Eyewitness News Reporter greg argos is closely following the developments from the cbs3 satellite center. Greg. This Evening Police in Colorado Springs confirming two civilians and one Police Officer died in the shooting at the planned parenthood clinic there. Minutes ago weve learned the officers name he is 44yearold Garrett Swayze is six year veteran of the university of colorado at Colorado Springs police department. The first calls came in around midday. A man with what witnesses say is a long gun entered a Colorado Springs planned parenthood and opened fire. All ive heard the whole time ive been here is gunshots. Reporter after a fiveoff standoff with the gunman this surprising a announcement from police. We did get officers inside of the building at the planned parenthood and the officers were able to shout to the suspect and make communication with him and at that point, they were able to get him to surrender. Reporter tonight officials in Colorado Springs say three people have died. Two civilians and a responding officer with the university of colorado at Colorado Springs police department. While this was a terrible, terrible tragedy, it could have been much worse but fort actions of the First Responders particularly the Police Officers involved. Reporter and the suspect who surrendered to police may have left dangerous items. Possibly explosive devices behind. We know that the suspect brought several items with him, and some of those are inside the panned parenthood building some of those are out front of it. Reporter theyre tasked with carefully combing through the building. A massive crime scene that could days to process. Police have not released the name of suspect or motive for this deadly shooting. Meanwhile planned parenthood clinics in new york city have increased security in the southeastern pennsylvania planned Parenthood Organization which operates the clinics in our area releasing this statement in part our top priority is the safety of our patients and staff. The situation in colorado is tragic and our hearts go out to have one involved. Officials here also say planned parenthood clinics in Southeast Pennsylvania will remain open and operate under normal hours. Im live in the sat center, greg argos cbs3 Eyewitness News. Greg, thank you for that. As new details emerge in this story you can count on Eyewitness News for continuing coverage when we are not on television youll fine the very latest at cbsphilly. Com. Jess . A complex storm system in the midwest packed rain, sleet and snow. This was the scene today in topeka kansas. Sleet and freezing rain making it difficult for people to get around there. That same storm system is now headed our way. Now the fortunate thing is this. We wont be seeing ice or snow but rain is possibility as we head into the second half of the Holiday Weekend. Meteorologist lauren casey tracking when we might see the wet weather plus lauren a drop in temperatures. Thats correct. Weve had a ton of sunshine and that unseasonal warmth to kick off our thanksgiving holiday but things are starting to change in advance of a cold front that is continuing to traverse eastbound the cloud deck starting to increase across the Delaware Valley especially over the last couple of hours and even a few returns right now over the poconos but a lot of that not yet hitting the surface might be seeing a few drip drops over the last hour in scranton. Temperatures right now, though, still very mild after some record and near record warmth across parts of the area today. 54 degrees is your current temperature in philadelphia. Were at 53 down the shore. And very mild in the poconos at this late hour, 53 right now. As we head into the next couple of days, we are going to see a cool down but more 60s in store for tomorrow. Another unseasonably warm day but that cold front moves through late day. Bringing our temperatures down by sunday afternoon well talk about what High Temperatures to expect for the last dave our Holiday Weekend and we do have several rain chances and they do start tomorrow. Well talk about the timing of that rain coming up in just a couple of minutes. Lauren, see you in a little bit thank you. It has been a long and busy dave shopping in our region for black friday. Crowds have been piling into area malls of outlets all day for the biggest shopping day of the year. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt reports from cherry hill. Reporter black friday 2015 is in the books. And shoppers tell Eyewitness News its definitely one to remember. Well, this was the first time i actually had a chance to ever do it because i always worked on black friday, so i said, well a im going to go out and today see what all the hoopla was about. Reporter tense of thousands poured in and out of cherry hill mall. Thanksgiving night and all day friday starting in the morning at 6 00. Weve gotten really good deals today. Its been fun. Reporter some shoppers are calling the hours this year a little bit more oldfashioned. Why . Last year cherry hill and other local malls stayed open for more than 24 hours. Any other the case this year. I dont think they should be open on thanksgiving day. But i mean black friday is always like the opening of all the shopping for christmas and stuff, hanukkah. Its fun. Reporter shoppers told Eyewitness News Clothing Stores had the best deals. And the crowd packed. Weve been coming for three years now. Its about the same crowd. I feel like the later the later in the day you come the more crowded it is. According to National Retail federation survey, a little less than 136 Million People will shop in stores and online for the fourday weekend. A big number that shoppers are not surprised to hear. Theres some deals in some stores and not so many in others and you just have to look for them. In cherry hill, im david spunt, cbs3 Eyewitness News. And a lot of shoppers chose to stay home and buy online. Sales tracker adobe estimates people spent a record 1. 7 billion online thursday. Thats up 25 from last year. In fact by 11am yesterday, americans had already spent 500 million. Another trend it look like lots of people use their mobile devices to shop early. Heres another reason to shop tomorrow. Its Small Business saturday. Local retailers are hoping shoppers will support the local economy and find that perfect gift in the process. Profits from Small Business saturday stay in the community. Be sure to check out our Holiday Shopping guide where you can find store hours and money saving tips. You can find it right now on our home page at cbsphilly. Com. Tonight protesters remain on the streets in chicagos highest end shopping area to draw attention to the Police Shooting of a black teenager. Marchers blocked store entrances along the magnificent mile stopping district. They want changes in the Chicago Police department and city hall. Saying they mishandled the investigation of a white officer who shot a black teenager 16 times in 2014. That officer now faces first degree murder charges. Outrage black and white together. Were saying we want a new police chief and infrastructure now. We want a safe we can depend upon now. Throughout course of the todays protests some stores were forced to close temporarily. There have been a few arrests. To for traffic related offenses. One more a battery related offense. Charred wreckage all that remained at the site of a fiery crash on the Atlantic City expressway. A viewer sent us this picture right after the crash happen this morning at the egg harbor toll plaza. You can see the car and toll area consumed by flames. The driver of that car was killed. His identified as 39yearold Joseph Crawford of egg harbor city. There were no other injuries. The cause of that crash has yet to be determine. Two people from philadelphia are dead after a pontoon boat carrying seven people capsized off the coast of new jersey. The fatal accident happened around 1 30 this afternoon in the Manasquan Inlet monmouth county. The dead are identified as alex oh so much kin and grow gory curb they are. Five surviving passengers did not suffer live threatening injuries. Viewer zach set a photo of the rescue scene. Witnesses saw the rescue efforts from shore. We saw something flat in the water which looked like some kind of wooden flat form. Turn out it was the underside of a pontoon boat. The police tell us large swell tipped the boat over. Zenning the seven passengers into the water. Tonight police in Burlington County are searching for the suspect they say shot and killed a store clerk on thanksgiving eve. 32yearold matthew, was shot at the quick and go Convenience Store on the 100 block of dr. Martin luther king drive in willingboro. Police say he and the gunman walk out of the store together before that shooting. Officers later found him in the street. He was a good guy, and he was a hardworking guy. Always want to work overtime to support his family back home and he has one daughter in his country ghana. Anyone with information is asked to call willingboro poli police. In the wake of of a fatal fire fire official are making sure residents in the neighborhood have working smoke alarms. Eyewitness news in the 1900 block of north brunner street where officials installed free smoke alarms and also distributed Home Fire Safety checklists. Authorities say the home that caught on fire had no working detectors. France holds National Memorial service for the 130 people who died in the paris attacks two week ago. The ceremony was held in a courtyard of the National Monument in paris. A choir provided one of the only breaks in the silence. President france choice hollande promised to france will do everything to quote destroy the army of fanatics who committed these crimes. The connecticut man cues of jumping the white house fence on thanksgiving made his first appearance in court today. 22yearold Joseph Caputo was ordered to under go a psychiatric evaluation and he is charged with one count of illegal entry on to restricted grounds. Court documents show caputo left behind a suicide note earlier this week. President obama and his family were having thanksgiving dinner at the time. The police say caputo made his way on to the north lawn. As we continue tonight, maybe youre looking for a fun way to burn off those extra thanksgiving calories. We found just the place for you. Our Vittoria Woodill hits the ice and shows off some pretty impressive movers. Coming up well head to wintertime attraction perfect for family. Thanksgiving isnt typically the holiday associated with trick. Find out who is the man in the turkey suit. Lauren. Changes in the forecast after unseasonably warm day. Well cool things off and add in some rain. Ill have all the details in your eyewitness forecast coming up. Two of the philadelphia zoos newest residents now have names. The fitting choices for this pair of red panda cubs when arizona man lucky to be alive after a thanksgiving rock climbing trip goes wrong. 21yearold man decided to go rock climbing in phoenix without the proper safety gear. He ended up calling 911 shortly after 9 00 oclock thanksgiving morning when he got stuck. Rescuers climbed above his perch then repelled down to him. Fortunately, no one was hurt. Pope francis arrived in uganda to a joyful ceremony on friday. This is the second leg of the pontiffs africa trip. While there hes paying respects to 19th century christian martyrs burned alive rather than renowned their faith. As many as 2 Million People are expected to attend a mass in their honor. Montgomery county tree farm delivered the official White House Christmas tree today. First Lady Michelle obama received the tree as it arrived this morning. Bustards farms of lansdale cultivated the 18 food frazier fir planted in 2001. The two owners jay and glenn bustard you can see them there with the first lady were also on hand for the horse cart delivery. All aboard for the santa express. Jolly old nick traded in his sleigh for a ride on septa line. They kicked off the Holiday Season with gift bags full of goodies and ice skating over at dilworth park. Nicely done. So many people have family in town, friends in town visiting. A lot of people looking for something fun to do this weeke weekend. Well, tis the season to put 1 foot in front of the other on the ice. Look out. Our Vittoria Woodill shows how Camden County is debuting a bigger than ever attraction for families look to go lace up their skates. Reporter lights, ice, camera, action reporter this weekend at cooper river park its time for winter fest. Going to be the greatest thing ever. Absolutely wonderful last year. This year its going to be even more magnificent. Its bigger, its better. We have a lot more happening. Even a bigger ice skating rink. Camden county freeholder Carmen Rodriguez is talking about a brand new 60 by 120foot ice rink at the center of the jack curtis stadium in pennsauken and all weekend long theyre celebrating south jerseys only outdoor ring with peormances music and fun for the whole family. What better way to connect with your family than to be on the ice. Falling together. Getting up together. A lot of fun. Reporter for many of us who may still need training wheels, all weekend long youll have help from the pros to give you a hasnt. All weekend long they will be here. You can watch. You can come and watch them. See they perform theyll actually be helping out with people who dont know how to 68. If you dont have how to skate you can come and get lessons. Thats like myself. For beginner like myself itits the most wonderful advertisement year. I had rhythm. Can you add this in your routine. But i need merchandise more moves. After a few goes with these pros yay tara lupinski, watch out. Reporter Vittoria Woodill cbs3 eyewitnes Eyewitness News. Shes got the form. She just needed a partner to swing her around. Thats it. Do you skate. Ail it will bit. Not anything fancily i can stay up right most of the time. My sister and i grew up at the elmwood roller ring in southeast philly. For more information on this story and other fun things to do around the region this long eye Holiday Weekend go to cbsphilly. Com. You have to teach me. Ill do it. Happily. Well go. Came game on. Many people in philadelphia were able to skate at penns landing today. Eyewitness news at opening day for the blue cross river rink and this years theme appropriate star wars. The winter attraction also has fire pits, lodge with snacks and beverages and warming cottages. Those are new this year. It will be open through the end of february. Speaking of warming im seeing buzz dells on that ice. I know. Little warm today. Nothing like ice skating with sunshine and middle 60s. Yes, indeed. We are going cool thing off. One more mild day in store. If you like little november warmth we have more for our saturday but then cold front moves through and cools us down back to average as we head into sunday and up coming work week. Conditions right now pretty quiet as we take look on skyca skycam3. Center city philadelphia clouds starting to move in mainly some upper level clouds right now. Cruising in across the area in advance of that cold front that will pass through the Delaware Valley as we head into the day tomorrow. But checking in on your current temperatures in the neighborhood network, they are still very mild at this late hour. 53 degrees in cinnaminson. Still up at 50 in norristown. 55 degrees right now in wayne and 50 in mays landing with that southwesterly wind keeping us mild and that was the case today. Unseasonably warm in fact Atlantic City 68 degrees. 1 degree shy of a record High Temperature. Philadelphia we topped at 66. Allentown broke a record High Temperature. We tied one in reading and got 1 degree shy of a record High Temperature in mount pocono with a high of 59 degrees for the end of november. And temperatures still up 50s many of our reporting sites across the area. 55 in reading. 54 degrees currently in philadelphia. And 53 in ac and overnight tonight, temperatures not too chilly. Well be running more than 10 degrees above or average low of 49. Partly cloudy to mostly cloudy conditions with some patchy areas of fog and then tomorrow, sunshine going to be much more sparse especially during the afternoon hours becoming mostly cloudy with some showers developing but High Temperatures still well up there. 63 degrees for our saturday. If youre hitting the roads on this Holiday Weekend tonight looking good. Dry roadways, watching out for some patchy fog that could reduce visibilities in localized areas. But for tomorrow, morning time going to be the best time to hit the roadways with showers late day and sunday kind of the reverse. Better time to be on the roadways later in the afternoon and evening. With that chance of a few morning showers rolling through and storm scan3 showing us mainly quiet conditions across the eastern seaboard right now. But then we do have that far reaching cold front continuing to move across portions of the country. Ice being brought to the parts of the Central Plains and also flooding rains into portions of the mid south. This cold front is going to be impacting us in the Delaware Valley, but were not going to see the same oomph from the system as we head into the day tomorrow. Cold front approaching during the morning hours, best chance of rain tomorrow morning will be north and west of the city. Then a better chance of rain across philadelphia and southern new jersey parts of delaware as we head into late day. Then overnight, we are going to see resurgence of some moisture looks like the best chance of shower activity will be philadelphia and points southward for sunday morning. Then High Pressure returns and takes over control as we head late day into sunday. So eventually dry our sunday afternoon and clear out sunday night. In your regional forecast for tomorrow, showers develop late day across portions of the new jersey coastline. Poconos youll see showers a little bit earlier that the day. 48 degrees still above average for you. 61 down the shore. And that 63degree High Temperature in philadelphia. But were cooler on the back side of the cold front by sund sunday. 51 degrees the High Temperature and then a chilly but average start on monday morning. 36 degrees but the rarity of it it will feel much more chilly for us a we start off things for the work week after the Holiday Weekend. 49 degrees the High Temperature a lot of sunshine in store. It looks like our we can get tuesday, tuesday night noon wednesday with rain in store. Running above average overall in the general trend of the forecast. Umbrellas. Pop them up. All right. Thanks lauren. Pat joins us with a look whats ahead in sports. Big finish for a flyers rookie while a sixers rookie deals with more trouble, and the sixers played the rockets to night. Could they finally within a game . We according to multiple reports Boston Police are now investigating the fight involv involving Jahlil Okafor outside a boston nightclub early thursday morning. Just before tonights tip off against the rockets, multiple reports say okafor had been involved in an incident outside a philadelphia nightclub in october in which a heckler aimed a gun at okafors head. Reports say the investigation is continuing with this incident as well. The Sixers Center did not react specifically to that report, but did address the altercation in boston saying im ashamed of what i did and thats not i who i am. I have great support system that will continue to support me. The entire sixers organization has been great. But im just embarrassed about what happened. Okafor in tonight trying to keep the sixers from 27 straight losses and no knoll nerlins out with right knee soreness. Cook for did his best. He hits a mid range jumper in front of dwayne howard. Sixers made game out of the this tonight. Fourth quarter they were up by five and tj mcconnell starts to break and he would leave it forger me grant for the slam that. Put the sixers up seven. But the rocket boss fire back. James hardin does what james hardin does. He finishes with 50. Sixers lose their 27th straight. Thats a north american pro sports record of futility much houston wins 116114. The flyers scored the fewest goals in hockey and went into their afternoon tilt with nas nashville having lost nine of 12 in november. Its been a scary season thus far but a ghost would help them today. Pick it up late third. Flyers up twoone and the predators, yeah, they tie it. Mike fisher chips it home. To send it to overtime. In the three on 3ot, nashville is called for too many men on the ice. Former flyer head Peter Laviolette the coach nashville loses it. Dave hakstol the flyers head coach called time out he has the captain draw up the play. And it works. G finds ghost rookie sean rips off the game win inner loop he is enjoying himself in the nhl. Its a fun ride right now. I dont have any plans gettin gg off it. I never scored that ot winners in my life. So i mean its a real moment but well keep going and look forward to new york. With much of philadelphia hoping someone loses their job following the beat down in motown yesterday, it appears chip kelly and his crew are safe. 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Dont wait, call today. soft music Colonial Penn jingle the philadelphia zoos newest babies now have names be fitting their philly heritage. The public chose the names betsy and benjamin for these baby red panda cubs much zoo officials confirm their homage to betsy ross and benjamin franklin. Red pandas are considered vulnerable in the wild. So betsy and benjamin are crucial in the effort to conserve the species. New England Patriots quterback tom brady used to making turkeys out of opposing defenders on sunday. But yesterday it was brady who was looking like the bird. The future hall of famer posted this video on facebook of his kids playing in the leaves and then all of a sudden he pops up dressed like that. Look at the little one. Thats tom brady my friends. His daughter was so spooked she fell over. Thats one way to bring the turkey for thanksgiving. laughter . Well be right back. Thats going to do it for us tonight. Thanks for watching our morning team is back tomorrow from 5 00 to tech am. For lauren, pat of one here im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. Up next the late show with stephen colbert. A great weekend. Good night, family and sleep well. Today on an allnew dr. Phil. My son has completely terrorized our family. A child out of control. One desperate to fit in. You are taunting him. You are a fool. Ive given up. Are you abandoning this ild. Here we go. Jennifer said she cannot think for her son to turn 18 because she cant wait to kick him out. Jennifer provided us with the video today and she started shooting at a year ago to ment her sons behavior. Here is what she calls his every day tantrums. Docu do not touch me. Dont floors. Yon my t talk to my kids that way. She says that he is out of control and she is out of options. She said things have gotten so badou don
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