one of the rear tires runs over krause's leg, breaking his femur. rush over to help and cops pull the driver out of the vehicle. the operator of the suv is 30-year-old luther harling. earlier in the day he nearly struck a police officer with his car in neighboring norristown. authorities gave chase, but called off the pursuit after harling crossed into the next town. but a half hour later, harling comes barreling through the road block set up around the accident scene. >> oh, my god. fire man down. >> firefighter krause is c conscious but badly injured. >> a lot of concern, a lot of panic, is this guy going to make it? is he all right? >> krause is unable to see since the impact from the hit break s the capillaries in his eyes, temporarily blinding him. soon he's on a gurney and headed to a chopper. krause suffers multiple broken bones including fractured vertebrae. doctors say he came within centimeters of a spinal injury that could have left him paralyzed. luther harling is convicted of endangering another person. he serves 4 1/2 years and is rele

"(bill krause, homeowner) "i won't be watching that movie any time soon." (bill krause, homeowner) "the whole tree was engulfed, the couch was engulfed, the living room was engulfed, like that" " fire investigators say the homeowners cats chewed on a string of lights on the christmas tree.. causing it to explode! luckily no people were hurt. and unlike the doomed cat in the movie... firefighters were able to save these cats with pet oxygen masks. firefighters say it's unusual for fake trees to go up in flames like this, but say it's a good reminder to check your lights for frays if you have animals. if you're looking for a last minute holiday service project... there's help out those in need. the salvation army has just one day to reach their kettle donation goals. why they need a you've seen the salvation army bell ringers out at stores around the valley. their kettle drive ends tomorrow... and they still need a lot of help.

"the whole tree was engulfed, the couch was engulfed, the living room was engulfed, like that" krause, his girlfriend and their three kids got out safely. you can see here everything is covered in soot and ash. the cats made it out alive, as well! the firefighters were able to save them with pet oxygen masks. fire crews are reminding people to check their light strands often to make sure they aren't frayed. a florida jewelry store is putting together a last minute deal for anybody still needing a gift for their significant other. customers who buy from a selection of jewelry costing more than 450- dollars are shotgun! the store has run the promotion for the past three years on christmas and valentine's day. it's so popular they say they've already run out of shotguns and had to order more. the store owner says customers must undergo a federal background check before they can leave with the gun. looks like our holiday cold front has gotten a little bit stronger! high temperatures today will be in the mid and upper 50s with partly cloudy skies building through the day into the overnight

>> a guy named david krause. >> he's british. >> yes. >> so if this is an immigration story, david krauseer from "clockwork orange." >> they haven't given him credit and there is a white actor in darth vader. >> who cares, he's in costume. >> what about you, chewbacca? >> whose hairy father is that? >> i think you're the only one at this table who has seen a "star wars" movie. >> no, i've seen, all of them, obviously the new ones. >> i'm the only one who has. if yand you're talking toevere rheumyour rheumatologiste me, about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira giving me new perspective. doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions,

tina krause, cbs news. >> as the claimant change talks continue, china is dealing with hazardous smog. those in the northern part of the country have been told to stay inside. the air is heavy with smog. more than 2,000 factories in china have been ordered to suspend production. students are being kept inside at school. >>> coming up this noon, a show of support. hillary clinton gets a big boost but one big name is missing. we'll explain why. >> burned by the board. a woman's home goes up in flames. why she says a high-tech toy is to blame. >> still ahead, no money, no problems. the deal to keep one of the most popular attractions opened 2016. a strong show of support for hillary clinton with one big name missing. 13 female senators rallied behind the democratic poll leader but massachusetts senator elizabeth warren was missing. she has yet to endorse a presidential candidate. >>> the mbta is coming up with then are facing a deficit of more than $240 million for the next fiscal year. to eliminate that, they are considering getting rid of late night service and making changes to the ri

but dw's ruth krause visited a small national park in the south american country of colombia where theydo things differently to ensure that humans can co-exist peacefully with their closest relatives. >> this is the sound of the colombian red howler monkey. jorge ferrer and his coworker want to know how many of them are living in the los colorados national park. they've been walking for three hours now. >> [whispering] look, another one! that's now three juveniles, three adults and one pregnant female let's see if there are any more surprises! >> what is it that he loves about monkeys? >> [whispering] maybe it's because they look like little people up there, that are asking themselves: "what are they doing down there? are they protecting us? or wanting to harm us?" look, they're watching us! >> the howler monkeys are just one of many species of ape living in the park which covers only 10 square kilometres. the cotton-top tamarin, for example, is found only in colombia and is a critically endangered species. the park is also home to several hundred species of birds. there even used to be

when you have a death like this, jurors take it extremely sear krausely. you're going to have to show them something special as to why in their responsible they shouldn't protect the community from this happening again. >> go ahead. i'm sorry. >> it's okay. >> i was going to say -- go ahead. >> what end up happening is the jury 19 out of 20 times find the defendant guilty because they don't want to happening again. >> this may be an impossible question to answer, but can you think, tom, in your memory or experience any case like this where you someone 14 at the time, found guilty in a case like this as a juvenile, spends a length of time in prison and gets out on parole? >> no, i can't. the facts and circumstances of this are so -- you know, i'm trying to go back in my memory for cases. this has just got this volatile mix of a brutal killing with a sexual assault by a 14-year-old and a school of a -- in a school of a teacher. i think the public would be completely outraged if this boy got paroled at any point. i think part of the process we have now. we wa

bill krause has been coming here weekly for as long as he can remember. >> a lot of people will miss it. >> reporter: originally located up the block very best moved here to high street the in the mid 70's and ever since then they have been serving up that true taste of americana inside a white bread bun. we were told that the everything is everything, so that is what we have, we have a dog, we have chile, we have some cheese, on there too. maybe some mustard. the lets a's see. and then the sauce. >> we're making up for lost time. >> we have been here twice this week. >> reporter: despite community's mad rush for their final dogs, the store owner says suffering sales over the years took its tolls, surrounded by vacant storefronts it is clear pottstown is going through a transitional time. >> we are hoping something else moves in here. >> reporter: like a good friend leaving town regulars shared stories and posed for pictures as they said good bye to a place called very best. >> there is a place you can come and be safe and happy if not for a little while. >> reporter: in pottstown, a

jonathan krause and jacory shepherd met with students from there stepping stones scholars middle grades academy. the students were at temple university to show off their robotic creations. they're using science and math to help them prepare for a robotics competition next month. son, the holiday season's just like football season... you got your big games... ...cheese plates, turkey, appetizers. and regular games. get it all at a great price... ...and the holiday season is won. that's my boy! fill your cart with everything you need this season, all at one place. my giant. >> another game where the eagles played well in spots, did enough to win. >> exactly. funny a couple weeks ago we were looking at the clock, time of death on the season. they are very much alive. in fact the eagles jim control their own defendant flee. if they went out and there are three games to go they'll win the division and make the post season. yesterday against buffalo they came up with another big win. sam bradford is getting better and better and he seems to be playing with more confidence. nelson aguilar with

pressure, storm center will actually get swept off to the northeast, cold front that trails, that's what krauseents over area later today. so, we essentially see a line of rain moving in. but we are going to be dealing with that i would say probably from evening rush in toward about midnight. then it starts to clear out. meantime still on pace to have a well above average day here. every day thus far in the month of this december 2015 has still been substantially above average. we did end up with a record breaking weekend by the way. actually we approach records today at 67 degrees, unheard of. then finally cool it down. we flirt with 60, as opposed to 70, come tomorrow. meisha, a over to you. >> good morning, everyone, happy monday to you. yes, it will be beautiful in terms of temperatures, up there, at around 67, like katie said. right now dealing with such dense fog, that it certainly is causing some problems for you, driving in and around specially this area, live shot from fatal accident in tinicum township. delaware county, just past the airport, 95 south, before route four, to and i can

. >>> a 71-year-old woman hit and killed while krausing the street. police believe they tracked down the driver and left her for dead. crystal haines spoke with people who know her and join us live. >> reporter: the 71-year-old was steps from her door on pleasant street at her apartment complex when that driver struck her at the intersecond and took off. she was just steps from home. >> i was p devastated because i liked her. >> 71-year-old chen was standing outside of her apartment complex in malden sunday when a driver hit her and took off. chen was taken to a local hospital where she later died from her injuries. >> i feel so bad for her. >> reporter: vera is one of many neighbors neighbors upset by the news. chen remembered fondly. this is a picture of her celebrating chinese new year's. she told me the two of them were close. chen's son broke the now her today. police tell me this is a very active investigation and they located the vehicle connected to the fatal crash inth morning. fox 25 captured video deep in the police department garage with c

kimberly: the waterskiing santa and his elves brought krause -- crowds. they brought behind it -- left behind a jacket. are they enjoying it? reporter: many of them are. take a look behind the a you can see flowers that are still blooming this time of year when many of us focus on christmas. is a time when you normally need the gloves. have about the coat? just to warm. 'twas the day before christmas and all through d.c. there were short and bare feet and deals of green. >> it's unbelievable. i have lived here my whole life and i've never seen anything like this. reporter: on this record-setting day people flocked. john and his son spent the morning on a dock. >> you would normally cooped up this time of year. to the out and about is nice. let him burdensome energy and then go home and take a nap and get ready for santa. it --er: they barely made needed a coat is a had about that headed out on a boat. >> my mom always bundles me up and i'm like no, it's not that cold. reporter: gliding down the potomac with santa on water skis. warm weather now that old m

an elderly women hit the 90-year-old whiles krauseing maldin street. he suffered possibly life threatening injury. neighbors of the victim are shaken up. >> it's sad. sad, scary. it is a busy street. i feel bad for the women who hit him as well as if it's an elderly women who hit him and elderly man that got hit. it's not a good situation. it's not. >>> the man who was hit served in world war ii and korea. so far the driver is not facing charges. >>> new this morning egypt chief investigator saying so far there's no indication of any terrorist ability in the crash of runnion plane in october. they released a statement saying they don't have evidence it went down because of foul play. they are still investigatun. russia said an explosive device caused crash to kill everyone onboard. isis claimed responsibility. >>> on the president's agenda today the fight against isis. president obama is set to deliver a statement on his strategy to his counterterror group. he's meeting with an national security council then will give public update on the what the u.s.

for electrician peter krause there's nothing unusual about a job wiring up a suburban swimming pool.ozens of them in the six years he's worked for a minnesota electrical company. but on june 10th, 2011, he works on a pool installation that's far from ordinary. >> it's not every day that you install a continuous motion pool. they're not very common. and it's not every day that a crane lifts it up over the house. >> peter pulls out his phone to catch the process on camera. >> the main reason was just to show my son the clip. i thought that he would get a kick out of it. >> at first everything goes swimmingly. but as the crane operator is guiding the pool over the garage, peter can't help but call out a warning. >> watch out for the chimney. >> it looked like he was getting really close to the chimney. he couldn't hear me call anything out to him. the machine itself is really loud. i just had an inkling or some kind of feeling that something might happen. >> peter's right. something will happen, but it's not the pool hitting the chimney. the crane operator maneuvers it safely past that

freelance photojournalist dan krause is photographing the event near the stage. >> it's almost like akind of thing but just way newer with new technology, and it's the new youth culture. >> you see a lot of, like, people in different costumes. sometimes they're, like, really creative or sometimes they're just like regular bathing suits and bikinis. >> as the rides are in motion and music is under way, fans are finding their places throughout the stadium. chris cox is a music producer and deejay sitting in the vip section. >> they stopped letting people downstairs because they wanted to start filling in the bleachers. >> and they all wanted to get down into the field, which was packed with people. and there are only a few access points where people could get through. and then so many people just started pushing, and you know, it just kept getting more dense and tighter and everybody's getting more squished. so, people just started climbing over the fences. >> almost imperceptibly, an orderly situation takes a dangerous shift. a local news chopper captures it all from the air. >> people

ted krause behind closed doors he's not worried about carson or donald trump. >> i believe that gravity bring both of those campaigns down. people are looking for who is prepared to be a commander in chief. who understands the threats we face. who am i comfortable having their finger on the button. >> cruz has jumped to second in the latest news poll ahead of carson well behind trump. billionaire businessman has maintained his lead despite controversial call on muslims entering the country of the during radio interview senator lindsey graham offered his opinion on trump's staying power with some gop voters? about 40% primary voters, believe obama was born in kenya and is a muslim. >> says trump nomination would lead to hillary clinton inauguration. craig boswell, cbs-3, "eyewitness news" news. >>> democratic frontrunner hillary clinton told supporters in oak home al that she is the only presidential candidate with a plan to defeat isis. >> new details in the $130 merger every dupont and dow. due pot and announced cut 5,000 jobs ahead of the merger. delaware governor jack markell said he

the row bots were designed and built by the young students and eagles players jonathan krause and jacory there to clear the clear t. >> still ahead lost in translation what a lord and taylor ad said instead of happy hanukkah. >> plus if you're truly hot you'll never be cold. that's just one of the rules for being a woman in december according to one hilarious blogger. what else she found hidden in holiday ads. >> and meteorologist adam joseph back with there continuously hot accuweather forecast. a little bit of cold coming. "action news" at 4:00 continues next. >> ♪ >> army sergeant bowe bergdahl will face charges of desertion and endangering fellow soldiers in a military court. bergdahl was captured by the taliban in 2009 after disappearing from his base in afghanistan. six soldiers were killed in the months after during missions aimed at finding and rescuing him. the officer overseeing bergdahl's preliminary hearing recommended he face a special court-martial and no jail time but today an army commander ordered a general court-martial meaning bergdahl could face life in prison. >> a b