cristina grimmie. memorial services set for tonight in burlington county. >> "eyewitness news" report are cleve bryan has more. >> reporter: cristina grimmie was a young woman off chasing a dream and never lost their connection to hometown of evesham township, new jersey. they attended viewing friday and remembered her as a child sitting at their church fellowship alliance chapel. >> it was delightful, and heavenly, fun, and she just always wanted to, please people and be happy. >> it life dimmed too soon. kevin lit from st. petersberg florida gunned her down after a performance in orlando. >> i think it was a shock. i think it was painful. she had a trajectory in terms of where she was going where her life was going and to have it end all quickly and suddenly, violently, it was really a shock to a lot of people especially young people. >> reporter: after leaving for california to pursue music, grimmie returned to evesham township several times to

perform. many fans came out to say good bye. >> we're hoping today is a day of a celebration, of all of the people that she touched, and cristina touched so many people. whether they were, you know, young rising, 16 year-old girls who wanted to be like her or even older people and understood thaw can create a dream, chase a dream and accomplish a dream. >> reporter: line of peering pouring in the church has been continuous since the public viewing began at 3:00 p.m. the memorial services is scheduled for 8:00 o'clock. grimmie was actually laid to rest, yesterday, in a private services with her family. in medford i'm cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". returning now to our top story is there still a lot of information, police in bucks county are trying to piece together. >> twelve girls were found inside of a man's home, "eyewitness news" reporter joe holden is live outside lower southampton police department with a disturbing details,

joe. >> reporter: natasha, jessica, good evening. police are calling this one of the most bizarre cases they have investigated in recent memory. earlier this morning and last night 12 children pulled from outside of this house here on old street road, and at this point right now they are telling us that they are described to be amish. investigators say not a single child has a birth certificate and they weren't enrolled in area schools. investigators say a 18 year-old woman at this residence was apparently the mother of a three-year old child and infant. police say that 18 year-old was sexually assaulted for years by this man take a look at that picture on your screen, thinks lee kaplan, a 51 year-old man from the 400 block of old street road here. police say this case blew wide opened, after children and youth of bucks county were referred to the case from a child line reporting service. it is unknown if any of the other 11 children were subjected to abuse inside of this home. neighbors tell me they

complained, three years ago, that something did not appear to be right, we spoke to police within the hour. they brought us up to speed on their up vestgation. >> we believe they are originally from lancaster county, amish community, right now we're working on getting an expert with amish culture, to help us conduct interviews for these child ren. >> reporter: back live now also charged in this case is daniel and seville stoltz fuss of lancaster county. they are believed to be the natural parents of these 12 children, pulled from this house. the root of all of this police are only saying that it appeared to be some sort of a business agreement, between the stoltzfuss and kaplan but again neighbors telling us that for years, they have been making complaints about this and now, all of this activity, of course, stay with cbs-3 for latest on the case. reporting live from

feasterville i'm joe holden for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". funeral plans have yet to be announced for an 18 year-old philadelphia one killed in it or land owe nightclub shooting. akyra murray was recent graduate and headed to college with a scholarship before she was killed on sunday. also tonight new details are emerging about the shoot are omar mateen. a law enforcement the source tells cbs news that he was a regular in on line chat rooms specifically searching to meet up with both men and women. cbs news also reports that a search into mateen's electronic history he posted his allegiance to al qaeda on facebook right before carrying out the attack. he called 911 and tv station, and texted his wife during the police standoff. "cbs evening news" with scott pelley will have more on the developments coming out of orlando, that is coming up, at 6:30 right here after "eyewitness news" at 6:00. montgomery county woman is charged with murder in the death of her elderly neighbor.

authorities say that elizabeth floyd attacked 96 year-old albert payne in his driveway last december. he suffered a hip fracture and later died causing officials to rule this a homicide. the motive for the alleged attack is unclear. another developing story, at this hour, all lanes of the commodore barry bridge are completely shut down at the moment, this is because of an accident that took place near middle of the bridge which connects chester to new jersey. you can see one koran top of the other and at least one other cara peers to be involved in this. there are reports of injuries, at this point. we don't know the extent of those injuries but again all lanes are close todd traffic at this hour. we will bring you up to date at our newscast as well. jury deliberations continue in the conspiracy trial of the congressman chaka fattah but one juror has been kick out for not participating. the jury begun deliberations from scratch this morning on the second day, since they received the case. the judge told them one juror

has not been involved, and we learned yesterday, about some sort of a problem in the jury room after just four hours of deliberations. fattah is accused of using money from federal grants and donations to pay off an illegal campaign than loan. parents are outraged, after a fight breaks out at the philip randolph high school graduation ceremony in philadelphia, "eyewitness news" cameras were rolling at the independence sea port museum on penns landing. fire commissioner adam thiel was prior to speak at the time when several adults started fighting. we see them comforting the little boy who witnessed the mala. parents tell us that the fight may have been over seats. >> it is ridiculous, ridiculous that adults cannot behave themselves in a proper manner. my first born's graduation and here people are fighting like animals. i felt very embarrassed. >> police did not make any arrests, the graduation did go on as scheduled.

police in abington township are investigating after a series of home break ins overnight. total of five homes were targeted in jenkintown. one of the break ins happened in the 1,000 block of huntington road. thieves got away with video systems, lap tops, other electronics and cash. police say two other homes targeted were 2 miles away on thorpe road but the intended burglaries were stopped by security locks on the windows. philadelphia mayor jim kenney set to sign the sugary drink tax into law on monday. critics called that unconstitutional and they are preparing for a legal fight. "eyewitness news" reporter alexandria hoff explains whether opponents have a legal leg to stand on. >> reporter: effective january e distributors will be taxed one and a half sent per ounce of sugary and diet beverages distributed throughout philadelphia. city council gave their final 13-four vote yesterday, right

after opposition found immediately legal action. >> we believe we're on strong legal ground. we will see what they do how they do it, how they approach it. >> reporter: mayor jim kenney says tax will raise 90 million-dollar a year to fund expanded prek and other community projects. critics raised concerns after it was revealed that a small portion will actually go to the cities general fund. >> that whole thing should go to the kid. >> reporter: bigger question has become is this legal? first, the state already taxes sweetened drinks and pennsylvania law override city law. >> the response to that by the city is and city council is this isn't a sales tax it is a tax on distributors. >> reporter: other issue has to do with commonwealth's uniformity clause. >> it means that a tax has to be applied uniformly evenly across the board. this tax for a significant

amount of litigation and who knows how many years that will be. >> reporter: reason we keep saying philadelphia is first major city in the country to implement such a taxis because in 2014 berkley, california did so, at 1 cents per ounce. stud friday cornell university found that on average prices went up just half cents, ricky romea is diabetic and doesn't drink diet sewed. i'm in the clear. people will to have deal with that. >> reporter: in center city, alexandria hoff for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". we have learned state unemployment rate has gone up slightly. pennsylvania department of labor and industry says it rose to 5.5 percent in may. the national rate is lower at 4.7 percent. about 17,000 people who live in the state were looking for work. stay with us, still ahead on "eyewitness news" at 6:00 revisiting heart break. >> reason some people are told to go to the cemetery where they buried their pets, remove the head stones and dig up their pets remains. pushing back grand opening

few major hurdles multi billion dollar revel casino still faces two days after the doors were supposed to open, lauren. we have got good news in the weather department, beautiful dads day but we will heat things up for official start of summer on monday we will talk about that and next rain chance in the full forecast coming up. it was dinner but not just any dinner, why the sixers are making news for having a bite to eat plus a play making fan enjoys glory and defending ryan howard, hear from phillies gm matt klentak sports coming up next.

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now to what pet owners are calling a heart breaking nightmare. delaware spca is closing its stanton facility and officials are asking anyone with

deceased pets, buried on the ground toss relocate their animals remains. >> cash strapped delaware spca is in negotiation toss sell the nearly 21-acre property on stanton christiana road. more than 1,000 animals are buried on the property, and pet cemeteries are not regulated. also now, permit issues are holding up the reopening of the revel's casino. owner glenn straub bought the building in bankruptcy court several years ago and set june t opening date. but the city has in the received the necessary paperwork to schedule key inspections for temporary certificate of occupancy. >> electrical, plumbing, building, fire, so forth. that has not been received yet. i have been assured by attorney that will be here today. >> revel faces challenges at the state level as well, gaming officials say straub need a new license and just can't use license held by whichever operator he choose toes run the casino. the atlantic city casinos say

certificate of occupancy could be granted as soon as next week. special lunch was held at city hall to celebrate philadelphia fathers. kenyatta johnson held the event that honored 27 fathers. men were acknowledged for their contributions to the community and social and economic achievement ahead of, of course, fathers day. >> very nice. >> don bell has sports for us. >> we're talking baseball. >> all right. >> fightin phillies are home. weather looks good. >> yes. >> how about the play though. >> not so good. >> the phillies open autopsy hi game series against arizona in 45 minutes but fightins have lost 20 out of 26, last night, they looked flat out disinterested in the blow out loss to toronto. let's hope to see better effort today. during pregame warm up matt klentak talk to the media and said the entire team is struggling, people continue to ask about ryan howard, whether the big fellow is a

distraction. >> the biggest reason for that is the way ryan is handling it is way the team around him is handling it. it is not distract to go that group of people it should not be distraction to anybody. ryan has handled it. pete's communication with ryan has been outstanding. i don't think it is a distraction at all. >> play on the field has been, well, not great. it has been forgettable at best. last night though there was a fan who made a play to remember. brian of boothwyn made this one handed grab with his daughter against his chest. he dropped his fries, but managed to hold on to his cheese stake. >> you know, i know i'm in the area i didn't expect to get one by any stretch, and his hit, initial hit i said that is close to us but that is not coming anywhere close but way it is handled it just came right to me. i didn't have to move. i didn't even have to get up. >> he did get that hand up and he caught it and that was

ridiculous. breaking bread with ben, sixers had dinner with ben simmons last night. they met face-to-face before game six of the nba finals. first time two sides had met, sixers have the number one pick in thursday's nba draft and simmons is expected to be the choice. we will have a game seven in the nba finals and that will happen sunday night. here's how we got there cleveland cavilers beating down golden state warriors last night. lebron scored 41 for second straight game. cleveland wins it all, they will be the first team in nba history to win a title after trailing series three games to one. >> incredible come back. >> it is, but series has been, games themselves have been blow outs but they go back and forth. sea saw effort. >> good games. >> thanks, don. lauren is joining us now with a look at your weekend forecast and things are looking up in that direction as well. >> looking good got plans to dad, take him to the beach, a

little hike in the poconos that sound good. >> sunshine will dominate our weekend head after kind of a cloudy start to the day to day. we had rain yesterday all thanks to an area of low pressure that passed off to the south but keeping moving south and it will allow thaws sunshine as we head into the upcoming weekend. but take a look at our cool time lapse between neighborhood network and cape may county courthouse this was this morning and throughout the day that cloud deck slowly eroded revealing that sunshine and pleasant conditions, and it command right now with that blue sky in effect and sunshine beating down and sunshine at the scene here getting a live look at center city philadelphia from sky scan three. beautiful end to the workweek. warmer day. seventy-eight your current temperature. little will mugginess in the atmosphere so it feels like 79 t 9 miles an hour. we have a temperature gradient across the area thanks to the sea breeze. temperatures much cooler in the lower 70's but still

pleasant conditions at 78 in the city and warmer off to the west. 80 degrees is your current temperature in reading. have that humid day yesterday, muggy start to our day, dew points have been slowly dropping off, not as humid as yesterday but dew points in the upper 50's to near 6o still a hint of humidity in the atmosphere. dew point change over last 24 hours showing us, dropping off, all of our reporting sites down 12 degrees in millville. as we head in the overnight period, these wind will slowly keep falling and as we head in the day tomorrow down to the 50 tea glee level. it will be feeling awesome when you step outside. more comfortable conditions in store for our saturday. offer night tonight can probably turn off that ac mostly clear, comfortable down to 58. wind light and variable. for kick off to the weekend mostly sunny 82 degrees, comfortable beautiful conditions southeasterly wind in check at five to 10 miles an hour. storm scan three showing thaws cloud deck that moved out in the day just a few clouds

right now over parts of the berks county, couple sprinkles as well but area of low pressure is well off to the south taking cloud, inclement weather and shower activity with it and keep moving away from the delaware valley. high pressure settling from the north strong high pressure promoting sinking air very stable air so it keeps sunshine around as we head into your fathers day, high pressure overhead in philadelphia, all throughout the day. no other weather systems to contend with. your shore forecast for next three days looks perfect, 78 degrees and sunshine, great beach day for dad if you have an extended weekend sunshine, warming up into monday 82 degrees and heating up in the city for sure a high of 87 e kick off officially start to summer into tuesday we are up to 90 degrees, steamy conditions, humidity returns to the atmosphere but then as we head into mid week next week slowly fades away and only rain chance is on tuesday with a round of afternoon storms due to a cold front.

>> we're approaching summer, how have we done in terms of the spring, it was wet in may but we are pretty average. >> it was all over the place with wet may and temperatures have been warm so far for june. we will get to keep that it way. >> thanks very much. >> well, stay with us, still ahead on "eyewitness news" celebrating service. >> police officers in our area being recognized for protecting the community. ♪

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philadelphia police department recognized several officers for their longevity on the job today. >> nineteenth police district held annual award ceremony in west philadelphia. officers who worked for 20, 25, and 30 years, were honored. fourteen officers received

award. and the captain of the 19th district says that the department also recognized, the officer's families. >> the family behind that that makes their job ten times as hard. it is important that not only we recognizing officers but more than that recognize goes to their families as well. we would be remiss to leave that out. >> big congratulations to all of the award recipients. also big weekend for outdoor activities, today is second day of the annual fire fly music festival in dover, delaware. chopper three over the wood land festival site this afternoon. crowd gathering there. you can also still see later look at how big that crowd has swelled too. it will get bigger as we head in the weekend, so many act down there this weekend. >> "cbs evening news" is just minutes away. >> here's scott pelley to tell us what is ahead. >> hi jessica and natasha great to be with you in philadelphia here's "cbs evening news" tonight, hundreds have evacuated tens

of thousands of acres are burning, we will take you to the big fire scene out west. plus what the orlando gunman texted to his wife during the attack. after the events tragedy steve hartman reflects on the lessons we have learned, when he goes, on the road. those stories just ahead on the "cbs evening apparently, people think i'm too perky. so now i'm not being perky, telling you that drivers that switch to progressive save an average of $548! whoo! i mean, whoo.

here's a cool story out of luzerne county, pennsylvania. >> police there are actually, handing outsidetations to kid, as a reward, not a bad thing, to wye sickle list wavering their helmets are receiving ice cream citations. kid can go to a localize cream shop for a free treat. the chief says it was met with mixed reaction at first but now everybody loves it. who doesn't love free ice cream right. >> we all say yes, please. >> i'll take some. thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00. we are back at ten on wpsg the cw philly and back here on cps3 at 11:00. up next, tonight a major fire scene burning out of control out west, terry okita is on the scene as fire crews battled the growing blaze. here now from new york is scott pelley.

>> pelley: fast and furious. a california wildfire triples in size overnight, racing toward the ocean, chasing 00s out of their homes. >> you can see the flames going up, and the wind picked up and it got really, really, really bad. >> pelley: also tonight, the orlando gunman's online life, seeking both women and men. and we hear for the first time from the family of one of his victims, eddie justice. >> it's just a pain-- that pain won't go away. it hurts so bad. >> pelley: and steve hartman on another week that has left america numb. >> all these things tend to blend together, and my