i didn't know where to go. >> and fear, and confusion when terrorist strike belgium's capitol. right now an intense search is underway for this man, authorities believe he played a role in the series of explosions, that rocked brussels, at the height of the morning rush hour. good evening i'm jim donovan, ukee washington is off tonight. i'm jessica dean. thirty-six people are dead more than 200 are injured, and among them, nine americans. and tonight the islamic state is taking credit for those attacks. >> a new photo shows men believed to be responsible for the attacks at the brussels airport. authorities are still searching for the man in white on the right, and the two men on the left are believed to have died in the attacks. early this morning two powerful blasts ripped through airport blowing out windows and causing a ceiling to cave-in. witnesses say it resembled a war scene. >> it feels like a wave. >> about an hour, after the

explosions, in the airport, a busy, brussels subway station was rocked by an explosion. a journalist traveling on a metro train behind the one exploded, described what happened. >> we felt a small blast of air, and, we heard some noise in the distance. metro immediately stop. lights turned off, engine turned off and message came over inter come saying there had been a disturbance on the line. >> reporter: three american missionaries are said to have been injured as well as an air force officer and his family. president obama who is in cuba on his historic visit to that country took part in the moment of silence before an exhibition baseball game, he also spoke about the a tack. >> we must, be together regardless of nationality, race, or faith, in fighting against the scourge of terrorism. >> now the president has ordered flags, flown at half

staff, at all federal and military buildings until the saturday, as they mark respect to the victims of those attacks. meanwhile family from lafayette hill montgomery county is in brussels tonight and they are staying in the far from where metro station was bombed and tell us city is on heightened alert. >> it is very calm. there is some people on the streets usually where we are it is very busy, but, it was pretty quite it this morning but some people are back out walking around. a the lieutenant of the stores are closed. there is a a lot of police and military people out. there is military vehicles, but sirens you can hear the sirens. >> you can hear sirens they have been going on and off good family lives in brussels visiting a daughter studding a broad. she attend american university and everyone is safe. we have also reached out to st. joes and penn state about their stud a broad programs in belgium, both schools, excuse me, have seven students enrolled and tell us those students are all safe and out of harms way. well, officials say there

is no specific credible threat to the u.s., home land security is stepping up patrols at major transportation hubs as a precaution. "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos is at philadelphia international the where a strong security presence is evident tonight, greg. >> it is exactly right, guess contact airport officials are telling passengers to expect to see those increased security patrols, in all areas of the philadelphia international airport and both passengers and even people i spoke with tonight said they are staying extra vigilant as well. >> mixed with the passengers coming and going from philadelphia international airport, an increased in police and law enforcement presence. >> it is good to have heightened awareness. i'm kind of real big on we got to be mindful anyway. whether or not we have the incident, you know, in brussels, but, you know, i. >> reporter: and those additional patrols a comfort for passengers on edge, you know, keep a closer eye on

something that seems off oring on just doesn't feel right, definitely trust my gut. >> there was a time when if you you didn't see something, wasn't quite right would you just kind of role with it, you do in the do that anymore. >> reporter: julie harrison just return from paris and says that the terror attacks in brussels gives her pause and more reason to be weary of anything suspicious on her flight. >> it seems to be happening more and more and it is really important that everybody be more vigilant and pay attention to what is going on around them. sadly i think it is part of the new life. >> reporter: back her live as you mentioned, jessica there is no confirmed threats in the airport here but officials are not taken any chances. no word on how long these increased security patrols will last. we're live here at philadelphia international airport i am will's greg argos for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". our live team coverage continues with "eyewitness

news" reporter walt hunter live at the 30th street station where there is beefed up security, walt? >> reporter: well, jim, amtrak, officers, with heavy weapons, over their shoulders have a clear sign of the height even security here and, along septa lines, a big part of that security net is the explosion detection dogs, that k-9 units. we went out with ronnie, and his handler this afternoon, to show just how that part of our security operation is working. ronnie is a very nosey dog, but when your mission is sniffing out possible threats as a septa explosive detection k-9, the more noser the better. >> he does all of the work. i'm just here to make sure he has somebody to keep him company. >> reporter: you will see more of ronnie and office are javier class in the days following these belgium attacks, a long with other septa officers and k-9 units. a sight always comforting to

riders. >> they are always have a smile when they see us walking around with the dogs. they say thank you, and they appreciate what we do. >> reporter: while riders told us they are shaken by terrible violence in belgium they remain confident and security here. >> it was quite scary to hear what happened in brussels, but i never gave my safety one thought because i knew that things would be secure here. >> i saw a lot of security and it makes me feel really comfortable. >> reporter: both septa and philadelphia police emphasize there are no credible threats to our region. ronnie and officer class they point out, visible, reassuring, signs that everything possible is being done to protect us. >> anything that we can do to help that is why we're here. give the public peace of mind. >> reporter: ronnie has been on the job for two years and as is the case with most k-9's

he is at the side of officer class 24 hours a day. septa pointing out by the way that its explosive detection unit with the k-9's is one of the largest of any transit authority in the country. live at 30th street station walt hunter, for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". walt, thank you. "cbs evening news" with scott pelley will have much more otter or attacks in brussels including reaction from all five presidential candidates. the that is coming up at 6:30 right here after "eyewitness news" at 6:00. chopper three over ridley park delaware county where a sanitation worker was killed this afternoon. this happened near delaware avenues, where we're told worker fell off a garbage truck and was struck by another vehicle. there is in word tonight on that worker's identity. meanwhile take a good look at this surveillance video, philadelphia police are searching for a robbery suspect who struck in northern liberties. the this is on st. patrick's day just before 11:00 p.m. suspect targeted a 41 year-old woman walking on than brawn

street. grabbed her purse. when she would not hand over her phone he pulled out a gun. the suspect then fled west on brown street, woman was not injured. well, it is a very special, meaningful day here at cbs-3 "eyewitness news" we are holding our seventh annual ronald mcdonald house charities tell-a-thon. >> lets look live at cbs-3 great hall, you'll see there hopefully in a moment as phone lines are opened and i can tell you from personal experience they are opened. all you have to does call 1.844.977.cbs3. >> and when we come back a powerful story about a heartache leading to friendship our stephanie stahl shows us how two mothers formed an unbreakable bond through their experience at ronald mcdonald house, kate? and we started off week feeling like it was still winter, even though it was technically spring, temperatures rose today and will get warmer, i will tell you which days could be in the 07's and what to expect for your easter weekend, don. jay wright has a message for nova nation, and, jeffery

rulie speaks. owner of the eagles weighs in on the resurrection of personnel boss howie roseman. had hear from both of

hi everyone i'm checking in here at our ronald mcdonald tell-a-thon, as you can see phones just started ringing a few minutes ago. number on the bottom of the screen, please give us a call, the number is 1.844.977.cbs3. remember there are a number of ways that you can donate today so lets take a look, you can call our volunteers, they will be here for at least another hour and a half or to make an instant $10 donation. text word family to 20222. data and message rates may apply. go to cbs philly.com and click on the banner a at top of the home page. in the meantime i will toss it over to kate who has a kate presentation, kate? >> jim, we have a very, very large check to present right

now, this is very, very exciting. aim joan from jim frisk from pj wheelihans and you have a check for $75,000. $75,000. huge round applause. how did you raise this much money for this cause. >> if it wasn't for our great employees and extremely generous customers, a lot of dollar shamrocks sold to get to 75,000. >> amazing 1 dollar per shamrock. >> that is right, one, five or a pot of gold for 25. >> and, with 13 local pj's and we went all out and here we are $75,000 later. >> that is amazing. congratulations. thank you to the customers who contributed and you have here one of your general managers and also, the laid hoy sold most shamrocks. >> yes, our general manager of cherry hill and amanda who sold more shamrocks then anyone. >> thank you so much for that. >> this is amazing, $75,000. >> our great partner, been with us since the beginning, justin to a mace us with the

records that they set, so we could not be more pleased to have them as our partners. >> well, thank you so much. we will send it over to stephanie. hi, kate, thank you. ronald mcdonald house act as a middle ground between home and the hospital. i met two moms in north philadelphia where they formed an unforgettable friend hip. we talk to people but it is not having a strong of a friendship, like a actual friend here. >> katherine anal sandra, built a friendship out of heartache at ronald mcdonald house in philadelphia. >> we're boating go through pretty much the same thing. it might be different medical things that are going on with our sons, but it was still thrown a at us. >> reporter: kathleen's three month-old son charlie has spent most of his life at st. christopher's hospital. >> he was born with a few heart defects. it didn't hit me until i went

to see him, and they put him and that is when it hit. >> reporter: something that she can relate to because of her son, brian. >> when he was born, he had low blood sugar and he had april knee a wow just stop breathing for short periods of time. his blood sugar was severely, severely low. >> reporter: only a day older than charlie, brian has been a patient at the hospital since he was four weeks old. >> i don't know anybody who knows what that feels like, even my husband doesn't know what that feels like. >> reporter: that is until now. >> my daughter lily was talking to her daughter ava. >> we were introduced through our kid. >> reporter: from there they realized they have more in common then just a heavy heart. >> my oldest daughter, three and a half, and she had a daughter, four who was, oh, similar in age. oh, they kind of look similar, they have the same hairline. they have the same hair color.

>> reporter: in time moms realized similarities of their own. >> she was like oh, hey, we share the same birthday. it is just with time we realized so much more similarities. >> what was that friendship like, what is so special and different about it. >> it is in the just any type of friend because we were going through the same hardships. we both know what it is like. we don't to have sit there and put our happy face to each other. we don't to have put a mask on. >> i mean just the fact that we have the same birthday, it is just a amazing experience. >> reporter: now they are looking forward to the future. >> we have already talk about what we will do when the first days of school. >> everything has a journey. >> yes. >> and it just goes to show what an incredible, support system that the families get at ronald mcdonald house, jim? >> amazing story, thanks very much, stephanie. folks, it takes people, volunteers to put this whole entire operation on and we'd like to thank many of the

volunteers here today. there is sally may, south jersey industries, tri-state toyota dealers, united scrap metal and youth advisory council of delaware. we appreciate you. we have steve and christina is what your name. >> shamus. >> they are all here from south jersey industries. their phones are not ringing. we need to get to you get the phones to ring. give us a call, keep the phones ringing, number is 1.844.977.cbs3. they want to hear from you. back to you in the studio. >> jim, thank you. kate you were talking about the energy is so great. macing. >> beautiful day outside but if you have to be inside and miss sunshine that is where you want to be. >> so many smiling faces and seeing that number go up and seeing these big checks coming in. >> yes, i know good that was biggest one of the day so far. thank you to pj wheelihans for that and thank mother nature for this beautiful day, made it easier for them to get in here. they don't have heavy coats, umbrellas, gorgeous afternoon.

we will show you how afternoon is looking, this is pleasant val any broad headville looking great. nothing but blue skies. need to say afternoon now because it still feels like afternoon just a couple weeks ago it was dark at this time but still feels like part of the day. more time in the evening, now that the daylight times have gotten pushed back an hour thanks to the start of the the daylight savings time. lets look at what is going on, storm scan three, not much. we have clear skies. a few cloud will start to creep in. tomorrow a few more cloud in the sky then today. we will trade that for some warmth. tomorrow's more of the partly sunny day to day more mostly sunny day but tomorrow that ten to 15 degrees warmer all thanks to the large scale storm system. you can see producing warm front, snow and rain over great lakes impacting new england this week but stays to the north of us and we will get into that same scenario that brought us extreme warmth a few weeks ago in the 80's. we will get warm sector wind south and west and we have two days to heat things up around here. right now still 58 degrees in philadelphia a. fifty-seven in reading.

forty-eight mount pocono. 55 degrees in trenton. welshing we have something to look for in the sky tomorrow morning. two things. tonight you may see jupiter very bright next to the moon, tomorrow morning we have a eclipse. now this is not quite as impressive as a full lunar eclipse. this is happening at 7:48. moon moves throughouter earth shadow. blocking some sunshine from reaching moon if you are a intrepid sky watcher you may see moon looking shadowed tomorrow morning. but you get telescope out if you want to peak at. that future weather shows a few cloud drift nothing, tomorrow, partly sunny day. it will be mostly sunny. see that dividing line between warm and cold air just off to the north. thursday, lots of sunshine, nice and warm, southeasterly wind keeps us in the 70's but then here comes the showers and a little bit of the change, mainly friday overnight, friday morning you can see 9:00 a.m. and we will clear things out friday afternoon but warmth continues, it is mild for next two days. friday, saturday just cooler and then warming up again just in time for easter sunday. as farrah tonight is concerned

we are down to 46, partly cloudy. heading in to your wednesday, sun, cloud, turning warmer, and then it stays pretty nice, normal high 55, and we don't even have have one day, at or below normal in this seven day forecast, friday morning starts with the shower, saturday cooler but beautiful and really nice easter sunday, 64 degrees, great day to hide eggs outside, do the egg hunt, and all that, you don't need a coat.

sixteen teams left in the big dance, six are from the ultra competitive ac c. do you the math. best conference in america. now villanova will take a crack at one of their top to teams. wildcats waiting for sweet 16, and fans clapping, cheering holding signs, nova will play miami thursday night in louisville. jay wright has a message for nova nation. >> i want to thank everybody for their support, sticking

with us throughout the years and all through this season. and, we take take pride in representing philadelphia basketball. we will play hard, you know, like city of philadelphia and like villanova basketball always does. >> once again back in the sweet 16 for first time since 2009. wildcats are in flight and so is leslie van arsdal, yes, catch her live reports with the cats starting tomorrow, at 5:00 in louisville. well, nova and leslie fly south, sweet 16 lands here in south philadelphia. crews at wells fargo center putting finishing touches on the court, on friday, wisconsin verse notre dame and indiana, battling north caroline, elite eight is on sunday. last time we heard from jeffery lurie, eagles owner was vaguely describing job title of howie roseman. that was after chip kelly was fired and doug peterson was hire. since then howie's let his actions define his role with

one bold move after another and laurie is pleased with what he has done. >> really he has had a great plan, just kept his nose to the grind stone if you want to call it and just kind of did the right things strategically, communicates, outstanding with everybody in the scouts and coaches, and at the moment could not be more pleased. >> spring baseball, phillies, hosting the twins, jared eichoff with his first start of the spring. he had been out. 6-foot four righty making it happen. nice, pitch right there. struck out seven. he went four innings giving up three runs and four hits. the twins daniel pull beinga went yard twice, and minnesota beat phillies, seven-five. down there in clearwater, today. >> clearwater. >> yes good it looks nice down there. >> it does. it will be nice there tomorrow too. >> yes, it will good we will have more from our ronald

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well, all right. the phone lines are opened, 1.844.977.cbs3. we're here, guys for another hour, we have got a special hour long, of our tell-a-thon coming up from 7:00 to 8:00. we call it power hour of the year. so we hope you will tune in as we go the final stretch to 8:00 p.m. >> thanks for joining us for cbs-3 "eyewitness news" at 6:00. up next "cbs evening news" from new york, with scott pelley, with the latest on belgium attacks.

[screaming] bomb, attack the airport. >> everyone panicking. we had to run. >> pelley: and the subway station. dozens are killed, hundreds wounded, including americans. >> this is yet another reminder that the world must unite. >> pelley: isis claims responsibility. >> we cannot let them succeed. >> pelley: and america goes on alert. >> i would close up our borders. >> this is a war. this is not an ice lated end debt. -- captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: we begin tonight with the breaking news from brussels where the toll continues to rise in the terror attacks at the airport and the subway station. the coordinated bombings killed