sparked at 3:00 o'clock in the morning on a sunday, and it is now 6:00 o'clock monday, well close to 30 some hours later and they are still, tend to go hot spots, as a result, the work we that showed you at 5:00 o'clock, to difficulties mant that will fire escape has halted, there is no telling, when that will resume. the fire investigation at 239 chestnut street is unfolding in plane view, inspectors are scouring every inch of the place, at least what they can access. lift was used to give atf agent and l and i personnel a closer view. access to upper floors is off limits because fifth floor has caved. stress cracks have form, city ordered property own tore remove a fire escape to decrease stress on the building. chris young, owns the little lion and was with us immediately after the city released word that 239 would have to be demolish. >> i don't really necessity how that will affect moving in

this direction with my building and 241. >> reporter: condos and apartments occupied up are floors of this stretch of olde city properties. first floor of 239 was most recently a restaurant. neighbors say owner was evicted a couple months ago calls to that man were not return. the fire that has affected so many is still surreal, to those who live and work here. >> i could smell the smoke so i realized i should grab my wallet, keys and get out. >> reporter: caitlin's building was not touch by fire but she still has no idea when she might aloud to go home. >> everyone is asking if we can get into get our stuff out , we probably won't be able to stay there for a few days but hoping to get in and get some things to make it through next few days. >> reporter: we're back live again with this latest development we are watching the philadelphia fire department, hosing the building, that is believed to be the origin in this fire that swept through not one, not two but three buildings

here at third and chestnut. again, a fire official, just moments ago, confirming to cbs-3 that they were called back to tend to some hot spots , that has halted the work on that fire escape, once again, the city determining that this building is in imminent danger of collapse so they are trying to mitigate those issues before they are able to take this building down. i'm told that they will do their best to preserve the fi sod of the building. that is very latest for now on this developing story here in olde city, i'm joe holden for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> joe, thank you for that. further south flames burn through an ambulance company overnight by the time the fire was under control salem count coy had lost six of the seven vehicles. "eyewitness news" reporter alycia nieves is atwood town american legion ambulance association where investigators have yet to determine what cause that had fire, alycia? >> reporter: ukee, state fire marshals were out here for hours today but were still unable to determine the cause

of the explosive fire that burned to this now gutted, and ambulance association. now what official does believe they know at this time is that this fire started on the right side of the building, where there was one ambulance, and a heater, and then it quickly moved through the rest of the building. this south jersey ambulance association just gutted this morning after after the explosive fire that ripped through here around 4:00 a.m. >> i grew up, cross from this building. >> it what's motional for kathleen mccart toy see how sudden blaze completely tore down what she spent most of her life building up. she has been a member of the american legion ambulance association for 25 years. >> i'm just glad everybody got out. memories, things can be replaced. >> reporter: but it will be costly the damages mated by the association around two million-dollar, six ambulances , burned, that is just one short of the association's entire fleet.

>> we're going to take sometime to recover, it is very hard emotionally, and we just have the expert of everybody. >> reporter: it may take less time then expect for the ambulance association to function. all morning as news spread about the fire the ambulance association president has been getting calls from other ambulance associations, offering their trucks to be used to serve the community here. >> it is overwhelming, the number of phone calls that i'm getting about support, i received a call in cape may county they are working in cape may county to help out, in anyway, that they can. >> reporter: and, even without a building members of this ambulance association are so committed to serving this community that they already have the one ambulance, that did not burn in the fire, they have that ambulance, back in operation, responding to 911 calls, and they will as you heard a second ago be borrowing other ambulances from surrounding companies so

that they can get this company here up and running as much as possible. live from wood town alycia nieves for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thank you. now to the latest on the deadly school shooting in florida. suspect nikolas cruz appeared in court today and said nothing during his procedural hearing. couple who took in cruz after his mother died says he told him, told them he was sorry after that shooting, meanwhile as call on some called for action on guns the white house says president trump will support legislation aimed at improving gun background checks. tonight we're hearing from the student who escaped the shooting at marjory stoneman douglas high school unharp. she has ties to our area and she talked with "eyewitness news" reporter chantee lans. >> ended up being surreal. >> reporter: lila skinner survived shooting inside marjory stoneman douglas high school. >> i don't know how, 65 could fit in this area but 65 of us

did thank god. >> i want her to be okay, you know, back and fourth february . >> reporter: this is lila's great aunt and we face time from parker's dining room in delaware. >> we were kind of in the middle of the campus a little bit. >> reporter: at times recount ago this day, just too much for the high school junior to bear her close friend maddie in the maroon dress almost died. >> she got hit i think more than three times, her right lung collapsed and she had five broken ribs and shattered >> reporter: three of her other friend, 12th graders, joaquin oliver and christopher hickson did in the survive. >> they want us to be talking about it and want to us do something bit. >> reporter: so she wrote a

poem. >> she will never be that li la before february 14th. >> times changing isn't making us great. generation being good, held by happen on the fate. we are just teens we should be going off to college. >> reporter: chantee lans cbs-3 "eyewitness news". stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of the deadly school shooting we will bring you updates here on tv and also at cbs philly .com. police hope public can help them track down a man who assault aid pregnant with man in chinatown. it happened saturday morning outside tenth and arch dunkin' donuts this surveillance video shows the suspect accused of kicking a three three-year old woman who was five months pregnant in the stomach. police say he asked woman for two dollars and then attack her when she said she didn't have any money.

if you recognize the suspect philadelphia police want to hear from you. two groups filed a petition to pressure federal immigration authorities to release undocumented immigrant from mexico. jose ivan nunez martinez was arrested by ice last month as he was being interviewed to become a lawful resident. >> very difficult for me to understand that we are going through the process the correct way. i was the one who pushed him to do this. he was skeptical. i said lets go through properties zest. let's become legal so we have no worries. >> and, they held a news conference in center city this morning deand inning nunez martinez release. the two philadelphia, non- profit advocates for the latino community and the lb gt q community. ice released a statement ice does not exempt classes or categories of removable alien from his potential enforcement , all of those in violation of the immigration laws may be subject to immigration arrests, detention

and if foundry movable by final order, removal from the united states. the fbi is seeking new information in the disappearance of danielle imbo and richard petrone, it was 13 years ago today that the two were last seen leaving a baron philadelphia's south street. neither the couple nor petrone 's dodge pickup truck has ever been seen since. there is a $50,000 reward for information on the couple's whereabouts or for information to lead to an arrest. tracking a winter warm up, temperatures will be sky rocketing in the next couple of days, meteorologist kate bilo is watching things on the sky deck for you, how warm will it get, kate. >> we're talking about two broken records over next two days, serious warmth for february, it comes on the heels of snow over weekend, rain out there today and now we're talking about 70's, talk about weather whiplash. lets look at storm scan three, little chilly, i can tell you, but a raw, cloudy evening,

with temperatures in the 40's. still a few showers popping up here and there across the map, mostly to the north and see another little batch poised to head in berks and lancaster counties. what we are feeling with temperatures in the 40's specially from the city northwest, 48 in philadelphia. forty-one in reading. forty-one in allentown. lower 50's in south jersey. zooming to the southwest but take a look at all this warmth waiting in the wings, it is 73 in nashville. seventy-four in atlanta. sixty-nine, in columbus, ohio and that warmth is heading our way out and about few scattered showers, fog will develop and evening temperatures, but temperatures start to rise overnight and coming up, and we will have warm, it will get, we may break record from the 1930's, both tomorrow and wednesday. for now now back inside to you >> kate, thank you. still to come tonight this presidents day honoring the man started it all the way national museum of jewish history was remembering legacy of george washington and other presidents today.

another beach ban in our area, come summertime what people won't be able to take to one delaware beach. quick, fast and sort of in a hurry, big changes for baseball. plus joe joe in la la land, we will take a look at embiid's all-star debut coming up later in sports.

the pennsylvania supreme court has release aid new congressional district map that will likely face a legal challenge from republicans. >> the redrawn districts are set to take effect by may 15th primary, state g.o.p. lawmakers are expect to challenge this new map in federal court, but if it stand it will likely improve democrats chances of winning seats. the pennsylvania high court ruled last month that the state's district is un constitutionally favored g.o.p. candidates. national museum of american jewish history welcomed a special president day guest. >> george washington

impersonator was on hand to greet visitors he read allowed historic letter of the first president wrote in 1790 to the he bree brew congregation in road island. museum's director of communication and public engagement points out that washington said precedence about religious freedom before the bill of right existed. >> this 1790's letter that our nation's first president george washington wrote to a jewish community when they expressed their desire, to be able to practice their religion freely and he said yes, to jews and other minority religious communities around the country like quakers and catholics. >> washington interpreter was standing in front of the original 1790 document while he read the letter. the museum is free for the rest of the month. well, popular delaware shore towns just passed a new ordinance banning people from setting up certain shading equipment on the beach. >> you can in longer take large beach tents or canopies on bethenny beach. they passed new restrictions in the six-one vote.

beach goers are allowed to set up umbrellas that measure 8 feet in diameter or smaller, baby tents smaller then 36 by 36 are also acceptable. >> just when you have the canopy, it is shut up early in the morning and then what was happening was people were shutting up, leaving and people started to complain about that as well. >> i think beaches were made for families and meant for fun and a lot less rules. >> year around beach ban went into effect friday, and it will warn violators, at the time being. you know what i will say, it will feel like beach weather. >> it will feel like beach weather next couple of days. >> 75 degrees in february. >> that is crazy that is. >> but crazy awesome for most of us, you know, you have to dig through and fine those summer clothes for one or two days. we are talking about a major winter warm up on the way, winter in winter, some of you are, it is february, supposed to feel like february. that weather i'm sure will be back. we have temperatures above

average for the vast majority of the seven day forecast. so lets take a look outside right now pull up, of the poconos because we are looking glummy, and creepy out there. very, very foggy, and part of that is because there is a thick snow pack on the ground in the poconos anyplace that has snow on the ground we will see dense fog form, because that ground is colder, and as the warm air moves over the cold snow that will form your fog so any areas that have weekend snow remaining, you will see that fog more dense then areas that don't have it. so jack frost big bolder with all that snow on the ground there are still people out on the slopes. you can barely see them. fog looking rough out there tonight and watch out across the area for that dense fog overnight into tomorrow morning. all of the fog has come in courtesy of the warm air moving over colder ground. we have a warm front extending right about here, cold front goes way back. but what is happening is this will lift north and cold front will be on much of a delay. we will see warm front come

through, cold front follows hours later. no this is time. cold front will in the come through until wednesday night so until then, we have got the surge of warmth from the south and west we will be feeling for next few days. still couple sprinkles tonight few showers moving into berks, lancaster counties. temperatures still on the cool side but we are starting to get a brisk, southerly win helping things warm up, 50's in millville and atlantic city , wildwood as well, 48 in philadelphia and temperatures on the rise through overnight hours, so you will in the feel that big drop off in temperatures but as we go through next couple of hours visability will drop, fog becomes more widespread and see visability in some spots near seer he by 8:00, tomorrow morning still visability near zero it will start to mix out likely probably not until 11:00 and when we see sun. once sun comes out it will feel like at spring, early summer day temperatures rise ago above average, again we are approaching records, record for tomorrow is 7o we will break that with a high of 71 and wednesday's record is

72, likely to break that as well. as far as rain chances tomorrow looks like a dry day 20 percent of showers late on wednesday as that cold front comes through but much better chance for rain returning to the forecast late in the week thursday and friday. dense fog overnight, slow warming, 49 is your low, tomorrow a record breaker of the day with a high of 71. and, if that sounds nice take a look at wednesday morning fog afternoon sun, 75 degrees, we could see mid 40's, so that is 30 degrees above average. and then rain returns thursday , showers friday, also saturday, and then gannon sunday. so you have to pay the piper if you have two, 70 degrees days in february but still even weekend looks above average. >> that looks great. >> thanks, kate. >> don's up next with sports. >> so much to get to tonight, guys. jason kelce is from mummer to fightin philly, we will tell but. that orange and black have issues between the pipes, who is playing goalie for flyers,

sports coming up

well, being in tv we know a lot about timing. >> yes, yes. >> and how you want to move something along. it seems like baseball also. >> yes. >> trying to focus on that. >> so funny our conversation off camera about how to make baseball move. >> yes. >> we have ideas. >> if baseball wants to holler at us, we got you. >> that is right. >> make it snappy, mlb has made rule change toss speed up the game. teams are limited to six visits to the mound per game all they there are some exceptions, plus commercial breaks have been reduced by 20 seconds they believe less is more. so do we. phillies holding their first day of full squad work outs in clearwater, they have a few new veterans including car looks santana who signed a three-year deal just before christmas. here's gabe kapler after day number one. >> drills were crisp. i thought awesome to see santana coming in with a high level of intensity on day one,

putting a lot on his throws, accurate strong throws. base running drills were strong a cross the board it was a really positive day. >> good to hear. >> eagles center jason kelce put down mummers costume and picked up a phillies jersey. owe gave a speech. he tried to keep it clean but then, expletives began to flow we have seen that movie before as for playing field jason feels some momentum is building in philadelphia. >> everybody is on fire right now, the flyers, sixers are doing their thing, the phillies, there is excitement around, this ballclub right here, and it is jussie great time to be involved in sports in philadelphia to say the least. >> eagles news running backs coach duce staley and wide receivers coach microe were both scheduled to interview for teams offensive coordinator position, staley has been with the birds since 2011, rowe just completed his first season. we just saw it with the world champion eagles one guy gets injured, and next man,

steps up, and in his place. but what happened when the backup goes down. michal neuvirth is the backup for injured flyers goalie brian elliott, elliott out until march, neuvirth left yesterday's seven-four win with a lower body injury, and that leaves the team with one healthy goalie, alex lyon. today rumors surfaced saying that the flyers are interested in trading for peter moraico of the red wings. big night for joe gentlemen and everyone decided to trust the process. embiid making his debut in the all-star game. he had 19 points in 20 minutes big fellow hit hit the three. also plays tenacious d. reject russell westbrook. team lebron beating team steph on. it was one of the best all-star games we have seen in years, most competitive, 148- 145 the final score, as for sixers and joe joe, their next game is thursday night in

chicago. >> joe gentlemen might have been only one playing defense last night. >> it was good to see. >> when we come back presidents day full of play for philadelphia children. >> where they were being treated for free fun in the

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and playhouse. >> playground typically closed on presidents day opened up for play with purpose, children were invited to draw with chalk, play games, dance and also take part in story time. >> i have also been able to run around, move their bodies, get some fresh air which goodies for their physical development especially because kid in philadelphia don't have a lot of recess time so they don't get to move around and be getting strong so because they are so few and far between are real important to make sure they get them. >> use that energy. today's even was honor with purpose non-profit dedicated to insuring children with cancer received, safe and effective treatments. >> very nice. thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 we are back at 10 on our sister station c cw philly and back here at 11:00. up next, "cbs evening news", from new york here now is jeff glor, take care family , we will see you tonight.

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