a large cross found in the front yard of a family's home in bergenfield. the wife is you especially -- the wife is you -- the wife is jewish and the husband is mexican. >> reporter: beatrice is jewish. her husband oscar is mexican. their upstairs tenants are haitian and italian. there's a statue of liberty out front and a menorah in the window. someone stuck a cross in their front lawn. >> it makes me feel unsafe knowing somebody came on my lawn to prove a point. why would they do that? >> reporter: tonight bergenfield police came to the house to follow up on the incident. neighbors say bergenfield is a it does not suffer from racial problems. >> lately there's been a lot of threatening like bomb calls to schools and stuff like that. so this now is like what's going on? >> reporter: the cross was not set on fire and now sits in the family's backyard. it's not clear who the intended target was but the fact that it was left here leaves a haunting after taste. >> i teach my kids respect. that we need to leave a better world for the new generations. >> reporte

neighbors say bergenfield is a mixed and peaceful community. it does not suffer from racial problems. >> lately there's been a lot of threatening like bomb calls to schools and stuff like that. so this now is like what's going on? >> reporter: the cross was not set on fire and now sits in the family's backyard. it's not clear who the intended target was but the fact that it was left here leaves a haunting after taste. >> i teach my kids respect. that we need to leave a better world for the new generations. >> reporter: this case has not been classified a hate crime. in bergenfield, new jersey, lucy yang, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> new tonight, girls of some new york city public schools will soon have access to free tampons and sanitary napkins. dispensers will be put in high schools in queens. because they were embarrassed to ask for supply. >>> new at 11:00, the new york city police department giving thanks to a crucial part of its crime fighting efforts. the reception was held tonight at police headquarters to recognize the work of its co

tonight friends and neighbors came by to leave candles outside the home in bergenfield. eyewitness news reporter stephan kim is there with details. >> reporter: lori, what happened in this home was the kind of thing no child should ever have to see. this is the scene of two traj keys. first, the apparent murder- suicide, then the hoer row this little boy will have to live with for the rest of his life. heart broken friends of the bergenfield family tooey motional to speak with us but words were not necessary to understand the devastation. the devastation, their heart break the result of a shocking discovery inside this home today on west clinton avenue. incident as a domestic violence- based murder-suicide. >> reporter: the gruesome discovery made even more horrifying with the couple's 11- year-old son being the one who found their bodies. it was around 11:20 when the child reported his parents were not breathing. prosecutors say his 36-year-old mother's body was found in an upstairs bedroom, his 44-year- old father's body found in the basement. >> we believe the male di

. >>> painkiller addictions and sweeping new guidelines on how >>> tonight police in bergenfield new jersey are investigating a bizarre crime. someone made a cross out of sticks and put it in a man's front yard. he's from mexico, his wife is jewish. the couple's upstairs tenants are haitian and italian. the family was worried this could be a hate crime. be somebody make for something -- >> if it is -- they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >> police are still investigating. the incident doesn't fit the criteria right now of a hate crime. there's no writer or other descriptors on the cross. >>> an exercise in transparency, a new jersey police department wants residents to tell them how police should and should not use body cameras. the city explains, it's teaming up with nyu to make sure they have their voices heard. >> police officers are carrying body cameras. >> there will be nothing hidden or -- everything will be up front. >> then again, some people are violent. what are you going to do. it's your life or his. >> it really boils down too, everyone acts better w

. >>> a couple found dead in what appears to be a murder suicide at a home in bergenfield, engine. the couple's 11-year-old son called 911 and said his parents were not breathing. when officers arrived at the home on west clinton avenue they found the weather the father was found dead in the basement possibly with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. a neighbor was just shocked. >> i can't believe that. >> police are still investigating exactly what led up to the deaths. that child is with police. >>> also new tonight at 7 6:00 -- a suspect is in custody after stealing a tractor. he crashed into several cars, including a police cruiser. you are seeing one of the smashed cars there. one officer was hospitalized with minor injuries. charges against the suspect are pending. >>> new developments in the presidential race. sources tell nbc news that donald trump's sister has received a threatening letter in philadelphia. this comes after trump's son eric received a letter with a powder inside. the one to his sister had no powder but the threat was the letter demanded trump drop out of the rac

investigators responded to the home in bergenfield after the boy went to a neighbor's home for help. breathing. found dead from a self- inflicted gunshot wound in the basement, a woman was found in the upstairs bedroom. >> we are investigating this incident as domestic violence murder suicide. we believe that the male in the basement died of a self- inflicted gunshot wound to the head. >> police are not saying how the woman died. >>> campaign 2016, new protests target donald trump. both here in new york city and on the campaign trail. today, thousands of protesters marched in midtown, manhattan from columbus circle two trump tower. in arizona protesters try to block access to a rally. as cbs 2's dave carlin chose us, political tension did not end there. >> reporter: tempers flared in arizona at the latest rally, protesters inside the event wearing a ku klux klan hood. >> that is a disgusting guy. >> as two protesters were ejected, the man seen here identified as a trump supporter, kicked one of the protesters resulting in an arrest with a demonstrator. >> we have a country that is so

. >>> someone put a cross on a lawn in bergenfield. the people who live in the home are jewish and mexican, and the people upstairs are haitian and of liberty in the front lawn, and there's never been any problems. >> knowing someone came on my lawn to prove a point, it's like why would they do that? >> the cross was not set afire, and it's now sitting in the family's backyard. >>> it is 5:43, and let's join meteorologist bill evans with your accuweather forecast. >> let's look outside. today we will be looking at times square right here with cloudy skies, rain, and we are going to be looking at this little fog and drizzle and rain that will continue this morning for the morning commute. you need the warm year, like the warm jacket, and stuff like that. you need that into the day. the low clouds and fog here in brooklyn, looking a i cross the east river here, and there's a chilly morning and temperature are at 45 degrees. the pressure is falling, and it will be windy around for a time. leaving up into canada and the atlantic. we are st