the first floor, and it spread throughout the building, shooting out of the have roof front to back. luckily in one was injured in the fire but fire fighters have been having a hard time containing it. wind has been a factor all night, fire got up in the second floor and have roof area, and it is going in the direction of the wind. that is our issue tonight. reporter: wind was a factor last night and this morning and still windy out causing problems for fire fighters. new red cross is assisting with five families that is a total of 17 people, six of them children, they have been taken to a nearby hotel. fire fighters say it is still too early to determine what caused this fire. we are live from atlantic city, syma chowdhry for cbs-3 eyewitness news . pennsylvania state troopers, state police are calling shooting death of the troop inner a local gun range an accident. trooper david kidra was shot in the chest during a training exercise at montgomery county public safety
three-quarters of an inch reported at phil chapline s home in philadelphia he is in chestnut hill. lets look at how things will progress through the rest of the tonight, visibility low in the north and western suburbs but much improved, in philadelphia, and wilmington. we are seeing full visability, 10 miles, crazy but still low in trenton. mount pocono, reading, fog comes up quickly and play it safe out there tonight as we just noted some spots under a half mile visibility. slow down. use those low beams. it does disperse. we are in the lull know but watch at two or 3:00 a.m. heavy rain and these could be thunderstorms from embedded thunder here and there by 6:00 a.m. we will see the end of it. that pushes out. we will see sun as we get into early christmas morning. that is great news. we know a lot of you will be heading roads tonight and carol erickson out in the mobile weather lab keeping a close eye on the conditions. carol getting ready to make her way to the ben frankl
can see visability will stay low throughout the evening hour and then gradually come up through the overnight into christmas morning. better news heading in the holiday weekend. i will that have in a bit but for now lets check out real time conditions on the roadways. we will send it out to meteorologist carol erickson live from the mobile weather lab in cherry hill, hi carol. well, you know, kate, i m in the cherry hill mall right now. roads getting here were wet but not nearly as busy a as what we are find nothing these malls. now this mall, cherry hill mall, close is a at 6:00 o clock tonight. we have seen people backing out of spaces and three cars trying to get in. obviously people have not done all of the shopping that they are supposed to be doing and have done by this point. let s turn down here and you can see where we re right outside macy s, rain has stopped which is a good thing for people trying to juggle packages and also bring some gifts into the car. but boy
this happened as the police officers arrived back from work this morning. matt delucia has been on stevenson avenue gathering information. what have you been able to learn? reporter: the man shot by the police officer is in the hospital. prosecutor s office are out here. they have been for several hours. they are taking pictures right now. i m told that they are just mapping the scene before they head out. the shooting happened just down here on stevenson avenue. l let s show you what it looked like when detectives were talking with residents. i m awaiting details. i talked with the fop president. this was a police officer just getting home from his shift. he had gotten out of his personal vehicle, a truck, when a man he claims walked up and tried to steal the truck. when the officer tried to stop him, the man put the vehicle in reverse and tried to back over the cop. that is when the officer fired his gun several times. again, that information is from the local president o
training facility for police officers. and for working police officers. and for emergency personnel. so we are asking what exactly happened here, was a police officer or a police officer in training involved in this accident? again, we re getting very little information but we hope to get more answers to our questions in just a few minutes. as we get more information, we will bring it to you. live in conshohocken, lu ann cahn, nbc 10 news. and nbc 10 first alert weather tracking rain approaching the delaware valley this evening. you can see the line of showers moving in from the weston first alert radar there on your screen. nbc 10 chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking the timing of this rain and just how much we could see. glenn? we ve been talking about watching this for hours. it is certainly going to be after 7:00. you can see some of the clouds related to that line of showers back in the western sky right now. things are pretty quiet right now i