sixers' co-owner michael ruben and jay-z's rock label paid for it. >>> an nba legend and rap superstar were among the hundreds gathered in center city last night demanding that meek mill be freed from prison. >> free meek mill! free meek mill! >> those chants echoed through the streets as the crowd listened to several speakers including sixers legend dr. j., rapper rick ross, and philadelphia eagle malcolm jenkins. a judge sentenced mill to two to four years in prison for jailiting a probation on a -- for violating a probation on a drug and gun charge in 2008. >> a young man like that don't need no two to four years. that's awful. >> we using meek mill to draw attention and speak for so many others. >> north korean rally hope this will -- many at the rally hope this leads to reform in the federal justice system. >>> today the deliberations will continue in the bob menendez trial. jurors revealed they were deadlocked and could not reach a verdict on any of the 18 counts of the senator. the judge ordered them back to keep deliberating. menendez is accused of taking gifts from a wealthy f

mill's release and tuesday we spotted bill boards financed by close friend and sixers co owner michael ruben who called mill in a letter to the judge, a good son, father and loyal friend >> we believe that this is such a wrong that the only way that it can be righted is to bring him home. >> reporter: meek mill is behind bars in camp hill at a state prison. we did reach out to the judge. numerous times, we have not heard back from judge brinkley. reporting live at the criminal justice center, david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news." >>> the search son for the gunman who fatally shot a customer inside an applebee's in mercer county in route one in lawrenceville around 12 7b this morning, 23-year-old devon smith of lawrence township was gunned down sitting at the restaurant's bar. no one else was hurt. that shooter got away in a dark colored suv. >>> a delaware county doctor entrusted with the care of his patients is facing criminal charges. two women say dr. breeze shreeve touched them inappropriately during physical exams. he practiced on the 400 block in upper darby. police want anyone else who

mill's release and tuesday we spotted bill boards financed by close friend and sixers co owner michael ruben who called mill in a letter to the judge, a good son, father and loyal friend >> we believe that this is such a wrong that the only way that it can be righted is to bring him home. >> reporter: meek mill is behind bars in camp hill at a state prison. we did reach out to the judge. numerous times, we have not heard back from judge brinkley. reporting live at the criminal justice center, david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news." >>> the search son for the gunman who fatally shot a customer inside an applebee's in mercer county in route one in lawrenceville around 12 7b this morning, 23-year-old devon smith of lawrence township was gunned down sitting at the restaurant's bar. no one else was hurt. that shooter got away in a dark colored suv. >>> a delaware county doctor entrusted with the care of his patients is facing criminal charges. two women say dr. breeze shreeve touched them inappropriately during physical exams. he practiced on the 400 block in upper darby. police want anyone else who

square i'm joe kernan along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin our guest host this morning michael rubenompany behind major e-commerce brands like fanatics, ruelala and shop runner we'll have more from michael in just a moment. a quick look at the futures after another big week, again, last week. even though it was a holiday shortened week you can see this morning a little bit of give back. down 17 on the dow nasdaq down 4.5. the s&p down less than a point treasury yields i saw earlier, 231 on the ten-year or so. now 233. the dollar is kind of interesting. you see the euro back to 120. the dollar weaker. check out oil prices kind of an interesting thing you see did mark grand send you that this morning about the battle royal as being set up between who is the swing producer the saudis in line with russia we're going to try to take on the fracturers here to transform our industry here with horizontal drilling. >> they're a swing producer until prices go back up to $60 a barrel, at which point it makeso turn things back on here >> we've been able to keep supply a little bit lower, and we g

sixers co-owner michael ruben tanking along, embiid the latest to join the public outcry for meek's two-four year sentence for violating parole. ruben has been vocal about friend of his, so he went to go visit him. >> a lot of people fly out of philadelphia on american airlines. which is merged with us air. the planes are ready took. they're just underneath pilots to fly you to your christmas holiday celebrations. see, that is a key. you really have to have a pilot. >> you need somebody to fly on the plane. >> that would be helpful, ya. plus: how you can get your hands on pope francis' fiat. well, one of them that he used to crews the streets of philadelphia. >> ♪ philadelphia. >> ♪ >> ♪ $1.99 hot chocolate at dunkin'? philadelphia. >> ♪ >>that's like a big yummy hug. so hug it up! hug more. hug large. hug medium? hug that. live it a hug life with $1.99 medium or larger hot chocolate. america runs on dunkin'. >> oh, a little over two years, now, since the pope was here? well the second of the two fiat's, up for grabs, will auction it off, al next. >> bidding continues through december 20th,

right, really interesting developments there thanks very much there, lauren >>> and 76ers co-owner michael ruben vouched for meek mill hoping to possibly ease this punishment. he wrote a lengthy letter to the judge saying he is personally invested. our world is often too divided we need people like meek to be bridge builders and difference make tours build people of all walks of life together. >>> another big news we are following, of course, slew of new charges in the hazing death of the penn state sophomore. center county d.a. says video cameras in the basement of the beta theta pi fraternity house aught the hazing of 19 year-old timothy piazza but had been deleted, by a fraternity brother. the fbi has retrieved that deleted video and now that fraternity member is accused have deleting it and facing tampering charges. district attorney charged 10 new defendants and reinstated charges against those who had their case drop. video show piazza was served 18 drinks in just an hour and 22 minutes. >> they claimed that we don't know what else happened other than what was seen in the upstairs video an

owner of the sixers wrote a letter to the judge page sick tv got a coach it local businessman michael rubenoes on for two pages trying to convince the judge that meek mill was a good friend and father. it didn't work. he's still going to prison. his attorney plans to appeal. >>> only on fox, here's something you don't see every day. a cerebral cat a wildcat that's typically found in africa but a long way from home. fox 29's chris o'connell is live in birdsboro, berks county, tonight with details how the cat goss here. chris are this is pretty wild stuff. >> reporter: yeah, iain. when it comes to the animal business, you never know what might be coming through the shelter doors. well here at the animal rescue league of berk county, they have had crocodiles. they've had monkeys. they've had lizards. but they never expected what would come in next. >> people scene him and they got scared and came over this way. >> reporter: when this group of reading teenagers walk down madison avenue friday, they knew what they saw. >> i thought it was going to kill me. >> reporter: was no ordinary stray cat.

also, the sixers co-owner, michael ruben, went as well, embiid just the latest to join the public outcry meek's two to four year sentence for violating parole. >> if you get thirsty on the schuylkill river trail, and don't already have some water with you, you may be out of luck this winter. philadelphia's water department preparing for winter, which means, shot g own all four schuylkillot g stations. grounds level bowls for dogs, shutting them down of course protect the pipes so they won't burst in freezing temperatures. don't worry, though, as usual, the stations will reopen in the spring. >> there is a man who lost a ring that's so important to him. it has been in his family for almost a century. he now is offering a reward to get it back, if you have seen t his name paul vern, a he's going to give a thousand dollars to anyone who returns that ring, now, take a look, pretty distinctive. he lost the ring when he went to a flyers game last tuesday. he was simply drying his hands in the bathroom, and he said the ring's gold with the initials nv engraved in it, it belongs you can see ther

. >>> 76ers co-owner michael ruben vouched, hoping to ease his punishment. he wrote a lengthy letter to the judge saying he is personally invested and that our world is often too divided we need people like meek that can be bridge builders and difference make tours pull people of all walks of life, to go. >>> another big head line, a sly of new charges in the hazing death of the penn state sophomore, center county d.a. says video cam was in the basement of the beta theta pi courthouse caught hazing of the 19 year-old timothy piazza but they had been deleted by a fraternity brother but the fbi managed to retrieve that video and new one of the fraternity brothers braxton becker is facing tampering charges. d.a. has charged 10 new defendants and reinstated charges against those who had their cases drop. video shows pea as was served 18 drinks in just one hour and 22 minutes. >> they claimed we don't know what else happened other than what was seen in the upstairs video. we don't know what happened in the basement. guess what, guys? now we know. >> piazza fell t

michael ruben, middle east scholar with the american enterprise institute, good to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> what's going on in saudi arabia >> basically, the answer is all of the above when it comes to is this about consolidating power, is this about fighting corruption look, when you do business in saudi arabia, it's all about who you know there are 15,000 princes in saudi arabia and so what the crown prince is doing is basically saying all real decisions need to come through me at the same time he's ambitious, he wants to reform the economy to modernize it, and he doesn't want to have to deal with resistance the problem is, what happens if he fails then you could see a regression in saudi arabia that leaves it far worse than where it is right now. >> they are trying to take the oil company of saudi arabia public we have had guests on who said they think that will be impossible, that the balance sheet of the country and the company are completely intertwined and the vested interests are so hard to overcome that they will never list in a real place like london or ne