chilling video of robbers waving guns, barge nothing to a laundromat, we will tell you where this heist unfolded and clues police have in the case. and serious questions this morning after an explosive report accused president trump aid of communicating with the russian is a head of the election how pennsylvania law maker is responding. russian spy ship spotted off coast of delaware and new jersey. what the the ship is capable of and what a local intelligence analyst say he may be doing here. it is wednesday february 15th good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. all that plus top doggies crowned at west minister dog show but first a check of the forecast and those roads with meisha, good morning. >> happy tuesday to you.

>> it is wednesday. >> i'm not getting over valentines day. >> happy monday, everybody. >> yes, we will go all the way back to monday. how was your groundhog's day, everybody. >> we're all tired now. >> yes. >> the roadways are looking really good this morning, really dry. the it felt nice, in places today. >> yes. >> not too breezy. that breeze will pick up with time, two separate disturbance s bypassing us throughout the day but trigger a little hint of wet weather. i don't think you need umbrella. the let me show you, right now we cane both disturbances one off to the south, in the southern most delaware a hint of steady rain and then well off across upstate new york, canadian border crossing over that. we have two pieces of energy that merge together to create a storm system but not here. it is more new england concern right now we will have to tiehl with is, again, stray shower, rain or snow and we

will see snow off toward the mountains but just a rain shower here or there, from philadelphia on south and east toward the shore. thirty-four the current temperature at the the airport as day progresses we can expect it partly sunny but it is mild in between these two disturbances. fifty-one at the shore but watch for a shower. partly sunny in the the city because even if you saw rain drops it is pretty much it. mainly partly sunny, passing snow shower for folks in the mountains with the daytime highs this is pulling out of the 30-degree range there. but it is about to be a chilly , end to our workweek as temperatures will start to take a hit but there is nice warming trend in the wake of that. little ups and downs in our forecast but overall, still, i don't see any major storms this sight right the now. >> that is good news. >> i love 50's in february, katie, keep bringing that on to us. good morning, everybody. we are looking outside looking at the vine. the this is vine at where we had roving crews. those have been since cleared

out of the way. for those jumping off there look at the vine looking great roving crews you mighte them but they will not be in process of working. we will be moving out of our way looking good here at eighth street, schuylkill taillights moving in the eastbound treks approaching syringe garden in center city we are looking good there. westbound side same story, still early, still dark outside. we have an accident investigation in new jersey route 47 in both directions at the sean pike road all lanes are block but use alternate route and nine will be your best bet. and we have a down treat route 611 northbound, at durham road use river road as your best bet. rahel and jim, back to you. frightening moments as gunman barged in the laundromat waving guns atticus mers and workers. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do is live at east mt. airy laundry laundromat the where this happen. trang, this is shocking video. >> reporter: police say they appear to be fairly young in their late teens and relevant

i 20's. investigators do have pretty good surveillance video to work off of. they hope someone recognizes these guys and calls police. look at this video here. this happened on at day night, just before 7:00 o'clock, now police say three black males entered laundromat on the 6700 block of chew avenue. you can see one of the men points a gun at a male employee in front of the customer and lead him away. men then direct the 47 year-old man to the office where they demanded money and for him to open up the coin machines, and they also made off with an unknown amount of money but fortunately no one was hurt. if you have any information about this crime philadelphia police ask that you call their tip line at 215-686-tips or text them at ppd tips. those tips will be confidential. investigators say within of the robbers referred to another one by the name green, so they are hoping that could be a clue that could help identify these suspects. for now we are live in east mt. airy i'm trang do for

cbs-3 "eyewitness news". jim and rahel, back to you. >> hopefully someone can help. new this morning barrage of bullet outside port richmond nightclub police found 15 shell casings in the parking lot on castor avenue but no one was hit by gunfire. eye witt the necessary knees said the gun man appeared to be shooting at two or three men who just left the club. the those men have not notified authorities and gunman was last spotted running east on cottman avenue new castle county police are investigating a kidnapping and a all the in brandywine hundred. victim tells police that a masked gunman forced her in the car at top of the hill apartments on tuesday night. investigators say the suspect punched the victim as he drove her to an atm on marsh road forcing her to withdraw money. the suspect was talking loudly to himself. he brought the victim back to the apartments and then left the scene. police are looking for i dark colored. uv. anyone with any information is asked to call crime stoppers at 800-tips-3333. man is facing charge these morning after police say he

forcibly grabbed and kissed a female septa officer. her body camera captured the incident. >> you kissed me. >> yes. >> oh, no, you will backup, right the now. >> now, this female officer was on routine patrol at 69th street transportation center in upper darby, that is where police say five three-year old man repeatedly demanded that she allow him to kiss her. >> it was just one of those things where i was just personally aggravated that one of the people i work with was treated so disrespectfully, you almost become accustomed to it the as a police officer that people are disrespectful but this is just up a personal violation. >> now despite fact natalie suspect was much larger then her officials say the officer was able to turn him around and make an arrest. he is facing charges including assault and harassment. in other news, preliminary hearing is scheduled in bucks county for a suspect accused of raping multiple children.

william charles thomas faces 51 charges including five counts of child rape. fifty-eight year-old is also facing charges for child porn, found in his morrisville home. well, bethlehem township woman accused of stealing a baby yeast us from a nativity scene back in december is ordered to pay $254 in fines and costs. police say 50 year-old jacqueline ross was initially charged with theft, and institutional vandalism those charges were dropped, in favor of the citation, according to police they were led to ross after surveillance images captured her dropping off the damaged statue at a hospital. explosive report in the new york times claims that some of the president trump's campaign aid were in constant communication with russia prior to the election. report published yesterday is based on findings by law enforcement and intelligence agencies and names four people close to the president including michael flynn who resigned as national security advisor monday night. communications were intercepted during routine

intelligence communication or collection on russian nationals. investigators have not concluded the intent of those conversations. democratic congressman from pennsylvania brendon boyl e the is trouble anding a in a statement that thinks outrageous and a slap in the face of the american people and the integrity of our electoral travel process. we deserve nothing less than 100 percent transparency. our national security has been jeopardize by russia's grip on trump white house. it covers parts of the montgomery county and northeast philadelphia. and today the president will host israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, in washington. they will discuss conflicts, iran, syria, netanyahu it says meeting is very important for israeli security and its strengthening international position. this is first time two leaders are meeting in person since president trump's election. white house and pentagon are on alert after a russian spy ship was spotted making its way up the east coast. ship was last seen yesterday floating off coast of delaware

and new jersey, vessel itself is used to collect intelligence from radar and other electronic emissions from military bases up the east coast. intelligence analyst, ed turzanski lives here in philadelphia and believes russia is essentially trying to rattle the new administration. >> this is what you consider harassment operations, and it the is psychological operations really. here's what the russians are very good the at they are good at mind games and they play three dimensional chess. so they are three or four steps ahead trying to see where you will go and then they counter play. >> there is no independent case natalie presence of the ship has anything to do with the resignation of the president trump's national security advisor michael flynn atlantic city casinos are off to a good start for year 2017, figures from the new jersey division of the gaming enforcement show that january gambling revenue is up 7.7 percent from a year ago. seven casinos have 234.6

million-dollar from gamblers, internet the gambling brought the in 18-point will million up 28 percent from more than a year ago. well, coming up, you can trust rumors. >> top prize in the the west minister dog show we will introduce you to the top dog and tell you why the owner says the win almost didn't happen. an officer opens fire near campus of a major university, the place where this happened and what led up to the gunfire , we will tell you all , we will tell you all about it, when we come right ♪ the moments that connect us happen one morning at a time, and one cup at a time. folgers, the best part of wakin' up.

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of two regular fish oil pills... so give your body mega support with megared advanced 4in1. welcome back. still no word what sparked this massive fire that destroyed more than a dozen boats in monmouth county. boats were dry docked at dell maur's sea port marina when several caught fire tuesday afternoon. it took fire tighters 40 minutes to get flames under control ape thick black smoke could be seen for miles. all of the boats were worth 1.5 million-dollar. driver is in custody after a chase through town of carol gables, florida that forced police to fire guns. driver of the stolen car drove

straight at an officer near carol gables campus of the university of miami. officer shot at the driver who was not hit but was injured when he crash a stolen car into park vehicles. the suspect took off on foot but was tackled by officers. well, america has a new top dog, a german shepherd named rumor has been crowned best in show at the this years west minister kennel club dog show, the five-year old female pooch beat out nearly 3,000 other dogs to clinch the top prize last night but win almost didn't happen. rumor's owners said they were thinking of staying home this year after narrowly missing, the prize, last year. >> pretty much thought we would retire her at that point in time but she was here and decided to give it one more shot the. >> good for them never give up rumor will take home some hardware as top dog, polish bowl and trophy, but real prize, serious credentials on

the breeding circuit. that is a gorgeous talk. >> it is, so beautiful. >> i got the my dog, my puppy groom, and i have to say, looking like a show dog. >> yes, are impressive. >> yes. >> very cute. >> i'll post a picture on twit ter. >> looking forward to that all fluffy and groomed. >> cute little poodle. >> she or a he. >> a little will he. >> he will not the get wet today. >> good. >> you want to break out that super adorable rain jacket i know you have. i know you have that for him. >> yes. >> but, other than a stray shower here and there i don't think we are looking at much. we should see that isn't terrible but two separate disturbances but this is a glancing blow. we have one system off to the north here. you can see a couple snow showers with that across upstate new york and a few rain showers currently across sussex county in delaware. these two systems will come together and merge over new england. so again we're not going to see them connect soon enough

to provide much more than just windy conditions, certainly and a couple stray showers. taking a look at future weather and how pattern emerge is here by later today and tonight northern new england will have a decent, powerful storm system. for us it is again more than anything the wind that will pick up as those systems merge , create a much larger storm. let look at the localized future weather, you could still end up with a shower across southern counties of new jersey, as well as delaware but here in the city of philadelphia, notice there is mainly just a couple included overhead, even up until lunchtime. beyond that point we will see quick rain shower rolling through sometime today but not enough you need umbrella. that is bottom line here. in the mountains it will be cold enough to pro tuesday snowflakes. we will keep an eye on those pocono field camera. looking forward, we do drop off on the thermometer, tomorrow's coldest most blustery day of the pack but look at the warm up, sunday, hello, feels like syringe. sixty, sunshine.

we can just see the weekend looking phenomenal. if you don't have outdoor lance i would think about making some, back over to you. >> that makes me so happy. something about waking up and seeing a beautiful tore cast, thanks very much for that. good morning everybody. happy hump day to you. ben franklin bridge looking like push into center city looking really quiet. would i also say looking very typical. typical in the world of travel is not a bad thing. we're looking good. looking early, early risers just waking up. the route one northbound, this is what we're looking at the here pushing in the northbound direction, your neighbors out there but we are still looking normal, good out there as well we have an accident investigation in new jersey route 47 in both directions all lanes are block. if you used alternate route nine is your best bet. we have another area as well, why is head up about we have a down tree route 161 northbound between durham road and spring hill road, all lanes block there as well. alternate river road is your best bet there. and then we have a down pole,

this is in egg harbor route 30 eastbound white horse pike at pamona road the white lane is blocked. not slowing you down but it will as we progress through the morning. jim and rahel back over to you facebook wants to make it easier for to you see your friends videos on a big screen >> great. new technology that social media at is set to launch in the money watch report, we will be right

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jim and rahel. as if facebook isn't every where already i understand it is going to invade our living rooms. >> reporter: it the is true, so facebook is launching an app for tv's for apple tv's, foreign samsung tv and amazon tv, basically you'll be able to watch videos thaw would normally watch on facebook, on the the app, and on your tv, no timetable just yet, they think soon, is what they are saying. jim and rahel. >> well, it was bound to happen. >> yes. >> i mean, yes. >> they are taking over. >> yes, taking over the world. >> thanks, jill we will check in the next hour. we have some incredible images from yesemite national park to share with you this morning. >> check this out it may look like this is folding lava or fire but it is not. we will tell you three things to come together to have nature put on this incredible show. >> absolutely beautiful. we are looking a head to windy wet ther again in the delaware valley. we will let you know when that wind is expect to pick up how

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borealis. but with that said we are not going to see a lot of sunshine here today. we will call it the partly sunny but we have two separate disturbances, one to the north , one to the south and they produce minor impacts. we will see showers across southern most counties in new jersey and delaware, but up toward pocono the snow shower is on the order of the day, all passing, nothing that accumulate is here in the city we will see rain drops. lets talk about the wind, bigger issue and feature. looking ahead we will jump to 1:00 p.m. we will talk about wind gusts, maybe as high as 30 but sustained wind flow nothing higher then 20. it does linger into tonight and tomorrow, tomorrow looks like the most blustery day, these are sustain wind seeds, we're in the 20's through good portion of the the day with higher gusts. they should not be caliber of what we saw earlier but we will notice that wind and it does ease up thursday night into friday. what a seven day. granted thursday and friday are on the chilly side but it

is february. we will look ahead to the saturday, sunday nice warming trend here, we will at least flirt with if not even exceed 60 degrees on sunday in some sots and with sunshine for all weekend this looks like a great excuse to headache outdoor plans here get syringe fever because i got to say, meisha even though we have had warmth lately i still have cabin fever this time of the career. >> do i too, no doubt bit. february i wish would just go away. >> yeah, i know. >> we can't wait for april. >> let's just go to june and july. >> yes. thanks, katie so much. looking outside this is woodhaven road at a contacted hi looking quiet. great snapshot of what we are seeing. we have a couple roving cruise s on the vine but this is what we're looking the at. we are still looking good for those just thinking about heading out right now, you are thinking is it even building ? it the is not. it is looking quiet. we have this going on. this is accident investigation

but before we get there we will talk about construction on the boulevard. northbound between rhawn street and winchester avenue one lane block there and mercon trucks you should ab wear of numbering turnpike southbound near route 322, right lane block until 6:00 a.m. and then we have mercon trucks on the pennsylvania turnpike, this is the northeast extension north bound between mid county and quakertown, roving crew is here as well, on the vine and here and also we're talking about the same situation on the southbound side between quakertown mid county roving crews there as well. we will talk about that accident investigation on route 47 in new jersey in 10 minutes. jim and rahel. back to you. coming up next on "eyewitness news" our jan carabao details new explosive allegations against trump administration and their dealings with russia. a bizarre police chase find out why officials were pursuing a wrecker pulling a truck. i'll show you an affordable alternative to replacing your windows that could help save thousands of dollars. dollars. we are back at

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what did they know and when did they know it. new bomb shell hitting news stand suggest president trump 's aid had closer contact with russia then reeve justly thought. our jan carabao has reaction from a local representative. a russia spy ship is spotted off coast of new jersey and delaware we will tell you how it is operating and what experts say about its presence there. live look at center city, katie's watching out for showers and it will be a windy wednesday, it is wednesday, february 15th good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things with this wednesday morning not to be confused with tuesday morning.

>> i ate so much chocolate i to think it went to my brain. we are looking at roadways, it is looking quiet, dark but we have construction out there we will get into that in a moment >> wind is still calm and it will pick up with time. is it caliber of what we haddon wednesday? now i'm doing it. let me back that up, and what are we talking about. on monday we had that real vicious win. today it does start to get breezy again but no where near that caliber. that is what i was trying to say. let me get you out the door. we have cloud cover overhead. two separate disturbances, you can see that, sussex county, basically engulfed in some light rain right now, i to think parts of the southern tip of the new jersey getting in on this this morning. the majority of this it is a dry start, just cloud overhead but there is another disturbance off to the north triggering a snow shower passing snow shower up in the mountains and perhaps a stray shower, or syringe will around the rest of the region in