♪ >> tonight there are new developments in the disappearance of the young mother erika crippen. her husband has been charged with murder. now his mother is arrested for what police say is her involvement in the case. good evening i'm chris may. >> i'm jessica dean. it's a new disturbing twist. the mother of a man charged with murder now accused of trying to help her son cover up his crime. "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt has new information. i really want to find my sister

report roar the pain of not knowing what happened to her older sister weighs heavily on this woman. >> every day i'm wake up and i'm wonder wrack my sister is at. 26-year-old erika crippen is dead police believe and they insist her husband kyle crosby killed her. problem they can't find a body. crosby is behind bars chargeed with murder and police say his mother 67-year-old joe crosby helped her son cover it up. >> this is how we always new. we already knew she had something to do with it. >> police arrested the 67 year year old at her sicklerville home. detectives say she tampered with evidence and quote played a major role in helping her son kyle conceal the crime of murder. >> this is a bad thing a really bad thing. >> debra lives across the street and says she's closely fold the case. we spoke to her just moments after she learned about the arrest. >> i feel sorry for the family. i really do. it's not a good thing at all to

be going through. >> reporter: we knock on the crosby's door to get her side of the story. no answer. family members say the last time they heard from erika crippen was on december 30th just before she went to dinner with her hub kyle at his pj whelihan whelihan's in cherry hill. >> it's been too long. i don't think god can see our family hurt any more than we already are. >> she believes joe crosby's arrest is a step in the right direction. >> i want my family to rest so i can bury my sister and this can be over. i'm tired of it. >> reporter: reporting in burlington county, david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> two people were injured in an accident at the height of the evening rush hour. chopper three over sick 76 southbound near morgan avenue in camden. a couple of tractor trailers here that collided with a pickup truck. one person was trapped hadn't to be cut from this wreckage but their injuries were minor. the accident has in you been cleared and traffic is flowing once again. after a taste of spring

weather, get ready. we're in for a dramatic drop in temperature. meteorologist kathy orr is live outside on the cbs3 sky deck where it's comfortable now but kathy tomorrow will be quite colder. tomorrow at this time it is going to be brutal. it will be winter like between now and then though temperatures will be on the rise. it is going to be a very change changeable situation for st. patrick's day. take a look at storm scan3 right now mild air working its way in and most of this precipitation not making it to the ground a few sprinkles at best. the clouds have already rolled in to the delaware valley. right now it's 46 in philadelphia. 43 in reading. 44 in wilmington. so temperatures fairly uniform from north to south. but look to the south of us. in richmond 59. 59 in pittsburgh. even in cleveland it is 58 degrees. so the warmth is coming. tomorrow morning in philadelphia, we'll start the clock off at 7am we'll have a southwesterly wind the temperature will be 42. watch what happens by noon. we're up to 60 along the i-95 corridor. through philadelphia and

wilmington. 62 in millville. 50 in allentown. but northwest winds kick in with a cold front and by 7:00 p.m. we're down into the 30s and the 40s. big changes coming our way and after that, all eyes on a developing storm that will bring rain and even a chance of wet snow for friday. yes, in some spots it could accumulate. we'll talk about the possibilities and the limiting facts to this coming up later in the broadcast with that seven day forecast. >> okay, big changes ahead. kathy, thank you very much. two philadelphia firefighter firefighters are recovering tonight after they suffered a shock on the job. "eyewitness news" reporter todd quinones is live for us outside of temple university hospital where one of those fireman men is still being treated. todd? >> reporter: that's right chris that. one firefighter remains here tonight with third degree burns to his feet and he'll be kept here at least overnight as he's been admitted into the burn unit. in a frightening turn a relatively minor fire became a major incident two philadelphia

firefighters were shocked as they attempted to put away a 35-foot aluminum ladder. the ladder hit a power line, seriously injuring robert taylor. a 14 year veteran. >> he went from holding the latter position to his body just straightened up and stiffened up and he fell right back. >> reporter: protective gear fell firefighter eugene colter a nine year veteran could be seen outside temple university hospital where both firefighters were brought. >> very frightening close call. i talk to both members and they said exactly the same thing. routine fire. taking down a ladder which they do on a daily basis and they both shocked. >> reporter: two men from ladder 14 were responding to a house fire on the 2400 block of norris street in north philadelphia where they were injured. the fire was limited to just the second floor and quickly brought under control before 10:00 o'clock monday morning. >> overhead weiss are always a safety concern. >> an instructor in the fire science program at montgomery county and philadelphia county

community colleges. also as a former battalion chief in the philadelphia fire department he contends firefighters have a few feet to work with in between homes and power lines when they are bringing down ladders. >> i think these guys were very fortunate. obviously, in terms of their injuries were relatively minor. it could have been more catastrophecatastrophic. >> colter has been treat and released from temple university hospital. and he's at home right now recovering. as for the cause from that fire this morning that remains under investigation. reporting live tonight from north philadelphia, todd quinones cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> todd, thank you very much. the search continues for a suspect after a stabbing on the campus of lasalle university today. it happened just before 2:00 in a bathroom at the blue and gold dining commons. the campus was locked down for a short time. the victim is deliveryman for the jack and jill ice cream company. he is hospitalized but his wounds are not life threatening.

some breaking news. we have learned about allegations of improper conduct involving two temple university football players. this reported happened at off campus location in january. it's unclear what the alleged improper conduct was but the university says it is cooperating with police. the two students have been suspended from football team activities while that investigation continues. a gloucester county teacher faces charges to night accuse of photographing students in what police call their private areas while in school. police arrested 37-year-old adam mayer of washington township friday. mayer who teaches english at the gloucester county institute of technology is now behind bars on thee hundred thousand dollars bail. police are in the process of identifying all possible victims victims. we have learned tonight another student at a montgomery county high school has whooping cough. that brings the number of cases at souderton area high school to two. the health depth has declared the school to be an outbreak

status. officials recommend any students with the cough not come to school until they've been examined by their doctor and tested for whooping cough. nova nation is feeling good tonight. the wildcats were number one seed in the ncaa tournament and march madness has taken hold of campus. that excitement is translating into some cold hard cash tonight tonight. the villanova store's online merchandise sales tripled over the course of the weekend. both fans and students are eager for the tournament to tip off on thursday. >> it really makes me proud to be a student here. >> it's really excited. we're really pumped for them. >> they're very unselfish kids and great ball players. play villanova ball. they got it. >> that first round game pits nova against another pennsylvania team the 16th seed lafayette. the wildcats take on the leep so do you have your bracket together? do you think your bracket tolling skills can be beat? put your best bracket to

the test and you can win a $5,000 gift card in the cbs bracket challenge. all you have to do is go to cbsphilly.com/sports to sign up. good luck! well there are nudists tonight in the in the race for medical mayor. former city council jim kenny won a big endorse many much philadelphia federation of teachers today endorsed kenny saying that he has the right combination of energy, passion and experience. kenny who is a democrat announced his candidacy for mayor last month. well final day of campaigning the israeli prime story netanyahou. experts say that he is appealing to hard line voters on the eve of a closely contested general election. netanyahou governed israel for the patch six years. recent polls show his party lagging behind the more moderate opposition. jurorjurors in the tsarnaev trial

visited the boat where days after the boston marathon poll pollings. police officers described the gun battle that left his older brother tamerlan dead. tsarnaev has already admitted to his role in the 2013 attacks. and he faces the death penalty. new charges for millionaire real estate he rich. turned murder suspect durst. durst was illegally carrying a revolver when they arrested him in new orleans over the weekend. yell tonight prosecutors formal formally charged durst with murder in connections with the death of his friend susan berman back in 2000. berman was shot in the head just before authorities planned to interview her about the disappearance of durst's wife kathleen. durst was the subject of an hbi documentary sentence and admits add app pedestrian to admit his guilt during a taping. controversial statements land

fashion icons in the middle of a mess. fashion roll tie dough cheh and gabanna facing a fire storm of criticism over their comments. tonight what they're saying in response to the backlash. >> kathy. >> warmer air will move into the region before temperatures come crashing down and it will be cold enough for snow. we'll take look at the possibilities as a storm moves toward the region by week's end. imagine simple every day noises like a door closing or utensils on a plate leaving you in pain. it's no secret that exposure to loud noises can cause hearing loss but doctors now say there are other causes that's neck in the health watch. >> plus -- ♪ >> you probably have seen this video by now. tonight you'll hear from one of the

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nation of vanuatu. monster cyclone with 170 miles an hour winds caused major damage there. in fact the un says at least 24 are dead. 3300 are homeless. both ray yo and telephone communications are down. vanuatu has a population of 267,000. caught on camera in hawaii a really daring rescue here. watch as firefighters, a firefighter rather propels down a rope to an injured hiker below. officials say that hiker fell about 25 feet and then slid another 150 feet down the mountainside. after being pulled back up to the chopper the hiker was flown to a beach where he was met by an ambulance. we're toll the hiker is expected to recover. vice-president biden says a newly approved $41 million in federal money will help clear hap rape consist back logs nationwide. he toured the maryland state

police forensic lab. he spoke there estimated 400,000 rape kits that remain untested across the country. a rape kit which includes swabs tubes and glass slides is used to collect and preserve bodily fluids, fibers or forensic evidence left by a perpetrator. backlash and a boy scott tonight for fashion icon dough cheh and gabanna after the pair med controversial comments about quote tra dig al families. they describe babies born through artificial insemination as quote synthetic and they oppose same sex marriage. elton john and his husband who have two children through surrogacy are leading the celebrity boycott campaign now. dough cheh and gabanna never intended to judge anyone but they are standing by their opinion. on the health watch tonight, checking for heart disease. the american college of physicians now says ekg's are probably not necessarily if you are at a low risk for heart

disease. stress tests are done while a patient exercises and doctors say they can expose patients to radiation, trigger a bad reaction or problems during exercise. the american college of physicians is encouraging doctors to focus on risk factor that is patient can change including smokeing, diabetes and obesity. also on the health watch tonight when hearing hurts. it is no secret that exposure to loud noises can cause hearing loss. but some loss can occur even when there's no noise trauma and it can lead to long-term discomfort even pain. our health reporter stephanie stahl has more. >> reporter: for george rue every day sounds are unbearable. >> squeaky door hirshs hirshes. any type of fork on a plate like microscopic needles shooting in my eardrums. >> linda has trouble with louder noises. >> i won't say painful. it's not painful but it was just um, made me feel like high to cover my ears. roar roar the discomfort level

is different but george and linda suffer from the same thing thing. hyper accuse sis. >> basically you think of hyper means excessive and accuse sis means sound it's an excess tiff response to sound. >> reporter: that can range from sensitivity to even physical pain in extreme cases the condition can lead to depression and anxiety. >> they can essentially become her mitts or shut in because they cannot tolerate even the simplest sound. >> reporter: it's estimated about 8% of the population has hyper akisis some causes include exposure to loud noise certain inflammatory or infectious diseases and sometimes that is no clear cause. >> most of us think it's a brain perception problem where the brain is hyper drpa vigilant and sensitive to sounds. research is being done to try to figure out the brain path ways that control hyper acui.

i. >> treatments include using area plug wearing a special programmed hearing aid don sound therapy. >> people also have hearing loss or ringing in the ears. experts say current treatment oh options can take about five to eight months to work but not everyone gets relief. i'm stephanie stahl cbs3 "eyewitness news". well we've got a great new music video from children's hospital of philadelphia that has gone viral tonight. and we're going to meet the kids behind that youtube sensation. ♪ shake it off ♪ >> look at them go. patients created their own version of taylor swift' shake it off. among the p.m. stars in this video 15 year old needs a liver transplant. >> you can have fun even though you in the hospital. shake the bad stuff off. don't think of anything as being bad. >> video has over 200,000 views on youtube right now created by the child life department which

coordinates programs like art music and pet therapy. >> they are definitely shaking it off and having a great time. that's terrific. keep those spirits up. >> absolutely. an irrelevant expiration to everyone. >> can you inspire us with the weather? i don't think so. just about to turn -- take a turn for the worse. >> it will be wild in the weather department we're calling it march madness you don't have to wait for beasley in sports. we have it in weather. we're talking about crazy weather starting off warm tomorrow and then getting very cold and even a chance of snow. our weather watchers have our current observations and you can see them at the bottom of your screen. temperatures mainly mild in the 40s40s somebody 50s at this late hour. take a look. where we are looking at cool conditions settling in. this is view from campbell's field, of course the ben franklin bridge in philadelphia on the other side of the river the clouds have rolled in and we have a few sprinkles out there. take look at storm scan3. most of this not making it to the ground it is a warm front. milder air working across the delaware valley. and we had definitely be feeling

the changes come tomorrow. first a mild change but then turning much cooler in the wake of this as a cold front swings on through. now we have a storm system that is well to the west of us. we're talking about moisture that's coming from the pacific and that will be moving our way. redeveloping off the coast. take a look how things are going to be shaking off tomorrow. we'll start off with temperatures really mild at noon 62. after that cold front gusty winds out of the northwest will drive those temperatures down and the another afternoon in the 50's. by dinnertime in the 40s by the evening 38 degrees. and by midnight some 12 hours later, it will only be freezing so we're talking about a 30-degree temperature drop from noon to midnight. in just 12 hours. here's look what will happen. cold front moves on through. lunch time temperatures in the 60s. turn into temperatures in the 30s and 40s by the dinner hour. winds gusting to 30 even 35 miles an hour gusts so it will be a blustery night. during the day on wednesday sunshine temperatures in the 40s 40s.

thursday the same. with morning lows in the 30s and the 20s really not feeling much like spring and then tracking a storm system with moisture to the south. this system is going to redevelop off the mid atlantic as many storms have and it's going to be moving toward the northeast. this is the european model a little bit further to the east but you can see to the north and west of the city especially the possibility of snow. but we do have limiting factors. we have a very strong march sun angle. we have a lack of arctic air. no arctic air present it will be moving in during the afternoon so with ground temperatures above freezing and air temperatures above freezing it's questionable if it's going to stick at first we're not going to be seeing a lot of snow snow. but you can be seeing isn't during the day on friday. overnight, mostly cloudy the low 46. during the day tomorrow, for saint patrick day mild midday and then turning much colder with a cold front with gusty winds on the seven day forecast you can see we keep it cool wednesday and thursday. that rain and snow possible on friday as spring officially

begins. saturday quiet but turning chilly again in the 40s and the 50s. we want to remind you that our st. patrick's day parade will encore presentation tomorrow at 9am. we cannot wait to watch that. >> relive it all over again. >> relive the magic. kathy thanks very much. >> you bet. >> beasley is here a lot of excitement out on the mainline right now g we're talking march madness and of course villanova. but the eagles aren't done raising eyebrows as well. plus we fear the worst and that's the case. cliff lee is put on the shelf. does not look good. that's coming up in

it's the news phillies fans did not want to hear. the team has placed cliff lee on the 60 day disabled list. it's left forearm strain the same injury that shut him down last summer. surgery is recommended but that would end his season. so the phillies and lee have agreed to try to rehab the

injury with without going under the knife. >> part of you wants to just stay in there and keep throwing until something snaps and it's completely done and the other part, you know, want to make sure you do the smart right thing for your body physically and for the team and for everything involve. you weigh so many differ thing. the eagles aren't done making headlines. today the birds reportedly work out tim tebow at the quarterback position. esmn adam tweeted out he came and went and that the team is not planning to sign nim at this time. former bronco, jets quarterback has worked as an analyst since he was released by the patriots in 2013. sixers on the road tonight against the boston celtics. here we go. second quarter former sixer evan turner going hyped the back back. get a nice bucket in the paint that put the celtics up 55-29. third quarter now and avery bradley will find some space for the spot up jumper. sixers were never in the contest

contest. they lost 108-89. all right. march matterness number one seed villanova will open with lafayette in pittsburgh. tip off time 6:50 p.m. thursday night on tbs. 32 wins, two losses for the wildcats this year. won the big east regular season and tournament but the celebration quickly turned to tournament preparations. >> sunday we went to cbs studios in new york and then we had a bus ride home and our bus broke down on the new jersey turnpike so celebration was over. we came back and it was a selection show and we just started focusing immediately on lafayette. >> temple snubbed on selection sunday the owls are not going to the big dance. fran dunphy's team is one seed in the nit tournament they'll open wednesday night against bucknell but watching the selection show wasn't easy for the owls. >> i mean i kind of knew it when i saw texas and ucla. i kind of got a bad feeling

about that. when i saw boise state i was just like i can't say what i was thinking but yeah. >> all right. get ready to watch some basketball here's the thursday schedule for cbs3. notre dame and northeastern start it off at noon. then it's butler versus texas at 2:30. cincinnati goes against perdue at 7:30 and then at 9:30 it's unbeaten cep ken versus the winner of the manhattan game. we'll get you ready for march madness on wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. our march to indianapolis special. right here on cbs3. i'll host a panel of expertise and lesley van arsdall will be in pittsburgh with villanova. more news when we come back.

>> it was back to where it all began for sylvester stallone. >> where else? the steps of the art museum. "eyewitness news" was there today. we caught is it a lope filming the new rocky movie called

"creed". in it rocky becomes a trainer to the grandson of apollo creed. it's going to be released in november and sly has been all over town great seeing him once again today. we'll be right back. stay with us.