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>> here's what you need to know. >> trans gender person is followed after leaving a bar and is shot in philadelphia's overbrook section. >> police at this point are working to determine whether the suspect targeted him because of his gender identity. >> it is cyber monday,. >> on line sales see at threes $3.3 billion. it is about 9% more than last year. >> president-elect donald trump will resume filling his administration today, and mr. trump took to twitter criticizing the recount effort launched by the green party. >> it is ridiculous, fundraising, note or eye at this, driven fraud. >> cuba is beginning its week-long good-bye to fidel castro. >> yeah! >> few people shedding tears forecast tree in south florida where so many cubans fled to escape his iron grip. >> ♪ >> first, we've got to go through whole motion of bad.
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>> cockamorea. >> cock-a-what? they're kind of cute. >> awe! >> and disney moana, big hit at the box office this weekend. >> in fact, jim, second best thanksgiving opening of all time, behind frozen. >> a lot of people at the theatres, i was driving around on friday i saw parking lots packed. >> i haven't been to a theater in a long time. hey, katy? >> do you have go check out a matinee at some point, what do you philadelphia international airport. >> ya, it would be fun. >> road trip. awesome. >> decent day to go check out a movie coming our way for the next couple of days with soggy wet weather on the way. for now though, clearly no umbrellas required here. we will walk through what today has its up its sleeve. talking little statistical information, that's far, temperature above average, which we will take, right? highest temperatures we hit were into the 70s, lowest, 32,
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right at freezing mark, but rain, deficit, impressive. 2.22 inches worth of rainfall deficit, right now, for the month as a whole. rounding the corner here where we kick off the month of december here. looks like we might actually chip away at the deficit in the days ahead. for now, storm scan applies, see down through the virginias, starting to see clouds build in, signs every things to come. all day today looks totally dry. in fact, sunny for that mother, eventually ain't moves in. thirty-four the current temperature, nice calm winds t feels more like 34 than anything. but, it is obviously cold enough to require a nice heavy winter coat. as the day progresses, lots of sun as promised. by 7:00 p.m., a lot of tailgaters starting to maybe pack up, go into the eagles game, dry, 55 the eventual high for the day. and by tomorrow, and wednesday, well, folks, you have to finally dust offer the umbrella, again, i say this with happiness, because woe really need the rain, but it is going to be very significant, and certainly slow us down here, both tuesday, wednesday, periods every rain, some of it heavy,
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but actually, too mild for anything but rain. so, coming up little later in the show i'll track this and more specific nature for you, give you sense of the timing, but if you point, meisha, i can promise folks, no ice, no snow, just rain. >> good, good, i mean. that will make a lot of people happy. also make them happen that i we will miss the rain for the football game tonight against the packers. that's great. all right, boulevard, taillights moving in the southbound direction, this is at fox street, what you are looking at, actually not bad. so, some of the road we're looking at really starting to heat up now, a lot of people going back to work today, monday after thanksgiving, usually is busy by the way. welcome back for those every you up with us, so happy you're good. looking good here. boulevard one of the stretches actually looking good. you might be heating up southbound right before the schuylkill. but overall the boulevard looking good. delaware county 95 north at 452, you are starting to heat up little bit here. you are certainly still traveling at posted speeds. so, i'm not too concerned about that. it is really just 95, and parts of the schuylkill, we will be talking about that coming up in the next 15
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minutes. but first, some construction to talk b hammonton new jersey route 206 near chews road, alternate lanes are open, this will be until around p a.m. then it goes back to normal. also, north broad street, the boulevard, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. weekdays, through late january. so this is when we will have to get used to, of course construction lingering out, there then overnight construction we are talking about this coming up in about two minutes, jim, we'll see you. >> thank you shall meisha. donald trump caught up in another controversy started on twitter, so president-elect tweeted sunday that he actually won the popular vote, and that millions of people voted for hillary clinton illegally. meantime, as wendy gillette tells us, they today mr. trump will resume his work filling the administration. >> donald trump took to twitter sunday morning, to criticize the recount efforts launched by the green party. that now has the support of hillary clinton's campaign. he wrote: hillary clinton conceded the election which called me just prior to the victory speech and asked if the results were in. nothing will change. the president-elect also
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tweeted, clinton's own words to trump during the campaign about excepting the results of the election. >> the idea that we are going to drag this out now where president, the president-elect has been incredibly magnanimous to the clinton's and obama's pretty incredible. >> bernie sanders defended receipt count effort underway in wisconsin. >> probably almost every election has a recount, no one expect there to be profound change but nothing wrong with going through the process? president-elect trump will resume interviewing candidates for his administration here at trump tower monday. mr. trump still needs to fill several cabinet positions including secretary every state. trump's former campaign manager, made it clear, sunday, that he does not think the nominee should be mitt romney. people feel betrayed to think that governor romney, who went out every his way, to question the character and the intellect and the integrity of donald trump now our president-elect would be given the most significant cabinet post of all, secretary every state.
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>> former new york city mayor rudy guiliani has also been named as frontrunner. wendy gillette, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". well the time now 5:36. in business news this morning, how much americans spends on shopping this past weekends. >> and how much we'll spend on line today, and jim, i know that your shopping was done in the summer, for some of us -- >> done. >> some of just not started and have only started on the gift list. today is a big shopping day. >> it is. >> joining you go from the stock exchange to let us know how much everyone else will be spending on this cyber monday, good morning, jill. >> good morning, markets open after the holiday inn record high territory. dow jumped 68 points friday, shortened trading day, nasdaq nq rose 18. big jobs report, strong job growth in november, morning likely the feds will decide to raise interest rates at its upcoming meeting. cyber monday, on line sales, at least $3.3 million. that's 9% more than last year. and 27% more than 2014.
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retailers are offering deep discount today as it, marriott, star woods. more people shopped over the thanksgiving weekends but spent less money, mostly because retailers offered deeper discounts, americans spent about $289 on average, $10 less than last year. were you guys part of the people who stopped? >> no. >> i did, believe it or not, i know this is going to shock you. >> i'm shocked. >> i shocked on friday. >> outside in the public? >> in person or on line. >> banana republic had 50% off five items. i was trying out a new app, united mileage x app. i got frequent-flier miles. 1700 frequent-flier miles for tiny purchase. >> jill, the fact that jim -- >> it was bizarre, the fact i was outside. >> usually hunger in on "black friday". >> shocking. >> i thought this would be opposite. i thought rahel would tell me she went shopping and jim you were going to say no way.
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>> it is all about surprises. we love surprises. >> he loves surprising me on a monday morning, jill. >> we'll check in with you again tomorrow. thanks so much. as jill said, the holiday shopping rush, cyber monday, millions are probably up bright this very second watching us while also shopping on line. >> and in one spot busy fulfilling those orders, amazon philment center in delaware. we find pat gallen joining us live, good morning, pat. >> reporter: good morning, guys. hope that you have got your shopping done. i know, jim, jim was lying whether he said he shopped everything friday. because i know, he was doing it back in june and july, getting it ready for christmas time. so i'm with you most of the people in that, i've got to do it now, starting right now. why not do it on cyber monday? here at the amazon fulfillment center. this is part of 8 miles, 8 miles, of conveyor belts, here, in middletown, delaware, it is 1.2 million square feet.
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it is 28 football fields worth of stuff. so, a lot of people shopping today. a lot of it in this area comes right through here. and one of the people who has benefitted from this, the thirds party sellers a lot of us buy from, jennifer mcmillan, owns jenny gym. >> hi, how are you? >> doing well. so talk to us about your third party selling company? >> we are jenny jen product line, and they make great gifts, also good to liven up your home or office. >> okay. so how did you get involved with amazon? because were you telling me they've really helped you grow your business? >> yes, started selling on amazon, because everyone we know shops on samson. amazon has really helped our business to grow by exposing us to new customers. >> okay. so, it has been nothing but positive for you and your husband, were you saying, that your husband actually quit his job, got to do this full time? >> yes. both every just left our full-time jobs, because of amazon, able to do this on full-time basis. they turned on our line selling hon toy full time career.
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>> fantastic. so you are looking at pretty busy cyber monday. >> yes absolutely, this could be the busiest day of the season and great start to the halladay season. >> got to love it, jenny, thank you so much. so that's one of your third party sellers right there. benefitting from amazon. this place, guys, is, i don't know how else to put it, it is just massive. there is so much happening here this morning on cyber monday. we will have reports throughout the morning, i hope you guys have got your shopping done f not, we're in the perfect place for it, right. >> pat gallen, i am sends something you list, check your e-mail. >> check your phone, pat. got a big list, been writing it all morning long. thank you, pat. well, if you want to take a break from the computer and head outside, philadelphia's christmas village is open top do some holiday shopping. >> organizers expect thousand toss hit the courtyard at city hall for pretzels, activities, loads of shopping. for the markets organizers the event is about bringing a
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german tradition to is philly. >> great. inside it is really nice, at city hall. that's also more like european christmas market, to be in or around city hall. and we really like it this year. >> you might remember, that before this year, the market was across the street in love park. organizers expect at least 780,000 visitors this year. a lot of people. >> i like his accent. i think people that have accent can charge more for things, because you just feel like it is more international. >> very romantic. >> you bet. well, forget the usual pepper minute can't i canes this year, really different flavors to choose from. we'll talk about it coming up. >> plus the reason why subway riders in major city got a free ride, and why it is raising a lot of concern. christmas came early for star wars fans, find out why all of these people were camping out overnight. when we come
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>> take a look, standing out in the coal, star wars fans, hoping to snag a ticket for the next long awaited movie, star wars story premiers december 16th. these fans apparently could not wait to get their ticket to the opening show. >> i love star wars such a great movie. such a great series. i just really wanted to see it, be one of the first to see it. so i new i had to get here
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early. >> early he did. ticket went on sale 9:01 last night, at the theater, first 1,000 fans in line at the famous hollywood movie house also received exclusive poster their coveted pick. disney has done it again, slashing into the thanksgiving weekends box office with another hit. (movie clip) moana raked in 55 and a half million dollars in its first weekends, wayne the rock johnson one of the main characters in the film. coming out on top. >> last week's number one, fantastic feast, came in second with 45 million, in thirds, doctor strange, trailing in more than 13 million. and rounding out the top five, allied and arrival. >> this is exciting. i got to tell you something today, one seattle based business is putting a new twist on a classic holiday
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treat. check out these unique handy canes. created the line every candy canes with flavors like bacon, i can go for that one, pickles, not so much, even was abby, box every sticks goes for seven bucks. >> i got to tell you, jim, i have dim ' not a fan. >> just try it, not normally a candy cane casino every gal, but just trying it, intriguing enough for me. >> jim and i are trying to figure out? >> i can't imagine. it just doesn't make any sense. i think just probably individual. we'll have to do more research but bacon, it is good on anything. >> i've it on an ice cream cane before. delightful. >> oh, the little crumbles? >> salty. >> well, katie, what do you have? >> huge, that descriptive word. >> just try it. >> all right. so what we are looking at here today, pretty quiet weather. if you are taking on line deals, try to find some time to step outside, enjoy what promises to be nice bright sunny day. i show this nice wide zoom on storm scan to kick it off for
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a reason, probably pretty obvious to you why, very large storm system currently brewing right now across mid section of the united states, what will be crossing through our area here in the form of two separate fronts over the course of two separate days. so, you end up with choking rain, looks like here, for both tuesday, wednesday, which we deposition perhapsly need, also getting back to work, back to school, and that definitely will be something that trips you up. so, one of those i feel like you can look at the glass half full. let's quickly switch gears, take a look outside with the eyewitness weather watchers, reporting some pretty chilly air. even despite nice calm winds, at low right now, 22 degrees currently for mark out in chads worth here where again nice clear skies allowing the temperatures to drop off red limit down to 29 degrees at the moment, here in middletown, delaware, where pat is reporting from nearby, amazon warehouse. nice clear skies for jason, but 29 degrees, obviously, chilly start it this morning as he's echoing with the comment there. one more. i take you all the way off to the north.
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one of the most remote spots. that comes in from sailors berg, worth a mention, he, too, will start to see some wet weather moving in, star filled sky. good news with this, even though still chilly up toward the mountain us terrain, storm system comes through as strictly rain producer for the area. even in the mountains, just warm. see that reflected in future weather. this is tomorrow morning at 5:00 a.m. about the same time see rain moving through, noontime, rain still out there. so while it may be coming through in heavier pockets, some of you might catch a break here and, there basically have to call this a wash out. there will be break-in between, those fronts, though, tuesday night, into wednesday. and then we're back at it again with fresh rounds of locally heavy rain coming through. and probably couple every thunderstorms to go along with it, how much are we talking? okay, look at couple of the more reliable models, certainly the most, asbestos once, european model, easily over inch worth of precipitation from both of
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those. regardless we need the rain, take what we can get and hope for the best, but mid 60s for highs, way too warm then as a result for anything but rain, but avenue feeling, meisha, we will see awful lot of slow downs. >> oh, absolutely. yep, rain tomorrow. so, heed the warning. today will be busy, everyone back on the roadways, after the thanksgiving weekends, tomorrow, like katie said, going to be busy because of that rain. so, couple every days ahead of us real busy, i bet you the whole week will be busy. taking a look at the boulevard, pushing in the southbound direction, actually not looking that bad. we are looking busier than we were even just, you know, 20, 30 minutes ago. but, we are holding steady here, and you are still traveling at posted speeds there. then, once you jump on to the schuylkill, this is what you are looking at. it is getting busy, pushing in the westbound direction. the westbound schuylkill, plenty of headlights out there, still traveling at posted speeds, but you won't be for very much longer. then when you mover in the eastbound direction, see on the schuylkill eastbound, actually looking okay there, it is really the westbound
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side that i've got my eye on right now, another area looking bissey 95, southbound direction, but mainly we know that no matter what. construction here, where we have overnight construction, 95 both directions between academy and bridge street. lanes open, eight p.m. and 5:00 a.m. >> this will linger out there through friday, and also, some more construction 422, again, 422 both directions between 202 and first avenue. that will right lane blocked, say between 11 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. and another one that kind of lingers through thursday, more construction to talk about coming up in a little bit. rahel, back to you. >> see you soon, meisha, thank you. hackers target a transit system in san francisco giving passengers free ride. free entity troats posted on ticket kiosk at stations across the weekends. you might imagine the notes caused little confusion with some passengers pausing before going through the open gate. >> i wouldn't what their motive was. >> i just figure it is free day. >> is it like part of "black friday" sale day?
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>> they are investigating. >> a modern day miracle on 34th street. and it is within driving distance. we will take you there, coming up. >> plus, otter therapy? finds out how swimming with the otters can help these
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>> this is cyber monday, live look from the amazon distribution center in delaware. >> over 1 million square feet. >> twenty-eight football fields they said earlier. >> a lot of shoppingment. >> pat gallen is there, with the next report in the next half hour. >> at a california animal sanctuary, otters and children are swimming together. >> but as chris martinez reports, it is not just a cute romp in the pool, it is a form of therapy. >> anna is having fun with her two new friends. >> so cute. >> her play pauls, are therapy otters, trained to interact with children, with severe or
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terminal illnesses. >> it was awesome. hand on experience with the animals, great. >> "make a wish foundation" arranged her visit to the animal sanctuary nurtured by nature. one of the founders. >> mioses important thing, give them a positive day where they are free of thinking about maybe the pain or the illness or the treatment that they're going through super important to have good outlook, especially when pain or sick or scared. >> the swim gave anna a boot. >> the rosters, they were -- that was really cute. >> it is a memory her parent say she'll carry close to her heart, on days she needs comfort the most. >> this is how you spin, everybody. this is how you swim, everybody. chris martinez, "eyewitness news". >> great story. well, the holiday is on the way. signs of the season are everywhere. >> in baltimore, 07 year tradition, take a look, the
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official start to the season, baltimore 34th street, lights the light. they call it the miracle on 34th street. part every santa's arrival in town. >> still ' a bahumbug kind of guy. >> incredible how people can just set this up, and like everywhere. basically like you're walking into really bright room. >> neighbors help out making it a festival on new years ivan we will be right back.
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for a powerful comeback. new expressmax caplets. >> new this morning, trans gender person is followed out after bar and then shot. we're liver with the search for the gunman. >> donald trump goes on the offense i have on twitter, again, why the president-elect claims fraud cost him the popular vote, what he says about a pop recount. >> cyber monday, rare look inside the enormous distribution center right here in our area. we will, today is monday, november 28. good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha joining us, keeping an eye on things this morning, just wondering if you're now wearing -- >> no pants. >> hour later, still no progress? >> well, that's what you have
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when you have three servings of stuffing. >> that was me at the table. >> all right, you guys, good morning, the roadways looking good, guess what, we are certainly starting to heat up. with that being said, how many vehicles on the roadways, no accidents, not one accident to tell but. >> everybody knock on wood. >> yep. >> where ever you got it. where ever you got it, yes. maybe today is a good idea to ride your bike to work if you ate too much over the holiday. but it looks like it will be chilly ride for us, no matter what you are doing, standing out waiting for a bus, waiting for train, anything like that, do expect that it is going to be chilly out there, storm scan, nice and quiet. if you look down near dc, start to see at least little hint of cloud cover beginning to bill owe in here. generally though looking at sunshine throughout the course of the day. temperatures, into the 20's, in a lot of outlying suburbs to the north and west as well as even down to the shore, looking at wildwood, 29 degrees for you, 35 at philadelphia international airport. so, yes, chill in the air. kids are getting back to school, brk

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