the military's arsenal for more than a decade but was never used in combat, until right now. now, this is test video of the so-called mother of all bombs, american forces say that they dropped today, and it is pushed from the back of the military plane, guide todd a target through use of gps and slowed by a tar shoot. it targeted isis forces in the province, that is in the eastern region of afghanistan near pakistani border. while it is still unclear of the damage done or any casualties, president trump is praising the military action. >> we have incredible leaders in the military, we have incredible military and we are very proud of them. this was another very, very successful mission. >> the united states taking the fight against ice vice seriously. in order to defeat the group we must defy them operational space which we did. >> reporter: cbs news reports that the bombing mission has been in the works now for months, meantime commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan had to get permission to use the

weapon. officially known as moab or massive ordinance air blast bomb, that is very latest for now, we're live, tonight, natasha brown for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> stay tuned for the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley for much more on this military strike, in afghanistan right here on cbs-3 at 6:30 right after our broadcast. burglar in south jersey blowing its cover after advertising on craigs list. suspect michael o'donnell of marlton was selling a leaf blower he stole, officers went to radnor boulevard where the sale was to take place on wednesday, and after observing the transaction, they arrested him. police encouraged people buying items through on line sites like craigs list to make transactionness safe places. >> every case we have is like this we're going right to the internet, and it is part of our every search, seeing, or is somebody trying to sell it on one of the art sale sites. we're checking pawn stores. we go into here, your store thaw pawn items.

it is all part of every investigation. >> o'donnell is charged with burglary and theft. police make a disturbing gun bust in gala way township. investigators confiscated these parts for semiautomatic ar15 rifle from a 16 year-old boy. he was arrested after someone tipped off police on wednesday investigators say that they also seized hallow point ammunition for 40 caliber gun, and cocaine. police did not say why they believed the teenager had the gun parts. montgomery county district attorney's office say they have rooftop burglar who broke into five businesses beginning in early february. investigators say that jose, stole more than $100,000 in cash, jewelry, and a handgun, in five separate burglaries. authorities say that he conspired with a juvenile and got into the businesses through sky lights, duct work and in one case, he even scaled a drain pipe. >> in a number of these cases, tools of the trade of a

burglar were used and when each of the individual was april apprehended, they were able to find, you know, evidence that corroborated what was seen in the video surveillance. >> he faces multiple charges, including, multiple counts of burglary, criminal trespass and criminal conspiracy. a preliminary hearing for the man is scheduled for april 25th. three teen girls learned their fate today in the trial over a 2016 bathroom fight that left a classmate, dead. a delaware judge convicted one , 17 year-old girl of criminally negligent homicide: she is seen in the cell phone video beating amy joyner francis inside a bathroom at howard high school of technology in wilmington. judge ruled that the teen caused her classmate's death who had a rare undiagnosed heart condition her attorney spoke after this morning's ruling. >> she has difficult road ahead of him for sure and that is why we feel deep sadness

for everybody who has been affected by this. >> at the end of the day you cannot brutalized someone, pummel someone in the bathroom and lead to their death and have no consequences for that action. >> the judge convicted a second teen on a conspiracy charge. third teen also charged with conspiracy was acquitted, sentencing is scheduled for next month. an update to a story we have been following, penn state and fraternity council has pend a letter calling for change and in it they apologized to the family of timothy piazza. piazza an engineer student from new jersey was fatally injured in the fall in february while attending a pledge acceptance party at a fraternity house. philadelphia attorney tom kline is representing the piazza family. >> this horrible hazing incident which took place at penn state, never should have occurred. it was a culture of drinking of under age drinking, of hazing, of fraternity abuse, of fraternity misconduct, of

monumental proportions, and this cannot be allowed on campuses of american universities. >> the fraternity council letter is in response to the letter from penn state president eric baron who warned that fraternities and sororities could all be gone eventually, if misconduct, continues. new at 6:00 stepping into the path of danger, most dangerous intersections in the city of philadelphia are revealed. forty-ninth and grace ferry in southwest philadelphia tops that list according to ab examination of the penndot crash record. on christmas eve 20 15a stolen car crashed head on into a trolley killing one person and injuring 31 others. jurist digital analyzed 43,000 crash record for 2015. the second most dangerous intersection is roosevelt boulevard, at cottman avenue in mayfair. now for three penn state and a rot te, island avenue and linwood boulevard in eastwick

ranked fourth. helping a homeless man get back on his feet. >> "eyewitness news" reporter anita oh has more from havertown where people came together to make a big difference. >> reporter: it has been more than seven years since john sweet has had a place to call home. >> three months ago i was out on the street and i didn't know if i was going to make it through this winter. >> reporter: after a severe ankle injury knock him off his feet he who his job, his home and sense of security. >> homeless people are treated like second class citizens. they get into that issues cycle of depression and inn security. >> reporter: but thanks to the generosity of strangers who became friend, john moved into his own fully furnished rental property on havertown on thursday. >> when this all came together like it is a miracle, really, absolutely. >> reporter: it started with a simple question from michelle mccoup who had met john in pacing commuting out of upper darby's 69th street station.

around christmas she asked friend, family to donate warm clothing and non-perishable food. >> never in my wildest dreams would i have thought someone was living in the wood that close to me. so that is when i decided that there was something i needed to do. >> reporter: those involved called this a true community effort with people donating what they could whether that was their time, clothing or money. a go fund me page raised nearly $7,000. then came chance to move john into his own space, a interior designer liz mcdonnell knew she had to help turn this house in a home. >> you feel like you are a part of the community, your dignity is restored, you have a place to live and you are home. >> reporter: home sweet home, john found, more than a place, it is the people who have helped lead him there. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: in havertown, anita oh for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> wow. >> wow. >> how about that. >> nice job. still to come on "eyewitness news" a family affair in montgomery county, just a state of art, and, the

pair of happy parents whose lives seem to be blessed in more ways than one. story of our fight for freedom, our most revealing look yet at the museum of the american revolution. lauren? after highs in the upper 70's yesterday we will cool things off, for our thursday but another big warm up. when to expect highs in the 80 's in your eyewitness forecast coming up. sixers finished up the season last night with the knicks, today they talk to the media for the last time, now among players who spoke, the future of the franchise ben simmons we have not heard from him from a long time what does ben to have say about his lost season and his future with the

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a second u.s. military strike in a week is spark ago lot of reaction tonight. "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan joins us now more on our top story. cleve, you just spoke to an expert about what this latest strike, means, and good

evening. >> reporter: good evening, ukee, yes, our political, history expert, says that president trump dropping the mother of all bombs as this is nicknamed, is as much style as substance. >> i don't know that this dramatically changes the perception of weapon usage, since it is a conventional weapon. >> reporter: this is a history professor in camden county community college and director of the center for civic leadership which has a partner ship with the middle east certainty in the university of pennsylvania. he said use of such intense force is justified if. >> well, it is justified if there is a policy associated with it. what is the goal of using that weapon? diminishing power of ice is doesn't necessarily mean you will establish the stability, in afghanistan. >> reporter: president trump may have been impulsive to make another significant military move after the syrian air strikes but he says this movies in line with his campaign rhetoric on isis. >> he said he would bomb the you know what out of ice is.

he would utterly destroy them. you cannot base policy on election year statement. >> reporter: our expert believes that isis will respond, by most likely, attacking other sites in afghanistan, that they do not control currently, and could also call on, far even fighters to plan terrorist attacks or even home grown terror attack. reporting live i'm cleve bryan , cbs-3 "eyewitness news" >> cleve, thank you for. that more tonight on the "cbs evening news". in the healthwatch tonight , special birthdays are being celebrated at abington hospital. >> health reporter stephanie stahl is here with more on a family affair. >> reporter: such a good family affair. this is about two brothers, they are best friend, and they even work together as music teachers at north penn school district. so when their wife's ended up pregnant at the same time, they were all wondering could they deliver on the same day? check it out. >> happy birthday to you. happy birthday to you.

>> reporter: birthdays are celebrated here all the time but the cling family is singing about some special deliveries, brothers michael and matt, and their wife's, had babies just hours apart. >> it wasn't planned this way. >> not at all, it is coincidence. >> we have been joking since we found out hey wouldn't it be something if we wound up in the hospital at the same time but for to it happies surreal. >> reporter: jennifer and matt had twins on tuesday, alexandria they cannot stop snuggling and patrick with breathing trouble so he is in the n icu. >> we are getting him live, which is awesome, we can check on them anytime we want to. >> reporter: hours later, can days and michael welcomed baby emerson. >> such a good baby, she's just so beautiful. so blessed. >> it is crazy. i mean we had a journey together. >> reporter: journey started here in abington three decade ago, the brothers were born here too, three years apart. >> i just vaguely remember coming. >> reporter: the guys bonded

over music and as adults. >> ♪ no matter where you are ♪ >> reporter: they both teach music and so does jennifer. >> i foresee a lot of music between cousins make a family band. >> reporter: they are getting an early start. >> ♪ good night my angel time to close your eyes ♪ >> reporter: precious, right. now baby em sonnies first girl in the family, couples has boys abe doctors say all of the babies are doing well, including patrick who will probably be out of the hospital in a few days. the grandparents who are busy baby-sitting for older kid, you can imagine, overjoyed. >> great story. >> and their voices are beautiful. >> yes, they are. >> harmony all the way around. i love it. i love it. >> um-hmm. >> thanks, stephanie, appreciate it. we have been there since the beginning, being held in storage is coming to life at museum of the american revolution in philadelphia. >> before it opens to the public to day we got a special look at all pieces, finally put together to transport museum patronness to the past.

>> it all started here, a collection, under sheets, and underground, rare artifacts, overflows boxes destined to be the new exhibit in historic philadelphia. all part of the museum of the american revolution. >> it is now marching to attack philadelphia, the american capitol. >> reporter: they, today all of the pieces finally came together. >> it created an independent united states. the is foundation of all of the ideals that hold us together as people. >> reporter: an american fight , for freedom. >> we tell abroad narrative story of the creation of the united states. >> reporter: boston liberty tree seems to grow from the floor as museum goers learn about the stirrings of revolt. >> when you come inside the museum, you have over 30,000 square feet of theaters, and core exhibitions, that takes you on a journey. >> reporter: these are times that try men's souls, thomas payne wrote word that describe

the dark hours of the revolutionary war. >> ♪ >> world class weapons are displayed and panoramic battle field fear brings patrons to the front line. learn about the role of native americans, the journey, west and how enslaved african americans for the for a freedom they would not have until decade later. >> of course, we will learn about thomas jefferson, about george washington, abigail allen, washington crossing the delaware, the declaration of the independent but you will also learn about people you may not have heard about. >> i hope you can get by, the museum opens up this coming monday april 19th, 242 years to the day of the start of the war. >> to learn more about the museum, head over to cbs philly.com and we will show you where to go to get your tickets that. >> lets talk about our weather forecast in the tri-state area and lauren's in for kate, good evening, young lady. >> good evening, another nice day, what a stretch of weather we have been on really since last weekend. so nice.

>> beautiful. >> after march was crummy. we have blocked it out of memory. >> yes. >> like mother nature you owe us. >> yes. >> be nice to mother nature. she can turn on you. >> yes, mother nature, please but we have a beautiful day in progress right now looking live at our neighborhood network in rehoboth beach. people outside enjoying conditions. blue skies, high level cloud mixed in there. we have dense high level cloud that have moved in across center city philadelphia fill ering out our sunshine but all together another nice day, 65 degrees. cooler then yesterday thanks to the northerly wind flow. wind up to 13 miles an hour. dew pointness the 30's indicating nice dry comfortable air in place. temperature change over the last 24 hours, yeah, we will feel it on the order of 10, 12 , 13 degrees after we had high temperatures well in the 70's, yes yesterday. 65 degrees in philadelphia 60 in the lehigh valley. chilly in the poconos 49 degrees. sea breeze on the coast with

temperatures fallen back in the upper 50's to near 60. off to our south and west an abundance of warm air, temperatures in the 70's and 80's, we're going to see a warm front coming through saturday night, this upcoming weekend that will open up the door do this much more warmer air. for tonight partly cloud, chilly falling back to 45 degrees. wind speed on the lighter side not too much wind chill impact as we head in our friday another nice day in store, thanks mother nature, patchy cloud around in the morning, mostly sunny, mild with a high of 65. wednesday, light and variable. storm scan three showing us dense high level cloud cover, a couple of sprinkles generating over berks county, lancaster county but this is due to upper level disturbance inn upper level energy and upper level moisture so we are not seeing that rain hit the surface. but today the weekend we have a warm front coming through saturday night could generate a few passing showers. we will definitely generate to heat as we head into easter sunday with high in the low 80 's. that is our warmest easter in

philadelphia since 2011. we have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, best chance of that will be on sunday evening. your easter weekend forecast, still have a chance of the passing shower or passing thunderstorm, 60, mid 60's on saturday and climbing up in the lower 80's as we head into easter sunday. and then has we head into monday and tuesday, temperatures cooling off, a bit, 72 degrees, under sunshine on monday ire nice looking day as we head into next tuesday, mostly sun which a high of 63. all right. stay with us, when we come back sixers speak for first time in months, sports

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leslie here to talk sports >> sixers basketball, they almost won three times as many games as they did last year. >> always a positive, always looking at the bright side. >> sixers ended their season last night with the loss, close with the knicks. they had a 28-54 record,

fourth war in the nba but they have improved. today the team met with the media and for the first time in forever we spoke with the first overall pick ben simmons out all year with the foot injury and says even though he didn't play, he still learned a lot. >> it was a lot of ups and downs but day in and day out i learned a lot just being around the guys and learning the system and gave me a great opportunity to learn the game. i had a whole season where i could just learn. flyers players held their end of the season media avail wilt two days ago after failing to make playoffs. today general manager ron hextall spoke about the season and disappointment not making the playoffs. >> we're disappointed. we have a good hockey team. certainly good enough hockey team to make the playoffs and we didn't make the playoffs. so there is a part of me that, you know, there is some failure there. now to be successful sometimes

you have to fail. we're going to learn a lot from this year. >> phillies had the day off. they those washington with the weekend seer wits nationals. starting tomorrow night. aaron nola on the hill. phillies looking to bounce back after being swept by the mets. last night down five to knock, miguel franco launched a grand slam but not enough, phillies lost five-four. marlins hosting the braves , this is brandon phillips, about to swing, lights in marlins park go out. even with the retractable roof closed, the thunderstorm caused several banks of lights to go out. game was delayed for 27 minutes. now, as i was phillips would i say, listen, let me bat again with the lights on and see how we do there. >> yes. >> how did that work out. >> yes. >> a mulligan. >> yes. >> i say i think we should. >> yes. >> thanks, appreciate it. still to come, a campus take over, by toddlers. >> when we come back local university that was hosting

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captioning sponsored by cbs >> pelley: the blast heard 'round the world. the biggest conventional bomb the u.s. has ever used. isis was the target, but was it also a message to kim jong-un? >> it doesn't make any difference if it does or not. north korea is a problem. the problem will be taken care of. >> pelley: also tonight, we take you inside north korea where kim may be planning a sixth nuclear test. >> the worst thing you can do it a grieving parent is not to mention the child. >> pelley: the children of newtown, keeping their memories alive. >> they're like, "i'm sorry i made you cry." "no, you didn't make me cry. you brought him back." gr and here comes premail. the post office