This is ongoing project. Drive times looking good. Eastbound from 29 to schuylkill eighth minute trip. Average speeds still into the mid 60s. Lastly check in with mass transit. Everything running on or close to schedule. Septa, amtrak, new Jersey Transit patco running on or close to schedule. Route 73 around the Atlantic City expressway. Everything looks good in both directions if youre heading down to the shore this morning. Of course sis the time to go. No big delays at this time. Facing federal indictment. Today will be a day of reckoning for mayor of allentown. He says hes not Living Office on ending his campaign for a fourth terms. Mayor ed pawlowski has been the center of ongoing corruption investigation for four years. A probe divided the people of allentown. Nbc 10 joins us live there. Federal prosecutors expected to release new information in just a few hours today. Reporter this afternoon theyre expected to hold a News Conference for philadelphia. No word if the mayor going to show up to work here in allentown. The investigation has been going on for the last several years in Court Documents. Pawlowski has been named simply as public official number three. So far nine people have pled guilty in the case. Mayor pawlowski isnt commenting to our cameras. Last night drove away from us as we attempted to speak to him. Supporters rallied for him when word of the indictment was coming. At the same time, those who think the mayor needs to resign is speaking out. A person going in his position with these allegations, you have to go to these trials in order to prove your innocence. I long felt that he was a corrupt mayor and im glad to see this day has finally come. Its been very damaging for allentown. Hopefully allentown can move forward once again. Reporter now right now the indictments remain under seal its appeared in Court Documents this is a pay to play investigation, and its alleged that pawlowski solicited Large Campaign donations in order to award city contracts. His attorney confirmed he will be named in these doouindictmens well as four other people. That information will be coming from the u. S. Attorneys office later today. Very latest from allentown. Nbc 10 news. Heres a closer look at timeline of the investigation over the past few years. July 15, raided city hall and mayor plawlowskis home. At least seven people pleaded guilty in the case. City Council Voted no confidence in the mayor and called for him to resign. Then january of this year, pawlowski announced running for a fourth year in Office Despite the ongoing investigation. This area has seen a fair share of elected officials under indictment. Seth williams was the most recent as you know pleading guilty to federal bribely last month. Last year found chaka fattah guilty. Robert menendez has a case yet to go to trial. New details of a man who went missing. Investigators say it took hours for those with him to call for help. Delaware state police say the man was with three other people monday when he jumped in using a rope swing. Last seen going over a dam. The people with him did not call 911 until nearly two hours later after they returned home. New this morning. Police in Burlington County are asking for help to try to find a man who try to lure a child into his truck. The attempted abduction happened last night. Police believe the man wore a ski mask and was driving a Brown Ford Ranger pickup truck. 5 35. Now to breaking news on the health carele showdown on capit hill. Vote to repeal has failed. Another vote scheduled for today. The amendment would have repealed much of obamacare and would have Given Congress two years to come up with replacement. I think we were getting closer to an agreement that would include, you know, the big provisions weve been discussing sglg the. The Affordable Care act should be fixed. Todays vote will focus on what lawmakers are calling a skin skinny repeal. The penalty for companies that dont offer it. Also remove a tax on medical device manufacturers. That repeal would have to answer these questions. Will a new bill get rid of the mandate to have health care. Will it cut medicaid or subsidies for private insurance. Following all the developments in the health care showdown. Nbc 10 Pamela Osborne will have an update in the next half hour. Meantime, senator john mccain return to washington for the an emotional moment on the senate floor. He received a standing ovation. The Arizona Republican has been away from washington as you know for surgery. Learned just last week he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Urged senators from both sides of the aisle to work together. Bombastic loud mouths on the radio and television and internet to hell with them. Were getting nothing done by friends. Were getting nothing done. Only be in washington a short time before returning home to get treatment for his cancer. Cities could lose federal funding under the Justice Department crackdown on socalled sanctuary cities. Now require cities to give federal immigration agents access to their jails and notify before releasing undocumented immigrant. If they dont comply, could lose grant money. New requirement starts in september. Mayor gjim kenny argued the policy actually cuts down on crime. Victim and witnesses dont report crime because they fear deportation. Allows the real bad guys to stay on the street. Breaking news in out of west philadelphia. Home on south ruby street has collapsed. Fire Department Says the interior collapsed first then the rest of the building fell around it. No one was hurt. Nbc 10 crew is on the scene. More coming up at six. Today crews back on the scene of a water main break. Street in northeast philadelphia blocked off. The main broke on penway street causing a partial cave in. Right now about 45 customers without water. Workers will make repair there is this morning. A massive evacuation is underway in france because of raging wildfires in three french rivera towns. 1,000 people have been given evacuation orders. Sea planes fighting the winds from the sky. Make containing the fire even more difficult. Meantime, portugal is also dealing with a massive wildfire. Take a look so far. No reports of casualties in portugal or france. 5 38. Heading out right now. Weve got clouds. Clouds making things cool this morning. Also giving us a few scattered showers. Possibly during the day. Most of the day is going to be mostly cloudy. Some breaks of sunshine. Clouds lingering through the day. Even a chance of brief light shower this evening. Nothing heavy about the rainfall around for most of the area today. Most of the area is dry. Clouds for wilmington, philadelphia, trenton, look what we have here. Showers in central delaware barely moving. Rising sun getting steady rain. You may see ponding in this area. With those showers. Even lighter showers, but coming down in berks county, lehigh valley. Really spotty stuff. Most of the day and most neighborhoods are going to be dry to start with. 68 degrees right now in philadelphia. Clouds will keep us cool again today. Like yesterday, well get breaks of sunshine this morning. By lunchtime, 75 degrees and upper 70s with clouds hanging in there later this afternoon. The suburbs, 64 degrees right now. Dry. Might see a little bit of mist or even a sprinkle this morning. Then the clouds break for sunshine at lunchtime. Thats when well be in the middle 70s. Stays in the middle 70s through the afternoon with a light breeze out of the south at four miles an hour. Lehigh valley. Clouds right now and getting a few sprinkles in the area. 65 trees degrees to start with. Then get a little bit of sunshine breaking through before the clouds return later in the day. New jersey in the 50s right now. Low 70s at 10 00 and middle 70s this afternoon. A few breaks of sunshine. Look at winds coming in off the ocean. Help keep temperatures cool inland and at the shore. 74 degrees at lunchtime. See a little more sunshine at the shore today than the rest of the area. Not a bad beach day. Winds will be picking up a little stronger coming off the ocean. That will keep temperatures in the 70s at the shore today. Delaware, cloudy skies right now. View from frawley stadium. 68 degrees. Look at slow warmup. Finally sunshine at lunchtime and early this afternoon before the clouds return later in the day. If youve been checking out sevenday forecast. See the temperatures stay on the cool side. Right on through the weekend. Another warm up comes next week. Before we get to weekend, a chance of strong showers and thunderstorms. Look at those when im back in ten minutes. Thank you, bill. See you then. About 19 minutes before 6 00 a. M. The vine street expressway should be open. Lets check. Jessica boyington always has you conserved. Moving through center city. Open right now. Cameras around eighth street on the vine street expressway. Looks good here. Right here is westbound. Moving towards the schuylkill here. Eastbound towards 95. You can see no big approximate or delays so far. Little bit early for that. Some delays for mass transit. 407 is running about 19 minutes late. Right now pretty big delays for septa. Want to check before you go and head out the door there. Am track, new Jersey Transit and patco all on time. Running on the blue route this morning. Everything looks good so far. 14 minutes north and south. Speeds also into the 60s. Vai and tracey. All new this morning. Behind the scenes. Were giving a sneak peek on the set before wicked opens up in philadelphia tonight. Legacy lives on. Wife of fallen new York Police Officer has baby years after his death. A split second decision to save a life. Strangers jump into action. Rescued a woman in need. Tracking your texts down to the second. New device that could soon be in the hands of officers that some say will crack down on distracted driving. Nbc 10 following breaking news for you this morning. We are on the scene of a house collapse in west philadelphia. Well have the latest on the crumbling building. Have that up next. Emily i want to live on my own but i know it wont be easy. How will i keep up with everyday expenses rent, food, bus tickets . Joe hi. This is Pennsylvania State treasurer joe torsella. Our state treasury is proud to offer the pa able program, a savings plan for people with disabilities, including emily. Open a pa able account today by visiting our website at paable. Gov. Emily start saving to live independently today. Quarter to six. Continue to follow breaking news in south philadelphia. The interior collapsed first and the rest of the building. No one was hurt. Nbc 10 crew on the scene was talking to a man who heard the collapse and the woman who had to be rescued. Have more coming up live at 6 00. Now this this story. A group of strangers pulled off a roadside rescue and saved a driver trapped in her car after an accident. This is pretty amazing. This morning hearing from one of the strarngs wngers who stopped help. This was on monday a former Police Officer pulled over. He said he heard a woman kicking from inside this vehicle and when other people stopped to help, they lifted the convertible on the side. Used a pocket knife to cut the roof and freed the driver. Felt like you just won a sports event and your team there was a lot of high fives. Hand shakes. Chest bump and hug. A good thing to do good for other people. Absolutely. Tells us the woman was in shock after the rescue. She is expected to be okay. New this morning. Nearly three years after her husbands death t wife of a slain nypd detective has given birth to their baby girl. Monday morning the widow of gave birth to the baby named angelina. Became pregnant through insee troe fertilization. Killed in ambush shooting as they sat in patrol car. Now says baby girl will be part of the nypd family. New this morning, what to you think about this story. State of new york will start to study the accuracy of the devices called textalyzer. Whether a driver was texting or using a cell phone at the time of a crash. Review will also look at privacy and constitutional questions that the device could raise. The company developing the device says its still months away from being ready. What do you think about it. We would love to hear your thoughts. Everybody is doing it. I saw a woman on the highway. On the turnpike. On the turnpike. Thats it. All of us have done it. Im guilty of it. I actually like the idea of that. Im not opposed to metal detectives at the airport. Anything that helps us be safer, im all for. Right. Were all guilty of it sometimes. Stop it. Put the phone down. Theyll be able to figure out what happened and may have caused the accident. A good deterrent. I dont think it is a deterrent. You can get in more trouble for it. Its already against the law. People are doing it nonstop. Check my instagram. They are. They are. Theyre texting. Its not just texting. Its surfing the web. Buying stuff. From the company jesse shops at all the time. Im not making amazon purchases when i drive, bill. Dont tell people that. Booking travel to find sunshine. Which they might be doing today. Let me show you whats happening today. Cloudy to start with. There are going to be sunny breaks today. Clouds hanging in there for easton. We have seen rain showers this morning in easton. Ocean city, there you can see breaks in the clouds. See more sunshine at the shore today than inland areas. Well get sunshine in philadelphia and delaware. And the suburbs. South jersey right now. Solidly in the 60s. Audubon 67 degrees. 66 66. Hopewell township at 64 degrees. Nice start. Pleasantly cool to start with. Winds coming off the ocean during the day. Temperatures be held back. Clouds and chance of sprinkle or two at times. Most of the day its going to be dry. 70s for philadelphia. Suburbs for the lehigh valley. Youll see more sunshine today. The jersey shore, ocean city partly sunny 74 degrees this afternoon. Mostly cloudy skies for hammonton. Slight chance of shower at times. Voorhees and wilmington in delaware. Sunshine, well be back tomorrow. Satellite and radar shows us lingering clouds in the area. To the west though that youll see a break in the clouds for tomorrow, but then tomorrow night and into friday that wet weather thats moving through eastern nebraska is destined for our area. Could see heavy downpours. Even a potential of severe weather. This time tomorrow morning, showers will be in the midwest and chicago area, but later tomorrow start to see the wet weather arrive here. Thats 7 45 tomorrow evening. Then the possibility of some thunderstorms late tomorrow night and into early friday. With lingering showers during the day on friday. Midnight heading into friday. Standby. There will be more wet weather ahead. Not much today. Sprinkle is possible. Most of the day. Clouds and sunshine here. 83 degrees in the afternoon. Showers and thunderstorms coming in later in the day on thursday. Then the rain. On and off on friday. 79 degrees the High Temperature on friday. And showers lingering into saturday, but here comes the sunshine. Sunday and monday a nice warmup by next tuesday up to 90 degrees. Next chance of showers next week. Holds off until friday. Im focused on sunday. Nine minutes before 6 00. Focus on the schuylkill. See how its moving. You got the cameras focused on that. Tell us what youre seeing. Were watching 76. Kind of like the schuylkill. Every time i see 76 i say the schuylkill. Were in Gloucester City right now. Right around market street. Our cameras here on the northbound side. Thats what is moving up towards the philadelphia area. The walt whitman bridge. Split through camden. Also popped up in the camera. Disabled vehicle on the northbound side. Watch for that. Over into the left hand shoulder there. Traffic still getting by the scene. Also watching 95. 13 minutes on the southbound side. Woodhaven road to the vine street expressway. Speeds there into the 60s. No problems moving on 95. End here on route 309. Pa turnpike. Smooth sailing for directions north and south. No big problems and delays. Smashed broadway show opening in philadelphia today. Giving a behind the scenes sneak peek. Nbc 10 following breaking news this morning. Live look at a house collapse in west philadelphia. Have the latest on the situation up next. Coming up new at six. Drivers be ware. Criminals targeting certain kar cars in philadelphia. The car owners that need to be on alert. About five minutes before 6 00 a. M. Continue to follow breaking news in west philadelphia. Home on south ruby street has collapsed. Fire Department Said the interior collapsed first then the rest of the building fell around it. No one was hurt. This is a live look right now at that scene. Our nbc 10 crew on the scene. Talking to a man who heard the collapse. A woman who had to rescued. Were getting a look at a body cam video that shows a septa Police Officer being knocked to the ground. Take a look at this. Stop. The attack happened monday night at septa angora station in southwest philadelphia. Septa Police Sergeant approached a man after reports he was on the track. Hit head and back when she was shoved to the grouped. Police continue to look for the attacker. Murder rate is rising. Police are having trouble catching the criminals. Nbc 10 head to the streets to meet the people caught in the cross hairs. Preview of a series of stories youll see today on nbc 10. In 2017, philadelphia is averaging more than three shootings a day. Its crazy because its true. From january through july, 39 Police Responded to a report of gunshots. Statistics show who is most likely to be shot or killed. Its ongoing war. Thats whats going on. Your nbc 10 investigators reporting in the most effective neighborhoods. They see me. Im a snitch. Discovering what parents fear. I always think it could be my child. How police are adapting. Could be the most homicide the city has seen since 2012. It is very concerning. The investigators im mitch blocker. Nbc 10 news. Our Investigation Continues today on nbc 10 at 4 00 when we meet a mother trying to protect her children as they navigate days filled with sirens and gunshots. And now lets take you state by state and county by county for a look at some of the stories from across the area. New this morning, police in Montgomery County asking for your help as they look for this man. Stole money from a donation box. Released pictures of the systematic. Earlier this month he removed the donation box from the wall at the north town Islamic Society on green street and took the money out of it. If you can identify him, call police. To berks county plan to stop problem in a popular spot is moving forward. Redding city council said it will vote next month on whether to ban late night parking. Turned into a party spot people go to drink, do drugs and play loud music. Today john carney expected to sign a bill that would allow Fantasy Sports to legally operate in the state. Sports sites would be considered games of skill and not a form of illegal gambling. Companies run Fantasy Sports leagues face a 15 tax and a 50,000 annual fee. Cape may county, the harlem globe trotters give back to families who lost everything in a fire. Globe trotters star meet with two families in wild wood crest. Give free vip tickets to a globe trotters game. Also meet firefighters and First Responders at the scene of this fire in june. It musical wicked opening up tonight at the academy of music in philadelphia. Show is here for a five week run. Yesterday we got a technical look behind the scenes at what it takes to set up the show. Crews were setting up the stage. We talked to the stage manager. Ive come to philly many times. I just love being here. The company is really excited about philadelphia. Wicked looks at the wizard of oz story from the point of view of the wicked witch of the west. Show runs through august 27 at the academy of music. Singing within of the songs earlier. You and i were singing popular. Love it. More storying on nbc 10 news at 6 00 a. M. We are following breaking news. Rescued from the rubble. Breaking overnight. Womans cry for help leaves a man to find her inside this collapsed home. Family distunysfunctiodysfun race to break up a fight between father and son after one of them went on the attack with a sword. Warning to women. New Security Breach that puts patients personal information in the hands of criminals. Good morning. 6 00 a. M. Taking a gander behind us there. See a little clouds. Clouds there. One of bills live pictures has the sunrise. Check out the sky glowing in easton this morning. Still plenty of clouds around. We have seen a few sprinkles in easton too. Not going to be allday rainfall. Barely showing up on the radar. More impressive the showers stayi staying put in one area in central delaware, may see ponding. That rain is not going anywhere. Fortunately its not heavy, but it is stalled. Clouds