>> doesn't look like the fog will be as much of a problem. not as thick as yesterday w that said, we're on pace to see another warm day. storm scan quiet. few clouds rolling through, across southeastern pennsylvania, did help bring in very, very light smattering of showers through yesterday evening and into the overnight. generally again with nice clear sky across new jersey, delaware, and a very, very modest winds flow. it is a nice start to the day. look at reading. fifty-eight already. now, granted, it is 4:30, still have few hours before the sun will come up. temperature very likely to drop off at least few more degrees, but at 53 at philadelphia international airport. normal high, still 46 degrees. so, the fact that we're already off to such mild start, you can only imagine where we will ends up today. another very warm afternoon, expected here, we're going to shoot for 72 degrees here in philadelphia with a partly sunny sky, shore and mountains, as women, even in the poconos, 67 degrees today. so very, very warm day. again, with some sunshine, and if it was anything like yesterday afternoon, a great excuse to be outside. meisha? >> no doubt about it, all right, katie, thank you for. that will looking outside right now at the vine. it is closed overnight for the construction project between the schuylkill and broad, looking dark, quiet this friday, and usually all clears, right around 5:00 a.m., see if it does again today. right now what you are working with. dark, quiet, closed down on the vine, also some construction here, looks like it might have been moving on, 42 northbound creek road. we had intermittent lane closures for awhile it looked actually very backed up. looks like a good indicator the construction moving out of the way there. construction walt whitman bridge eastbound as well, two lanes are open. 25-mile per hour restrictions, not because of the fog we saw yesterday. due to the construction, more coming up in just a little built, jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you so much, meisha. breaking news this morning, hotel goes up in flames in vineland, new jersey, as crews search for anyone who could be trapped inside. >> "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo live at the ramada in. what do we know so far? >> reporter: rahel, jim, this is very big fire it, started right around 2:00 this morning, and when we arrived on the scene, 90 minutes later, at 3:30, it was still raging out of control. we arrived at the scene with flames shooting out of the roof of this building. you can see behind me, live this morning, that fire crews remain on the scene. they've seemed to get this fire under control. but they are still working on the roof there as it smolders this morning. also, on your screen, taking a look at viewer video. this is a great picture about what fire crews were fighting when they first arrived on the scene with flames also shooting out of the top of the building. now, again, we are told that this fire is finally under control. there are dozens of firefighters on the scene. multiple ladder trucks, and ems. fortunately, at this point, there are no reported injuries. but, this is still a developing story, and we are awaiting a update from fire officials this morning. now, this is the ramada inn, 2200 block every west landsis avenue. more than 30 rooms inside this building. i was able to speak to number of people who were staying here over night, including a mother able to get out safely with her two kids and grandchild, just a baby. people that were staying here at this hotel were sent next-door to neighboring hotel, so they're able to get out of the cold this morning. that's where we caught up with candice martinez, who has been staying at this ramada inn for some time. she went out for few minutes and came back to nothing. >> i went to the store around 20 minutes, came back, and there are flames coming from the top and right above our room, our whole room is just done, gone, everything burnt, everything i own is in there. >> everybody was out. asking for everybody's name, making sure everybody was out of their room. yes, everybody was out thankfully. >> so that's candice martinez, she was staying at this ramada in. went out, came back, she said, all of her belongings were inside a lot of people facing that reality this morning. again, still awaiting word from fire officials here on scene understandably they've been very busy, finally does look like they're getting a handle on this fire. obviously, much too early to determine a cause of this fire. but, martinez says, there were smoking rooms on the back of this building. so that's something to keep in mind. so we're looking for a cause of this fire. we want to know a update about if all of the resident were able to get out. but, at this point, again, there are no reported injuries. for now, reporting live in vineland, jan carabeo, cbs-3 "eyewitness news." >> we'll look forward to your later report. thanks so much, jan. >> new developments over night in the hit-and-run in kensington. "eyewitness news" has learned police found the car suspected of being involved. they are however still searching for the driver. it happened here on 29,000 block every east clearfield street 7:30 last night. victim left a corner store hit feet from his front door, now listed in critical condition. >> new this morning, man killed after attempted robbery turns deadly in chester. police say the victim was picking up his girlfriend at her house on the 2600 block of boil street, just after 10:30 last night. she stepped outside to see her boyfriends involved in a altercation, with another person, and she then witnessed the suspect shoot her boyfriend, in the head. >> in montgomery county, former police officer is facing a slew of charges after a road rage incident. >> right. it happened saturday night on the 1900 block of second street in upper gwenned. that is where police seo end farmer, who you see on your screen there, fired three shots into bmw after his stepdaughter allegedly had an altercation with someone in the car. now, inside the bmw was mother, father, 15 year old daughter, one of those shots injured the 15 year old. farmer charged with assault, wreckless endangerment, a member of the upper gwenned police department from 2,000 to 2009. >> police in wilmington continue investigating attempted sexual assault in brandywine park, 28 year old woman out for run said she was attacked at about 7:30 wednesday night. the man pushed her to the grounds, and when he tried to assault her, she fought him off. the suspect ran from the scene, the woman was not seriously hurt. and in new jersey, gloucester township police released this sketch of the man wanted for attempted kidnapping, accused of trying to pull a woman into his suv on may apple road machine day night when she screamed he let her go. officers think he's driving a new model white suv possibly a bmwx1 or x3. >> well, rooftop fire spreads to building in gloucester county, chopper three was overhead as flames consumed a building under construction in old man creek road, logan township. five started just before 6:00 last night. firefighters battled the blaze for almost three hours to get it under control. good news: no injuries. the suspect in the shooting of two washington dc police officers has died after also being shot. both officers are in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. the shooting happened before 11:00 last night, while the officers were patrolling in the city northeast neighborhood, and city councilman said more needs to be done about gun violence. >> no community should have to live like this. this gun violence is really discouraged on our city. the officers, my thoughts, are with them. and we really need to put in place solutions to stop this violent. this is just unacceptable. >> now there is shooting comes after four men were shot and three separate shootings in southeast dc. >> well, president trump has a big day ahead of him. he will be taking stage at the annual conservative action conference near washington dc this morning. vice president mike pence, spoke last night. cbs news correspondent weijia jiang with more on how this conference is shaping up. >> vice president mike pence told conservatives now is the time to prove they have the right answers for the country. >> with president donald trump in the white house i know the best days for america are yet to come. >> let's get to work. >> pence also slammed the affordable care act. >> america's obamacare nightmare is about to end. >> white house chief strategist steve ban on made rare public appearance along with chief of staff prive us earlier, labeled the news media the opposition party who will continually attack the trump administration. >> not only will it get better it, will get worse every day. and here is why. they're corporateist, adamant medius, opposed to at jen did a donald trump has. >> scheduled to take the stage here friday morning. in a audio interview thursday, the 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done with that, the horses will need a change of shoes. >> they get nervous, and they get really anxious, and they kick and buck and do things, and so it can be very dangerous, the shoe-ers can come out and see the horses and take care every them, too. >> the horse rescue isn't over just yet. several more have to be rescued later today. >> well, awful to see those horses stuck in the water but glad to see they're being rescued. >> exactly. >> time is 4:44. >> no rain in our forecast, katie? >> not today. >> i'm living one day at a time. >> i'm with you on that one. but we are expecting to see kind of half and half forecast for the weekends, very potent cold front crosses through, we will keep the warmth tomorrow. have some showers, and very likely some heavy rain and gusty thunderstorms for the second half of the day. then by sunday, just back to what should be more like what we find in the tail end of february here. meanwhile, we do have clouds that have been rolling in across pennsylvania, not really much to report otherwise, i haven't seen much in the way of any kind of major fog issues so far, that's very good. but may be few patches of it, since the winds is still light. but with that said, see things really starting to get their act together across the northern high planes here, especially the midwest, very heavy snow currently falling as well as ice, rain, we are looking primarily actually only at rain and thunderstorms by the time the cold front that will move through gets here. so we jump to tomorrow high noon. there will be a lot more clouds cover tomorrow. not quite the bright sunshine like we saw yesterday afternoon or like we will see here today. there will be a few clouds, perhaps as a stray shower through the course of the morning, but this is what's going to trip you up. if you have outdoor plans, i would keep them, just late afternoon, and toward evening, you will be dodging rain and thunderstorms. at the moment, not worried about severe weather. there could definately be very strong gusts out of this, it looks about 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 at night philly get hit, maybe early evening dinner plans, keep an eye out, get the umbrella ready to go. >> this clears out off the coast rapidly by 8:00 p.m. pretty much at the shore line, by midnight it is all long gone. look at the temperature change in the last 24 hours. allentown, specially, 21 degrees, milder at this hour. as it translate to the thermometer off to mild start here, even in mount pocono. it is 51 degrees at this hour, in february, now, as the days progress, yes, back it reality, folks, especially come sunday. but we quickly rebounds back to the six 60s already, by tuesday, meisha. >> i don't think i've ever experienced seven's in february. this is so great. thanks, katie. good morning, everyone, and tgif. schuylkill westbound past the vine, looking at disable vehicle pulled out blocking obviously the shoulder but little bit of the left lane as well. that's something you want to be heads up. still dark out there. more and more vehicles, actually going to start posing as a problem. right now though however still dark still early. not enough vehicles to pose a problem. yikes in that area that certainly can. then talking about this little earlier. fire in vineland, new jersey, west landsis road closed between orchard and route 55. you will have to use that alternate. almond road is your best bet. then talking a lot of construction, walt whitman bridge eastbound two lanes are now open. 25 miles per hour. you have dropped down to. and this isn't because of the fog as we saw yesterday, this is actually because of the construction, then more construction, in new jersey, 295 north, before route 42, the left lane blocked, that should be lifting right around 5:00 a.m. i'll confirm, and let you know as soon as it does, but that's what they're letting us know right now, jan, rahel, back to you. >> with another record day on wall street, we'll have live report 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times a day, "kyw news radio" 1060 on your a.m. dial. well, asian authorities now say the half brother of north korean leader kim jeong aoun was killed by a chemical weather, the nerve agent called kim june nam's death, two women, one vietnamese, the other indonesian, accused of wiping this chemical on his face at the airport. classified the nerve agent as weapon of mass destruction. well, time now 4:50. time for check on business news. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us live this morning, from the new york stock exchange, good morning, jill. so the dow in a bit of a roll. what are investors watching now? >> reporter: yes, another day, another record, investors are focused on the trump administration, and its promised tax cuts. treasury secretary steve says a massive tax reform plan should pass congress by its august recess. he said the focus is on cutting middle class taxes, and also, simplifying the tax code for businesses. he says the administration's also focused on rolling back regulation, that hurt small and medium size businesses, so he made the media rounds yesterday before open. and wall street reacted. kim, are -- jim, rahel? >> jill it, has been rough week for uber. what's happening now with that company? >> reporter: okay, now, a lawsuit. google self-driving car company is suing uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets when it comes to sever-driving technology. also, in the wake of stunning allegations about sexual harrassment at uber, ceo travel tis met with about 100 female engineers, who told him yesterday, yes, there is a system attic problem at the company that uber has promised to fix, but a rough week for uber. >> wow. >> to say the least. >> see you soon. >> coming up after the break, we will get another check on weather and traffic. >> also, we're in for another warm day. katie has your weekend forecast, meisha of course checki >> we're looking ahead, pretty substantial change, at the moment, storm scan nice and quiet here locally. few clouds across southeastern pa, movement in the clouds as women. don't have terribly strong wind at the moment. perhaps you see a little bit of fog. it shouldn't be anywhere near socked in as yesterday was, though. so, we are on pace to climb perhaps even more on the thermometer, than we did yesterday, it is very likely, in fact, but the winds at the moment generally out of the south. it will stay either south or southwesterly all day today. that sends us on pace to hit 72 degrees, folks, maybe a little higher. we'll see how we do. but zero seven is the expectation saturday. again though potent cold front crosses through, afternoon, early evening, i would say between the window of four p.m. to 8:00 p.m. gust to eels. gusty thunderstorms along the line. if you have outdoor plans heads up. by the time we hit sunday, yes, dramatic change, a lot colder obviously, the sun comes back, and we're back to where we should be for the most part, meisha. >> look at the drop to 48 sunday. all right, katie, thank you. although who is complaining about 48 in february? still not complaining. disable vehicle here, maybe just there it is right here, so this is the ramp from the vine under the westbound schuylkill, heads up. still dark out there, still early. not posing too much of a problem right now, starting to see brake lights get tapped on here as you pass by here. whenever it is dark and you have flashing lights, little gaper delay, regardless of the congestion levels out there. make sure you have heads up on that, the exit ramp under the westbound schuylkill, that's going to start to pose little problems for us. and heads up on this. septa running new schedules through city and suburban transit. new schedules for select lines starting sunday, monday, heads up, no change to the market frank for line. and also we do have a lot of construction out there. walt whitman bridge one of them, eastbound two lanes open right now, dropped to 25 miles per hour, speed restriction in play because of that construction there, also some construction in jersey, 295 northbound, 442, the left lane blocked, that will be blocked until around 5:00 a.m. jim, rahel, back over to you. >> thank you, meisha. not the only ones enjoying unseasonably warm temperatures right now. >> down south in texas, flowers are already blooming. texas tulips in the town of pilot point is dealing with the early flowering, about 200,000 of their plants have already burst into bloom, and in addition to caring for the flowers they say they're also dealing with steady stream every visitors, who all want to see spring time flowers in february. i understand that. >> 2.50 a stem. little pricy, isn't it, texas? >> maybe because it is february? >> less expensive at wegmans, coming up on eye within news, live with efforts to find the driver of a car who fled after a hit-and-run in kensington. >> we continue to follow breaking news, huge flames ripping through a hotel in vineland -- vineland. jan with a live report to get it under control. >> plus she sang at the inauguration, find out why jacksie now asking to meet with president trump. we're back at the top of the hour. stay with us, everyone. at ikea, we believe that everything, from your lamp to your couch, should work as hard as you do. that green living is something everyone can afford. that you can sacrifice everything but a good night sleep. and we believe your furniture should last happily ever after. make the dream yours with ikea. >> we continue to follow breaking news in south jersey, firefighters arrive to find people hanging out every windows at a vineland hotel. >> we are learning more about some dramatic rescues that took place, our jan carabeo just got an update. will share it with just just a moment. >> also, this morning, a developing story. investigators have found the car they say was involved in a hit-and-run that left the victims fighting for his live in kensington, now authorities are searching for the driver. a live look at center city, katie here with our weekend forecast, and hopefully it includes more of these mild temperatures. tgif everyone, today is friday, february 24th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things on this very warm friday morning. good morning. >> yes, it does feel warm. how about that? >> it is friday, tgif everybody. starting offer little bit busy. just because of all of the construction, disable vehicle blocking our path, and an accident out there already this morning, so for a friday, a lot going on already. >> well, at least the wet letter cooperate. i don't think the fog is as much of a concern today. maybe few patches of it. at the moment i haven't found any field cameras that look really all of that hazy, i've been looking at the visibilities, they look pretty good. so still going to allow for it here, but, it is not going to be socked in like it was yesterday. and as we take a look outside in our live neighborhood network, you can actually see the skyline for a change. yesterday, even from close-up you couldn't make it outlet alone on this.