We have been witnessing in the white house has produced a casualty. Reince priebus is out as chief of staff. I have just named john f. Kelli as white house chief of staff. Hes a great american. John kelly Homeland Security secretary of late. Lets go to nbcs Andrea Mitchell in washington who has been watching this power str struggle. Not hard to see this coming in some form or fashion. Absolutely. Reince priebus has been on the ropes for months now. Certainly after the attack from anthony skar much, the new Communications Director, a blistering and profane attack, it was clear he was on his way out. Could be blamed for legislative strategy. The repeal of oobamacare. John kelly is the president who says i love my generals. John y, very strong in enforcing his immigration policy. Also just on a personal level, this is a man who is a marine. He joined the marines in 1970, served on active duty in three wars and hassen given the ultimate sacrifice of his son. His daughter works for the fbi. This is a family of Public Service. In an interview with Pete Williams rotely last week in aspen, colorado, at a security conference, he said retirement was kind dote geting boring. That he missed Public Service. Let me go to Pete Williams now, who spoke to the general at the aspen security conference last week. What was your take on him . Any indication this was something under consideration . No, i was talking to Homeland Security officials just last night about various things. This is coming a as a surprise to them. My guess is this was offered to the general just very recently within the past several hours. But hes somebody who believed he thought his Public Service career was over, but then it he got the call and thought this was the right thing for him to do to be Homeland Security secretary hes had the point for the president on the immigration issue, but also generally the Homeland Security portfolio at large, he was the one after all who put in place this new requirement for security for carry on electronics around the world. I would assume that the Homeland Security will now be led by the woman who has been the deputy secretary. She will assume become acting. She was under secretary for management from the department from 2008 to 2010. And now the president will have to nominate somebody skpels get a new member of the cabinet. The president tweeting he would like to thank Reince Priebus for his service. We accomplished a lot together. Im proud of him. President trump delivering this major news as he has delivered a a lot of news of late via twitter. The headline, Reince Priebus is out as chief of staff for President Trump. General john kelly, secretary of Homeland Security is in. We will have continuing coverage on msnbc and nbcnews kl. Ill see you in a little while for nbc nightly news. Until then, im lester olt in new york. Have a good day. The latest shakeup at the white house. So well keep an eye on that story and nbc nightly news will have more at 6 30 as well. Now back to the big story here. Its the. The jersey shore could feel a big doze of heavy rain from this storm. Thats coming. Ted greenberg is live for us. How are things looking where you are in longport . Reporter actually im seeing a little bit of sun right now. You can see we still have a a few folks out here on the beach. The rain has not gotten here yet and this is a good thing for this couple who just got married this afternoon and are out here to have their wedding photos taken. Congratulations to them. Folks are gearing up for all that raind flooding both here along the coast and miles inland as well. Along the river in hamilton hton hardshipship, a rush of concerns for william. He says the river rose more than a foot after rain week. With even more on the way tonight and tomorrow. I always worry about it because you dont know how much its going tovineland, similar someone living along the morris river. If. Er rainstorm, its going to flood bad. This also running high after reaching flood stage in the past few days. A bit of a stressful situation. We faced this in 2011 and again b in 2007. Tyler dempsey spent is part of the day putting belonging in a trailer. Moving out. Trying to get everything out we can. At the coast, cape may firefighters gearing up for high water. Today making sure their heavy duty flood truck and boat are ready for any possible rescues. In long beach township, new online Traffic Cameras provide a look at flood prone boulevard. Police who have a link on their Facebook Page asking people to check out the images for conditions before calling dispatchers with nonemergency traffic related questions. Public works crews busy this morning preparing and testing out large flood pumps to help drain water from streets into the bay. Officials urging residents and summer visitor who is may not be familiar with flooding here to take their own precautions. The cars if they are in low lying area. They can call can the Public Works Department and tell them where some of the low lying areas are. Bood advice. Also good advice to secure any loose items outside your home so they dont blow away in the wind. The winds have been picking up in the past few hours. Ven long greenberg, 10 news. The entire weekend will not be a washout. Especially at the shore. Jessica boyington is back with the impact on the roads. Were watching i95. Right around Hamilton Square road. Were actually not e seeing a ton of weather related problems yet. While were watching a little bit of delay, this is an accident scene on the westbound side. That was towards them a minute ago. So now here is this expressway at the westbound side. Thats whats moving past the camera at the bottom. This is whats headed towards the boulevard. We have delays at the airport. Check before we go there. To washington now, back to the drawbo to repeal obamacare. Early morning vote sidelined the skinny repeal plan. Three republican senators and all the democrats oppose the bill that President Trump implored them to pass. Aundrea clinethomas has the latest. For the health care plan, the desk blow came just before 1 30 a. M. The Senate Maverick john mccain joined two other are republicans in voting against the gops best efforts at ending obamacare. Crushing what would have been President Trumps firstate vict. The president publicly expressed confidence today. I said from the beginning let obamacare implode. Then do it reporter venting his frustrations on twitter. Some republicans say the president let them all done. The president never laid out core principles. Reporter President Trump le lose in. The conflict between newly hired Communications DirectorAnthony Scaramucci and chief of staff Reince Priebus now front page news after his tirade against Reince Priebus and Senior Adviser steve bannon. Whats going on in t w aundr clinethomas, nbc 10 news. This is what america looks like. Back home in Chester County, they semibrat ed outside the Westchester Office of republican congressman ryan costello. The protesters urging congress to find a bipartisan solution. They tell nbc 10 they want to hear voices from both sides in the next bill. Im hoping that what they democrats to have an open process where they have hearings and let all the constituents weigh in on what care in americ. Congressman costello agreed to the protesters outside his office. He said he agrees lawmakers on both sides of the aisle need to find common ground. Even though the senate is battling over the health care , together on a another topic. The senator was in the Capitol Building for the unifying mom t moment. There was a striking moment last night where after a whole series of votes on health care, we took a break from it. And passed the russia sanctions bill 9 72. Its about as strong a vote as you have seen on the senate floor this year. The bill mirrors speio on ru obama in response to russias meddling in the 2016 president ial election. President trump faces pressure to sign it intos continue to gr between the skpus north korea as north korea tested another Ballistic Police missile. They said officials were analyzing the apparent launch and that it may have lanlded in the sea of japan. Earlier this month, north korea launched another ballistic missile. The kind ta could be capable of reaching the united states. More on the Health Carehe n threat. Tonight at 6 30 on nbc nightly news wither holt here on nbc 10. Still to come, a new push to get people to stop smoking. How researchers are planning to make cigarettes less addictive. And nascar fans are ready. Kpoitment building for the race. Steven firve er joins us live from the raceway, coming up. Also why the why the special delivery from a pregnant doctor is the big talk in this hospital. We have already had flooding in the state of maryland. Your storm just starting in our area. Ill tell you who is getting hit and how hard and when, coming up. Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. And with the new fios gigabit connection. You get our fastest. Internet ever. With download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people havconnection with tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for the first year. Plus hbo for one year and multiroom dvr service for two years, all with a twoyear agreement. And switching has never been easier. Get out of your contract with up to a 500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. Go to fiosgigabit. Com were Team Coverage of the storm thats bringing flooding concerns to the region. On the lefthand side, you can see the radar lighting up with activity. A a live look at cape may and an area that will feel a big impact overnight. Eo in delaware bracing for lots of rain. We find nbc 10s tim furlong. How are things looking . Reporter it was a light rain, not a a lot of wind. This is woodland beach. This is where the Delaware River becomes the delaware bay and vice versa. This is where it all comes together. Its a very low lying spot. Sometimes when it rains heavily, the river comesp. They have this marshy area and theres only one road leading into town. That road is actually technically below sea level. This is zach and his son travis. When youre here, you know that in the next couple days this might not be a good place to be. Its 4 to 5 hours give or take. Somebody told me the tide goes up over the road and youre stuck here. It could be a much higher situation with the water were about to get. Are you concerned youre going to get stuck here . As far as the high tide goes, youre going to be stuck here t given time. Definitely dont want to be riding through thats a bad idea. We hope you stay safe. Thanks for talking to us. You can see it on my jacket. To get back out of o pick up. Route 6 before the road is covered with water. Now to another Vantage Point from delaware. This is a live look from our nbc 10 camera. Not as much rain expected. Meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz and erika martin are here with impact this weather will have on the weekend. Whats going on outside right now. Its not raining yet in philadelphia, but retty good am falls overnight and into tomorrow morning. Ordinarily, wed consider that a really heavy rain event, but compared to delaware and south jersey, its not going to be as heavy and as much flooding. There still could be some localized flooding in philadelphia. All the neighborhoods in our area to the northern ones are still in that first alert. The heavy rain and flooding that is likely to take place. You can see the winds coming in off the ocean. Front just to our south. This is the storm itself. Hasnt gotten to the coast yet. Once it gets there, then its going toen strengthen. Then the rain is going to increase. This is just the beginning that were seeing right now. Some of that rain getting heavier. Half inch to an inch ate to per hour. And if it keeps going hour after hour, its getting nhe lancaste. That is coming tost. With the center of the storm back to the west, that gets moving that way as well. It is going to get heavier through the night and see more o and more of the yellows and reds. Take it from here. Thats right. Things are clearing for the second half of the weekend. And later on saturday, hourehe s ob the screen staying south of the metro area. Get this going. Certain lie that i can that forecast. We have rain in the forecast for tomorrow. Temperat c the 80s. In just a bit. Well be. Talking about tracking another heat wave. Back to yo y see weather stirri up, take a video or picture. Df the biggest impacts of the storms in flooding tomorrow morning. Wake up with nbc 10 news today for the latest track on the storm. We will be updating you throughout the morning to help you plan ahead. New video of a purse thief who pulled out a hunting knife and held it to the neck of a 78yearold woman. She was walking home when he attacked her. The video taken from a nearby home. It helped police find that suspect. Hes currently had held in the Camden County jail. Also do you recognize this woman here. Wait a second because were going to show you a closer look at her face. She was taking money from the register after the store closed. The nbc 10 supporting our School Initiative is going to make a lot of teachers and students happy. Were asking you to help make a difference. So far we have eight teacher projects fully funded and that adds up to almost 300 students who have been helped. The dead line is coming. Up tomorrow. If youll be. At the engineer e see shore, drop off supplies. Well be collecting donations inside boardwalk hall from 7 00 a. M. To 1 00 p. M. If the bad weather is keeping you, dont worry. You can always contribute through our website. Or you can bring in donations to our northeast philadelphia locate tomorrow from 10 00 to 1 00. From serious cyclists to novemberist bikers, thousands are geting ready to peddle 6 mile this is weekend. Less than a month from now, something is going to happen an the globe change their behavior. The solar e eclipse is what were talking about. Wild animals may not know how to handle the unexpected darkness. And zoos across the country are getting ready for whatever the eclipse could pright see active go to sleep during the eclipse when they might normally fwo to sleep during the eclipse. We might see little bit nervous during the eclipse. As for your pets, they could feel the impact of the eclipse as well. Theres an increased chance they could curl up and take a nap. That would not be anything unusual in my household. Nascar fan frenzy in the poconos. Get ready to start your engines. The fans and cars are in place. That means big business near the raceway. Severe storms and flash flooding are expected this weekend. We are conditions. Your most accurate forecast straight ahead. Later at 6 00, malk being able to walk through the streets of downtown philadelphia without having to worry about traffic. Well tell you when the next philly free streets will y from the time i was pregnant with him, had so much life and energy in him. He wanted out, and he wanted to conquer the world. Right now, quintons goal is to be a doctor. Its not easy being a single parent with three kids and having to provide for them. But my son will be an amazing doctor, and hell help people that are less fortunate. No matter where you are in your college journey, sallie mae can help you find the money you need. We are under a first alert. Showers and thunderstorms moving in. You can see thect first alert r. Were track iing the cbs neighborhood by neighborhood for you. The heaviest rain expected to hit delaware and south jersey. Hes a look at conditions in cape may. Its been pretty dark over the water. The threat of flooding is also a concern. Were going to talk about that with our meteorologists as we look live at the boat house row. Heavy traffic before the rain i. Lets get to our Team Coverage to whats happening in your neighborhood. And on the roads as well. We have got you covered. Lets bee wi schwartz. You can see that the rain has begun across at least a portion of our area. Delaware has been seeing rain the last couple hours. Now the rain from pennsylvania has moved into Chester County. Those areas are getting some. Were getting a little heavier rain in central delaware. Cape can may on the edge of getting some. And that is just going to heavier and heavier as you can see how closed cape may is to getting in on the action. Right now louisville getting the rain. Now some of that rain coming into westchester. Its byebye pretty heavy in lancaster county. We have ha flooding in maryland. These areas of yell e lows and are intense areas of rain. You can get a a couple inches in justhour. So were stil going to get some rain in pennsylvania. But overall the heaviest rain in delaware and south jersey. If you live in delaware, or south jersey, you want to Pay Attention to any kind of local officials because most people who have trouble with floods take them too lightly. Moving water is extremely dangerous. Well talk about who will get what, coming up. George spencer is join iing live in storm force. Hes in delaware. How are things looking . The storm just beginning to get cranking. Right rain. Spotty showers pop roadways here as we approach wilmington in delaware. Northbound towards wilmington to the south, we have been driving crossing the Memorial Bridge here in storm force 10 and what were seeing right now with the wind shield wipers on just to clear a few of the drops, thats basically what we have byebye seeing for about an hour now. So certain ly a big storm syste approaching. We are just e seeing the beginning of it though as we approach wilmington. Reporting live, george spencer, nbc 10news. Thank you for that. Toim for a check of the roads. Lets go to traffic reporter jessica boyington. So right now were watching 95 in our cameras we have a a serious accident that just popped up within the last ten minutes or so. On the southbound side of 95, this is the traffic thats moving towards cecity its around ji regard avenue. Thats partially blocked there as well. Were seeing big delays behind the scene. A few vehicles that were involved. It looks like an ambulance here as and only one laneet side. Thats creating a nasty drive time. Average speed there into the teens. Ill end with a crash oute driv from 95 to the expressway. Thank you, jessica. You can track when Severe Weather hits your neighborhood. All you have to do is dnl stay ahead of the heavy rain. Well send you an alert 30 minutes before the storm moves into your area. Heres a a look at the stories making headlines county by county across the region today. In montgomery county, a thief swiped a stolen card atoun from. Police say the man in the hat also used that card in maryland. If you think you know who that is, call police. In Sussex County this woman stole 28,000 from a High School Lacrosse team. She was the president of the booster club. Police say tremor would write checkssh. In mercer county, guns for cash. The Gun Buyback Program is in full swing. You have until 8 00 tonight to turn in a gun and get money back. No questions asked. The Exchange Program is in trenton at Friendship Baptist church and at the antioch baptist church. 850 guns have been turned in so fada location. The program runs from 8 00 to 8 00 tomorrow. The end is almost here for three stores in our area. The stores will go dark on mond monday. A total of 5,000 positions are going e affected with this. The retailer announced in march it was closing 138 stores to cut costs. Trying to stop smoking . Help may be on the way. The new plan to make it easier o quit. Big business and fast cars, nascar fans are rev the poconos. And how a quick thinking store clerk turned the tables on a robbery suspect. The video you have to see. Im erin coleman for nbc 10 have new protections to keep them safe from abuse like this. This week we discussed the impact for you and your animals. Make sure the tether is at least three times the length of the dogs body or ten feet. Whichever is greater. Is that it plus its a doubledigit lead for the candidate running for new jersey governor. Look at wast behind phil murphys surge in the polls and what role christie, trump and murphys gender could be playing. Sunday at 11 00. We are continuing to track heavy rainmaking its way across the deval lee. Looking live at a the skies over cape may. When the storms will hit your neighborhood, your first alert forecast is coming up. To new mexico where a store clerk stared down the barrel of gun and made a heroic decision to turn the tables on the robber a Family Dollar store. When the robber moves on to another employee, the first clerk jumped the suspect and punched him over and ov loaer. D robber was arrested. A new push to get you to stop smoking cigarettes. The fda wants to lower the levels of nick teen in cigarettes. Since 2009 they have had the power to reduce the level but hasnt. They are reviewing plans for new 480,000 people doi every year from a tobaccorelated cause. A a pregnant doctor jumped into action to deliver another womans baby. The doctor was in bed at the hospit when there was an urgent case. The on call doctor already went home so e she got out of bed and did the the delivery herself. Put on some boots over my flipflops and put on another gown to cover myself up and just did the regular came in and put my stuff to deliver on and delivered a baby. She did it just in time. She went into labor just minutes later. They both had healthy little th her. Nascar returns to the poconos. Race weekend here and fans are setting up camp. They are going to get the least amount of nim tracking it the heavy rain and possible flooding in other parts of the region. Where the storms are now and when the skies are going to clear up. Our continuing coverage of the Health Care Showdown picks up at 6 00. Hear from our washington lawmakers about how to move ahead after last nights failed vote. He gets things done stevfor south jersey. O tell you dont believe him. Because Steve Sweeney gets things done for himself, for the special interests who pay for his campaigns, and definitely for chris christie. But Steve Sweeney doesnt get things done for you. Unless you count cutting education funding, raising the gas tax, and sending more of your tax dollars off to trenton instead of south jersey. If youre tired of typical politics, stop electing typical politicians like Steve Sweeney. Training camp. Carson wentz and other players met with patients from mcgee rehabilitation after practice. They invited guests of birds for the practice. And speak of the birds, they invited them to hit the field. Best moment of the day, his son jackson hitting the qb. The little guy has a future in football. Great stuffe. Thousands are there for nascar race weekend even though thats a few days away. They have already gotten started. Steven fisher is joining us live from the middle of all the action. We are in theey te tailgate ing to the extreme. Everywhere you look they have campers, good food, goodesseadi here this weekend. W will make this their home for the next three days. Its about family tradition. Now im bringing my son up here. Which is like continuing on the family tradition. You smell the cars and the burning rubber and you seeppen. All this debris flying. Its unlike anytng surreal. It makes you want to come back every year. He says the races are fun. The beat. A big party. The time you pull through the tunnel to the time rms moving into our area. We have issued a first alert. Look at your screen. Storms slowly line of storms moving this way. This is a live look at the prom nad. You can see the rain drop there is on our camera. Flooding is expected in some areas. Heres a look at the towers. Periods of heavy rain and we could get 3 or 4 inches in some parts of the area. Lets begin with glenn hurricane schwartz. Diabelaware south jersey are expected to get mosrain. Remember last weekend . Some had 7 inches of rain. So things are vulnerable. Thats why the first alert for all the neighborhoods except for the areas further north in our region thats until 3 00 saturday for the heavy rain. Flooding being the greatest threat with this particular storm. Now the 80, its not quite at the beaches. In newark. 79 in clay mont. This rain in the North Delaware delaware look at the temperatures here. Georgetown, reading, mills boro, lincoln, lewis, they are all 75 ocean, you can see delaware is kind of full with the rain and Chester County and coming towards philadelphia. That rain you just saw coming into cape may and its getting heavier by the minute. Rates of inch or more per hour. Now were getting some of the the light rainphia its getting a little heavier in Chester County. The wider view shows theres still plenty back the west. And theres a a good reason for that. The actual storm system is back here. Soe ha to wait until that gt gets here before we see our heaviest rain. We have a long ways to go with this thing. So the futurecast as we go through the evening showing some of these bright colors, the yellows and middle of the night when some of the heaviest rain is going to occur. When some of the flooding is going to occur in delaware and south jersey. And by morning, its still wet. Thats going to be the worst part of the day. And then as we go into the midday hours, were starting to semo toward the shore. And less as we head towards southeastern pennsylvania. The areas with the greatest amount of rain, central and southern delaware. You can see in general 2 to 4 inches with locally higher amounts. The european model showing 4 to 6 inches of rain. The storm track goes a little to the north. The heaviest rain to the south, but the general trend is the farther north you go, the lower the amounts. Philly, thats still a lot of rain. Erika will tell you when its going to end and the rest of the weekend. Its not all bad nouz. At least the second half of your saturday will be pretty good. Even though the system favors the viewing area. The good news is it clears later on. Get ready for a sunny sunday. Lots of sunshine on sunday. Cbs will be although a chillier saturday in the forecast. Were tracking another heat wave with temperatures incen ex the tuesday, wednesday and thursday. So you be sure you follow us on social media for more weather updates. Back to you. We are cleking the best weather and storm photos. If you see it, share it. Download the free app and click on the tab. A 65mile cks off this weekend. I ended up. Signing up and training and doing it. Thousands are getting ready to ride and raise money for a good cause. The event is create stronger family bonds as well. New at 6 00, the popes visit to philadelphia spawned a new movement. Lat people behind that movement got what they were looking for. Welcome back. Lester holt joining us from new york. Heres a look at whats coming up on nbc nightly news. A busy night. You bet it is. We have breaking details of a shakeup at the white house late this afternoon. President trump showing chief of staff Reince Priebus the exit door. Also alarm bells sounding in washington north korea launched another missile. One that some scientists believe could easily strike the mainland u. S. And how the fda is shifting its attack on smoking. Those stories and more when we see you for the friday edition of nbc nightly news. For now, back to you in philly. The wheel will be turning this weekend for the irish pub tour deshore. Its taking part in ride for six years. She tells us how the charity ride has grown into a major event in our area. I started my dad. He had done it a year before i had started. So this would be his tenth year di is hardly loan. Peddling from philly to ac for her is a summerhenad fell in lo this, its hard not to fall in love with it after you ride the first time. He asked if i wanted to do it. I was 14 at the time. I was like i dont i can do that. So i signed up, trained and doing it and fell in i cant imagine going a summer not doing it. It was an opportunity to give back. A handful of workers atub go shift one night to raise some lneas grown. This year were going to have 2500 ridersedlantic city. What they have done, each rider has helped get the Childrens Foundation past the 7 million mark. It goes to family of First Responders in the philadelphia area. Reporter education has become a mission. Starting the police youth alliance. Police officers are in School Teaching subjects some may n get like chess and hip hop. All while they are in uniform. And with each initiative the ride grows. So do the possibilities. Its just amazing tohi tr. Deanna durante, nbc 10 news. So awesome. The ride is had this sunday. The ben franklin bridge will close from 6 30 to 8 00 sunday morning to get riders over the river. Ahead at 6 00, the movement to open up the streets of philadelphia to more foot traffic. Abld to stroll the streets of philly without the hassles of cars and truks zooming by. Also breaking news. White house staff shakeup. Another member of the senior staff out of a job and we have Reince Priebus. And a first alert. Ill continue to prepare you for the heavy rain and flooding hitting parts of our area. Its going to hit differently deading on your neighborhood. Ill tell you who will get hit the. Breaking news at 6 00, white house chaos. Another senior staff shakeup within the last hour a new chief of staff has been named. Good evening, im jim rosenfield. Right now john kelly is in and Reince Priebus is out as white house chief of staff. Meanwhile theres more trouble for the Communications Director. Erin coleman is live in our breaking news center to sort all this out. A lot has happened in the few minutes. The the president went to twitter to announce john kelly as his chief of staff. Kelly was the secretary of Homeland Security and replaces Reince Priebus who was ousted just one day after he was verbally attacked by the Communications DirectorAnthony Scaramucci. Priebuss fate as the chief of o the fate of the Gop Health Care bill that failed this morning in the senate. Meanwhile page six is reporting that scaramuccis wife is now filing for divorce from the newly named white house official. Hes taken to twitter within the last hour to respond to the report saying, leave civilians out of this. I can take the hits, but i would ask that you put my family in your thoughts and prayers and nothing more. Back to the new white house chief of staff. President trump went on ter con john kelly and thanked priebus for his service. Erin coleman, nbc 10 news. Heavy rain kbeting ready to slam parts of the deval lee. This is a look at the radar. You see the system on the move. There are concerns tonight this could cause some flooding later this evening. Lets take a live look at delaware. Parts of the state already seeing some of the rain moving in there. And take a lock at cape may. The jersey shore, another area expected to get. Hit the hardest with the wet weather. You see the g drops of rain