right no as secretary clinton deserve an apology tonight? >> yes i apologize. >> an apology kicks aa fiery democratic debate. front runner hillary clinton, bernie sanders and martin o'malley get aggressive with their campaign messages. but first, a developing story. a store owner shot and killed in new jersey. tonight, friends remember the

search for the gunman. hello everyoning i'm joe torres. >> and i'm lauren glassberg in for sandra bookman. police have released few details about what happened inside the store in zoo city. >> it happen -- jersey city. >> tonight the search is on for any clues that could lead to the gunman. >> eyewitness news reporter aj ross is at the scene now with the latest details. aj? >> reporter: lauren, joe, for the past several hours police and crime scene investigators have been here outside this clothing store here on bergen avenue trying to piece together evidence from this deadly shooting. neighbors say the owner of the store was a hard working family man supporting his wife and daughter. and he didn't deserve this senseless violence. >> it hurts, it is crazy. it's crazy. >> reporter: the holiday lights in the jersey -- in the heart of jersey city, after gunfire erupted inside the clothing store here along bergen avenue saturday evening. >> saw that happen.

the owner of top plus dead inside as shocked neighbors questioned like -- something like this could happen. >> very good person you know! very nice guy. >> we would always go by and talk to him in the morning. sometimes at night we would go out and bull the gates down. >> reporter: the hudson county's prosecutor's office homicide unit is now investigating and asking anyone who know what happened to give them a call. >> you know we were always here for each oh. you can never can tell what can happen. >> reporter: at this point police have not officially released the name of the victim but again they're asking anyone with information to give them a call. live tonight in jersey city, i'm aj ross, channel 7 >> aj thank you. you might have noticed the weather it finally feels like december after a run of the thermometer dropped. meteorologist jeff smith has more in the weather center. can we expect more of this jeff? >> well it's going to be fleeting i mean tomorrow is a chilly day but the wind is

feel better and speaking of the unseasonable run of mild temperatures, almost every day of is this month has been -- so far this month has been either in the 50s or 60s until today where the high was only 40 degrees. so it's the first time this month that we had high temperatures which were below normal. 39 your temperature right now in central park. we got up to 40 so we haven't fallen that much so far in the city but it will dip down further overnight tonight. you're down to 27 in monticello and down to freezing at newburg right now. mid 30s down the jersey shore at belmar and toms river and you take into account the wind. it feels like below freezing in the city. especially between the buildings between you get the -- when you get wind gusts and 15 is the windchill at monticello. finally it feels a little bit more like winter out there and you see our streamline showing the wind from the west right now coming in pretty strong at times but that will be diminishing overnight. some clouds out there and there were even a couple of snow

during the early evening hours. those have since weakened. as soon as we clear out this cloud cover of night tonight -- overnight tonight, it will cause more cooling to occur and we're talking temperatures getting well down into the lower 20s in places like sussex there. down to 31 so going below freezing in the park by tomorrow morning. and then highs during the day 44 lot of sunshine less wind will feel a whole lot better night. i'll tell you what. it's definitely not going to feel the part. we'll detail that in your full accuweather seven day forecast coming up. politics now and the race for the white house the democratic candidates faced off for the third debate the final one of this year. and it was their fiercest debate yet. from claims regarding stolen data to clashes over gun control and isis, all three candidates took a strong stand to get their messages across. abc's marci gonzalez is in manchester, new hampshire with the highlights. >> hi there, some heated

times interrupting each other and speaking out of town and they didn't hold back going after each other's policy proposals and records. following impassioned opening statements following issues and the republican race sister. >> we told true to the values and freedoms that unite us, fascist pleas of billionaires with big mouths. >> reporter: the questions quickly turning to the elephant in the debate hall. >> the secretary clinton deserve an apology tonight? >> yes i apologize. >> reporter: tonight sanders saying he's sorry after four of his campaign worker tapped into hillary clinton's private voter data. >> i want to apologize to my supporters. this is not the type of campaign that we run. >> we should move on. because i don't think the american people are all that interested in this. >> reporter: the third democratic debate then getting to the issues that are on many americans' minds. from the economy to terrorism

>> i think it's absolutely the wrong policy for us to be even imagining that we're going to end up putting tens of thousands of american troops isis. >> reporter: to heated exchanges on gun control. >> senator sanders -- voted against the brady bill. >> do not tell me -- that i have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people. >> reporter: o'malley and sanders working to differentiate themselves from clinton who still has a commanding lead in the latest national poll. while the democratic candidates at times also shared a united message. >> this is the kind of debate we need to take to the republicans. >> that was abc's marci gonzalez. firefighters in brooklyn find a blind woman who lived alone dead after through her home. the fire broke out at her home on east 52nd street in flatland around 10:00 this morning. firefighters found the body of 64-year-old alma crosby inside

it took 60 firefighters to get the fire under control. still no word from investigators about the cause of that fire. from brooklyn to new jersey, jersey city specifically where a first responder was injured and dozens of people displaced after a fire ripped through an apartment building there. eyewitnesses posted video of the firefighters responding to the scene this afternoon. authorities say it started on the first floor and quickly spread to the second. falling debris injured one firefighter. the red cross is helping six families find shelter. the cause of the fire is under investigation as well. new surveillance video gives us a closer look at the man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the stairwell of her brooklyn apartment building. it happened wednesday night around 8:00? east flatbush. authorities are looking for this man seen entering a subway station on new kirk avenue shortly after the assault. he's accused of attacking a 33- year-old woman as she was entering her apartment building and stealing her phone and

two firefighters came to the rescue of a boater trapped and queens. it happened in forrockaway around 5:00 this afternoon. the man was working on his boat when he fell into thed wearment first responders rushed him to the hospital in serious condition. the two firefighters who jumped exposure. a long island man is accused of assaulting two arrest. authorities say they found numerous drugs inside a car during a traffic stop in long beach on friday. when they began to place the 33- year-old charles rodriguez under arrest the officers say weapons. additional officers were called in to help bring him under control and three other people in the car are also now facing drug charges. the mother of amadou diallo speaks out denouncing the promotion of the officer who was involved in the death of her son.

bratton to review the promotion process within the nypd. elevated to sergeant this week. he was one of the four officers acquitted in the 1999 shooting of diallo in the sound view section of the bronx. >> my heart was broken. like a knife through my heart. because i believe if someone -- if a police officer has been in power by going his gun and abusing it and killing innocents, they should not be able to do the same work. >> he was shot to death in the vestibule of his bronx building as he reached for what turned out to be his wallet. boss is the only one of the four involved officers still with the nypd. and ann inmate at the jail tested positive for tuberculosis. the 45-year-old inmate is being treated at the medical center.

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quite a scene in queens this afternoon when fire and smoke spiraled toward the sky. authorities say a crew hit a gas line while working at a construction site in long island city and gas began to leak and then erupted into a cloud of flames. one person was hurt but not seriously. firefighters had to wait for a conedison crew to turn off the gas before they could extinguish the fire and one nearby building sustained damage on the outside. happening tomorrow, police and city officials will pay tribute to two nypd officers on the one year anniversary of their deaths. detectives rafael ramos and wenjian liu were fatally shot in bedford-stuyvesant last december. there will also be a memorial plaque dedication at the brooklyn precinct where they worked average community in

high school football player killed while shielding three girls from gunfire. mourners organized a vigil for 15-year-old zaevion dobson in knoxville. a man opened fire and dobson doe on top of three -- dove on top of three teenaged girls. the young women were not hurt but he was shot in the dead and didn't survive. now his coach and brother are among those praising his character. >> he's a sophomore only and already successful and already living a life that's contagious and people following so very swell liked by his -- well liked by his peers and teammates. >> he wanted to make it out. >> police athe suspected gunman was killed in another -- say the suspected gunman was killed in another shooting a short time later. they were not the intended target of the spotting. a -- shooting. a u.s. army reservist is

worth overcooking in the bronx. -- of cocaine in the bronx. soto and herbert-gumbs were pulled over on thursday. prosecutors say they had more than 135 pounds of cocaine in the vehicles. federal agents and nypd officials say the men are part of a narcotics' trafficking network and had brought the drugs down from boston. bill cosby's wife now pulled into his legal troubles while she faces a subpoena in one of her husband's defamation lawsuits. >> plus a wallet stuffed with thousands of dollars, what one woman did when she found it in front of her store. >> the cold temperatures stick around for another day but when will the warm temperatures return? jeff smith is back with his details in the accuweather forecast. >> hi, i'm corporal adam staroo stationed in kuwait.

finally broke out the heavy down jacket? >> oh sure. >> do i still need it? >> you know. tomorrow is going to be a little bit chilly but the wind is lighter and we'll have more sunshine. so it won't feel that bad and then you really don't need it at all as we head into the week ironically officially beginning winter late monday night.

one world trade as a matter of fact. that temperature is 39. this will start falling more quickly as soon as we clear out completely these clouds that have been hanging around. a west wind right now coming in at 17 gusting up to 23. that high of 40 during the afternoon was the first time again this month that we've been below normal for a high temperature and believe it or not. the low was 35. that was above normal. so if you average those two numbers together, the day still ends up being a little bit above average for this time of the year. the records were 58 set back in 1884. here the headlines and more sun and less wind tomorrow it's going to feel better than it dit today but still bundle up. milder through the week. that will really be the trend we could be approaching record highs by christmas eve. along with a few rounds of rain. we'll detail that in the accuweather seven day forecast. 39 right now teterboro and 40 laguardia and also jfk

34 white plains, farther out into the suburbs and you get a bit colder. down to freezing in mid 30s down the jersey shore and still a pretty stiff westerly wind out there. that will be calming down overnight and the clouds will tend to clear out and move to the north and east. here's the futurecast overnight into tomorrow morning. you wake up to temperatures right around 34 in the city and a lot of 20s in the suburbs. we get up into the low 0s during the day again a sunny day less wind than what we had today. i think monday some more clouds around but also a milder afternoon. temperatures getting up into the 50s and the first little bout of rain comes in monday night in the form of a few showers. but there are steadier batches of rain where that came from with a pretty strong mild flow from the gulf of mexico and loaded with moisture and warmth as we head throughout much of the upcoming christmas week. accuweather forecast overnight clearing brisk and cold we're down to 31 midtown and 25 in some outlying areas. it's mainly sunny and cold right around sunrise at 7:16 in the morning. 34 in the city.

the afternoon again not as windy out there. mainly sunny skies so it will feel a little bit better, partly cloudy tomorrow night and down to about 38. here's the accuweather seven day forecast. again turning milder monday and a mix of sun and clouds. 54. maybe a couple of showers in here monday night into tuesday. and then some steadier rain coming into the picture on wednesday. but look at the temperatures. we're up to 60 on tuesday. 60 on wednesday. i think the steadiest rain is in the afternoon. it might stay in the lower and middle 50s just in order of the city. then -- north of the city. then check out thursday. up near 70 degrees and ewer predicting it's a blow the old record out of the water by six degrees. 69 for a high and maybe a shower around. right now upper 50s day and upper 50s into next weekend. so like i was saying this cold little last is very pleat -- blast is very fleeting. >> bring on the sandy christmas. >> i don't think the reindeer fly in 60-degree weather. >> nuts. >> laura behnke next with sports. all right welcome back nfl

are here when pro football starts taking up the entire weekend. tonight it's the jets in action who arrive in dallas looking to make it four wins a row -- in a row if they can they can down lowly cowboys.

something tells me big blue was rooting for the jets today. >> you know can you believe that? sometimes crazy things happen. the nfl may own sundays during the season each year though late in december, football fans get saturday too. tonight the jets and cowboys kicking off that sat tradition -- saturday tradition and gang green looking to solidify the playoff standings. the jets arrive in dallas tonight with a three game win streak that's saved the team's season. this week new york is in the sixth and final playoff spot can really need a win tonight in order to keep pace. here's how it's going so far in big d. the cowboys just hit a field goal with two minutes to go in the fourth. this game all tied up at 16. but jets however are driving. the giants return to the field tomorrow afternoon facing a team that might pose a bit of a challenge. big blue welcomes the undefeated panthers to the meadowlands. new york kept its own playoff hopes alive with a monday night

newton and company have been the best team in the nfl for much of the season for a pretty good reason. >> you know, the difference in 13 ws and obviously they done a lot to deserve that. so you know, hats off to them. we're going to prepare. we know they're a good team. it's going to be a good game. things were looking pretty bleak for the knicks last week losing their fourth game in a row. since then nothing but wins and tonight you had to like their chances of winning a fourth straight. new york hosting the bulls. who are coming off a quadruple overtime game last night. it's carmelo anthony and -- first quarter carmelo anthony and another big game. the knicks cruising in the second on the pick and roll. grant to williams for the drunk. part of a 23-6 knicks run and then more new york. porzingis a great pass to melo. and afflalo with 24 points in a winning effort. so yes the knicks do indeed win their fourth straight and now

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well, it's never too soon to take a look at the standings in the nhl and in the metropolitan division, after first place washington it's a log jam of the local teams that includes the devils currently in fourth. tonight hosting anaheim and a very active first for the ducks, chris stewart behind the net. the shot goes off the skate and in. that's a tough break for the devils. then it gets worse here. 16 seconds to go in the first. 2-0. the devils would avoid the shut-out thanks to mike in the third. just too little too late. 2-1 the devils fall. also in action tonight, the islanders on the road visiting the coyotes in arizona. scoreless game until late in the first period. oliver larson beating halak. the center goal of the season. they led 1-0 after one and that's all it took. the islanders fall in the desert. the syracuse men's

win today over cornell. after starting the season 6-0 the orange entered today with four games. so this afternoon, hosting the big red and second half tyler roberson finishes with the putback slam. 15 points and 12 rebounds for him. with this one. gets the ball in the paint going up for the dunk. 67-46 the orange roll. also this afternoon seton hall hosting wichita state. the pirates trailed at the half and they had work to do in the second. carington the steal and out of to gordon. for the dunk. this one went to overtime. lots of free-throws for seton hall in the extra frame but one hoop right here courtesy of angel delgado. get the win. in the world of college hoops it was a really, really bad day to be a top-ranked team with not one not two, but three down. it all started earlier this afternoon as reigning national champion and seventh ranked

by unranked utah. that was at the garden. so the blue devils' second loss of the season. east river, number four kentucky went down at the hand of 5-5 ohio state at barclays center. complete. number five ranked iowa state fell in a nail biter to northern a a. it's the second time this -- iowa. it's the second time this season the team handed a top- ranked them the second loss of the -- team the second loss of the year. also 19-16 the jets get a much- needed win in dallas. >> oh jets very good. thank you laura. well fire in brooklyn claims a woman's life. tonight hear from neighbors about the former city worker and why she may not have been able to escape the flames. >> and an arrest in a scary armed robbery. after the worker chased off his attacker. >> and a woman finds a wallet

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here's a look now at tonight's top stories, police in jersey city search for clues in the shooting death of a store owner, police found the body inside the top plus store on bergen avenue around 4:00 today. the victim has not been identified yet. no arrests have been made. the democratic presidential candidates faced off in new hampshire tonight for their third debate. and it began with an apology from bernie sanders to hillary clinton and his supporters over a data base breach and claims

the candidates also clashed over gun control and isis. also topping the news this half hour, investigators in brooklyn try to figure out what caused a deadly fire there. >> it started around 10:5 this morning on east 52nd avenue and firefighters discovered body of a woman inside. the victim a former city worker whose neighbors describe as a beautiful person. >> eyewitness news reporter cefaan kim has the story from flatlands. >> she didn't look well like she was blind. and she had a walker. >> reporter: resident and flatlands, brooklyn having a hard time grasping what happened after learning their neighbor alma crosby perished in a fire around 10:00 this morning. it took 60 firefighters to get it under control and all hands on deck blaze. neighbors say the 64-year-old was a sweet down to earth woman. who mostly kept to herself and a retired city employee.

and a little old lady but very wonderful lady. beautiful person. >> beautiful. >> reporter: frank lives a few houses down he says he smelled the smoke from his home and ran over to try to save his neighbor but with flames spewing out of the side door and the smoke pouring out, it was just too much to handle. >> just saw a whole bunch of smoke coming out of everywhere and you saw the fire come out of here and getting bigger and bigger and bigger. >> reporter: detectives meanwhile spent much of the day combing the neighborhood for clues as fire marshals searched inside the home for any signs of what may have caused this. crosby was a longtime resident and and it was well-known she lived by herself. many say they tried to help her over the years by preparing meals or offering her rides to the hospital but she would also refuse they say. preferring to be the thought of her trapped inside her burning home helpless has left many here stunned. >> it's crazy. you wouldn't think that something like this would happen here because it's such a nice neighborhood and we all look out for each other.

it's kind of like one loss. >> reporter: neighbors say crosby moved into home about 20 years ago with her mother but more than a decade ago neighbors passed away -- her mother passed away and she became very rescuesive then. again at this time police only saying that the cause of her death and the cause of fire still under investigation. in brooklyn, cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. police have a warning for homeowners in new jersey at a community that's been targeted by burglars. authorities are investigating four break-ins yesterday in saddle brook. police say the burglars entered by forcing open windows and doors and then took cash, jewelry and electronics and authorities are urging residents to remain vigilant and report suspicious activity and have motion sensitive lights on their property. police have not determined whether the burglaries are linked. a new jersey man faces weapons charges after police say he tried to bring a loaded

tsa agents detected the handgun in the man's carry-on bag at a security check point this morning. the man had a ticket for a flight to houston. it's the second gun arrest at newark liberty airport this month. new tonight police in the hudson valley arrest a suspect in a vicious armed robbery. investigators say christopher dam is the masked gunman who threatened a store owner and demanded money on tuesday night. detectives say dam was identified through surveillance video of the attempted robbery. the suspect did not get away with any cash because the owner chased him out of the store. dam was arraigned in hyde park and is being held without bail. bill cosby's lawyers are fighting an attempt to require his wife to give a sworn deposition in a defamation lawsuit against him. seven women who accused cosby of sexually assaulting them filed the lawsuit. camille cosby is scheduled to be deposed next. but cosby's lawyers filed a motion on friday to stop the

firsthand knowledge of the issues in the lawsuit. the pharmaceutical company executive who stepped down speaks out. martin shkreli says the allegation against him are baseless and without merit. he tweeted today i am confident the 32-year-old pleaded not guilty in brooklyn federal court this week to securities fraud and conspiracy charges and he is accused of losing investors' money through bad trades and then looting his company to payback clients, first responders and their families are celebrating permanent health care coverage for health issues stemming from the 9/11 attacks. local leaders gathered alongside first responders today at ground zero to applaud the extension of the zadroga act. president obama signed a federal spending bill yesterday that guarantees enough money for the victims' compensation fund through 2021. it also ensures the world trade center health program is renewed until 2090.

have begun their annual holiday vacation in hawaii. the first family landed in honolulu early this morning. the president has no public appearances scheduled for the traditionally, president obama spends the time golfing and visiting with service members day. the largest apartment sold. the investment firm the black stone group bought skytown peter cooper building for 5 hadn't $5 billion -- $5.5 billion. it preserves the rent stabilized units in the complex. the sale was finalized when a competing company dropped its threat of a lawsuit. a truck drives off the road and flips down a hill. home. tonight, the homeowner speaks out about that close call. >> plus, a woman makes a surprising discovery inside the engine of her car. >> and a live look outside on this saturday night. meteorologist jeff smith

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warning went out in the country's capital. officials issued the severe air pollution warning during the unhealthy smog because of the unhealthy smog levels in beijing. people are advised to avoid outdoor activity and school is canceled in some parts of the city. the dangerous smog conditions are expected to remain through tuesday. it is incredible video. a truck goes off the road, flips down a hill and lands inches from a house. and somehow, the driver still manages to walk away unharmed. tonight, the homeowner speaks out about the crash that nearly took out his entire home. >> talk about a crash landing. the homeowner who shot this video joked he thought santa claus arrived early. this, after he heard a loud boom outside the house and found an unexpected guest. >> it shook the house and yeah the tires blew and i couldn't quite figure it out and there was something still like making noise. >> that was the truck still running after tumbling down a steep hillside and then landing

the crash sent debris everywhere. lance anderson said he heard the driver screaming as the man climbed out of the back window and stumbled off into the darkness. it happened on the sharp curve of this pierce county road in washington state around midnight wednesday. and wanterson's house is roughly 20 feet below and it's equipped with surveillance cameras. >> spare bedroom. no one wants to stay here anymore. [ laughter ] everyone who sue that video was like -- saw that video was like i'm not sleeping in there. >> thankfully no one was in the room but the crash startled anderson and he still has no idea what happened to the driver who managed to walk away without serious injury. the house avoided major damage as well. >> this week? a few hours of sleep. and still running on adrenaline. so yeah i'm ready for the weekend i tell you that. >> it's unclear tonight if the driver was arrested.

install a guardrail at the curve. a sanitation worker is caught on camera picking up not trash but averages left outside a maryland home. the homeowner couldn't believe it. a sanitation worker made a mad dash for two packages on the driveway. they con trained christmas gifts. the gifts have been reordered and police are trying to track down the thief. a state trooper became a big hero to little girl when he went beyond the line of duty to reunite her with her beloved toy pear. earlier this month 4-year-old emma lost the favorite stuffed polar bear when it fell out of the window in massachusetts. her mother called the state police's non-emergency line and trooper dan mather managed to track down the bear. after being reunited with her favorite friend, emma and her mom sent a sweet thank you note. >> oh. that's nice. >> a florida woman found a stowaway inside the car and

saying a cat was meowing from the inside. the woman didn't see anything at first. but after a close inspection she found a pair of eyeing staring out -- years staring out from behind the -- eyes staring out from behind the engine. the cat eventually shipped out on its own and ate the food and took off. the woman believes the cat was in her car for two days. >> oh. those eyes just peering out at you. a man loses a walled full of thousands of dollars of cash.

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the force is strong with a baby in massachusetts. jim and denise gracie's son was born on thursday. which was also the day "star wars: the force awakens" opened in the u.s. so as a tribute to the film series they both love. the couple named their boy ready? riker jedi gracie. they are thrilled about the new

but say now that he is here, they're not sure when they'll have time to go see the new "star wars" movie. i guess they decided not to name the baby chewbacca. >> that's quite the truth. >> lots to talk about as he's growing. >> i. well yeah. i hope he becomes a fan. >> a knight. tonight would have been a good night to get inside for the first time in a while. >> i didn't want to step outdoors all day today because it was the first time that it really felt biting out there. we had the windchills in the 20s and for much of the day today. temperatures only topped out right around the 0-degree mark which is -- 40-degree mark which is finally below average for this time the year, a live look right now down toward the empire state building and 39 now. cloudy skies and that wind coming in still gusting up to 23 miles per hour. so it is still pretty brisk out there but the wind will be calming down overnight and that will actually allow temperatures to fall a little bit more quickly. we're probably down to about 34 during the wee hours of morning. maybe even bottoming out just below the freezing mark by the

highs today 40 in the park. again, that was the first time all month that we had a high temperature that was below average and virtually every other day this month has been either in the 50s or the 60s especially during the past week. look at this. monday, tuesday, highs in the upper 60s to near 70 degrees across much of the area. right now, 34 new city, you're 32 newburg and 34 middletown and you're 27 at monticello. you fell down into the mid 30s down the shore and upper 30s on the island and southwestern parts of connecticut. you add the wind in there and that's a biting windchill. it feels like 33 in the city but a lot of 20s in the suburbs for windchills and even feeling like 15 at monticello. as we still have a pretty brisk westerly wind but that will be calming down overnight. and in addition to that the clouds will be clearing out gradually and both of the factors actually allow the temperature to drop more quickly and i do think we get down to about 31 in the city. lots of 20s in the suburbs and even

up to about 44 and a few degrees warmer than today. we have a lot more sunshine and a lot less in the way of wind and it's going to feel better out this tomorrow. more bearable to head outside and 36 your high in monticello. so that area of high pressure will move offshore and behind it we get a return flow of much milder air as we head into the week. and check out this pattern we're heading into here. opening up the flood gates for air from the gulf of mexico to move on up the atlantic seaboard. it's mild and at times, we will have some bouts of rain during your christmas week. so here's your accuweather forecast. sun rising at 7:16 in the morning. not as windy during the day and mostly sunny skies and we're up to about 44 and partly cloudy tomorrow night down to about 38. here's your accuweather seven day forecast. turning milder on monday. 54. it's a mix of sun and clouds. maybe a couple of showers in here. monday night into tuesday, tuesday is 60 degrees. and then steadier rain moves in during the day on wednesday. 60 degrees.

maybe still a little bit of age hanging around. -- rain hanging around. not much though. then christmas day high temperatures in the upper 50s. drying out. just incredible that this pattern is continuing. >> oh, yeah. >> warmest december on record. it will be. >> that's not much of a surprise. >> not at all. thanks jeff. all right, what would you do if you found a wallet full of thousands of dollars of cash? >> hmm. well a woman in stockton, california was faced with that this week and despite her family's own tough financial situation she knew what she needed to do. >> tony and his brother stopped for a snack after a full day on the clock. >> see the family just kind of late. >> but that break nearly cost him $4,000. >> i jumped in the car and that's all i know. >> tony didn't realize the mistake until the two were long gone. >> just started taking everything apart and went through the whole truck. >> but had no luck. >> all that night i hardly slept at all.

night because of the holidays and all. >> he had more than $4,000 in his wallet and he went to make a down payment on a car earlier in the day but changed his mind. >> i was just counting it as a loss. >> had anyone else but starla beltran fond it that would have been the case. >> it was shop just laying in the parking space. >> beltran immediately noticed the wallet wiz stuffed with cash and it wouldn't close. >> $100, $300, then it was $1,000, $2,000. $3,000. >> beltran admits she thought hard about how the money could wipe away all her worries. >> . this summer my son had a seizure, we had to call the ambulance and we couldn't afford the ambulance and still trying to figure out how to patau off. >> but as quickly as the thought to keep the money, it left and she puthorse on a mission to return -- herself on a mission to return it. >> i went to the address that was in the wallet. he came through the door and started tearing up.

>> i tolder i don't think i could have done it -- what you did. >> as thanks he gave beltran $300. nice way to end that whole dilemma. >> yeah. >> man, great story. that is our news for now. thank you for joining us. i'm lauren glassberg. >> and i'm joe torres, for lauren and jeff and laura and for all of us here at eyewitness news, thanks for watching. eyewitness news returns tomorrow morning at 6:00. make it a great night everyone. >> stay warm. [ captions by: caption

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