a mant ioc woman confronts something peering through her window. a bullet shatters a day care's front window when a shootout erupts outside. the day care's owner tells nbc10 children could have been hurt if the shots had flown minutes earlier or later. good evening. i am jim rosenfield. tonight police are still looking for two suspects who fired the shots. rosemary connors explains how naptime may have saved a child's life. >> it was 1:00 in the afternoon when gunfire erupted. one of the bullets went through this window and the other from this window. what may have saved them, the time of day. it was naptime so the kids were already down on the ground. >> you have baby lives that -- you know, baby lives in there. i don't want to cry. >> reporter: for lindy barber who founded little shepherds christian learning center

20 years ago this is a first. shootout in broad daylight that landed at her front doorstep where she take care of more than 100 during the day. these are the kids you look after every day. one of them, their life could have been taken from them. >> yes. one of the kids. the staff. anybody. >> reporter: while police continue to investigate the motive, the parents are holding their children tighter tonight. >> thank god that the angle -- that it came from up. it didn't come down low. even if an adult was standing up. bullets go any kind of way. so, i mean, we just thank god. thank god no one was hurt. >> reporter: many here call it a miracle. reporting from overbrook. rosemary connors, nbc10 news. >> we first brought you this story as breaking news at 4:00. make sure you sign up for breaking news alerts on the nbc10 app. that may you will always be the first to know. right now at 6:00.

pennsylvania democrats want a state lawmaker to resign after he scolded a colleague for touching him. and exchange went viral. >> look, i am a heterosexual. i have a wife. i love my wife. i don't like men, as you might, but don't -- stop touching me. >> some are criticizing those comments as being homophobic, but the lawmaker is defending himself tonight. nbc10's deanna durante is live in our breaking news center. he is not backing down. >> he is not. state representative daryl metcalfe says he knew he would have an audience. he says he planned his response to state representative matt bradford saying that he had a microphone and planned to use it. >> this isn't the first time. >> reporter: it was a debate. matt bradford said he wanted the debate paused and he reached over, touching the arm of state representative daryl metcalfe of butler county. >> i am a heterosexual. i love my wife.

i don't like men, as you might. but don't -- stop touching me. >> i just thought, i have a microphone available. i can use it to shed light on his bad behavior. he has been asked to stop in the past and has not. it's been repeated. other people have mentioned it to me. >> it's like. keep your hands to yourself. if you want to touch somebody, you have people on your side of the aisle who might like it. i don't. >> it's continual. touches my arm, my shoulder. it takes away from the professional atmosphere. >> my intent was just to beg for your permission for about 30 seconds. >> then beg. don't touch. >> reporter: bradford says, when it comes to past requests, he doesn't remember them. >> i don't know what would make someone want to make comments like that. beyond anything, that got into a pretty nasty homophobic rant. >> reporter: democrats are calling for metcalfe to see rhine. it's not the first time his resignation has been demanded. metcalfe says he is not going

anywhere, he says he is the aggressor. he says the tape speaks for itself. deanna durante, nbc10 news. >> you can watch the full video of that exchange that went viral right now on the nbc10 app. new at 6:00. a suspect is in custody this evening accused of attacking and robbing a man who is visually impaired. upper darby police arrested marvin harper for the crime. he is accused of beating and robbing a 75-year-old man walking home from a septa stop on sunday during the day. police say harper took $100 and a cellphone and the victim also broke his leg. new video at 6:00 of a man philadelphia police call a prowler caught peeping into a woman's bathroom window. you see him right there. walked onto the porch of a home on green lane. he started peering through the window and ran away when the woman came to her front door and confronted him. developing tonight on capitol hill. speculation swirling that senator al franken is getting ready to resign over allegations

of sexual misconduct. franken's office says he will have an announcement tomorrow. a top senate democrat later tweeted he expects frarnken tomorrow. casey tweeted, i agree with my colleagues who have stepped forward today and called on senator franken to resign. we can't just believe women when it's convenient. today the silence breakers of the "me too" movement were named "time" magazine's person of the year. they are the women who gave a voice to victims of sexual assault and harassment and showed them that they are not alone. coming up in ten minutes local crisis centers show us how those women are inspiring local victims to get help. president trump shattered decades of unwavering u.s. neutrality on jerusalem today when he recognized the divided holy city as israel's capital. >> today we finally acknowledge the obvious. that jerusalem is israel's capital. this is nothing more or less

than a recognition of reality. >> critics say taking a side in the generations-long battle between israelis and palestinians is a dangerous move. the president also announced plans to move the u.s. mercedes benz -- embassy from its current location in tel aviv. today the u.s. and israeli flags were projected onto the old city wall in jerusalem to mark the announcement. coming up on nightly news, uproar from world leaders sparked by president trump and how the announcement could jeopardize the possibility for peace in the middle east. that's at 6:30 after this news cast. now to your first alert neighborhood forecast. and hello cold air! live look at center city from the kimmel center campus camera. it's breezy out there as well tonight. well, the flags on the top of the air mark building are taking a rest.

let's go to first alert chief meteorologist tammie souza. how low will the temperatures go? >> 20s and low 30s tonight. 15 days until the start of winter and three minutes and 15 days until the start of spring. we can do it. hang in there. we are so used to warm temperatures that this is sort of -- it's kind of jumped at us quickly. we have been talking about it for more than a week. right now 43 in philadelphia. 41 by midnight. bottoming out in the low 30s across philadelphia. for the rest of the area, outlying areas into berks county and lehigh valley, that's where you will see the upper 20s. i'll focus on the feels-like. the wind and air temperature on bare skin. this is what you dress for. the windchill is 37 in philadelphia. tomorrow morning it will be 27 in philadelphia. 23 for a feels-like or windchill in doylestown when you head out. tomorrow afternoon not much better. mid and upper 30s.

let's roll into friday. a windchill of 25 in philadelphia. 20 in west chester. 21 in allentown to start the day. that cold air will be cold enough to support snow showers too. when i come back we'll discuss who might get those. jim. at 6:00. southern california wildfires appear to be getting worse. late this afternoon a new fire broke out in the exclusive bel air neighborhood. dozens of homes have burned since monday when the fire broke out and officials say the flames are a threat now to thousands of other buildings. we have a live picture from california. you see the smoke and flames there, very close to those large homes. and an interesting note for eagles' fans. the los angeles rams moved their practice inside today because of all the smoke. the rams play the eagles at the coliseum sunday, however, the fires are not expected to affect the game. now to an nbc10 exclusive.

two crooks in south jersey on a serial spree of game stop holdups. the you see the man holding a knife to an employee's neck on november 25th. they stole thousands of dollars along with x-box and playstation games. the security footage is from one of six armed holdups in recent weeks. >> maybe if i heard something like this on the news i would shop online, not come into the store. >> the hope is getting the video out and specifically with the clothing, public, somebody saw them. maybe knows who they are. >> the only description is a piece of clothing police are working with. and it's this blue sweatshirt here. anyone with information is asked to call police. now to a scare at a philadelphia elementary school after a student brought a loaded gun to school at general georgia mccall elementary in society hill. officials with the school district say police were called after the principal was informed that a student was in possession of the weapon. the school was placed on a brief

lockdown and both the student and the gun were removed. fortunately no one was hurt. more changes coming for pennsylvania students when it comes to preparing for standardized testing. governor come wolf met with students today. he announced that beginning next school year students will take the pssa test later in the year and will spend less time preparing for the test in the classroom. it could soon become legal to smoke pot for pleasure in delaware. it might mean giving up your guns. some law enforcement officials in the first state want to make sure, if pot becomes legal, recreational marijuana users do not have firearms. they are pushing for pot use to be indicated on driver's licenses. they say it ensures marijuana users are in compliance with federal law which bans pot users from owning guns. philadelphia police are getting strange. to stop parking wars in your neighborhood this winter. how they are inspired by

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s. welcome back. right now at 6:00, the silence breakers who gave a voice to sex assault survivors are the 2017 person of the year. today "time" magazine gave e title to the women of the #metoo movement who shared their sexual abuse stories. the women triggered a national conversation about sexual misconduct from hollywood to capitol hill and workplaces all over the country. nbc10's denise nakano shows us how their courage has inspired victims in our area to get help. >> reporter: the phones at victim services center of montgomery county are the busiest the agency has seen in a while. >> everything you share with me is confidential. >> reporter: there has been an increase in calls coming into its 24-hour hotline since the me too campaign an social media went viral. >> it's something that's increasing that awareness and increasing the numbers of calls

and people reaching out and speaking out about what's happening. >> reporter: a cultural shift. a movement like we haven't seen in decades. "time" magazine naming the silence breakers behind the "me too" movement as person of the year, adding more attention, impact and validation to what victim services centers says it's known all along. >> this is what we do every day for the last 44 years. victim services center has been here addressing this issue. i ing that this is a shift that's going to be real. >> reporter: in norristown. denise nakano, nbc10 news. up next, an "nbc nightly news" exclusive. ashley judd speaks out about her experience with sexual abuse. she is one of the silence breakers featured by "time" magazine. here at home a beloved mall santa with an unventional approach is toning it down. scott diethorpe has the word

naughty and nice tattooed on his arms. this year mall goers are being told santa scott will only be taking traditional christmas photos. no tattoos or upside down poses. new at 6:00. philadelphia police found a creative but strange way to remind you it's illegal so save parking spot, especially when it slows. take a look. the department spoofed the netflix hit series "stranger things" with their own version called savies things to remind people about the city's no savies rules. it points to some of the strang stranger things officers have seen. a milk crate. a toilet and an old dining room chair. police say they released the video today because of the chance for snow this weekend. they are paying attention, tammie. >> they are. i don't think we'll have that

much snow. i am embarrassed to say i put a tv tray in the parking space before. you shovel a ton of snow and somebody pulls in with a mini cooper and you say, what happened. i won't do it again. but we won't get enough to worry about that this weekend. it's next week that we potentially could see several storm systems that might give us a little bit more measurable snow. it's too far down the road right now to pin them down as to exactly where they'll go. outside right now we have some high, thin clouds. we are cloudy. this is where we're going to go tonight. dropping at midnight to 41 in philadelphia. 8:00 tomorrow you will see sunshine and 37 degrees. in the pennsylvania suburbs you will wake up in the low 30s with sunshine. lehigh valley, you will wake up in the upper 20s and low 30s. if we go out to delaware it will be about 36. a little warmer there. 36 in new jersey.

by the time we reach 8:00 in the morning you may be punching 40 along the jersey shore. the water temperature is so mild at around 50 degrees. doppler radar not picking up precipitation. but the satellite shows us the cloud deck across the area with the exception of the poconos which are clear now and getting cold. the cold air is coming in behind the cold front that brought us the rain last night. as it moves across the warmer lake waters it's generating a lot of lake-effect snow and we'll get the cold air rushing in. hour by hour. good-bye to the clouds overnight. we'll scour them out. tomorrow morning, sunshine across much of the area. with the exception of all of you down in delaware, rehoboth beach. lewes. cape may in new jersey. high, thin clouds drifting through friday. a coastal storm system could bring snow to southern parts of

delaware and along the south jersey and jersey shore area. and then that moves out of the area. you are thinking, oh, not a big deal. at 2:30 saturday afternoon, another push from the system may bring flurries as far north as philadelphia and light accumulating snow from south delaware through south jersey and then that's gone and then we clear out for sunday, but it does become quite cold. and then we turn farther to the west because, yes, there are several more storm systems that will come rotating through. we are also going to deal with cold, cold air. whenever you see pink off a temperature map, that's fiercely cold. this is a week from today. notice the pink didn't go away. we are stuck in the pink. stuck in the cold. these are the temperatures. same time of day for about ten days from now. we are going to be very chilly. and we're going to be looking at several shots of possible snow. so be prepared. 44 for tomorrow in the afternoon. we will see sunshine. 39 on friday.

snow showers basically south of the area. same for saturday. flurries are possible in philadelphia. 38 on sunday. 44 monday. here comes the next storm system. tuesday night and wednesday we'll watch it closely for accumulating snow. temperatures bottom out. only 33 for a high next thursday. that's pretty chilly. i am john clark live in anaheim, california, at the angel's baseball stadium. we brought you practice live at 5:00. coming up next. carson wentz and head coach doug pederson. stay tuned for that. sorry. i can't make it.

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>> this is the birds' new home for the week. they've relocated out here for their practices. it is the angels' baseball stadium. so, play football! take a look at carson wentz out on the field. playing a little center field like his bff mike trout from millville, new jersey, does here. the birds preparing to play the rams. carson wentz and jared goff went one-two in the draft last year and already they are the most successful quarterbacks to go one-two in their drafts in their first two years. carson and jared worked out before the draft, and they care still fr >> i think it's exciting. anytime two young quarterbacks like us face off, it's exciting. like you said, i am -- i have playing their defense and vice versa. it's exciting for the league. jared and i are both excited about it. it will be a fun one. >> as you know, the eagles won

nine straight games. they were doing a lot of dancing and celebrating. then they had a tough loss on the road at seattle this past sunday. and it seems, defensive coordinator jim schwartz would like to see more of a focus on practice than some of the fun. >> our guys have the ability to play with -- and have some fun out on the field. but there is also a fine line between doing that and losing focus. and, you know, maybe that's -- maybe that's something we can improve on. >> i want them to still fly around, have fun out there just like you said. there is a fine line between, you know, how far you can go. but we still have to get our work done and stay focused. >> tight end zach ertz was not practicing today. still in concussion protocol.

darren sproles is rejoining the team and helping to coach the running backs. john clark in california. we're right back. flrb

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. chilly night there as we look live at the philadelphia museum of art. temperatures will only get lower as a cold spell sticks around for the next ten days. it does make for good ice-skating weather. we are not seeing the rink, but we can imagine that it's beautiful on the rink. beautiful shot of university city. the traffic doesn't look too bad. >> it feels like the holidays. do this to them on january 2nd and they'll be grouchy. that's what i found out in the past. the ten-day. chilly night tonight. low 30s, upper 20s in the outlying areas. 39 friday. could see snow showers for southern delaware and south jersey. may be flurries, 38 on sunday. first real chance of snow may come the middle of next week. we'll keep an eye on it. >> that's our news at 6:00.

thanks for watching. i am jim rosenfield. up next, "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. stay warm. see you at 11:00. tonight, los angeles in flames. apocalyptic scenes like something out of the movies. multimillion dollar brentwood and bel-air burned to the ground. >> and now it's just gone. and to watch it burn. >> forecasters warning the worst is yet to come. the middle east bracing for a potential wave of violence after president trump recognizes jerusalem as the israeli capital up-ending decades of u.s. policy condemned by leaders around the world. will al franken resign? the senator set to make an announcement as new accusers come forward and democratic senators say it's time for him to go. important health news tonight. wh