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Im on disability so without the medicaid i wouldnt be able to afford it. Reporter lisa miles says having Health Insurance is especially crucial now. In Atlantic City today for tests after a lump was found in one of her breasts. Right now because of the circumstances that im dealing with. Reporter miles among those worried that the Republican Health care plan will leave them without coverage, the result of proposed steep cuts to medicaid along with a major restructuring. How can i pay for hospital bills and glasses when im worried about tuition for college. People are putting off health care. They are getting sicker and therefore the cost goes higher. Reporter chief Financial Officer of shore medical center. The hospital he says watching developments in washington closely and very concerned about the gop plan. He says the recent wave of Atlantic City casino closings has left many people in this region relying on medicaid and charity care. It means less funding. It will force people back to the emergency rooms. Reporter previously served in executive roles for Trump Entertainment Resorts and negotiated health care for the company. He believes the president genuinely wants americans to have Good Health Care but says rushing the process is a mistake. I would rather wait longer to get it right than do it too quickly and get it wrong. Ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. Nancy pelosi was in philadelphia today for a womens round table. The focus quickly turned to the Health Care Reform bill. Both pelosi and philadelphia area representative dwight evans called it devastating. The bill that is in the senate now probably worse piece of legislation for women in the history of the congress. Far from over. You can see this is not a slam dunk in spite of the way they conducted the bill. Pelosi says democrats are still fighting and now is the time to reach out on the local level. This afternoon President Trump defending the Republican Health care bill on twitter saying, quote, republican senators are working very hard to get there with no help from the democrats. Perhaps just let o care crash and burn. The official white house twitter account sharing this video saying obamacare led to higher premiums and fewer choices for americans. President trump picked up a major victory. The Supreme Court justices reviving a 90 day travel ban from six muslim majority countries. Travelers will be affected. The court ruled the ban cannot be applied to visa applicants who have a close relationship to a Family Member in the u. S. Or those who come here to study or accept a job offer. The president says the ban will take effect in three days. The High Court Ruled that taxpayer funds cannot be denied. This is one of the most significant rulings on religious rights in decades. Prohibits spending tax dollars to support churches. Continuing coverage of the impact coming up tonight at 6 30 on nbc nightly news with lester holt. A key witness on the stand in the federal corruption trial of District Attorney Seth Williams. Joseph sullivan told the jury williams pushed him to provide extra help for a friend but felt something wasnt right and went to the fbi. Reporter in the courtroom for todays testimony. Deputy Police Commissioner Joseph Sullivan of the Philadelphia Police Department Said if he knew Seth Williams was getting expensive gifts he would have gone to the fbi sooner. Deputy Police Commissioner Joseph Sullivan said he never had a relationship with the District Attorney and says when he got a request from help in what the District Attorney called a racial profiling case at Philadelphia International airport sullivan says it was his duty to investigate. It does happen where people of muslim background do sometimes suffer in unequal treatment. Reporter muhammad ali, sullivan said at first we checked the status and ali seemed to be fine. Sullivan and williams and ali didnt know he was under investigation by the fbi. Sullivan says later he was told by federal officials it would be best if he and d. A. Stayed away from ali. He said the d. A. Invited him to join ali at lunch at the exclusive union league. I think all of you know me. You know what kind of Law Enforcement officer i am. My personal dedication to this city. Its not something to always put your finger on. I felt something wasnt right and felt the best course of action was to run that through my counter parts at the fbi. Reporter he said he was told to steer clear of ali. A second warning he shared with the d. A. He said had he know ali was giving gifts to williams he would have gone to the fbi sooner. The defense claims that williams was doing something that any elected official will do. A Philadelphia Bar owner who pled guilty to federal tax charges he says he knew by giving gifts and a car and trips to las vegas that williams would help him with a legal problem. Outside federal court nbc 10 news. The 21yearold says he changed his mind during deliberations. As the week went on hearing other peoples opinions and arguments for this side and this side and then open up my mind to the testimony i opened my mind to that and i was like this is different. This is not what i thought it would be. Another juror in the case recently spoke with nbc news. That juror didnt want his name or identity revealed and said cosby suffered enough for whatever may have happened and believed the actor should not be found guilty. The case ended in a mistrial after more than 50 hours of jury deliberations. The District Attorney says he will retry cosby. In south jersey anguish, heartbreak and fear are taking over a Farming Community after a murder mystery there. Yesterday 45yearold was found dead inside the farmhouse where she lived with her father. Today nbc 10 obtained the 911 call made by her dad. He told an operator he thought he was dreaming when he woke up to the sound of gun shots and commotion inside his home. You said you were sleeping and were woken up to gun shots . Yeah. And my daughter is laying on the floor. And shes shot . Yeah. They operate a familyowned blueberry farm. Harvest in full swing. Police arent saying what the motive is. Philadelphia police are asking for help from anyone who knows about a murder this weekend. Police say Debra Gulliver was beaten and stabbed. Police say a witnessed called 911 to report the crime but left before police got there. New details on a house fire that killed a 9yearold boy. Police confirmed the fire was started by accident in the kitchen. Crews rushed to the scene early yesterday morning as the boys father tried to save him. He was injured trying to reach the second floor where his son was sleeping. Fire Officials Say they are looking at the space between two homes to see where the fire uvd started. Huge flames and clouds could be seen for miles. Fortunately no one was hurt. Supporting human rights. Mayor jim kenny announced the backing of the United Nations International Day in support of victims of torture. In a statement the mayor says the city will continue to denounce practices of torture. Tonight city of philadelphia says its lowering the city wage tax starting next week. The taxes will drop from 3. 9 for City Residents to 3. 89 . We did the math. If you make 50,000 a year you will save about five dollars. The clock is ticking for pennsylvania lawmakers. They have about five days to pass a budget. Governor tom wolf proposed a 32 million budget plan. They have rejected wolfs billion dollar tax package to help plug the deficit. To your first alert weather take ag live look outside at our cape may camera. A beautiful evening to be out on the shore. Back here at philadelphia more sun, comfortable temperatures out there. Beautiful skyline shot. Glenn schwartz has your first alert forecast. Its beautiful at the shore and wish it would last all the way through the weekend. 74 Atlantic City marina. 81 inland. Ocean temperatures 66. We are in the 70s acrossjee mf the area except for 80 in philadelphia. Our high today officially was 82. Nothing much on the satellite and radar. We do have little shower there just south of dover. More action back in western pennsylvania. Starting to see an increase in lightning out there. That is what we are going to be watching during the night tonight. Isolated showers and even into tomorrow but thats just the beginning. A lot stormier weather on the way. Ill tell you when coming up. New Parking Charges on the jersey shore. 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Reporter the official event begins thursday but shops today a big Kickoff Party including Sand Sculptures from liberty bell to big ben to official saying of this years 25th anniversary wawa welcome america celebration everyone had a history maker. All about getting out in the neighborhoods. Reporter city officials keep pushing that the events are free and family friendly. They know lots of people go to the ocean or mountains for the fourth of july holiday. They hope you will at least consider keeping it local. Its time to stay in the city. Reporter along the parkway, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. Nbc 10 is a proud sponsor of the wawa welcome america celebration. Dont forget you can enjoy free fireworks shows starting at 9 30 this friday and saturday and on the 4th along the parkway. For a detailed list of wawa welcome America Events tap the app or visit nbc10. Com. Tonight remembering and honoring those from our area who served our country during the korean war. Today the Korean American Association held a Memorial Ceremony to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the korean war. The service was held at the korean war memorial. If you take your four wheel drive vehicle down the shore you can park it right on the sand. The city commissioner voted unanimously to allow parking on their popular wide beaches. Daily parking will cost about 10. Officials say this will bring in more money and could bring in more people to the shore town. And speaking of parking about to get easier. The city announcing plans to begin a new Smart Parking meter program. The meters will be installed on existing posts along sections of cooper, broadway. The meters will run off solar batteries and will accept mobile payments as well as credit cards and coins, too. To your first alert weather. Absolute gorgeous evening. The sun is still out. The humidity is low. Temperatures are perfect. First alert chief meteorologist Glenn Schwartz joining me now. I will leave the rest of the broadcast with you tonight as i am off to sit with megyn kelly. Lets hope there is no breaking news in the next 15 minutes. All up to you, pal. There is no breaking news in the weather. It is just beautiful. Its been that way since that front came through saturday morning. It is going to continue another couple of days, too. 80 degrees in philadelphia. We have 82 today. A lot of blue in that sky. A lot of blue all over the place. Just a spectacular day. Not a whole lot of wind, very low humidity. Check out temperatures in some of our suburbs. Chester, montgomery counties, Lincoln University at 78 degrees. So is unionville. Only 73. Malburn 79. 78 at elroy and north wales. New hope at 79 degrees. Beautiful there today. Now, we dont have much on satellite or radar close by. Win little shower just south of dover. Main actions in western pennsylvania now. More activity up over the great lakes but we are still in a fairly quiet pattern as we go through the next couple of days. Isolated showers during the night tonight. We do have some clouds around. When the clouds break up the temperatures drop into the mid 50s by morning. A little bit on the chilly side perhaps for some folks. It warms up quickly. Still kind of cool for summer in the morning and then just isolated showers in the afternoon. See a lot of clouds around there. Only 69 in redding in the afternoon. So its not exactly going to be a warm day tomorrow just isolated showers most of the day is dry. And over the next three days two very comfortable days. Clouds tomorrow. Wednesday sunny with the low humidity and comfortable temperatures. And then thursday humidity is up. Temperatures up a lot. You should notice that. With one exception. Wait until you see this. Thursday at 87. Pam Lehigh Valley may have showers thursday afternoon. Thats why we do this neighborhood weather stuff. Not necessarily going to rain everywhere. And jersey shore temperatures actually go down because were going to be seeing a sea breeze, a stronger sea breeze and that brings cooler air in from the ocean. Again, thats a part of the neighborhood weather. And weekend high temperatures we are seeing 90s friday, saturday and increasing humidity and also increase in thunderstorm threats. Coming up, another flyer gets into the hall of fame. Will he be rookie of the year tonight. Phillies in action all next. This is sports desk brought to you by xfinity. X 1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. Im john clark. Tonight we find out if the nbas rookie of the year. The odds say it will be malcolm braugden. Today dario named to all rookie first team. First Sixers Teammates to do that together for the first time in nine years. Sixers backup center told me he had very high expectations. I know all about him. Hes like i think he is a hall of famer for sure. He is a hall of famer. Put that out there like that. I will say it. That is say ag lot. Congrats to former flyer finally gets the call to the hall. He is elected into the hockey hall of fame today. He will be inducted in november. Mark ranks eighth all time on the scoring list. He has most points in a season in flyers history. The only other is bobby clark. Here is steve coast today. You think about a guy that won multiple with different teams. I think that is a credit to him because he is a very Important Team guy. Played the game hard night after night and i think when you look at him definitely very deserving to be going into the hockey hall of fame. Of course, the flyers traded brayden shen for two firstround picks. Shen has been second on the flyers in goals. Csn analyst on the deal. Young players coming in. Somebody had to go to make room and gathered more assets when he sent him. So i trust the philosophy, i am anxious to see this team this year. Looks like phillies on on their way to losing Third Straight to 9¢ediamondbacks. Not a great sign when you lose rock, paper schiissors. Deep end of the pool. That is gone. 10 and some philly fans taking over and fish it out and throw it back. Not a bad throw. Doesnt get much better after that. Two more runs in the second. Phillies down 61 right now in the seventh. They need a life preserver right now. Im john clark. Were right back. Breaking news tonight. 22 million more americans will be without Health Insurance under the senate gop plan. The new nonpartisan report. How sharp medicaid reductions could impact so many middle class families. Travel ban fight. The Supreme Court weighs in as President Trump scores a partial victory. Nhtmare flight. New details of what may have caused a plane to shake so violently for nearly two hours. Passengers say the pilot told them to pray. Fire emergency. Exploding out of control across seven states as millions bake under a deadly heat wave. Gut check. Millions are taking them hoping for better digestion and even a clearer complexion. Tonight the reality on probiotics. And the proposal bringing so many to