Thats not right. It means our city and our world is in crisis. And we are struggling really hard to find the right words. We wont find the right answers until we can start finding the right words. Philadelphia police tell us this will be investigated like any other act of vandalism. The crime here isnt against police. Its against the people who had to foot the bill to clean it up. A pennsylvania lawmaker wants to put all cases of deadly force involving police in the hands of a special prosecutor. Art heywood announced his proposal today. The bill would require the state attorney general to appoint an independent special prosecutor. Heywoods call for action comes in the wake of the Michael Brown and eric garner grand jury decisions. We need to let people know that we care, that theyve been heard. We dont want to wait till a ferguson or new york incident happens here in pennsylvania before we act. Heywood says he plans to introduce his bill when hes sworn into office next month. Meanwhile, president obama says the National Debate about Police Tactics is a good thing. In todays end of the year news confrlnce he called it a, quote, healthy conversation. These are not new phenomena. The fact theyre not surfacing in part because people are able to film what had just been in the past stories passed on around the kitchen table, allows people to make their own assessments and evaluations. Youre not going to solve the problem if its not being talked about. Nbc news correspondent Kelly Odonnell is live at the white house tonight. Kelly, philadelphias Police Commissioner is heading the president s task force on community policing. What kind of action could come from this task force . Good evening, renee. The president was clear today that he didnt want this just to be musings or conversation but some practical ideas that he expects back in about 90 days to try to look at ways for the communities and the Law Enforcement to Work Together to build trust, reduce crime and to have a dialogue going on more often that could create an environment where some of these instances would not occur. So hes talking about having that dialogue but some practical steps. Thats something that he expects to see soon, then he would act on that, bringing together Law Enforcement personnel and expertise from around the country, including philadelphia. So kelly, it had been talked about for a couple of i ddays. The president said it was a mistake for sony to pull the interview which is the movie that led to the attack. Is any indication as to how the u. S. Government might respond now . It was quite a headline out of this, jim. When the president acknowledged that sony is a corporation that has its own considerations and was concerned about employees and about Severe Damage to its own internal operations, the president was very clear with that headlinemaking comment that they had made a mistake. The president said he will take advice on how to act on this. It will be proportional, he said, and at a tomb and tactics of his choosing. He was very clear he did not want to show what he would be doing but to also send a message that this would not be an appropriate response. He wished sony had talked to him first because said some dictator far off should not be providing censorship for what americans see and consume and the commerce that we have. So this was a very significant comment from the president understanding the difficult position sony is in but making it clear that he thinks they went the wrong way. Jim, ra may . Nbc newss Kelly Odonnell reporting live from the white house. Thank you for your report. Now to a cyberthreat Pennsylvania State police are taking seriously out of berks county. A group sent Pine Forge Academy an email demanding a Million Dollars or its Computer System would be hacked. The group calls itself heart of the people. Its unclear if this is a prank or a real threat. Police are working to find whoevers responsible. Find an ipc address, email address, try to go the back door and figure out who this person is. Police tell us the hackers claim that disgruntled school alums put them up to this plan. The school says its fully cooperating with investigators. New years eve, less than two weeks away. Now tonight, both philadelphia and camden are revealing plans for a celebration that rifle er the one in times square. Looking at times square where fireworks will illuminate. Today the mayors of philadelphia, camden, offered a glimpse of what we can expect for the upcoming new years celebration. Back again this year, fireworks on the water front, including two shows, one at 6 00 p. M. At new years eve and another show at midnight. Big and beautiful and we want everyone to start their new years eve out with a bang. I think for all the people that have been coming here for 20, 30 years they already know. Everybody tells a friend. As for new years day, dont forget theres a change to the mummers parade. In its 114th year now. The route is changing a bit. The mummers will strut from city hall down South Broad Street and the route is shorter by two miles. Meanwhi meanwhile, a new sense of optimism this evening for casino workers in Atlantic City. Trump taj mahal is inviting you to ring in the new year which means its not closing this weekend after all. As nbc 10s Jersey Shore Bureau reporter Ted Greenberg explains, its new hope for the holidays. New cars in the lobby, a new message on the website, the trump taj mahal wants people to know its staying open. Im happy, anybody has a job, you know. Reporter the elation among the taj mahals 3,000 workers comes a day after the casinos de facto owner, billionaire investor carl icahn averted a previously planned shutdown tomorrow morning by pledging to provide up to 20 million to keep the bankrupt gaming hall in business through its court proceedings. Fantastic, because i like coming here. I need a job to pay the bills, thats it. Reporter employees tell us these new mazdas were moved into the lobby as part of a promotion giving away ten cars in two days on december 30th and 31st. A 25,000 almost new years slot tournament is also advertised on the casinos website. Its a good thing. I hope this guy does the right thing and does the right thing for Atlantic City and does the right thing for the people that are working here. Reporter outdated billboard ads for taj mahal are still posted on roads into town, no official comment from casino executives by our deadline but workers say management told them new billboards will go up in the coming days. Plus, plans are in the works for a new years eve party. Were happy. When we got a job, everybody happy. Reporter the taj mahals chairman tower is still closed. She didnt know when it will reopen but she says otherwise hotelc bookings are are busine as usual. In Atlantic City, Ted Greenberg, nbc 10 news. A West Philadelphia pizza shop worker is accused of paying bribes to past health inspections. Police say Adolfo Delacruz gave money to what he thought was an health inspector. He offered him the same deal for a second staceys location. Prosecutors say he admitted to the crimes. North Philadelphia Charter School shut its doors for good. They say dwindling student and teacher numbers at wakisha contributed to the decision to close early. Her plan to go after the small crimes to prevent the bigger, more dangerous, even deadly ones now facing the city. Plus, a true christmas story, how santa helped reunite a little boy with his mom. And im tracking some wet weather and the possibility of some of that possibly changing to snow showers on christmas. Dont miss the details in my exclusive nbc 10 first alert forecast. And shes been a main stay in philadelphia for more than 25 years, tonight is lu ann cahns final day here at nbc 10. Ahead, the memories weve shared and the new challenge shes taking on. This is nbc 10 news. Escape to warmer weather, i know i do. Im in. Lets go. Frontier airlines will help us. Theyre going to get you there from Philadelphia International airport. This weekend, the airline is launching new nonstop service to miami, orlando, tampa and cancun, mexico. Frontier is offering oneway tickets to the florida destinations for as low as 39. Wow. Wow is right. Tonight people in wilmington say enough is enough. Theyre sick of the crime plaguing their neighborhood. A city councilwoman agrees and shes cracking down, starting with the small tough. Tim furlong explains, she wants to take back the city one troubled block at a time. Reporter garys building takes a stray bullet every now and then. Around his office, open air drug deals and boarded up homes. Theyve been focal points for all types of criminal activity. Reporter a few blocks over, its the loitering, people who dont live here, hanging out at abandon houses. I have to keep running people off your property. You constantly have to clean up behind them. Its a mess. Its just a mess. Reporter city councilwoman Maria Cabrera is ticked off. We watched her tell neighbors about her proposal to have police have more leeway here. She has her sights set on a couple local trouble spots where the little crimes often lead to bigger ones. Its not fair to you to have you. Im shutting that down. Im telling you that right now. Reporter some of the stleets have plenty of wellmaintained homes where families follow the rules but the problem is, just a couple doors down you have spots like this one, houses with boarded up windows, Maria Cabrera lives in this neighborhood. She says spots like this one are huge magnets for trouble. Thats where they hide their drugs. Reporter neighbors hope her plan works. Until they clean up the city, you have to keep your kids in the house. Reporter in wilmington, tim pu furlong, nbc 10 news. Rocky the bobcat has a new home tonight. It should be an end to the tortured history of this case. This morning in stafrtd township, municipal court, ginny fine gave up ownership of the jersey shores most infamous bobcat. The 30pound animal has gotten loose at least six times since march. Rocky will live at popcorn park zoo in lacy township. Im not thankful. Why did you surrender him then . I really dont want to talk to anybody right now. Fine also pleaded guilty to charges stemming from rockys last escape in october. She also has to pay a fine and restitution for his care at the zoo. The only thing 2yearold bryce wanted for christmas was for his mom to come home and today, santa delivered that very special gift. Take a look. I dont think bryce could believe it. He was sitting on santas lap when his mom made that surprise return. Airman first class jank lynn rank is with the Delaware National guard. Shes been training in texas for the last seven months. Thanks to santa, shes been reunited with her son just in time for the holidays. Little bryce, hes being so well behave had, santa, i think you should do Something Special for him. Santa decided that bryce has been so good, i get to come home early. Moms return is a great christmas and birthday present. Bryce turns 3 in january. I dont think hes ever going to let go right there. He wants to hang on tight. Thats so wonderful. Priceless. Sheena, what do you have for us for the weekend . Its going to be cold. We never get enough of those stories, coming home to the kids, we love those stories, especially this time of year. Cold right now if you are about to go out and go shopping, a lot of the malls and Stores Closing late tonight. There will be overnight hours. Cold and dry across the weekend. Thats good news to run your errands. We start a rainy stretch as we go into next week. Monday through wednesday, wednesday its Christmas Eve. I have that forecast as well as your Christmas Day forecast coming up in just a minute. Skies have cleared across the area. This means temperatures will be 9n thats what the clear skies tend to do. Feels more like 33 degrees. North and west, lehigh valley, temperatures here are in about the midtolow 30s. 33 allentown, 35 degrees west cheffer. Freezing in trenton, 32 degrees there. Millville, 32. 34 now Atlantic City, 36 degrees already in dover. As we go through the overnight hours tonight, heres where we expect to be early tomorrow morning, low temperature around 22 for allentown, mid20s quakertown, doylestown and norristown, trenton 26 degrees, northeast philly coming in at 27 tomorrow morning, 24 mt. Holly. 30 degrees for your morning tomorrow around the shore. 26 for vineland and dover and around the philadelphia area, 27 degrees surrounding suburbs right around the mid20s. It is going to be a cold start to your weekend. We will be staying dry overnight tonight. Even across the board, moisture pretty much stays to our south. Were looking at the southeast, a lot of rain moving through here. Could be affecting travel come tomorrow as it moves across the southeast. For us locally. All that moisture stays south. Future weather keeps us dry into saturday. Some clouds start to move through as part of that disturbance. But it will be still a cold afternoon for us. We go into sunday. You notice we still pretty much stay dry, clouds passing by. Overall things look pretty good, especially if you have to run those errands this weekend. Mostly clear for tonight. Cold temperatures, 27 for the low, 22 areas north and west. Tomorrow, cold afternoon. Temperatures around 40 degrees. Mix of sun and clouds. And we even stay cold as we go into sunday. Oval start of winter by the way, into monday, the rainy stretch starts tuesday, wednesday, and wednesdays Christmas Eve. It will be mild, rainy, windy for your Christmas Eve. Thats the Christmas Eve forecast. Temperatures mid50s, rainy and mild. This tries to clear out early christmas morning. Theres a chance that some of the cold air could move in before the moisture clears which would lead to at least some of the rain changing over to snow showers. Not for long. Christmas day, colder and windy. High temperatures in about the low 40s. Sheena, thanks. Up next, the Jimmy Rollins trade is official. Well hear from him about leaving philly. And the flyers may be about to embark on their longest road trip of the season without their starting goalie. Im jane and i have copd. Im dave and i have copd. Im kate and i have copd, but i dont want my breathing problems to get in the way my volunteering. Thats why i asked my doctor about breo. Oncedaily breo ellipta helps increase airflow from the lungs for a full 24 hours. And breo helps reduce symptom flareups that last several days and require oral steroids, antibiotics, or hospital stay. Breo is not for asthma. Breo contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. It is not known if this risk is increased in copd. Breo wont replace rescue inhalers for sudden copd symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. Breo may increase your risk of pneumonia, thrush, osteoporosis, and some eye problems. Tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high Blood Pressure before taking breo. Ask your doctor about breo for copd. First prescription free at mybreo. Com this is the xfinity sportsdesk, brute to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. Live and in your living room, im danny pommel from Comcast Sports net. Comcast hahp hc. Tig dodgers became official. I told him that i signed the deal. About a month later, he called and just said he wanted to let me know what was going on. So at that point, you know, he cant really ask me to be traded but i was able to read between the lines. I told him that if i want to he could get me to l. A. , we could make something happen. Freddie is the likely heir immediately to take over at shortstop. The rebuilding process for the phils has begun. We have to work for the Philadelphia Phillies first and foremost and do whats best for the organization. These types of trades are not easy but theyre also necessary. This is also a move for the organization as far as getting younger and creating a new nucleus for the ball club going forward. This is a step in that direction. The pitchers the philly received is a righty and left hander tom wendell. The flyers begin an eightgame trip without starting goalie mason. He will miss tomorrows game and sundays game in winnipeg. Emery will likely start both weekend games. The offense has had some issues the last two weeks. Two losses that have put their playoff plans in serious jeopardy. Mark sanchez was asked what they need to do to get back on track. The most important thing is sustaining drives. We cant do the three and out thing. Eliminate the turnovers, get some real positive plays on first and second down and make those third downs if we have to get to them easier. All right. Meanwhile on the hard wood, the sixers host the hornets looking for their first home win of the season. Thats sports, im danny pommels from Comcast Sports net. Bogus sighting. It triggered an expanded police search. Find out the punish mement a ma faces after he reported spotting a man accused in a killing spree. 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 only thing i can think of is that you cant get any. Bars. Ah, thats better. Its a beautiful view. I wonder if i can see mt. Rushmore from here. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. It really has been a bitter sweet day here at nbc 10. Our lu ann cahn moving on. After 27 years of reporting and anchoring for nbc 10, lu ann is taking on several new challenges. First, shes hitting the road, literally. In a car to drive to 30 cities in 30 days doing 30 different dares. The dares spring from lu anns book called i dare me based on a year where lu ann did something new every day and blogged about it. Well within after the road trip, lu ann will headline speaking engagements to focus on living your best life. Youll also find lu ann at Temple University school of media and communicationsc wher there she will help launch the careers of the next generation of communicators. In a message to her colleagues today, lu ann told us everyone should be so lucky to have a career like hers. It turns out were the lucky ones to have had lu ann cahn in our lives. I love how she embraces change and risk taking. Thats what shes doing right now. Yes. We wish her all the best. Exciting new chapter for lu ann. We are going to miss her. I love her outlook by the way, her outlook on life and doing things new and teaching that to other people is absolutely fantastic. Powerful. It will be cold going into your weekend. It looks dry. Well see a minimum of sun and clouds. Tonight temperatures will be in the 20s. So maybe a little bit colder in some spots. Over the weekend, we see again the drier conditions, temperatures low 40s. It will be cold, rainy stretch starts as we go into next week. A rainy Christmas Eve. Thanks, sheena. For all of us here at nbc 10, thanks for watching. Im renee chenaultfattah. Im jim rosenfield. The news continues with nbc nightly news with brian williams. On the broadcast tonight, plot twist. The president calls out sony for caving to the hackers and pulling its christmas blockbuster. And tonight, the fbi says knot korea did it. Now how will the u. S. Respond . Mean season, the flu hits early and hard across the country. Tonight, a warning from doctors why this year is already worse than last. Triple threat, big storms hitting right at the worst time. A big mess for families traveling for christmas. And making a difference by giving teachers a helping hand and giving millions of kids the tools they need to succeed. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york,