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WCAU NBC10 News At 5pm November 27, 2015

The river rink hopes to draw black friday shoppers away from all the crowded stores. We are the healthy alternative. Who wants to be inside in the store . Come here, we have free wifi, shop, watch your kids skate, do it all here. We thought about it, but decided this would be a better idea. Reporter and this time next week you can see the Big Christmas tree, a Tree Lighting ceremony friday night. As for tonight, it is starting to get colder and these people look like they are having a great time. Some of them even bundling up. Live at penns landing, randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. Randy, thank you very much. You know if you look to the street, no need to bundle up. Some people enjoyed an unseasonably warm walk, especially with the sun out. Lets talk to first alert meteorologist sheena parveen. We saw some near record highs in our area today, but we also broke at least one record, right . You know the updated High Temperatures coming in both allentown and reading hit a record High Temperature, both hit 65 degrees today, but now look at allentown drop down to 54 degrees, so the temperatures are dropping quickly now the sun has set, but we wont be as cold overnight tonight, mainly in the 40s. 60 for philadelphia, 55 millville and wildwood, so an unseasonably warm day. The average high is 52 degrees. Were going to stay dry tonight with the not as Cool Temperatures in place, but the clouds are here and they are going to keep increasing as we go overnight tonight. Thats going to be all ahead of rain for the weekend, so showers just off to the west, that will be moving in for your saturday and starting mostly from north to south. Coming up the timing on it, but in the meantime for tonight, if you had friday night plans or are going out shopping, it is going to stay dry. 59 degrees by 7 00 p. M. , still mild outside. 11 00 p. M. , mid 50s, not as cold across the area, at least if youre in the philadelphia area, too, and by 8 00 tomorrow morning, cloudy skies, showers mostly north at this point, but then through the afternoon well see the showers kind of spreading south through the area. Coming up, closer look at the timing on the rain for your weekend and a cooler sunday forecast. Sheena, no doubt about it, shoppers are out in full force this black friday. Sky force 10 was above the largest mall in the area this morning. You can see a lot of cars there in the parking lots at the king of prussia mall. They were packed, but not everyone is going to the mall. Some people are headed to local shops looking for deals. Its all part of Small Business weekend. Nbc 10s drew smith is live in haddonfield tonight. Drew, tough competition out there. What are these Small Businesses doing to compete with the Big Box Stores . Reporter well, keith, they are taking a bit of a different approach than the big retailers offering such deep discounts for years and a lot of stores are trying Something Different this year, that is bringing out some of the bigger crowds. People are looking for a little bit of a different shopping experience. Store owners say its casual and low pressure here where they can answer customer questions, interact with them, and the downtown businesses are working together to offer incentives like discounted Gift Certificates that can be used anywhere here in the downtown area and we asked one owner why haddonfield had managed to succeed where other areas have struggled with Small Businesses. Heres his answer. I think its a lot of the programming that we do here. We do candlelight shopping, which is on the weekend, fridays and saturdays. We have horse drawn carriage that comes through, carollers, music. Reporter and the weather today did not hurt either. Some businesses set up stands out in the street, people were out here having lunch, but the falllike feel is starting to change quickly. Holiday lights are up, they are going to be lighting up a big tree in an hour and a half, also having a parade and welcoming everybody to downtown to continue shopping through the night. Live in haddonfield, drew smith, nbc 10 news. Drew, thank you. Different scene, though, scenes of frantic predawn black friday shoppers are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Crowds were still out trying to score deals today. This is the scene late today, this morning, at the king of prussia mall. A steady flow of shoppers, but nothing like the massive lines and swarms of people weve seen in years past, but some black friday warriors were still out in the wee hours of the morning waiting in line. There they are. This is the crowd gathered outside cabelas in delaware before the store opened at 5 00 a. M. Shoppers were eager to score deals on shooting, fishing, camping, and boating gear. People behind us were the first group in line last year. Tried to beat them here this year. Reporter this is something you see each other every year now, right . Pretty much. Its like family. Reporter meanwhile, a nearby target store stayed open through the night with a steady stream of shoppers around the clock. Before you hit the stores this Holiday Season, check on nbc 10s holiday gift guide. It has all kinds of deals and ideas, i should say. Find it all on nbc10. Com and the nbc 10 news app. Well, there was a message to boycott black friday in center city today. Nbc 10 in philadelphias dill worth park today. The Group Justice or else is encouraging the Africanamerican Community to make its voice heard by not participating in black friday. Todays rally comes on the 20th anniversary of the million man march in washington, d. C. And protesters in chicago are choosing black friday to march on the citys most prestigious downtown shopping district. They are speaking out about the shooting death of a black teenager by a white Police Officer. Its the latest demonstration since tuesday when city officials released dash cam video of the shooting. That video shows the officers shooting the 17 year old 16 times. The officers charged with murder. Todays protesters say they want to demonstrate their outrage in a nonviolent way and, quote, interrupt the economic engine of black friday. Were all here because of what affects one community affects us all. Chicago police say the support for todays Peaceful Demonstrations and will be on hand to address traffic and public safety. From our jersey shore bureau, an Atlantic County man is dead after a fiery toll booth crash. Police say Joseph Crawford somehow lost control, slamming into the egg harbor plaza toll booth. Look at that shot. The car burst into flames. The plaza itself caught fire. No one else was hurt. Crawfords family says everything seemed fine when he left for work this morning. The police said that they got a report there was a car driving erratically and then by the time they got there he had hit a toll exit, was that it or whatever . Toll booth, and im trying to figure when he left home, we had a conversation. The righthand lanes of the plaza were closed most of the day. And fire crews rescued a young girl off some rocks in philadelphia today. Officials say the girl was climbing between the Philadelphia Museum of art and water works this afternoon when she got stuck and became, well, too scared to come down. Firefighters responded to the scene with a ladder truck. An eyewitness described what he saw. Im here with the Police Officer down here facilitating and telling what to do and that help was on the way, including a fire truck. There was also looked like First Responders at the top of the hill here. The girl was hanging, i would say, right below the top of the rocks. Way up there. A short time later crews brought the girl down safely. We got to talk about this. Is philadelphia the saddest pro sports city in america right now . Thats what one major newspaper is saying following yesterdays blowout against the lions. The birds arent the only team thats been struggling. Nbc 10s George Spencer is live in south philadelphia. George, fans cant be reacting well to this. Reporter keith, its not a pleasant thing, but unfortunately some of them agree, admitting they are frustrated. It was usa today that called philadelphia the saddest Pro Sports Team in america. Fans said today, its tough times no matter which of the venues you head to here at the stadium complex. Outside the linc today you might think the eagles flag should be at half staff. After all, many fans fear this season is done after yesterdays defeat in detroit marked the third loss in a row. Its disappointing because as philadelphia fans, you put so much into the teams. Reporter it is a tough time to be a fan of any of philadelphias major sports teams. Another heartbreaker for these young kids. Reporter the sixers have at the worst, winless at 16 games. In baseball, the phillies are trying to rebuild. Even the flyers are near the bottom of their conference. All in all, this fourteam stadium complex is a tough place right now. This is, what, the only state in the country that has these facilities on one corner, right, and no matter which one you go to, you lose. Kind of sad when temple has more wins than the phillies, flyers, sixers, and eagles. Reporter College Sports outshining us. Yes. Reporter but among the philly fans who pass these statues of sports legends every game, loyalty remains. I think we still have a gift. Somethings got to happen, somethings got to change. Reporter with loyalty comes hope. And as these fans find themselves saying more than theyd like, theres always next year. I know. Im going to keep with them. I love the phillies. I have high hopes, well see what happens next year. Reporter many fans made that one point admitting they are perhaps the saddest right now because they are among the most loyal fans in the country, and they say surely that counts for something. Live tonight at the linc, George Spencer, nbc 10 news. Still temple and villanova basketball. All right, this saturday the eagles, along with nbc 10, are proud to showcase the military in our salute to service special. Well profile the powerful story of dan rose, a paralyzed vet whos back on his feet through the help of some remarkable technology. Plus a Hometown Hero whose dedication to our country runs generations deep. And the pros take on the g. I. Joes in a game of madden from halfway across the globe. Our special eagles salute to service airs this saturday night at 7 30. When it comes to american toys, shes a classic, but could the new interactive barbie make your family the target of hackers . You can take that information and find someones house or business. Well tell you what you need to know about this toy to protect you and your childs privacy. Plus, after philadelphias 13th deadly fire, firefighters are taking action to keep people safe all across the city. A look at the Alarm Technology you need to know about. And a scare in the water. Well take you to the jersey shore where six people were rescued after this pontoon boat capsized. This is nbc 10 breaking news. And we continue to follow breaking news out of Colorado Springs. This is a live picture of the scene where police have been searching for a gunman after a shooting near a planned parenthood clinic. We learned some people were hurt in the shooting, not clear how many yet, though. A total of seven are being treated at a local hospital. Its not known if that includes the four Police Officers who were also injured. The president has been notified, the fbi has now been called in, as well. Were going to continue to bring you live updates as soon as we get more details. To the jersey shore now. We want to show you a capsized pontoon boat in the water near Point Pleasant beach. Crews rescued six people after this boat toppled this afternoon. They were taken to the hospital to be checked out. Witnesses say there were large swells in the area when the boat capsized. We have new information about how much the Jerry Sandusky crimes are costing penn state university. After settling with six more victims and accusers over the last year, the school has paid out nearly 93 million to 32 people. More claims could be paid in the future. As for sandusky, hes appealing his sentence of 30 to 60 years in prison on 45 counts of child sexual abuse. Americas most iconic toy has evolved, but the worlds First Interactive barbie is raising concerns about privacy now. How these dolls can be easily hacked. Hi, barbie, my name is sophia. Oh, thats a wonderful name. Im so glad were friends. Reporter meet hello barbie, the worlds first Artificial Intelligence enabled barbie doll. I remember you said you dont have a sister, do you have any brothers . Yes reporter remembers conversations, making her seem as though shes alive. She can actually talk to you and not fake talk. Do you like cupcakes . My daughter really likes it. Reporter her daughter confides in barbie like a diary. They have something they talk to every day or when they are upset and need to express themselves. Reporter those expressions are stored in the cloud and accessed from a smartphone. But nbc 10 investigators found parents are not the only ones able to get that information. I was able to get some data out of it that i probably shouldnt have. Reporter security researchers hacked barbies operating system. What type of data were you able to get to it . System information, wifi Network Names that i was able to connect to, its internal address, account i. D. S for the account its connected to, mp3 files. Reporter whats this mean in terms of a childs security . You can take that information and find someones house or business. Reporter he says he has enough information to then access a persons home network and everything barbie records. Just a matter of time until we are able to have her say anything we want. Reporter toy talk, the Company Behind the talking barbie, admits the doll can be hacked, but told nbc 10 news in this case, the information that was discovered does not identify a child, nor does it compromise any audio of a child speaking. Yet privacy experts are still concerned. There are all sorts of issues about where that information is going, whos listening, what its being used for, and how it might come back to haunt you. Reporter law professor Laurie Andrews describes the doll as a miniature surveillance device. The company will report a conversation that raises concern about the safety of a child or others. The company has said its going to take on that role of alerting the authorities and in their privacy statement they also say they are going to respond to legal subpoenas. Reporter concerns that have some parents worried, but mean little to a 9yearold girl with a new doll. I think this ones better because she can actually talk to you and the other ones are weird because they are, like, silent. I think im going to like it here. Toy talk tells us parents should feel confident about privacy. The company will be launching a bug bounty program, offering incentives to security researchers able to find security flaws in the product. In chicago, nbc 10. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist sheena parveen. Well, a very warm black friday. We had two record High Temperatures set for reading and allentown and most of the area close to some of the record High Temperatures, but unseasonably warm either way. As we go into tomorrow, clouds moving in, increasing, cloudy start to your weekend with showers moving in for saturday especially and a bigger cool down ahead for sunday and monday, but its not going to be very unseasonably cool for long. Temperatures now in the mid 50s through the lehigh valley, 60 pottstown and philadelphia, mid 50s much of south jersey now, 50 degrees in dover, 58 in wilmington. Still kind of mild outside and as we go through tonight its not going to be as cold. Take a look what our temperatures are going to do. 10 00 p. M. Low 50s and by early tomorrow morning well be bottoming out in about the mid to upper 40s across the area, so still kind of a warmer morning compared to where we should be this time of the year. The record highs, that was allentown and reading today, both hitting a high of 65 degrees. Mount pocono and Atlantic City, one degree away from your record high, philadelphia not close, but still unseasonably warm. Clouds are around right now, but the rain is not here yet, but the clouds will keep increasing for tonight. If you have friday night plans, we will be staying dry tonight. The rain off to the west wont get here until tomorrow. Future weather, tonight we stay a bit on the mild side comparing to our normal low for this time of year in the mid 30s, but then by early tomorrow morning youll notice overcast skies for most of the area. By the early afternoon hours and closer to 4 00 and 5 00, showers mostly north of philadelphia possibly, then sliding to the south by about 9 00 p. M. And even south jersey and delaware overnight. Into sunday morning we could have showers south of philadelphia, but then you see more clearing from north to south jersey. A nice day sunday, but will be cooler and then a colder pattern sets up for monday, but its not going to last for very long. Tonight low temperatures in the mid to upper 40s with clouds increasing. Tomorrow High Temperatures above where we should be this time of year, still unseasonably warm around 60 degrees, the average high is 52. Sunday closer to the average High Temperature, drying out through the day. Monday upper 40s and tuesday and wednesday rain moving in, temperatures near 60 on wednesday. Scooters, skateboards, and bikes, all popular gifts to buy at a steep di

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