Cydney long joins us with more. Reporter i can tell you it was a female employee inside the Lingerie Department at macys that was victimized. Handing over a huge amount of cash to the man who was holding gun. It happened monday night just before 10 00 just the as the mall was closing. Now police are working with two pieces of video to determine who he is. I make sure i have everything secure and i make sure my mom is okay because i travel a lot with her. So you have to be very careful. Reporter shoppers in and around the mall. Im always alert. I Pay Attention to everything. Reporter are paying close attention to their surroundings after police say an armed suspect wearing a face mask and dark governoloves forced a fee empl female employee to empty her register. Police gave nbc 10 these photos of the suspect speeding off. Thats the world we live in now. Reporter Police Routinely step up mall patrols around the Holiday Shopping season, but the crime unfolded according02 to utahr a matter of minutes. The employee wasnt injured. The mall tells me the safety of guests and retailers is a top priority. Theyre working closely with law cri. Security officers are also available to walk shoppers or employees to their cars day and night. Should let people know. This is not social media to feel safe. Reporter morgan smith says she wont live in fear or change her Holiday Shopping habits. Its unfair to those of us who have to work if a living. Its unfair to those of us who come out here and need to feel that sense of security. Reporter police at this point say it is unclear if this robbery suspect had an accomplice or not. They will let you know when and if they can release anymore images. In the meantime, if nip has any information, should you contact police. Cydney long, nbc 10 news. Were following developing news concerning bill cosby. The woman who accused the comedian of sexually assaulting her in the 70s filed a defamation lawsuit today. The woman who filed the suit says bill cosby drugged and raped her when she was an aspiring model and sinkgesinger. Her name is tamara green. Green first came forward with her story in 2005 p she appeared on the today show and did an interview with the philadelphia quier. The suit she filed today alleges that cosby publicly branded her a liar afterward when his lawyer called her claims absolutely false. Green says she looked forward to clearing her name while hearing from cosby. This will give us a chance to go to a forum where we will speak our stories and tell our truth and the most important thing is that bill cosby will be required to appear in court and to speak and he will finally be heard. Thats what i hope to accomplish. Through his representative, bill cosby has denied renewed allegations by women. And its important to note cosby has never been charged in connection with any Sexual Assault allegations. Re Renee Chenault fattah, nbc 10 news. And now the investigation into the first female firefighter to die while fighting a fire. Joyce lewis died in a row home. She was one of the first to go into the home to fight a basement fire. Nbc 10 news was able to listen to fire radio recordings indicating craig lewis pressed her emergency button. A call went out that a firefighter was trapped in the basement. Fire Union President says thats not where craig lewis was found. Weve been told that she was in fact found on the first floor. But again, i cant say if they were in the basement and then came back up or if it they were on the first floor the entire time. I think thats something that will come out in the investigation. Craig lewis was an 11 year veteran. She was the mother to a 16 month old girl and a 16yearold boy. There will be two viewings friday night and then saturday morning at Bachelor Brothers Funeral Services on north broad street. Her funeral will be held saturday morning at the same location. New information now on the search for missing College Student shane montgomery. Crews are back to the water today looking for shane. The fbi tells us it received a new clue that led to todays activity near the manayunk canal. Agents havent said what the clue is. Shane montgomery vanished early thanksgiving morning after leaving kill dares pub. Tonight the reward is up to 65,000 to find shane. Dares pu. Tonight the reward is up to 65,000 to find shane. People are drying out and cleaning up in kensington. This video shows the reason. Tore represe water just streaming down the streets. Doug shimell is there. And neighbors say its just the latest in a long line of water issues they have suffered through for months now. Reporter exactly. And now we find out late this afternoon that this stretch of roadway in their neighborhood going to be closed now for several days. Crews covering up what we believe to be old sections of steel i beam, the old trolley traction. And of course neighbors say after all they have been trying to get from the contractors out here since summertime, they want to know was the failure cold weather or the contractors. Once again, the street in front of their row homes was ripped open. This has been going on if a couple months already. They just keep miss messing up the street and leaving it like that. Reporter philadelphias Water Department says a 20 inch 1893 cast ifron main ruptured where a contractor had been replacing smaller mains over the summer. I asked a couple questions but nobody had any answers. They were all independent contractors so no one knew who was behind will the whole thing. Reporter the resulting flood forced an evacuation as a daycare. And it compounded anger in the neighborhood over what they feel was an endless project that ended up like this. A lot of frustration. Reporter the philadelphia Water Department says the contractors had finished their work this august and were repaving streets. And the utility claims the contractor is not at fault. If its not related to the contractors work, are we looking at cold weather on an old cast iron main . Weather may have played a factor. Age may have played a factor. At this point, we cant determine that. We just know its not related to the contractors work. Reporter and we are heading in to that time of year according to the Water Department where we will see weather taking a toll on these older cast iron water mains and the Water Department says they were very lucky that the case of a failure of this one, very little flooding down in the 1400, a 00 block of germantown. Theyre asking any residents who have damage please call the Water Department. Doug shimell, nbc 10 news. . D from our delaware bureau, students at Concord Christian Academy were busy today. Nbc 10 was there as students packed up more than 10,000 meals for children in haiti still recovering from that devastating 2010 earthquake. The feed the need project helps to raise much needed money for the school itself. These children raised more than 25,000 in just a few weeks with more to come. A big honor today for two local men who protected americas coastlines during world war ii. They were awarded the congressional gold medal, the highest civilian honor given by congress. Harry mutter and Salvadore Castro were part of the Civil Air Patrol. They helped protect the u. S. Homeland and oil tankers from german u boat attacks. Harry mutter tells us this award means a lot to him. In we get together at air show, theyre always wearing their congressional gold medals. They didnt know next year when i see them im going to have my congressional gold medal. So well have a great time at the air shows talking about our past histories. The Civil Air Patrol was draeted six days before pearl harbor. It included men, women, teens and the future tuskegee air men. An uninvited guest caught on tape inside a house if this philadelphia. He wasnt there long, but it didnt matter. What this guy is accused of stealing. And are you stick with a cold or the flu . Why your doctor may be unwilling to give you antibiotics. Plus miracle at sea. Mayday. Mayday. Anybody picking will this up . The distress call that crews werent expecting to hear after a boater was lost at sea for 12 days. A new personal conduct policy for the nfl and it dout to effect immediately. Owners unanimously approved the new policy. It came after a string of deaf cases. Many involving star places. There have been months of questions about the League Standing on abuse. G s policy is comprehensive, it is strong, it is tough. And it is better for every soefshl associated with the nfl about. It walls for a baseline suspension for six games without pay for violations involving assault, battery, domestic violence, child abuse, other forms of violence. Additional violations can result in banishment from the league. The new plan calls for stepped up counseling and suit. There also a special conduct committee which will consult with outside experts to review and alter the policy when necessary. Detroit back in business. It is emerging there bankruptcy. Today detroit implemented a budget for the next two years. City leaders say it eliminates about 7 billion in debt. Nobel peace prize cowinners received their prizes today. They were he is cescorted in os town hall. Both were activists for kids rights. Malala also died for fighting for the rights of girls to receive an education in pakistan. You might remember this, too. She also received the Liberty Medal at the Constitution Center in october of a. At just 17, shes the youngest nob nobel lore i cant tell. She says shell use the 100,000 reward money to help educate children in pakistan. I cant te. She says shell use the 100,000 reward money to help educate children in pakistan. A boater lost at sea for nearly into weeks is back on solid ground. Ron abraham was sale to iling t hawaii. He radioed his boat was taking on water. A 12,000 square mile search found nothing. The coast guard called off the search. And j n tweflg da12 days rate,e suddenly surface order radar. He was 64 miles south. 12 day, man. Hes a champ. Hes tough. That was his son. 67yearold is an experienced fisherman, the coast guard says he was hungry and tlirsity when t thirsty, but otherwise doing okay. We have snow showers across the area. And as we go into the rest of day, well continue with those snow showers. If we can switch computers, we can see them streaming in. Showers across the poe know, co lehigh valley. And were really starting to see the back end of the system. We do have them across the area. It will stay in the forecast for the rest of the afternoon and evening. But it will be colder as we go through tonight. Temperatures dropping down colder than last night. So we could potentially have some icy spots on untreated roadways. Something to be cautious of. As we go into the weekend, were looking at driver conditions, so great for the eagles game. Here is a live look in the near. They have been seeing a pretty steady snowfall. Mostly on the lighter side. Temperature right now mid20s. Fee,1 jut like 12 degrees because its still windy outside. Only a mile visibility there. North and west, temperatures mid to low 30s. 34 pottstown, 35 westchester, upper 30s in philadelphia. So temperatures will continue to drop. 40 in millville, 44 in dover. So it will be colder tonight than it was last night. The snow showers moving in, lehigh valley, poconos, this is where we have most of the snow shower activity. Some of the suburbs north aptd west of philadelphia, very light snow showers or flurries. Even across i95 corridor. All part of the same noreaster slowly moving up the coastline. This is where we get the colder air and the snow coming down. But the winds are still up. Theyre gusting near 40 miles an hour in philadelphia. Through the rest of the area, around 25 to 30 miles an hour. So it will stay windy as we go through the rest of the evening. Future west tonight, still snow showers in the forecast areas north and west even closer to the philadelphia reecgion. Tomorrow, we stay cold in the morning and a chance of a few showers. So even through the day tomorrow, it will be cold, but the snow showers will still be at least through parts of the area. For tonight, windy and cold, snow showers around. Around 30 for a low in philly. Mid20s north and west. Tomorrow windy and cold with scattered snow showers. Maybe not everybody, but well see them around the area. Temperatures upper 30s. Friday, breezy and cold, we start to dry. Going into the weekend, would he d were drier. Eagles game looks good. Millions listen to them sing the songs and then vote for their favorites. Its not the voice. This this is the more fm christmas choir competition. A lot of high notes. Today we introduce to you the third place schedule, the 7th help choir of half ford middle school. Their choices are celestial. These 7th and 8th graders placed third in this years more fm holiday choir contest. Last year we came in second. We got to hear our song on the radio which was coolest thing ever. Reporter being Pitch Perfect takes practice and hard work. 120 auditioned, only 40 makes it. Its clear this is more than just a choir. If you just believe reporter when you sing, its almost as if youre escaping all the stress that you have from school and at home. And then just kind of go into this own little world before like you music. Everyone gets involved, voting, really support and the support from all the sfak you willity and staff. So a great weighed aeat way to everyone. Reporter and what about the 1,000 cash prize . With the money donated by mercedesbenz, the students and i decided to give back to a school that has a Music Program that maybe needs a little more support. Reporter that desire to give back makes them winners in the eyes of their principal. The competition is important just for the fact that its nice if our kids to display some of their kids an talents. Reporter he says the whole Community Supports music and the arts and want to pay it forward. They were terrific. Tomorrow at 4 00 and 5 00, well hear from the second place winners. Phillies have traded long time short stop jimmy collins. John clark is live to fill us in. Number 11 had a huge impact on and off the diamond. Yeah, he will go down as one of the greatest phyllis ever. Longested tenured athlete, jim any rollins has been traded to the dodgers. Jim sals baisbury broke the sto. Jimmy would have had to waive his no trade clause for this to happen, so he will return to his home take after 15 seasons with the phillies, a world series championship, mvp, jim any romys is headed to l. A. First or second in doubles, stolen bases and games. Four time gold governor, three time all star and he famously said we the phillies are the team to beat now and that started the phillies on their great run which included the world series. Jimmy rollins trades to the dodgers. Weve have a lot more coming up including who jay roll has been traded for hopefully in the next hour or so. Im john clark. Now a Pennsylvania School is the scene of a bizarre one vehicle crash. Check it out. An suv punched a hole right through a wall. And flying the annoying skies. If youll be a on plane that holiday season, first learn what irritates fellow passengers the most. This holiday season, my good friend gave to me 7 powerball tickets 6 match 6 chances 5 cash 5s 4 big 4s 3 daily numbers 2 Mega Millions joe happy holidays, rita. rita thanks, joe man what a great gift announcer Pennsylvania Lottery tickets make great gifts, like the new 1 million peppermint payout. joe happy holidays and best wishes from the lottery the School Superintendent says there is a big jump in the Graduation Rate and dropout rate is the lowest in three years. District leaders say 62 of the cra class of 2014 graduated on time. If he same time the districts dropout rate of 17 is the lowest since 2011. Speaking of school, a helping hand for upcoming preschoolers. The garden state is one of 18 states to receive a massive grant aimed at creating high quality preschool promises in diverse community. The grand comes to 17. 5 million. Its part of the initiative called preschool if all. Using this money, states will ensure universal access to preSchool Programs for all 4yearolds from low and moderate income families. More people than usual plan to fly during this holiday season. 45 Million People are expected to fly between december 17 and january 4. That is up 2 from last year. The busiest travel day is expected to be friday, december 19. Airlines plan to use larger planes to accommodate those crowds. And speaking of flying, you might encounter this if you travel by plane over the holidays. Annoying passengers. Exteed i can expedia released its etiquette study. Topping the list this year, the rear seat kicker. That always feels good. That is followed by the inattentive parents and the aromatic passenger. To put it nicely. Thats right. Well, from the Big Box Stores to small town information, shoppers are out in droves these days. Packing the store, but not all of them are looking for bargains. Some of them are passing around fake cash. Plus a local Community Pulls together after a horrific plane crash takes the lives of a jersey shore native and her young sons. A lot of us still cant even believe that this is happening. Reporter im Ted Greenberg, you how long time friends are working to help a husband and daughter left behind. Plus all new on nbc 10 at 6 00, a student sexually assaulted. The investigation understand way near a Philadelphia College campus. That its given me time toabout reflect on some of lifeseen biggest questions. Like, if you could save hundreds on Car Insurance by making one simple call, why wouldnt you make that call . See, the