Reporter Cristina Martinez told us a daze like this, pinpoint the importance of immigrant labor. She spoke to us through an interpreter. It the is nice to see solidarity that is happening, immigrants are the backbone of the construction industry, restaurant industry. They want to voice their opinion, what are you going to do. It is the american way. Reporter for one day socalled day without immigrants, betty ann will have to make other arrangements. While they have all kind of cake, italian, all kind. Reporter but not the to take, i got to go to the acme and run down there. Reporter that was joe holden reporting for us. On the defensive, President Trump gave a vice News Conference at the white house today. President announced alexandria acosta is new pick for labor secretary. President and his administrations accomplishments and then, the News Conference took a dramatic turn. President trump lash out against intelligence leaks, media reporting on his administrations connections with russia and the obama administration. I inherited a mess. It is a mess. The at home and abroad. The leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake. No, nobody that i know of. Reporter you are not the aware of any contact. How many times do i to have answer this question. Can you answer yes or no. Russia is a loose, turn on the tv, open newspaper and see stories of chaos, chaos. Yet it is the exact opposite. This add perfectionist running like a fine tuned machine. After the News Conference, President Trump signed a bill, that repeals an obama era law limiting Mining Companies ability to dump mining waste into streams. Prisoner who says he was held hostage this is delaware prison standoff has filed a federal lawsuit and shedding light on the ordeal inside the prison. Handwritten lawsuit was filed by inmate donald against david pierce and other staffers. Lawsuit claims that tactical responders who stormed the building to end the siege injured nearly every prisoner inside. He says that he and two other inmates the protect a female counselor there other inmates. Correctional officers lieutenant steven thyroid was killed in the uprising. A new jersey judge ruled today that a criminal complaint against governor christie against the bridge gate scandal can go forward. The misconduct complained filed by a civilian accused christie of failing to stop his aid from closing lanes on the George Washington bridge in 2013, to punish a democratic mayor who did not endorse him. The governor has denied any wrongdoing. He is scheduled to appear in Municipal Court on march 10th for a criminal summons. A Montgomery County man is behind bars tonight charged with injuring his 24 day old baby, daughter. This is the suspect 34 yearold louise banano of harleysville. Police say he admitted to pressing the chest of the infant. The doctors at Childrens Hospital of philadelphia found the child suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs and other injuries. He has a preliminary hearing next month. Authorities raided a massage parlor in bala cynwyd Montgomery County today. Eyewitness nice on rock hill road as detectives took away boxes of evidence from that building. Lower merion Township Police say they executed a search warrant in connection ongoing investigation. But they could not disclose any details. Police made no arrests and authorities have not filed any charges. A night to remember is starting to turn into a nightmare. According to some students and parents at archbishop ryan high school. Dress code policy for junior and senior promised require students and their date to get their a tire approved by the administration before they can buy tickets. The students must send a picture of the front and back of dresses, chosen for the prom, some students, and parents say natalie policy is sexist. So far at least 650 students have signed a petition objecting to the quote female dress codes calling it quote degrading, arbitrary, and unfair. I think i know is what acceptable for high daughter. Why do i need somebody else telling me yes or no it is not reporter spokesmen told Eyewitness News natalie photos are reviewed by two female administrators and one male and used to make sure students show up in the approved dresses. We are told photos are then deleted after the prom. We wanted to know how you thought or what you thought about the rahm dress photo policy is this we polled our viewers on cbs philly facebook and we asked would you be comfortable sending a photo of your child to a School Administrator for rahm dress approval . 86 percent said no. 14 percent said yes. Wed like to hear from you. Find us on social media and comment on this and any other stories on cbs philly on twit ter and search for cbs philly on facebook. Earlier today the the School District of philadelphia revealed just how much cash they received through taxes, collected from Ride Sharing Services operating in the the city. The the first installment of ride share revenue is over 357,000. I can assure all of you that every single dollar is being invested in schools for the purpose of educating our young people. School district Superintendent William hite showed off check during shown i at district headquarters. Twentythird of the taxi from Companies Like lyft and uber goes directly to philadelphia schools. Eyewitness news was on hand for some demolition today in collinswood. Boro is partnering with st. Josephs Carpenter Society of camden to renovate abandoned homes there. The first is located at 254 harvard avenue. One of the first few abandon homes, once they are renovated , and sold, the proceed will then be used to target other abandoned homes and to keep that project going north Penn High School students celebrated black History Month today with an event organized by its africanamerican awareness club. Celebration included a fashion show, highlighting traditional clothing and modern styles. Students performed african dance, and performed many songs. At philadelphia poet laurel, a north pen graduate, resided her works as part of the event now to a heros story, south jersey man is sharing how he survive the holocaust and how he later came to america and risked his life for our country. As Eyewitness News reporter cleve bryan shows you these memories did not fade. Got phone call from my sister ernest, go home, immediately. Reporter ninetysix yearold Ernest Kaufman from lumberton new jersey has a life story that can rival any oscar winning script. Like many Holocaust Survivors that is is ripped him away there his family, and sent him to a perfect or filled concentration camp. They stuck a man this is psyched barrel spike with nails, rolled him downhill and then the dogs finish him off. Reporter at that point jew s were still allowed to leave germany. With the help he was released from the camp and moved to america where he later joined the u. S. Army. Here i am, fluent in german , working knowledge of french. Reporter he return to the country he thread as an Intelligence Officer taking down nazi regime that murdered his parents and killed millions of his fellow jews. Among his accomplishments preventing thousands office troops to be ambush in the river dam. It was isolated toward elements of our unit and probably would have made mints meat out of them. Reporter later they convinced german general to turn over small city sharing hundreds of casualties. He said nerd to save the city, and its the population, i decided to accompany you to your headquarters with my troops. Reporter kaufman advanced to the ranks of major during his nine year of service taking a bullet to the chest and receiving a purple heart as well as bronze star. Most parts of our conversations are just scratching surface. If youd like to mare more he is seeking at 1 00 at burlington county, and says he is wig to speak to other groups. He knows there are fewer and fewer World War Two veterans around to tell their stories n mount holly, cleve bryan, cbs3 Eyewitness News. A spike in cases, when we come back on Eyewitness News at 6 00 new numbers show more and more people are getting the flu. The reason why doctors say it is important to protect themselves. We have temperatures on the way up after a cold start to tomorrow. We could be chasing record by the weekend. We will tell you which day would be warmest and how long this above average streak will last. You can call them fighting word from governor chris christie. He set his sights on the phillies tan base once again. What he was saying this time and what the phillies have to say in response. Leslie. Ukee, phillies position players arriving to the game and all here, lots of jobs on the line even some of the starters are dealing the heat, ill have that later i flu is widespread and they are around much of the country and Health Officials say so far it has been an average year for the flu and natalie vaccine is working pretty well. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl is here with the special message from the Pennsylvania Health department. They have something they want everybody to hear. They say first of all we got off to a slow start to the flu season, probably because, the weather was mild but recently it has been ramping up and there has been more than 50 flu deaths in pennsylvania. It is what we call widespread. Meaning it is present in every county in the commonwealth. Reporter there robinson the with the the Pennsylvania Department of health says there has been a spike in flu cases cross the state in the last two weeks. Most of which we attribute to having a couple of spikes of cold weather, and the flu is a cold weather virus transmitted via tropical lets. Reporter there have been 33,000 flu cases confirmed in pennsylvania so far, just over 7,000 in new jersey, and almost 900 in delaware. While most people do just kind of get sick for a few days with the flu, there are some people who develop fatal complications which is why it is important to protect yourself. Reporter cdc says this seasons flu vaccine seems to be working pretty well. Preliminary figures show it is 48 percent effective, and it is considered a good year when flu shots are 50 to 60 percent effective. But still flu season and important to protect yourself, getting flu shot is best way to protect yourself. Reporter doctors say, it is not too late to get a flu shot. It takes about two weeks for the vaccine to kick in, which would be, just in time for the peak of the flu season, and which is expected in late february, early march and really important, and elderly and young people. Yes. If you have not the gotten them vaccinated now is the time to do it. Thanks, steph niece. Library in bristol boro is staying opened until midnight tonight to help the time score a big win. Writes toll is finalist in the Small Business revolution on main street contest. Now the boro is competing with four other towns across the country to win 500,000 in Marketing Services for Small Businesses. Bristol will be featured in a webb series, deluxe corporation is sponsoring the contest and will control how money is distributed, to the winning community. Well, he is at the it again, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie showing his disdain for philadelphia fan base. This time they are fighting word, fightin phillies. Governor appeared on the sports show fan baseball night in new york, and took dead aim till is suck. Yes. Lets just start with that. They are not good. Theyre an awful team, angry, bitter fan base and it is not safe for civilized people to go to Citizens Bank park if you want to root for the other team. You have to believe what . You have to believe were awful people. That is what you have to believe. This comes a month after an appearance on a new york sports radio show in which christie called eagles fans, awful angry. Wow. Phillies responded on twit ter, we love our fans and appreciate their unwavering support, and as we, bridge to a bright future. Umhmm. Social media, okay. Bridge. Kate bilo is here now and it will be feeling chilly. We will just move past that , syringe baseball weather bridge. It will feel like baseball wet they are weekend. In the syringe training baseball weather but real, phillies home opener spring training weather this weekend. That is what it will feel like , early start to what feels like a brand new season. That is not to say cold is done with us but even looking ahead over next several weeks not much in the the way of sustained cold, on the way, temperatures averaging above normal right through the end of the month which is just a few cooler spells here and there one of those cooler spells coming in tonight. You felt to it take. We have a beautiful looking evening. Still some light in the the sky as we head through midfebruary, almost late february if you can believe that and temperatures are going to start warming up. Averages are starting to increase and the take light length already starting to increase but it is still very rare to see temperatures approaching the 60s in midfebruary. This is just some unusual warmth, and again, as we talk about last half an hour could be a problem for some especially plants, crops had may start blooming too early. Last year everything bloomed early, very, very warm and then we had a killing toes in april and that means we didnt have a long growing season for for some crops, shrubs and high flowers didnt bear too well. Something to keep in mind if you are seeing budd outside your house and garden. No problems on storm scan three. Everything is quiet. Enjoy warmth this weekend but realize there are impacts to this as well. Even as we expect this warmth to be sustain right through the president s day who will take and into the end of next week. Temperature right now 33 in allentown. Thirtyseven in philadelphia right now. Thirtyfive in millville. Nothing all that warm right now but watch what happens as we widen out across eastern half of the country. Heres that line dividing winter from spring, at least that is what it looks like here. They are zero seven in st. Louis. Fiftyeight in nashville. Fortynine this rally tur ham. Heres the chill 37 in philadelphia. 32 degrees in boston. All this warmth will permeate into that cold, temperatures on their way up through the weekend. Tomorrow is a transition day. Still brisk, still chilly but seasonal and chilly. Not as much wind as today. Warm front passing through off to the north and you can see watch these orange colors as they start to lift northward during the day saturday and even more so during the day sunday. Sunday hey start with a to cloud and then temperatures well off to the races but monday we will start to see an east wind pick up and temperatures buckle back a little bit. Today checked in below average by 50 degrees, we didnt get out of the the 30s. Below normal today but as we head in the weekend and pretty much through next week, it looks like we will be in the red, a very warm february this will end up being for us here in philadelphia and all across the area. Overnight 26 degrees, breezy, cold, dealing like teens when you wake up tomorrow morning. Tomorrow is mostly sunny, seasonal at 44. Look at your weekend forecast, 61 degrees on saturday feeling like syringe on sunday at 64. Remember we had that one day a week or two ago where we had 66, great little interlude. Now we will have a few days all strung together. Weekend is beautiful. The president s day looks great just a little bit cooler. Tuesday 50 degrees. Then we are back to near 60 by next thursday. That entire stretch, barring tomorrow is averaging 10 to 20. Very, very unusual. Isnt it. Thanks, kate. Oh, hand. Dons up next with sorts. Thanks for bridging the gap between weather and sports. There you go. Bridge. Bridge. Relaying the big piece we have a live report from phillies spring training, plus , bad news ben, real reason why we have not seen simmons on the court, that is next in that has more ski mountains to choose from than any other in the country. And thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. You can find it all, only in new york. New york. Its all here. Its only here. Plan your winter getaway at iloveny. Com ryan howard is gone and now phillies are searching for a new power at first base. But leslie van arsdal is with the team and she joins us live from clearwater, florida, leslie . Hi there, ton ton. Gangs all here, lots of jobs to be had right thousand, young layers, just fighting for a spot the on the roster and yet even the starters, well, they are not taking thinking for granted. Tommy joseph is pend in as phillies fulltime first base man heading in to syringe training. Your job is never safe. Only confident is i have played in the major leagues before and i know the job that im competing for. Manager Pete Mackanin expects a lot from him. I think for a guy, you know , to make such a good i am regulars his first year in the big league he showed power, showed hit ago built. He has they ever really laid much first base but i am loved little by little during the course of the last couple of months. I think he is going go to show i am o. I think he will come up big for us. This was the teams utility hand, carries infielder glove and even a catchers myth in his equipment bag. Who knows is there a chance he could use them all off phillies bench this season. Mackanin say polanco is best utility guy he has ever seen. It is compromise. I dont know, i just, like i always say, when i talk to people i just want to do my best and, that is what i have to do. Well, lets get it on. You know, if you know Pete Mackanin he does not hand out compliments like that ever. So yes, that is, indeed, a very big tiehl. We will have first full squad work out tomorrow. Don, back to you. Leslie, thank you. Switching gears late start for flyers tonight they lay oilers in edmond ton at 9 00. Orange and black have scored four goals in their last five games, that struggle is real. Three weeks ago, a scan showed ben simmons broken foot has nod healed. That is what a source tells our good trend keith pompeo from the Philadelphia Inquirer he is scheduled to visit a specialist in new york to further evaluate the foot. He has in the played this season at all. There are only 26 games, left. So at this point you have to wonder, what and if we will see him at all. There was talk of bringing him back and joel for at least a couple games together. There was talk. Now there is talk, that, well, we may not see either one of them the rest of the season. Wow. So, it is tough. Okay. Keep us posted. When we come back you can say they are ahead of their time. We will hear from these youngsters and were and why they were going for a more mature look. We will be right tonight taste with tori meet an 11 yearold boy named leo, a spirited home chef who loves to cook with his mom and sister and his cooking that has become a habit this their home with many added benefits, because, leo has autism. Tune into this taste with tori served with a big helping of hotters love tonight at 11 00 s news. Students at Chester Community Charter School marked a milestone and celebrated an old fashion way. These kindergarten students celebrated hundred day of schools by dressing at 100 yearold and a real centenarian ernest jones came by. Jones recently celebrated his real 100th birthday. They all look good. They look great. Thanks for watching Eyewitness News at 6 00. We are back at 10 on the cw philly. We are back at 11 00 on kyw. Up next, cbs evening news. Up next is scott pelley. We will s captioning sponsored by cbs this administration is running like a finetuned machine. Pelley tonight, well take a look under the hood. To be honest, i inherited a mess. Pelley after the president s first extraordinary solo News Conference. Im not ranting and raving. Im just telling you. Youre dishonest people. You said today you had the biggest electoral margin sinces can raig. I was given that information. We had a very, very big margin. Reporter is putin testing you . There has never been a presidency that has done so much in such a short period of time. On the travel ban, would you accept that that was a good example of the smooth running of government . I do, i do, let me tell you about the