♪ >> live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia this cbs3 "eyewitness news". developing now at noon fire on the 44th floor chopper three over the tropicana in a resort and atlantic city in atlantic city. fire on mattress this morning spread to the walls. four floors have to be evacuate the as a result and fire official say the sprinklers quickly put out the flames. trop anka employees were vac weighed for smoke inhalation but no other injuries. >> another developing story this noon we're following chaotic outside the nsa in maryland after an suv slams into barrier and shots are fired.

it all ended with several people being hurt. good afternoon i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. officials now say they have the situation under control. correspondent weja chang has latest developments. >> several bullets pierced the windshield of a black suv outside the headquarters of the national security agency. law enforcement sources say tell cbs news the driver of the vehicle tried to drive through a security gate at an entrance to the campus wednesday morning located on the fort meade camp campus. sources tell cbs news shots were fired but no one was hit. three people in the vehicle were hurt in the crash which caused the air bags to deploy. several people were taken to the hospital. the nsa released a statement saying the situation is under control and there's no on-going security or safety threat. investigators from the fbi nsa and local police are all on the scene which is just beyond this parking lot which is also a staging area for the media. the incident is reminiscent of a

deadly shooting in march 2015 when the nsa opened fire on another suv that tried to ram the gate. killing the driver and wounding the passenger. the white house says the president has been briefed on today's situation. weja chang for cbs3 "eyewitness news". back here at home police are hoping you can help them track down a gunman scene in surveillance video. take look. this video from the 5200 block of webster street just before 2:00 a.m. on february 1st. the gunman runs up to group of five young people firing a handgun. 20-year-old man and two women ages 18 and 19 were shot but survived. the gunman got away in dark colored sedan. anyone with information should call police. police are investigate a deadly crash involving a dump truck in lehigh county. chopper three over the 900 block of huffs road church road in albertus. investigators say the first responders were called to the scene around 7:00 this morning. police would only confirm that one person was killed when the

dump truck and sedan collided. chopper three over an accident involving a philadelphia schoolbus in logan at old york road and wagner avenue. police say two children from the bus and one adult from the car were hurt. but the extent of their injuries at this point is unknown. investigators you are now trying to determine what caused crash. president trump's personal tournure lead sealed that paid $130,000 of his own money to a porn actress who allegedly had sexual relationship with trump before he ran for president. michael cullen said in a statement he was not reimbursed by the trump organization or campaign for the payment to stormy daniels. watch dog group asked to investigate where the payment come. the payment was made before the 2016 election. >> the chairman of house overnight committee launching an investigation into the background check on president trump pops former staff secretary rob porter. white house said repeatedly that the porter investigation was on going. allegations that he physically

accused of two ex wives first surfaced last week. fbi testimony however shot holes in that timeline. >> it's sunny for now but storm clouds are on the morrison and some heavy rain is on its way. meteorologist katie fehlinger is tracking the rain from the cbs3 sky deck. katie, when were will he need the umbrellas. >> i think later on tonight is the next round of that wet weather moving in, jim. it's a completely bright sunny start to the afternoon here in center city physical. a couple of clouds here and there but all in all, it feels kind of mild outside and certainly with the heavy winter coat on it definitely feels comfortable to be out in the sunshine right now. so if you're still maybe making a run to get your sweetheart last minute gifts for valentine's day, the weather is going to cooperate for that. any other plans you have outside in fact. let's take a quick peek at storm scan. not going to see wet weather just yet locally we've got our a couple of clouds beginning to build in a southern most counties with time those had couldn't to lift north and as they do, we'll start to see some wet weather moving in but that actually starts to move in from the northwest so it's the northwest counties that actually

end up with a first round of wet weather later on toward nightfall. now at the moment, the temperatures are above average. you're at 48 degrees here at the airport. 47 in trenton. 47 in wilmington. very much just consistency across most of the board here take you down toward the shore points courtesy south west wind. you see that wind direction coming in with the arrow. so you're in the mid 40s along the shore points, too, and as the day goes on probably eek out another oh, say, three, 4 degrees or so. here's what you can expect the rest of the day. it's milder obviously already milder but eventually top off in the lower 50s. the wind is light but out of the southwest to help bring that warmth in. and we'll see a couple of showers start to develop later on tonight. but down the road, there's not only more rain on the way, but even a sneaky system that arrives for the weekend that bring the possibility of snow. so there's some parts about this storm that we are certain of and there are some factors that are still some question marks. i'll outline both just a little

later on. guys? >> all right, katie see you soon. thank you. this noon northeast philadelphia family is getting to see the result of a true labor of love. this is live look now at the family's newly end renovated home on violent system recipient of building hope for kids project partnership between the flyers and michael's way which works to support families of children with cancer. o'malley's five-year-old daughter maddie battling leukemia. the rest of the flyers license owned hand for the big reveal. also take part in mock party this afternoon in honor of the family. >> love park will most likely be a popular place for couples celebrating valentine's day today. this is a live look at philadelphia's iconic love sculpture. the robert indiana artwork was out of commission for year long makeover giant letters were painted red, green and purple. the sculpture made the trip back home yesterday just in time for valentine's day. today also ash wednesday christians around the world are marking the beginning of lent.

live picture from the cathedral basilica of sales saints peter and paul where ash wednesday mass has just begun. congregants will receive ashes on their forehead in the sign of cross reminding them to repent. lent lasts for 40 days. coming up a scare in the air. flight a group of airline passengers most likely will never forget. >> imagine looking out the window and seeing this the plane's engine is damaged in mid air. coming up on cbs3 "eyewitness news", the terrifying moments as passengers braced for an emergency landing. plus, believe it or not there's some time to find that perfect valentine's day gift. we'll share some unique ideas pretty romantic any time of year. stay with us. ♪

back on eyewitness nice with tragic ending to a dramatic rescues on mount hood. one diver died yesterday. sick on thes are safe. of the conditions made the effort more complicated that had to reach two groups who became stranded altitude with more than 10,000 feet with rock and ice falling all around them. >> it's a flight experience some passengers will never forget. >> flying from san francisco to honolulu the plane they were on had a serious problem. >> flight attendants telling passengers to brace during an emergency landing after engine cover blew off mid flight. the passengers heard a pd

bank on their united jet when they look outside, they saw pieces of the debris flying off the damaged engine. then the plane started shaking violently. >> you can just see everybody's faces scared and then stewardesses were amazing. they just came around to help everybody. >> they came on and said one of the engines blew out. the second right engine or whatever. >> the plane made it to honolulu safely. fortunately no one was hurt and united says it's still not clear what caused the engine cover to below off. well there's a new top dog at the west minster kennel club dog show. >> what a beautiful dog it is. take look. >> best in show at the 142nd annual west minster kennel club will be the bishon freise. >> the bijon beat out six other contenders. bragging and breeding rights pretty good prices but so is the he'll get to enjoys courtesy of the manhattan supper club.

>> flynn doesn't have a hair out of place. what products are they using. >> it's may be valentine's day. not too late to find that perfect gift for your sweethea sweetheart. >> there's ways you can treat someone special all year long. romantic gifts from our friend at physical style magazine. >> nothing like little curve ball to make the weekend interesting we've got a storm syy to lift far enough north we get in on it. the question mark remains with its final track which will dive a lot more into our full weather hit after the break but there's a system summing likely going to be bringing muss rounds of snow and probably rain, too, but the sun will return on sunday second half of the day. stay there. we'll come right back with more details on this very active pattern. ♪

communities. welcome back. ball season right around corners. phillies pitchers and catchers report to clearwater for spring training. the work out complex is buzzing with players. gabe keppler says there's a new sense of optimism despite the phillies not having made the playoffs in five seasons. wouldn't it be nice to have yet another parade down broad street? here's hoping. >> one of the the top basketball recruits in the country just committed to villanova. jew van winnerly posted this video to instagram with the caption, dreams do come true. he's a five star point guard and a stand out at hudson catholic in jersey city. he originally committed to arizona last summer but backed off a mid an fbi probe into college basketball recruiting.

he's coming to villanova. >> yeah. >> join a winning team. >> closer to home, too. >> well, about to get interesting. >> ut-oh. >> all over again. i mean, i folic we've had lost back and forth. >> lot of everything. >> i know. this seven day certainly is going to prove that as well. we've got some 30s. we've got 40s. 50s, 60s all the different variety of temperatures. >> rain, snow. >> exactly. possibility of snow, yeah. that comes this upcoming weekend specifically. that's where the question mark still remain because we are still a handful of days out. the closer we get the more fine tuned this forecast will become. a lot of times when you're this far out you've got to keep things a little bit more broad scale. but we're going to hone in on this as it gets ever closer. i'll give you the details of exactly what we know about this system. as we go through this forecast. let's just get you out the door first. here's life look for you on opposite side of the building i was on the sky deck on the south side of our cbs broadcast center. this is a overlooking broad and spring garden the shadow being cast here over spring garden street. but a nice bright blue sky out

there. you'll see some additional clouds begin to bill as the afternoon wears on here. and that is already reflected on the satellite when we look at a bit of a wider zoom more clouds beginning to billow in across the dc area and that's all headed our way with time as are these. these rain showers that are starting to pop and show little bit more intensity across the mid mississippi, the hoy river valley headed our way. note how scattered in nature these showers are. that's what it will look like when it reaches us too. let's take you all the way to 8:00 p.m. maybe even as early as 6:00 p.m. further inland in central pa, west lancaster and berks county start to see pockets of showers firing up. but it is primarily going to start in the north and west counties any showers that come through. it's too warm for anything but plain rain on this one. so it's only rain tonight. even by 11:00, 12, 1:00 a.m. you're only going looking at rain. had freezing issues in the poconos this morning that's why i'm hammering that point home. but some of these showers could be locally drenching through the overnight it will all work its

way through our area here in philly, the early morning sisters will be driving in probably with some showers but you'll probably get away without your umbrella here for the bulk of thursday. again on thursday night, however, we catch break between fronts then again on thursday night we start to see those showers lifting right back in again. this time it's a cold front that's going to be the culprit but once more it looks like it's strictly rain. jump ahead here with the schedule link it looks more like thursday night into very early friday concern. so both of those batches come through generally through the next two nights. now let's talk about the sneaky system. nothing to really track on radar just yet. we can't show you that to you but way do know about this there's going to be an area of low pressure to our south, and specifically late day saturday into sunday morning is the timing. that's what is very consistent with the modeling right now and the guidance and it right now also looks like that precipitation could be heavy. the question is, what kind of precip will it be and where does is the bulk of heavy precip going to be.

wild card is the overall storm track. that also means that your rain/snow line where you see the separation is also a bit of a question mark. that's pretty important piece of information. so as we get closer and closer that's going to become more obvious to you. we'll certainly pass on that information. in the meantime it's a nice start to the afternoon there's not too much wind, feels comfortable outside. we've got a clear view overall here of the center city skyline from palmyra cove nature park in our live neighborhood network it's a milder afternoon beginning of it here 11 degrees surplus since thins same yesterday. flirting with 50 already. modest breeze but it feels nice and as we look forward in the seven day forecast you want a taste april. i got you cover. thursday afternoon 65 degrees. not shabby, jim, loves it. but don't get used it to, my friend, by the time we hit the weekend there you go. you're at best hovering to about 40 degrees and that's with that cold air in place going to pro void a decent afternoon for

snowfall fall. back to you. >> it is of course valentine's day. if you're looking for a great gift for your sweetheart we're happy hear to help. >> from philadelphia style magazine editor-in-chief kristyn. you have some great gift to show us this afternoon. >> yes. talking about last minute. [ laughter ] >> do your shopping now. >> you're here to help us. >> i am. >> let's start with indulgence. >> so, um, chocolate and champagne i don't think it gets any better than that. chocolates from marcy on 13th street. located retail shop on 13th street. you can see all the chocolate magic, you know, happening. beautiful packaged they're known for their love philadelphia iconic chocolate and then champagne you can pop around the corner to fine wine and spirits and get your favorite. mine is sparkly rose' whatever works. >> whatever your floats your boat. >> flowers a go to on valentine's day. >> flowers from urban stems still not too late to get

flowers. so we have two varieties here classic roses and then pinks and peaches. andhen perfume is a great gift as well it's a little bit more personal i think as a gift but special. and blue mercury has couple locations in town. you'll find your fragrances you're familiar with high end brands and some a little harder to find in philadelphia. >> what if you want take a leap and go out of town and overnight stay? >> you can staycation is one option then we have another option to get further out of town. so aka university city a newer hotel. gorgeous rooms amazing amenities and best views of the city in philadelphia. they put together great package available through the weekend so you've got cocktails, monogrammed robes and one really fun thing they scower the property to fine the best places to take your valentine's day selfies. you'll have your perfect picture for your instagram with significant other. >> you need some blink. what do we have in the bling category. >> we do. we went to bernie robbins. i think jewelry is the gold star of valentine's day gifts.

they have a special because february is a american heart month. so if you purchase one of their sterling silver necklaces pro proceeds donated to the american heart association if you love time pieces we have two options. one for women mother of pearl dial gorgeous watch and a watch for men which i think is a great weekend watch. it's got sort of the a fun nile lon strap. >> if you want to splurge for your special sweetheart. >> really special someone. >> thank you rahel. >> i'm on it, jim. [ laughter ] >> we know if you're nation town for the staycation. what if you think let's go out of town, honey? >> out of town, i love atlantic city all year round. there's plenty of fun things to do all the time. tropicana just went through a huge renovation they upgraded rooms and great dining experiences and you can stay on the property gone to cuba will he bray have mow heat toes and epp panadas you'll feel like you're in mexico for the night. >> sounds good to meme thanks.

kristen. of course the latest issue of philadelphia style magazine is on the news stands right now. >> we'll b

coming up later today on "eyewitness news" at 5:00, selling the belongings of a deceased loved ones one can be tough. filled with emotions and time consuming. but now there's a new way to do that that can save you time and heart ache but it will cost you. i'll explain today at 5:00. well upstate new york college is celebrating a discovery you'd have to see to believe. a strand of george washington's

hair inside a library book. >> book at union college library dating back to 1793 contain the hair and here's why. when someone died it wasn't uncommon to give away a strand of hair a token of affection and this particular book was given to philip schuyler who served with washington in the revolutionary war. >> whiskey fans have something to look forward to. in the morning. jack daniels is partnering with world coffee to combine their favorite flavors in the cup of joe. the 100% bean coffee is infused with signature old number seven. don't worry, the blend is non alcoholic. what's the point? >> the coffee is sold at world market. >> hmm. >> i'm with you. >> i don't understand that then. [ laughter ] >> that's a key detail. >> that's "eyewitness news" 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 and we're always online at cbsphilly.com. >> the young and the restless is coming up next. happy valentine's day, everyone.

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>> previously on "the young and the restless"... >> cane: valentine's day would be perfect to renew our vows. >> lily: really? >> cane: that's our special day. >> devon: this is simone. she is a fantastic singer who we are hoping to sign to lp. >> phyllis: i'm not gonna stop until i prove she ran that scam. >> nick: i need you to look me in my eyes and tell me that phyllis is wrong. >> chelsea: if you don't know what is truly in my heart, then we probably shouldn't be together. >> victoria: billy and i, we were over a long time ago. you're the only man that i want. ♪ ♪ >> ♪ wake up, darling ♪ look into my eyes