p7p7p7@z >> bracing a new freeze and philly crowds of shoppers. robin picked up wrapping paper and gab gifts for their friends. >> my friend who doesn't like cats, i got him a cat calendar. >> a cat in sweaters calendar. >> he really doesn't care for cats at all. this is like an anti-gift. >> across the bridge in new jersey. >> perfume, looking at jewelry. >> the gloucester premium outlets opened just this year. >> people are out, spending, lots of shoppers, lots of bags. >> the outlet is outdoors so the

fireplace was hot, even santa claus struggling. >> feel like the north pole? >> this is the way it's supposed to be. it's supposed to be cold. >> sandy is here with her 6-year-old daughter. >> i want a barbie dream house with a garage. >> did you hear that, mom? >> yes, i know. >> retail analysts say sales will likely be up this year but not as much as expected. meantime at least half of holiday shoppers are waiting until this weekend to finish their lists, last minute crowds realizing maybe they should have wrapped up when it was warm out. >> last week was very nice. this weekend it's freezing. >> if you didn't want to deal with the crowds or cold, online shopping has been extraordinarily popular this year. if you do plan to ship something to amazon or best buy, shipping deadlines are rapidly approaching come monday and tuesday. live in center city randy

gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. >> thanks, randy. i thought of a few things to get myself. they went shopping in kohl's. kohl's stores staying open all day every day until 6:00 on christmas eve night. that is 170 hours straight all to make sure last minute shoppers can pick up everything they need. people we ran into today say they are starting to feel like the holiday season is here. >> right, guys, very cold, ready to go. >> trying to cash in on the cold craze with "star wars" gifts. to find out which stores extended holiday shopping hours, tap onto nbc 10 or tap onto the website, nbc10.com. new at 6:00, police are

looking for a man who shot a man on belmar street. the 23-year-old victim was shot multiple times. he was taken to the hospital where he died. there are no arrests in the case. in the city's may fair s.e.cect take a look at this mess. a car came crashing into the home of the house had to be condemned because of the damage. the woman driving the car went to the hospital for treatment. police say she hit a parked car, went up on the lawn and smashed into the front of the home. why it happened, that is still unclear tonight. new information on a delaware police officer caught on camera kicking a suspect. this video you may remember showed corporal thomas webster iv kicking a man in the head and breaking his jaw. the jewelry acquitted him of assault and now the dover police chief says he will return to the department tomorrow. he'll be placed on administrative leave. department policy requires he undergo a psychological evaluation before returning to full duty.

funeral arrangements are set for a state trooper killed on his way to a call in south jersey this week. the viewing and the funeral for 30-year-old ely mccarson will happen at rowan university fleeinger concert hall. a newlywed who just graduated from the police academy in january. he died when his car slammed into a pole. they cut him out of the car. turning to the budget battle. it could have been a big day but fell apart leaving them in limbo again. the state has been without a budget for six months. nbc 10's drew smith live in the digital operations center to explain what happened in harrisburg. drew, this is the final push. there are a lot of places simply running out of money. what happened here? >> the pennsylvania house overwhelmingly rejected changes

to state pension plans today. that effectively collapsed progress on a compromise for the state budget. house leaders wanted to get rising pension costs under control before okaying any new tax hikes. negotiated with house republicans agreeing to this deal with leadership. yesterday the governor said he had enough votes to get taxes approved this. pension bill leaves in shambles. local schools and agencies are once again left wondering how to pay the bill. get reaction from a philadelphia councilman tonight. >> if you try to compromise, people think you're a wuss. i don't know if that's a good way to go. it's a democracy. people have to know when to compromise. getting things done is what's best for the people. >> governor tom wolf reacting to this day, quote, a stopgap is not the answer. we need a full year budget. let's get back to work all of us, let's get this done now. lawmakers discussing a temporary budget solution.

that could bring some help to local school districts but would be lower than the record spending promised. live in the operation center i'm drew smith, nbc 10 news. decision 2016 bernie sanders has access to voter database once again. just yesterday dnc cut off sanders campaign as punishment for accessing key data from the hillary clinton campaign. sanders campaign to the party. now say sanders campaign complied with information about the breach. however, continue to investigate. political activists wondering if clinton will confront sanders about what happened tonight, the final democratic debate of the year. the two candidates will appear with martin o'malley in new hampshire. this comes less than two months before voters in that state cast their ballots in the nation's first primary election. from our lehigh valley bureau, salisbury school

district starting vacation early because of a whooping cough outbreak. the district says five confirmed cases and more tested. school officials spoke with the health department and decided to close schools to prevent this from spreading. whooping covais highly contagious respiratory disease. still ahead, going on the defensive. how officials are explaining an american airstrike that killed 10 israeli soldiers. back behind bars. police landed this suspect in custody twice in one day. .

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he's lunching an investigation. they said the airstrike came in response to request by iraqi security forces here in isis controlled cities and were done in coordination with iraqi forces. president barack obama is vacationing in hawaii after he paid a visit to the families of the victims of the san bernardino attack. he and his family arrived at joint base pearl harbor before the sun rose. this is their annual christmas vacation. they are set to spend about two weeks in oahu. if past is any indicator, he'll be spending a lot of time playing golf. speaking of getting into the holiday spirit, we'll tell you why philadelphia's mayor elect played the role of santa's helper. >> a cold start to the weekend. tracking feels like temperature in the 20s and 30s. another cool day but record warmth back in your seven-day forecast. i'll go over the details right after the break.

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police are hoping a composite sketch will help them find someone breaking into homes. the suspects throw rocks into back doors to get into houses. five break-ins on thursday. in delaware a dozen similar break-ins recently. dover police say they arrested this man twice in just a few hours. officers picked up joseph graden for a series of car break-ins. after released he was caught breaking into a police department employee's car. graden's home says he's addicted to heroin. a rallying cry to some of philadelphia's muslims. asking for support of two islamic holidays.

they want the public schools to add the holidays to the calendar. they are asking schools be closed as well as city courts and offices. while other districts around the country acknowledge the holidays but no cities do. a major honor for philadelphia archbishop. a weekly catholic newspaper named him one of the catholics of the yur. our visitor says chaput deserves the honor for helping with financial troubles and guidance and leadership during world families. more than 2,000 local kids feeling holiday spirit thanks to operation brotherly love holiday carnival. 700 greater philadelphia families enjoyed carnival games, dancing, face painting and balloon animals. it happened at lincoln financial field. each child received a personalized holiday gift and also a new winter coat. >> on behalf of myself and everybody here, merry christmas. right, santa? >> merry christmas.

>> well, mayor elect jim kinney hanging out with santa today to deliver an early christmas gift to some philadelphia kids. the mayor helped out in a neighborhood bike giveaway west philadelphia ymca. he gave kids advice about how to stay safe on new wheels. >> ride on pavement and scare senior citizens because they get worried when you come flying by on the sidewalk and try to make sure you pay attention when riding out in the street. of course all the kids also got new bike helmets to go along with those new wheels. brittany. >> now nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist brittney shipp. >> we have fun video of flurries in the poconos, due to lake-effect snow and northwesterly wind that brought some of those snow flurries down. looks like this guy is enjoying the first no in the poconos. a closer look at our weather headlines, we are going to see another cold day as we head into

sunday, a chilly eagles forecast on tap for you. then we're tracking record warmth as we head into christmas eve. i'll go over details on that forecast. philadelphia right now 39, clouds, wind out of the west northwest at 18 miles per hour. our feels-like temperature closer to 30 degrees. it's been a very cold day. part of that is the temperatures, part of that is strong wind speeds. a closer look at hourly forecasts, see the temperatures dropping down, get down bought 20s in the overpass hours, another cold start to the morning as we push into sunday. our right now temperatures at 28 degrees in the poconos, 36 in allentown, mid-30s pottstown, 39 wildwood and 37 in atlantic city. feels-like temperatures throughout the rest of the region at 27, allentown. 28 in reading. only feels like 17 in poconos. our wind gusts up to 29 miles per hour in poconos, 21 in pottstown gusting to 1 in

trenton. our future wind speeds show we're going to see windy conditions as we head into the rest of tonight and even into sunday morning. you'll notice by noon on sunday, we'll start to see wind speeds subsiding a little bit, which is good news. it's still going to be cold tomorrow. temperatures pretty close to average. we're not going to be dealing with strong wind ptsd as we head into sunday. satellite weather shows a little snow flurry activity due to lake-effect snow so seeing a little activity drift closer to us but mainly north and west of the city. as we head into the next couple days, sunday is our peak with the cold temperatures. that cold air sitting right over philadelphia stretching all the way south into the carolinas. but you'll notice as we head into next week, mild air makes a return. in fact, temperatures are going to head once again 20 to 25 degrees above average. we are tracking a warm christmas week for you. we'll make a run towards the record as we get into the middle part of the workweek by thursday on christmas eve we expect to see record breaking warmth.

take a look at christmas day. a cold front is going to drop us from the 70s into the mid-50s, still going to be well above average. wakeup temperatures for tomorrow, we are still going to be in the 30s by the time you wake up. 20 for our suburbs north and west. by noon our temperatures will slowly push into the low 40s and then quickly will drop right back down into the 30s for sunday. your eagles forecast shows by the time you head out to the game we are going to see temperatures dropping quickly into the 30s. keep that in mind. daytime high at 40. rebound nicely heading into next week. >> brittney, thanks, lots of college hoops. steve mason getting ready for second straight start. also sam bradford and nelson aguilar talk heading into tomorrow night's game with arizona. that is all next.

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arriving in philly late this afternoon, won seven straight, there's bruce arians, larry fitzgerald signing autographs. in seven games against birds, 11 touchdowns, at least one in every game. sam bradford on the role, birds won 6 of last 8 games he's finished. carson palmer an mvp candidate. when he first went to arizona he struggled, 22 interceptions. in second and third years he flourished. this could be a good comparison with bradford and what he can do with the birds. >> i think obviously everyone adjusts to a different situation, a little bit differently, different people different amounts of time. but obviously he's been a couple of places, had success. obviously he's probably playing the best ball of his career right now. year 13 or 14. so it proves it can be done. >> we've got you covered all weekend here on nbc 10, your

official eagles station. tonight eagles game at 7:00, eagles game day kickoff, special interview with nelson aguilar. sunday night check out our playoff push special at 6:30 live from the link, kick off 8:30, game day final live interviews outside the locker room. if games aren't bad enough with sixers 1-27 record cavaliers point guard kyrie irving is going to make his season debut. college hoops, villanova, virginia, wildcats with make heart on defense. josh hart with the steal coast-to-coast with the dunk tying up the game at 37. the cavaliers too much. london, the layup and foul 17-2 wildcats lose their second game of the season 86-75. the cats are 8-2 now. st. joe's facing illinois state. hawks big day three-point game. diondre knocking one down

finishes with 16 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists. that is good. then isaiah mile from three-point land hawks with 15 treys, season high. dunking 20 points. temple wins 78-63. drexel hosts penn state tonight. luke is back, not just in "star wars" but luke shenn is back for the flyers against blue jackets. six straight at columbus. mason second straight start in goal. second shutout of the season thursday against vancouver and flyers over the last 10 games, they are 7-2-1. >> you can see things going in the right direction. you see less panic, less frustration on the bench and in the dressing room between periods. that's a good sign. keep moving forward and keep

maintaining a positive attitude and mind-set. any time you start going to the negative areas, that's when things get sabotaged. >> flyers turning around their season. highlights at 11:00. back to you. >> thanks. hope during the holidays is keeping up tradition of helping the needy the lambert legacy charity traveled to different low income facilities around philadelphia each year. this year they set up at king sessing recreation center, served meals, set up stores, stylists helped them find what they needed. computer literacy and a fun day. you're going to want to bundle up with last minute shopping. >> last minute shopping or heading to the eagles game tomorrow. they take on the cardinals. it's going to be a cold forecast for you. we were kind of spoiled last week for temperatures in their 70s. tailgating 43 by kickoff at 8:30

temperatures will be at 37 degrees and then by the fourth quarter 35. as we head into the rest of tonight 27 degrees, cold and clear. down to 23 for suburbs to our north and west and pushing into tomorrow. we will actually see temperatures ranging between 42 and 45. still another cold start to the morning just because we're going to drop down so low and have a light wind speed. definitely want to bundle up in the morning as well. >> eagles hat and scarf and jersey. >> and jacket and then you might be okay. you still might be cold but that's fine. >> thanks, brittney. that's nbc 10 news for now. from all of us here, we'll see you back at 11:00. "nbc nightly news" is next.

on this saturday night, showdown in new hampshire tonight in the latest democratic debate. the big question, will it be open warfare after the sanders' campaign gets files on clinton voters. the growing hunt for the teenager whose defense was he was too affluent to know what was right and wrong. many children pouring into this country. we're on patrol with u.s. border agents. high agent in a town overwhelmed by a massive leak of natural gas. thousands worry about their health, leaving their homes. and toy story. an individual carving out christmas