Montgomery, the West Chester University senior still missing, after a night out in manayunk on the day before thanksgiving. His last stop, kildares irish pub. He was in a good mood. We hit a couple of bars. We werent like he wasnt knee breaked or anything. Reporter his cousin tim whitman was among the the last to see him. Hains parents still hoping someone with the lead comes along. People just dont vanish. People, there has to be someone out there that saw something. Reporter shanes roommate brian says he is also doing anything he can to help fine his friend. Yesterday, i went back with the fbi, and we searched every nook and cranny of my apartment. Reporter over the past several days, there have been several search efforts from volunteers on foot to police combing the Manayunk Canal. The fbi is now on the case, too, calling shanes disappearance mysterious. What really makes this a mysterious disappearance, you know, from our perspective is that we dont have have any information at al
We start tonight with brea breaking news. A hostage situation is founding in downtown sidney us a strahle y right now as many as wentz people are being held by a lone gunman inside a cafe. Good evening, im natasha brown. Thank you so much for joining us. Us a trail yas Prime Minister says the incident may be politically motivated. Lets get to Eyewitness News reporter matt rivers following the developments break nothing in the sat center. It is monday afternoon in sidney australia right now australian Prime Minister nonni abbott gave a short statement not long ago. In that statement he asked australians to remain calm and hopes this situation is resolved peacefully. We are being tested today in sidney. The police are being tested. The public is being testified. In a chilling piece of footage you see a gunman lead a hostage inside the cafe with her hands up. It appears that man is the lone gunman inside the Lindt Chocolate cafe the situation is unfoldinunfolding in martin plae heart of s
Standoff. We dont yet know the moat vague of the perpetrator. We dont know whether this is politically motivated although obviously there are some indications that it could be. Reporter police say the incident is isolated and involves only the one suspect and his hostages. It is not connected Officials Say to a suspicious package found earlier in the day at the famed sidney opera how fast the small cafe remains surrounded although police have not been in contact with the gunman. The officers that are there are welltrained unprofessional. They know what theyre doing. They have trained for this. And im sure that they will get through and this will be an out come that will be will be positive. I think think of almost nothing more distressing, more terrifying than to be caught up in such a situation and our hearts go out to those people. Reporter the cafe where this is all happening is in the same building that houses the u. S. Consulate. The white house tells reporters that the president
Study yesterday of the rain over portions of illinois back into iowa and thats not going to get here until Christmas Eve. Weve got some time before this storm is done with us. Well take you to future weather and talk about the near term here. Showers continue through the overnight hours. Youll see showers at any time tomorrow make sure you have that umbrella handy maybe wear the raincoat tomorrow much its cloudy day for sure. By 6 00 p. M. Just some clouds and heavier rain starts to push in by early on wednesday morning. Just in time for Christmas Eve travel. Temperatures right now risen above freezing in the poconos thats good news. There was freezing rain advisory that has now been cancel. 43 in philadelphia. 42 in millville up to 46 in wildwood temperatures actual actually slowly rising through the overnight hours and start tomorrow morning in the 40s but notice its a cloudy gloomy day scattered showers at any time. Steadier rain coming in for Christmas Eve. Ill have your full Chris
Good evening to you, im jessica dean. Chris may is off tonight. The big question now, will this dreary weather hangar round for the holidays. Meteorologist kate bilo joins us from the Weather Center and this weather could throw a wrench into Holiday Travel plans. Kate. Unfortunately jessica, that is true. We had similar storm although even a stronger storm the day before thanksgiving that brought rain and snow. This will be just rain and this is just the first taste of it. That were getting to night we saw sun earlier on this among but the evening went downhill pretty quickly as these bands of showers continue to move through from southwest to northeast here this evening and you can see as we zoom out the center of that storm is way up across portions of northern plains. Study yesterday of the rain over portions of illinois back into iowa and thats not going to get here until Christmas Eve. Weve got some time before this storm is done with us. Well take you to future weather and talk a