Employee of allied security at the intersection of allegheny and broad. That Security Guard called 911. Temple police responded, picked up stevens and brought him to central detectives. Just moments ago, another Temple Police officer arrived with what appeared to be stevens belongings. Now, we also have surveillance videotape to show you. Police believe this is stevens. They say he is responsible for the two attacks just blocks apart that occurred in a short time span yesterday morning. They say about 5 30 a Temple University student who didnt want to be identified but we did talk to him and he told us he suffered injuries to his wrist and side while jogging. He says he was slashed with a threeinch blade at 23rd and walnut. Police say 15 minutes later attorney Josh Mcnamara says he was scratched on the cheek when he encountered the suspect near 21st and arch. Investigators say stevens was kicked out of a shelter earlier this week after punching a man and Police Sources also tell us right now one of the victims is here inside central detectives talking to them and identifying stevens. Well have much more on this in the next half hour. Live for now outside central, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. Monique, thank you. One man is in Critical Condition in philadelphia. He was shot while sitting in his car in the citys hunting park neighborhood. He started to drive away after he was shot but then crashed into a truck. Police say they found drugs in his car while they were pulling him out of it. Theyre now waiting to speak with him. With two people are hurt after a shooting and one of those victims was involved in a crash on the way to the hospital. The shooting happened on deraa street in frankford. The gunman shot a man and woman. The woman walked to the hospital on her own. Someone took the man for treatment but the vehicle slammed into a pole outside of the hospital. Police are looking for the gunman. One driver is hurt after crashing into several parked cars on the roosevelt boulevard. This happened just before 3 00 on the northbound lanes in olney. Police say the driver lost control and crashed into the cars. The car flipped over after the crash. The driver was able to get out and suffered minor injuries. Happening now, a jury is n center city is now deliberating in the trial of a woman accused of hurling homophobic slurs and throwing punches at a gay couple. Cathryn knott took the stand on her own defense. She faces years in prison if convicted. Prosecutors say knott and two other men attacked the couple in center city last year. Knott is the last defendant to face charges in this case, the other two pleaded guilty. Just within the last few hours, Philadelphia Police released new video of two robberies. In the first, two women stole six packs of diapers from the Family Dollar store on west lehigh avenue on sunday. An employee tried to stop the women in the parking lot but they attacked her and drove away. The employee had a cut lip and a bump on her head. This is the video from the second robbery, a robbery at a Little Caesars pizza shop. The woman demanded money then ran out of the store. No one was hurt in the robbery. A mix of clouds and sun out there today and once again temperatures are still above average as we take a live look at boathouse row. Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is hi, glenn. Hey, vai. Yes, everyday is above average around here this month. Looks like well have the warmest december ever recorded. Not as warm as it has been. We have an easterly wind. We have clouds out there right now. You can see parts of the area seeingon sunshine like in buc county. Burlington getting more sunshine but more cloud cover farther to the south. You can see the edge of the clouds right here across parts of montgomery count yy sunshinen northeast philly while its overcast by the airport. 51 degrees now. These temperatures are already well above the average high is its colder than yesterday. Five to ten degrees colder. Were talking about mid50s, ten degrees above average, no rain during the day today but that will change tomorrow and pretty rainy day ahead. More on the timing for that with the sevenday in a few minutes. Glenn, thank you. A call for justice from protestors in philadelphia who took to the streets to remember a man shot and killed by police. Protesters blocked traffic last night in center city. They marged from city hall to the d. A. s office. Exactly one year after a Police Officer shot and killed brandon tae brown during a traffic stop. Both officers involved were cleared of wrongdoing and are on regular duty. Browns mother was at the protest and shes suing the city and officers involved. I want accountability. I want my sons side heard and i want a judge to hear it and then determine who was right and who was wrong. Reporter the Philadelphia District attorney ruled the use of deadly force was not a crime. The fate of philadelphias Public Schools is unknown beyond january. If pennsylvania cant come up with a budget agreement, School Superintendent william hight revealed that in an email to colleagues. He said without state funds the districts ability to keep schools open, issue paychecks and bills beyond january 29 of next year is uncertain. Pennsylvania has been operating without a budget since july 1. And residents of bethlehem face a more than 2 property tax increase in the coming year. According to reports, City Council Approved that increase as part of the 2016 city budget. That budget total was 73. 7 million. The tax increase is expected to cost homeowners an average of 18. 50 more next year. The citys recycling fees will go up by 10 from 60 to 70 a year for residents. Happening today hundreds of taxi and limo drivers in philadelphia will protest Ridesharing Services like uber x and lyft. About 600 drivers will be at city hall today. They say those services are illegal and creating anarchy in the city. The drivers also say theyve invested in training and other regulations that uber x and lyft drivers ignore. Some protesters are part of the uber black program which partners with existing limo services. Also septa and other partners will give us an update on the plans from 30th street station as we look at the train station where neighbor cans hear the latest details of this plan. The plan aims to make the area around 30th street station into an epicenter for community development, Economic Growth and improved transportation connections. They hope to do that by making physical improvements and transportation changes. Fight night in vegas. Donald is great at the oneliners but hes a chaos candidate and hed be a chaos president. Chaos aside. Watch how the gloves came off when the republican president ial candidates went head to head on everything from Immigration Reform to public policy. Plus, well see the first Interest Rate mike a decade. Ill talk live with a financial expert about what the Federal Reserves expected announcement today means to you. Enjoy the dry weather while it lasts. Im tracking the arrival of heavy rain. Plus a cooldown. Ill let you know what to expect and when just ahead. Decision 2016, National Security or the lack thereof is still whats being talked about the morning after the latest the last republican president ial debate of the year and the gop leadership is okay with that. Heres more from nbcs chris clackham. Reporter a highlight was this between candidates trump and bush. This is a tough business to run for president. I know, youre a tough guy, jeb, i know. And we need to have a leader youre tough. Youre real tough. Youre never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way of the presidency. The second tear of the gop field found common ground. There will be boots on the ground and theyll be over here and theyll be there boots if we dont get them out of there now. We need to have a coalition that will stand for nothing less than the total destruction of isis. Reporter all of which was just fine with Republican Leadership assessing the debate on the morning tv shows wednesday. I do think people are afraid. Were afraid. Im afraid. Im sure youre all concerned about where were at in this country in fighting isis and terrorism. Reporter in his reaction wednesday morning, jeb bush was still debating strategy on security issues. The idea that you can just prey on peoples fears is not who we are as a nation, is not who we are as a party. Reporter while frontrunner donald trump stuck to a more hard line approach. I thought it was an amazing debate. Reporter many of the candidates head to iowa for the holidays where the caucuses are now just 46 days away. Nbc 10 news. Happening now, Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson is outlining the new National Terror alert system. Heres a live look from fema headquarters in washington, d. C. As jeh johnson is there at the podium. This will be the third terror alert system put in place since the 9 11 terror attacks. This alert system was announced last week following the terror attacks in San Bernardino and paris. At that time, johnson said it would be it would better inform the public about threats to the United States compared to the current system. Ash carter is in baghdad, iraq, on an unannounced visit. He theres with directions from president obama to find new ways to defeat isis. Carter will meet with his commanders and iraqi leaders to look for ways to broaden the u. S. Assistance in iraq. The Obama Administration has been talking for days about accelerating the fight against the militant group. The french army released new i have owe today showing air strikes against isis in iraq. It shows fighter jets taking off from a base in an undisclosed location. The jets fired cruise missiles against an isis command center near iraqs border with syria. France stepped up its strikes after isis claimed responsibility for the terror attacks in paris last month that left 130 people dead. Were still about 10 degrees above average for time of the year. But we are tracking heavy rain. Its been relatively dry around here. A weekend cold blast the only cold air of the whole month of decemb december. That includes the rest of the month because well be seeing some christmas records, especially Christmas Eve. We have a light east wind. 51 in allentown despite the clouds, 52 in salem and mount holly. In wilmington, 51 Atlantic City and millville. The farther south you go the thicker the clouds so temperatures fairly uniform across the area and look at these numbers. We are way ahead of the pace for the warmest december ever recorded. More than 11 degrees above normal for the month as a hole in philadelphia. That is just out of this world. Unbelievable. Mount pocono even more extreme. 13. 6 degrees above normal. Its not just around here. Other parts of the east and even midwest are exceptionally mild, too. Buffalo still hasnt gotten any snow. Mild right now but some cold air will be coming down friday into saturday and sunday morning but then its going away. Here comes the mild air right back by tuesday, by wednesday were starting to talk about getting close to records. By thursday well be at record levels. Possibly even into christmas weekend itself, the cold air stuck way, way back to the west. Theres the 26, and its still exceptionally warm. Now, the clouds breaking up, at least in parts of the area, but holding firm in others. This is the area of rain thats going to be approaching. Its a long way away right now so we dont expect it today or tonight. And first thing tomorrow morning its likely to be dry. Maybe a sprinkle or a little drizzle at most. Then the rain moves in later during the morning, gets heavy at times during the afternoon and then starts to move out by thursday night. Then the colder air comes in. Computer models starting to vary a little bit about the amounts of rain as you can see, not much the first half of thursday but then the rest of the day its getting more impressive in some places, getting around an inch of rain or perhaps even a little bit more but were not talking about a flooding threat or severe storms. Mix of sun and clouds today, mild is, is High Temperatures in the mid50s but not nearly as warm as its been. Upper 50s despite all the rain tomorrow and then we drop 10 degrees friday, another 10 on saturday and a good bit of wind on saturday. Well be calculating windchills then. Perhaps the first night below freezing in philadelphia sunday morning before we start warming up gwen next week. Happening today, the Federal Reserve will decide whether to raise Interest Rates. It will be the first time in nine years. The fed slash rates to near zero in december of 2008 and few anticipated they would stay there for seven years but is the u. S. Economy Strong Enough to handle a rate hike. Bob johnson is president and ceo of the American College of Financial Services and the coauthor of the book invest with the fed. Bob, thanks for coming in. Let me start with what the proposed rate hike is that a fore again conclusion . I understand that wall street is speculating there may be one or two voting who may not go along. If i had to put odds on it, i would say its a 95 certainty. But then the application. It will happen slowly . Gradually . How well, what i think will happen, vai, is the fed has been very patient. Folks have believed they were going to hike rates sooner than this but i think theyve been very patient, they wanted to make sure that they believe the that the economy could withstand an rate increase. So to that point now i believe theyll raise rates today and i also believe it will be the first in a series of rate hikes over the next year. I believe if i had to put a number on it perhaps four rate hikes next year of 25 basis points so Interest Rates would increase 1 , maybe over 1 over that time period. Okay, so for the rank and file who are watching this program, how does it affect them. How does it affect you and me and people who are out there living paycheck to paycheck . Immediately, very little. Its much ado about nothing immediately. But if what i said happens and they gradually increase rates over the next year, youre going to see Interest Rates on mortgages increase, Interest Rates on car loans increase, credit cards and so forth. Typically its very simple. If youre a borrower, the Interest Rate increases are bad for you. If youre a lender, Interest Rate increases are good. Did you just answer for me the winners and losers in this rate hike . Exactly. Whats the short and longterm effect of such a hike . I think the longterm effect is you are going to see Interest Rates increase. For instance, if you have a variable rate loan, mortgage loan, it probably would be a good idea to lock in a fixed rate now. Theres much more risk of rates rising than rates falling. The other thing is the effect on the stock market. And generally stocks perform much better when rates are trending downward than when rates are trending upward. In fact, in invest with the fed my coauthors and i found the s p 500 returned about 15. 2 when rates were trending downward and 5. 9 when rates were trending upward. So for investors expect lower returns in the stock market. It will be tougher for everybody around, especially those investing in the stock market. Bob johnson, thank you for coming in and sharing tips with us. Appreciate it, thanks. A family has three new reasons to celebrate christmas this year but these adorable baby girls arent your typical triplets. What makes this family so unusual. Well have that for you straight ahead. Its become a holiday tradition in our area. The more 101 phenomenon christmas choir competition. Well hear the beautiful sounds of the finalists coming up. This weeks wednesdays child is a sweet boy who loves football and has a very engaging personality. Hes hoping to find a forever family that will open their hearts and support him through all of lifes challenges. Id like you to meet anthony. Hes the quarterback. What do you think . Good. Anthony is a warm and funloving young man. He is funny and has a very thoughtful personality. He loves to have a good time and has a passion for all things football. So we headed to the right place to take in some pig skin lincoln financial field. He enjoyed a visit from the eagles mascot swoop. He loved to tour the locker room. Got a chance to take to the field. Anthony has a great personality, hes very funny, he has a great sense of humor and likes to joke around with people. Very warm boy, very polite. Hes currently in the sixth grade and loves school. Although he is diagnosed with cerebral palsy, he doesnt let it hold him back. Hes very independent and has made Great Strides developmentally. I love anthony. Anthony is such a great kid. He has a lottobring to his forever family. Hes very fun and he makes you smile. Everybody he meets puts a smile on his face immediately. The ideal family would be supportive and loving. They would act as an advocate for his needs. Hes very talkative and asks a lot of questions. Hue more so a big part of him. He is ready to share his big heart with a forever family. Eagles anthony is this weeks wednesdays child. We had a great time and we thank the eagles for letting us hang out at their stadium at the link. If youd like to make anthonys dream come true or the dream of any wednesdays child sponsored by the dave thomas foundation, go to our web site at nbc10. C