♪ >> live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia this is cbs3 "eyewitness news". we begin this noon with shots fired at a van carrying women and children. the driver was killed and she may have been an innocent vict victim. five others including three young children survived a frightening ordeal that ended with a violent crash. good afternoon i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos is live now at police headquarters and greg, what are police saying right now about this case? >> reporter: rahel, they're saying that this happened around 8:30 last night in the fern rock section of philadelphia. this afternoon detectives are working the scene there in the

fern rock second they're looking for two men they say fired those five shots. a bizarre shooting in the fern rock section of philadelphia. around 8:30 last night, here at the 5800 block of old york road, five shots rang out. striking this white conversion van. inside the driver, a 23-year-old woman, two other women in their 20s and three kids. >> three children under the age of four. >> reporter: the driver shot in the head. medics pronouncing her dead at the scene. thursday detectives searching for the killers. >> right now at this minute we just have descriptions of two males wearing gray hoodies two black males wear gray hoodies that fled from the location. the men fled on foot. he says this does not appear to be a case of road rage and the suspects may have simply been innocent victims. >> again, early stages a lot to be developed, um, we don't believe the occupants had anything to do with anything. we don't believe they were a tar g we don't believe it was road

rage. >> reporter: now as for the other five folks in that van, those two other women and the three children, they were injured in the crash. fortunately they were not struck by any of those bullets. we're told they are going to be okay. right now investigators searching for surveillance video of this crime we'll have the latest tonight cbs3 "eyewitness news" at 5:00. i'm live here at police headquarters, greg argos, cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> all right, greg, thank you. chopper three over water rescue in claymont new castle county a person some type of construction equipment fell into the delaware river at around 10:00 this morning. this happened near an industrial site on the 6200 block of philadelphia pike. officials are calling this an active recovery effort. crews investigate two manhole explosions on the 300 block of mark street. the explosions happened just after 9:00 a.m. now, workers from philadelphia gas works and peco energy are on the scene between second and fourth streets. parts of market street are closed while they work to determine what happened. no injuries were reported.

crews are battling a three alarm commercial fire in southwest philadelphia. chopper three over pasco metal recycling on island and pasco avenues. you can see the smoke and flames. this broke out around 9:40 this morning. right now no word on any injuries or a cause. well a week after deadly high school shooting in florida president trump continues the conversation about school safe safety. today the president is meeting with local lawmakers and officials after discussion with students, parents tenches on gun control yesterday. here's more on the president's proposals. >> reporter: president trump continues his listening sessions with people from cities impacted by gun violence. today he's talking with state and local officials including the mayor of parkland, florida, site of last week's school shooting. >> we lost 17 lives. but the ripple effects throughout the community are devastating. report roar wednesday, he sat down with students, parents and teachers who have experienced school shootings. >> i'm pissed because my

daughter i'm not going to see again. i lost the best friend. >> people are dying and we have to stop this. i'm just begging for a change. >> while the president mostly listened did he say he wants to focus on several solutions including strengthening background checks, increasing mental health service and arming school staffers who have begun training. >> if you had a teacher with, hooks was a dept at firearms they can very well end the attack very quickly. >> reporter: president trump's suggestion of arming certain teachers was met with resistance both in the room and on the social media. mark's son danielle was killed inside sandy hook elementary schools. >> school teachers have more than enough responsibilities right now than to have to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to take live. >> reporter: president trump defended his call forearming trained teachers tweeting, a gun free school is a magnet for bad people. attacks would end. >> cbs3 "eyewitness news".

meanwhile students are taking a stand against gun violence from coast to coast. today they're gathering even right here in west philadelphia to demonstrate the toll that guns take on our communities. cleve bryan is live on the campus of university of pennsylvania. cleve? >> reporter: rahel, we have easily over a hundred students here now lining the locust walkway on the campus here at penn. they started organizing earlier this week online talked about want to go get together to do something to show solidarity with all those young people across the country that have been speaking up against gun violence since the massacre in park land, florida. now, they're holding these white signs and each of those signs is an event, mass shooting event from january of last year until present day. and so they're lining the walkway here reminding all the other students and bringing awareness to the fact that it's not just one of them. these are events that keep happening over and over again. in fact, little bit they're

going to have a moment of silence for each victim that has died since january of last year in mass shooting events. they'll hold 497 seconds of silence more than eight minutes and i talked to some of the student leader as little while ago about why they're so passionate at this time about making a stand. >> i think for young people it can be really frustrating, it can be hard because you're up against a lot of power, a lot of money, and especially for kids under the age of 18 you don't really have any power in politics, um, but i think the -- the survivors the teenagers in florida showing us that by going to tal mass has see and demanding answers from their elected figures just because they're young people, thecal still have to be listened to regardless. >> reporter: one of thingso me i was talking to some of the student leaders they said, all throughout high school and even younger, they grew up in this

culture of being prepared for active shooters. they had to do active shooter drills all the time growing up through school and i can remember my own growing up during the time of columbine being in high school that being such a new thing but this is the norm for a lot of these people that are now in college and younger. so they want to speak up. they want to make sure that legislators state level and at the federal level know where they stand and that's for change and so we'll be here for little bit. this protest will continue for the next half hour or so. we're live at the campus at pe penn. cleve bryan cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> definitely interesting perspective there, cleve. thank you. want the us supreme court to block the state new congressional district map that presiding officers the state house and senate filed request with justice samuel alito they argue the state supreme courte courtesies legislative authority when it issue the map. state supreme court rule the previous map was and constitutional because it was gerrymandered to benefit republicans. new map is seen as potentially beneficial to democrats. funeral plans have been

ounced for the man known as america's pastor the reverend billy graham. public may spay pay their respects at the billy graham library in charlotte north carolina on monday and tuesday. next friday he'll be laid to rest beside this wife on the property. he died yesterday at the age of 99 he passed away peacefully in his sleep at home. a local doctor is being recognized for his service to vulnerable communities in philadelphia and abroad. the pennsylvania medical society presented doctor wayne lau with every day hero award in center city today. the doctor is an emergency medicine physician with jefferson hospital. a colleague nominated him for selflessly serving his patients. dr. lau volunteered his services at a clinic in chinatown over the past decade and he also volunteers on international trips to china. congratulations. on the reading terminal mark is the place to be today as the venue and its vendors celebrate the markets 125th birthday. throughout the day merchants will randomly select customers

and ring a bell announcing that they are together their purchase back to a price it might have been 1893. music and cake, katie is a fan of that, mew and cake will be part of the celebration throughout the day. the festivities continue in the until the mark closes at 6:00 p.m. >> this sun day marks the start of a new era right here on cbs3. margaret brennan is the new host of face the nation. cbs news president david roads made the announce many this morning brennan filled as moderator of the sunday morning public affairs show since john dickerson was promoted to anchor on cbs this morning. in addition to her new permanent role, brennan will also continue as cbs news' senior foreign affairs correspondent. congratulations to her. she does a great job. >> indeed. cats have nine lives they say one chester county cat almost used up one of them. >> still ahead we'll tell you where he got stuck and how he was finally rescued from this unusual predicament. >> katie. >> guys, as we continue to track rain today, we've got several additional days of brain on the

way so we will walk you through this pattern change very substantial one not just with the precip coming in but also with the very obvious drop on the thermometer from yesterday's very spring like weather. all of those details and more coming up. ♪

well back on "eyewitne rcu county. you're looking at a cat that somehow became stuck

family's garbage disposal over the weekend. the call for help and sergetto e we're told he used a little coconut oil an few tools to diss assehour, the kitty was removed coconut oil does wonders. >> fender benders happen all the timeut technology is helping to change that. >> the insurance institute for high cameras combined with automatic braking aou 78% reduction in the amount of back up crashes. braking is available in 5% of 218 models. xt5 have sr ratings. >> new uber service is coming to philadelphia. called express pool. it connects riders in the same area who plan to travel to similar destinations. the riders would be picked up at a common pick up spot and then would be dropped off the same way. the feature dee abuse in philadelphia and several other us cities today. the wall street journal is

reporting that new jersey based toys r us is planning to close another 200 stores and lay off a significant portion of its corporate staff. the journal is also reporting that the company has pulled back from a promise to offer severance to all affected workers. the announcement comes after diss apartment pointing holiday season for that retailer. a new social media trend making hobby lobby a very popular place. this is called the hobby lobby challenge. people going to the store pass plastic file knauer aisle and take pictures to make it look like they're part in professional garden shoot. hobby lobby workers not fans apparently. many have taken to social media to express their frustration. they say people doing the challenge get in the way and often don't even buy bother to put the flowers back where they belong. >> you hear that katie put back the flowers! [ laughter ] >> good pictures. >> we know he's a great football player but eagles center jason kelce has another little known talent. >> still ahead we're there as kelce visits a philadelphia high school and shares his musical

side with students. katie. >> i wonder if he plays hormone nikau. >> we'll find out. stay tune. we're look aig head to yet another weekend that's mild with a very substantial trade off here as there's more wet weather in our forecast into the upcoming weekend i think the heaviest of the rain is likely to fall saturday night into the first half of sunday but we will be dodging wet weather in the meantime really almost at any time during the weekend and there's more rain in this forecast as well. i'll let you know when else you'll need the umbrella after the break. ♪

back on "eyewitness news" this noon. flood waters are forcing people out of their home. rivers swollen by heavy rain and melting snow overflowing their banks in indiana, michigan and

other parts of the midwest. american red cross says eight shelters now open in northern indiana where crews used boats to help residents evacuate their homes. in michigan state of emergency was declared in the lansing ar area. katie joining us now. it seems like it was just yesterday it was so beautiful out. >> in fact it was. >> in fact it was. [ laughter ] >> yes. my gosh talk about what a difference even just 24 hours can make. we're talking about 35-degree drop off just from yesterday afternoon. >> oh boy. >> to this afternoon wait until you see the 24 hour departure. >> oh no. >> it's incredible. nothing, you know, that we've never seep before. but we do have some all-time record warmth we were able to set yesterday in a couple of towns which we'll get to. let's start things by taking a view who high a top hotel bethlehem overlooking a very dreary beginning to the afternoon northa northampton con bethlehem we overlook main street. the traffic moving kind of slow. i would not be shocked if that's due to the rain moving that was here. take look at the radar in a second let's go back in time and

recall what that warmth was all about yesterday. now this is not just daily records we're talking about but allentown reading and trenton you had all time record warmth for the month of february. in all three cities the numbers orange was hit yesterday. 82 degrees in reading pa yesterday. again, that's a new one for the books. for all time record warmth in the month. now, here's that hurts to look at difference in the last 24 hours at least 20 degrees but even more than that out towards reading, up to where you were in to the 80s yesterday. wire not coming anywhere close to that at this pope these are actual temperatures. 39 from 82 degrees. tough stuff. but that temperature likely to om drop off simply because we're still waiting for the really cold air to come in here many you're still at 50 degrees in millville as the cold is still penetrating our region you can see where the front has lined up very very well here. in birmingham it's 77. nashville it's 20 degrees

colder. so that's where that temperature is beginning to fall off as the colder air moves in. you've also got wet weather to go along with it when you look at this wide zoom there's a couple of things to notice. here's the cold front still trying to move through in our area but there's a new system already and its heels getting its act. basically what happens is you have this conveyor belt in short that starts to pick up with front after front system after system moving through today. today it's technically a cold front. come friday it's technically a warm front that brings in the rain and then come this weekend, another system is still trying to push through. you basically have waves of low pressure moving along what's essentially a stationary frontal boundary that will just keep things very unsettled here locally right through the weekend. then finally that giant h that mix so happy to see that moves back in high pressure in short that will eventually bring back the sunshine but it had take couple of days. now, storm scan locally is primarily just smattering very light showers here and there. you go far enough north you see

a little pink right on the tail end of that loop up in carbon county because the air is turning cold enough later and today with temperatures just continue to go drop off, there's actually winter weather advisory that goes into effect at 4:00 p.m. after coming such a warm afternoon yesterday. goes to show how things can really change on a dime for us but that winter weather advisory is posted for carbon, monroe the rest of the poconos. headed up that way watch for slick travel. sleet and freezing rain the primary issue there so there could be a glaze of ice on the roads. now, overlooking center city philadelphia let me step over here you can still -- well, just barely make it out. it's somewhere there in the haze. visible may be reduced out the there. certainly if you're driving through the rain that will slow you down too. when we look at the seven day, okay, so the temperatures are kind of all over the place you do do eventually warm up right through sunday rain is in our forecast. as i mentioned earlier in the show i do think you'll see the wettest time frame especially saturday night into the first half of sunday. but sunday is mild day at least. and then the sun comes back in

time for all us to head back to work and school on monday. >> great timing. >> hard to believe it's been two weeks since the philadelphia eagles paraded down broad street as super bowl champions. >> one of the stars of the show center jason kelce still in town for jam session with some philadelphia students. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> that's him right there in the front. kell cease shared his baritone saxophone skills with mewing is students at central high school today. number 62 used to play the trumpet in high school band in ohio. kelsey talks about his musical side before taking the stage. >> before i was a philadelphia eagle super bowl champ i was cleveland heights tiger growing up, and i played in thee different -- i played football, hockey and lacrosse and i played in the jazz band and symphonic wings ensemble. music was a big part of my life. >> do you not just love him. >> kelce high school was on hand

tort performance made possible through exchange program between the two schools music departments. >> you more you learn about the guys on that team. >> for real. >> the more you like them. >> one thing i will say oiled never have guessed he was from ohio he will he seems like a philly guy from me. >> absolutely. coming up we are gearing up for the philadelphia union omaha per. stay with us.

major league soccer season is right around the corner and so is the philadelphia union's

home home opener. >> the official sports of the team joined us live in the great hall to fire up the crowd. >> we're from filthy, no one likes us we don't care. >> he were in order when eagles center jason kelce who apparently also a saxophone any of the made the captain part of his super bowl pa rail speech. they hope he shows up a match this season. the home opener at march 3rd at 7:00 p.m. against new engla england. cannot wait. >> yes. beat them in the super bowl. can we beat them for the home opener. >> jason kelce give us your good spirit. >> bring the good vibes. >> we need to get i was union suit, katie. >> that's "eyewitness news" at noon. i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. >> thanks for watching. i it news continues at 5:00. we're always online at cbsphilly.com. >> the young and the restless is coming up next. have a great day, everyone.

>> previously on "the young and the restless"... >> devon: i have learned the hard way that hilary is not someone who can be trusted. ever. >> hilary: i would like to take this opportunity to offer my very public apology for those that i've hurt. >> victor: if i find you sliding back into your illicit ways, you're done. and your cozy life with nicholas is gonna change to another life, and it'll be a life in prison. >> nick: you're adopting christian. >> chelsea: and you're adopting connor. >> sharon: if we let him keep believing his son -- >> phyllis: as long as chelsea stays in line, it does not matter if christian has adam's dna. you let nick stay blissfully unaware. >> sharon: you deserve to hear the truth. >> nick: sharon, you there? sharon. talk to me. hello?