Cities. Prosecutors say a paid to play culture exist were youed officials putting for sale signs putting on the city hall of allentown and reading pawlowski and expenseser are are accused of doleing out city contracts, several have pleaded guilty since the corruption investigation began more than two years ago. David spunt is live in allentown with the mayor of response to the charges as well as calls for his reviewing nation. Reporter ed pawlowski is still the mayor, not only does he refuse to step down, he is full steam ahead on his reelection bid. Integrity is incredibly important and i hate that my integrity is in question. Reporter hes going to fight the federal corruption charges hes facing. He held a News Conference with his attorney and supporters cheered while others chanted to quote, lock him up. Federal Authorities Say pawlowski and Vaughn Spencer ran play to pay schemes that benefitted not only politically but personally pawlowski and spencer essentially put a for sale sign up in front of city hall in reading and Allentown Lewis l, a pin announced the indictment, following a fouryear investigation. Federal authorities allege both pawlowski and spencer rewarded political donors with no bid city contracts. Others with ties to the two men were also indicted i have done nothing wrong. Nor have i ever personally accept add dime beyond my salary. Of i never accepted anything but Legal Campaign contributions. Reporter Allentown City Council president ray oconnell is angry with his political ally you lose total respect for the individual and i have done that. You cannot trust him Eyewitness News caught up with oconnell and other concerned citizens at the regularly scheduled Council Meeting the mayor should resign immediately from his position not because hes guilty or not guilty but because the city is not functioning the way it needs to pawlowski is being charged with conspiracy, mail and wire fraud as well as bribery, spencer facing similar for the better meant of this city, family and two children he needs to resign immediately. Reporter oconnell said theres not much that city council can do to take away the mayors powers. According to the charter they can only do so and ask him to leave office if convicted. Reporting live in allentown, david spunt, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thank you. Authorities arrest a man captured on video attacking a Septa Transit Police sergeant. He turned himself in tonight. Sergeants body cam shows him confronting the suspect near 58th and baltimore on monday. He quickly shoved her to the ground. Officers say the man was trespassing on the tracks. The sergeant suffered a back injury. Were following a developing story at least one person is dead. Seven others are injured after a ride malfunctioned at the Ohio State Fair in columbus. Officials say the ride called the fire ball broke apart and threw people through the air. Five of the injured are in critical condition. Governor john kasich ordered all fair rides be shut down. Prosecutors say a man made deadly delivery bringing in a lethal dose of Illegal Drugs to a patient Montgomery County hospital. The charges that man is now facing. Henry . Reporter ukee, we printed out a copy of the statute the District Attorney here is looking to use to go after drug dealer whose contribute to overdose deaths. It reads, i can tell you, a lot like a regular homicide statute. Meaning the man who walked into the hospital behind me is now accused of bringing drugs with him. Is facing up to 40 years in prison. He was delivering it to it was to a hospital. A place where people go to be healed and helped. And for that, travis suit is charged with Drug Delivery resulting in death. District attorney said the known drug dealer made five trips in five days to see and sell to sierra had drick, two bags of heroin 20, one bag, 10, add van, 10, more add van and went bag of heroin 10, instead of delivering heroin, he delivered what we later learned was pure fentanyl 40 to 50 times more deadly than the deadly drug heroin. And by delivering this poise, travis killed sierra hes the forth person this year in Montgomery County for providing the drug that is caused a death, his office encouraged local Law Enforcement to begin investigating certain overdoses as homicides so he can use this relatively new law to make a difference. Were all committed to doing everything we can to stem the tied of this terrible epidemic that were facing. I did have a brief conversation with his father, he did not want to make public statements. I also pressed a spokesman for the hospital to find out if there would be any changes to the visitor policy, it is being reviewed, im told by the Montgomery County. Henry ross cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thank you. The search is over for a missing swimmer in the Brandywine Creek in wilmington. Officials found the body of miguel this afternoon. He was last seen going over a damn on monday after he jumped into the water at ala pocus run state park President Trump announced his administration is barring transgender people from serving in the military. Some are supporting the decision but others like the aclu say they will be fighting it. Rude deis a Los Angeles Army reservist and transgender. He says it was painful when he learned of President Trumps tweet s the government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u. S. Military were here to serve our country just like anybody else and were 100 Mission Ready and cable a Rand Corporation study estimates there are between 2500 and 7,000 on active duty, several thousand more in the reserves. The future remains unclear, the pentagon referred questions to the white house where few specifics have been offered. This is about military readiness, about resources within the military. In his tweets, the president said continued service by transgender individuals would burden the military with tremendous medical costs. 2016 study found transgender people who may opt for reassignment surgery or other priors would add 1 10th of one to overall military healthcare spending on the campaign trail candidate trump promised the Lgbt Q Community he would defend their rights. But activist they said would never believe him. Conservative organizations and lawmakers held the president s decision while here at home the city of philadelphias office of lgbt affairs is blasting it. In a statement, office said the ban violates the civil rights of thousand of transgender troops currently serving in the military. In philadelphia, we will continue to fight back to insure people of trans experience every possible right and protection under the law. Senators reject add new proposal to repeal the Affordable Care act. The vote for the repeal only plan was 45 to 55 with seven republicans opposing the measure. Yesterday they reject add repeal and replace proposal. Senate is expected to vote on the socalled skin me repeal plan it would eliminate the Affordable Care act mandate and some taxes i didnt think repeal only was appropriate because it doesnt provide that help for those people. The fact we have a series of options that say do we want past legislation that would take 16 million americans off of healthcare . Do we want to pass legislation to take 22 millions off of healthcare the vote on various repeal and replace plans will go on President Trump announced electronics fox con will build a 10 billion dollars factory in wisconsin, pennsylvania was vying for the plan, pennsylvania was known to be one of the companys top choices the factory makes liquid Crystal Display panels and expected to generate about 3,000 job investing many bills of dollars right here in america and creating thousands of jobs and i mean american job the announcement comes at a critical juncture for the trump administration. The president pledged to generate manufacturing jobs but has struggled to deliver results. Republican Steve Scalise is out of the hospital six weeks after being shot and critically wounded. Officials tweeting scalise say hes starting intensive inpatient rehabilitation. He was shot june 14th when a man opened fire on a Congressional Republican baseball practice in virginia. The National Constitution center is giving away free tickets to people who want to see john mccain receive the liberty metal. You can apply for the limited number of tickets on the centers website starting august 15th. The free tickets will be given out based on random drawing. Senator mccain will be given a liberty metal on october 16th. Its no the clear if the senators recently announced battle with brain cancer will impact the plans to come to philadelphia for the honor. Stay off the beach and do not go in the water thats the wanting down the shore and straight ahead why officials have closed several new jersey beaches in recent days. Angelina jolie opens up. New health struggling shes revealing, what she says about her relationship with brad pit. After storms on saturday, sunday and again on monday, all is quiet across the Delaware Valley on this wednesday evening, more storms on the forecast when to expect heavy rain fall and a threat of flooding in the full Eyewitness News coming up. Big changes coming to the security line at the airport. What you need to know before you head out on your next trip. Strummed guitar you cant experience the Canadian Rockies through a screen. You have to be here, with us. Strummed guitar travel through this natural wonder and get a glimpse of amazing. With a glass of wine in one hand, and a camera in the other, aboard rocky mountaineer. Canadas Rocky Mountains await. Call your travel agent or rocky mountaineer for special offers now. New jersey officials closed beaches at the shore because of elevated levels of bacteria in the ocean. Some of the beaches are in Atlantic City county Atlantic City somers point and ventnor, officials placed warning signs and told put people to stay out of the ocean, too much bacteria in the water can cause stomach sickness, rashes, Officials Say heavy rain caused bacteria and pollution to run off into the ocean. They told us to get out of the water. It was dirty. Im like thats nice. I cant believe i was in it. Im like worried this lets go take a shower. Authorities say they will evaluate the water on a daily basis and reopen the bacteria counts are back to normal. Passengers at u. S. Airports will soon face measures for screening Electronic Devices bigger than a cell phone. Travelers will now be asked to take all large devices including tablets out of their bags and put them in separate bins similar to screening of laptops. Officials say it gives xray screenerers a clearer picture of the device. The new procedure will start at airports in the next few weeks. Health watch, new implant is helping people with foot pain avoid surgery it acts like a shock absorber, currently approved in the u. S. For the big toe but doctors are using in it patients suffering arthritis in other small joints in the hand and foot. The implant could be especially popular for women who wear high heels and end up with achy feet. A lot of happy patients thrilled about the motion. They get a significant decrease in the moving pain directly after surgery. Hour, a canadian ually takes study shows the implant has a 91 success rate in reducing pain and improving motion Angelina Jolie is opening up about her divorce from brad pitt and her healthy. She developed high Blood Pressure and bells palsy last year. It led one side of her face to droop. She credits were acupuncture for her full recovery. She also talked about her relationship with pit. She said they care for each other and family and working towards the same goal. There could soon be another honor for late philadelphia boxing icon smoking joe fraser. A new petition called forry naming glenwood avenue in north philadelphia joe frazier boulevard. Organizers say the petition started by his daughter collected nearly 6,000 signatures. Fraser died of complications from liver cancer in 2011. Smoking joe indeed. Thats a great honor. Indeed. Lauren joins us with the forecast and looking at rain coming up. Im shocked theres more rain and storms on the way. We registered thunder at refill international. Seven days that means a thunderstorm had to pass next to the airport. We got quite a few stormy days across the Delaware Valley. A quiet day. Transitioning into a quiet evening getting a live look at center city philadelphia, 68 degrees right now feeling atypically cool. Winds around five miles per hour, easterly component, keeping us cool do i and High Temperatures topping five degrees below average after upper 80s low to mid 90s from mid month all the way up until yesterday. When the High Temperature was only 79 and keeping things cool again today and started off at 67 below average. And you might be reaching for the long sleeves in Atlantic City. 63. 63 in millville, down 72 in more mild spots in allentown and 61 in mount pocono. Due points tell us about that the sticky factor. Of when you step outside in summertime, the due point around 60, feels nice and comfortable. Not super steamy. As we head to the overnight period and through date tomorrow, well keep the due points right around the 60 degree mark. Stormscan 3 showing us cloud cover that has been sweeping through, we have the clouds around, they didnt producing a in the way of precipitation, well keep things quiet overnight. 67 with that light southerly wind and tomorrow another round of clouds, could be peaks of sunshine, mostly cloudy for the afternoon, chance of an isolated thunder shower. We will be seeing sunshine along the coast to start things off tomorrow, by lunch time clouding over but youll be safe for that walk to grab a sandwich on your lunch hour, the second half of the day seeing isolated showers and storms. With an overnight trend for hit or miss storms, they wont be widespread on thursday, that changes as we head to friday. Quite start for morning commute. Then well see the slow moving area of low pressure building in, a moisture system that will impact the Delaware Valley friday into early saturday, widespread heavy rain fall and the potential for rain and that will be the main threat with the storm system friday. The likelihood of heavy downpours and strong gusty winds and lightening threat. Look at the beautiful picture. Must be taken by a really great photographer. Poconos and over the next several days, a late day thunder shower 75, heavy rain and storms not a great day for a hike on friday, improving conditions as we head to saturday. A few morning showers starting off and gradual clearing High Temperatures in the 70s and downright awesome as we head into the upcoming weekend. Barbecue forecast break out the grill and all the tools, 84, sunshine and very low humidity values, due points will be down into the 50s on sunday, so its going to feel nice and dry and well keep this sunny stretch around how about that several days of sunshine as opposed to storm activity as we head to next week, hard to believe tuesday is august 1st and well kick it off 88 sunshine and fairly comfortable humidity values. That photographer is talented. I do say so myself. Getting back to the picture. Who took that. Don is up. Were talking baseball and football we got the whole nine yards. Late breaking news, phils traded their only allstar, details and welcome back, the veterans are saying. More tweaking. The birds may made two move, traded allen barber to denver. They also cut first round disappointment marcus smith. He only had four sacks three seasons. The veterans reported to training camp. And they made the presence felt. With a new season comes new beginnings. With each player comes a different story. For right tackle he wants to put last season behind him. They open the season at washington. A matchup he missed and is he fired up yes, every time we play over there, last few times weve been getting beat, if we can get a win, i think that will set the tone for the season. Lane focuses on redemption, Brandon Graham is thinking repeat. He was named second team all pro for the first time in his career. Twice would be nice and a group effort rushing the passer would help the team. We got to make sure we get to the quarterback. Thats number one. You know, as a defensive line, you know, you want to just have to rush forward because you believe the guys can get it down without having to. Reporter while barkg strives for consistency, malcomb jenkins hopes to be the Guiding Light we understand the next four weeks is crucial to you know improve on our fails individually and as a unit to be able to put something that we can be proud of on the field come week one. The squad practices for the first time tomorrow. Baseball. Phillies trying to avoid a sweep by the astros, odubel w benched, Pete Mackanin says it has nothing to do with this decision fourth inning, cameron ruf and gone, tworun shot, 20 fightins, to the fifth, Maikel Franco giving it that body language, wasnt sure if it was going to go but it does. Bleacher reacher right there and the phils up 50. But the offense overshadowed by aaron nola. Gave up four hits, punched out 10, this is the best team in the American League and nola shuts them down, the phillies win 90. After the game. Phillies traded pat neshek and cash to the Colorado Rockies in exchange, they get a minor league short stop and two minor league pitchers. Trade deadline is 4 00 p. M. Monday, neshek was the phillies only all star. The union hosted columbus. With the bicycle path to he will seen yo union. First and only name. Cj does it himself later on. And the union go on to win 3nil. Next game saturday at new england. Wish i could kick like that. Ukee, thats all you need. Were working on that thank you, buddy. Up next, a big night for two members of the Eyewitness News two thirds of americans have digestive issues. Im joy bauer, and as a nutritionist i know probiotics can often help. But many probiotics dont survive your stomachs harsh environment. Digestive advantage is different. Its natural protein shell is tougher than your stomachs harsh environment, so it survives a hundred times better than the leading probiotic, to get where you need it most. Also in delicious dark chocolate. Probiotic bites Business Base recognized rahel as one of several extraordinary women in the industry. Group aims to celebrate the hard work of young Women Entrepreneurs and professionals. Congratulations. Lauren . Much quieter window is in store, a lingering shower early saturday morning, humidity levels will be dropping off throughout the day saturday feeling so much more comfortable by the evening hours and gorgeous conditions on sunday for all of your outdoor plans, atypically low humidity values by summertime is. Morning crew is a back back from 4 30 to 7 00, im Ukee Washington im jessica dean, up next the late show with Steven Colbert have great night family and sleep well. Have great night family and sleep well. 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