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walk further. kristen says she and her mom were able to talk to her on the folk phone. we both got on the phone and sobbed that she was still alive. reporter: we talked karen and eric on the phone. they hope to be home by the new year. karen has severe injuries including frostbite. she s hoping to celebrate her birthday back here in the philadelphia area with her twin center. deanna durante, nbc 10 news. we just spoke with karen klein via facetime. we ll have it all new at 5:00. turning to your first alert weather, it s been a cloudy day for much of our area. check this out, you can see the dreary skies over trenton there. even though folks were out. and taking a live look at 8th and market in center city, not the prettiest day here either. cloudy skies. mostly dry if you re looking to get out of the house this afternoon. we could see a chance for rain overti overnight into the morning hours. nbc 10 first alert meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is keepi ....
because i thought i would only be gone for like an hour or two. reporter: she was gone more than 30 hours. i knew if i fell asleep that i would freeze. reporter: scared and without her cellphone the battery died she stayed awake under a tree. the instinct kicks in, you have to protect your family, you have to just keep moving forward. reporter: when the sun rose, she walked again, finding an empty ranger station. she broke a window with her elbow and waited inside. the first thing i said, officer, i m so sorry i broke the window, don t arrest me. reporter: instead those rangers and rescuers gave karen food and water and evacuated her to a hospital. she wants to thank them and to those of you at home she says, she ll see you soon. she s hoping to be back in the area by wednesday. deanna durante, nbc 10 news. nbc 10 spoke with karen s sister in montgomery county. see more of our interview with her right now on nbc10.com. she describes getting the new ....
deserve to die like that, let alone the best. reporter: her husband recently convinced her to retire next month. she was known for dressing up as santa claus on christmas eve, a holiday her family says had always been her favorite, but sadly takes on new significance. we just want to know why. why would somebody take my mother away from us? it s not even just us, it s the community. she was loved by everybody. reporter: here is a live look tonight at the growing memorial on the steps outside marie s store. police can only describe the gunman as a man wearing dark clothing and a hoodie. they ve been in touch with police all day and have no surveillance video. they re asking the public s help for information. live from south philadelphia, denise nakano, nbc 10 news. turning to our first alert weather, get ready for some rain later tonight and into the morning as people go back to work. people enjoy the federal holiday, hitting the slopes in the poconos at camelbac ....
carolina when the 71-year-old woman got lost in virginia on friday. the two haven t been seen since. nbc10 s brandon hudson spoke to a relative and has the story. reporter: a very stressful christmas for the family of a 71-year-old woman and her 5-year-old great granddaughter. that older woman lives in this neighborhood here. her grandson says she always keeps her phone on her and calls wherever she is, but she hasn t called in the last few days. tonight nbc 10 got these photos of barbara briely and her great granddaughter la myra. the two were last seen in a car barbara drove from may s landing to an exxon gas station in ruther glen, virginia, christmas eve. we spoke to her grandson, who told us about the family s last phone conversation with the 71-year-old. they spoke to her while she was in traffic, and then she said that she was lost. but she takes that route all the time. reporter: this man says a group of relatives drove south to search foretheir missing lo ....
arrested near a tent. tara o shea-watson s best friend is relieved. i m grateful he s alive. because honestly, death would have been too easy for him. he needs to pay for what he did. monell is charged with killing his estranged wife inside her commercial township home december 19th. his truck discovered abandoned in the woods in cedarville. despite a manhunt, monell eluded capture until yesterday. we looked in the woods and the nearby housing development but didn t find any clues. state police seized his tent as evidence. for him to have made it as far as he did, he had help. and i hope they punish who helped him. reporter: meantime i need a state trooper out here right now. calm down. i m connecting you to police right now. reporter: a neighbor who discovered tara s body. her son just came down to my house saying his mother is dead. is dead? yes. okay. are you there? can you see if she s breathing? my wife is inside right now people walking t ....