that 26-year-old officer is behind me here at the hospital in stable condition. he was helping out fellow officers find a man with gun when he was hit and almost kill. this hole in the windshield where a philadelphia police officer landed after being hit by car. the driver of that car drove at a high rate of speed down one-way street in south philadelphia. >> it's very cowardly you'll use a car to strike a pedestrian, any pedestrian but a police officer in full uniform.

>> report roar police officers responded to call around 6:30 of a man with a gun. the man ran away and jumped into a car with an 18-year-old and 11 year old. detectives say he drove the car down sears street and hit the officer. >> he put a hole about a foot wide and 2 feet long in the front windshield. >> reporter: witnesses say children were outside when the car sped down the one-way street. >> thank god none of the children got hurt. >> reporter: alan johnson lives on the street and watched everything unfollow. some of his neighbors helped give aid at the police officer until the ambulance arrived. >> i'm glad the people in the neighborhood helped him. deeply appreciate it. >> just goes to show there's really good people out there that are willing to help the police at times of emergency. >> reporter: the suspect got out of the car and ran away. the other two in the car are in police custody. >> those two people in the car helped identify the driver. so police know exactly who they're looking for. authorities are not releasing the name of the officer or the suspect right now that officer has a head injury and a broken

leg. he's expected though to make a full recovery. that's got news. reporting live at jefferson hospital, david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news". david, thank you. an 11-year-old shot in broad daylight is recovering in the hospital tonight. police say the girl was walking home from school when she was hit by a single bullet. it all happen on the 700 block of west lucerne street just before 3:30 this afternoon. the suspect described as a black male wearing a skull cap is still on the loose tonight. the girl meantime is in stable condition. right now we are tracking some warm but soggy weather across the region this evening. meteorologist kate bilo brings up to date on the current conditions kate? >> ukee, after three record-breaking days we now have rain moving through the area and that is putting an end at least to the record breaking warmth although it is still going to be above average for the next few days. we'll get to in in just a moment. first i want to show you what's going on outside right now. heavy array round the boston area. we've seen the heaviest rain

come and go here in philadelphia but lingering showers and another line of showers poised to move into our region through the next few hours. you can see that line has developed just south and east of harrisburg moving into lancaster county. we'll see a few showers move through philadelphia here by about midnight, 2:00 a.m. right now light rain over montgomery county into delaware county. that's going to hit the city relatively shortly. but back to the west this is the line we'll see move through during the overnight hours. and then it's out of here but in the meantime as we await the rifle of the front temperatures actually climbing a bit we're at 67 degrees right now in philadelphia. it's 68 in wilmington feel like a summer evening outside but behind the front temperatures are going to start to drop. we'll drop down to the 50s by tomorrow morning and then struggle to recover tomorrow afternoon. even though it's still above average a cool down on the way and it gets even colder in the seven day. i'll have more on that coming up. for now ukee back over to you. >> kate, thank you. see you shortly much local police are warning residents about a popular new holiday did he go laying that thieves are targeting. laser powered star showers have

been stolen from several yards in vineland cumberland county. the decorations produce colored laser light dots which illuminate on to home. victims say the thieves acted quickly. >> i didn't get a chance to go upstairs and came back down and they stole mine. >> that's lowest of the lowest christmas lights. >> it's upsetting. >> i was mad. because like it looks so plane looks like an ordinary house on the block. >> the decoration costs around $40. police say if you buy a star shower second hand, make sure it comes in the box. a community comes together to remember a high school freshman killed while riding his skateboard. stephen kim attended lenape middle school who ninth graders play foot will with central bucks west. he was the quarterback of the school. both schools joined together to remember him. the 14-year-old was killed saturday night while riding his skateboard near 611 and turk road in doylestown. >> i'm so sad to see him go.

thank you so much to everyone for coming out today. for celebrating him. >> no charges are expected against the driver of the car involved in that accident. bill cosby is firing back. today he filed counterclaims against seven of his accusers. cosby alleges the women made false accusations of sexual misconduct for financial gain. the women suing the comedian say he defamed them allowing his representatives to brand them as liars when they went public with allegations of sexual assault the women are among approximately 50 women who have accused kate cosby of rape or unwanted sexual contact. president obama personally briefed on threats facing the united states and the fight against isis in a rare visit to the pentagon today. the president met for two hours with defense secretary ash carter and other top security officials. he offer the first public details about the activities of the u.s. special forces who have been sent to fight isis in syria. he said the forces have started

helping local groups caught off supply lines used by militants. he also had a message for the terrorists. >> isil leader which is not hide and our next message to them is simple. you are next. on thursday the president is scheduled to visit the national counter terrorism center for a briefing on any possible threats to the united states over the holidays. meanwhile local democrats are pushing to change the law and bar those on the federal terrorists wash list from buying guns. "eyewitness news" in cherry hill today where congressman donald nor crows was among those calling for action. he says closing the loophole is common sense. >> quite frankly most of people here in america get it. one of the few folks who don't are those who serve with me in congress. >> the debate over guns and the terror wash list escalated following the deadly shootings in san bernardino. a $7,500 reward is now being offered for information leading to the person who shot and injured a bald eagle in pits town, new jersey.

that eagle nicknamed lilly perched in a tree for several days and was injured from an apparent shooting. only cbs3 cameras were rolling when lilly was rescued last week. the bird is now recovering after a leg surgery yesterday. ambulances on the mainline now have live saving equipment on board for pets and it's all thanks to generation donation. all ambulances in narberth now carry oxygen masks for pets who suffer from smoke inhalation and it was a medic who got the idea for the masks after seeing a dog saved at a fire. >> now a days pets are part of everybody's family, and it's important to have something to help them out, too. >> the staff at ardmore animal hospital raised all of the money in one month to buy the mask. new tonight, the phillies honor community heroes with a special salute. >> for one organization the gift they received was a game changer. "eyewitness news" reporter todd quinones has the story. >> all of our funding comes from the generosity of people like you. >> reporter: a $10,000 grant

for sonny and her group will go awful long way as part of the garden state underweight rescue she dives when others won't or can't. >> a lot of people ask me, how do you do it? how do you not do it? >> exactly one year ago to the date it was a volunteer with the garden state that recovered the body of shane montgomery in the schuylkill river. the 21-year-old disappeared thanksgiving morning. >> we all have day jobs and we spend a lot of time, you know, doing normal stuff, and then on the weekends we come in and help where we're needed. >> monday night at citizens bank park, the phillies saw group of volunteers deserve recognition and also some much needed financial support presenting them with $10,000 grant at their charities holiday giving party. >> we're tied together by the fact that we dive and that this is our community service. >> reporter: the divers pick up searches after police and rescue divers have to move on sometimes leaving family members with no one to turn to and find their loved ones. >> how do you look at a mother

and a father and relatives and say, yes, i have the skills but i'm too busy. i can't help you. >> reporter: sonny says the money donated here by the phillies will go to make sure other victims families will have some closure. reporting in south philadelphia, todd quinones cbs3 "eyewitness news". great work. >> indeed. the shore isn't just a place to go in the summer. in fact the holidays are perfect time to head to the beach. >> there's onsie side town that transports visitors back to the victorian era. you'll feel like you stepped into a dickens village. vittoria woodill check it it for you. >> in cape may we're celebrating holiday lights and history. i'm vittoria woodill coming up a tour and i don't want to miss the trolley. plus, the time has come. hollywood roles out the red carpet for the world premier every new star wars movie. the lengths diehard fans have

gone to be among the first to see the force awakens much kate. >> as the rain moves out of the area tonight, temperatures remain in the 60s but they will begin to drop. once we clear out the rain it does turn cooler. one punch and then a second punch of cooler air coming in later this week. i'll have your full seven forecast coming up. also, some jaw-dropping video should show you. two hotel employees narrowly escape a pickup truck crashing through the lobby. why police say this was not an accident. when "eyewitness news" comes right back. ♪

back now on "eyewitness news" a scary close encounter at oklahoma hotel. an angry customer intentionally drove his truck into the lobby. you see there the truck march rolly misses the two workers at the front desk and police say it all started when the 62-year-old

customer felt he'd been over billed for his stay. he's been arrested and now facing several charges. drivers from uber and lyft will now be allowed to unionize in seattle. new city ordinance allows all taxi drivers to bargain collective and that applies to uber and lyft drivers. oh spokesman from uber didn't directly comment on the seattle or nance but said uber supports its drivers. uber has about 400,000 drivers nationwide. 10,000 of those are in seattle. >> around 700 new drones will be expected to be bought as holiday gifts this year just in time the faa issues new rules for the unmanned aircraft. beginning on december 21 owners must register drones in a national database. drones weighing more than half pound up to 55 pounds must be registered. the fee for each user will cost $5 for three years. the federal rules are the first

of its kind for owners of recreational drones. >> star wars the force awakens premiered tonight in los angel angeles. film marks the return of the star wars series after a decad k long absence from the big screen. fans have been camped out for weeks to be among the first to see the film. it was a full and very very busy red carpet for the film premier and the stars were align. >> it's very exciting. i just feel very -- very grateful to be a part of this amazing film. let alone to be one of the new female characters. >> the force awakens opens nationwide on friday it's expe expected to break box office records. >> you can we'll the lightsabor and burn carbs tame. it is light say fitness class. they battle it out for the light said or the dark side. the instructor says it has quite

a following. >> adele will be saying hello to north america for up coming tour and that includes a stop right here in philadelphia. ♪ adele will perform at the wells fargo center on september 9th and 10th. it's her first tour in north american in more than five years and tickets go on sale thursday morning at 10:00 o'clock. it may only be a week and a half until christmas day but the recent warm temperatures make it feel more like beach weather. >> on this balance mow start to the week we sent our vittoria down the shore to show you the sites of victorian holiday in cape may. ♪ all aboard! come on we're getting started. if you want to see houses dressed as fancy as victorian ladies, the cape may holiday lights trolley will have you sitting pretty, taking in the lovely sites. >> it's really beautiful and festive for the season but there's also so much history

behind it that really bring it to life. >> reporter: enchanting historical homes like this are on every block of this nightlight guided tour. and there's dressed to the nines and sew filled with stories a plenty like the story of the the grandson of the father of american surgery. >> when he was 21, he came into a lot of money. and he did what any any mom 21-year-old would do he immediately retired and never work. really. >> my kind of man. >> he never practiced medicine. he had farms, lots of animals, loved dogs. at one point had the only automobile in town. the first automobile accident. he also at one point had the only telephone in town. who do you call? >> shall we check out the bachelor pad, girls? (laughter). >> learning. >> he was a hero in the civil war. he was an officer. >> maybe doing a little shopping down washington mall. >> thanks for waiting barbara.

>> laughing. learning some more. did you know this about congress hall? >> 1882 john philip sues is a gave a series of concerts on the lawn under the first electric light. >> it's easy to be constantly in awe of the beauty this beach town during the holidays and it's place in history forever. with tour ya woodill cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> the weather has been perfect for something like that. >> yes. beautiful. you don't have to be too bundled up on the trolley tour tonight. >> enjoy it. great things about it. i know it doesn't quite feel like the holiday season but it's nice to go out and do your holiday shopping, hang the christmas lights on your house without freezing. >> true it's a nice feeling to not have to bum up like that. >> we might need umbrella a little bit. >> we may for the rest of tonight. it gets out of here. you may need it again this week. another rainy today to tell you about. that day is thursday. and then hyped that, it's actually going to get cold for one day at least and then it's

going start to warm back up again as we head toward christmas. let's not get ahead of ourselves. we still got rain to get through tonight. take a look outside. a bit of a foggy gloomy scene here but we looked at his camera at 10:00 o'clock on the cw philly and it was covered in raindrops now it looks like it's dried out a little bit. still fog and low clouds you can see the tops of the buildings here in center city. don't be fooled one more line of showers and storms to get through before we go through tonight. pan around the city looking pretty nice despite the low clouds it is very very warm outside. let me tack you through a time lance video from this morning. a flat gray. i thought my computer screen was frozen this is the fog this morning. eventually it does mick out and you start to see the city skyline in the background. very foggy start to the day. the clouds were in then the sun tried to come out nest afternoon. now it's looking a little cloudy an little damp outside and that's how it will stay through the overnight hours. but you'll wake time morning to lots of sunshine and temperatures steadily dropping but still well above average.

storm scan3 looking a little wet right now. we've got a lot of green and here's that second line of showers and storms i mentioned. it's going to be moving through during the overnight hours tonight. still off to the west as we go through the rest of tonight this line moves through. it doesn't a lot with it especially coming three overnight when it's dark out a few showers between one and 3:00 a.m. and finally by about 4:00 a.m., that clears the coast. skies begin to clear and the winds are going start to come in out of the north and west so it is going to feel a little cooler just bouvier chi of the wind on your tuesday. we've got a row of records to tell you. day three in that stretch. saturday's record -- high of 69 record that record from 1931. we smash the previous record on sunday from 1923 was 65. we got all the way to 71 and today we hit 70. the record was 69 from 1881. broke that record as well. 134-year-old record fell today. so far this month we have six days at or above 60 degrees. the record is eight. will we get there? we've got a

few more mild days on the way and in fact i think tomorrow is going to count as a 60-degree day because our temperature at midnight is going to be above 60. so we'll have seven as of tomorrow. the question do we get another one to tie that record? it looks as though we might. temperatures do take a brief tumble tore the end of the week. you can see this batch of arctic air lurking up across portions of the great lakes and by saturday that arctic air spills over winter coats will be needed. now it's not frigid. but it's around 4 degrees so it may be our first below average day all month long. but then we warm back up. take look at this. temperature outlook from the climate prediction center from december 21 through the 27th expected to be much above average once again in the entire eastern half of the country. so our prospects for white christmas looking very very slim at the moment. overnight showers and breezy and mild 55 degrees your overnight low. tomorrow sunshine, patchy clouds. breezy, cooler, but 59 degrees is still well above average we should be in the mid 40s. wednesday looks great.

56 with sunshine much there's your second rainy day that's thursday. friday is cooler and saturday is your one chilly blustery day to make a fire and curl up with blankets and hot cocoa we start to warm up again on sunday if you're looking for that one teen -- chilly winter day saturday is it. >> 40, wow. >> one for in you december. >> not looking forward to it. >> one too many for don. >> so greedy. go with the record highs. we're talking about sports. chip kelly is not afraid of commitment. don't miss what the head coach is saying about keeping sam bradford and find out how jahlil okafor celebrates the two-zero. he's 20

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happy birthday big jal. sixers jahlil okafor turns 20 tomorrow. when he blows out the candles hopefully he'll below away all that, you know, off the field drama. as for the here and now the 6-foot allege center gets a trip home for the milestone. the sixers playing in native chicago tonight. jal has averaged a double double

in his last three games. we picket up in the first quarter sixers down a duce. jal nasty in the paint. big old flush right there. second quarter game tied. taking on noah former defensive player of the year. doesn't look like it right there. okafor dealing. sixers led by five at half time but the bull waking up in the third. tony snell going to the hole with soul. foul on the play. gets the bucket. and the bulls out score the sixers 34-12 in the period and the sixers fall to one-25 on the season. 115-96 your final score. from quite zimmer to boiling hot. eagles quarterback sam bradford is heating up as season goes on. the birds are five-one in his last six games. he has started and finish. sam was add at it again yesterday against the buffalo bills. stats won't exactly blow you away but a 96.9 quarterback rating over his last four

starts. chip kelly has taken notice. >> just the improvement from sam on the weekly basis that gets you excited about him. i thought he through the ball he can treely well yesterday. we could have helped him a little bit better. we had too many drops. >> i do feel better out l i feel more comfortable out there. more confident, you know, in what we're doing, and i think as a quarterback when you're confident and you're able to kind of let things rip that's when you play your best. meanwhile safety malcolm jenkins is making big moves off the field. his foundation hosted its holiday den din are in basketball surprise. they fed 135 families. they teamed up with local churches and organizations to identify those in need and then they made it happen. pete rose has been denied. the all-time hits king applied for reinstatement to baseball commissioner rob man fred says that rose continued to gamble even after he was issued a lifetime ban from the game. rose was originally banished in

1989. what kind of christmas shopping would you do if you won 20g. this half court shot won 20 large right in time for the holidays watch would you do? >> there you go. >> man. >> you and shane become friends yet. >> oh real quick. real real quick. >> if i won 20gs i would take you out for a shopping spree. >> would you really. >> a hundred%. >> okay. >> yeah, right. >> somebody out there save that tape. because,ing. >> that's right. >> 100%. >> on the off chance you win that money, on a half court shot -- >> major off chance. >> we're taking up on it. >> let me know how that works out for you. >> we're cropping our fing

>> i would just like to say happy holidays to all my family and friends back home. hi, mom, hi, dad, love you. beautiful smile. new tonight getting in the holiday spirit. >> "eyewitness news" pal center

on germantown avenue in germantown. kids and teens celebrating the season at a holiday party with their friends getting a little pizza. >> nice. >> having some games. just enjoying the night. happy holidays to all of them. we'll be right back. ♪

that's going to do it for us tonight. our morning team is back tomorrow from 4:30 to 7am. for kate, don everyone here thanks for joining us. i'm ukee washington. >> i'm jessica dean. the late show with stephen colbert is next with jennifer lawrence. >> night, family, and sleep well. >> announcer: the following is a paid presentation for the nuwave oven pro, brought to you by the makers of the nuwave precision induction cooktop. [♪...] professional chefs create great-tasting meals from years of experience and by using professional equipment. and now you can too, with the nuwave oven pro, the number-one countertop oven in america! no more defrosting or preheating that giant oven-- the nuwave cooks all your meals faster, better, healthier and easier, guaranteed. the nuwave oven is not a microwave oven,