>> spiraled out of control. how a local father's creation for his son could soon end up in your backyard. >> remember this stuff. it could be headed our way. this was the scene in ohio earlier this morning. and the same system is on its way to our area. we're tracking our first snowflakes of the season. and father is behind bars charged in the death of his three year olson months after

brain don creato's body was found in the woods in camden county an arrest is made. tonight suspect's lawyer is defending his client and maintaining his innocence. good evening, everyone, i'm jessica dean. >> i'm ukee washington. "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt has been following this story since it broke in october. he joins us now from the cam county prosecutor' office with the very latest tonight. david. >> reporter: ukee and jessica this is the indictment released earlier this afternoon it doesn't have a lot of information but investigators that work in this building behind me are confident they have enough information to put dj creato behind bars meanwhile his attorney says these investigators have the wrong g guy. dj creato said nothing as he left haddon township police department about an hour after he was are a arrested and charged with killing his three year olson. did dj kill his son. >> absolutely not. >> his attorney tells "eyewitness news" his client is cooperating with authorities.

but says detectives have the wrong person behind bars. >> when this first happened, i called it a parent's worst nightmare. i thought nothing could be worse and i think this actually is to not only lose son, but now to be the one accused of of killing him. >> reporter: the three year old's body was discover not even half a mile from his dad's haddon township apartment. at about 9:00 o'clock in the morning on october 13th. three hours before dj creato was on the phone with police. >> 911 what is your emergency. >> i woke up and he my thee-year-old missing. >> you didn't hear anything or see anything or nothing like that. >> i just woke up and he wasn't in my app. i don't know if he wanted out or what happened. i don't know where he is. the door was lock. i guess he unlock it and left. >> neighbors have been on edge for months waiting for some kind of answer. >> a little suspicious about the whole situation, you know, sad to see little kid like that three years old. >> i know people that went to the funeral because they know the grandfather. it's just sad. i feel bad for the family, you

know. >> what caused even more confusion little brendan's autopsy and toxicology reports came back inclusive. the case is a mysterious one he admits he says dy creato is an innocent man. >> there's no transparency. there's still no answers. they haven't reach out for me or for dj to ask more questions. i think that's really peculiar. >> reporter: he will spend the night inside the camden county jail behind bars. tomorrow afternoon he will be arraigned before a judge that is his first court appearance. reporting live from camden county tonight, david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> david, thank you. other news tonight. lawyers for bill cosby want to have the criminal charge in his montgomery county case thrown out. cosby accused of of sexually assaulting a former temple university employee in his home more than a decade ago. cosby's lawyers say the criminal charges he now faces violate a prosecutor's pledge that he would never be charged over the 2,004 encounter. its it's unclear if cosby's

preliminary hearing set for next month will be delayed due to the legal filing. first flakes we're expecting a little snow our first of the season. how much? meteorologist lauren casey is keeping an eye on what's ahead. what can we expect. >> what transition from yesterday record warmth and thunderstorms and then today, that cold air has returned with a vengeance and temperatures you are chilly. 29 degrees right now in philadelphia. 21 down the shore. low teens in the poconos. but we're getting a nice break from those blustery winds so wind chill impacts not being fell at least at this hour. storm scan3 showing white conditions across the delaware valley. we have this system a fast moving system bringing snowfall to parts the midwest that will continue to move eastbound and approach our neck of the woods as we head into the second half of the day tomorrow and that's when the first flakes of the season are set to arrive we'll talk more about where we can see light accumulations by tomorrow evening and then another doze of arctic airy end forked on

wednesday. it will be a cold one with high temperatures barely reaching freezing then as we head into the um coming weekend milder conditions with a chance of rain showers and we'll talk more about that in full forecast coming up. >> thank you lauren. see you then torments night both the fbe and philadelphia police are investigating if last week' tack on an officer is part of a bigger threat. concerns first raised over the weekend when a disturbing tip came days after a suspect ambushed overhair net. they were told by a tipster the threat is not over and that the suss spec 30-year-old he had war archer could be part of a larger group. we have to do it n light of the information we received 83 we'd be remiss if we didn't look at it. >> officer hartnett continues to recover at penn presbyterian hospital tonight. press prison officials tell "eyewitness news" archer is confined to his cell toe 23 hours a day. >> a philadelphia store owner fights back during attempted robbery and kills a suspect.

when three men tried to miss jesse's stop and shop on 12th christian this morning the owner opened fire and killed one of the men. a second suspect is in police custody. a third is still at large tonight. schools in the area were put on lock down as precaution but the lock down was lived about an hour later. former philadelphia police commissioner articles ham say has a new job. beginning today the law enforcement veteran is now serving as a public safety consult tan for wilmington, delaware. he will assist with violence reduction initiatives throughout the city. ramsay who retired as commission are in just last week, also served as a chairman on president obama's task force. 21st century policing torments night we are getting a dramatic look at new video of the operation that led to the arrest of the world's most wanted drug lord. >> government officials nor trying to extradite joaquin al chap poe guzman and hearing from sean penn about the coors winner's interview with the cartel boss.

>> new video taken by the mexican military shows the violent raid to recapture drug kingpin joaquin el chapo guzman last friday. guzman escape the deadly shoot out and fled through a sewer system but was caught in a stolen car on the highway. he's back in the same mexican prison he tunnel out of in july and now the process to extradite him to the us is underway. >> mexico is more a men to having him extradited to united states. the united states wants him badly. >> mexico's attorney general says sean penn's interview with guzman in october was search in helping authorities locate the drug lord. this picture was taken as proof of their secret meeting. the mexican newspaper publish photographs that show penn at the airport with mexican actress kate, who helped connect penn to el chapo. other pictures the newspaper says were part of a mexican intelligence file reportedly show the two at a hotel. greeting handlers before being

taken to guzman's eighty one get hideout. penn says guzman told him i supply more heroin, meth am met phenes, cocaine and marijuana than more than anyone else in the world. penn told the associated press in an e-mail i've got nothing to hide. >> guzman faces at least seven drug relat relateed indictmentsn various jurisdictions in the united states. us defense team is challenging his extradition and his expected to appeal all the way to mexico's highest court. tomorrow night will mark president obama pogging final state of the union address and pennsylvania state trooper who was wounded in the deadly ambush will be a guest. authorities say douglas was ambushed by shooting suspect eric 14 in 2014. another trooper corporal ryan dixon was kill. frein was captured after a 48 day manhunt. of course, you can see the president's state of the union address right here on cbs3.

that's tomorrow once again at 9:00 p.m. a government task force has finalized its recommendations on mammograms saying they do the most good later in life. the u.s. preventive service task force says women should get a mammogram to check for breast cancer every other year beginning at age 50. task force says women between the ages of 40 and 49 don't get as much of benefit from screening as older women. those between 40 and 49 are urged to make a decision for themselves after weighing the pros and cons. a delaware woman takes a creative approach to searching for a kidney and it may save her father's live. melissa miller's father william born with one kidney and began to fail him six years ago. when melissa learned she cannot donate one of her own she decided to right a message on her car. hoping strangers would reach o out. >> i'm just at the point i'm ready to give up. my daughter just keeps coming up with these things, you know, in keeps me going.

>> transplant i don't know what you did but we're getting calls non-stop. >> melissa says she's gotten at least 30 phone calls from people hoping to help. some of them are now under going testing to see if they can donate. wednesday's $1.4 billion powerball drawing the largest ever in the history of the game and while no one hit saturday's jackpot someone in philadelphia was still a winner. one lucky person purchase add ticket worth $1 million at wilson's check cashing in fishtown. the store gets a $5,000 bonus for selling that winning tick. remembering a rock legend still to come on "eyewitness news" tonight music fans around the world mourn the loss of david bowie we get a look how philadelphia play add very important role in his legendary career. >> and sprucing up the shore. it may seem like the seasons don't quite mixed used christmas trees are beach bound for a good reason. we'll explain. lauren? >> cold winter air has returned and now our first flakes of the season are on the way. we'll talk about where we could see some accumulations through the day tomorrow in your full

forecast and that's coming up. how about that? a local father's creation for his son is taking off. it's fired the football with perfect precision. vittoria woodill headed to buck county to try out the april vince first hasn't. see the results we come back.

music fans around the world are mourning the loss of legendary artist david bowie tonight. in hollywood memorial was set up op his star on the hollywood walk of fame. the site is now adorned with candles and flour. bowie is being remembered for his incomparable sound and his ability to reinvent himself. ♪ >> bowie died yesterday after an

18 month battle with cancer at the age of 69. he came of age in the early '70's glam rock era but had biggest successes in the '80's with hits like let's dance and under pressure. david bowie was no stranger to our area. the tower theater in upper darby introduced america to bowie and his band the spiders from mars. not long after he created young american album at the now closed sigma sound studios in philadelphia. and the mewing is video for his smash hit modern love was recorded during a july 1983 concert at the spectrum. a long time philadelphia concert promotor who work with bowie remembered the icon today. >> tremendous loss. david bowie was one of the most creative and innovative performers. push the envelope and continued to push it. wouldn't settle on doing his -- just his older hits.

>> of course bowie performed in concert in philadelphia many times and he says philadelphia was by far the number one city for bowie in north america and that's because his fan club clus were based here. >> how about that. >> community jersey shore putting old christmas trees to good use using them to build up sand dunes. >> toms river township is asking people who have not yet diss cared christmas trees to take them to the lifeguard station at fourth avenue in ortley beach. >> the wind will do what the dune is supposed to do and the sand will collect up around it and in couple months you won't see the trees any more. >> the deadline to drop off trees is february 1st. >> tossing football around great fun at the beach or own backya backyard. takes two for a toss back and forth f your buddies aren't array round for a game much catch no problem. >> berk county dad came up with a football launcher that spirals the pigskin like a pro. vittoria woodill introduces us

to this father of invention and his son. >> tossing football around on the lawn is a pastime that most us have enjoyed. >> but for fred a local engineer from reading throwing a football to his son peter lurched an idea into the future like a ball. >> i came home from work one day and i saw peter kicking the football up in the air and catching it and i went in the house and i told my wife i know what we're get get him for christmas. i couldn't find it. >> the thin kerr began to tinker. >> whole area is full of different experimenting. you can just see the sheer number of different motors when he 3d print samples. >> here it come. >> ottawa the world would view as the first recreational football throwing machine the call nan non. >> different speeds and stuff, right? >> yes. change the dial right here. so there's numbers one to nine and nine is the fastest and one is the slowest. >> not always just spirals.

sometimes it can simulate a punt, right. >> yes. >> catch this. the pros use something similar but those machines drop the ball on this detail. >> the commercial grade units don't have an automatic ball delivery system on them. with our system because it's motorized carriage you don't need that other person. >> when you're putting a game plan in place, how do you take all of those ideas? >> and score. >> first team of supporters raced over $20,000 on kick starter to help launch the ball cannon. he patent the the idea put it in play and then it was well received by one of the largest toy companies in the nation, hasbro. where now -- >> every ball cannon will come with two nerve footballs. >> they said that's really ingenious n would you call yourself a genius. >> no, no. >> he's like so many. a parent who just wanted to help out their child. who is now getting kids and adults playing outside while

maybe taking a few shots at dad. >> feels like i'm better than him. >> kids spend a lot of time indoors on video games and on their phones, this is brings they will back outside. >> oh! >> how come we didn't use the one where i caught it guys. fred sold about 40 easy to assemble ball cannons from his kick starter and now with partnership with hasbro i don't see the need for them to be throwing any last second hail maries. >> that sounds locate a good deal. >> it is absolutely amazing. talk about sweating it out with the family getting everyone outside and perfect spiral every single time. >> how about that. >> great practicing tool. and i could have used the extra practice. >> you were punt -- there were no os but i didn't want to plot myself. i kept everyone on the same day. >> our produce patrick wants to know if you want to apply for the eagles coaching job. >> i used to be cheerleading coach. >> did you really.

>> as you can see from that video that's why i was on the sid lines. if they needed me to jump on in there i'm ready for the challenge. >> put me in, coach. >> put me in. >> thanks tori. good stuff. >> let's check in with lauren and check out forecast as the first snowflakes of the season are expected. >> first flakes of the season little late but we'll take a couple of flakes and they'll be kind of the nice kinds. no toot too aggressive, make an approach, fly by. could see light accumulations up towards the lehigh valley and poconos. but otherwise just make for little bit of a nice wintry scene with flakes flying by. more than flakes flying by in this scene right now albeit it's manmade. poconos right now snow machines going. jack frost big boulder live on sky scam three. finally conditions conducive to making snow after a record warm december. we finally have that chill settling back in and temperatures today really struggled high temperature 28 degrees on mount pocono. that's good snow making weather. 33 in allentown.

high today in philadelphia 40 degrees. that actually came at midnight our afternoon high was only 35 after a high yesterday of sky. big transition getting live look at center city philadelphia. clear skies and cold temperatures. nice calm winds getting a brake break from the bluster row condition. temperatures feeling winter li like. 21 right now in atlantic city. we're in the teens in allentown. 12 degrees on mount pocono. wind speeds relaxed across the area now reporting calm winds on the most of our reporting sights after a blustery start to the day with winds gusting up to 37 miles per hour at the highe highest. 39 miles per hour in lancaster and gusting to 31 in philadelphia. and overnight tonight, we'll keep the wind speeds on the lighter side. cold down to 25 degrees under increasing clouds. as we head into the day tomorrow, not as cold. 44 degrees but those winds will kickback up once again by midday and then as we head into the second half of the afternoon and evening, rain showers transitioning over to some snow showers and yeah we've had nada

so far this season but normal today date we should have about 5.6-inches of snow that should have fallen. as far as averages are concerned in philadelphia but quiet right now. up wind is our weather maker this is an alberta clipper system pulls out of the province of alberta canada usually known for rather snowy or not so snowy conditions because the air is rather dry with this system. so it will make a quick move in, quick move out a fast moving system and put down little bit of snow. future weather showing us cloud deck increasing into the day tomorrow. snow showers starting to build west of the city as we head into the afternoon. evening hours snow showers moving through. and then as we head into the second half of evening quickly clearing on out. as far as accumulations, could see up to an inch or two up towards the poconos lehigh valley maybe half an inch to an inch maybe a dusting a little bit closer to the city many this is just one particular model other model not giving us any type of accumulation in the city but if we see anything it will be very very little. your day planner tomorrow we see

the rain and snow showers develop late day. we top off at 44 degrees the high temperature. colder on wednesday. bright sunshine returnings. 31 degrees. we start off cold. 22 another cold one. as we look ahead towards thursday morning, starting off at 22 degrees and then feeling better by friday. 49 sunshine. that's a nice forecast and some showers in the forecast for saturday. if 49 will feel pretty good. >> thanks lot. >> don joins us now with a look at what's next in sports. >> guys, when a retired number not will he tired number? and we relive one of tom coughlin's raid craziest on field melt downs. >> why? because he can be the next coach of your philadelphia eagles. we'll explain next.

tom coughlin is the og. nfl coaches. oldest head coach on the side line in 2015 at 69 and at an age when most guys are ready to retire he's looking for a creary birth right down i-95. today the interviewed by the

eagles looking to replace the fired chip kelly. coughlin led the giants to two super bowl titles in 12 years and inn tess is the on the side lines well documented. remember when desean jackson broke big blues heart with a game winning punt return in 2010? the coach bet we are s took it straight to the punt. is he good fit for philly at this age. >> paul jolovitz joined me and lesley last night in the sports zone. >> respect tom a lot. he'd be a good coach if he were 61 right now this would be a specific hire. >> won two super bowls. >> all i can figure if they have an idea of offensive coordinator they want to bring in under him, maybe have tom be the coach for two tour three years and this guy would be his successor, they can't count on ben mca do coming here. he might end up getting the giants job. >> stay tune. meanwhile bengals linebacker burr kit suspended three games next season for boneheaded hit

on brown of the steelers. eventually led to their game winning field goal. burr fit will lose half a million in salary. what are you thinking ridiculo ridiculous. late great shades by the sixers. they decided to retire number four. one player on the team is wearing it. nerlins knoll sports number four. when he's done so is the number. shades 12 time all star and was voted as one of the 50 greatest players in nba history. the golden football is making its rounds in the delaware valley this time it shows up at thomas mckeon high school in delaware -- wilmington delaware. anthony anderson who played in super bowl 14 with the steelers along with former cowboy randy white had played in three super bowls showing it off at half time basketball game. the ball commemorates super bowl 50 and you can see february 7th right here on cbs3. delran's charlie lloyd is

fifa's female soccer play of the year. she won it in 16 minutes much that's how long it took her to score three goals in the women's world cup final against japan. she scored game winners in the courts and semis. congrats to carly. well deserved. >> that's for sure. >> whole lot of fun to watch over the summer. >> no kidding. >> we'll be right back.

♪ we know philadelphia eagles fans like to show their spirit. >> thanks to social media we now know what spirits and beers birds fans like to throw back during the game. study one done by nel zen and bartender. it the most talk about drinks on social media during games. for eagles fans in surprise here. pennsylvania's yuengling and fire ball whiskey. >> what about our rival fans? according to the study dallas cowboys fans prefer corona and jack daniels.

giants fans blue moon and coat physical one and in washington bud wise sr. and jim beam. we'll be right back.

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