Assault at cosbys cheltenham home. It is there that the Prosecutor Says that cosby drugged and assaulted Andrea Constand cosbys then friend and Temple University employee. On the evening in question, mr. Cosby, urged her to take pills, that he provided to her, and to drink wine. The the effect of which rendered her unable to move, or respond to his advances, and he committed aggravated indecent assault upon her. Reporter any response, mr. No reaction from the 78 yearold comedian as he enter the the court for his initial arraignment. Judge set his bond at one milliondollar and terms of that bond require cosby to have no communication with constand. He is also required to turn over his passport which his attorney did at the arraignment. After leaving the court, cosby was book in the chelten a ham police department, his mug shot, snapped and the the comedian then posted bond and then left. Now this case is far from over, cosbys initial court appearance, that is when the comedian can either plead guilty or not guilty to these charges set for january 14th, 9 30 at this very court. Although this afternoon judge saying because of the attention this attention this case is receiving that will likely change to the courthouse in norristown. We are live here in Montgomery County, greg argos for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Reaction to the criminal charges against bill cosby has been milk. Eyewitness News Reporter ra hell solomon went to the campus of Temple University where people had individual opinions about the legal woes of one of the schools most famous graduates. Reporter he very well may be one of the philadelphias most famous. Everybody loves bill cosby. I dont know when there is smoke is there fire and there is awful lot of smoke. Reporter that fame now turning to infamy after wednesday Montgomery County prosecutors announced they are charging the north philadelphia native for an alleged Sexual Assault about 12 years ago. Cosby allegedly met the victim through her work at temple, the the same place that he once attended school, a place many associated with the comedian. The fact that for someone who is so well known, associated with temple, and being held accountable for his reactions, that that is a good thing. It is not something that is bad. Reporter former philadelphia mayor and governor ed rendell admitted that cosby did a lot of good things for the the city but says if the allegations are found true they are debilitating. No matter how bad this is, it doesnt totally erase all of the good that he did and i hope he hears that and that is true but if these things are proven to be true, it is, it is very sad. Reporter dozens of women have come forward to accuse the comedian of sexual a all the, but for fans like Adrian Taylor the news of charges wednesday was still hard to believe. Were holding out hope that they werent true against bill cost which to be honest, that is my honest opinion about it. Reporter for this to move forward with the criminal case, does that change your opinion at all. It is disappointing. That is what i can say right now you. Reporter bill cosby also a sad on the board of trustees here at Temple University for quite sometime, he did resign amid growing controversy over these allegations. He was later replaced by journalist cameron hall. Rahel solomon for cbs3 Eyewitness News. I happened to be interviewing philadelphias mayor Michael Nutter shortly avenues of the cosby charge broke and i asked the mayor his thoughts. These allegations, accusations have been going on for some period of time, a lot of old Court Actions and settlements, and all kind of things but i mean this has now gone to a very different level when charges are actually filed and i think everyone is now going to take this a lot more seriously and certainly, mr. Cosby, first and foremost, really has to come to grips with what, you know, may have been some problems from the past. Be sure to stay with Eyewitness News as we continue to follow the the announcement of the Sexual Assault charge against bill cosby. We will have updates on tv and then anytime at cbs philly. Com. Our other top story tonight, chip kelly is gone and today the owner spoke out about letting his head coach go n a press conference that lasted about a half an hour the own are laid out the main reason he fired chip kelly and what he expects from the man who takes over, the head spot. Sports director don bell was at the novacare complex with that news conference. He joins us now a lot to talk b very interesting day for philadelphia sports. It was a mad house in south philadelphia. Dozens of reporters hounding the eagles practice facility looking for answers. A at 12 30 eagles owner Jeffery Lurie stepped to the podium and unlike his Football Team he let it fly. Eagles owner Jeffery Lurie called hiring chip kelly a Bold Decision but one that left him with heartache in the end. This has been of the on most disappointing seasons i have ever endured. Reporter lurie decided to move on after evaluating chips entire threeyear tenure. Overall kelly lost 12 of his final 19 games. I spoke to former eagles quarterback Donovan Mcnabb today and he said kellys coaching style was a major factor. It the is a college mentality. College coaches dont fair so well. They are used to 17, 18, 19 yearold kids who will run in the wall for you. They will run in the burning building for you. Reporter instead lurie took the first swing and he has three reasons before doing it for the final game of the season. One i wanted a jump start on our head coaching search and knew already what we were going to do i thought having six extra days was pretty important. Secondly i thought in fairness to chip it was a good way for him to also view the the marketplace and most importantly, however, was the opportunity that to spend a lot of time with our players and i have already started that process. I had a players only meeting with them today. This morning, was going to be more this afternoon with certain players. I will meet again with them on monday. Reporter laurie is in the hunt for a new coach as part of the three Man Committee who will move the franchise for. One of the requirements of the new leader. You have to open your heart to players, and everybody that you want to achieve peak performance. Now jeff lurie also says moving forward he will go with the quote unquote collaborative approach. In other word he is in no mood to give next comb complete control of the operations. Leslie van arsdal will join us with reaction from the locker room. Who is the leader in your clubhouse, coming in. As far as new coach, listen, they will go talk to people like mcder moth from carolina, and there is talk that maybe John Harbaugh is on shaky ground in baltimore, he would be a perfect fit, super bowl winning fit and also special teams coach here under andy reid. That is right. Hate to speculate about somebody losing their job with harbaugh but he would be an excellent fit herey will go with cooer, gruden or tony dungy. Those guys in the booth. They have a job right now. Per they have pedigree. Eagles organization begins search for that new coach diehard bird fans are talking about candidates. Yes, our eagles, eagles nation expert here. Yes, jim donovan. He is here with some suggestions. You know, football is my middle name and im awaiting mr. Luries call. I will car think thing all day long. But until that happens heres what fans have to say about possibility for the the next coach. Not gruden. He had as i great job. Leave him there. Guy out of stanford is a good pick. He have is a hot coach. Mcdermott coming back. Maybe spags would be g i have no idea. I wouldnt mind sean coming over from new orleans, sean more der moth i dont know about him. Bill cooer, ims not a huge fan but it would be better than i think would put us in a position we need to be to at least be competitive againy think sean payton. I dont know what his deal is in new orleans. He might be a good candidate. Other than that i dont know probably one of the better assistants that are out there. We have to find somebody that knows how to draft now, because now you have to do a whole new draft. So, i mean, good luck. Reporter in social media suggestions are being offered, up as well, bobby houl hand tweets out john gruden and bill co her are our only actions, adding hashtag byebye chip. Lets look at this next one, mike simply put they wont but eagles need to look at david shaw forehead coach. Next up, we have danny somers, hugh jackson should be worth a look. Kick them tires, go eagles. We have he isnt holding back he said all right, good bye you kept gruden for eagles long enough. Fire gruden. That is his hashtag. The wonder what chucky would think about that. Finally walter chase placing this one out, sean payton, please, hashtag, eagles. Now, someone could help me with this helmet wiz great thely appreciate it. We will be right there. Ims this close coming over there to tackling you. Yes. The the hair, umhmm. I know, i know. Thank you, buddy. What do you think should be the next eagles coach. We have set up a pole with popular options, sean der moth, former steelers coach and super bowl champion bill cowher who works for us on the network and analyst and john gruden. Log on to cbs philly. Com to vote. We will reveal results on how think on Eyewitness News tonight at 11 00. Former philadelphia mayor and governor of pennsylvania ed rendell is a huge eagles fan. He spoke to Eyewitness News today about the firing of the chip kelly. The personnel moves, were so shocking, and just depleting from the team, and a more 20yard gains then any team in pro football to a team with almost no 20yard gains, jeffery came to the conclusion that something had to be done. Stay with Eyewitness News for continuing coverage of the firing of the now former eagles coach chip kelly. Coming up our leslie van arsdal is live at novacare and will have more reaction from eagles players and you can always a fine very latest on line at cbs philly. Com. Take a look at weather, once again we are tracking rain, meteorologist kate bilo on the cbs3 sky deck. The kate, we are very used to this rain. Jessica, we are getting used to the cloud, gray, wet weather. We have not had true Winter Weather here in philadelphia, this winter so far but that is on the way. We will trade cloud and mild temperatures, for some sunshine, and cooler weather sound good as of right now. The lets look the at rain coming through tonight. Storm scan three shows showers mainly off to the south. You can see how this rain is more suppressed moving out to sea. Not a whole lot of the heavier stuff getting in here. We have a few showers through overnight hours. Few light showers in delaware, chester counties, portions of the state of delaware as well and jersey shore will pick up light rain. This is until midnight and it starts to clear out. Even by tomorrow morning we may start to see sun break through. Light showers right now, extending from berks county to Chester County getting to the city within the next hour or so. It is light. You may not need umbrella if you are out and about grab it just in case. We have fog developing tonight and dense fog advisory has been issued for the Lehigh Valley and poconos, carbon, monroe and northampton counties in the advisory until 6 00 oclock tomorrow morning. Coming up, when i join you inside we will track that rain and fog. We will tell you where you can see visibility near zero overnight. Finally some sunshine as we head toward the last day of the year but it will be a colder start to 2016. Your full seven day forecast is coming up, right now back inside to you. Thanks, kate. Still to come, philadelphias top cop hold his final end of the year press conference. Commissioner Charles Ramsey had to say about the state of the city of philadelphia before he retires next month. We will be right back. Eyewitness news just caught up with the attorney for bill cosby, outside of the embattled comedians Montgomery County home a and heres what she had to say about the charges against his client. It is a disappointing day. It is sad for his legal team, for his family, that he would be dragged through this. That this would be a political maneuver. That this would be the fulfillment of a Campaign Promise as opposed to something that is necessary for justice. Were 12 years in. Twelve years after an alleged assault that was fully investigated. And again stay with Eyewitness News for very latest on the cosby charges. Also tonight, outing Philadelphia Police commissioner Charles Ramsey held a Year End Press conference detailing crime in philadelphia by the numbers. So far in 2015, there have been 275 homicides, in 2014 there were 249. That is a 12 percent increase. Despite the increase the commissioner says trend in the past few years is positive. This is the the First Time Since 1969 we have had years in a row with less than 300 murders in philadelphia. And as for shootings they are up 18 percent in 2015. Sexual assault up 4. 5 percent. Both robberies and burglaries are down, compared to 2014. Kate joins us now with a look at our forecast and a lot of people wondering what 2016 might hold, weatherwise. 2016 will be different then end of the 2016, in that it will feel like winter. It is supposed to be cold good we havent had that much this month. This will be one of the warmest decembers in philadelphia ever for to a very large margin. We will have have those numbers tomorrow once we get the official monthly temperature but expect it to shatter the previous record of a warm december, and weve got a chilly start to january. We will step things down gradually and ease ourselves into Winter Weather. We will look outside and take to you Northampton County where things are quiet a at the moment but you can see low cloud, and fog in the background and bethlehem is one of the towns in our area that is under a dense fog advisory that will go into tomorrow morning, pockets of the dense fog will come on you quickly. Play it safely but northampton, carbon monroe counties will be dense tonight. You can see it on the road. Even down here looks foggy, glummy, play it safe on the road tonight. Lets look at storm scan 36789 we will go through time lapse of the day, we will try to brighten it up a bit but fog held on tight this morning. By the time we cleared the fog out cloud present this this latest system have have already started to move in. It was just another delay, dull, glummy day. Storm scan three shows that next system off to the south and producing heavy heavy rain in north caroline, outer banks, Hampton Roads area of virginia we are on the Northern Edge of the system and mostly will head out to sea, we will say good bye to it, it is not a huge deal but we have a line of showers developing across central pennsylvania and as we go through the the overnight hours we will see a few of these showers, creep ever closer to us. So lets take a peak at what to expect tonight. Patchy light rain, fog developing, mainly one or 2 00 l clear things out. Tomorrow cloud will break for sun and nice finish to 2015. Temperatures still mild in the 50s. As we head through overnight hours again here are showers, 9 00 p. M. , 10 00 p. M. After 2 00 a. M. We will start tomorrow finally with some sun. It has been a while. We have ten cloudy days in a row, last time we had a mostly sunny day was december 20th, 10 days in a row of this gray, glummy weather, we are due for some sunshine and we will finally get it. Overnight light rain, patchy fog, 45 will be your low. Tomorrow finally blight eras we finish out 2015, and still above average, one last day in december and were 10 degrees above normal at 51. Your new years eve planner out a and about tomorrow night we have fifer works display at 6 00. 47 degrees. 9 00 p. M. , 43 and your midnight temperature right around 450. It could be a whole lot worse for new years eve in philadelphia it will be chilly and may want to honor that winter coat because you will start to need it. Over the weekend cooler, new years day 44. Saturday 42. Sun and cloud sunday a at 44. The another reenforcing shot of cold air, mondays high just 39 degrees, and we will get overnight lows of 39 degrees. It will be a shock to the system. We are getting the don joins us with more on the fall out of chip kelly. We have her from the owner, it is time to hear from the guys who play the game. From good to great eagles owner Jeffery Lurie knew making that would be risky and they have fail and they have fired head coach chip kelly. So what are the the players saying . Leslie van arsdal joins us from the novacare complex with the 411. Leslie. Hi there, don. As you might imagine there is uncertainty in the the locker room right now especially from quarterback sam bradford who is expected to be a free agent. He says he was blown away by the news. I didnt see it coming. Reporter eagles quarterback sam bradford said owner Jeffery Lurie never consulted him before the news broke that chip kelly was relieved of his duty. I had a great relationship with chip. He gave meehan opportunity, after being injured for two years, and ill be forever grateful for that. So did chip lose the locker room. I dont, i mean, he didnt lose me. Reporter he made it clear he wanted bradford back and bradford wanted to come back. But now. Future is uncertain right now. I play giants on sunday and that is all im focused on, that is all everyone in this locker roomies focused on. After that is over and season is over i think you can sit down and think about the the future. There is a lot of uncertainty but all you can do is focus on now, you know, going out to practice and doing your job, and playing football. You know, you start thinking about other stuff and you will go crazy. And then after sundays game with the giants, search for that new head coach begins. Jeffery laurie says it will be someone with emotional intelligence. A little jab at chip kelly. You will in the want to miss toyota sunday kick off, our final show of the year but i have a feeling it may be our best. Leslie van arsdal, pat gallen, merrill reese, we will all get in the change and what is next for the bird this sunday at 11 30 a. M. Right here on cbs3. Emotional intelligence. Umhmm. How about that. That is what they want from the next head coach. Things got out of control quickly. Whoever comes in i want instant success. I want instant success. All they want is to go straight to the super bowl is that too thanks for watching Eyewitness News at 6 00 we are back at ten on our sister station cw philly and back here on cbs3 at 11 00. Up next cbs evening news, tonight 2015 comes to an end the race for the white house heat up, Major Garrett on the new war of word on the campaign trail. In for scott pelley is jim axlerod, take care family, we will see you tonight. Axelrod criminal charges against a man once known as americas dad. Bill cosby, accused of drugging and Sexual Assaulting a woman. The reaction of the victim frozen, paralyzed, unable to move. Axelrod also tonight, the furious effort to hold back rising rivers in missouri. Donald trump keeps firing at hillary and bill clinton. And two kids, one big idea helping thousands go to college. What you give out to the world you get back 10 times, you know, fold. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Axelrod good evening. Scotts off tonight. Im jim axelrod. Dozens of women have accused bill cosby of sexually
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