live from the cbs broadcast center in cbs-3 "eyews news" this morning. tonight i ordered a targeted military strike i syrim where the chemical attack was launched. >> strikes on syria. we're following breaking news. we'll have reaction to the military action taking response to chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier this week. >> shot at the bus stop, a robbery ends in gunfire. and a roof ripped off a local building, vle we're live with what witnesses say they saw as powerful storm blew through our area. toed is friday, april 7, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. let's get you out the door

with a look at weather and traffic. >> welcome back. hope you're feeling better. >> thankfully. >> tgif to everyone at home, a lot of news to get to. first out on the roadways, looking pretty good. dry roadways so far? >> definitely after all of the heavy rain came through yesterday, dried out nicely, that's going to continue to be generally the theme through the better part of the day. still find residual showers, as it continues to rotate away. we zoom it out. see with a we are talking becomes the storm itself not completely gone yet, wrap around moisture comes in. notice it is to has actually turned cold enough across up-state new york, eastern pennsylvania to bring few flurries. here little too mild for that at this moment. we haven't seen too much after temperature drop off. you're starting to see that deficit go into play here where it won't be anywhere near as mild as yesterday, even despite the rain coming through. today actually going to turn a lot cooler. as the afternoon progresses, not going to rebounds all that

much from where we currently stand. you're at 47 degrees at the airport, 48 degrees atlantic city, the winds starting to pick up for us at this point. it is still generally out of the west, even southwest, with time it, will turn more northwesterly as the storm continues to rotate away. again there still be few passing showers out, there but i think the bigger story is this temperature at best talking lower mid 50's, even up in the poconos, only yet to the low 40's today, still little unsettled, but the worse is behind us. >> great. well, that's great news to start our friday. thanks so much, katie. looking outside, yes, like just talking about, so much more drive than what we've seen all week long. we'll see what ends up happening today. schuylkill moving in the westbound direction, at spring garden, beautiful shot there for you looking just as it should. we do have a lot of construction out there, however, pa turnpike past bensalem. left lane pa turnpike westbound between bensalem, willow grove two, left lanes blocked there. more construction, talking

about a lot of construction all morning. pa turnpike ramps to northeast extension, and westbound past valley forge right lane blocked. give yourself maybe extra time specially pushing toward our main hours of the rush hour. northeast extension between quakertown and lansdale, right lane blocked there. also mobile crew out there on route 55 northbound between 641 and route 42 until 6:00 a.m. talking about some fun stuff coming up in a little bit. >> thank you so much, meisha. in news, us carried out military action in retaliation for syria deadly chemicals weapons attack against civilians. the attack killed six people. >> the american missiles hit the government controlled shy rot airfields in central sewer crashes the syrian military planes that dropped the chemicals had taken off. video from the defense department shows it 60 tomahawk crews missiles, and the missiles reportedly hit their target at 8: 45 last night our time, that's 3:45 a.m. in syria. report from the syrian military says at least six

people were killed in the air strikes, also damaged over a dozen hangers, fuel depo, air defense space. announce the last night, president trump asked other countries to join him in the carnage in syria. >> tonight i call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in syria. and also to end terrorism of all kind and all times. >> meantime survivors of the chemical weapons attack in syria continue to cope with its aftermath more than zero eight people were killed, doctors and neighbors say many who fled have not yet returned out every fear of another attack. >> members of congress reacting to the air strife strike. chris coons, on the foreign relations committee, released this statement t reads in part while i'm encouraged the trump administration has felt compelled to act forcefully in syria against the assad regime, i'm gravely concerned

that the us is engaged in further military in syria without a well thought the comprehensive plan. the as cents generate more questions than answers. many syrians are watching the developments on television. a few month ago this woman made news when her family was blocked from coming to the u.s. because of the president's travel ban. late last night david spunt spoke to her by phone. >> what are you thinking right now? >> my heart is pumping really really fast. i am very, very angry, very angry, as what is happening right now. i'm very afraid for syria. i feel they're doing what they did in iraq, they're doing in syria now. >> these nerve gases were used by isis to make more weapons to kill our people. >> so you don't believe -- >> the wrong people, no. i don't believe -- you. >> don't believe. that will tell me about. that will you believe it is isis? >> i believe because if they would investigate it further,

what our army hit was a place where they are making isis and these people are making the chemical weapons, and that's why it went back on the people. they were trying to target isis. >> secretary of state rex tillerson says there is no doubt from the information collected assad is responsible for the chemical attack. stay tuned for the military attack in syria. follow cbs news throughout the day or go on line at cbsphilly.com. back here at home, two men are robbed at gunpoint this morning, second after they stepped off a septa bus in the city's feltonville section. >> this happened just after midnight at the corner of north fourth street and wyoming avenue. one of the victims told police he and his friends had stopped at atm to get cash. that's when two gunmen approached the pair, robbed one of them of $250 and opened fire. >> after he handed over the $250, that's what his friend ran, and after handing over the money, the perpetrator

still fired two shots at the victim who was running, and he was shot one time in the back. >> police returned the victim to the hospital where he is in stable condition. police right now searching for the two suspects. >> clean up crews will be picking up the pieces today at building in montgomery county after large section of the roof is ripped off. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do live in west conshohocken with more on the damage after yesterday's storms, good morning, trang. >> reporter: well, good morning, jim, rahel. definitely scary moment for the nearly two dozen employees who were inside this building when the storm came through. take a look, this is where it happened. you can see from this vantage point where part of the roof was just kind of lifted up there. now, nobody was hurt, fortunately, but several cars in the parking lot were not as lucky. >> chopper three captured a bird's eye view of the materials technology company in west conshohocken. now, without a roof. a powerful storm moved through thursday, killing the roof off of one building and tossing it across the parking lot. it landed on top of one car,

and damaged several other. >> it just come straight on through, and i guess they were lucky that no one was injured at that time of day when people are usually coming out. i'm almost positive some of us here, there would be fatalities wherehe through. >> twenty-three employees were inside the building, all got out safely. around 4:00 p.m. a security guard reported seeing tornado touchdown over the building. but lou ru, a trained storm spotter for the national weather service, says it appear straight line winds were at work. >> the tornado hit, debris tossed in many different directions, in this case, all toss in the one direction. >> strong winds can proof just as dangerous as a tornado. over in new castle county delaware paramedics tike 50 year old woman and 17 year old winds toppled a tree onto their car as they waited at intersection during the storm. and back out here where you can see the damage to this building, employees do remain

on the job because there is a second building on this campus. meanwhile, the national weather service will have to do a survey here to determine if an actual tornado touched down. for now, liver from west conshohocken, trang do, cbs 3, "eyewitness news," jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you, trang. >> new castle county police are investigate the abduction of four year old girl foundgton. eyewitnesses tell investigators they saw the four year old abducted by a sugar about 7:00 last nile plum court. police searching for the man and looking for surveillance video from the neighborhood or the park. >> school will be back in session today at gloucester county middle school, a day after student and staff were returned to the hospital with symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. officials say boiler exhaust fan failed at glassboro intermediate schooes io the building. thirty-seven student and three staff members were taken to the hospital. none were admitted. other student at the school were taken to nearby school until the situation was under

control. onc>>again at citizens bank park. >> we will tell you what's ahead as the phillies get ready for today's home opener. >> also ahead morning, helping police crackdown on distracted driving. the simple way new jersey officials hope to make the roads safer. >> and remembering don rickles, the comedy legend's friendship shared with a ico whn "eyewitness news" continues.

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weather hole up? there was some question earlier this weekment maybe sho. anyway, katie is here with another look at the forecast. i'm we i hope it is good luck for the team. i'm hoping to them ' little bit of a good luck charm. i know jim doesn't think that. it is all right, katie. >> i think you're good luck charm, i know you wore that phillies red here today. i tried to do the color blocking, got to support the team right? let's go back in time, talk quickly about the storm that just came through here, the damage it did create. in a number every places we had a lot of trees come down, roofs blown off of buildings, and whatnot. here is just very short list wee yesterday. a lot of limbs came down in salem, new jersey,, new jersey two, large trees were down, there was even a tree that block a road in villanova. yes, damage has been done. at least the storm itself is making it exit. at this tha lot of clear skies s the region, you will notice, still a lot of moisture off to the north and west at this the s

rollback in again. even though we're in the midst of nice clear sky. we're not out of the wood with the storm completely. but the worse, absolutely over. high pressure in fact will build back in for us come this weekend. you will notice, it is that classic comma shape that up get with the storms in our part of the world here. with the counter clockwise rotation, with the area of pressure, still sending in little moisture, will trickle couple every residual showers, any time you could see shower roll through, but nothing at all close to what we saw yesterday in the way of that really heavy rain. notice it has been cold enough though to produce some snow even across western pennsylvania, but it should be threat of cooler, but should be mild enough we just have to deal with stray shower here and there. now, again, we've been talking about the phillies here. and at 305, first pitc. definitely cooler, only at best talking low 50's throughout the rest of the day. it will be a little on the breezy side too. so if you are sitting specially shielded underneath the con course, that is

sometimes where wo y. i don't think you necessarily have to pack rain gear, but definitely pack your phillies sweatshirt. looking forward we warm up nicely, meisha, check it out. 70s monday, tuesday. >> i saw that, katie, that's going to be awesome. we never want the week toned end but when we see seven's on the other side, it makes us on it. ben franklin bridge moving in the westbound direction, looking really good. looking really quiet looking just as it should with the dry roadways this morning, how much, building fire in new jersey, heads up, 295 northbound at paulsboro-clarksboro, on and off-ramps are closed right now. here is a picture, you can't see this illustration of where it is, but a heads up, we have on-off ramps closed, building fire could start to slow us down maybe into the 5:00 hour if it hasn't moved out of our way. pa, left lane blocked, between bensalem and willow grove two, left lanes blocked there. more pa turnpike construction, bensalem left lane ramp

blocked. take the pa turnpike, there is a lot of construction out there. northeast extension, quakertown and lansdale, right lane blocked there. also have mobile crew out there in jersey, 55 northbound between 641 and route 42, that will be lingering out there until around 6:00 a.m. jim, back over to you. >> thank you, meisha. funeral services private for comedy legend don rickles, pass from the kidney failure at his home in beverly hills yesterday morning. among those who knew rickles well, phillies own jerry blavat. the geator and rickles became close as blavat served at his show. told cbs-3 rickles loved insults on stage but was actually very different in private. >> the lovely he is 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. >> and blavat says he will

miss his friends as expected and that there will never be another don rickles. he is survived by his couple barbara, philadelphia native, just celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary last us financial markets following the air triers strikes in syria. we'll be back in a moment.

>> back on "eyewitness news" traffic safety officials in new jersey say the problem of distracted driving is getting worse. >> distracted anchors, big reason why traffic deaths increase by 8% last year. now, that raises the state-wide average, get this, to 12 traffic deaths per week. to fight the problem, new jersey state police will expands the pounds 77 aggressive driving hotline. you can use that hotline to report distracted driving. >> up to now, at least, trying to convince people it is unsafe, they shouldn't do it, has not really been enough.

and so we're trying to get creative, approach it from a different angle. >> now, officials warn drivers caught on their phones could be fined up to $400. hey jim, have you notice that gas prices slowly are creeping back up? >> i have. >> yes, prices at the p.m. been 30 sent per gallon more than last year, and could climb another 20 to 40 sent by the time we hit memorial day and the summer driving season. so here are the latest gas prices in our area. drivers in delaware paying average of 2.28 for gallon of regular, prices are few pennies higher in new jersey, and pennsylvania has the highest local prices at 2.57 a strike in syria also having an impact on oil prices. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us live this morning from the newexchge, good mornin. so financial markets are on edge following these air strikes. what can you tell>> y. the air strike creates a lot of sun turn at this in the global financial markets. also marks the p trump's policy overseas. so most european markets are trading lower, asian stock

market are mixed and oil prices have spiked. russia and iran both have been supportive of the syrian regime, both of those countries are major oil producers, middle eapulls out ae world's oil supplies. guys, just tack being gas prices, we could expect those to g rahel. >> jill, also big economic report out due today? >> reporter: yes, so the government releases the marked jobs report this morning. we'll see if the economy had another strong month of hiring. the unemployment rate fell to 4.7% in february, those numbers come out at 8:30, and that's of course before the opening bell. so, could definitely influence the way this day goes trading wise. jim, rahel? >> i'll definitely be watching the market. >> jill, thank you. >> coming up: a big warm up is headed our way. >> katie is back to tell us about it next.

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>> welcome back everyone, things nice and clear at this point of the morning. even overhead, the clouds have really parted nicely. but our storm actually gone just yet. we still are going to have to see that wrap around moisture work its way through, the winds pick up, couple of showers along the way, i actually think you will in the the winds and the chill more than you will notice any left over wet weather. take a look at the moment, storm scan nice and clear. dow want to walk you through future weather. this will sort of reinforce the point. wall notice is that over the couple of hours leading up to 10:00 a.m., the clouds really build back in. so it may be clear now. but the clouds are really going to limit thatnd also, you have got more of a west to northwest wind flow picking up here to help trigger and feep te chill in place. now, again, any showers that moved through are very scattered, very spotty, so there is a chance that you don't see even one drop of rain here today. but, see here, to remember, it is going to be chilly. i definitely suggest having having walking out the door, won't be surprised if you see

a few showers but don't believe you will need an umbrella yesterday was a requirement, today won't be like that. we clear it promises to be really nice weather finally. the much anticipated and well deserved break that we need, is coming our way, and with perfect timing, too, looks like it will get underway through the weekends, still little breezy saturday granted but the sun will shine, meisha, and at this point, i think it is going to last us into the majority of next wee st until the 70s. >> good vitamin d, right? >> absolutely. good morning, great news on a friday morning. looking outside, what's going on? well, weaver some police activity here, the schuylkill eastbound at girard. not going to slow you down too much but absolutely an area that will as we push more deeper into the 5:00 hour give you heads up that they are there. ninety-five south at cottman looking good. looking great as you push in the southbound direction toward center city looking exactly as it should. building fire in new jersey, paulsboro-clarksboro, on and

off-ramps are closed, give you a picture overview, you can't see the building fire but i want to show you placement for that mother. also, mobile crew in jersey still out there. route 55 northbound between 641 and route 42. they will be lingering out there, driving around until 6:00 a.m. i'll let you know as soon as they're out as well. also more construction northeast extension southbound between quakertown and lansdale. that will right lane is blocked there. overall lots of construction to contends with today. dry roadways, jim, back toin thr of cbs-3, the latest on the air strikes in syria. >> back in d.c. today the senate will continue to deface nomination of judge kneel gorsuch. hear about the use of the so-called nuclear option. >> and time is ticking to file your taxes. i'll show you some commoner ores that can become costly mistakes, back at the top of the hour.

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>> tonight i orders erred a targeted military strike on the airfield in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. >> president trump orders dozen of crews missiles, fired at an airfield in syria. at this hour, the world is reacting, a mid conflicting reports of the damage left behind. >> it is approaching 5:00 here almost noon in syria. today is friday, april 7th. good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. busy morning every news, we do want to check with a start on the forecast with kate. >> i good morning, guys, thankfully today is going to be much quieter day by comparison to yesterday. in terms of precipitation, still looking for couple every stray left over showers throughout the day, right now, skies are very clear, don't let that fool you. the clouds will begin to rebuild. we will see couple of showers, i don't think that you will need an umbrella today. more than anything, you will need an extra layer, actually, offer to relatively mild start. these temperatures however will not budget very much. we only get into the low 50's

throughout the rest of the day with a passing shower, and 53 is the best we can hope for in philadelphia. in the poconos, more like 42. still little on the un settled side, meisha? >> thank you so much for that. and good happy friday to you. looking outside right now, you see flashing lights, we have police activity going on at schuylkill eastbound at girard. heads up on this. this is probably not going to slow you down right now but probably going to start to as we push deep near the 5:00 hour. heads up if you are headed out on the schuylkill around girard. also the vine, take a look at this, looking great, pushing in the westbound direction toward the schuylkill. and the eastbound side, looking good. i would say building levels ever so slightly overall okay. building fire coming up in jersey. that in about ten minute, jim, over to you. >> thank you so much, meisha. breaking overnight the united states has launched attack on syrian air base. syria's military reports at least seven people were killed. >> it is in retaliation for gruesome chemical weapons attack that killed dozens earlier this week, close