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KYW Eyewitness News At 6 November 29, 2014

Black friday gives way to Small Business saturday. How main streets across the delaware valerie hoping to attract Holiday Shoppers away from the malls this weekend. Good morning to you. Today is saturday, november 29th. Im nicole brewer. It is just past 6 00. Lets get a check on the forecast, if you are headed out for little shopping, or Christmas Tree hunting, whatever the case may be, carol . It is gloves and scarts and scarfs and hats, and boots, and fortunately not looking at any precipitation in the area. It is just the chill. It was so still overnight, that any of the 39 degrees we managed to accomplish yesterday went right to up space. Right now, it is 17 degrees, and in nazareth. Nice looking out there, as long as youve got a heater on your side, and a pain of glass, because the other side outside it is cold out there this morning, foreman and beast. So, act accordingly and keep everybody warm. We are looking at storm scan3. Notice that a few clouds are starting to move into the area. We have some dying out rain showers, or rather snow showers, off to the west. So, even through hagerstown, maryland, and to the west of harrisburg, you are looking at couple of those, if you are starting out early this morning. Look at the temperatures, starting in the north, 8 degrees in the poconos, 17 in allentown, 26 degrees in philadelphia. 20 degrees in atlantic city, 30 in dover. Everyone below the freezing mark. Our temperatures today, by noon, just 36 degrees, thats cold midday, and we should be keeping temperatures an agree or two higher than yesterday, 40 degrees, for our temperature later on this afternoon. We do have couple of days where i think you might find the temperatures a little bit more acceptable. I will be showing you those coming up. Nicole . All right, carol, thank you. New this morning, at least one car is involved in a crash in university city. It happened just after 2 00 near 30th and walnut st. At this hour, several passengers, along with a driver, are being treated at the hospital of the university of pennsylvania. Were toll they suffered only minor injuries, and the cause of the accident is under investigation. Well, the search for missing West Chester University student continues this morning at 10 00 oclock. The family of 21 year old shane motorcycle couldnt rim now offering 10,000 reward for any information that may lead to his whereabouts. He was last seen early thursday morning, at a manayunk bar. Eyewitness News Reporter matt rivers spoke with shanes distraut family. Take a good look at this photo. This is shane montgomery, senior at West Chester University. s five11, green eyes, last seen wearing that gray shirt. And hes been missing since 2 00 a. M. Thursday morning. Heart broken. There are no words, none. His mother, karen, father kevin, are struggling, stricken with the fear of what might have happened, but stoic, in pursuit of their mission. Pretty much exhausted, but just find the strength to keep going, we are going to find him. Thats the bottom line. They were joined in their search by dozens of volunteers, who fanned out across manayunk friday. Heres what they know so far. Around 1 45, thursday morning, shane got separated from his friends at kill dares public on main street, when he didnt come home, dad kevin pick up the phone. See if he got arrested. See if he was in the hospital. See if there were any john does. What that turn up nothing, he asked for help. Hours later missing person flyers dotted dozens of electrical polls and social Media Campaign ramped up, hashtag help fine shane was trending on twitter locally by friday night. That, joined Police Detectives and k9 unit. With Police Helicopter scanning the river bank as night fell. We are just hoping if he can hear me that he knows that we are looking for him and that we love him and im going to find him. There you can see one of the dozens of missing person flyers posted by volunteers across the manayunk area. The search was called off late friday evening and is set to resume once again at 10 00 a. M. Were in manayunk, matt rivers, cbs3, Eyewitness News. Meantime, a suv plows into a pharmacy in northeast philadelphia. It happened just after 6 00 last night in the 9400 block of state road in torresdale. Police say the woman behind the wheel got confused, and accidentally drove through that storefront. No one was hurt. The pharmacy was closed. Ray rices indefinite suspension from the ffl for Domestic Violence now overturned. Rice is now free to play again. Cbs news correspondent begat shaban with more on the decision handed down by arbitrator this week. Ray rice is now free to get back on the football field if an nfl team is too long sign him. The League Suspended risin definitely two months ago, embattled running back appealed, and independent arbitrator found the indefinite sus opinion sean was abuse of discretion and must be vacated. Surveillance video showed rice in february dragging his now wife janaa palmer outside an elevator, after allegedly beating her unconscious. In july, the leagues commissioner, roger goodel, initially suspended rice for two games. But, in september, goodel increased the penalty to an indefinite suspension, when this second video showed rice punches his then fiancee. Goodel spoke to cbs this morning, anchor, Nora Odonnell becomes why the league didnt enforce a more harsh penalty initially. Did you really need to see a videotape of ray rice punching her in the face to make this de anything. No. We certainly didnt. And i will tell that you what we saw in the first videotape was troubling to us in and of itself. Thats why we took the action we took. As ive said before, we didnt feel that was sufficient. We didnt get that right. Rice argued the indefinite suspension was unfair since the nfl had already disciplined him for the same incident. The arbitrator agreed. In a statement, rice said, hes thankful for the appeals process. But admitted he made an inexcusable mistake. In los angeles, begat shaban, cbs3, Eyewitness News. The nfl released a statement reading in part we respect judge jones decision to reinstate ray rice from his indefinite suspend shore for violating the leagues personal conduct policy in a incident of Domestic Violence, based on judge jones decision, he will be eligible to play upon signing a new contract. Well, the Big Box Stores had their chance to woo shoppers deals on black friday. And happening today, Small Business saturday, a chance to bring bargains from the malls to main street. Eyewitness News Reporter Steve Patterson is on main street in manayunk with all of the details. Steve, are you getting any good deals out there today . Good morning, nicole. Yes, you know what . I think if im not mistake then is missile tow. Probably not. Well, welcome to Small Business saturday. Here live on main street. This is manayunk. It is a shop called latitude and longitude. Beautiful store here. You see a lot of trinkets, kind of described as a gift shop. It has got everything. It is very ac check particular. My mom would love this store. And it smells just really nice, a loft flowery smells in here. But the reason why were here is because obviously this is a Small Business on a main street in whats considered kind of small town america. And, you know, obviously black friday doesnt cover a place like this. So, years ago, few years ago, Small Business saturday came into creation, and it really benefits a place like this, right, meredith . This is merit the owner. So how did your store start . How did this all come together . So 15 years ago, i was i was a customer here. I fell in love with the place. And i became an employee and after that about three years ago i became the owner and i havent left ever since. Just love it. It is home. And thats the thing. These arent big boxes, this is small local thing, benefits local, most of the stuff in here, you said, is actually made in the country. Yes. And it benefits the local community. So, what is Small Business saturday for maybe for people who dont get it . Small business saturday focuses on all of the Small Businesses that are across the country, and a lot of people dont get to see usually, and it just kind of focuses on us local, you know, specially in manayunk, we have a lot of things here, and a lot of businesses. Sure. And i mean there is no lines out the door. Youre not having a big block buster sales, right. So what exactly how does it benefit i guess the customer . Benefits the customer because theyre shopping small. And it is my normal regular customers who come in all the time, and it is just happy, a good place to see their face and it benefits them because the people to people basically. I want that. Isnt that great . Like the spirit of giving. It is what the Holiday Season is really b you come in, you shop local, you get anything you need and you see the local community. And thats what Small Business saturday is about, coming up at 6 30, well talk more about this special day and why it is such a different kind of reaction to black friday and how it benefits a place like. This we send it back to you, nicole. All right, Small Business saturday, steve, thanks so much. By the way the mall and the big retailers will be reopening in just a few hours, as women, trying to get their piece of the pie, as well. Now, many of them were open from thanksgiving straight through black friday. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt spoke with some tired shoppers. I wasnt planning oncoming shopping. My daughters twisted my arm and got me out here. But, in the end, at the kay said she glad she came out on black friday at the depford mall. Though, this black friday, looked a little different. As bad as you thought were the crowds . Not add bad. Found lot of people, not the usual crowds, where it is hard to walk. One reason may be because local malls opened 6 00 thursday night and stayed open straight through 10 00 oclock friday night. Been working since 7 00 p. M. On thanksgiving. You heard that right. We met carly sips on her 23rd hour of work. She has three jobs, and says, it was her choice to pull the marathon shift. I heard a ive had a lot of caffeine. Couple double shots of expresso. Says opening thanksgiving day is a big problem. It ruins the tradition. You know, traditionally the way the way it is supposed to be done, day after thanksgiving, you go, you get excited 6 00 in the morning. Now if you get to a place at 6 00 in the morning, you may have missed out on your chance to find that low price. I used to work at target. And we used to get tons of people in the morning. Now that rush isnt there no more. There is no more fun to it. Some say opening the night before is a good thing. Because the new black friday may mean less people. I thought it was going to be like a lot, a lot of people. Like i thought it was going to be like thousands of people. But it is not really bus. And for your complete Holiday Shopping guide, including mall hours, head to our website cbsphilly. Com. Well, their amazing rescue caught on tape. Two young boys, burried in a pile of snow, for hours. Now were hearing from these brave cousins. How they say they managed to survive until help arrived. Plus, a local mother, with a message to toy makers. She noticed the trouble trends while shopping for a doll for her daughter. Why she is now going on line to petition. Well explain. Two cousins had been builds ago snow fort, when a snow plow pushed snow up against t a Police Officer saw their shovel. Started digging for them. The boys say they did everything they could to break free. Me and my cuss written building a fort in the snow. We got into it for a few minutes, then the hope top of the fort fell on us. Motivating each other to not go to sleep. Keep yelling. Keep moving our body. Trying to break out. Wow, some smart little boys. Now, eyewitnesses say the Police Officers who pulled them out of is that snow bank got a round of applause. Thats a much deserved round every applause. Thats a scary situation, carol. It is a terrible situation, and it is a reminder that these snow forts can collapse. You have to be so careful. It is liking digging a hole in the sand, where you can also find problems. Take it ice, kids, adults. Looking at cold morning out there. Look at some of these numbers. Weve got 15 degrees, oh, how unpleasant is that . Keith says with the 15 degrees in sailorsberg, whats he say about that . Definitely cold out there. Weather watcher with another 15 degrees, john sandman, out in vincent town. And he says wow, it is cold outside. I mean, i dont think all a finds anybody who has any kind of a difference of opinion out there. Tim, he sends in stuff all the time, one of the reasons we love tim mitch he will. Tuckerton, new jersey, it is 19 degrees out there. Bundle up if youre headed out. It is like an ice box out there. It really isment and it is so cold, how about making snow . We can do that, and theyre doing it, up at have jack frost big boulder. Theyve had great couple of mornings to do this. This is really, if you ski, you probably love this site. If you dont ski, you might think oh, no, when that starts to come into our area, were not finding that today, though. Do you have make the snow today to have it. Unless youre in the poconos, where there is also a chance every picking up some of the real stuff, the Mother Nature snow. But it is a light snow, if you did see that. 16 degrees, thats the temperature right now, out of nazareth. Up near the allentown area, cold start to the day. Not just there, but as you saw with our neighborhood weather watchers, it is cold in every single location. Few clouds are starting to come into the area right now. But they didnt come in overnight. So, with the clear skies overnight, thats why these temperatures dropped as much as they did. Few snow showers, out through central pennsylvania. If youre headed out early this morning, 23 out in lancaster right now, weve got 22 degrees in reading. Twentysix in dover. 27 degrees in wilmington. It is 26 degrees out at the airport, in philadelphia, and 27 degrees down in wildwood. 20 degrees in atlantic city. Thats not right on the ocean, but about 10 miles inland at the airport there. And 20 degrees in trenton. The temperatures so cold, and 16 in quakertown, and if youre in mt. Holly, youve got 20 degrees this morning, 24 willow grove, 19 degrees in pottstown, it is a morning that you will be in a lot of layers. Ski pants, whether you ski or not, take my own personal experience, theyre so warm, theyre the best. Theyre something that you should buy if youre going to be spending any time outside even not looking for snow it, will keep the cold away greatly. And these temperatures, this morning, so much colder, even than yesterday morning. 11 degrees colder down in millville, through the heart of south jersey. It is 8 degrees colder through philadelphia. 9 degrees colder up in the allentown area this morning. So, when you are out, jackets on, and pets in. Let them watch you out the window. We are looking right now, if youre traveling today, few clouds, coming in here, were going to find temperatures getting to the low 40s today. Still running about 10 degrees below where we should be this time of the year. Snow shower possible through portion of the state. Otherwise, it is generally quiet there. Might and sprinkle or two scattered about, as go through the middle of the day, and then by overnight, looks like pretty quiet overnight if youre deciding lets just head home, or head where ever were going overnight, i think youll be in fine shape doing it. Tomorrow morning, tomorrow evening, you may be starting with a kim of rain showers out through western pennsylvania. And they stay out there, primarily, but they do start to make their path toward the east. And this is tomorrow night here in philadelphia. Is there a rain shower . It is possible. So well continue to monitor that situation. Otherwise, Small Business saturday, steve path err son was talking about it, everybody talking about it, it is going to help the stores on our beautiful main street also make a profit. Temperatures today cold. You will bewaring the jackets everywhere you go, 41 in philadelphia, 45 at the shore, the poconos, 32 degrees. Not that much in the way of wind today. So, dont expect to fine a lot of windy conditions. The 41 feeling pretty much like 41. Tonight, 35 degrees, it is milder overnight, and it get milder by the time we get to tomorrow at 53 degrees. Even better on monday, at 57 degrees. Chance of shower late at night, may be first thing on tuesday, 42 degrees, on tuesday, then wednesday, 53. Maybe a shower, and then into the upper 40s, after that. Nicole . All right, carol, thank you. 6 20 right now. Frustrated mom says for years she struggled to find africanamerican dolls for her child. As eyewitness News Reporter Charlotte Hoffman reports, now this mom is on a mission to create change for kids. For vanessa butler, every black friday is frustrating. But this year, i was just like, you know what . Enough is enough. It is not fair. Butlers daughter want one of this years hot toys, the mini cooper set. The problem is toy major mat tell only makes it with caucasion barbie and ken. Mattel told butler she could buy it separately, but that will cost more. Want to pay two times what the caucasion parent would pay to have the convertible and barbie and kennan it will be three separate boxes instead of it being in a gift set that they made exclusively for caucasian bash. I we found another Childs Christmas wish for an africanamerican barbie on this giving tree in new jersey. Soy, we searched on line retailers like target. Com where there are more than 600 dolls, 30 of which are africanamerican. And we went inside stores, like toys r us, where similar story, row afro of caucasion dolls with a few africanameri

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