pinkston came up with the ball and scored to force overtime.n the extra period it was all november v pinkston with the basket. he scored 25 points. villanova remains unbeaten holding off syracuse 82 to 77. we w >> got a story you would like us to investigate? e-mail your ideas to i-team at cbs3.com. >> welcome back. an arizona homeowner catches a would be burglar. she says that she set up a live video feed to keep an eye on her dogs while she was away. well, she pulled up the feed at work and saw an intruder walking around her house. he evenhanded out a couple treats to the dogs. she then called police. the intruder noticed the camera but turned it off but officers were already on their way. it was too late. that man told police he was trying to get an xbox video game system. yeah, you might want to go to the store for that one. >>> thank you for watching the cw philly tonight. for justin, beasley, all of us here, i'm natasha brown. we'll see you at 11:00 on cbs3. >> ♪ wow. you got a whole world going on in there, huh? huh? your--your nightstan

on the inbound pass, seven seconds left, ryan archie arcidiacono to steel, pinkston the finish.a scores five points in 14 seconds to force overtime. they will go nuts at wells fargo. their first lead until overtime, that is pinkston, and 25 for him today, and he seals it with a block. villanova wins 82-77 in overtime, they are 11-o. >> syracuse and villanova it has never been anything but what we just saw, and good team, man. i don't think we were well prepared. players i thought didn't come with great intensity. so we have a lot of work to do. and as does drexel, drexel down double digits, as well as pep state and allentown today on the run, jordan dickerson with the dunk, penn state up 20 with seven to go. dragons go on fire. how about a 15-o run. mohammad with the slam to get them within five. pep state hangs on reading native donovan jack slams the door on their come back a tell. penn state wins. drexel have lost eight of ten to start the the year. >>> jimmy rollins is the first of many iconic phillies players, general manager ruben a amaro is trying to trade this winter. a

pinkston carries the cats to 11 and zero and would not led syracuse ruin things this time. >> oh, manla explain, but it was a good feeling. made the play to take it into overtime as senior leader. >> i think we have upper classman men mainly jason pinkston and darren hilliard who just carry our team. we're very fortunate to have seniors like that. that was probably the difference today. >> you know the dodgers feel they got a slam dunk in jimmy rollins. they want him to be leader. but he wants to let you know he will miss being right here in philadelphia. in a full page ad in today's philadelphia inquirer, rollins said words cannot begin to describe what these past 18 years as a phillie have meant to me. starting as a teenager from northern california, becoming a husband and now father of two beautiful children, i've spent nearly half of my life growing up in front of all of you. ironically, rollins says, he sees the same thing in his new team that he loved while he was here. >> the most important thing is they're built to win right this very moment playing against them i get a sense

the ball will get to pinkston who ties it up at 69. overtime. nova never led until o.t.ova escapes 82-77. l1salle wins, st. joe's loses, penn state beat drexel. we're back. >>> holiday festivities in west oak lane. santa paid a visit to a party. this is the fourth annual intercommunal give back feast and concert. families got a meal, gently used clothing and a chance to mingle with their neighbors. and the sixers squad were there to run drills with the kids. i'm denise nakano. an all new "snl" is next. and one direction is the musical guest. >>> live from the north of england, your host sam smith. [ cheers and applause ]

pinkston, 25 points and he will put it away with a block. nova are 11-0 for a second straight season. have a good sunday, everybody. >>> christmas eve is just a few days away, and norad is ready >>> a little bit later on this morning, a lot of people will head to the wells fargo center. it's not for a basketball or hockey game. it's for a celebration that will make christmas a lot brighter for some local families. >>> today, there will be plenty of holiday cheer in south philly. it's all thanks to volunteers committed to giving as many children as possible a holiday filled with love, joy, and warmth. >>> reading's infamous charlie brown christmas tree is now all lit up for the holidays. the community held a rededication ceremony last night. at the center of what's been a controversy since last month. some people complain eed it was ugly and scrawny. since then, they've rallied around the symbol of christmas. >>> "nbc 10 news today" continues in just a moment with another half-hour of news. nbc 10's matt delucia is live in newcastle county fo

randall pinkston. >> reporter: tony, as we all know grand jury proceedings are usually secret. we don't know what they heard and saw but we do know this. prosecutors are in charge, and there is a difference in the way prosecutors handle case where is civilians are accused of using deadly force, versus when police are accused. new york city consists of five counties. in richmond county eric garner died last july during an arrest by new york city police officers, district attorney daniel donovan spent three months questioning witnesses. they call that lengthy presentation highly unusual in homicide cases. especially where there is video evidence. >> if you or i were on videotape putting our arm around someone's neck, and that person then said i can't breathe, we sat on them, we died, we would be indicted in 30 seconds, and the grand jury would take no more than a day, possibly two. >> reporter: the difference here says howell and other legal experts is that the potential defendant, daniel panaleo was a police officer. he was the one who used a choke hold to subdue garner. >> how

being what it is, to me it is clear as day that this is unreasonable unjustifiable force. >> randall pinkston, al jazeera. >> thousands of cases are being rushed through the texas child protective system, courts are overburdened and understaffed. there are changes underway. heidi zhou-castro has the report. >> as judge lien byrne dawns her robe, she is prepared for the decision she is about to make, where a child sleeps at night and his immediate safety is in her hands. >> these could be the decisions you make, what if i get it wrong? >> in the seven years of handling child protective cases judge byrne is haunted by those she got wrong. 11 month old arian came before the judge and the judge decided she should stay with an aunt. >> at that moment with the information i was provided i made the best decision i could make. >> reporter: within a year the child was dead. a man visiting the home had crushed her skull. >> it is your worst nightmare that a child under my watch would die. now, if i'd made a different decision, would the same result happen? i don't know. i don't know. >> what the judges

pinkston, 25 points and he will put it away with a block.nova are 11-0 for a second straight season. have a good sunday, everybody. behold, the subway steak, egg white and cheese: start your morning off right with juicy, sizzly steak, stacked high with protein-packed egg whites, melty cheese and whatever else you love, like jalapeños or spinach - all on warm, toasty flatbread. subway. eat fresh. >>> christmas eve is just a few days away, and norad is ready for santa's journey across the world. you can play games, watch videos, and listen to some of st. nick's favorite tunes and get ready for his arrival. you can check it all out on our website, nbc10.com. heartwarming story just in time for the holidays. three teachers in north carolina decided that their students deserved a nice christmas, so they raised thousands of dollars to make it happen. >> four, three, two, one! >> the fourth grade teachers called it project christmas. they quietly raised $100 for each of their students for the holiday surprise. of course, it was a very loud event on

randall pinkston has the story. >> where eric garner died last july, district attorney donald donovan spent nearly three months presenting evidence and calling witnesses. highly unusual in homicide cases especially where there's video evidence. >> i can't breathe, i can't breathe. >> if you or i were on videotape putting our arm around someone's neck and that person then said i can't breathe and we sat on them and they died we would be indicted in 30 seconds and the grand jury would take no more than a day, possibly two. >> reporter: the difference says howell and some other legal experts, is that the defendant daniel pantaleo was a police officer. he was the one that used a choke hold to subdue garner. >> how does the presumption of innocence shift when the accused is a police officer? >> ideally it doesn't. prosecutors work with police officers as witnesses in just about every case, they collaborate a lot. when a prosecutor seeks an indictment for a police officer, they don't necessarily want that indictment. >> iin effect says howell, to give the public an impression that the grand

and wildcats down a bucket, the orange inbound the ball, the cats force a turn over, pinkston came upthey sent this game to over time. and in the extra periods, it was all nova. pinkston, with the basket, he had 25 points, villanova remains unbeaten, holding off syracuse 82 to 77, was the final. >> i'm beasley reese, for eyewitness sports. >>> all right, well, philadelphia student learn about the meaning of kwanzaa. charter school celebrated with display of arts and crafts, cultural performance at east germantown. the celebration focused on the seven guiding principals of kwanzaa. goal of last ninth's event to unite their families and the community. kwanzaa officially begins december 26 and ends january 1st. >>> well, hershey, pennsylvania calls itself the sweetest place on earth. and now it has become pretty sweet technology, as well. just in time for the holidays, too, it is the world's first, 3d chocolate candy printer. got to get one of these for the home offers for sure. hershey company officials say the new technology gives people away to personalize their chocolate by creating

three point game, pinkston, big block to steal it. nova wins 82-77. 11-0 for a second straight season. >>i>çw we would like to come in win by 15, 20 every game but we know that's not going to happen. we need these kind of games to get us prepared for conference, you know, prepared for april. >> prepare for april? championship game. town. dj newville, nice leading with 20. philly native. penn state wins, 73-68. they're 11-1. best start in 19 Ñyears, direction el 2-8. and then flyers beginning 8 game road trip. maple leaves at the most wins at home in flyer hockey. lost four of the home stand including the shootout loss to the panthers. that was the fifth shootout loss of the season. five big points that have gotten away right there and now a touch stretch away from home. >> every game, you know, this year, from the first game until the last, it's important to get every point you get because everything is so tight. we're not in a great spot or where we want to be, but we have to bounce back and, you know, get as many points as possible. >> steve mason

pinkston, with the basket, he had 25 points, villanova remains unbeaten, holding off syracuse 82 to 77 beasley reese, for eyewitness sport. >>> all right, well, for few years now, ugly christmas sweaters are becoming quite the trend. and now, there is a store that actually specialize in the what some people call haneous holiday attire. ya, the ugly sweater store, just opened up, in beer bank, california. there you can actually customize your own ugly outfit. the owner of the store says to make the best ugly sweater you need lights, you need fur, and something going up the back or even on the sides. >> and so you put that sweater on, you have got that cozy feeling, it just kind of bridges back some kind of memory for a lot of people. and it is fun. and if you're at a holiday party, why not have a conversation piece, it is less awkward if you can go up to someone and ask them about their outfit or where they got it, and it just puts everybody in a real fun and festive mood. >> oh, ya, the folks will be talking about that for sure. that's a great reindeer sweater right there. and by the w

for more we go to randall pinkston. >> reporter: jen, the fbi said that other corporations have suffered from cyber intrusions, but nothing like what happened to sony last month. the fbi said that all of the evidence points at pyongyang. they say they're considering options and president obama promises action. >> president obama put north korea on notice. the u.s. will strike back for the cyberattack on sony pictur pictures. >> they caused a lot of damage. we will respond. we will respond proportionally, and we will respond in a place and time and manner in we choose. it is not something that i would announce here in a press conference. >> it determined that north korea launched the cyberattack on sony. the fbi sited several factors for its conclusion. links to other malware including similarities in code and algorithms. they traced several international it addresses associated with known north korean infrastructure. and they found similarities with a cyberattack launched by north korea against south korea banks and media outlets. >> hello, north korea! >> the cyberattack was apparently

randall pinkston reports. >> john, north korea is denying responsibility for the sony cyber attack but. investigators say the evidence points directly at pyongyang. president obama promises action. president obama put north korea on notice. the u.s. will strike back for the cyber attack on sony pictures. >> they caused a lot of damage. and we will respond. we will respond proportionally and a place and manner that we choose. it is not something that i will announce here today at a press conference. >> the fbi says it consulted with several u.s. agencies and consultants. the fbi cited several factors for its conclusion. malwear, including similarities of code and encryption algorithms. known north korean infrastructure and they found similarities to a cyber attacked launched in march 2013. the cyber attack was apparently against "the interview." after threats of violence, sony decided to cancel the movie. but president obama in his end of the year news conference criticized that decision. >> yes, i think they made a mistake, we cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can

. >> reporter: randall pinkston, al jazeera. >>> former navy seal robert joins me once again.ert are there more of these operations or are we just hearing about them, do you think? >> if it has been in the news already, then it is definitely going to be in the news again. however, the outcome may be. in the intelligence community, you can't broadcast some things. but anybody held publicly is going to be -- the world will find out whatever happens to them. >> the family is pushing the president to help him. to save him. they try one mission. they try another mission. there are u.s. soldiers, some nave i have seals probably at risk. what is an acceptable risk when these operations are -- are conceived? >> in the case of the bin laden raid, we're hearing the guys expected it to be a one-way mission. they themselves voted yes to put everything on the table. in my experience as a seal, i can tell you that this mission and probably every one is the same with the seals going in. your understanding -- we see a wall of honor, you know, seals that have fallen in the fight, and every sin

randall pinkston joins us live. >> tony, yesterday, new york mayor made a visit to likers island to announce the end of solitary confinement for 16 and 17-year-old inmates. eric holder says the pace is just too slow, so the department of justice is intervening in the existing lawsuit. to speed up new york cities response to what the federal government calls a deep seeded culture of violence. and a clear violation of constitutional rights. as a detention facility, one of the largest in the nation. with separate facilities for adults and adolescents. including interviews with inmates and staff, the department of justice described likers as a dangerous place for addless sents where staff, uses force with alarming frequency, force often disproportional to the risk posed by the inmate, results in broken jaws, noses, lacerations. force is used to punish young inmates. and policy with beetings occurring outside the view. facing adolescent at constant risk of physical harm. and 1-12 month period 20/20/12 and 2013. the feds were enforced consent decree, to make sure that reforms do take place. >> thi

randall pinkston is here with more. randall. >> john as we know north korea has been denying they have anything to do with the hack against sony pictures but u.s. investigators say the evidence does indeed point directly as pyongyang. u.s. officials say they are discussing options and president obama promises action. >> president obama put north korea on notice. the u.s. will strike back. for the cyber attack on sony pictures. >> they caused a lot of damage. and we will respond. we will respond proportionally and will respond in a place and time and manner that we this is. it is not something that i will announce here today at a press conference. >> the fbi says it consulted with several departments to see that north korea launched the cyber attack to sony. links to other malwear, including similarities in code and algorithms. ip addresses associated with known north korean infrastructure and they found similarities to a cyber attack launched from north korea in 2013 against south korea's souts infrastructure. confident

. >> randall pinkston, thank you. north korea's hacking of sony pictures is one of several topics that the president talked on. he talked about the decision to normalize relations with cuba. many republicans opposed that move. what message did the president have today? >> i think the president is trying to reach out a hand of cooperation. that will be needed if he's going to accomplish a whole host of items that the president has in the last two years of his presidency, something that he termed the fourth quarter. interesting things sometimes happen in the fourth quarter. in cuba we've seen prominent republicans, foremost marco rubio, who wants to block funding on that legislation. in response to the critics the president said the past 53 years of the embargo has not succeeded. >> i think that ultimately we need to pull down the embargo that is self defeating in but i don't anticipate that that happens right away. i think people will want to see how this moves forward before there is any serious debate about whether o

jason pinkston scores tied.s 14 seconds to force over time in tovrment villanova takes the first lead. villanova comes back to win 82-77 they're 11-0 perhaps the only team root for right now is villanova wildcats. >> 'nova has fight i have to tell you. thank you, jeff. >> a golfer in florida proved you are never too old to improve your game. 103-year-old gus andrione scored a hole in one at the country club liking making him oldest person to ever do so. gus says this is the 8th time he nailed a hole in one since 1939 and looks forward to doing it again. >> i am going to play golf as long as i can play at the club even if i play three our four i'll play golf. >> before gus's big shot oldest person to hit a hole in one was 102-year-old woman from 2007 how about that? >> on the "people scene" christmas came early for actors christian bell and zach sheppard that's what the proud pennsylvania said when he announced birth ever second daughter delta bell sheppard. he joked that the baby doesn't look like either of the

randall pinkston has more. >> after a 2-year investigation of the gaol. the justice department is forming a lawsuit. this comes a day after new york city mayor bill de blasio visited the island to announce the end of solidary confinement for 16 and 17-year-old inmates. that was one of 73 recommendations issued last august. the justice department says the pace is too slow and the lawsuit intended to speed up the response to what the fed called a deep seated violence and the violation of constitutional rites. >> it serves as a detention facility, one of the largest, with separate facilities as adult. after reviewing two years of reports, medical records and complaints, the department of justice describes rikers as a dangerous place for adolescents. force used desproportionate to the risk posed by the inmate. the report find that force is used to punish young inmates in violation of department of corrections policy, with beat iption occurring outside the view of security cameras. failure to vent inmate fights, placing ado less ants at risk of harm. the rate

first half, jaevon pinkston, doing some damage. nova up a dozen. jay wright's squad is cruising.yard scored 15. they shoot 50 percent from point land. they win 84-70. >>> temple and st. joes, coach martelli and coach dunphy. they pick up the action in the second half. isaiah miles, crash the the board 20, points, nine rebound for him . hawks up a dozen. now a one point game, temple trailing, owls get two good looks at the basket, one shot denied, the other comes up just short, st. joes beats owls with the two-point win. >> how about them sixthers. >> they didn't give up. >> they had to get it eventually. >> feeling good. >> little evening thane could. >> thanks, ducis. >>> if you've got 7 million sitting around this swank i pad in rittenhouse square can be yours. right now it belongs to phillies closer jonathan papelbon. the 4200 square food condo is located at 1706 rittenhouse square. papelbon bought it two years ago for 4.6 million. it is on the 15th floor and has four bedrooms and three and a half bats. there is a floor to ceiling >>> meet woman known aspirin zest etch a sketc

randall pinkston has more. >> reporter: president obama says he ordered the rescue attempt because luke somers's life was in danger. u.s. intelligence held that luke somers was held in a compound outside yemen with a south african hostage. friday night, hours about luke somers faced a reported execution deadline, three dozen navy seals, counting on the element of surprise landed six miles from the site. something went wrong 600 yards from the compound. a dog barked, a fire fight broke out between the commandos and the guards, and the captives shot the hostages. >> it was a dangerous and complicated mission. but like always in these efforts there is risk. >> the seals fled the wounded hostages. one died during transport, the other on the operating table. this was the second time the u.s. tried to rescue luke somers. on november 25th members of seal team six raided a hide out on a yemeni mountainside and discovered luke somers had been moved two days earlier. as a result of that mission, al qaeda threatened to kill luke somers by the weekend and warned the u.s. against another rescue. >>

. -- randall pinkston reports. >> i'm here to announce a federal investigation into eric garner's death. >> reporter: it was the second time in three months attorney general eric holder said the federal government would investigate a police officer in the death of an african american man. the federal justice system dealt with this kind of case before. march 3rd, 1991, after a chase, a video camera caught the police beating up rodney king. the state jury acquitted the police officers of all actions. this verdict triggered riots in los angeles, and triggered a federal civil rights case resulting in convictions against two of the officers. in new york, former staten island prosecutor jason levinthal said he expects the eric garner case to lead to federal charges. >> what does a federal prosecutor have to do in order to bring charges of civil rights violations. >> well, they have to show that the officer acted wilfully to violate the civil rights. and they'll be free from the use of unusual force. >> the police officer's attorney and union afforce was justified. eric garner was releasing ar

. >> randall pinkston looked at how it's handled in new york,. >> new york city consists of five countieseach with its own prosecutor. in richmond county staten island, where eric garner died last july during an arrest by new york police officers, district attorney daniel donovan spent three months collecting evidence and questioning witnesses. >> if you or i were on videotape putting our arm around someone's neck, and that person then says i can't breathe, and then that person dies, we would be indicted in 30 seconds and the grand jury would not take no more than a day, possibly two. >> the difference says howell and some other legal experts is that the potential defendant was a police officer. he was the one who used the chokehold to subdue garner. >> how does the prosecutors' perspective shift when a police officer is accused of the killing as opposed to a civilian accused of the killing. >> ideally it doesn't. prosecutors work with police officers as witnesses in just about every case. they collaborate a lot. when a prosecutor seeks an indictment for a police officer, they don't neces

randall pinkston join us now from new york with more on that. you've heard pat saying there was some surprise. tell us how this grand jury worked? >> well, first of all in all all over the country grand juries can, first of all, not to indict police officers involved in the use of deadly force. on the other hand as has been famously said by the former chief judge of the new york court of appeals a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich. so the conclusion that people are left with if the prosecute center staten island had wanted some kind of indictment or charge brought against officer panaleo or other officers, he could have presented the evidence for the grand jury to reach that conclusion. that did not happen. the implications is, not with stand on the part of people who don't trust the system is that the prosecutor did not want to indict the police officers. >> each with his own prosecutor. in richmond county, staten island, where eric garner died during an arrest by new york police officers, daniel donovan spent three months presenting evidenc

part of that is focused on changing a practice that may be years out of date, randall pinkston has moreeporter: we're talking about grand juries that have been part of the legal system for more than 700 years. but some jurisdictions have begun to move to a different process that is public, where everyone can see whether there is cause to put a police officer or anyone else on trial. like most of america's legal system, grand juries came from england. a group of citizens tasked with the job of investigating allegations of crime to stop prosecutors from putting next people on trial. but some legal experts say times have changed. >> the grand jury is really much -- i don't want to demean their service, but closer to a rubber stamp. the prosecutor says this is the evidence. this is what we want you to do. and for the most part they don't have a reason to distrust that. >> reporter: the chief judge argued the power of prosecutors made grand juries unnecessary. one judge said: today law professor powell says that still holds true. >> and the prosecutor is a legal advisor to the grand jury. he

we get more from randall pinkston. >> like most of america's legal system, gjz came frommege land a group of citizenship tasked with allegations of crime to stop processing cutors from putting innocent people on trial. some legal experts say time has changed? >> the grand jury is -- i don't want to demean their service. the prosecutors say this is the evidence. this is what we want you to do and for the most part, gjz don't have a reason to does trust that. >> 25 years ago, new york state's chief judge argued the power of prosecutors made grand juries unnecessary. in a "new york times" article, judge saul walker said the grand jury is wasteful and pointless and the grand jury is by design a one-sided affair with the prosecutor in control. today, law professor dave powell says that still holds true. >> the prosecute ors legal advisor he explains or she explains how the facts make out the elements. >> how does a prosecute ors decision impact the grand jury's decision? >> basically the patriot prosecute controls the grand jury. >> usually prosecutors present just enough evidence to get an in

york and whys prosecutors are sometimes hesitant to indictment police officers, here is randall pinkston new york city consists of five counts ease, each with its own prosecutor. >> in richmond county where eric garner died daniel donovan spent nearly 3s three months presenting evidence and questioning witnesses. >> bae powell called that lengthy presentation highly unusual in homicide cases especially where there is video evidence. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> if you or i were on videotape putting our arm around someone's neck and that person then said, i can't breathe and we sat on them and they died, we would be indicted in 30 seconds. the granted jury would take month more than a day possibly, prosbi two. >> the difference says how will and some other legal experts is that the potential defendant was a police officer. he was the one who used a chokehold to subdue garner. >> how did the prosecutors objective shift? >> ideally, it doesn't. unfortunately, prosecutors work with about police officers in twntsz in just about every case. they collaborate a lot. w