>> well, shocking vandalism in a jewish cemetery in wissanoming more tombstones in our community push from their pace bases some destroyed. >> i'm natasha brown. the vandalism at the cemetery is shocking and not the first time our area has seen a crime like this. two weeks ago a britdz burg cemetery was defaced. as old as the seam tire itself snaebd 1887. >> and today toppled grave stones were found in a cemetery in philadelphia wissanoming section. joe holden is "live" in wissanoming he has the latest on this vandalism.

joe. >> natasha, good evening, there's wide ranging calls from local and politicians condemn what did happen here. now, just within the last 0 minutes a small group prayed and sang in response to what they are calling just sheer hate athe grave stones around them remain toppled tonight. >> in a race against daylight a small army of people showed up at mt. carmel cemetery in the wissanoming section of the city. two up right head stones. philadelphia police say sometime overnight more than 1 100 were knocked down and estimate placed number of toppled grave stones higher. jewish families have buried their dead here for more than a century. >> these are head stones that weigh some of them sons and

this is something cleared from perspective the that and this is done deliberately. >> some heard about the extensive vandalism over social media and wanted to see it for themselves. >> i don't know why this happened. i tonight know why anything like this would happen. somebody did something and maybe they were not thinking or maybe they were thinking too much. >> philadelphia detectives are not speculating on a motive at this point. and those out here are troubled by what they see and find resolve in compassion of others to help pick up the pieces. >> we're finding comfort in all of the support that we're seeing now. >> and we have a statement from mayor jim kenney tonight and reads in part "we're doing all we can to find the perpetrators who des crated this final resting place and today willing prosecuted to the fullest except of the law. hate is not permissible in philadelphia. now looking back here live

again people out here praying and singing and of course, condemning hatred. anti-defamation league at this point put up a 10,000 reward. there's now philadelphia police officer posted at the entrance of the cemetery and they're lead on this investigation. those cbs3 has made inquires with the federal government and u.s. attorneys office to determine if they too will be joining this ongoing investigation. of course, all the latest on this developing story on eyewitness news at 11. reporting live in the wissanoming section of philadelphia, i'm joe holden. cbs eyewitness news. >> thank you so much we appreciate that. vandalism is not just happening our area. last week head stones were toppled at a jewish cemetery in st. louis, missouri. more than 100 head stones were vandalized at the historic place of rest and officials would not say if they're investigating that crime as a hate crime at this point. >> and family and friends are trying to make sense of an overnight tragedy. two young members of the dover police department killed in a

single vehicle crash. and as eyewitness news reporter anita oh found out today one of the men was not wearing a seatbelt. >> we woke up to a tragedy this morning. >> near nawlt road a small bouquet of red roses marks the accident scene where two members of the dover police department died in a single vehicle car crash 4:00 sunday morning the impact killed the driver 23-year-old robert defant and passenger 2 22-year-old james watts off duty at the time. >> it's a huge hole, huge hole for us. >> the aunt and cousin say the patrolman with the department two years always wanted to be a police officer. >> we'll all miss his smile. he was a beautiful person. the world feels like emptier place now that he's not with u us. >> de fawnt lost control of 2 2016 scream rangler that hit a utility pole and overturned and eject the watts not wearing a seatbelt. watts was with special enforcement cadet unit 6 months

and meantime neighbors tell eyewitness news this is not the first fatal accident on this road. >> before we lived here everybody told us that you live on death corner. they're ski around the corner. you can hear them they're going way too fast. >> family, friend and checks of the two young men are grieving their loss while celebrating their lives. >> fun and full of life. he was always a bright spirit and always willing to help out. and probably one of the best of us. so it's really sad to see him two. >> out of respect for the families the dover police department declined interviews and said both young men were outstanding employees committed to serving the community and cause of this crash is under investigation. reporting in dover, i'm anita oh, contribution 3 eyewitness news. >> after phil patchton died at the age of 61 following complications with surge yes, i patchton was starring as a road cop in the cbs steeryes training day. his son james patchton was guest star newspaper coming

episode. patchton credits include titanic, alienator and cbs and warper brothers say in part we're shocked and deeply sadde saddened by the news of bill patchton's passing. he he was gifted and popular with so many memorable roles on film and television. all of us here offer our dee deepest sympathy to his wife luiz and his two children. >> and a car ran into a crowd in new orleans. authorities say 25-year-old nealson rosetto is in custody in connection with the crash on saturday night. witnesses say the the suspect was driving a pickup truck that hit two cars before screening into the crowd. police say it appears risetto was extremely intoxicated. mayor of new orleans says this was the second incident along the parade route. >> some of the police officers out here working this scene were working the uptown scene as well. and we've had individuals who

made really bad decisions today that really caused serious damage and consequences to a lot of citizens which is a shame. there's hundreds of thousands of people enjoying themselves. for the rest of the season we will have people, again, you know, be respectful and thoughtful to the citizens if you see something, say something. >> and at least 21 people were treated for non life-threatening injuries. >> and also tonight, part of lancaster county are in shambles following a night of storms. the national weather service says the damage here was done by straight line winds between 75 and 95 miles an hour yesterday. and heavy rain also ripped through farmland off routes 897 yesterday uprooting veez and tearing roofs off silos and homes and 7 buildings were destroyed in west cocalico township. >> what a difference a day makes while it may not be the 70 degrees we started with on saturday we're grateful it's a dry day at least. no trauma today lauren keeping things bundled up and dry out. there just a light jacket

tonight, right, lauren. >> just a light jacket not bad and certainly chillier than we were contending with 24 hours ago and yes you want to be outside this time yesterday with severe storms and racing across the area. but a much wider day today and we'll confirm that on storm scan three showing us patchy crowds traversing area and otherwise not much to see. we got a healthy dose of sunshine today and didn't help us out and temperature department at 3 p.m. yesterday we were sitting at balmy 72 in philadelphia and p.m. today a 30 degree difference. 4 and temperatures are chilly across the region and already down into the 20s in poconos and mid 30s in the lehigh valley and of course we contended with that hearty breeze all throughout the day and starting to wayne now that we're past sunset and still feels like temperatures down in the teens and poconos right now and feeling like 35 right now in philadelphia and but this cool air not going to last for long. another warm-up is on the way with more 70 degree temperatures and i'll let know when you can break out the tee

shirt once again in the full forecast coming up. >> that sounds great, see you we'll sue you back inside. >> young athletes closed olt a competition at the pennsylvania convention center raising hundreds of thousands of money for breast cancer. >> from head bands to headpieces to socks and boas more than,000 clad in pink lee tardz went to the matt. their purpose to raise money and awareness of breast cancer. >> we give them a platform they can raise funds and reunite for the women. everybody had somebody in their life affected by breast cancer. >> sue started the pink invitational three years ago. a non profit pays for wellness services undergoing breast cancer treatment. >> hot flashes, lack of sleep and most things in the medical community don't treat. >> and shank is one of hundreds who received accu punch tour, yoga, massage and

gnaw trition consultation. >> for every nine you get a dollar and ribbon. >> they took to the mats for every high score they got one of these he equivalent of a dollar. together the gym night raised tens of thousands are to the cause. >> it makes me feel proud what i'm doing. >> these gymnastics teams raised roughly $500,000 with proceeds unit for her that will help women after chemo. >> it is personal. >> callly lark ins watched her daughter compete and lost her grandmother to cancer. being here is especially meaningful. >> this is usually around her birthday weekend so the children like to come and compete and honor of their grandmother. >> a chance for these girls to wear pink in remembrance of those laws and assembled figh fighting to keep many more here. kery greg, kyw news radio for cbs eyewitness news. >> pro testers in one state are not pleased at all with the

new roadside billboard. what many are doing to make sure the sign comes down. that's next. plus, we now know tornado went through luzerne county saturday afternoon and it's been confirmed. closer look at the extensive confirmed. closer look at the extensive damage when we come back.

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reads "real men provide, real women appreciated" people who found the sign offensive gathered and made their own. >> and we're getting a look now at the damage left behind during last night's storms across southeastern pennsylvania. national weather service confirmed ef 2 tornado with winds of 120 miles an hour hit parts of loseen kourpty saturday afternoon. homes were destroyed. cars and trees were tomed and tossed about. damaging winds hail and rain slammed that area. wow, it's been confirmed, lauren. >> yes. >> ef tornado in pennsylvania in february, absolutely incredible. they're still serving parts of york county and another part of lancaster county to see if it was straight line wind or tornado. >> still more surveying. >> lot calmer today. >> lot calmer today and not a bad february day. temperatures average. we had sunshine. little bit of chilly breeze andal together not a bad day. we have something to look forward to two weeks from today, guys, sunset time, 7:04.

that's going to be nice. having the extra time at end of workday to enjoy sunshine. we spring forward sunday march 12, two weeks from today our sunset time today is 5:50 forget that let's have sunset time after the 7:00 hour and we have something to look forward to the next couple weeks. temperatures today, they were all right. right around average. 45 in philadelphia, we topped at 40 allentown and 32 degrees your high temperature today in mount pocono and a big difference from high temperature of 61 yesterday and getting a live look at center city philadelphia, all is quie quiet, 4. still a breeze out of the west up around 15 miles an hour and adding to that wind chill impact feeling more like 5 degrees and temperatures changes over the last 2 4 hours you know it's been dramatic. double digits at reporting sites and today will be coolest day of the next several days as warm-up is in store as we push towards the first day of march on wednesday. and starting with blustery

conditions today and still wind speeds elevated they'll wane gradually into the next couple hours and as i mentioned as we head to the next couple days our temperatures will be rising on the order of 15 to 0 degrees above average as we head into wednesday with jet stream returning keeping cold canadian air locked up to the north. nice way to kickoff the month of marx. overnight, chilly, 34 as we head into the day tomorrow. sunshine starts and then clouds increasing as we head to the afternoon hours. and 56 degrees and big jump by order of 10 degrees and temperature department by tomorrow afternoon. well, adding rain chances. you need to break autumn brel amidweek. mainly dry tomorrow. good chance of scattered showers tuesday. showers and a few thunderstorms likely as we head into wednesday and particularly wednesday night, few lingering showers in the thursday morning before we clear things out once again but you're going to need

that for a couple days and future weather shows us kicking off the workweek on dry note. increasing cloud deck and staying dry and as we head to tuesday morning this particular model already brings skaerted shower activities early tuesday morning commute and we have dry periods thought the day tuesday. it won't be a complete washout but we'll see rounds of showers passing through as a warm front lifts through the area ands with 'head to wednesday already seeing increase in the coverage ever the precipitation and in the intensity as we deal with the system's cold front on wednesday. before tomorrow, don't need that umbrella. just a mix of sun and i clouds down the shore. milder, 54 in the poconos and milder day and forecasted high across the area, i-95 corridor middle 50s and at shore points we'll have high temperatures low to mid 50s and we're in the 60s tuesday. scattered showers wednesday and we're up to 7. that would be 3 degrees shy of the record-high temperature as we head into thursday, backside of the system, temperatures dropping off pretty significan

significantly. it looks like we get a cold day. then we rebound very quickly into sunday. nothing too scary there for the saturday forecast. >> we don't want to be frightened too much. >> thanks, lauren, lesley has sports lie lights. >> we may get nerve whus it comes to the flyers. 1 games left in the the season. flyers six points out of the wildcard spot. they could be the first ever team to have a ten game winning streak and not make the playoffs. they lost to the penguins last night. scoring is their biggest problem. jake vorachek says they better start scoring or be watching playoffs. >> if you want to make it to the playoffs you have to score. simple. we have 40 shots every game. >> we know woor a great team. we know we have great offensive power here. it's just sticking with it right now. we can explain, jump ship and changed things up. we're sticking with it and getting through the tough time

times. >> the six herbs with the day off tomorrow night down at the -- golden state warriors will make only visit of the season. last night against knicks okafor got the start because of joel embib injury. he drove into the paint and scored giving sixers the lead. he had 8 points and ten boards and they could not stop carmello anthony. he had 37 points and game-winning jumper. knicks beat the sixers 110 to 109. >>ner lens noel made his debut for the mavericks. he had ten boards over the bell cans. he talked about his feelings over the trade. >> i think it's a great idea. it's a great city. it's a great orgzygous. i think i can really -- i think my game could be implemented to the games and i think coach carlisle has given us the green

light to play my game and go out there and wreak havoc. >> the lasalle explorers pla played umass late in the first. pass to zach lewis knocked down the triple. just as "the buzzer" sound he had career high 37 points. minute men took care of explorers 84-71. game three of grapefruit league for the phillies traveled to devlin top play the blue jays. and fly ball goes down the right field line and over the wall for first homer of the spring. phillies take a 4-2 lead and brock staffy with the line drive and gap center field. drove in a run. they beat the jays 10-3. >> coming up tonight with sports zone. nba trade deadline passed. sixers tradedner lens noel. did they get enough in the trade and has the team been up front with the fans about ben

simmons injury. insider derrek bobner will join us here on cbs3 after the late night news. >> tlots chat about there. >> thank you so much, lesley. >> still it come, these beautiful fields of nowers are a signal to all that spring is coming. we'll take you where the blooms are attracting fans from all we'll take you where the blooms are attracting fans from all around the world ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> all right shlingt lauren, one last check of the forecast. >> one last check of the forecast we'll warm things up once again. 56 degrees by tomorrow afternoon and 60s tuesday with scattered showers. looks like a bit of soggy period. especially as you head to wednesday, wednesday night and early thursday. temperatures going to be pea peaking as we head to wednesday

and near-record high of 70 and then tumbling back to near 40. wednesday is march 1st and that means it's a start of meterological spring. >> oh, okay. >> that sounds good. >> anything with spring in it. >> this good enough for me. >> thanks so much, lauren, appreciate that. great news, everybody to share, american born giant panda bao bao is adjusting to life fine in china. here's bao bao in 100 square meteren closure in china. has a lot of space there. this is fifth day of one month quarantine. she was picky eater when she got there but now we're told she's eating all her food. bao bao is adjusting to new life there. for lesley,

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