An infant had to be resuscitated and an adult was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after officials said a four-alarm blaze ripped through a building in Jersey City on Wednesday evening.

Authorities said that the blaze broke out in the basement of the building on Grant Avenue about 7 p.m. and quickly spread through upper walls of the three-story,  eight-unit building. 

Firefighters said a baby stopped breathing after being overcome with smoke, but the infant was resuscitated and rushed to the hospital.

An adult who was in the basement of the building was badly burned and had to be intubated, authorities said. A third person cut his hand while climbing down a fire escape.

The blaze was brought under control after 10 p.m. It's not clear what sparked the flames.

Kids are getting in the full football feel at the NFL Fan Experience at the Mall of America in Minneapolis. NBC10's Randy Gyllenhaal takes on the challenge.

Police have identified the Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a Virginia man, who police say intentionally struck a pedestrian with his car and then attacked the off-duty officer who confronted him, as a 23-year veteran investigator.

Detective James Powell, who is assigned to External Services was off duty when he came into contact with Khalil Lawal along Bigler Street near Broad Street around 7:30 a.m. Monday.

Lawal, 31, was driving a black Honda Civic south on Broad near Marconi Plaza when he made a left onto Bigler Street and apparently intentionally struck a man who was exiting his parked car, investigators said.

Lawal continued driving east on Bigler before making a U-turn and returning toward the intersection of Broad and Bigler near Marconi Plaza, investigators said.

As the Arlington, Virginia man approached the intersection, a Good Samaritan used his truck to block his path, investigators said. The Good Samaritan told Lawal he had struck a pedestrian. Lawal then allegedly chased the Good Samaritan on foot before walking back to his Honda.

Powell saw the incident play out. He approached Lawal as the suspect walked back to his car and identified himself as an officer as drew his department-issued firearm, police said.

The detective told Lawal to get on the ground, investigators said.  Lawal, who was around 6-foot tall and weighed around 250 pounds, charged at Powell, according to surveillance video obtained by police.

"They got into a violent struggle where the male struck the detective several times," said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross.

Several shots were fired during the struggle as Lawal tried to disarm the officer, investigators said.

"All we heard was pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. A lot of shots," a witness told NBC10. "And people running and scurrying around. It was really scary. There was even a baby seat in the car so that was scary too."

Lawal, who police don't believe was armed, was shot in the torso, legs and face during the scuffle. He died a few hours later at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

The officer was taken to another hospital and treated for head and shoulder injuries. He was later released. The pedestrian who was struck by the suspect's vehicle was also treated at the hospital and later released.

Powell was placed on administrative leave.

Police have said they have no plan to release surveillance video that is part of the investigation. 

Ross said that he had "concerns" about the incident. 

"I do have some concerns about the shooting, in particular whether all the shots were necessary," Ross said Tuesday. "Right now we're canvassing the neighborhood for more video and additional witnesses."

Ross also addressed initial reports that Lawal was targeting multiple pedestrians with his car.

"Right now we have not been able to confirm this at all," Ross said. "The only thing we know is of this one incident at this point in time that we are still investigating."

Police don't believe the incident was a case of domestic terrorism.

If you have any information on the incident, please call Philadelphia Police at 216-683-1866.

Philadelphia has taken the underdog theme to another level during this Eagles run to Super Bowl LII.

In a place where a pillar of the cultural foundation is held upright by Rocky Balboa, the team and its fans understandably took hold of the "disrespect" by Las Vegas oddsmakers, who twice made favorites out of visiting teams to South Philly in recent weeks.

But when does an active yearning for underdog status become masochistic?

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That’s like wanting to play the five-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots in the Super Bowl instead of a lesser opponent — say, the no-title-holding Jacksonville Jaguars.

Wait, that’s how some Philadelphians feel.

“I was rooting for the Patriots. Beating the Jacksonville Jaguars wouldn’t be the greatest accomplishment,” says Ed Rendell, the former mayor, Pennsylvania governor, and Philadelphia’s hype man for two decades running.

Philadelphia’s collective psyche, which stretches from the shore towns of South Jersey to steel towns of the Poconos, is an odd thing: Tears often follow success; resentment and then begrudging acceptance usually come after heartbreak.

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During the current Eagles playoff run, there seems to be a pep in people's steps, some more smiles than usual on people's faces. Those are newfound. More consistent over the years has been the feeling that an overwhelming challenge stands in the way. The deep-seeded underdoggedness goes back to the beginning, according to a proud observer of the ethos.

"We were once the second most important city in the British Empire," says MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who was born and raised in Philadelphia. "Then along came this city 100 miles up the road. New York took the spotlight away from us."

Since then, "we don’t even get mentioned," and that sense of being overlooked has lingered, he says.

It was present inside Lincoln Financial Field early on during the NFC Championship game against the Minnesota Vikings. Matthews saw it on the faces of fellow fans.

"I was not sure their faces were really ready for victory," he said. And when Minneapolis scored on its opening drive, "I sensed it in the crowd — another doomsday."

"And then the defense came through, not surprisingly,” Matthews said. He watched the fans some more. Hope was an unfamiliar look on them. "They weren’t used to this mood."

And then, there was jubilation. "Look at all those happy faces," he said.

Now in the midst of good fortune, with the Eagles just one upset away from the ultimate sports success story, the city is embracing the opportunity.

One man who has made a living off the highs and lows of local sports success is Peter Ciarrocchi Jr. As owner of Chickie’s and Pete’s, he loves a deep playoff run on multiple levels. Every playoff game is great for business.

"Business is slower if they lose. If they win, it’s a whole different place,” Ciarrocchi says. “They eat better food, drink better liquor. The food is better. Sex is better. Everything is better."

But he’s also a fan, and like most other Philadelphians, he has been waiting for the second shoe to fall, for an end to this success. He was one of those fans Matthews described seeing in the stands.

"The Philadelphian in me says, 'Are the Vikings that bad?'" Ciarrocchi remembers thinking as he watched the Eagles pound the Vikings, 31-7. "It’s not that way at all. It’s that the Eagles are that good. But going in as an underdog that’s who we are. We have been underdogs since 1776. Then we won the Revolution."

For the third week in a row, they'll be underdogs. Las Vegas oddsmakers opened betting with the Patriots as 5.5-point favorites in the game, Sunday, Feb. 4. Kickoff is 6:40 p.m. on NBC10.

Eagles fans may be surprised by what's happened in the week since betting began.

Gamblers are betting on the Eagles, so much so that that bookies have decreased the spread. The Patriots are still favorites, but now by 4 points.

That type of newfound respect is similar to the ascendancy Rendell has watched Philadelphia embark on since the turn of the century.

"I think a Super Bowl win would change the city’s feeling a little bit," he says. "But frankly, the progress this city has made has made a lot of people look at Philadelphia differently. It’s a place that hosts big things: the Pope's visit, the Democratic National Convention, the NFL draft. We've been rising over the last 25 years more than any other city in the country."

Maybe there’s something more to seeking out a dynasty like Patriots.

"We’ve already started to lose that inferiority complex," Rendell says.

For what it’s worth, Philadelphia’s funniest man alive, Kevin Hart, isn’t acting like the Eagles are underdogs. Regardless of a win or a loss in Super Bowl LII, he could be spokesman for the new era of Philadelphia self-confidence.

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Joshua Fineblum from Cinnaminson, Burlington County is the cantor at a synagogue in Minneapolis. He has a special message for his Eagles being mentioned in the Torah, unlike the Patriots.

NBC10's Randy Gyllenhaal is live in Bloomington, Minnesota to give us a sneak peak at the activities part of the NFL's "Play 60" program, aimed to get kids to exercise for an hour a day.

The owner of Marino's Pizza in Runnemede, New Jersey will be closing the doors at 6 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday to let employees go home to root for their Eagles. Customers should get in their pizza orders early.

Like most everyone from the Lehigh Valley to the Jersey Shore, you probably have plans to watch Super Bowl LII on Sunday.

I, for one, will be watching the game at home with family, and while I am parked on the sofa watching the game on NBC10, my car will be parked in the garage.

Roads will be messy and slippery before, during and after the game courtesy of a large winter storm.

If you choose to drive on Sunday afternoon and evening use caution and if like me you plan to hoist one for the Eagles, then please make sure you have a designated driver or another safe way to get home.

THE FORECAST:

By mid-day Sunday a mix of wet snow and rain showers will extend from the Lehigh Valley eastward through Philadelphia and portions of South Jersey and Delaware. Temperatures will be at or above freezing and any snow should melt when reaching the surface with little or no accumulation on grassy areas.

By kick-off at 6:40 p.m. Philadelphia time, Light snow will be falling across portions of the Lehigh Valley with a rain/snow mix across the PA suburbs and Philadelphia. Rain will be falling over South Jersey, the Jersey Shore and Delaware. Temperatures will be rising above freezing.

When the last snap occurs and celebrations break out across our area…it will be rain that greets and revelers as the head outdoors. Roads will be wet and slippery for anyone traveling home after the game.

Americans are pulling for the Eagles in the Super Bowl, but more Americans are interested in the commercials than the game itself, according to a new survey.

About 37 percent of people polled said they are rooting for Philadelphia compared to just 16 percent who will be pulling for New England, according to a Monmouth University Poll released Thursday.

Take that Patriots!

An even larger percentage - 39 percent - of the more than 800 people polled over the telephone said they want to see the Pats lose compared to just 12 percent wishing doom for the Eagles.

In total, the Birds have 43 percent of support compared to 18 percent for the Patriots. About 39 percent don't care how it all shakes out.

In the Northeastern United States people are pulling for the Eagles about two to one.

The guy running things for the Monmouth University Polling Institute doesn’t hold back on who he is supporting.

"I have to echo the national sentiment. Fly Eagles, fly," polling institute director Patrick Murray, whose office just happens to be decorated with pennants from Philadelphia's first Super Bowl appearance in 1981, said.

The underdog Eagles might have Americans on their side but the big game matchup, but many people don’t care about the outcome (39 percent) and nearly half (45 percent) have no interest in the game.

As for the commercials, nearly half of respondents are most interested in the Super Bowl ads rather than the game itself.

"This is the biggest sporting event of the year, but only one-fifth of Americans are really ginned up for it,” Murray said. “The TV commercials may be needed to provide a bit of a draw for the more casual fan.”

The poll also looked at the dubious reputation of Eagles fans.

“Philadelphia's fan base tends to have a bad reputation for how they treat other teams' supporters,” the poll said.

One in four people said they would be worried about encountering Eagles fans in a dark alley. Meanwhile, just 14 percent said they would worry about running into Patriots fans.

"It's probably good for Philadelphia's image that not everyone is afraid of their fan base," Murray said. "Nevertheless, it's wise to steer clear of South Philly during game days if you're not wearing an Eagles jersey."

Perelman Jewish Day School is singing the Eagles fight song in Hebrew. Perelman and the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston wagered the the head of school in the city with the losing team will wear the winning team’s jersey to school following the Super Bowl. The losing school will also plant 70 trees in Israel in the winning school's name.

The Eagles Road to Victory Bus is out and about again, pumping up fans for Super Bowl Sunday.

Philadelphia's famous underdog masks will be allowed at the stands at the Super Bowl, the NFL said Thursday.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy tweeted that Eagles fans can bring the masks -- though they have to be removed at security.

The masks have become a symbol for the Eagles' status as perennial, but proud, underdogs as they marched through the playoffs. After the team's 15-10 win over the Atlanta Falcons in the divisional round, Chris Long and Lane Johnson wore german shepherd masks on the field ... and a mask industry sprung up overnight.

Something called “Novelty Halloween Party Latex Animal Dog Head Mask German Shepherd” became an Amazon best seller. Other, less fierce, dog masks did, too.

NBC Philadelphia even created a Facebook camera filter that turns your head into a dog mask.

Now, we're going to see them all over the stands at Sunday's Super Bowl, where fans from Pennsylvania and New Jersey have snapped up about 20 percent of all tickets sold, according to StubHub. And that doesn't count Eagles fans from other locales.

We already know Philadelphia loves an underdog, especially jailed rapper Meek Mill.

The Philly native remains behind bars, but his music lives on thanks to the Eagles turning his “Dreams and Nightmares” hit into their unofficial anthem:

To get hyped for big games, the Eagles blast his music during practices, meetings and even in the locker room. And Mill’s hit could be heard throughout the Linc when the Eagles clinched the NFC Championship game on Jan. 21.

“It just gave us that juice," Malcolm Jenkins said. I've never heard the Linc that loud since I've been here.”

Since then, downloads of “Dreams and Nightmares” have skyrocketed, according to Amazon Music.

Average daily streams in Philadelphia increased twofold since the January 21 win. Across the country, daily streams of the track increased by nearly 1.5 times, Amazon Music said.

Pennsylvania and New Jersey music lovers lead the country in daily streams, followed by California.

“It really lifted my spirit to hear the team rally around my songs because that’s why I make music — to inspire others and bring people together,” Mill told NBC Sports Philadelphia.

The 30-year-old rapper was sentenced to two to four years in prison last year for violating probation on a roughly decade-old gun and drug case.

His lawyers unsuccessfully appealed to the higher court and have also called for the judge to step aside because "there was an FBI investigation" into her conduct and Mill's case.

Philly.com reported Thursday that the judge has since secured her own lawyer and even threatened to sue the rapper.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has a conspiracy theory. And it led to a bet with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. Here's their farcical video, released by Shapiro's office, showing how the wager came out

NBC10's Randy Gyllenhaal is in the Mall of America in Minnesota, to give us a peak into the NFL Fan Experience where he challenges local children to the obstacles.

There have been 65 confirmed flu-related deaths in Pennsylvania, and now officials in our area are targeting this flu emergency. NBC10's Deanna Durante reports.

While birds fans head to Minnesota for the big game on Sunday, plenty of them are taking time to enjoy the local sights. NBC10's Tim Furlong shows you one popular tourist spot.

While Eagles fans in Minnesota are dealing with the frigid cold, we're expecting some rain and snow in our region. NBC10 meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz has your forecast.

You've probably noticed tons of roadside pop-up shops selling Eagles gear around our region, and now fans are stocking up on all the Eagles gear they could ever want. NBC10's Cydney Long reports.

More than two years after being arrested for shooting a Philadelphia police officer in the name of the Islamic state terrorist group, Edward Archer has been found guilty of attempted murder and aggravated assault.

Officer Jesse Hartnett and his family cried as prosecutors presented their closing arguments Thursday.

Surveillance video played during closing arguments showed Hartnett being ambushed in a hail of gunfire on the streets of West Philadelphia on Jan. 7 2016.

Last week, Archer told a judge that he wouldn’t "plead to anyone but Allah."

Pleas of not guilty were later entered at the request of that judge. He will be sentenced in May.

On Thursday, the jury deliberated for several hours and asked to rewatch portions of Archer's police interrogation video. In it, Archer asked for Hartnett's name and inquired about his condition after the shooting. When detectives told him Hartnett was critically wounded, he said "I care about his condition."

But in other parts of the tape, Archer can be heard saying that he doesn't like police. 

"Make no mistake about it, Edward Archer was a man with a plan that night," Assistant District Attorney Jan McDermott said last week, adding that he was "lying in wait" with an illegal handgun, gloves and a scarf around his face.

McDermott told jurors that Archer rushed toward Hartnett with a handgun drawn as the policeman rolled through a west Philadelphia intersection in his police cruiser.

Archer fired 13 bullets, three of which shattered bones and damaged nerves in Hartnett's arm. Hartnett, who required multiple surgeries after the shooting, still managed to shoot back at the attacker, striking him once in the buttocks, the prosecutor said.

Throughout the trial, jurors watched surveillance video that showed a person in an all-white gown unloading a handgun into the driver's side of a squad car. The gunshots, pointed out by a detective who noted the small flashes of light from the muzzle of the firearm, were let off in rapid succession as the person approached closer and closer until their hands appeared to be inside the shattered window of the vehicle.

"I'm shot! I'm bleeding heavily," Hartnett could be heard shouting over the radio in a frantic call to emergency dispatchers.

The shooter fled, according to the video, and was followed on foot by a wounded Hartnett. Archer was arrested only a few blocks away, authorities said.