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Lets take look at some pictures ill tell was castor had to say today. The former Montgomery County District Attorney says the job of acting attorney general brings a big learning curve and as of wednesday night when Kathleen Kane leaves office, he will take it on. Castor in a rambling press conference said he took a call from the embattled now convicted attorney general attorney Kathleen Kane this afternoon. Until this afternoon when she did ask my opinion and i told her that i thought it would be very difficult for her to remain in light of the developments in Montgomery County. Well i dont know that anybody is prepared to assume a job of this nature. I certainly have spent my entire professional live learning how to run a large government operation and i have been doing it more or less for last five months. Reporter bruce castor has been the solicitor general here. He came in to sort of run this office. The legal aspect of this office when Kathleen Kane actually had her law license stripped from her. I asked him today if he thought Kathleen Kane based on her experience of being an assistant District Attorney and fairly rural county was over her head in this job. He said he actually wasnt sure. Coming up at 6 00 oclock tonight well hear more of castors press conference and tell the story of the sudden down fall of democrat Kathleen Kane. Im jeff cole live in harrisbu harrisburg. Folks, back to you. All right, jeff, thank you. Kane of course once considered arising star in political circles mentioned as a possible senate or even gubernatorial candidate but kane became pennsylvanias first female attorney general when she was sworn in in january of 2013 and in march of 2014 the inquirer reported a story about kane shutting down undercover public corruption investigation and that in may a special prosecutor was appointed to look into any alleged disclosure of information protected by the l law. On august 6th last year kane was charged with eight counts, one of which is a felony. Kanes trial began last week august 8th and jury convicted her on all counts late last night. Fox 29 Weather Authority. Live look from our reading camera. Temperatures in our area again have topped 90 degrees. That looks like a whole lot of weather coming down right now. You know its stick aig round for bit as far as the heat goes but these storms might just break up the sticky feeling. Lets head on over to meteorologist kathy orr. Kathy . It will break the humidity somewhat, lucy, but still expecting warm temperatures tomorrow. You can see a severe thunderstorm going right through berks county heading through reading as we speak. Northern part of Chester County and heading into the corner of Montgomery County. You can see the northwestern corner. These storms crossing 76 and moving east at 45 miles an hour. So they are booking severe thunderstorm warnings until 5 15 for berks, chester and montgomery. When you look at the number of lightning strikes nearly 1,000 lightning strikes in this area alone with the severe thunderstorm. You can see all that lightning over reading. The storms moving east at 45. Theyll be in pottstown by 5 11. Upper providence by 5 25. Lower macungie by 5 26. Allentown by 5 34 and bethlehem by 5 41. One again a pack a punch with winds scufting to 60 miles an hour that is the main threat and torrential downpours. If you have a loved one on the roads near there, please give them a call. They may have to pull off to the side of the road. Severe thunderstorm watch in effect for most of the region until 11 00 oclock tonight. Still seeing intense heat. Philadelphia the temperature 94. It feels like its 105. And well continue to see the heat and humidity through the evening. The line of storms will be moving through philadelphia by about 7 00 p. M. I think the more intense storms to the south and to the north of the city itself. And then well be drying out during the overnight with lower humidity. So a few spotty storms through the 7 00 oclock period. Then warm and humid by 9 00 an spotty shower possible at 11 00 p. M. Coming up well talk about how long the heat will last and when we finally see a break the heat wave. Today is day seven. All right. Well talk to you very soon, kathy. As we look live at old city make sure to download our fox 29 app to get your forecast sent right to your phone and youll see latest alerts and warnings as well. Its free just download from it the apple or google play stores. Tonight you decide 2016, Hillary Clinton makes a Campaign Stop in philadelphia. The democratic nominee today at West Philadelphia high school on 49th and chestnut. She urged everyone do register to vote ahead of the deadline on act 11th. The former secretary of state also jabbed donald trump. She took aim at what some people call his lack of specificity about his policies. I talk specifically about what i want to do. I know that some people make fun of me. They say she has all these plans and you can go to my website and read my plan but ill tell you, you know why i do that . Because i want you to know what im going to try to do so that you can both help me and hold me accountable for doing what i told you i want to do. Clinton said her campaign is now opening a southwest philly office today at 52nd and cedar. As clinton pushes Voter Registration in West Philadelphia, our Jennifer Joyce checked with in with the city Election Officials to see how enthusiastic voters are moving in to philadelphia. Jennifer. We found out that our voters are pretty enthusiastic there will be more registered voters in the city of philadelphia this Election Year compared to the election of 2012. People that we talked to in the city on both sides of the vote say they have a big stake in the out come. Close races constant headlines, the 2016 president ial election is proving exciting and city commissioner al schmidt says for that reason philadelphians are engage. Activity has been heavier and a lot earlier. I think you just have a lot of interest in the primary this time. And thats continued right on to the general election. Reporter schmidt tells us during the 1212 election there were roughly 1,060,000 registered voters in the city. Schmidt thinks this years figures will be bigger as we approach the october 11th registration deadline. People we talked to in the city agree its a civic duty theyre taking seriously. I think Voter Registration especially is important this year, um, especially in philadelphia where theres a lot of diss enchant fried groups of people. Everyone of my children, everyone of my grandchildren, everyone in my family, okay, we vote, we make sure everybody in our neighborhood is registered to vote. Reporter debra turner drove to Hillary Clintons philly voting event from new jersey to give her grandchildren a taste of history. This election is so important because of all of the things that hillary represents and our other candidate represents. Reporter with hot button issues on both sides worries for women i guess. Worry for muslim americans. Reporter clinton and donald Trump Supporters we talked to hes tough. He says everything in his face. Hes a big businessman. Reporter say theyre registered and ready to hit the polls. My vote makes a difference. Your vote makes a difference. Everybodys. Reporter and if you still need to register to vote you can do so online by male or in person at one of the citys register to vote facilities, and you have until october 11th. Luce so . All right, thanks very much jennifer. On the republican side donald trump said to spiel speak tonight near milwaukee hell meet with veterans an police at a Conference Center in west bend and the timing is relevant his visit to the badger state comes on the heels of violent clashes between police and protesters. After the Police Shooting of a black man. Trump will also speak at a town hall later hosted by fox news. New tonight the city of philadelphia controller says his office found hundreds of thousands of dollars in proceeds from the philadelphia marathon were used as a quote slush fund for all sorts of purchases. City controller alan bulls soviets says investigation into the mayors fund for philadelphia found several red flags. That fund mainly on proceeds from the philadelphia marathon. And money was supposed to be used for grants to improve the city. Instead the controller says tens of thousands of dollars were used during the Nutter Administration to pay for a trip to rome. Pay for hotel rooms in philadelphia and other credit card purchases. The controller says the spending was approved only by the chairwoman of the fund city representative Desiree Peter can bell. If in addition to the questionable credit card charges it appears the former chairperson also used marathon reserves account to Fund Celebration events instead of making grant awards. One example included 45,000 paid to various vendors for the mayors 2015 Tree Lighting ceremony. The controller says more in depth audit of that fund will happen soon. Former mayor Michael Nutter released a statement saying slamming butkovitz. It reads in part the controller is a liar. A snake an hypocrite theres no truth in what he says. Every expenditure was proper and for an approved purpose and he never talked to either Desiree Peter kinbell or myself about any concerns. Developing to night in southern louisiana, the state faces continued flood warnings as communities struggle to recover from massive flooding that has gripped the area for days. And with the threat not over new places downstream could soon still see heavy flooding. Foxs Casey Stegall is covering the Severe Weather from baton rouge tonight. Reporter after days of devastating rainfall in louisiana, waters are starting to recede a bit in some areas. But official officials warn thef new flooding remains high. Due to the shear volume of water flowing toward the gulf of mexico. I want everyone to understand that we are still very much in an emergency search and rescue response mode for much of the parishes. Saving life is the most important priority that we have. Reporter the storm system dumped more than 20inches of rain over four days. Leaving rivers and creeks severely bloated. Several deaths are being reported and more than 20,000 people have been rescued since friday. The head of fema says the existing federal declaration for the state now includes additional parishes. Really focused on we got a lot of people in shelters, got a lot of people who may not be able to get back into their homes. So what will be the next step for temporary housing. Reporter as the scope of the disaster becomes more clear, churches, schools and other places continue opening their doors to take in thousands of evacuees. Residents who fled fear they are facing total loss. Wondering whats left, if anything. Everything that i had is gone. Everything. Its like the end of your life, end of your world. Have to start over like that. Hope you understand getting a little caught up. We work so hard for it. Reporter fema is encouraging residents to complete an application for Disaster Assistance even if their parish is not part of the federal disaster declaration. In baton rouge, Casey Stegall, fox news. Caught on camera a woman got out of her suv, then it rolled right over her. Shes okay. But she was doing something moments before that a lot of us do. Plus an unexpected consequences of all this heat tonight. Whats running around local businesses weve got owners calling for backup. What chase utley is saying about his return to philly since his trade last year. Im Hillary Clinton, and i approve this message. Michael hayden if he governs consistent with some of the things he said as a candidate, i would be very frightened. Gillian turner hes been talking about the option of using a Nuclear Weapon against our western european allies. Max boot this is not somebody who should be handed the Nuclear Codes. Charles krauthammer you have to ask yourself, do i want a person of that temperament controlling the Nuclear Codes . And as of now, id have to say no. [bill oreilly sighs] not just us humans looking for cool spot inside during this excessive heat wave. Creepy crawlers are looking for some relief as well. Were talking cockroaches. Bugs are invading businesses across the city. Fox 29s dawn timmeney live outside philadelphias city ha hall. Dawn, well apparently cockroaches are smart theyre trying to get out of the heat, too. Reporter yeah, absolutely. Its kind of a gross problem it turns out these steamy conditions are the perfect recipe for cockroaches to multiply and its causing a big headache for some area restaurants. No, i never happen to me. It just this is the first time. Reporter raul castro is beside himself the City Health Department shut down his south Philadelphia Restaurant on friday. An inspection found roaches on the walls and lurking behind pipes. Castro is owned Plaza Garibaldi on 900 block of washington avenue for 14 years. The notice and 300 fine now right smack on his front door. I dont know if its the weather but they came out. Its really really hot. Its been extremely hot for last couple weeks. Reporter experts say the heat is contributing to the rise in roaches. Exterminator matt kelly of Prodigy Pest Solutions says when the temperature soars above 80 degrees the roaches actually start to fly. They start to come in frequent flyers and what theyre doing theyre looking for a cold spot to go in. Theyre looking for, you know, cracks and crevices or open doors, open windows. Reporter castro is not alone in dealing with the problem. Other restaurants in the city were also cited for roaches. Including cosi at fourth and chestnut and the Woodland Village diner and lucky garden chinese take out in southWest Philadelphia. These things are theyre everywhere. Reporter kelly says summer storms are driving roaches out of the sewers and up the drains in restaurants and homes. If theres moisture or anything rainfall coming down or if you have water in one of your commercial kitchens, thats what theyre doing. Theyre looking for that damp nice place to set up shop. Reporter the swelters summer conditions also increase the metabolism of roaches and their ability to reproduce. Raul cass stress says his wife and children eat in his restaurant 90 of the time. Hes committed to curbing the critters that carry diseasecausing bacteria for the safety of his family and his customers. Its my priority here in the restaurant because this is what we do for a living. Reporter now castro has been closed for five days. He says he plans to pay his fine tomorrow and reopen. Wanted to wait and make sure everything was just right and lucy by the way the exterminator who we talked to said that he has seen twice the number of calls this time of year during this heat wave for roaches alo alone. At least somebody is profiting. Thanks so much, dawn. A teenager faces charges in Armed Robbery of a food deliveryman who police say he shot. Prosecutors have charged 17yearold Donovan Daniels with a long list including attempted murder. Theyll try him an as an add dull he shot a deliveryman in the june. Police are still looking for a second robber. Authorities are Holding Daniels on 2 million bond. The man who he shot did survive. Philadelphia police are asking for the publics help finding one more man they say is behind a series of home invasions that targeted asian Business Owners throughout the city. Police arrested 29yearold norman bowen last week and now theyre trying to track down 33yearold anthony campbell. Investigators say the duo are breakinbreaking into asian owned businesses and then they rob the owners who in most cases live upstairs. Usually there was force through a rear door. Um, the offenders made teen. They would ransack the first level, um, taking items and then make their way upstairs to the apartments that are normally over top of these restaurants. Bowen is now facing a list of charges. If you know where anterior knee campbell is police would love to hear from you. The phillies are at home tonight and welcoming an old friend back. One of the heroes of the 2008 World Series Team is hear working dodgers blue. Chase utley playing here for the first time sin the phillies traded him to the dodgers at the treaded line last july. The player that is were a part of that world series championship in 2008 has place in the hearts of phillies fans. For the fans so many memories of chase utley in a phillies career that stretched over 13 seasons. There were five years in the playoffs. With the phillies in those years of good phillies baseball. When he walked by the Phillies Clubhouse today to get to the visitors clubhouse, he did think back. We had lot of great times here at this stadium. Obviously bringing the championship here. But, you know, that five year run was pretty special. And you look back on it and there was i feel fortunate to be on the team at that time because we had pretty good squad. Yes, they did. We will hear more from chase utley on his first time back in philadelphia and hear about how the eagles made a trade for a wide receiver. That will be coming up in sports. Lucy . All right, thank you very much, talk to you soon howard. Call on camera a woman got out of her car, actually an suv then it rolled right over here. Shes okay. What she was doing moments before that a lot of us do. And a special honor for the late former attorney general of delaware beau biden. Why hes getting a big recognition near an American Military base. They found their soul mates in each other. This local bride is battling an incurable disease. Their journey as she fights harder every day just to move. Video out of Washington State captures what could have been a fatal moment. A mans dash cam caught a woman getting out of her suv after she realized she forgot to close her gas tank cover. The problem was she forgot to put the car in park. It happened last week in the town of burlington. The woman lost her footing as the suv rolled away and the back tire ran over her leg. People ran from all around to help and to try to stop that suv it eventually hit a tree and stopped on its own. Well the driver is okay. More protests on the streets of milwaukee and organizers say they are not going to stop. Three nights since that fatal Police Shooting of a black man who Officials Say was armed. There were six arrests overnight but no violent clashes like we saw on saturday and sunday nights. Its all over the shooting of Sylville Smith the 23yearold man, his family is talking again about the shooting saying he and the officer were High School Friends and smith was not threatening him. If we dont have answers, we going to find them. We going find them our way. We not going to find them yall way no more. We not going to compromise no more. The Wisconsin Justice Department is now conducting an investigation into the shooting. Theres no word on when theyll release the footage frost officers body camera. Turkish officials want cleric gullen thrown in prison for life he lives in the pocono mountains turkeys president believes he made a role role in attempt to over throw the tougher care government. They are reporting prosecutors want gullen back in the country so they can try him in a court of law. They claim he was the mastermind behind the coo attempt in july that left 270 people dead. Today turkeys foreign minister spoke on the phone with the us secretary of state john kerry and demanded gullens extradition. He currently lives in saylorsburg Monroe County and denies all involvement in the coo. A street near an American Military base in kosovo will bear the name of beau biden. Beau biden served in 2001 an interim Legal Adviser on post war kosovo. Vicepresident biden set to arrive in kosovo tonight to attend a official naming ceremony. Beau was the former delaware attorney general. He died of brain cancer last year. A military tank drove off a bridge killing three soldiers. What they were doing in the moments before. The fire danger continues in california. The scene of a wildfire thats done Severe Damage watch investigators are now saying about an arson suspect arrested in that investigation. Kathy . We do have a severe thunderstorm threat. Severe thunderstorm warning in effect for Lehigh County and also northampton counties in pennsylvania as we take zoom in this warning until 6 00 oclock tonight. You can see the bow echo right here indicating some wind damage heading toward allentown and hundreds of lightning strikes. Well track these storms coming up when we come back. You dont let anything keep you sidelined. Thats why you drink ensure. With 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. For the strength and energy to get back to doing. What you love. Ensure. Always be you. Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane is now resigning. A jury convicted her yesterday of abusing her powers in an effort to smear a arrival then lied about it under oath. Kane will officially resign at the close of business tomorrow. Her law license is already suspended. Lawyers for kane are vowing to appeal the verdict. Hillary clinton makes a Campaign Stop in philadelphia today. The democratic nominee at West Philadelphia high school emphasizing Voter Registration, her campaign is setting up shop here opening an office in southwest philly today. In recent polls, clinton currently leads trump in many swing states including here in pennsylvania. Massive fire set on purpose as firefighters out west battling to just hold the line north of san francisco. The clayton fire has burned seven square miles torched about 175 homes and structures and killed countless wildlife. Foxs Claudia Cohen has the latest on the firefighter. Reporter fire crews in lake county working hard to get a handle on the clayton fire. Its burned through more than 4,000 acres so far. Destroying at least 175 structures and leaving thousands homeless in the town of lower lake. Crews reported significant progress overnight, but warn this fire is still active and unpredictable. We still have a lot of risks that this fire could throw more embers down on to homes, on to the rooftops and additional homes could ignite on fire. Reporter meantime the Investigation Continues into the suspected arsonist. 40yearold Damon Anthony pass chuck arrested yesterday and charged with at least 17 counts of arson. Investigators say there could be more charges to come. Is a tragic day, however, when we identify any individual who intentionally start as fire and a fire like this that was devastating a community. Reporter further south another wildfire, the chimney fire has burned more than 6,000 acres destroying at least 12 structures and damaging 20 others. Anxious residents now returning to their homes to assess the damage and help their neighbors. Heart goes out to people. Theyve lot of homes. Theyve lot of memories. Theyve lost whatever hopefully not animals and other stuff. I mean things can be replaced. Places can be replaced but life cant. Reporter here in lower lake the entire town remains under evacuation orders and its still unclear when it will be safe enough for people to be allowed to come back in and see what if anything a left of their proper. In lake county claudia cowan, fox news. Lets get back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Meteorologist kathy orr tracking some possible storms that could be moving in near all of us. Kathy . Umhmm. We have severe thunderstorm thats moving into allentown as we speak. It is in allentown its moving toward the northeast at about 40 miles an hour. So this is moving very quickly through kutztown, through allentown heading toward easton severe thunderstorm in effect for berks, lehigh and north ham couldnt ton counties until 6 00 oclock tonight. As we do track on this storm you can see as it moves towards the northeast it will be a whitehall in a matter of a minute or two. Bethlehem by 5 00 arthritic. Richland by 5 45. Severe storm easton 5 54. Forks by 5 54. Bush kill by 5 59. Plainfield by 6 05. The storm right now over lower macungie and allentown. The main threat with this damaging winds in excess of 60 miles an hour. There is some hail and also flooding rains so if you know anyone thats going to be driving along lets see the northeast extension, through allentown, the Lehigh Valley, going toward the tunnel or even route 78 make sure you give them a call let them know that they could be pulling off the road as they head through the low high valley. Right now, we do have severe storms that are active. We have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 11 00 p. M. For most of the region witness exception of south jersey. You can see our camera shaking a bit with those strong winds out of the southwest ahead of a cold front. Right now the temperature 94 degrees. It feels like its 105 with the humidity and as the front moves through overnight and during the day tomorrow, well see the humidity lower but tomorrow still a hot day. Right now in philadelphia, 94 degrees. In wilmington, 90. Down the shore, tow hers in the 80s with a sea breeze. Ocean city, 85. 88 in avalon but the on the boardwalk in Atlantic City it is 82 degrees. So we had the warm front lift through during the Early Morning hours. So heat and humidity today. The cold front moves through overnight and through tomorrow. The High Temperature even with a northwest wind none degrees but you definitely will notice a difference with low humidity tomorrow. On the fox future cast you can see this line of storms being picked up pretty well on this model that we have here. This will continue to move toward the northeast and as it does, it will move toward the philadelphia area by six, 7 00 oclock this evening. And it will be breaking up a little bit. You can see one part going through the Lehigh Valley another one in Chester County, delaware county, and then it moves through philadelphia as possibly some light to moderate showers. In the city overnight, skater or 78 rather. In the suburbs 72. Some scattered storms and then after the evening, it will be partly cloudy overnight. During the day tomorrow, 91 partly sunny. Still muggy. But not oppressive. As we take look at the fox 25 extended forecast. Wednesday 91. Thursday 90. So still hot. Friday 91. Day 11 of the heat and humidity on saturday that will be the longest heat wave of the year by the way and then sunday we could make it to 90 right now im forecasting 89. Mondays high 88. Tuesday 83 degrees. Definitely we break the heat by then and that temperature the first time weve gone below normal in a long time. So hang in there a few more storms this evening. The humidity gets cut at least a bit by tomorrow morning. All right. Kathy, thanks. Well, some College Students take on a huge feat turning a class classic muscle car into a eco friendly hybrid. Well show that you long process to complete the goal. Settlement truck barreled into a mini van all thats left is twisted metal. How the man and woman inside the van survived. Coming up new at 6 00 picture this nasty brown water coming out of your faucets. Where its happening and what the Water Department is saying tonight. My son has meningitis b. But how did we end up here . His mom thought he had the flu and that he was covered by the meningococcal meningitis vaccine he had received. Until 2014 there were no vaccines for meningitis b in the u. S. Now there are. While uncommon, meningitis b can lead to death within 24 hours. Trumenba is a vaccine for 10 through 25 year olds to help prevent group b meningococcal disease. Trumenba should not be given if you had a severe allergic reaction after a previous dose. Most common side effects were injectionsite pain, fatigue. Headache, muscle pain, and chills. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about all the risks and benefits of trumenba and tell them if youve received any other meningitis b vaccines. Meningitis b can be spread by typical sharing like. A drink. A spoon. A kiss. It all started here. It might have been prevented with trumenba. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about trumenba. In taiwan three soldiers are dead and two others injured after a military tank falls off a bridge. Authorities say that tank plunged 10 feet into the water this morning. Soldiers inside had just finished military training exercise. Officials investigating the accident say that mechanical failure in one of the tracks left the driver unable to make a turn. Heart stopping video from overseas. My goodness. Imagine. Cement truck collided rolled over a mini van in china. All thats left of the van is just twisted metal really and crews had to use a forklift and heavy tools to rescue the couple inside but they did. That couple survived. They are in the hospital with serious injuries. A wilmington woman is behind bars tonight. Police say she poured bleach on a womans head in target after they had fight over some shopping carts and that escalated. 39yearold la tock today mason turned herself in to authorities this morning. Police say after a verbal altercation at the target on brandywine parkway last week, she grabbed some bleach and poured it on another woman. Bleach got on a oneyearold baby. Police say mason took off from the store. Prosecutors a charged her with assault endangering the welfare of a child. They found their soul mates in each other but this local bride is battling an incurable disease. Their journey as she fights harder of day just to move. A new School Year Set to begin. See how High School Year girls posted to make sure their school year gets off to the right starter on their campus. Local bride found her one and only but physically incurable disease is making it harder to move. Fox 29s karen hepp shows us this couples incredible journ journey. I immediately drawn to her. Reporter kathy and chuck dont have a conventional love story. He was actually the first one to message me. Reporter they met on okay cupid five years ago and shared so many adventures. Their first date was 11 hours. We met about two weeks later at ihop. It just seemed like someone ive known forever. Reporter but getting down the aisle wasnt an easy journ journey. Kathy has a very rare disease and just moving is difficult. I was diagnosed with fiber bro dysplasia. Eighths rare disease that basically creates like a second skeleton in your body. I have extra bone in my legs, in my arms, in my back, in my jaw, um, wherever theres trauma bone grows over that area and immobilizes it. Reporter while its true that kathy does move very slo slowly, she refuses to let obstacles stop her from living a full life. Thats our clock. We have a little infatuation with fire truck. She loves fire trucks. And has them everywhere. She knew being firefighter was definitely out of the question but figured out Something Else that she could do. I wanted to be dispatcher since i was in ninth grade in high school. Reporter kathy is good at making her goals a reality and just putting herself out there. She graduated high school and college and then got her dream job as an Atlantic City dispatcher. She surrounded herself with wonderful pets but she wasnt sure if she would ever find romantic love g i wanted dog an par rat because they say dog is a mans best friend and a mr. Rot i can talk to forever. Luckily i found it with two birds, five cats, a bearded dragon and a husband. Reporter true love against the odds. A beaming bride, a smitten groom. You may now kiss your bride. Reporter kathy is funny and witty, chuck doting and loving. Soulmates. Honestly for me its just been amazing. Shes my heart, so anything i need to do to take care of her i will, and im happy to do it. One, two, three, up we go. Reporter they truly are a team creating solutions to every challenge. When her hands got stiffer, she learned to type upside down faster than most folks right side up. A remote for the door, a chair to help kathy get to work. Chuck makes sure she has what she needs. Heres your dinner. And they cant help but smile. Youre good. Reporter they truly feel just ducky. Check out the plate on kathys car and the stuffed animals in the back. Probably kathys only regret she cant drive now. She misses that independence. Neither of them noes whats next on their journey, all they know they want to take it together. We cant worry about what is a year from now. We worry about, you know darks and this week. Whats now. You know, so we make it work. Example we can all learn from. Kathys disease is so rare only 800 people in the entire world have it. To learn more information come to our website fox 29. Com. Im karen hepp, fox 29 news. How inspiring. In your health another reason to quit smoking. Not only will quitting help you physicallysare strong of course, researchers say it will also help you become more social. Joyce evans has more on this study and your other big Health Stories today. Joyce . It turns out more people want to be around you if you dont smoke. For three years researchers studied more than 1500 people who were trying to kick the habit. By the end of the study, nearly 75 of those who did quit reported adding two new friends to their Social Circle at least two new friends. What they found was when smokers dumped the cigarettes more people wanted to hang out with them and all kinds of social settings. Their aim here to show that nonsmokers have more fun. Another reason they hope that they might encourage more smokers to quit. Another study looked at womens weight and their risk of developing cancer. These researchers found the longer a woman is overweight, the higher her risk is of several types of cancer. More than 70,000 american women were followed in this study and it found women who carried extra pounds for 10 years or longer seemed to have a greater chance of developing cancers in the breast, uterus, colon and kidney but why . Well theyre still looking into that. Heres yet another reason for to you swap out that sweet drink for a glass of water. Researchers found that adults who traded one, 8ounce serving of a sugary drink each day for an extra glass of water saw their calorie intake from drinks drop by 6 . Now thats more proof they say that water over sugary drinks may do more than trim your weight line. But it may overall improve your health by cutting down obesity rates and other medical problems and lucy, its something that we all know about. Yeah. But developing the discipline to do it, thats tough. Isnt that the truth. I havent had my diet coke tod today. Im waiting for some, too. All right. Thanks so much, joyce. Another major backing out of obama care. Aetna says it just cannot afford the Affordable Care act. Next year the company is cutting its participation from 15 states to just four. Aetna is the latest of the countrys Big Health Insurance to pull back sharply from the laws marketplace after steep losses United Health and human in a announced plans to cut back their offerings the question is what happens to you . Drug maker merck cutting more than 100 jobs in pennsylvania. The new Jersey Based Company says its cutting 148 jobs at its north wales plant. The layoffs could happen by september 10th right around the corner. Merck has given up on this blood clot busting medicine and so its letting go it fails marketing staffers who had been promoting it. Google finally getting into the mix at least when it comes to life video chats. The Company Launched today an app called do woe similar to other Video Chat Services it gives video preview of who is making the call. Helping the person on the receiving end decide whether or not to pick up. The feature is called knock knock and the duo app is now available for both an tried and i phones and will compete with apples face time, microsoft skype and facebook messenger. We are just few weeks away from the start of another school year. Amazing how summer goes by like that. And in arizona a group of high schoolgirls want to make sure things get off on the right foot for everyone. Foxs liz shows us how the girls used a stack of post its to spread positivity. Reporter an a bright 2inch sticky note written in blaine black ink the kind of words we need but dont hear nearly often enough. Some of them were simple words like smile or be confident or be brave. Reporter on their last first day of high school, mack, alyssa and abby strolled in at 6am. Super early for senior year. Set those alarm clocks. Reporter they joined a dozen of friends walking all over the Sunrise Mountain campus placing 3,000 inspirational post its everywhere they can. Were at church camly over the summer and we really want to make a difference at our school. And so were just like, you kn know, whats a great way to make everyone have a first day and make everyone smile. Reporter weeks of planking coming down few nights before. They wrote each message by hand trying to avoid any duplicates. One of my favorite ones it said, be a fruit loop in bowl of cheer crows. Reporter they sat back and watch as classmates made the discovery. People behind the deed a mystery the first. But more than 200 facebook shares later, their entities and motives were revealed. People should continue to stay positive and know theres people out there that love you and no matter what youre going through theres always something you can find in life the brighter sized things. Reporter you can get better brighter than high lighter encouragement. Its important just to make people know that its not just all bad but like humility is really good. Some College Students taking oh and huge feat turning a classic muscle car into eco friendly hybrid. Well show you the long process to finish the goal. A trying to beat heat. Hot temperatures are bringing us creepy crawl lease big time. Where local businesses are bringing in reinforcements. Plus hmm back in philadelphia today where she was rallying supporters in the hopes of getting voters to turn out for her. Amazing to watch that landmark going up in smoke in Las Vegas Strip after coming down. The last tower of the iconic riff vera oh hotel tumbled down earl this morning to make way for Convention Center expansion. Explosions topple the monte carlo tower. Look at all that smoke just rising into the air. The demolition closes the book ton the first high rise and one of the most casino in vegas riff vera hosted lib berra chi and the rat pack including Frank Sinatra and dean marcin and seam davis injury. Arizona State University students attempt to turn one of americas classic muscle cars into eco friendly hybrid. In fact they say a camaro theyve been working on for years is revving up to go green. Foxs Courtney Griffin takes ocean under the hood. Reporter asu polly tech nick campus one of 16 universities competing in an intense fouryear competition. Theyre taking this camaro and making it into a High Performance hybrid. You see of course the engine out of the 2015 equinox inverter over from reinhardt. The here in the back. And then you see the electric motor which is kind of hidden underneath the car. Roughly 45 students are working on it. Theyre entering year three and this year the goal is to make the car turn on and eventually be good enough to run at a High Performance level. The main purpose here just to increase the performance of the car while saving, you know, the environment. Reporter along with horsepower, students want to give the car more brain power. Using Smart Technology to alert the drivers of hazards in the road. Basically trying to analyze the environment around the vehicle and have the vehicle understand whats happening so if it see as pedestrian, if he sees a car in front of you or traffic sign or stop sign, so this is mainly for assisting the driver to make the driving conditions more comfortable and at the same time trying to make the experience more save. Reporter the students say by next year this camaro should be aware of its environment and be a full functioning High Performance hybrid. Courtney griffin, fox news. Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane is leaving office. Resigning after her perjury conviction. Tonight a look back at what brought her once promising career down. And turn on faucet in a local community and youll get brown water. How long neighbors say this has been a burden and what theyre demanding to night. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6 00. We begin tonight with our fox 29 Weather Authority. We are on storm watch right now. Heres live look at ultimate doppler radar. You could see storms heading east across our area. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Lets head on over to meteorologist kathy orr. Kathy. We do have some storms to talk about. One severe cell right now in the Lehigh Valley moving toward the northeast. That warning is set to expire at about 6 00 p. M. That will continue into north jersey. Another one in cecil county, maryland, and the eastern part of Lancaster County these storms moving east about 35 miles an hour and if they hold together, this one will make it into New Castle County right along 95 so expect some heavy rain and frequent lightning there and this other storm eastern lancaster bringing heavy rain in the western part of Chester County. We do have one report you can see reading at the airport a wind gust close to 50 miles an hour clocked at 48 miles an hour. I do think these storms will be weakening as they move toward philadelphia. But we do have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for most of the region with the exception of south jersey. That is until 11 00 oclock tonight and you can see our High Resolution rapid refresh model really capturing whats going on here and as the storms move toward the east by about 7 30 moving through philadelphia just as patchy showers a break through wilmington and then baltimore and washington seeing heavy rain. This lifts through and then we dry it out overnight. So not all of us will be seeing the storms as once again they weaken as they move eastward. Part of the puzzle is the heat index a lot of humidity firing off these storms. You can see the rain cooled heat indices in reading lancaster only in the 70s. Philadelphia it still feels like 104 degrees much this evening passing sh

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