Legs. We did a lot of hiking in i would definitely hesitate this time of year. Reporter petronino said he tried to hit the bear with a rock hammer. When that didnt work, he put his jacket over his head and curled into a neatal position. Over an hour. He yelled outside of the scouts to get help. Reporter the boy scouts called 911. They tried food to lure the bear out of the cave and then lit a fire. Theyve also started a fire for a smoke signal. Reporter the bear finally came out and was scared away by scouts. Petronino was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover. He had his good intentions to take them out there and show them some things that he knew when he was a kid that were fun and adventurous for him. Now setting traps and searching for the bear thats gone back into hiding. Brian webb for cbs2 news. Petronino has known about this case since the 1980s and before. His wife said she wants to commend the three boys who saved her husbands life. At this time, we request privacy. New yorks city controller is ashamed about how the city treats the homeless. The report shows that there are 14 staffers in charge of 12,000 families. Auditors reported finding families with children placed in apartments with mold, rodents, even broken windows. We can no longer tolerate this is not a failure of policy. Its a true tragedy. Experts say these findings are alarming but nothing they havent heard before. The report used the same words, you know, safety and health problems. They used the same wording practically as todays report and that was march 12th of this year. The audit results come just days after the Homeless Services commissioner stepped down. And while Permanent Solutions do take time, one way to immediately address the homeless problem is the use of dropoff centers where people can get help during the day. But capacity at these facilities watt cut in half under mayor bloomberg. Our reporter went to ask mayor deblasio if it should be brought back. Reporter at urban path ways on 30th street and 8th avenue, every day brings in new faces looking to get off the streets. Were a dropin center. For food, shelter, showers, case management. Reporter as soon as someone comes in, get a hot meal, access to a bathroom and a hot shower as well as a physical and Mental Health evaluation. Those evaluations help reduce expensive emergency room visits by treating some clients on site and they determine what kind of housing clients qualify for. And sometimes the solution is simple. They are helping me get a ticket back thome home to my family in missouri. Reporter people are waiting for this to kick why, the help. Why arent we seeing shorter Solutions Like the dropin centers . More beds will be in place by june. I do believe in the dropin these. Im convinced all of these changes are steady changing the situation. Urban pathway said there are four dropin centers new york city and the one they run has expanded to 24 hours a day in order to keep up with demand. Back to you. Thank you. A bronx father is under arrest after confessing to killing his 2monthold son. Mark morgan has more on how the father tried to hide the childs broadway. I cried. Reporter kimberly is reacting to the news had her neighbor, jose, feliciano, has been accused of killing the baby is in that duffel bag in the video. This woman lins in the same building and is stunned by nature of this crime. How can you do Something Like that . I feel sad. Reporter feliciano lived here at at this pizza place. I nef never saw him before until he came here. I couldnt tell you what kind of man he was until we heard this. Reporter and word of this crime spread quickly throughout this morris park neighborhood leaving residents to wonder why. I dont care what the baby does, how angry can you be to take a childs way away . Its not just to think about what the baby probably went through and being left somewhere in the woods for dead. You dont even treat an animal that way. Its horrifying. Reporter feliciano remains in custody facing murder and person less than 11 years old. Reporting from the morris park morgan, cbs2 news. The childs mother has not been charged. Americans are among the dead after a suicide bombing in afghanistan. Six soldiers, including some americans, were killed when a motorcycle packed with explosives slammed into a patrol nearby bagram airfield. The soldiers were targeted as they moved through a village. Responsibility. And also the man police say bought the assault rifles used in the San Bernardino shootings will remain in custody while he faces terrorrelated charges. A judge said Enrique Marquez poses a danger to the community. Marquez, a childhood friend of sayed farook, is charged with conspiring to provide support to terrorism among other charges. And could lawmakers have a new way to fight isis . Still ahead, the proposal on tracking terrorists. Police in las vegas are questioning the woman who crowded sidewalk on the Las Vegas Strip. At least one person was killed and dozens injured. Chris martinez reports the crash was no accident. Reporter the Las Vegas Strip is open and back to normal after a night of chaos. Police say surveillance videos show 24yearold laqesha holloway with a 3yearold in the sidewalk. Intentional act. I dont believe its terrorism. Reporter emergency crews scrambled to treat victims. A woman from arizona died. Dozens more, injured. Were gonna start off by filing one count of murder with the use of a deadly weapon. Reporter witnesses say the car was going as fast as 30, 40 miles an hour when it first plowed into pedestrians on the sidewalk. They say it later slammed into another crude down the street. Crowd down the street. It looks like she wasnt even trying to stop the car. She had ran over some individuals on las vegas boulevard, a woman advised, and requested a va let parker to call 911. Reporter police say the woman recently moved to the area from oregon and was living in her car. Officers are still investigating a possible chris martinez, cbs news. The toddler in the car with the woman was unharmed. Holloway is in custody. Amtrak is adding new safety features on some of the rails in our region. This comes seven months after a derailment in philadelphia killed eight people and injured more than 200 others. Over the weekend, the railroad activated the positive control control on the route between new york city and philadelphia. The feature would automatically apply brakes on a train when it goes over the speed limit. Know, make some kind of move, start slowing down, apply the brakes. If you dont, the Computer System will recognize that and itself. Major freight and computer trains have until 2018 to get the systems in place. It may become one of the most famous flubs in pageant history. A crown taken back after a wrong winner is announced. Up next, what was happening back stage. And bad behavior on the field could leave one giant on the bench. The punishment for Odell Beckham junior tea temper tantrum. The growing graffiti problem being spotted in the city. And how to teach kids to mind their manners when holiday excitement hits a fever pitch. And were doing the countdown to the official start to winter. In your full forecast. Piano music. Im glad you finally made it, dad. You have to experience this city. Thats what you always say. You were right about the food. Hi john. Hey kevin. Spent the day with an astronaut. One more. How about a baseball game next time . Done done. Book priceless experiences around the globe with. A developing story in orlando, florida. 50 people had to be rescued after the sky tower ride at seaworld got stuck earlier today. There are reports that passengers were trapped on the ride for more than two hours. Officials say no one was ever in any danger. The 400foot tall ride has been a favorite since 1973. Theres no word on what caused the ride to get stuck. People everywhere asking today what in the world went wrong at the Miss Universe pageant. The promise of crowning glory turned into a cringeworthy situation last night. Nischelle turner has more. Reporter the live blunder left everyone in shock. We talked to one of the judges who was simply floored. It was a crazy ending. It was intense. It was intense. Miss universe, 2015 is colombia [ cheers ] excruciating two minutes and five second, miss colombia thought she won the crowd. I have to apologize. The first runnerup is colombia. [ cheers ] Miss Universe 2015 is philippines. Reporter then look at this. You can see a pageant worker signaling take the crown off her head. I was the only reporter back stage when the mixup happened. Everyone back there was wow. I know. I know. Thats exactly what im thinking right now, wow. Reporter this judge was exclusive with efnlts t. After the chaos. It was hard because the girls didnt congratulate miss philippines because they felt reporter you are the winner. Yes. I had to ask did i really win . Are you gonna take the crown from me now . No, no, you are really the winner. Reporter we have so much more on tonights e. T. Back to you. I felt so bad for them. It was just painful, painful to watch. All around and steve harvey, he owned up to it. He said my mistake. Didnt try to blame it on anyone else. People are talking about it. Thats for sure. From the bighouse to house arrest, reality star, Teresa Giudice is set to be released from prison earlier. A lawyer for the real housewives of new jersey star said she will be out on wednesday. Teresa giudice has been locked up at the danbury correctional facility since february on she will be under house arrest until february 5th. And Martin Shkreli has been fired from the drug company. He is accused of running a ponzilike scheme. He also drew public outrage in in september after raising a drug that is livesaving to 750. Massive organ located at boardwalk hall in Atlantic City has not been fully functional since a hurricane hit it in 1944. The organ is only working at a quarter of the capacity right now. So far, 2 million of the 16 milliondollar goal to restore it has been raised. And from the moment that we have the first records of people describing the they said its the most impressive sound on earth. We really dont know what this will sound like when this part of the organ returns to life. The organ, which was completed in 193, weighs 150 tons and has more than 33,000 pipes. Quite the instrument. Wow. Hours away from winter but it wont feel that way any time soon. Alyse has had the forecast. It is balmy. We did have a taste of winter over the weekend. Hope you enjoyed it. Its gone. At least for a while. Degrees. Were in the 50s. Its not just sort of a new york city t 52 in edison. 53 for the hamptons. 50 in white plains, monticello, 40s. Its above where we should be. And were going to be in the 60s, even 70s this week. Now, believe it or not, were degree days in december. So far this year, we have 6. The record is 8. But we are going to hit some more. The warmest december, well, the average temperature, you know, record 44 degrees. Thats the record warmth. This year were looking at 51. Temperature. Of course, the next few days dont do anything to take away from that. Well be adding to it with temperatures in the upper 50s, 60s, even a 70degree temp. You can see the cloud and now were starting to see the rain move in. Were counting down the hours until the winter solstice. Thats tonight. We are gating a surge of warm air in advance of the cold front. Well see the rain out of the system as well. You will need the umbrella. You should grab it. Keep it with you for your tuesday, wednesday, even as the temperatures rise, so do our chances for rain. Tonight were expecting cloudy skies. About a 20 chance of seeing rain tonight. 49 dergs. Thats your overnight temperature. Thats warmer than what the expecting tomorrow. Tomorrow is looking to be like a 60degree day. Thats what were expecting. As i mentioned, yes, warmer temperatures are on the horizon. More coming up in the full forecast. If you are not careful, the holidays can be bad for your health. The top 12 health risks that you may see this time of year. And a war of words between president ial candidates. Why donald trump is demanding an apology from Hillary Clinton. Im Master Sergeant j. R. Williams in germany. I want to say happy holdys to my husband in new york. I love you merry christmas. Im dana tyler. Tonight at 6 00, ever wonder whats underneath your house . Illegal propane tanks have been discovered bury underground and now hundreds of homes are at risk for being torn down. We talk to the homeowners. Also the mayor and new york city councilmembers are getting a raise. How much more do they stand to make . Well see you at 6 00. The nfl has laid out a punishment for Odell Beckham, junior. Penalized three times for fighting in the game yesterday and penalized more today. Down today. The nfl will suspend Odell Beckham, junior for one game. They are expected to to hear his appeal tomorrow. It will cost him around 52,000. Fights between corners and receivers are nothing new in the nfl but yesterday, odell beyond normal. It was a nasty dog fight. It started with trash talking but evolved into physical antics. Head slaps were just the beat ginning. At one point, there were punches, body slams. The was flagged three times for unnecessary roughness. Norman twice. Neither player was ejected from the game. Like he was never even two fa take gonna take beckham out of the game. This filled talk radio all day. Beckham was so far over the edge and in such a place that i cant remember another player. Randy moss on his worst day from beckham yesterday. Every player i spoke with supported beckhams actions. They say the energy he plays with is a good thing. Its the kind of things that makes leaders. But i think what they need to really question more than that is are you sure that you want to create a leader like that . Well, listen, from the beginning of the season, hes been pretty much picked on, right . He has been. Trash talking. That sort of thing. Im sure it was an internal explosion. But you have to be the better man. You do. You have to be able to you have to be able to compartmentalize that and keep it within the confines of the game and this went beyond what was normal. I know theres a lot of kids who look up that that guy and going on . Its tough to explain at this point. Were all human, right . Thats true. I guess it will be a teaching method. All right, thank you. Problem of the past is making a comeback. City. Whats being done to stop it before it gets out of control. And the registry for terrorist, the new idea to fight potentially dangerous people in a whole new way. Hackers hit hello kitty, how the famous cat could have information at risk. Fact. Advil pain relievers are used by more households than any other leading brand. Relief doesnt get any better than this. Advil. Its here, the first gummy multivitamin. From centrum. A complete, and tasty way to support. Your energy. Immunity. And metabolism like never before. Centrum multigummies. Graffiti lining the streets throughout several manhattan neighborhoods. Its been a problem weve seen in the city before and now some say it appears to be making a comeback. If is seems like you are seeing more graffiti in new reap for that a reason for that. Scott rappaport has more. Reporter bold graffiti lines parts of the walls, ramps and pavement here at the forest hills train station. Its awful. Most of the time its ignored. Reporter new york city Councilmember Karen koslowitz said shes been in touch with the mta to get rid of the graffiti but says in the ensuing months things got worse. Its not an isolated occurrence. Citywide, some say graffiti appears to be more and more prevalent. According to the nypd, the number of graffiti complaints citywide in 2015 are up 15 from last year. This while arrests for graffiti are down 10 compared to last year. And while perhaps a far cry from the outofcontrol graffiti craze of the late its scribble and nonsense. Its ugly. Reporter we asked mayor deblasio about the graffiti situation. We take graffiti very serious. Some of those stats are very much of the moment and shouldnt be overweighted. Nypd has very sophisticated tools for going at it. So i expect you will see continued enforcement in that area. Reporter meanwhile, back at the forest hills train station, the mta is promising to remove all graffiti by christmas and a spokesperson telling me its already removed a lot of it, pointing out walls like this one pointed over in gray. A lot more has to be done. Reporter residents here are still waiting. Scott rappaport, cbs news. The nypd says making graffiti or a graffiti instrument are both misdemeanor fines punishable by a fine or up to a year in prison. Campaign for president. I want to thank everyone who has taken this journey with me. Thank you. Thats lindsey graham, officially ending his bid for the white house. The republican hopeful said his campaign hit a wall and it was time for him to get out and help someone else. Graham did not participate in last weeks Republican Debate because his poll numbers were too low to qualify. We may be getting a preview of the president ial campaign beyond the primaries. Frontrunners Hillary Clinton and donald trump are in a war of words that began during the democratic debate. Hes becoming isiss best recruiter. They are going to people showing videos of donald trump insulting islam and muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists. Knows that. I mean but she just made this up in thin air. Trump has made a series of posts on triter twitter. Most recent one, do you think Hillary Clinton will apologize for me about the lies she told used by isis . There is no video. A poll today from Public Policy polling shows clinton beating trump by 3 points in a headto head matchup. New York Lawmakers call for the first ever state registry for terrorists. The move comes as state and federal prosecutors struggle with ways to track terror suspects on social media. Heres more. We need to be smarter. Reporter thats the message from new york law makes when it comes to monitoring terrorists. They are proposing the first ever state registry of convicted terrorists. Time. Tracked . Do you want to know if hes living next door to you like in San Bernardino, building bombs . Reporter and lawmakers in washington calling for better tracking