♪ >> live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 "eyewitness news". right now at noon, new questions are being raised about the trump administration's possible connections to russia. and democrats are now calling for an investigation. white house epp cysts there's nothing new to the claims. good afternoon i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. new report alleges that members of president trump's team made contact with russia on numerous occasions before the election. correspondent michelle macaluso has the developments now from capitol hill. >> reporter: president trump unleash add tweet storm

wednesday morning pushing back against a new york times report that some of his staff and other associate has repeated contacts with russian intelligence during the 2016 campaign. he wrote "the real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by intelligence like candy, very un-american". >> f bit. i are looking weather people close to the president were wording with russian officials last year. they questioned michael flynn about his pre inauguration phone ball with russian ambassador to the u.s. that led to flynn's resignation monday night. >> the level of trust between the president and general flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make change. >> reporter: congress is already investigating russia's influence on the us election. and now lawmakers are debating whether they should dig into flynn's departure and new allegations about the administration's ties with moscow. >> the recent reports of potential high-level contact

between the trump campaign and russian intelligence including general flynn should raise hairs, hairs on the necks of everyone in this body. >> reporter: senate dem holding an emergency meeting to figure out their next move. some of the republican callings including senator john mccain say this administration's foreign policy will immediate more congressional scrutiny. michelle mack laws so for cbs news, capitol hill. meanwhile the russian spy ship spotted along the east coast yesterday is now north of us near u.s. submarine base in connecticut the ship located 30 miles from the naval submarine base in new london. it's designed to intercept signals from military basis. >> for the second time this week president trump is hosting another world leader at the white house. the president is meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahou right now. pair will hold a joint news conference and spend much of the afternoon in closed door meetings. we'll bring you the latest on the israeli prime minister's visit tonight on "eyewitness

news". the shuddered trump taj mahal in atlantic city is under going a transformation. chopper three overhead has crews began moving the trump name from the exterior. 2015 settlement requires the removal of trump's name from the property. it wasn't brought up to certain standards by march. the building currently owned by billionaire investor carl icahn. he closed the resort in october after strike by casino workers. a drive by shooting with pellet gun under investigation in south jersey. police say at least one pellet came close to group of customers waiting in line at a food truck. "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan is live at the scene in pennsville with more on the search for the shooter. cleve, good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon. this wasn't just any pellet gun. police say this was a high-powered armor piercing pellet gun or air rifle that easily could have killed someone and the police chief says here in the state of new jersey, it's considered a firearm. right around 7:00 last night police say someone was driving

on route 49 near the sunoco where the food truck is park. at least one shot was fired. possibly more. pellet struck the food truck. police have cut out where that pellet was that's why you see a square on the side of the food truck. the shot barely missed several people standing outside no one was hurt but the owner told me that his family could have been hit. >> actual mile brother-in-law was standing where you are, he actually leaped in fortunately he was leaned in at the time and several customers heard a boom. when they heard that boom, everybody oh, no, i know that wasn't what i think it was. and they ran out and, yeah, nice little hole. >> reporter: this is very busy food truck since we've been here for the past hour and a half many people have been here and police say right now they don't have any leads as far as the vehicle that the shooter was in or any sort of surveillance video in the area so they're

hoping somebody with either -- was either here or knows who had that pellet gun and will call police. reporting live in pennsville, cleve bryan, cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> cleve, thank you. meantime philadelphia police believe two robberies in the city's east mt. airy section may be related. police say three armed men robbed a laundromat in the 600 block of chew avenue on saturd saturday. authorities think that incident may be connected to yesterday pots bang robbery nearby in the 5300 block of chew avenue. fbi has joined in on the investigation. if you have any information you are asked to call police. well philadelphia fire department says there's no threat surrounding a suspicious substance found in university city. this was around 8:00 o'clock this morning. the substance was reported inside a building on the 2900 block of market street. it was tested and deemed not hazardous. officials have since cleared the scene. well after several decades in washington, d.c. vice-president joe biden is adding another position with local ties to his resume. the delaware native has been elected chairman of the board of trustees at philadelphia's national constitution center.

he'll succeed former florida governor jeb bush. biden has also committed to programs at the university of pennsylvania and the university of delaware. philadelphia flour show is less than a month away and this morning organizers gave a sneak peek of the special features of this year's upcoming show. take look. this year's theme will feature the beauty and culture of holland landscapes of tulips, hyacinths and daffodils the predominant flower in the show. the event will highlight the region's use of natural energy. >> the flower show will highlight dutch innovation from windmills one of the earliest uses of natural energy to the dutch wave movement which takes a natural and sustainable approach to beautiful garden designs. >> and you can visit the philadelphia flour show march11th through 19th at the pennsylvania convention se sent. well, he's a claimed actor but harrison ford is raising concerns for his abilities as a pilot. >> coming up on "eyewitness news" why the faa is investigating an incident involving forward toward at a

california airport that could lead to him losing his license. >> cun true super star garth

welcome back everyone. it may be one close call too many for actor harrison ford. faa officials are now investigating after they say ford's plane overflew a passenger jet on monday. ford was told to land on runway at john wayne airport in orange county but he mistakenly landed on a parallel taxi way passing over an american airlines jet holding nearby.

experts say an experienced pilot should have known the difference. >> runway is clearly marked with markings indicating that it is a runway. a taxi way has its own separate occasion lines. investigation could mean diss plain nary action may include revocation of his pilot >> sports he will us will straighted cover girl was revealed on social media overnight. take look. >> it is kate upton sports illustrated tweeted these photos of the model and actress she beasley grace thed magazine cover in 2012 and 13. she's been labeled curvy. she disagrees with that label. bhutto comes in all shapes and sizes. >> now if you had to guess who's healthier single and divorced

women or women who were married. >> i'd say single. >> hmm. >> um i would say people who are married. >> new research contradicts what relationship experts have been saying for decades. tonight on it witness news at 11:00, nicole brewer with surprising new data that could change the way you feel about marriage or living alone. that's tonight at 11:00. well, one country music super star is so popular, cute, right? >> yes. >> fourth concert has been added in philadelphia. >> yeha. >> ♪ >> that's garth brooks and fans you're in luck. just minutes he'll join us live from nashville to talk about his tour and his stop right here in philly. katie. >> no offense, guys i really think garth wears it best. [ laughter ] >> fair enough, right. as we look forward to the upcoming weekend folks i have great weather news for you. sunny skies for both weekend days. warming trend on saturday and in the 50s a taste of april come

sun day so all good things to look forward to but a bit of a chill in the air as well. and i'll walk through the pattern change when we come back with the full forecast. ♪

♪ >> well great news for garth brooks fans. a fourth show has been added for upcoming concert run right here in philadelphia. his first concert tour here in get this 19 years! >> wow! >> tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. for march 26th

show. >> the country music super star joins us live from nashville to talk more about that tour. garth brooks, thanks for joining us. >> are you kidding me? thank you and let me correct you. it's great for me. it's great news for metho we're actually getting to play four shows there. fill sal great place to play. >> you're the first performer garth to sell out six consecutive shows since the wells fargo center opened in 1996. you've got four shows planned here in march. what does philadelphia and the fan base mean to you here? >> i think it means fun one of those things where, you know hooks ever goes to work for living on those days you don't feel like you work. that's just the today's you wa want. philly is one of those cities. i'll come in, i'll start a song. you guys will finish it. i'll start the next one. you'll finish it. it's easiest gig on the planet, man. >> garth arc lot of people probably wondering why did you stop touring and what made you start again? >> well, the greatest gift i received in my life from god and the people is getting to home and raise my babies.

just had three daughters. i didn't know who they were. they didn't know who i was. and we fixed that really quick. so just 15 straight years of never missing a soccer brac practice, never missing a birthday. greatest thing ever. any parent that would have been in my position that would have had that offer to them would have taken that same route. i feel very lucky for that. >> garth, speaking of family your wife tricia will be joining you on stage. what can the audience expect at these shows? >> well, if i'm going to tell the truth they'll expect a better show from her than me. [ laughter ] >> but she's so talented and she's such a dream. she's fun to watch. so they kind of put up with me to get to her. and then we just have great time all night. but just remember this woman has more grammys than i do, and she's very talented and the newer kids know her for her cooking show now pretty cool, but trust me this gal can sing like no other. >> garth, so many good songs, so many great hits.

is there one song though that you always look forward to performing? >> yeah, life is different from, you know, my favorite garth song ever is the dance i love it way back off that very first record performing live call lynn baton rouge takes the crowd to another level and that's what makes it fun. >> with four shows here in philly you'll be here for few days. anyone place that you want to stop by while you're in town? >> you know what, we kind of all go together. we treat it like a sports team. so band and crew artists everybody is altogether. and so we kind of move around the city together like a little cloud, and it's pretty cool. there's about 50 us. we'll be going shopping. we'll have team dinners. we like to get out in the city. we like to see people and we have a kids camp going on there this year have something to do with the food network or cook books or stuff going on there, too. it's always a busy weekend. >> garth, last question most important question. no pressure but jim and i are pretty cool. [ laughter ]

>> can we catch up with you when you're in town maybe grab a cheesesteak. >> we'll meet at the press conference you come prepared and tell me where the great cheesesteak s the best one in that town you have to tell me. >> garth, i'm already prepared i got my black cowboy hat on because you're wearing a ball cap i don't know what's going on down there. [ laughter ] >> both looking good. >> we appreciate it. thanks so much and we're definitely looking forward to march. >> guys, thank you very much. have a great one. can't wait to see ya'll. >> you too. thank you. >> garth will also be live on our sister radio station into .5wxtu later today. razz will interviewed him at 2:00 o'clock. >> are you going to keep that hat on for the rest of the show. >> i can't take you seriously. >> you hook like howdy doody not garth brooks. >> i never accepted any offers down south. >> you're adorable. >> here's the thing. katie, you know, now that the hat is on it's probably not coming off because it's an whole gel thing, whole product. >> indeed. >> sometimes getting jim's hair to look the way it does. temperatures are warming up this

afternoon. meteorologist katie fehlinger join us now. we're talking low 50s later on today. the sun has a chance to break through the clouds very pleasant overall especially given the fact we've got two separate disturbances passing us by one to the north, one to the south and both of them delivering a glancing blow eventually those two pieces of the puzzle come together as one much more potent storm system. but not over our area. we only get indirect impacts out of that. let me get you outside show you first and for most a very pleasant looking shot right now as we overlook the franklin institute we're very proud partners with the franklin institute here at cbs3. the official weather team of the franklin but you can actually see the reason i wanted to show this to you a little bit of blue sky actually breaking through and sunshine. so it's not the brightest prettiest day we've ever seen. but for mid february and the fact we've got two separate systems passing us by not a bad afternoon unfolding here in the city. let's take you out to storm scan next. yeah, you know, it's not bad considering you've got this.

some pretty heavy rain to our southeast. it delivered some minor travel problems here across cape may county sussex county earlier this morning. also snow showers from the other disturbance that's off to the north and west. that could still trigger a quick rain shower or snow shower for the mountains before the today it is all said and done. you can see however how these two pieces are starting to come together. and they do actually connect and develop into a full fledged storm system here over northern new england. what we'll end up with kind of like what we saw earlier in the week. when we new england blizzard going on. that wrap around chill and also wind start to do really crank in our area. who could forget that wind on monday. i don't think that we're talking the same caliber of wind as what we saw on monday. but it's essentially the same idea here. so looking just how this pattern unfollows take look. focus more so on maine. more heavy snow for those folks. for us, we actually clear thing out here tonight. nothing more than a couple leftover clouds. the breeze will get going for us as the afternoon progresses.

let me walking through future weather for the rest of the afternoon. nothing more than a spotty shower. if you're watching us maybe on your lunch break at work right now and you didn't bring the umbrella i don't think you have to worry at worse you'll be finding a couple of sprinkles out there through the afternoon. as i had mentioned a stray snow shower that could reduce visible near the mountains and northern lehigh or northampton county. keep that in mine. but later on tonight, we shall clear out pretty nicely here and tomorrow does look dry. now, it is turning colder as that storm up to the northeast continues to develop and pull away but what we're eventually wal going find the jet stream lifts back to the north. and as it does so, you know what will happen. temperatures start to climb and we're looking ahead here especially this weekend to some very mild air. as we look at the current wind speeds, yeah, they're not terrible. you're actually as low as 3 miles per hour still in trenton and allentown. mount pocono however beginning to see those within speeds pick up in intensity 20 miles an hour that sustained wind flow folks. start to notice the brassie breeze with every passing hour.

i don't think we're talking gusting passed maybe 30 miles an hour at worse though through the rest of the day. meanwhile you can see how that sun has really started to peak through the clouds nicely a lot more blue sky out of kutztown area middle school. what's left of that thin sliver of snowfall going to be melting away in the days ahead because when you see this i wet weather seven day you'll understand. again, 50 at best today not bad. low 40s then tomorrow with a blustery afternoon. really the whole day looks blustery. gusts as high as 35 miles an hour. renegade 40 miles an hour gust. we start the rebound with perfect timing for the weekend. check out sunday. my personal favorite of the next seven. 61, might as well be april and sunshine. so have you made your outdoor plans yet? >> its you know the city will be crazy. >> my gosh i was supposed to call it the philly marathon whenever the wet turns like that everybody is out. enjoy it. >> sounds good to me. >> check out these incredible images. we were talking about this on the morning show really cool. this horse tale tall in yosemite

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welcome back everyone for the second time this week president trump is hosting another world leader at the white house meeting with israeli prime minister netanyahou right

now. as white house holding a press conference. we'll have more tonight at 5:00 o'clock. meantime coming up tonight on "eyewitness news" at 6:00 new report shows deadly crashes are on the rise. our stephanie stahl breaks down the numbers and finds out where our tri-state area stands. that's tonight at 6:00. >> well, there is new top dog in town. rumor the german shepherd won best in show award at the 141 west minster kennel club dog show. rumor has it is the pup's full name and, yes, it's a nod to singer adele's hit song of the same name. five-year-old german shepherd won last night. it's the second time german shepherd has won the honors. >> beautiful. >> that is "eyewitness news" today at noon. i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. for katie and all of us here thanks for watching. >> "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. we're always online at cbsphilly.com. >> the young and the restless is next. have a great day. ♪

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