developing now, a jewish cemetery vandalized. nearly 500 gray stones toppled in philadelphia. cleaning up after yesterday's wild weather, we're in burks and lancaster counties where the national weather service is checking to see if a tornado moved through. plus cosby back in court tomorrow. what his lawyers will be asking for that could bring a change to this case. good evening.

tonight sacred ground has been tarnished in philadelphia. jewish leaders here at home and across the country are reacting. investigators are trying to find out who vachb dpalized in cemetery. nearly 200 headstones were vandalized. that same day, nearly a dozen jewish community centers received bomb threats. tonight the jewish community there is reaching out to philadelphia, pledging its support, while here at home police and jewish leaders are trying to fig out what happened. drew smith is at mt. carmel cemetery. >> reporter: this is the damage we're seeing, row after row of headstones intentionally knocked over, some broken in two. police say this happened after dark yesterday and today people came out to try to make some repairs. a man visiting a relative's

grave was the first report this, headstones clearly knock over. detectives then counted more than 100 others. >> this is not just a random act, i mean to topple so many headstones clearly is a concerted effort with intent. >> reporter: since the news broke, localing rabbis rushed her saying prayers and comforting people who have loved ones buried here. >> i'm devastated by this, i don't know where to cry or scream. >> reporter: we're told philadelphia's mayor is also monitoring the situation. now people are working together to right the toppled headstones, vowing to overcome what they view as an act of hate. >> to think about the effort and the hatred that went behind this, it's heart breaking, it just is. >> and there has been an outpouring of support both in person, you can see the people who have gathered here in the cemetery tonight and online

through fund raising efforts which has already begun. we also just learned that a $10,000 reward is now out from the anti-defamation league and they are asking people to come forward with information on who did this. we're live at mt. carmel, drew smith, nbc10 news. josh shapiro retweeted our tweet about the vandalism, saying i pledge full support of ag's office to philly police, intimidation against one seat is a front to all. stay tuned for complete coverage of this story on air and online. well, cleanup continues tonight after yesterday's wild weather ripped off roofs and downed trees and poles, creating a major mess. and today the national weather service was assessing damage to see if tornadoes moved through.

lauren mayk is in lancaster county. >> reporter: in lancaster county, a stretch of farm land interrupted by twisted metal, a silo missing a top, or a roof missing a piece of it. brenda high is making a pile in her yard after scary moments inside her home where she hid with her family as winds whipped through. >> we heard the window crash and we just split and ran as fast as we could. >> reporter: they waited in the bha basement. >> you could hear stuff hitting the house. when we came back up, there was this disbelief, he just hugged and just cried. >> reporter: today the national weather service surveyed this area to see if a tornado is to blame. >> we followed a path of about nine miles of damage. >> for now they believe it's straight-line winds that came through here, potentially reaching 7 5 to 95 miles an hou.

crews work to repair the damage and restore power to customers in the area. back in lancaster county, neighbors are cleaning up and helping each other. from this spot off 897, we can see damage all around us, from this tree that was uprooted to its branches now piled up and that trailer now on its side, well, look beyond the metal that's ending up in that field, and you'll see where it started, this dprooi way. >> about 50 feet and it weighs 10,000 pounds. >> the contractor lorn martin. >> he returned from vacation in florida this morning to see all of? . that tree on its side and crashed into his home and his neighborhood strewn with debris. >> reporter: what do you think when you see all of this? >> it's a mess.

somehow it's going to take a lot of work to clean it up. >> and what a whacky month it has been for weather. here's a live look at the sun setting in cape may. first alert moomgs erika martin is here with your forecast. >> the big story would be that cold front, and that was a trigger mechanism and we're feeling that cold front. we're on the west side of it. so conditions are a lot cooler. yesterday we saw 70s and today we only topped out at 36 degrees in philadelphia. all allenton 36. so let's go ahead and take a look at that temp difference, 24-hour difference, 14 degrees cooler in allentown, philadelphia 14 degrees cooler. we are trending behind that cool

front, but we go have a warmup. that feels like temperature early tomorrow morning, it's going to feel like it's 26 degrees in allentown, 26 in doylestown, 29 in philly. so you be sure you bundle up. and i have your most accurate 10-day forecast coming up in just a bit, thank you. one of the most well known unsolved murders happened 60 years ago in philadelphia. so no one knows who killed the boy in the bongs. a smaum memorial service was held in fox chase today near where a boy's body because found naked, stuffed in a bassinet box in 1957. police believe the child was 4 or 5 years old at the time he was killed, his body bruised and beaten. police never learned his name for found his skiller. two dover police officers were killed in an early morning car crash. the patrolman was with the department for four years.

cadet james watts was there for six months. james was driving and watts was in the passenger seat. the two were on has let road when they hit the curb and slammed into a utility pole. coming up new at 6:00, back in court, we'll tell you what could be decided in bill cosby's sex assault case tomorrow. and new septa schedules you'll need on your way to work or school tomorrow.

tomorrow comedian bill cosby will head back to a montgomery county courtroom. the judge will hear a motion to month the case out of the county. defense lawyers say any local potential jurors have seen and heard too much negative press about cosby. the judge could move the case,

have a jury brought in from another could have been or deny the motion all together. getting involved in politics, how a rally last month has sparked these women's interest to become more involved. and i'm tracking another workweek warmup, but we do have a little bit of decline in those temps, i have your most accurate forecast coming up in just a comit.

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. organizers of the philly women's march created an organization to get women more involved in the political process. it's called philly women rally. today they gathered to address postcards to help reach out to their legislators. >> so that people can walk away saying, okay, i can do this, it's baby steps, i can contact my legislators and try to get my voice heard about these issues that are affecting my daily

life. >> the afforden care act and immigration are skochl of the issues the group is focusing on. one of the biggest goals is to get more women elected to political offices. whether to work -- part of changes septa is making to accommodate more riders, and today septa changed two -- also route 44 busses will begin making extra night trips. today's weather was more than what we're -- more of what we're used to in february, but it seemed like a shock to the system for these runners along kelly drive after a few really warm days. >> it's cold. and windy. i think it's -- if it weren't so windy it wouldn't be as bad. the wind just rips right through you, i mean i have two shirts on and i'm still cold. >> confusing, you don't know if

you go out with shorts or a coat. >> she's really positive. i like that attitude, because it was a lot chillier today. owed we saw 70s today, 40s. major difference behind that cold front. a live look outside philadelphia we're seeing thinner clouds. right now 42 degrees in philadelphia. and westerlies at a miles an hour. we're seeing some moderate breezes right now in coatesville. philadelphia 16 and tom's river, nine-mile-per-hour. so again, it's not a bad situation, because at least we're starting to see the winds shift westerly and then southerly by tomorrow. some warmer air moving in. currently satellite and required image picking up on just some thinning clouds, that's all we have going on right now, and temperatures in and around philadelphia seeing lots of 40s,

but also lots of 30s. port richmond currently at 42 degrees. what about the lehigh valley? chillier up there, close to freezing mark to leonardsville. redding currently at 37 degrees, so notice how much colder it is up there. allentown 36, and walnut port currently at 34 degrees. guys that is to be expected behind a cold front. but the next weather story would be a warm front moving from the southwest to the northeast. so we do have warmer air moving into place, a warmer monday, tuesday and wednesday in the forecast, but i'm also tracking developing clouds and some showers moving in by tuesday, 5:00 a.m., it's not going to be a total washout, but it will be a dry day so keep those umbrellas handy. by 9:00 p.m., still some showers, notice they're not very

organized, but we're tracking more rain to get here by wednesday. overnight lows tonight mainly in the 20s and low 30s, philadelphia a pair of threes for you. coatesville, 23. 27 for allentown, mt. holly. and then vineland, 29 for you, a little bit better in dover, above the freezing mark, we'll take it there. 34 is your expected overnight low. your 10-day on 10 bring us a warmup on monday, tuesday and wednesday. i do have developing fog wednesday into thursday, there is your front, because you'll see we're going from 70 to 50 to 33. we do have some storms in the forecast on wednesday. i'm also going to keep the chance of a wintry mix on friday, because we do get some precip moving in earlier in the day, when temperatures will be hovering right around the freezing mark. we stay in the 40s on saturday, we climb back into the 50s on

sunday and monday, next week, back to the 40s. i'm danny pommells, we'll tell you to florida and check in on the spraining training action between theies and the blue jays. > hey, hey.

the blue jays opening day in cincinnati just over a month away. phillies bats alive today at the giants, against the jays, i should say. they're alive, andre blanco

living the hard life, deep and gone to right. and then brock sassy, having some fun in the fifth. the phillies rolling, and we go to the sixth inning, nick rolen steps to the dish, phillies have big expectations for him in the future. knocks in two with a single. phillies beat the jays. the sixers host the star studded warriors tonight. the sixers coming off a trip to heartbreak hotel. last night the sixers fought back from down 17 to take a lead with under 10 seconds to go, and carmelo with a hand in his face, the sixers show plenty of fight, in the end, it's just not enough. >> every time you step on that court, people think, we don't

have our former team. expect's expe everybody's expectations are kind of dwindled just a little bit. but in this locker room, just because we have lost guys, we're going still going to play and we're still going to do what we been doing. >> not much better for the flyers at heinz field. the penguins scored in every period, knocking two goals in the final -- and they know if they're going to make a run, the time is now. >> i don't really care, we're six points back right now, that's the biggest thing in all of our heads right now, it's getting down to not a lot of games left and we got to get to two points in some of these games. >> we have 21 games left, never say die attitude and we're going to keep pushing, we're going to keep going and we're going to

play the game. let's go hoops in the college scene, la salle visited u-ma u-mass. this guy lit up the floor like a christmas tree. la salle loses 84-71. that's your look at sports, i'm danny pommells from csn. time now to check in with kate snow for a look another what's coming up on nbc "nightly news." >> coming up tonight, dozens injured at a mardi gras parade, when a pickup slam into the crowd, suspected of being drunk. and president trump's approval rating after his first month in office. and a controversy over a transgender wrestler.

and one state that helps people buy homes by paying off their student loans. >> and we'll be right back.

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shot outside, sunset was at 5:50 p.m., the days are getting longer, we're just 21 days away from spring. >> i'm counting down the minutes. here's your forecast, gust, just kind of overlap, it's really just for today. 58 is the expected high for monday, 64 on tuesday, look at this, on wednesday, 70 degrees, but i do think we'll see some fog wednesday into thursday, possibly some patchy areas, some dense fog, friday it's going to be windy, and we could see a little bit of a wintry mix on thursday. >> but this roller coaster from this weekend continues for the workweek. that's nbc10 news for now, for erika, danny and all of us here, we'll see you back here at 9:00. next nig nbc "nightly news" is next.

. on this sunday night, collision course. the terrifying moments as a pickup truck plows into a mardi gras parade in new orleans, injuring dozens. police say the driver was drunk. great divide. how americans view the president in our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll and the point debate over appointing a special officer. remembering bill paxton. the sudden death of the actor who had so many memorable roles over a career that spanned four decades. what a buy. finding the house of your dreams and getting your student loans paid off in the process. inspiring moment. her reunion years later with the man who helped save her after a horrible accident and how he