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♪ tonight i ordered a targeted maryland strike on the air field in syria breaking right now, the president responds. the u.s. military launches missile strikes in retaliation for a chemical attack. president trump called on other nations to join the united states in seeking an end to the blood shed in syria. i can ukee washington. i'm nicole brewer. david spunt is live in the cbs3 stat center with the details on the attack. david? >> president trump just made a statement from his home in palm beach where he had dinner with chinese president xi jinping, cbs3 pentagon correspond david martin is reporting tonight that the air base attack is the same

air base where the plane that dropped chemical weapons earlier this week took off. we want to take a look at that map. show you where this happened. it's north of devoe mass kiss south of the site of the chemical attack earlier this week where you saw those folks. war ships in the mediterranean sea fired 59 to my hawk missiles located near the men, women and children killed, a nerve gas dropped on to the local village. that upset president trump very much. he's made several comments about this, other members of the white house as well, including nikki haley. tonight the news came as a surprise to many when the missiles hit just before 9:00 p.m. no child of god should ever suffer such horror. tonight, i order a targeted military strike on the air field

in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. it is in this vital national security interest of the united states to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. there can be no dispute that syria used chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention and ignored the urging of the u.n. security council. >> i just heard from members in congress, more on that coming up in our second block. also finished an interview with the syrian american who's watching this unfold locally. she supports the syrian president. says the united states is making a dangerous mistake. we'll have more on that in just a few minutes. reporting live, david spunt,

cbs3 "eyewitness news." thank you. we're also following tonight significant storm damage in montgomery county. take a look at this video. a roof ripped off a building and trees toppled after powerful storm brew through the area. eyewitnesses are telling us what they saw just moments before the storm hit. alexandria hoff is live in the west conshohocken with the details. alex? >> let's talk about how powerful these winds were. it was enough to tear this roof off of this building, then toss it into the back corner of this parking lot. believe it or not there is a car underneath of that rubble. surrounded by plenty more. employees comb the parking lot of the materials technology company in west conshohocken after the roof of their building was torn from the base. debris crashing down on to cars. >> this comes straight on through. we were lucky that no one was injured at that time of day when

people usually are coming out. >> reporter: none of the 23 employees inside at the time were injured. around 4:00 p.m., a security guard reported seeing a tornado touch done >> i probably saw about 12 tornados. >> reporter: lou travels the country following tornados and contributes data as a volunteer for the national weather service. while it may have appeared tornadic, he says this likely was the result of straight line >> if the tornado hits debris gets tossed in many different directions. in this case, it's one direction, for the most part. >> reporter: no matter the source, high winds are devastating, around 4:00 in new castle delaware, a 50-year-old woman and a 17-year-old male were transported to the hospital after a tree crashed on to their car while at an intersection. both are in stable condition. just as intense as its arrival was its departure. chopper 3 caught a rainbow from overhead. as this storm signed off. some of the oh witnesses out here were adamant they saw a

tornado. of course, for that to be confirmed, the national weather service would have to perform an official survey. reporting live in west conshohocken, alexandria hoff cbs3 "eyewitness news." as we know, this storm was fast moving, packed a punch. let's go to meteorologist kate bilo who's giving us a closer look at the areas that saw the most damage >> this system is a large slow moving system but the actual heavy rain and storms came through very quickly so that was good news. cleared it on it this evening, the heaviest rain is off to the north. a few scattered showers mainly for portions of south jersey and delaware. i want to take you about to radar snapshot. this was some of the worst of the within and rain we saw this afternoon moving through the city of philadelphia and take a look at this little hook shape here. this right over conshohocken and west conshohocken, villanova area, that's where we saw that damage and right about the time we saw that damage occurred, so this is likely the cell that crossed that area ripping the roof off the building here.

right along the blue route there 476. slowdowns and reports of damage as the system went through, we're seeing again these scattered showers, nothing severe out there. few showers along the atlantic city expressway. reports of a large tree blocking montgomery avenue in villanova, greenville delaware, a tree on to a car, two injured. salem numerous trees down. it has been a rough day storm-wise, clearing out but it will turn cool and windy, i'll have the first pitch forecast for the home opener coming up. an update to a story we brought to you on tuesday, surveillance video showing a man approaching and touch an baby in a stroller. the baby's parents say the incident was not an attempted abduction. the video from a center city duncan donuts near 15th and

locust was released by police. they were looking to speak with the parents after identifying the man in the video. a husband and wife accused of gifting their young daughters to a colt-like figure have entered pleas on child endangerment charges. she pleaded guilty today. her husband, david entered a no contest plea. the pair got financial help from lee kaplan after they broke with the amish faith. couple, nine daughters and two grandchildren were living with him. six of the couples daughters were sexual assaulted by kaplan and one daughter had two children with him. kaplan's trial is set to begin next month in bucks county. the murder trial of eric frein will continue tomorrow. it was briefly delayed after he was hospitalized. officials say he fell and hit his head while brushing his teeth, he has pleaded not guilty

in the 2014 shooting death of state trooper corporal brian dixon also accused of wounding alex doug list. he was captured after a seven-week put manhunt. student were rushed to the hospital with symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. a boiler exhaust fan failed at glassboro school. they were taken to the hospital, none were admitted. other students at that school were taken to another nearby school until the situation was under control. school will be back in session tomorrow. baseball is back in south philly, the phillies will take the field tomorrow for their home opener, the phillies will play at citizens bank park against the washington nationals. from stadium employees to every day fans, it's time. >> probably have a bunch of young guys, they come out and play hard every time >> in addition to the home opener, john mayor will perform

at the wells fargo center across the street. traffic expected to be heavy tonight we're remembering legend comedian don rickles who died at the age of 90. among those who knew him well, the geeter, philadelphia's own jerry blavat, blavat worked as rickles's valet in the 50's, chauffeuring him to clubs. the two developed a close bond, of your blavat spoke with us and said rickles loved the insults on stage was different in private. >> the loviest guy completely opposite of what you would see on stage. he was humble. he was beautiful to everybody. i mean, when he got off the stage. it was a different don rickles >> blavat went on to say he will miss him dealerly and there will never again be another don rickles, he's survived by his wife barbara ally is a philadelphia native and the couple just celebrated their

52nd wedding anniversary. as we continue to follow breaks news, the u.s. military launches missile strikes on syria in retaliation for the chemical attack earlier this week >> david spunt returns with reaction from local politicians and also an interview with a syrian woman who now calls pennsylvania home. . curb side changes why the city of philadelphia is pulling the plug on parking spots for electric cars taking a trip to a mediterranean paradise, but you don't need to get on a plane. how love is bringing diverse flavors to delaware county the winds of change, a live look at downtown bethlehem. kate is tracking a cool-down when "eyewitness news" continues. don. a philadelphia icon, back home, fresh off a national championship win. don't miss a heart warming welcome for dawn vanessa: i got hurt and was given painkillers. by the time the drugs ran out, i was addicted. it happened so fast.

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we continue to follow breaking news tonight. this is our first look at the u.s. airstrike on syria. president trump ordered u.s. war ships to launch nearly 60 tom hawk crews missiles had a syrian government air base in response to the chemical attacks on civilians earlier this week. "eyewitness news" david spunt. >> we just got a statement from delaware democratic senator chris coons, he says we'll i'm encourageed that the trump administration has felt compelled to act forcefully in syria. i'm gravely concerned that the united states is engaging in further militarily and syria without a well thought-out comprehensive plan. frankly, the president's actions today generate more questions than answers. we also heard something similar from congressman brendan boyle he wants congress to authorize

any type of war. many syrians living in the united states are watching their home country under attack from a television set from their phone, to computer. this is the case with sarmad, asally, she made news when her family was blocked from coming into the united states because of president trump's travel ban. i spoke to her about 20 minutes ago by phone. >> what are you thinking right now >> my heart is bumping really fast. i am very, very angry. very angry at what's happening right now. i'm very afraid for syria because i feel they're doing what they're -- what they did in iraq they're doing if syria now. these nerve gas were used by isis to make more weapons to kill our people. >> i don't believe they're doing it no >> you don't believe that? tell me about that? you you believe that it's isis? >> i believe because if they would have investigated further what our army hit was a place

where they shall making isis and these people are making the chemical weapons, and that's why it went back on the people. they're trying to t find many d opinions from syrian aca close she supports president bashar al assad in syria continues to believe the nerve gas is the work of isis, urges the united things said this several times down, what happened was 0 to 100 in a matter of minutes. ukee? >>nk throughout the night. stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of the u.s. maryland attack in syria. our morning team will hav devel starting at 4:30 tomorrow morning. the city of to philadelphia is pumping the brakes on parking for electric cars. today, city councilo place a more tore yum on parkin

stations. council said the more tore yum was needed to come up with a better plan to provide parking and charging stations, electric car owners say this isw to efforts to reduce air pollution. >> the air got cleaned set up a little bit with the rain. >> it was not a pretty day, kate. >> this was pretty awful pretty much from start to finish. we had heavy rain around this morning. heavy thunderstorms this afternoon, now, things are clearing out, and tt we head t weekend. we got a long stretch of sunshine to tell you about headed into the weekend in the seven-day forecast. let's go ahead and take a look outside. right now, out of breath, we're running got food in the studio, vittoria brought this in, it's going to be beautiful and we're all in a good mood. let's go ahead and take a look at center city from sky cam 3,

stormscan 3 showing a few showers here and there, we're seeing those move through south jersey and delaware as we start to zoom in. struggling to breathe here. couple of showers moving through the area. nothing all that bad right now as we widen out though. you can really see the swirl of showers and clouds across portions of the great lakes and that is moving out of our area finally as we head through the next couple of days here. for tomorrow, we do have a couple of scattered showers, couple of snow showers as well across the north and west suburbs. into the poconos and again you can see those instability showers as we head through the afternoon hours. we're seeing problems through the day, possibly a couple of scattered showers right through that phillies home opener. headed into your friday, again, things do eventually clear out through the weekend. so that good news for us. saturday we see the sunshine return. and sunday, the sunshine will return as well. got the baby-sitting on my

lungs. 52 degrees for the first pitch, 3:05 p.m., cool and windy with a stray shower here or there. jet stream pattern shows the cold air for friday. but notice the difference, headed into the weekend. jet stream lifts to the north and we've got a nice surge of warm air starting saturday into sunday, and especially for monday and tuesday. as we head to next week, temperatures headed up to the 70's and it is going to feel like a nice surge of springtime weather that will be feeling starting especially on sunday. for your saturday, it's still a little breezy, sunday winds die down and practically perfect. we're checking all the boxes here. you can see through the overnight hours, temperatures will be dropping. 47 degrees overnight, tomorrow just a stray shower, cloudy, it's windy, but take a look at this eyewitness weather seven-day forecast, and you can see major improvements here. saturday, 58. sunday, 67.

we're into the 70's next week. i apologize. >> it's all right. >> if ever there was a time when i wish i could do weather. i wanted to run in there and save you >> you and baby girl take care. >> we talked about that before, especially when you're run >> at least we got better weather on the way. >> there you go. >> trooper. thanks so much. it's time for taste with tori, and on the menu a mix of mediterranean and middle eastern cuisine >> at this byob in delaware county it's love that brings worlds together. ♪ . >> reporter: sweetness of spices as you safer the place. it's a mediterranean in media where big flavors from around the world are layered in delicious detail like their chicken, watch them sit and fizzle before getting sliced to order >> the flavors are so good.

universal. that's really what made that great. >> reporter: owners jason and natalie are from different worlds but met by fate in florida. >> a long story ruined. in the humid of tampa, i had to go to the mall and get a new phone >>ftmall, his future came calling >> that was 11 years ago.t of t unique kind of background that we both have. i'm an irish and english and polish kid from delaware county and he's a iraqian jewish girl >> bringing jason home showed him how to cook more roccon food. >> for something that looks so bold, it is so dic delicious. >> they should serve this with a shovel >> falaffel.

>> not only are they a match made in heaven, there are these flavors >> even their size. >> spicy sweet, seasoned, all of this amazing. >> reporter: there's a reason why desert rose will have you wanting more. >> it's because you two present it with love. i could hug the table. there's so much love in here. thank you so much. thank you. >> i'm going to take the table with me. >> i couldn't take the i did g. you got to pick up your saliva and put it back in your mouth, look at this stuff, this is amazing. >> two hands to handle that. indeed. >> you look good eating it.

you somehow look elegant. >> i trying to delicate >> i was eating some of that before i walked on. >> dipping into the hummus. >> let's talk sports. the thing that philly icon dawn staley enjoys the most and the shorthanded sixers try to run with the bull. next in

tough spot for the sixers, they have lost five players for the season, and they're limping into a match-up against the bulls. south philadelphia we go, sixers trailing by double digits, stoukis, what up? finishes with ten and sixers trail by eight. in fourth quarter, jimmy butler to nicola >> and serving up and nick cola with game high 22, sixers lose by 12, they lost five straight.

here's brett brown. >> we really had a hard time scoring. you'd look at the results defensively and i'm fine with all of that. it's just when you go 24 for 49 in the and seven for 33 for the three point line, it's tough winning basketball games, nba games when your percentage is that poor. >> on baseball, the phillies host the nationals tomorrow in the home opener. two-time max scherzer is pitching for washington, vince velasquez gets the ball for the phils. clay buchholz making his debut. looks good early on but fell apart in the fourth, he allowed four runs in five innings. adam morgan on the mound. game tied and michael pinch hitting and going big, the phillies couldn't recover and lose 7-4.

ryan howard a new gig, he signed a minor league contract with the braves. if he still in the minor, the 37-year-old will play against lehigh valley in july. last year he batted 196 with 25 homers. before this season, philadelphia native dawn staley was already an all-time great olympic gold metals and a spot in the basketball hall of fame. this past weekend she took another leap by coaching south carolina to a national title. today, staley was honored by her alma madder. students, faculty and other philly legends were there to great her. her resume is beyond impressive, she's most proud of opportunities like this. >> to hear them cheer taking the pictures to capture this moment, that's what gets me, you know,

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♪ will you? ♪ christian tradition teaches that the pope is the keeper of the keys to heaven while every other earthly key in the vatican is kept by a man you're about to meet. in this report from seth doan. >> reporter: it's one of the busiest tourist sites on earth. but at 5:00 a.m. gianni crea has it much to himself. his job here is as ancient as these tools. he's a clavigiro, or key man. he and his team are responsible for opening 300 doors in the vatican museums every morning. there are nearly 2,800 keys in his charge. he's the first in the famed gallery of maps.

>> [ speaking foreign language ]. now it's only for you. >> reporter: "yes, it's emotional to be in the museum all alone," he said. "i'm privileged in this job." the doors he opens reveal masterpieces. quintaricchio and michelangelo. >> this is van gogh. >> your job would be the envy of many art historians. "i have the chance to appreciate some of the most important pieces of art in the world," he said. sometimes the doors themselves impress. "this is the oldest key," he explained. "it's from the 1700s. key number 401." the most important key, though, does not have a number, and it's kept inside a sealed envelope. as the lights came on inside the sistine chapel, we saw how for him this is far more than a job.

"it's extraordinary. it's incredible," he marvelled. "i cannot say anything because this artwork speaks for itself." as the sun rose he let us peek at bmt rimante's spiral staircase. the doors were open and the museum was ready. does this ever get mundane? "no, absolutely not," he insist. "every day i discover something new here, a work of art, a painting, something." the vatican museum sees more than 6 million visitors a year, but no one gets to see it quite as gianni crea does. news,atica city. and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you the news for others check back a little bit later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new yorkcity, i'm tony duh coup'll. ♪

test. late-breaking news. the u.s. launches a military attack o syra n civilians. and the trump administration says assad has to go. chairman devin a mishandling intelligence drops out of the russia investigation. >> the h under the cloud that had been created. republicans change senate rules to put gorsuch on the supreme court. the attorney general the id that we're going to be a better place if we