>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> we give it all to carson. >> in danger of collapse, this building from old estimate i being watched closely, more than 24 hours after a fire forced evacuation of more than 160 people, we're live on the scene with the very latest. >> your job is to protect us and our blood is on your hands >> sending a strong message to lawmakers, how teen survivors of school shooting in floored are now vowing for tougher gun legislation. >> snow one day, 70s the next. today winter warm up in store for the work week. we could even make a run at breaking a record. well, today is monday, february 19, president's day, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. let's take a check of the roads and the forecast.

>> so i actually walked past that fire in old city, because that far lots of road closures still in place and completely closed and affecting mass transit as women. talking all about that. >> big problem, at least the weather should cooperate for the most part. few scattered are likely later today. already see some of the clouds beginning to build, thinner overcast for us in the last hour, starting to spread in, but you're going start the morning off on a quiet note. later today that any showers will come through. we would not be talking about the heavy precipitation like we saw over the weekend thankfully, certainly it is getting way too warm for anything but just a few rain showers, now, currently, we did have some precipitation coming in, at this point probably have a mixed bag down to the 20's mount pocono, wilmington checking in below freezing, 37 by comparison at the airport, but regardless, walk out the door with the warm winter coat later today though we begin this rebounds, up to 52 degrees, that's also when couple of rain showers are scheduled to cross through specially northern counties,

so the umbrella not the worse idea second half of the day but all-in-all again by comparison to the weekends, no big deal. >> i was actually surprised walking out the door, felt silly, i thought it was going to feel warmer. >> oh, it is coming. >> i no, i know. all right, katie, thank you so much. happy monday day. looking outside we do have accident here 309 north at paper mill road. right lane compromised, flash being lights, still too early to have any back backups, 59 near cottman looking very, very quiet this morning, exactly what we want to see on busy monday morning, we know it will get busy little later. this is where the fire is and how it will affect this morning walking out the door. chestnut street closed between second and third street. towel to use alternate, market street will be your best bet. second and third streets are closed just heads up on. that will actually happened sunday morning, i walked past it later on in the more evening hours, still working on it, also because of the septa bus routes are detoured around the fire area. just heads up on. that will route five, nine,

17 it, one, 33, 42, 48 and 57, jim, back to you. >> thank you shall meisha. more than 24 hours after massive filed in old city philadelphia, firefighters still on the scene. >> fire continues to smolder, investigators won't know if or when they will be able to check out the damage. trang do live at the scene where fire fighers have set up a potential collapse zone. trang, good morning. >> good morning, rahel, jim. yep, firefighters told me that the fire is out. that will they do remain on scene. hot spots, and of course, that threat of collapse. take a look at the building here. you can see that main building with all of the burst out windows. but it is also affected these neighboring buildings, as well , including little line here on the corn their you see , as meisha mentioned, number of streets in this area closed off because of that collapsed potential. but here is video of the scene just about 24 hours ago. fire crews are called out to third and chestnut at around 330 sunday morning for reports of fire inside two buildings, with first floor restaurants

and up near condos. some 160 people evacuated from those buildings, and neighboring ones including the best western independence park in all, hundred fire firefighters responded to the four alarm fire which continued to flare up sunday and as well as overnight two. firefighters suffered minor injuries, were treated and released, as of yet, tenants have not been allowed to return home. >> we're in a humungous collapse zone. what we don't want to do is put people in material i. so through the night our crews still ends up working to extinguish all hot spots. >> l & i has not yet been able to get inside that build to go check it structural integrity, told that will happen later today. meanwhile investigators have also not been able to get inside of there, so no word on exactly where this fire started or the cause. but for now live in old city, trang do, cbs-3, "eyewitness news," jim, rahel, back to you >> still a lot of questions, trang, thank you.

>> new this morning, shattered glass in west philadelphia, after at least two cars have their windows shot out. "eyewitness news" on the 5,000 block of haverford avenue, where the neighbors made a discovery around 2:30 a.m. this morning. so far, police have not made any arrests. murder investigation continues this morning, in philadelphia's east germantown neighborhood. officers responded to the 500 block of to after 5:00 last night, resident of the block found man in a driveway who had been shot in the chest. police have yet to make any arrests. >> police in bensalem township are looking for suspect after another shooting over the weekend, "eyewitness news" was at the grand view amounts, on bristol pike, just after 7:00 last night, responds being officers found a man suffering from a gunshot wound , the victim was returned to the hospital, no word yet on a motive. >> survivors of last week's deadly school shooting in park lands florida are calling for stricter gun laws after 17 people shot and killed in their high school. more student led protests are planned for today.

students hosted a rally on saturday, and stage add walk out at a local school on friday. that is after 19 year old nicholas cruz allegedly opened fire, inside of marjorie stone man high school wednesday. cruz being held without bail on 17 count of first degree murder. sir survive or said she is waiting for adults to do something. >> the ones who make a difference because we have so much information at our fingertips, we are relentless, we do in the let things go. >> why is a kid more relentless than adults? >> because an adult can be swayed by money and kids are swayed by feelings. >> meanwhile the white house says president trump alleges the student's concerns on wednesday, then on thursday he will meet with state and local officials. >> family and friends gather for a memorial honoring murdered university of pennsylvania student blaze bernstein. his parent jeannie and giddian bernstein who went from southern california to see their son's impact on campus, killed in or language county last month allegedly by high

school classmate. they say his legacy will be his kindness. >> we he wanted to help people he was truly a philanthropist, i think he learned that from our home, part that far something he was raised with, a jewish term for repairing the world. >> bernstein's say their visit to pen allow them to see that quality in many of their son's former classmates. >> president trump spent tweeting about the russia investigation this weekend. >> he tweeted that the obama administration should take some of the blame for russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, the president claims predecessor new of the quote and did nothing. us needs to tighten security against russian infiltration specially before this year's midterm election. >> homeland security has been very aggressive working under this administration to work on election security. >> facebook is now promising to crackdown on people who purchased political ads,

making it now mandator that i they live in the u.s. justice department has indicted 13 rushes and, and 30 russian companies, for creating hundreds of fake social media profiles. >> today of course is president's day, many businesses and agencies may be closed for the holidays, public schools and libraries are closed today, so are post offices and banks. septa running on modified weekday schedule, patco running on president's day schedule. many businesses may be closed for the holidays. good idea to call ahead if you're not sure. >> still ahead on cbs-3 " eyewitness news" this morning , fire that stretches 6 miles le firefighters have their handful trying to battle these flames this morning. >> and the final talley is in for penn state's weekend dance party none as thon. we will tell you how much student raise today fight pediatric cans when he " eyewitness news" this morning continues.

>> 3300 block of colin street just before 9:00 last night, working to remove the truck from the hole it, appears it went over metal plate on top of road construction, no one was hurt. fire fighters oklahoma are battling wild fire stretching at least 6 miles, grass fire northeast of freedom, oklahoma see there is a lot of smoke there, affecting visibility. the national weather service is monitoring the fire, and at this point no word on how the fire started. time is 4:41. >> katie here with another check of the forecast, katie, it did actually feel mild walking out this morning, so on the upswing? >> still chilly enough it would warrant a winter coat on day like this, eventually going to rebounds into the 50's, but it were to be raining or doing something out overhead in the form of precipitation, some of you would actually see some wintery mixing. it won't take place until later today. let's talk about this record worm calling for, expecting right now, to tie the record tomorrow. set all the way back in 1939.

seventy is the call, zero seven is the number to beat. meanwhile wednesday obviously the warmer day, 74 degrees, and that would not crush the old record, but would certainly exceed it. by couple of degrees here, way back to 1930, 72 degrees, again, expect to go exceed that all courtesy of warmfront so wider zoom shows you the scattering of showers moving through, at least up toward the maryland state border, that's eventually going to be reaching us later this afternoon and into tonight. that warmfront lifts, in the temperatures start to surge, and we have trade off of some wet weather to go along with it, so it is kind of your call on the umbrella here today. it is primarily later this afternoon, just walking out the door, only out for the first half, you'll be okay without it, later this afternoon it will be scattered because showers out there, your high up to 52 degreesment tonight, still few showers at least initially, but we will see those clear out, and left with clouds the rest of the overnightment probably some fog developing, too, so that may proof to be our biggest

issue for the morning commute tomorrow. but, yes, looking ahead here to record tying day on tuesday and record breaking day on wednesday. incredible warmth. then again meisha all over the place, more rain showers thursday, cold front, like friday, cool else day of the bunch. >> yes, drops down to 48, crazy. katie, thank you, good morning , everyone, happy monday to you. looking outside, ben franklin bridge, looking good, looking just as it should. we know it will get busy today although being, see how bus at this actually get. but ben franklin bridge, 95 at cottman, looking pretty good. we have accident out here in win win, overturned vehicle, route one, near haverford road as you head out the door this morning, avoid the area, you verbal want to do so if you can. probably not too slow around the area right now, just heads up it is out there. plus the fire we were talking about in old city. chestnut street right now closed between second and third street. use an alternate. market street will be your best bet. second and third streets are still closed and septa bus

route are being detoured around that fire area. so quick peak here. just make sure to check your schedules on line and route 15 trolley is shuttle bussing due to philadelphia wire department work, just heads up on that, as well. rahel, back to you. >> thank you. some folks at the jersey shore braved the cold weekend to support those with autism. >> the sun was shining yesterday. it was the tenth annual bike seafood polar bear run and walk. about 3,000 people participated in the 5k run or the 1 mile walk in sea isle city. not only is the event about raising money, also about raising awareness. one father there told us he didn't know much about autism, before his son was diagnosed. >> still i was -- until i was faced when it i didn't understand it, i totally do, and i understand everybody needs support. and i will deas much as i can as a parent as any initiatives to try to help everybody out that can. >> event raises close to $100,000 every year. one in every 68 children are on the autism spectrum. >> and children with autism

were treated to fun filled day in camden. they came out for superhero autism activity day yesterday. at a local salvation army chapter. kids got to meet their favorite superheros. the free event put on in order to encourage children with autism and believe in themselves. >> hundreds of penn state student kept dancing all weekend long to help fight pediatric cancer. >> they raised more than $10 million and the annual event simply known as thon. student revealed the amount of pledges at the end of the 46 hour dance marathon, they raised about a hundred thousand more than last year, money benefits pediatric cancer patients and their families, at the penn state milton s hershey medical center job well done year after year. >> one movie has huge opening weekend at the box office, how black panther pounds on the competition coming up next. >> plus celebrities show solidarity by wearing black at the awards, but one notable figure who showed up in a different color.

we will tell how it was when " eyewitness news" this morning continues.

>> billboards outside of missouri dominated the british academy film award. >> three billboards outside missouri. >> won five awards including best film, best actress, and supporting actor award for sam also won directing honors, and cocoa won for best animated film. >> and the time is up, campaign sexual misconduct recurring theme throughout the evening. the actresses wore black to show support for the movement. one of the few to wear a colorful gown, however, was the dutchess of cambridge, kate middleton. she chose to wear green instead. now, while middleton did receive some backlash, to avoid making a political statement.

>> it was a huge opening weekend for marvel's latest superhero movie black panthers it was number one at the box office, estimated earnings, $192 million. the movie broke the record for an opening in february, which had belonged to 2016 dead pool black panther is marvel's first film directed by an african-american. peter rabbit took the number two spot earning $17.3 million t followed by 50 shades freed, jim donovan ankle is he fourth , earning 7.9 million, and clint eastwood 1517 to paris rounds out the top five earning $7.7 million. time now 4:49. investors get a tai off -- day off for president's day. >> here is mine watch. >> ♪ >> us markets are closed for president's day, wall street closed mixed on friday. the dow was up 19 points, the nasdaq dropped nearly seven.

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>> ♪ >> you'll see these temperatures surge way ahead of schedule. but you won't hear any complaints certainly not from me, not in this room, and not a lot of us from the del delaware's val. >> i i know it is president's day and people making plans, but regardless, we are given the hands we're dealt and we've got to deal with it, now make the most of this, because we actually have very comfortable weather coming up at least for two days before the testimony temperatures take another tumble. still all over the place in the seven day recalling the scene as of late. storm scan is quiet locally,

showers off to the south and west, lifting north with time, see some wet weather here, into the afternoon, in fact, even in the delmarva peninsula see them earlier on, but generally a pm issue. thirty-seven is the current temperature at the airport, so it is chilly. it is definitely still cold outside. scold enough to warrant a heavy coat when you walk out the door, but we do eventually rebounds all the way to 52 degrees. happy president's day to you. if you're enjoying the day off , it looks pretty good all-in-all first half of the day. later the showers do come in. talking scattered in nature, shouldn't and wash out after event. it is a warmfront lifting in. and boy does it warm us up. look at the values, your time records tomorrow, breaking them on wednesday, 74 degrees, not all that unheard of that we see these kind of temperatures, but they certainly are well out of what's average territory here. now by thursday, the cool down does begin, you do drop 14 degrees, but still at 60 degrees, and there will be additional rain showers moving

through from cold front passage, what sends the temperatures on the nosedive for friday, then rebounds all over again for the upcoming weekend, but once more, with rain showers in this forecast, meisha. >> i love it. so much. looking at the 74. can't even control it. good morning, everybody, like katie said, happy president's day. looking outside, 59 south at betsy ross, looking good, today probably little bit less , see kids out of school obviously, people have the day off. see what happens here. but 95 where we come and keep our eye this morning, that and the schuylkill, looking good. we do have some construction out there, blue route southbound ramp, 76, see flashing lights, you can also see vehicles still able to get by. so if you are headed out the door just heads up that that is, that construction; out there. also, an accident here, in penn wynn, we have overturned vehicle, route one city avenue near haverford road. just heads up. road's not closed, but if you can avoid the area you certainly want to. plus a fire that happened yesterday. sunday morning, in old city,

because of that, chestnut street is closed between second and third street. you will have to use your alternate, market street is your best bet, second and third street closed as you navigate around that. plus mass transit, septa bus routes detoured around the fire area, as well, take quick peak at this, just make sure to check the schedules on line , jim and rahel, back to you. >> thank you shall meisha. california's most quirky competition. >> people from all over bat it will out who can whip up the best with spam. the annual spam festival held outside of sacramento. there is spamatoli, even spam jerky. competitors show off what they hope is award winning dish while enjoying all things spam welcoming up in the next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news " this morning, trang do live in old city where authority continue to be on the scene more than 24 hours after a massive fire. >> also ahead, mask gunman opens fire outside busy texas restaurant, the youngest victim is six years old.

we'll have an update on the injured. >> the nba all-star game was last night. the rendition of the national and then has everyone talking this morning, back at the top of the hour. >> ♪

>> huge flames errupting in a ambulance company in south jersey,this is brand new video just into the news room. you can see firefighters have their hands full. >> teen survivors of the deadly rooting rampage are demanding action on gun control. aim hena doba in new york. >> a live look at the parkway from center city, snow, to sun , now chance for showers, the start of winter warm up that could see record setting highs. >> today is monday, february the 19th, it is president's day, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon, katie and meisha are keeping an eye on things this monday morning, morning, guys.