Right now on nbc 10 news at 11 00. Looking for answers. House lawmakers are preparing to investigate a possible tie between russia and the u. S. Election. Searching for a suspect. Tonight Philadelphia Police are now trying to find eight teenagers after a attack on the platform was caught on camera. And goodbye winter spring is now just hours away. We have your first alert forecast as you head back into your workweek. Nbc 10 news starts now. Good evening, this is nbc 10 news at 11 00. And tonight, people were bundling up and eating outsides at the last night of winter. Britton house square tonight. We are less than seven hours until the first day of spring but right now it does not exactly feel like it. Nbc 10s Andrea Thomas joins us live more with now in center city. Reporter this is how were welcoming spring big mounds of dirty snow and ice. It has been a mild winter, but many people are ready to see it go. Despite the calendar saying tomorrow marks the first day of spring, winter coats are still required while walking through the city this evening. This is not an unusual thing to happen here. In march, to sort of remind you that winters still out there some place. Reporter almost in defiance of the chill in the air, diners chose to eat outside thanks to the warmth of heat lamps. What do you look forward to in spring . What does it represent to you . Rebirth, flowers, birds returning to the area. Reporter thats why an estimated 245,000 people flocked to the Pennsylvania Convention center for the philadelphia flower show. For me this is just like a breath of fresh air. So im glad to be at the flower show. Reporter reprieve from the snourm last tuesday, days later, the ice continues to linger meanwhile inside the dutch theme of the show provided a colorful inspiration about whats possible in their own home. I try to get here as often as possible. Just to see all the Pretty Flowers and get ideas for my garden. Reporter planting season is still a few weeks away but full blooms will be here before we know it. Tomorrow is the first day of spring hurray. Reporter hurray indeed as for the snow and ice piles, the Streets Department is working on getting them and loading them on to dump trucks and hauling them away. Reporting live in center city nbc 10 news. Thanks andrea. Down at the jersey shore, spring is in bloom. Nbc 10 outside the display at mr. Green genes farm market and greenhouse. That does feel like spring. Now lets get to the first alert neighborhood forecast for that meteorologist erica martin. Denise were so excited spring is just hours away. Officially starts at 6 29 a. M. Set the clocks now. Set those alarms tomorrow morning. Current temperature, 42 degrees. We talked out at 50 at Philadelphia International airport. We have clear skies for tonight. We do have chilly overnight temperatures. So keep that in mind make sure you bundle up. Neighborhoods right now around philadelphia seeing lots of 40s, few upper 30s, manio at 42 degrees, show those conditions right now, pretty mild but getting colder because we have mostly clear to clear skies. Satellite and radar image, this is the one hour loop, look at this, not much as far as clouds go and heres why, a wider perspective, we have an area of High Pressure sitting over the ohio valley. That will influence our weather at least until late monday into early tuesday. Youre out the door forecast, we will start off chilly tomorrow morning, so bundle up because were going to start off in the low 30s, some of us in the upper 20s, especially likely for the pa suburbs and Lehigh Valley 25 degrees. Bundle up. The good news is temperatures by tomorrow closer to average for this time of the year. We warm up by tuesday and 60s by saturday. Ill see you in a few minutes. New season begins thanks. Tomorrow a packed day on capitol hill. The House Intelligence Committee will investigate the possible ties between russia officials and the u. S. Election. Nbc 10s lauren meek is down in washington tonight and speaking with local lawmakers leading that investigation. Reporter after months of questions, this hearing is a chance of answers into what russia may have done to interfere with the u. S. Election and contact with anyone here at home. Inside washington, d. C. The Intelligence Committee set to get to work. Tomorrows the front edge. Its going to go wherever it leads it goes. Reporter sfrank on the committee. He talked to nbc 10 about the investigation. Was there a connection, did something go wrong, was something wrong with an individual . With a situation . I think America Needs to know. We all need to know. Reporter at the heart of some from lawmakers, the nature of any contact between Trump Associates and the russians. Have you seen any indications at this point that there were any inappropriate associations or collusions . No theres been nothing up to this point that has led there were connections, there were contacts i guess i should say. Theres nothing of any criminal nature that has been uncovered by anybody at this point. Reporter the first witnesses in the hearing, fbi director james comey and director of the National Security agency mike rogers. Outside this committee, lawmakers democratic congressman Brendan Boyle are watching. To me american democracy is sacrosanct. We cannot allow any Foreign Government to play dirty hand into our own u. S. Elections. Reporter he sits on the Foreign Affairs committee. We have all 17 intelligence agencies in the United States saying there was russian involvement in the u. S. Election. We now need to get to the bottom to how deep it goes and who was involved in the u. S. Side. Reporter lawmakers will be able to question witnesses, but congressman did remind that this is an open session. No classified information will be able to be revealed. In washington, d. C. Im lauren mooek, nbc 10 news. Tonight a followup to a story we told you about this week. The police are now asking you to take a good look at surveillance pictures in connection to a brawl at a station on thursday. They tweeted the up close pictures of eight people we dont know whether they were involved in the fight except police to want know what they saw or no. All are wearing dark colored coats. If audiotape closer look, we have the pictures posted on nbc 10. Com. And like we mentioned, the fight happened on thursday a teenage boy told nbc 10 he was he noticed a group of teams throwing ice at children. He said he told the group to stop and was then followed into the station, jumped and beaten. New at 11 00, police lit up the neighborhood as police tried to figure out who is responsible for a deadly shooting. Detectives used flash flights to search for clues on the snowcovered curbs. Police telling us around 7 30 a man was shot twice. He died at the hospital nearly an hour later. Now two people two Police Officers rather and a resident were taken to the hospital after a fire broke out at a south jersey apartment building. It happened at the sycamore ridge. Investigators say the officers were hurt when they went into the building looking for people. All three of the injured were treated for smoke inhalation. New at 11 00 take a look at this. Two families are now left without a home after the two homes went up in flames in burlington county. The fire started just after 6 00 in florence township. It took crews a couple of hours to place the fire under control. No one was hurt and were working to find out what started that fire. Also new at 11 00, police are investigating the shooting of a man outside a store in trenton. Investigators say the victim was twice or shot twice on the 800 block of the avenue. It happened just before 6 00 tonight. The man was taken to the hospital, were working to find out how serious his injuries are. And the first alert traffic warning that could impact your morning commute if you drive the pennsylvania turnpike. Now the express easy pass lanes at the midcounty interchange will be closed for the next three weeks. The lanes are close so crews can upgrade overhead electronic tolling equipment. Now during the project, drivers can still use the traditional easy pass planes that are next to the express lanes. Police in Delaware County are looking for the person who fired a shot that hit a Police Officers car this afternoon. That officer was in his personal car when it was struck by a bullet near ninth and tillman streets in chester. The officer was not hurt. Well tonight, a twoyearold girl is recovering after being hit by a car this afternoon. Philadelphia police saying a driver hit the driver in southwest philadelphia and then just took off. The girl was taken to Childrens Hospital of philadelphia where she is in stable condition. A federal judge who blocked president trumps revised travel ban rejected the Justice Departments request for clarification. According to court records, the judge said theres nothing unclear about his order. The Justice Department had asked a judge to clarify his temporary restraining order, only applied to the ban on travel from six mostly muslim countries and not a global freeze on refugees entering the u. S. Next on nbc 10 news at 11 00, local leaders from all states coming together. Well take you across our entire region to tell you about their call for justice. Also flag controversy. Hear why a group decided to fly the confederate at one of the sites of the ncaa tournament and how the College Organization is now responding. And denise im tracking the forecast for the first day of spring. It looks like sunshine and temperatures on the climb. I have all the details in your most accurate forecast, coming up. This is the silverado special edition. This is one gorgeous truck. Oh, did i say theres only one special edition . Because, actually theres five. Ooohh aaaahh uh hooooly mackerel. Wow. Nice. Strength and style. Its truck month. Get 0 financing for 60 months plus find your tag and get 5500 on select Chevy Silverado pickups when you finance with gm financial. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. South Carolina Group stirred up controversy at the site of ncaa tournament games when they flew a large Confederate Flag above a parking garage in greenville. Members of the South CarolinaSecessionist Party say they want lawmakers to speed up the process of finding a permanent home for the Confederate Flag that flew across the dome. They lifted a boycott against South Carolina back in 2015 after the flag was permanently removed from the state house grounds. The organization issued a statement reading in part we are committed to assuring that our events are safe and accessible to all no symbols that compromise that commitment will be permitted to be displayed on Venue Properties at the tournament controls. Well surprise winning new york city newspaper columnist has died. A family friend says he died at his manhattan home this morning after falling ill with pneumonia. He worked for decades at several newspapers including the new york daily news. He won the prize for commentary in 1986. He was famously contacted by son of sam killer david berk wits promising more murders. He was 88 years old. House Speaker Paul Ryan says hed like to see some changes made to the proposed Gop Health Care bill to offer more help to older people who are not yet eligible for medicare. Ryan insisted he felt good about bills prospects but acknowledged house leadership was making improvements to the bill to reflect peoples concerns. Now house vote is scheduled for thursday. Fire and floods are big concerns tonight in the western part of the country. Homes are threatened by a wild fire in boulder, colorado while the northwest could see more severe flooding. Steve patterson reports. Reporter with more than 60 acres burned, the flames are hopping dust above a row with min medical school containment. Further west wet weather makes for shocking scenes subdivisions transformed into residential rivers streets that look like ve knee shan canals and parts of washington. Portland, swept away. Not something you expect on your daily commute to work. Reporter three men survive uninjured after a hillside collapsed. The warning heard across the region conditions are primed for more. We have had so much rain this entire winter and when we get rain like that the earth moves. Reporter this week theres more rain in the forecast. With the bulls eye, some five inches expected near the dam. To prepare for more rain. Weve also gone to extreme efforts to basically clean out and caulk every crack on the deck. In february nearly 200,000 residents were evacuated as an auxiliary spillway over top. After one of the wettest winters on record rapid snow melt this season could mean more flood danger across the west. A new norm for a region that once couldnt get enough rain now bracing for more. Steve patterson, nbc news los angeles. The space x dragon cargo splashed into the Pacific Ocean this morning following the companys tenth Cargo Resupply Mission to the International Space station. Nasa says the spacecraft returned with technological samples. Up next a return trip to the space xs test facility. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. I know you were watching comets today. Yes. I cant get too technical, we took astronomy, its hard. You have more information if you follow us both on twitter. No worries, were going to hit 50 tomorrow and tuesday. Overnight lows, 24 noral tentown. Philadelphia, youre expected overnight low a chilly 30 degrees, why is that . Well, we pretty much have mostly clear skies right now. Satellite and radar images is your one hour loop picking up on not much right now. Mostly clear skies, few clouds just to the west of us and heres why p. We have this massive area of High Pressure developing over the ohio valley. Thats pretty much going to slide eastward and influence our weather pattern locally. Get ready for plenty of sunshine on your monday. So the start of spring starts off with sunny conditions, but a chilly start. Temperatures closer to average and possibly some late p. M. Showers, but ill time that out for you hour by hour. Now the workweek 50s through tuesday. Colder conditions wednesday and thursday, cold front sweeps through on tuesday, so it means 40s for what both wednesday and thursday. By the weekend, we see a big warmup with 50s on friday and 60s by saturday. I am tracking some rain for the following weekend. Current temperatures right now for allentown, 40 degrees, trenton at 42 dover at 41 degrees and 42 in philadelphia. Todays High Temperature in philadelphia, 50 degrees, not quite the average High Temperature, but by tomorrow were going to be pretty darn close. Im excited about that. I hope you are too. Neighborhoods right now in and around the pa suburbs seeing lots of upper 30s, 37 degrees. So milder conditions. Right now, we do have mostly clear skies, so its only going to get chillier overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. New hope 42 and bed minister 39 degrees. Here is your out the door forecast. I want you to look at 10 00 a. M. , lots of sunshine. Before we get there however, you do have a chilly start at 6 00 a. M. When youre headed to School Tomorrow to work be sure you bundle up for the pa suburbs, upper 20s at 6 00 a. M. Mid20s for the Lehigh Valley. Plenty of sunshine and a nice warmup as the day progresses. Now hour by hour forecast i talked about the chance of some possible showers making it late monday into tuesday, but look at this here hour by hour really doesnt pick up on clouds developing until late monday. The earlier one actually had some showers moving in by about 11 00, were not really seeing anything until tuesday, really around 2 00 a. M. Until early tuesday morning, maybe 4 00 or 5 00 a. M. And everything clears by tuesday, 10 00 a. M. For the most part im going with mostly sunny skies on monday and a nice warmup, and no showers until very early tuesday morning. Your ten day on ten brings us temperatures in the 50s. That bumps us up two degrees on monday. P. M. Chance im going to leave that in there. Here is your cold front gusty conditions. 42 degrees on wednesday. 44 on thursday and then we climb as the warm front sweeps through, 56 on friday, 66 on saturday with a chance of showers for the weekend. Hey im danny from csn. Sixers face the celtics squad this afternoon they hadnt beaten in 11 tries. Well show you how they orchestrated the sixers first w over since 2014. That and much more next in sports. This is sports desk brought to you by xfinity. X1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. Hey good to see you as always, im danny from csn. Lets start with the fliers who after making the playoffs will likely watch the post season for home this year. The orange and black have 12 games to go including the hurricanes tonight, but showed they will not give up on their season without a fight. Have a look steve mason back between the pipes after leaving with cramps on thursday. Into the first period its the youngster, ivan with traffic in front. Pretty ricker fliers strike first. Sixth goal of the season. Go to the Second Period travis connecting wheeling around the offensive zone. Throws in for the gold mouth and dale picks up the loose change and deposits it in the bank. Fliers double their pleasure on the fourth of the year. Things quickly change. The hurricanes come back with three straight goals. Fliers scrambling, under a minute to