Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. Happening now, the final moments of a yearly tradition. Shoppers packed malls and stores all across our area today. Hoping to hunt down some big bargains and get an early start on that holiday shopping. Good evening, im dawn timmeney. Depending upon where you stand, this could be one of your favorite days of the year or a day when you just stay at home. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson braced the madness at the king much prussia mall where is he joins us live tonight. How did it go, shawnette . Reporter well, dawn, you and i both know that there are some people who actually avoid the mall on this day but when we stepped inside king of prussia you couldnt tell bite size of the crowds and it is almost closing time behind me. You may be able to see cars still in the parking lot. Some leaves leaving but a lot of cars still here. A lot of people still here as well. 12 showers later dion pace and her children were still at king of p
The big question, is this rain going to go away for mothers day. Well fill you in in the first alert forecast. Welcome back to nbc10 news today. Im rosemary connors. Its just after 5 30 on this saturday. Michelle grossman is tracking the weather. Michelle. Another gloomy start to the day. All the kids playing soccer and lacrosse in this wet weather. Chance for showers this morning. Were seeing showers across the area now. As rosemary mentioned its cloudy and foggy. Looking like we have been the last few days. Things will improve this weekend but it will take a while. This is the gloomy start from the adventure aquariums in center city. Temperatures low 40s to low 50s this morning. You need the jacket. This is the radar right now. We have light showers. You need the jacket with the shod or the umbrellas as you see the showers falling. Showers falling right now in new jersey, 50 degrees. 50 in the le hi valley. Philadelphia, 51, showers and fog with 7 mile visibility in philadelphia. 50
Reporter mary beth rambler is on the board of Christian Thrift store and pantry where buttons was a regular and often stopped by for his Favorite Chicken nuggets. Its just a frail kind person and just no reason. Couldnt think of anybody why anybody would do this to him. Reporter townspeople raised money to help pay for buttons funeral and now theyre focusing on doubling the reward being offered for information about the murder to 5,000. Someone scared in the past to come forward now. Reporter the Gloucester County Prosecutors Office says its continuing the investigation into buttons murder. Residents in this quiet idyllic community are still in shock. Action is devastating. No one expected a murder in this town. Everyone liked him. He was a mind can and he was like he was a community figure. Reporter now, theres a candlelight vigil at the murder scene later tonight and a service at a local Church Tomorrow as swedesboro residents come together to remember butter tons and hope the police
Now he will undergo a medical evaluation, then hell be meeting with investigators who badly want to determine details of this escape. The sixday manhunt for arthur buckle ended peacefully late this morning. Cell phone footage from fox 29 crew member showed Police Minutes after the arrest along the garden state parkway northbound in lacy township. From there, all the way down there nothing but detectives. Like i was thinking about going on a jog and then whenever i drove by i was like, nope. Not going to do that. Reporter collective sigh of leave in ocean county after the man on the run was spotted in this area last night. Surveillance cameras captured 38 yearyearold buckle walking into the forked river rest stop about 11 miles north of his last sighting cvs pharmacy in barnegat. Police say buckle had escaped from bay side state prison at ancora in hammonton, new jersey, on tuesday. He was serving time for burglary and theft. I was keeping my eyes out to be honest if i saw any suspiciou
Because the temperature is going to be borderline. As you can see over the next several hours, we have the sleet up to the north, but it does not expand across the rest of the area. Our issue, heavy rain. Timing of that with the rest of the seven day in a few minutes. The poconos are welcoming the first signs of winter after a slow start to the ski season there. Doug shimell is live tonight with more on how parts of the poconos and the Lehigh Valley are preparing for the wintery weather. Doug, theyve been wanting it. Reporter exactly, and weve got some sleet, we have ice pellets earlier, now some sleet and cold rain, but either way, penn dot says they are planning on an overnight patrol to take care of whatever starts accumulating on the ground, if anything. The lack of cold has convinced a lot of people that winter isnt coming. People see snow on the ground, they know to avoid travel or they are out there or drive carefully. When you dont see it, maybe dont realize its ice, people thi