We start tonight with brea breaking news. A hostage situation is founding in downtown sidney us a strahle y right now as many as wentz people are being held by a lone gunman inside a cafe. Good evening, im natasha brown. Thank you so much for joining us. Us a trail yas Prime Minister says the incident may be politically motivated. Lets get to Eyewitness News reporter matt rivers following the developments break nothing in the sat center. It is monday afternoon in sidney australia right now australian Prime Minister nonni abbott gave a short statement not long ago. In that statement he asked australians to remain calm and hopes this situation is resolved peacefully. We are being tested today in sidney. The police are being tested. The public is being testified. In a chilling piece of footage you see a gunman lead a hostage inside the cafe with her hands up. It appears that man is the lone gunman inside the Lindt Chocolate cafe the situation is unfoldinunfolding in martin plae heart of sidneys financial and shopping district typically packed during the holiday seas season. A black flag with white arabic window could be seen it in window at one point during the standoff. We dont yet know the moat vague of the perpetrator. We dont know whether this is politically motivated although obviously there are some indications that it could be. Reporter police say the incident is isolated and involves only the one suspect and his hostages. It is not connected Officials Say to a suspicious package found earlier in the day at the famed sidney opera how fast the small cafe remains surrounded although police have not been in contact with the gunman. The officers that are there are welltrained unprofessional. They know what theyre doing. They have trained for this. And im sure that they will get through and this will be an out come that will be will be positive. I think think of almost nothing more distressing, more terrifying than to be caught up in such a situation and our hearts go out to those people. Reporter the cafe where this is all happening is in the same building that houses the u. S. Consulate. The white house tells reporters that the president has been briefed on this current situation. Worry live in the sat center, matt rivers, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Matt, thank you very much for that update. Meantime a suspicious fire bring investigators from the Fire Marshals Office to a home in germantown. Theyre investigating claims that someone may have thrown a fire bomb at this house on east coulter street. Arson investigators say fire bomb may have been thrown at the home next door on december 1s december 1st. The homeowner and in todays incident believes someone is trying to harm one of the women in the house. As i came down the steps, and got right here, all this was full of fire. Second time my window got broke. Now the fire bomb. Weve been getting threats and everything. At least two people including an infant were taken to einstein medical center. Their conditions are not being released just yet. And Eyewitness News was there firefighter was seen exiting a home in chester Delaware County through the window. Fire was reported in the basement of this home on 200 block of west 22n 22nd street jt afternoon. It reached two alarms before units were finally able to bring the under control. There are no reports of any injuries but the red cross is helping a family of nine. The cause of this blaze is still under investigation at this ho hour. And young boy is recovering night after getting his foot stuck in an escalator at the Oxford Valley mall in bucks county. A passing shopper post add cell phone picture on twitter as emergency crews worked to get him free. They eventually did get him out after about 20 minutes or so. He was taken to the hospital to get checked out but he is expected to be okay. A chilly but least a calm sunday night. The perfect weather to go out and get your christmas tree. Eyewitness news in lansdowne as folks picked out the perfect tree tonight. Were in for milder temperatures as we head into the work week. Meteorologist Justin Drabick is live on the cbs3 sky. Com with a first look at the forecast. Great night tonight, justin. Pretty clear out there, right . Not quite yet still some clouds around but eventually we will see the clearing skies and final smell sunshine returns but really wont feel like christmas over the next few days were talking about that warming trend but we are her right now. Clouds keeping temperatures up. Currently were in the 40s right now. 44 in philadelphia. 42 allentown. 33 in mount pock know. Theres some clearing going on it cross far eastern new jersey that will be the trend through the overnight hours. 39 degrees already in quakerto quakertown. Do unto 36 currently in willow grove and mt. Holly, new jersey. Checking in at 42 degrees. We mentioned a warming trend, yes, that is underway already. Compared 24 hours ago, were about five to 8 degrees warmer in some spots across the Delaware Valley. So thats a sign of things to come. Theres storm scan3. Not much happening still see cloud cover over the region. Break over parts of ocean and burlington county, inform. That will continue to push westward through the overnight hours. Temperatures slowly drop into the 30s waking up tomorrow morning pretty chilly but not a bad finish to the day tomorrow. Well get some sunshine temperature right near average. Well talk about middle milder temperatures coming up in the seven day forecast. Also the chance for some showe showers. Ill them that out for you coming up in a few more minutes. Nat shark back over to you. Thank you justin. Stay one step of ahead of ever changing forecast by downloading the cbs philly weather happen. Its free and available in i tunes and google play. A crash in frankford sends two Police Officers to the hospital earlier today. They were responding to a call at the time when their van collided with another car here at frankford avenue and sellers street. No one else was hurt. The officers did suffer nonlife threatening injuries. Two years ago today, a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in newtown, connecticut left 21st graders and six educators dead in a the year connecticut, colorado, new york and maryland have all passed gun control legislation and here locally today in springfield, supporters of Delaware County united for sensible gun policy marched for tighter restrictions in pennsylvania. They say gun violence is an epp depth mick in touches families all around the country. My son was killed. I was a manager of a rite aid in chester and he was murdered. Last year it kind of took a little bit more of a personal toll losing a friend of our family. Three students who were killed by an estranged father. Well, in the days following gun rights advocate pushed for teachers and School Administrators to be armed in the classroom. Guns are prohibited in pennsylvania schools unless theyre there for a lawful purpose. In 28 states adults who are legal al loud to carry can do so in a public school. In new jersey, teachers may carry a gun with written permission from the head of the school. President barack obama is making a visit to our area tomorrow. The president will travel to joint base Mcguire Dicks Lakehurst in new jersey. There hell deliver remarks expressing his gratitude to our Service Members and their families. Stay with Eyewitness News for coverage of this president ial visit. Now embroiled in a sex assault scandal, business cosby talks journalistic standards. The entertainer told reporter for the New York Post he expects black media to maintain a neutral mind. Cosby been talk directly about the allegations he had drugged and raped more than two dozen women. When asked how his wife camille is holding up he cited her love and quote strength of woman womanhood. Sony hacking saga continues. Theyre a victim of a cyber attack. Hackers stole an early version of the script for the new james bond movie specter. Cbs news correspondent Wendy Gillette has more. Reporter the title of the latest James Bond Film specter was announced just this month at a red carpet event in london. We spent two years getting this together and so much hard work and effort. Sony Officials Say an early version of the specter screen play is one of thousands of documents hackers stole in the latest massive cyber per attack against an american company. This is not a problem related to any particular company. This is a global problem. This is just the latest problem for sony after hackers invaded computers at its entertainment arm novembe november 24th. Then leaked sensitive and embarrassing information including executives disparaging personal emails about sony actors and others including president obama. Sony is in big trouble. To me this is hollywoods Edward Snowden moment and whats a problem with that we dont know whats coming next. Reporter Production Company yvonne productions is worried anyone who has a screen play may try to publish it. Yvonne warns the script is protected by copyright laws and says it will take all necessary steps to keep it under wraps. The james bond franchise is one of sonys most lucrative. The most recent movie sky fall raked in the most of any bond film ever. 1. 1 billion worldwide. Sony says production continues on specter and other films despite the leak. The movie is set for release november 6th 2015. In new york, Wendy Gillette for cbs3 Eyewitness News. The group behind the hacking is also now promising to release nor sense seive data just in time for the holidays. It says the gift will be larger quantities of data and it will be more interesting and put sony into the worst state. Stay with us everyone. Still ahead tonight on Eyewitness News it seemed locate a good at the time at least. A man goes all out for his proposal to his girlfriend but there was one major issue. Well explain. Plus, west coast is just star starting to recover from one wild storm. Now more rain is drenching california. Why that isnt necessarily bad news. Justin . We are finishing our weekend with some chilly temperatures but there is a bit of a warmup coming up in the seven day forecast. Ill show you how long that lasts coming up. And what does cole hamels think of all the trade rumors swirling around . Beasley has that story. Also, an eagles update for you thats coming up in sports. A Football Player in auburn is fatally shot. Freshman mitchell was shot an off Campus Apartment complex after midnight pronounced dead at the hospital a short timing a later. Suspect identified as march kale heart. Theres no word on the motive behind this shooting. New York College Professor accused of of assaulting two Police Officers during a prote protest. 29yearold eric lindh sixty four faces numerous charges including assault, robbery and rioting. The alleged attack happened saturday on the brooklyn bridge. At the time mostly Peaceful Demonstrations were being held on the grand jury decisions in the eric garner and Michael Brown cases a Police Spokesman said one lieutenant suffered a broken nose. And it was one mans epic idea Marriage Proposal but it ended up with a big mess in the netherlands. The plan to use a crane to lower himself into the backyard of his girlfriends house. Thats where he would pop the question. But you can see things did not go quiet as planned. The crane tipped over and crashed right through the neighbors house. Luckily no one was injured and in the end, she still said yes. The birth of a child always memorable for one arizona couple its even more special. Thats because little victoria marie jones was born saturday at 10 11 a. M. On 12 13n14 the baby wasnt due in until use eve. The birth came a big surprise to mom and dad both navy veterans. Our friends were new years eve if you wait until 12 01 for new years day. Youll be on the news. I was like okay. Maybe comes when they want to come. And they still made it on the news. Baby victoria and mom are said to be doing very well. California meantime being hammered by another round of showers tonight. The state is still recovering from one of the worst storms to hit west coast in recent years. Cbs news correspondent bigad shaban takes a look at what impact the weather is having on neighborhoods out west. This was living room at one point . Yes. Ron doesnt recognize his parents home. Rocks and boulders fill the living room after fridays intense rain triggered mudslides north of los angeles. Once i saw those rocks in there i said, oh, forget it. Its totaled. Reporter fire crews rescued his parents from their bed after an avalanche of debris slammed into their house and more than a dozen others. Up to a foot of muck covers the floors. The rock now blocking the street are almost as tall as the houses here. That much earth actually moved last night. Havent chewer what county captain says this area was left vulnerable as a wildfire scorched the hillside last year. Theres nothing to hold to keep things from sliding or moving so the learning move when the water hits it when you have that large amount of water in a short period of time its severely damaging. Reporter despite the mess, many who live in drought playinged california are welcoming the next storm in this weeks forecast. We really sympathize with them. We need this rain. Reporter much of the swollen river will be convert flood Drinking Water but until more rain falls, most of california will remain under extreme drought conditions. Bigad shaban for cbs3 Eyewitness News. We are in the middle of pacific weather pattern so some of those storms will be tracking eastward and it will bring milder air thats what well be seeing over the next two, three days or so. Lets check in with our weather watchers right now again some clouds over the region partly to mostly cloudy. One of the cool spots up in perkasie Chuck Pressler checks in at 39 degrees. Lieutenant Alan Matthews in berneville a chilly 41. Barbara lane in willow grove 41 degrees. Lets look at the warmer temperatures being reported from our weather watchers. Down in newark, delaware, john checks in at 44 degrees. Tony in townsend, delaware, also in the mid 40s and looking at 45 degrees in wilmington, delaware reported by lisa kerrigan. So, again, that temperatures uniform threw the Delaware Valley. If you love the weather and you want to be a part of the Eyewitness News cast become an eyewitness weather watcher. Sign up right now cbsphilly. Co cbsphilly. Com watchers for all the details. Lets take you outside right n now. South jersey where we are seeing a little bit of clearing going on this is Atlantic City life look. Ac all lit up. Comfortable night. Item which are Still Holding in the lower 40s down across south jersey. Lets check it out on storm scan3. Again, pretty quiet as we speak right now. Not much happening just some cloud cover over the region. Some breaks starting in far eastern new jersey hopefully that will be the trend westward get a little bit of sunshine back in our forecast. So thats really going to be the trend over the neck few days. So mention this pacific air mass moving on in. We have a big ridge in the jet stream coming up so the first storm california saw will be impacting our area tuesday. Itsly bringing milder air. We here we go. Jet stream takes a little bit of a trip northward allowing temperatures to go above average starting on tuesday into wednesday. That jet flattens out allows some of that colder air from canada to spill back into the Delaware Valley by the end of the week. Temperatures may go back below average by thursday of the upcoming week. Sunshine finally returning at least this computer model is showing it i dont think well see tollly clear skies but well call a mixture of sun and clouds for your monday afternoon. Enjoy it. It will be pleasant. Clouds do quickly pilled back in on tuesday. I think the first half of the day stays dry. Watch the showers coming in later tuesday afternoon into tuesday night. Not a big storm system it has really weakened. Not expecting a whole lot of rain. Its gone by wednesday. Partial sunshine returns wednesday afternoon i think wednesday will be our warmest day. Winds still out of the northwest for monday after non thats a cool wind temperatures near average and then finally the winds switches around out of the south tuesday. Allowing some of that warmer air to move back nuttery job. Chilly start tomorrow morning. We will drop it into the mid 30s in many spots. Rebounding back to the mid 40ing which is right where we should be for the middle of december. Heading into tuesday a little bit milder getting close to that 50degree mark but watch out for the showers coming in for the second half of the day. Partly cloudy overnight. Its chilly. 35 degrees for center city. Some suburbs will be a little bit colder than that with the clearing skies. Towards day break overall pleasant day on monday. Sunshine, mixed with some clouds, westerly wind coming in about 10 miles per hour. Heres your hanukkah forecast sunset on tuesday night coming in at 4 37. Temperature in the mid 40ing at that time with clouds and some showers around. All right. Here we government heres the upcoming week. Again milder temperatures for monday, tuesday and wednesday mid 40 to go around 50 degrees much thats a few degrees above average. Best shot for some showers will be later on tuesday afternoon tuesday night. We dry out for wednesday with a high near 50. Then we cool it down again by the end of the week. Keep it dry with sunshine thursday and friday highs in the low 40s and then we look ahead to next weekend there could be a storm system that could bring some rain and snow all depending on the temperature so thats something to watch coming up. All right. Justin, thank you so much. Also something to watch that game at the linc right now beas. Feeling a big battle down at the linc. They were way behind. Took the lead. Behind and stuff going on. Plus cole hamels talks about all those trade rumors and where hed like to play if in fact he is traded much thats coming up in sports. Merry christmas thanks but this gift, its kind of halffast. Whats wrong . We still have cable internet, so our uploads are half the speed of our downloads. So ill be halffast when i share my photos and ill do a halffast job updating my blog. Wait, is everything under this tree halffast . Who wants eggnog . Dont settle for half fast cable internet. Only verizon fios comes with speedmatch. Uploads as fast as downloads. Get this great price online guaranteed for 2 full years plus 400 back with a 2year agreement. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v we put all the apps you love inside a car designed to connect you to a world of possibilities. The connected car by volvo. Innovating for you. Give the gift of volvo this season and well give you your first months payment on us. Well the start of the game was worse possible way for the eagles night. They lost the opening kickoff then a hat trick of touchdowns for dez bryant tonight. The birds took the lead in the second half but they turn over and more dez bryant made it 38 3827. The game now in the Fourth Quarter eagles just turn it over again. Should be a tight finish. Well let you know what goes down. All right. Giants and redskins big blew with a big game out of the star rookie odell beckham, jr. He had 12 catches, 143 yards and three touchdowns. Giants goat the win at 2413 eagles and redskins next week. Baseball news the man who mentioned most often in the trades as far as what big could come back to the phillies, cole hamels. Cole was silent dada. He joined former teammate brad lidge on Mlb Network Radio and talked about where hed like to go in in fact he was trade. My family is from the west coast and my wifes family is from the midwest if anybody does happen you do, you have to kind of look at that different perspective. Whatever city is going after winning i think that could definitely change every sort of perspective and every desire that trumps almost anything is winning. Visiting villanova and hilliard had great game. Sucker shot and there it falls. Villanova up by 12. Hilliard was the star outside touch here after some passin pag finished with 20 points. Villanova wins over temple 8562. Coming up next in the nissan sports zone, cowboys eagles highlights former eagle Hollis Thomas joins us and post game reaction. That and more coming up in the zone. Bow, oh, boy that game getting down to the wire, beas. Welcome back. Holiday party in philadelphia designed with kids in mind. Take a look here. Lots of hugs from santa at the Holiday Party for variety the Childrens Charity benefiting young people with special needs and their families. Cookie monster and elmo also made a big appearance at the shara ton society hill in philadelphia. As the dj spun favorite tunes to top it all you have every child went home with give. Speaking of gifts you can celebrate the holidays with our joy of sharing campaign. Buy a new unwrapped toy and bring it to one of our drop off locations. For list of those locations go to cbsphilly. Com joy or call 215977joys. Text donation if youd like to joys to 41444. Stay with us. Justin back with a last check on your work week forecast. The cbs3 sports zone sta all right. Justin are we going to wake up to any sun tomorrow. We finally see sunshine. You sure. Get rid of clouds. Not full sunshine but sunshine and clouds mixed overall pleasant dame temperatures near average 46 degrees. All right. Heres the extended forecast. We will talk about some showers back into the picture later tuesday afternoon. Tuesday night. The clouds quickly return. But then we dry out again for wednesday. Approaching 50 degrees. So high temperatures actually go above average for the middle of the week its possible if we see more sunshine low possibly even mid 50s. Dont get used to that. Whoa dont get used it to. I got excited but i saw that rain snow. Thats a little unnerving. Wee see. Its december. Keep us posted. Thank you, justin, we appreciate it. Thank you so much for joining us. Were always on at cbs phil p. M. Cot. Now were handing things over to Beasley Reece and the cbs3 sports zone. Have a good night. This is the cbs3 sports zone presented by nissan. Hello everyone and welcome to the nissan sports zone. Im cbs3 sports director Beasley Reece joined by former eagles great Hollis Thomas from sports radio wip. Hell break down the birds and cowboys game with us. Both teams were ticked off coming into this one. The birds lost at home last week badly and the cowboys wanted revenge for the pounding they took on thanksgiving day. The game is finishing as we speak. We just passed the two minute warnings. Well show you the hay lights as soon as were able. The cowboys are up 3827 in the Fourth Quarter. Looks like the game is over