>> ♪ >> live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> right now at noon a popular south jersey restaurant goes up in flames. now the new owner is wondering whether the business will ever open again. good afternoon, i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jim donovan. the prosecutor's office has joined the investigation into how that fire started. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo has the latest. >> reporter: no breakfast town in berlin thursday morning. instead investigators filled the parking lot searching for what sparked a big fire. >> pretty my flames. >> reporter: the berlin

volunteer fire department arrived just before midnight and made quick work of the flames. but the damage was done. fire tour a hole through the roof right above the kitchen. more than a dozen employees are now out of a job. kelly read's daughter was a waitress here. >> she loves it. the customers are great. she loves coming to work every day and she's going to be really upset over this. >> reporter: thomas giannis bought the last mother's day changing the name from the white horse diner to country town diner. >> we were struggling. a lot of changes in the diner. and it's our bread and but. >> reporter: fortunately no one was injured. the business was closed at the time but now he's left wondering if he can rebuild. >> i'm going to work there. it's hard to get a job in this business. i don't know where to go from here i'll be honest. i mean, i have my mother is disabled, my father has a

heart problem and i was the only one who was keeping them on a daily basis. they with me every day. >> reporter: now the owner tells us he closed up shop here right around 10:30 last night. what happened between that time and when this fire started is all under investigation. in berlin, camden county, jan carabeo cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> well, a police standoff that forced schools to shut down this morning in gloucester township new jersey is now over. police say one man is in custody after more than 13 hours. chopper3 was over the scene at yorkshire and hampshire roads. the standoff began in sicklerville last night inside the brittany woods development. investigators say the man fired shots at officers. the standoff ended when officers stormed the home. officers say the man was injured when he was taken into custody but not by law enforcement. a woman who was inside the home was also taken in for questioning. >> today the new jersey man charged in the 2012 killing of his wife radio host april kauffman will make his first court appearance on murder

charges. dr. james kauffman set to appear around 12:30 this afternoon inside atlantic county courtroom. authorities charge him with murder on tuesday. officials say dr. kauffman arranged to have his wife april killed after she threatened to expose an illegal prescription drug ring. the murder happened almost six years ago inside of their home in linwood, new jersey. former penn state football prospect and imhotep high school football star young is in court today. he was 17 at the time of the robbery and was arrested along with wawa employee quasir wingate. >> authorities in southern california investigating the death of a university of pennsylvania student as a homicide. the body of 19-year-old blaze bernstein was found at a park in orange county on tuesday afternoon. the sophomore had gone missing last week while home on winter break. >> blaze was a brilliant

colorful charismatic man. >> investigators have not said anything about a suspect or a motive for the killing. at home a support session is happening right now at the university of penn's ben franklin room in houston hall. it's opened to anyone who wants to attend. students at penn state mourning the death of a fellow of student t19-year-old william denton was that found dead in his dorm room on monday night. his family asked penn state police to perform a welfare check. authorities are awaiting toxicology results to determine a cause ofh. >> the first of two viewings scheduled for fallen philadelphia fire lieutenant matthew letourneau begin this afternoon. it's from 4:30 to 9 p.m. a second viewing will be held tomorrow morning followed by a funeral mass. lieutenant letourneau died saturday while battling a house fire in north philadelphia. he was just 42 years old. >> well, the search for survivors continues in southern california where a deadly mudslide sent walls of

mud and debris into that communities. at least 17 people had been killed and 48 others are missing. >> reporter: the debris field from the deadly montecito mudslides covers 30 square miles. search dogs are assisting in the ongoing rescue effort but for responders time is running out. friends and family members are joining in the search as well. >> she's missing. >> reporter: aidan is desperately trying to find his mom josie. >> just going to go down the creek and see what we can find. >> reporter: he says she was swept away clinging to her home's back door. her boyfriend survived. >> he hanged on there for six hours until he was rescued in the morning calling out her name all night long. >> her bedroom is upstairs. if she just would have stayed upstairs. >> the mudslides destroyed at least 100 homes damaged 300 more mangled cars and downed power lines even seasoned

rescue teams are shocked by the magnitude of the destruction. >> we don't see this. i mean, it is complete devastation. multiple homes that are completely destroyed and still we have a lot of people that are unaccounted for. >> oh, my god, mom. >> reporter: mark oh pharaoh's cell phone video captures the moment the powerful wave of mud and debris roared downhill.>> i basy life. i ran as fast as i could made it back to my house within 30 seconds of the front of the flash flood hitting. >> reporter: this mudslide will have a long term impact even for people whose homes were not damaged. the water infrastructure here was significantly damaged and there's no time line for repair on that and the 101 freeway, well, that's still got mudslides in various locations and it's not expected to reopen until next week. carter evans, cbs news montecito. >> just incredible images there. at home temperatures are soaring. but the warmer temperatures could come with a price.

rain that could fall heavily at times. meteorologist kate fehlinger is live on the cbs3 sky deck to tell us when we'll need our umbrellas. >> it's pretty much tomorrow. tomorrow is the time frame where you're going to really want to have your rain gear ready to go and we'll have lot more detail a little later in the show about when the heaviest rolls through but in short, it looks like a soggy finish to the week. a mild one, home. granted it is still jacket weather for sure but a very comfortable and cozy in this parka out here on the deck and over the next couple days we'll be able to get rid of that at least for the next two days but very cold air eventually works its way back in. there's a lot of just rollercoaster riding to be done yet as we move forward in this forecast. but we are in that proverbial calm before the storm right now. still a lot of clouds overhead represented in the live neighborhood network where we do still have a a lot of clouds. 46 degrees currently. virtually to wind to speak of but still a little bit of snow pack left on the side of the babe diamond there. looking a the storm scan though it's just all clear.

the only activity you'll see is on the satellite here today but with time that does change and again we'll get to that. when you look at the temperature change you can understand why it feels so balmy even minus the sunshine breaking through these clouds. you're 14 as many as 20 degrees warmer than it was this same time yesterday. here in the city it's only seven but hey, you're still flirting with 50 on january 10th. that's not bad or 11th. is it the 11th today? 56 in atlantic city and the wind is pretty calm all things considered. looking to are ward again i expect that we are going to eventually seal some wet weather move in but that won't happen until well into tonight so, more on the timing with all of this as we progress but the snow melt in the meantime with this warmth is continuing. i don't see any leftover snow mounds left on the cbs3 sky deck, for example, so that continues and the more that melts the better because there's a side impact potentially of some flooding which we'll also discuss as we take a closer look at this upcoming storm. guys. >> all right, katie we'll check back with you soon.

thank. >> the sixers gearing up for a big matchup overseas. the team takes on the celtics today at 3:00 p.m. our time in london. >> joel embiid and the squad worked out in london after touring the city as a group. the sixers have been playing well recently having won four straight games. they are now 19-19. the first place celtics have won six in a row. they have the best record in the east at 33-10. >> and the eagles are also heading over the pond. the birds took to twitter this morning to announce they'll be facing the jacksonville jaguars in london next season. the game will be played at wembley stadium on either october 21st or 28th. thisl eagles' first ever regular season game outside of the u.s.a. >> ♪ fly eagles fly on the road to victory ♪ >> e-a-g-l-e-s eagles. >> that rendition of the eagles fight song is courtesy of the folks over at the valley forge tourism and convention board. eagles fans are getting pumped up to cheer on the birds as

they prepare to take on atlanta for this saturday's playoff game at the linc. >> complete with a real eagle. >> coming up prince harry and meghan markle will tie the knot in may. >> but it seems harry still has not picked his best man. will it be brother william? well, hear what william has to say about his brother's big day next. >> and the flu is spreading rapidly across the country with more cases so far than this time last year. we'll tell you who is at most risk of getting the flu this year when "eyewitness news" at noon returns. >> ♪

>> welcome back. the cdc says the flu is spreading rapidly across the country causing more than a hundred deaths so far this season and it could reach epidemic levels. the virus is widespread from 46 states. officials say an aggressive strain of the virus is making it more difficult to contain. this strain tends to hit children and seniors harder than others. >> unfortunately it can cause a lot of complications. children can get severely sick actually need to be in the icu >> flu vaccines have been less effective in fighting h3n than previously strains. experts recommend everyone over six months should get a flu shot if you haven't already. >> president trump will head to the doctor's office for his first known checkup since taking office. the white house says the president's physical will take place at the walter reed medical center in maryland. a physician who has also treated president obama while in office will conduct the

exam and report the results. the checkup comes amid claims from a tell all book that raised concerns about the president's health and mental fitness. the president has long maintained that he is healthy. it didn't take long for author michael wolff's new book about the trump's white house to reach number one. "fire and fury" inside the trump white house has topped the new york times and amazon best seller lists. if you're looking to get your hands on a copy instantly you may want to buy one digitally. amazon says hard cover copies of the book usually ship in two to four weeks. >> that was released just last week. >> on the hot list there. the latest on the royal wedding. prince william says he is still waiting for his brother to ask him to be best man. >> he will. he will. prince harry is of course marrying american actress meghan markle in the spring. prince william made the joke during a vision sit to a london charity in recently launched an effort called the best man project. >> best man project.

that relationship that you have -- [laughter] >> can be sensitive. >> traditionally royal weddings don't actually end include a best man instead the groom picks supporters. he'll be his number one supporter. >> keeping his options opened. >> ureter ribble. well, still ahead on "eyewitness news," honoring dr. martin luther king jr. >> this year marks the 50th anniversary of his assassination. we'll show you how philadelphia's young artist community is celebrating his life. katie. >> and jim as we get close to our upcoming weekend we get also that much closer so a very, very big turn around with the thermometer readings, with the weather that's moving through. a storm system is going to be ushering in rain even as late as into saturday which we'll time out for you com right behind it comes this invasion of frigidly cold air. so, it may feel like spring for now. it will not last. it will be like winter come sunday.

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>> well check out this apocalyptic cloud. everyone rushed to photograph the natural phenomenon. they're very common in that part of the world. experts say they could happen just about anywhere if the conditions are right. >> these satellite images from nasa illustrate just how cold things got in new england recently. the images show nantucket sound and buzzard's bay completely iced over.

the frigid weather caused ice to form in rivers and bays that rarely freeze. we'll see icebergs floating down the delaware. >> now that we had a little bit of a thaw take place now we see the river flowing. it doesn't just look like sheet of ice. with that comes its own set of problems because even though we're thawing out we've got snow that's got to melt away that's going to drain away, then you've got the ice that could if the river tightens up enough it could get jammed up as it's trying to melt. with all of those things comes this minor risk of some flooding. at the moment there are no al advisories or watcs or warnings locally anyway. it's more of a concern in those spots we just mentioned a little bit further to our north put it's still something with the kind of heavy rain that's coming through we'll keep a close watch on. let's take a really nice wide view. it's somewhat of a dear reday but if you stepped outside you know how nice and comfortable it is right now. we have a system starting to get its act together but even

sun trying to break throunow. we don't have any wet weather in the forecast until at least later tonight so it should be smooth sailing in terms of terms of the weather any way for the typical evening commute. looking at storm scan this very wide zoom we have a storm starting to get its act together. at the moment it looks like a huge mish mosh of different rounds of precipitation. what you'll notice is the lines of rain starting to move from south to north. that's that southerly push that's bringing in very warm air, very cold on the backside of this storm that's developing, too, so you've got snow breaking out that way and also when i show you the temperatures, my goodness is it cold in the wake of this. here's the current snow cover. it really is melting nicely. even since yesterday. most of new castle county is in the clear at this point. as i mentioned earlier there's not one leftover mound on our cbs3 sky deck so that's good. but you do still have some of it out here special in the places that got hit hardest with that last snowstorm. you still have upwards of three to 6 inches on the

ground in parts of ocean and monmouth county. now, forecasted rain amounts on top of that continued snow melt, that's where thel for pro. i think more than anything this will end up being big fat nuisance of a storm system but one things great about this is that it's going to help wash the other mess from in salt the roads but you do end up with at least an inch across the region as a whole and some of the model indications are that we're going to pick up more than that. so, this is one computer model's indication of how much we'll see. the general idea is that it's about a one to 3-inch swath of rain that moves in. so i'm going to start you all the way at 11:00 p.m. tonight. by this point kate is goin t have something to track on storm scan3. make sure you check in with her, see if there's any changes to this forecast but as it currently stands i think you're for the most part going to end up seeing rounds of rain come through with brief breaks along the way any time tomorrow so we're all back on the air dark and early at 6:00 a.m. i'll have something to track too. into the late morning early afternoon there's more to

track and if this rain continues to come in over the i-95 corridor that's a very sluggish afternoon commute and you'll have to deal with ponding and such even if the rain is not falling from the sky. 4:00 p.m. notice it's still here, even later in the evening, 6:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m., 9 p.m. it continues until as early as late saturday. that means there could be enough to my exacerbate some flooding with the snow melt that will continue. so, let's jump it ahead here. starting to get the wrap but i did want to show you the temperatures. 48 is the current temperature in philly but take a look at how cold it is in the wake of this. 10 right now in minneapolis. you really know where that front is starting to push through here but as we take a look at our seven-day, yeah, saturday may look warm at face value but we're going to hit that value of 57 probably around midnight and then it only just gets colder and colder but at least it dries out. >> just a taste of spring. >> don't get used to it. [laughter] >> thank you katie.

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>> coming up later today on "eyewitness news" at 5:00 more and more businesses are making a switch that could leave you out in the cold if you still shop with cash much find out why banning bills is becoming so popular and why some say it's a bad idea. finally at noon today, there's a baby boom happening in singapore. >> brand new babies from some endangered species are the big 2018 attraction at the zoo: the 24th pygmy hippo to be born at the facility. the zoo is one of the only successful facilities to breed the species. >> wow. >> two baby electric blue geckos hatched just before the new year and critically endangered female orangutan and baby asian small clawed otters are also thriving there. >> something about otters. >> i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. for katie and all of us here thanks for watching. >> the young and the restl

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