From the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. A die in demonstration at the Sports Complex softas tens of thousands of eagles fans leave lincoln financial field. Good evening everyone. Im nat is a brown. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. Philadelphia police say show up in force to keep the peace between protesters who blocked streets and football fans in a hur row to get home. Eyewitness News Reporter matt rivers tells us how Police Ultimately handled the situati situation. Reporter the game ended and hundreds laid down. A dyein protesters call it in the shadow of lincoln financial field. Moments earlier they aired their concerns. We live in a city that has for years and years, has been involved in brutality. Reporter they lay in the street for 4. 5 minutes honor of Michael Brown unarmed teenager culled by police who laid dead on a ferguson, missouri street for 4. 5 hours after being shot. Tonights gathering focused broadly on what organizers calle
Theres no word on the extent of injuries to victims, the cause is still under investigation at this hour. Now low prices at the pump means extra money in your pocket this holiday season. Thats always good news. Gas prices dropped another 12 cents over the past two week. The lumberg survey says the Current National average is 2. 72 for a gallon of regular. Drivers in San Francisco paying the most. Those in allobar occur key pay the least. According to aaa pennsylvanians are paying 288 for a gallon of regular. Across the bridge in jersey and youll pay closer to 2. 58. Delaware drivers can top off their tanks for about 2. 74 a gallon. Many shopping in Center City Philadelphia get free parking thanks to a Technical Glitch at the Philadelphia Parking Authority kiosks. These machines are having some trouble accepting credit cards. Eyewitness News Reporter Steve Patterson tells us what you should do if you received a ticket near a kiosk this weeke weekend. Reporter heres an opening line nobod
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 s
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