he center philadelphia this is cbs "eyewitness news" at 11:00. the philadelphia morning ten years never seen anything like this. >> at 11:00. working through the night. 20 hours had later. firefighters are still on the scene of a fierce and destructive fire in old city. and this evening, they fear the building may collapse. good evening, i'm natasha brown, thank you so much for joining us, 400 firefighters responded to the apartment building at 3rd and chestnut streets today after flames began earlier this morning first responders were forced to evacuate, more than 160 people hours after they tamed the flames the building continued to smoulder forcing firefighters to set up a possible collapse zone, joel holden is in old city with more on how damage is impacting the tire block. joe. >> reporter: nash, and the perimeter for this collapse as

they sets it up just out of protection stretches cross chestnut street basically where the firefighter was walking. i was speaking to some personnel. one gentleman tells me he's been here since 8:00 this morning, the second are rolling in on second day's shift out here, some guys were already here yesterday. they are now back again for another tour, they continue to douse the building, looking for hot spots, there is one remaining hose left charged the hot spots high above high grounds on the revoloof making the fire is extinguished. the fire department ordered a collapse zone being set up >> we're taking all precautions. >> the first reports of fire inside a row of first floor restaurants and upper floor condos and apartments went i was the around 3:30 sunday, as

tenants escaped, firefighters were still able to access parts of the building. but that wouldn't be the case for long. plumes of brown smoke began to roll out >> i looked down and i could see smoke billowing out from the ground level restaurant >> that convinced him to get out and in matter of minutes heavy erupted pushing firefighters back. a handful of them had to hurdle out first floor windows. >> i was in bed. >> chris young owns the little lions, because basements are connected it's likely his prep area, offices and buildings utilities are under water. reopening any time soon is an question. >> we got 80 people depending on us for their lively hoods, we're hoping that it's shorter than longer, it could be two day, to years. >> reporter: on the other side.

best western independence park was also evacuated. many of the displayed took shelter in the museum of the american revolution. >> at the high point we had reports of 160 people that were evacuated. >> reporter: it's unclear if sprinklers worked. many believe smoke detectors were yet another drill in this series of old buildings, a cause won't be investigated internally until the buildings are determined to be structurally sound. and we're back live, and when we're talking about structural integrity, take a look at this sidewalk here. that is some suspected damage from all of the water that has been placed on these buildings. of course-to stop the spread of fire. right now. firefighters i'm told two of them were treated for minor injuries. they were taken to a local hospital. they have already been released as far as all of the people who had to escape in the early morning hours from these apartment buildings and the nearby hotel, they made it out

without incident, the cause and the origin will both have yet to be determined. reporting live in old city, joel holden cbs3 "eyewitness news" >> thank you. stay with "eyewitness news" of course, as this story continuous to develop. remember we were not on television you can get the latest on the website cbsphilly.com. for the first time since the university of pennsylvania student place bernstein was murdered his parents are back on campus and speaking to "eyewitness news" news, janie and gidian came all the way to see the impact their son had on campus. the 19-year-old sophomore was killed in orange county in january allegedly lie a high school classmate. his parents say his legacy will be his kindness >> we want people to feel good and he wanted to help people. he was true al philanthropist.

>> he was something he was raised with. it's a jewish term for repairing the world. >> the bernstein's say this visit penn loud them to see in quality in many of their son's formally collar mates. philadelphia police are investigating a homicide in the east germantown section of the city. officers responded to the 500 block of brenton street after shortly after 5:00 a neighbor found had a man collapsed in a delaware driveway with a gunshot wounds. the victim was in his 30's and pronounced dead. more gun vine street to tell you about in bensalem township on before us bristol pike. police are sill searching for a suspect in this case. new at 11:00 tonight crews are, woulding now to remove a philadelphia fire truck that

stuck in a massive hole in the street. it happened here in the kensington section of the city on the 3300 block of collins street. just before 9:00. the truck appears to have run over a metal plate sitting over some road construction in that area. luckily no one is injured. now, turning to weather, it's been a pretty we would weather weekend for us, first snow, then major warmup, it's the beginning of what could be some of the warmest days we've seen so far this winter. let's get over to lauren casey in the weather center tracking this rise in temperature, i'm happy to see them going up. >> aren't we all? the snow we had, where did it go, it's gone, temperatures we were right around average 46 degrees so not incredible warmth all of that sunshine and i think the lack of snow felt so nice to get out and about. we started at 33, and we're going on a warming trend now, 52 degrees our high temperature tomorrow for president's day

good idea to pack the umbrella or rain coat. next several days we'll see the big ridge in the jet stream overtaking the eastern last of the country opening the door to all unseasonally warm air offer to the south, potentially record high temperatures on tuesday and on wednesday. just how high will the temperatures climb? i'll have the answers coming up in a few. natasha. >> thank you so much. survivors of the deadly school shooting in parkland florida are tired of waiting to adults to do something about gun control. so they've announced a nationwide demonstration, correspond adrian diaz tells us more about what the students hope to accomplish. >> these students some too younging to to the polls are using voices as their vote. teen after teen.

survived wednesday's shooting addressed this rally saturday. the people and the government who were voted into power are lying to us. and us kids need to be the only >> students like emma gonzales want to stop mass shootings with stricter gun laws hoping to achieve what adults before them couldn't. >> at shame but it's fallen on the kids >> the generation taking a stand on social media. and on the streets. even staging a walk-out at a nearby florida school on friday. >> i believe this is a tipping point. >> bob wise's daughter was one of six students killed by a gunman in 2014. >> a lot of times in the wake of a shooting. of people are all upset, and motivated for about five, six days. this is the first time i've ever seen people take to the street the >> millennials will make the difference, because we have so much information at our fingerprints, we are releptless, we do not let things go

>> why is a kid more relentless than an adult >> because an adult can be swayed by money, kids are swayed b boy feelings. this week, they plan to go to the state capitol to deliver petitions calling for a ban on assault weapons, adrian y >> living to up to the hype >> until i was faced with this, i didn't understand it. and i totally do. and i understand that everybody needs support. >> take strides for autism it's a mission behind the 10th annual run and wall in sea aisle city.

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in one year again until 2037. that is what a blue moon s as we get a live look at center city, we're a little bit chilly, 34 but not to you bad for february night, eastward winds around three miles per hour, not too much of a windchill impact. they will stay late through the overnight. stormscan 3 looking a lot different than it was 24 hours ago. nice and quiet. few passing clouds with high pressure regaining control but of course we had the winter weather mess and the snowfall up to 14.6 inches we've had 18 days so far with a trace more of snowfall recorded at philadelphia international, most of those days were just a trace but still, 18 quite a lot of days to see the flakes flying and right now we do have the flakes lingering. but as we head into the next several days that is going to be

melting away. with a big taste of spring in store but temperatures with upper 20's in the poconos, same case in the lehigh valley, we're at 28 in millville, 30 right now in atlantic city but this is our next air mass, off to our south, an unseasonably warm air mass, that is going to continue to move its way off to the north and east, and into our neck of the woods as we head into tuesday and hang around into wednesday as well for our forecast high temperature tuesday, 71 that would break the record of 70 set back in 1939, and another record breaking. and 72 way back, a few passing clouds, down to 33 and then or our day, above average, you'll start off draw. high temperature topping at 52. >> future weather nice and quiet for monday morning, commute skies clouding up as we push toward midday and we start to

see shower activity moving in from west to east crossing i95. showers around and as we head to 5:00 showers scattered in nature. you might run into one of those on your evening commute and wet roadways as you head to the second half of evening, the rain moving on out, dry conditions for our record warmth on tuesday, and wednesday, we will break out into sunshine, much more unsettled as we head towards the second half of the week with a stalled out weather pattern, rain chances thursday, friday, saturday and sunday were you the the coolest high temperature, 49. so >> to the left it's warmer. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. lauren, lesley, the all-star game. >> how did joel embiid do against the best player, another flyers goalie goes down with an injury but a rookie comes

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145. coming up next in the zone, will flyers gm hextall make a move at the trade deadline be wip john marks will be joining me, talking hoops and the veterans they're reporting for spring training tomorrow. in a few minutes. >> looking forward to it. thank you, we appreciate it. still ahead, a high price the heist >> thieves knew what they were doing or got lucky? at rare original

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