December it 26. Im alex dennis in for andrea grymes. First meteorologist Vanessa Murdock was here with the forecast. It was christmas and i was in a tshirt. How long is it going to last. Today is going to be 15 degrees cooler but tomorrow record warmth again so its not over by any stretch. It will still be 12 degrees above normal. Very mild yet again. Wont be a sunny day. Degrees. Central park at 54. 52 in edison and greenwich. So very mild. Temperatures will not move. Most of us in the low 50s. Plenty of cloud cover, a few showers making their way closer towards us. Showers possible. Wont be an all day wash out but not a bright beginning by this weekend. 52 degrees, still mainly cloudy out there. We still have plenty of clouds. 3 00 will feel like 49. Still well above seasonable today but not record breaking. Tomorrow is a different story. We talk about that and the chance for some snow in the extended forecast. Back to you. Vanessa thanks. Now to a developing story. New Jersey Police found a family dead inside an apartment calling a murder suicide. He killed his eightyearold daughter and wife before ila na. The big question is why did daughter. The river and the center is guarding the building this morning. The man likely shot his family while they were sleeping. A welfare check led to a crime scene when police made a gruesome discovery in a 7th 17th floor apartment. Its very sad. They found the bodies of 53 yearold michael, his wife melissa and their 8yearold daughter melee in a bedroom. He shot the two before turning the gun on hemself. We believe the shootings took place while they were laying in the bed or while they were sleeping. Investigators tell us the shootings happened at least a day and a half ago but none of the neighbors reported hearing any gunshots. It wasnt until Late Afternoon when the relatives called police. Supposed to be in that state around 1. They never showed up and he couldnt reach them on the cell phones. Its always troubling when an 8yearold child was murdered that way. She just her 8th birthday on tuesday. Theres no occasion they had anyindications they had any issues. Michael sold custom watches to law enforcement. Investigators are trying to figure out with why he killed his young mother and daughter. One has to wonder what would possess him to do that. Police are turning to neighbors hoping they have any information. They could have more answers in the next few days. Live in edgewater this morning cbs 2 news. Thank you. Now to a cbs 2 exclusive. A message this morning to take one family assumed it was set off by the wind only to find out there was a man hiding in their home. It began wednesday evening. Her and her family received a call for a Burglar Alarm but assumed it was false. She noticed something strange at her bedroom door and found a man hiding behind it. He was wearing a hood and he pushed me out of the way and my mom grabbed him. That was her first reaction. My brother was screaming. Thankfully no one was injured. The man escaped with a jewelry box and is described as a male with black skin wearing a hoodie and jeans. A top rebel commander has been killed in an air strike, a he had one of the most powerful groups by saudi arabia. At least 14 people confirmed dead after a tornado tore across the town of holly springs. The powerful storm system tore through states including mississippi, tennessee, arkansas and alabama. At least 14 tornadoes hit mississippi alone. Thousands remain without power. A fire at bill clintons childhood home was apparently caused by arson. It was reported at the Hope Arkansas home friday morning. Smells indicate an accelerant may have been used. The home sustained minor damage. Today a firefighter gave his mask to a teenage girl. A fire lieutenant in yers raced the teen was trapped in the yesterday was a working holiday for fedex employees who had to play catch up on christmas. The carrier was trying to make good on deliveries that were delayed because of severe storms that interrupted schedules. Fedex did not plan on delivering on christmas but workers put in the over time. Kwanza begins today with the principal of unity. Each light theres a candlelighting ceremony to discuss the meaning as well. Unwrapped too many socks or fruit cakes this year, tis the season of returning and exchanging. What you need to know. And a new york city mother got to open a door to a new apartment. The organization that helped make it possible. Another mild day ahead but still a lot cooler than it was yesterday. From record warmth to an opportunity for snow. First the check on the Community Calendar from cbs 2 and cbs new york. Com. Dont forget we are always on facebook and twitter. Join our conversations at facebook. Com or tweet us at cbs north new york. We all know about the sales on black friday but what about the day after christmas . Shoppers are counting on the deepest discounts of the season revealing themselves now. The perfect time to buy. Stores will be jammed. People with gift cards or cash they just got as presents. Kate is planning a saturday shopping spree. Anything i can find with a good deal. Nothing less than 75 . Some shoppers in times square found Stores Opened with years. People are looking to buy winter clothes. Apparel and accessories, sweaters and winter wear items. Prices for over stock toys slashed 75 and more. Beauty products and fragrances have holiday gift packaging. If you have your eye on wait. Not so great day after deals include televisions. They wait until the super bowl to mark those down and computers mark down when manufacturers get ready to unvail the newest models. 30 off can give way to 50 or to 2016. In midtown, cbs 2 news. Be warned if you plan on returning unwanted holiday gifts. They are making it hard to take them back especially without a part of the reason is a growing trend where thieves steal stuff and then return the items for cash. 40 of people plan to return at least one gift. Not me. Im happy. Got everything i want. The last full moon of the year and its called a full cold moon because it shows up during the beginning of winter. We havent had a full moon on Christmas Day since 1977 and wont have one again until 2034. Thats nearly two decades. Thank you very much. I was counting. So kia did well . He did very well. It was a big birthday. Not only christmas but your birthday alex. My husband did well too. He did a great job this year. Good job. Lets check in with meteorologist Vanessa Murdock. Hope you had a great christmas as well. Very wonderful, thank you. The forecast i think will be trending towards a cooler temperature that people will appreciate but we are not quite there yet. We are not to seasonable just yet. Talking about 50 today, we should be at 40 but we do have highs in the forecast. So big changes on the way. Live outside this morning it is a very pretty picture. Cloudy skies and 54 degrees. Incredible warmth as we start our saturday morning. Hour. As we look at the headlines for today its going to be unsettled. The stretch continues. A chance for rain tomorrow as well. Monday a little bit of a break. Tuesday more wet weather in the mix and that could be of the wintery variety. Yes a little cooler in the low 50s for afternoon temperatures. And then tomorrow spring like warmth back again. Record setting possibilities for your sunday. Highs in the low and mid 40s on monday. Heres how it looks. Yesterday Christmas Day and Christmas Eve for that fact both record setting day. Today well top out at 52 degrees closer to seasonable but still well above the normal. 65 tomorrow, record setting, monday 44 so cooler air does dive in. As we look at the vortex plenty of clouds out there. A little bit of green on the screen as far as showers. Definitely possible for today. It will be a mostly cloudy sort of day. An area of High Pressure to the north. Whats happening here is because winds are out of the northeast. We are funneling in the slightly cooler air for today. Again still well above normal. For today cooler clouds and a chance for showers about a 20 to 30 chance of wet weather. Then tomorrow as the low lifts to the north we are going to the warmer half of your weekend temperatures at record levels and a little more rain in the mix. Then monday its a reality check. Cold air closer to seasonably cold air finally in place. Low to mid 40s for highs. Partly sunny skies on monday. This afternoon if you are going to enjoy the game outside, thats a little bit offthats tomorrow, excuse me. 64 degrees the jets versus the patriots at 64 degrees. Mostly cloudy skies, maybe a shower during game time. Today cooler with clouds a slight chance of showers 52 degrees. Overnight tonight, 49 and temperatures will actually start warming up overnight. Rain is likely. Patchy fog developing. Tomorrow a high of 65 more records and weather moving in late in the day. Now the extended forecast. Here we go. Monday 44 degrees and partly sunny. Then overnight monday into early tuesday, temperatures weather. So early Tuesday Morning some starting off with a little snow, some starting off with a wintery mix but it will change over to rain and will not be cold enough on the ground to have the wintery weather stick. Thats whats happening overnight monday into tuesday. After that temperatures settle closer to 50 degrees and new years eve is decent and on the milder side as well. More tshirts and shorts . Wont be that mild. But not seasonably chilly either. Good. Vanessa thank you. Carmelo anthony is not the only knick racking up votes. Heres the update. 68 years ago the nba played its first Christmas Eve game. A Christmas Day tradition was born and continues to this day. The league featuring the best as a gift to fans. The centerpiece to steph currys warriors against lebron james cavaliers. 2215. Three assists shy of a triple double. Seth curry finished with 19 points. Cleveland had won six in a row but they couldnt buy a bucket. 32 shooting as a team. Lebron james nothing but air. He had 25. Not enough. Warriors win the rematch by 6 improving to 281. The pelicans visiting the heat. Anthony davis scored 29 points and beats the half time buzzer to go to over time. Dwayne wade and chris bosh combine for 16 points in over time. 19 a game high. Miami wins by 6. The nba has voting tally and Carmelo Anthony is in fourth for the knicks just over 132,000 votes but the knicks rookie is a surprising 8th in the voting with 85,000 votes. And kobe bryant leads all with 117,000 votes. Day. Today is going to be burgers this time of year. For some reason in the winter time asparagus is great. It becomes locally grown in the spring but right now its being imported in. Very few are being locally grown right now. Purple a asparagus. It turns green when you over cook it. Purple from the top to bottom. A lot of times you are going to thats just how it is and you dont really have to get rid of that white trunk. Just shave is down a little bit. Thats it. I take the asparagus and shave with a peeler all the way down. Then i just steam it. Thats all. Steam it and not too long. All of the colors are vibe rant. Add a little bit of lemon juice in the water and the colors are nice and vibe rant and delicious looking. You will love it. Mix it up for an asparagus salad, hot or cold. Remember to eat fresh or stay healthy. If we could invite him over to cook, he had it all down. Looks good to me. Coming up next a home for the holidays. It wasnt easy but we stuck together. A mother and her family escaped the city shelter system and move into their new apartment just in time for christmas. Small program having big success in the city. Plus our weather has had a bit of a split personality lately but is it really enough to make you sick . Will be right back. Music another sunny day by belle and sebastian such a shame its labeled a getaway. Life should always feel like this. Hampton. We go together. Always get the lowest price, this could be a difficult time of year for those without a place to call home for the holidays. The homeless in a new way. Kenneth craig has more. The new apartment is a work in progress. No furniture yet but she has a Christmas Tree and a permanent place she and her three kids call home. Whats this feel like for you . Well the last year has been pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. The family spent two years living in a new york city homeless shelter after a Domestic Abuse situation. It wasnt easy but we stuck together. There are more than one million children who are without homes nationwide. All kinds of families experience homelessness. Ellen baxter is the founder of Broadway Housing communities an organization that created Affordable Housing in new york for more than 40 years. Its building called sugar hill opened with 121 units a year ago. More than 48,000 applied for a spot. Model for other cities around the nation. And our own city. The building is sponsored from big corpses that get tax breakscorporations that get tax breaks in turn. It combines a preschool. Theres a much Brighter Future for the children with a solid roof over their heads. At sugar hill a truly sweet place to call home. Kenneth craig cbs news new york. Her motto is not only more humane but cheaper costing tax payers half of what it costs to house families in new york city shelters. A long island family faces off with a thief. We have more ahead. Plus this. A tragedy on christmas. A new jersey man shoots and investigation in edgewater. Piano music. Im glad you finally made it, dad. You have to experience this city. Thats what you always say. You were right about the food. Hi john. Hey kevin. Spent the day with an astronaut. One more. Its beautiful, isnt it . How about a baseball game next time . Done done. Book priceless experiences around the globe with. A gruesome discovery in edgewater new jersey. Police find the family dead inside the apartment and the father has a link to law enforcement. There was a guy hiding in my room. They thought it was a false alarm but it turned out to be a crook. A long island family talks plus christmas is over but it is a busy day shoppers exchanging and bargain hunting. What you need to know before hitting the stores. Cbs 2 saturday morning continues right now. Good morning. 6 30 on saturday december 26. Im diane. Im alex in for andrea. Todays top stories are straight ahead. First Vanessa Murdock has a look at your forecast. Weve been on quite the warm streak lately. Do we see Winter Weather this week . Not this weekend but early next week its possible. It will be brief but its possible. Today and tomorrow well above seasonable. Basically temperatures will be impossible for snow today and especially tomorrow. Lets go ahead shall we . Take you to the temperatures. Show you what is happening out there. It is starting off in the 50s budge. We are going to hold pretty steady most of us close to 50 degrees. Right now mount vernon at 52 degrees. Wootenwooten it is 48. A few showers and clouds the trend for today. More clouds maybe a few breaks of sun but generally a mild day. Not nearly as warm as its been. Like 48. Mainly cloudy showers possible by 3. 51 degrees feels like 49. Essentially our high is happening right now. Holding steady for today. Tomorrow record warmth yet ben. Details in your full forecast. Vanessa thank you. Now to a developing story in new jersey. What led to the gruesome deaths of three people including an eightyearold girl in what investigators are calling a wife before turning the gun on himself. Cbs 2ilana gold has the details. This is still a murder suicide investigation. This morning you can see police around here guarding the building. Neighbors could have insight about what led to this and are now being questioned. A we are check on christmas night at the Windsor Tower led to a crime scene when police made a gruesome discovery in a 17th 17th floor apartment. Its very sad. I mean for the family you know . Very, very sad. Edgewater found the bodies of michael, his wife melissa and their eightyearold daughter melee with gunshot wounds in a bedroom. They believe michael shot the two before turning the gun on himself. We believe the shootings took place while they were actually lying in the bed. Right now thats what we it is also possible it took place while they were both sleeping. Investigators tell us the shootings happened at least a day and a half ago but none of the neighbors reported hearing any gunshots. It wasnt until Late Afternoon when they called police. The family of three was supposed to be in that state to celebrate the holiday around 1. They never showed up and he couldnt reach them on their cell phones. Its troubling when an eight yearold child is murdered this way. Melee had just celebrated her 8th birthday on tuesday. The family had no history with police and no indication they had any financial or legal issues. Michael ran a business out of their apartment selling custom watches to law enforcement. Investigators are trying to figure out why he killed his wife and young daughter. One has to wonder what would possess anyone to do that, an innocent eightyearold girl. So again this morning the man kill his family. Police tell us they dont believe anyone else was involved in the shooting and no sign of forced entry. Live in edgewater new jersey this morning cbs 2 news. Thank you. Heres a lesson to take your security alarms seriously. Allonge island family assumed thea long island family assumed the wind set it off but later found a man hiding in their home. That wasnt the only problem. We have the exclusive story from plain view. After a terrifying ordeal they ask not to reveal their last name. They began wednesday evening with a call from the Alarm Company reporting a Burglar Alarm. They assumed it was a false alarm. Everything was fine. The doors were closed. My mom was in the kitchen not knowing there was an intrueder she noticed something strange. I was pushing it this way and it wasnt moving and the guy came in from behind here and i saw him and i screamed. Out of the darkness popped a man who had been hiding. He was wearing a hood and he pushed me out of the way. He said nothing as he bolted past her intercepted by the girls mother. My mom grabbed him. That was her first reaction. My brother was screaming. Then he flew out the back door he had broken into disappearing into the ra