Illegal payment to his opponent to get him to drop out of the race. Congressman robert brady under investigation by your office and the office of the fbi . This office does not comment on ongoing investigations so we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of ongoing investigation. Reporter the case broke late tuesday thats when the feds revealed carolyn calf nass the pastor of ardmore Pennsylvania Church scene here on their Facebook Page and campaign aid to former municipal judge jimmy moore took part in a scheme to pay mores campaign 90 grand to drop out. Heres moore on good day philadelphia back in 2012. Her church was locked tight wednesday and through a friend she told fox 29 she could not comment. Have you asked her to help you with a further investigation of that case . Carolyn is something who plead guilty. I cannot comment further on any ongoing investigation. It doesnt matter how many times you ask me. Reporter a worker at Municipal Court said she not seen moore today. Investigators say the 90 grand was used to pay Moores Campaign debts. He did abandon his 2012 race for bradys Second District seat and theres more. Federal investigators and documents filed in the case to seal some of the records claimed brady met with a witness to influence the witness account of the matter under investigation. Running for Office Robert brady did he know if your view that that money was being sent to his opponent . I am not commenting on that at this time. Reporter brady and moore are not charged. Bradys lawyer did not outer loop our call or comment are comment but fold the inquirer brady had done nothing wrong. The feds claim bogus invoices were drawn up by two unnamed Political Consultants to cover the movement of money. Im jeff cole, fox 29 news. All right, jeff, thank you. The mayor of allentown and the former mayor of reading both indicted on federal corruption charges. Those indictments accuse allentown mayor ed pa allow sku and Vaughn Spencer of shaking down businesses and people for scam pain contributions and pay to play screams. Palowski held a News Conference today to address the charges. But i want to make it clear to everyone i have done nothing wrong. Nor have i ever personally accepted a dime beyond my salary as mayor. Ive also never accepted anything but Legal Campaign contributions, and in no way, shape or form was city hall ever up for sale. Palowski says he will not step down as mayor the charges and spencer face include bribery and fraud. Developing to night three tweets by the president of the United States showing major shift in policy. Its about who can serve in our nations military. The president does not want transgender people to serve any longer. In his tweets the president said in part that the military quote cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical cost and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. No surprise really reaction to those tweets has been swift. Our joyce evans talked to some members of our local Lgbt Community about the shift and joins us in studio. Joyce . Reporter lucy iain, as you know, social media blew up with comments many we cannot repeat on tv, but philadelphia s socalled gayborhood are calling it all a smoke screen to distract from the Russian Investigation and an excuse to exclude. Theres no concrete data that says its more expensive to include trance individuals. The Senate Armed Services Committee Says lawmakers are awaiting a study already underway by the department of defense to see if there are any additional medical obligations impact on military readiness or other issues related to transgender individuals who are not currently serving and may want to join. But Naomi Sanchez and aclu rep wonders why . This is discrimination. Reporter report pretty much what she tweeted back to president trump. Were americans. We demand the same opportunities, the same resources as anyone else. Unfortunately lgbt issues with his base will be easy to succeed in viscerating our rights. The president s tweets turned an easy day on its end for attorney angela jam polo. Its a tragedy for the transgender individuals who that are currently serving. All cadets that are currently in school will not be allowed to enroll in the military. They wont be a loud to serve. Reporter the white house says the actual policy and implementation still has to be work out. With the department of defense. I absolutely think that this will be put in place but its going to be a huge distraction for the department of defense. Theres going to be litigation for years on the matter. And constitutionally i think we have a lot of precedence saying this will violate equal protection. Reporter she says they wont take any of this sitting down. Oh, no, were not. No, were not. That is something i mean as an organization unwere, no as a community, two, no. Reporter well what advocates fear is they may not be able to stop negative impacts on younger transgender people already struggling to fit in. They worry how they might react of seeing policy gains for transgenders being stripped aw away. Iain . Joyce, thanks. Another vote to repeal obamacare failed to get enough support. Now lawmakers are back at it debating the feature of future of obamacare. Republican leaders are not giving up hoping they can get something passed. Meanwhile democrats are set on making sure americans do not Lose Health Care coverage. President trump says tax reform is the next legislative priority after health care particularly tax relief for the middle class. A West Philadelphia family lucky to be alive after their home collapses leaving this wreckage behind. The collapse happened on south rue bieb street. The family says if it wasnt for their kitty baxter it may have been a very different out come. Fox 29s dawn timmeney has that story. It started off with the crackle and it was just a big boom. Reporter and with that, this house on south ruby street in West Philadelphia started collapsing. These two guys happened to be walking by just before 5 00 this morning as the home was crumbling down and sprung into action. We seen a lady hanging from the railing so we jumped down in the hole and went over there and got her out of there. Reporter the womans boyfriend and homeowner was able to make it out on his own. I was just making sure everybody was okay. That was the first thing and only thing on my mine. Reporter the couple was actually awake and knew they had to get out fast. It turns out their sixyearold cat baxter adopted from the pspca was making all kinds of weird noises and alerted them to the danger. They sense that something is wrong. And i think before people realize it. Reporter jenn of red paw emergency relief the red cross for animals responded to the scene as soon as she heard the hero cat was missing in all the commotion. The scared kitty had run back inside as crews were preparing to demolish the rest of the house. Jenn and a member of her team climbing a ladder to the second floor where they found baxter hiding in a front bedroom. He was a little scared. Yeah, he was crying when we were in the second floor he was crying. I think it wanted to get out as badly as his owners wanted him out. Reporter baxter was coax flood a cat carrier his owner on the roof as well as this courageous cat was lowered to safety. Im so, you know, so relieved for the cat and for the family. Clearly they just lot of everything they own so to be able to go in and get baxter out couldnt have been a better out come. Reporter the family was too upset to talk on camera but they did tell me they have a place to stay and they are so thankful that their rescue kitty came to their rescue. The good news is baxter is doing just fine. And getting lots of love and attention. Dawn timmeney, fox 29 news. Amazing. Hero kitty. Good news for animals in need and the people hoping to give them their forever homes. Brand wine valley spca new castle, delaware, is once again open early this month tragedy a driver crashed through the building an fire broke out. That driver died and so did three kitties within that building. More than 100 animals ended up with no place to go. Well now things are open for business once again. Funeral arrangements are set for a local little girl who put up quiet a fight against brain cancer. Sevenyearold filomena died monday she met the pope through the make a Wish Foundation last year. A viewing is this friday night at the parish of saint anne along east lehigh avenue. Funeral mass saturday morning at cathedral basilica of saints peter and paul. Now to your fox 29 Weather Authority. We take live look at the ben franklin parkway. Beautiful day out there. Lets hope it stays that way. Lets get on over to meteorologist kathy orr. Youve got all the answers, kathy. I sure do. Pretty on the parkway this afternoon. The High Temperature 82 degrees in philadelphia. Not many clouds out there. So if youre stepping out this evening you may need a light sweater but other than that, dry conditions for a change. Our next storm is coming from the west with rain tomorrow night and some drenching downpours with thunderstorms and Severe Weather by friday. Well talk more about that with your seven day when we come ba back. All right. Thanks, kathy. Construction about to begin on an ambitious project at penns landing but a crew starting this whole demolition thing way too soon. Sean . Iain today the eagles dropping a little bit of dead weight. A guy who will be looked at as one of the eagles worst first round draft picks in decades just got released. Find out who later in sports. Acronyms are fun. Lol laugh out loud, btw by the way, and of course, wbyceiydbo well buy your car even if you dont buy ours hey, what if i wanted to sell my car . Wbyceiydbo wbyceiydbo . Well buy your car even if you dont buy ours wbyceiydbo wbyceiydbo wbyceiydbo wbyceiydbo wbyceiydbo wbyceiydbo wbyceiydbo no, no, were cool. I got you. Ok. Its the right thing to do. Carmax music sting getting from pennsylvania landing to old city is about to get whole lot less convenient. Traffic ramps connecting chess Chestnut Street to columbus boulevard closed do to repair for the demolition. The removal precursor of quarter billion dollar project to cap i95 and build a park bordered by chestnut and walnut streets. Front street and the river. But that construction is more than three years away. So why tear down the ramps now . What conclusion have you reached about those particular ramps . They are not needed. They are over built. They have limited use. It is an issue of general Public Access to and from the waterfront. Reporter thats lot of when these ramps go away. All the way gone. The. Delaware Waterfront Corporation says one the ramps are gone the 2. 5acre parcel where they still are will become commercial property on the Northern Edge of the park. New Jersey State Police are asking for your help to identify the person in these surveillance pictures. He allegedly stole a van in southampton township Burlington County it happened july 6th just before 4 00 a. M. In the parking lot of Occupational Training center on highway 38. He loaded the van with several catalytic converters before driving off. Amazon is hiring. Company is hosting its first jobs day next week. On wednesday august 2nd from 8am to noon you can visit one of maam sons ten fulfill many Centers Across the country to apply one of those located in robbinsville, mercer county. The Online Retail giant says it will hire 50,000 new employees there are more than 10,000 parttime Jobs Available at the companys sorting center as well as supports and managerial positions. National Constitution Center says its offering Complimentary Tickets for the 29th annual Liberty Medal ceremony honoring u. S. Senator john mccain. If you are interested, head to the centers website beginning at noon tuesday august 15th. The center will award the comp tickets via random drawing for current constitution members on september 13ing and general public one day later. People living in our area with lifethreatening illnesses will get be a nutritional meal delivered right to their door. Thanks to more than 100 today was mannas Steven Korman day of caring recognizes the philanthropist contributions to man nan the city of physical. Manna delivers tens of thousands of meals to those living with hiv aids, cancer and other live threatening illnesses. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority as we take live look down the shore at ocean city. Beautiful especially for late july. Meteorologist kathy orr lets us notice if this is what we can expect for the rest of the week. Her forecast is 15 seconds away. From the city to the shore to the suburbs it is a very pleasant day with highs in the upper 70s, lower 80s feeling a little bit more like fall in trenton pretty day with mick of some i could say fair wet cumulus clouds mixed in there a little bit of a breeze, too, in trenton this afternoon. Temperature is 78 degrees. Right now the dew point temperature at 63. Winds out of the southeast about 11 miles an hour. Down the shore temperatures in the 70s. Same thing inn land. 78 in philadelphia and wilmington. 75 in pottstown. 76 in trenton. Cooler in the poconos. Reading and lancaster in the upper 70s. Down the shore you still have that warm ocean water temperature at 76. And that is influencing our barrier island. Sea isle 73. North wildwood 72. Cape may 73. Beach haven right now at 72 and the boardwalk in Atlantic City the temperature 71. Over the next couple of days, rain chances are going to be on the increase. Thursday not really a big deal. Just a chance of a spotty show shower. Friday, yes. It is going to be a bit of a stormy afternoon and evening. Saturday just a chance of a shower and a slight risk on your sunday. So sunday looking the best of the neck four days. As we go hour by hour, you can see that on shore flow moving inland across the region. And well go with a few spotty showers tomorrow afternoon but im really not concerned about tomorrow. Just looking for a partly to movely cloudy sky. Its going to be friday that we start to see some showers and thunderstorms popping with a warm front then cold front moving through with some showers and thunderstorms and open the threat of Severe Weather. Where you see the yellow thats a slight risk a higher risk through southern may Cape May County into the southern part of sussex county, delaware, Eastern Shore of maryland heading toward richmond for the rest of us a marginal risk which means there could be a few thunderstorms on friday afternoon or evening that turn severe with damaging winds and considerable flooding downpours with these storms. So this is what we look it looks like for friday afternoon. Afternoon and evening moderate to heavy rain there are concerns of some flash flooding with some of these downpours. The Severe Weather threat will continue especially through south jersey and delaware. With strong gusty winds and they would have to be in excess of about 60 miles an hour. Overnight tonight, 67 in philadelphia. 66 in wilmington. 63 in millville. And some mid 60s down the shore in wildwood. During the day tomorrow well go 85 degrees with partly cloudy sky. A spotty shower is possible but most of us will just be seeing dry weather. Down the shore highs in the upper 70s. 77 in wildwood. Our delaware beaches even warmer with that southerly wind flow. Rehoboth beach and beth nan thee 80. 83 in lewes. Ocean water temperature in the mid 70s. Your seven day forecast from the Weather Authority, shows that stormy afternoon and evening for friday. Morning shower possible saturday. Sunday still looks super if you want to head out to the phils game. Monday 86. Tuesday 87. And by next wednesday, were talking about temperatures back in the 90s and we are heading into the month of august can you believe it . Time is flying. Umhmm. Sure is. Too fast for me. Always. Speaking of the phils, when things are going wrong, they really go wrong. Right . Yeah. Tons of problems Pete Mackanin having issues with Odubel Herrera he yanked him out of the game he was sending a message he sent another one today. The eagles shedding weight before the first full day of camp. Check out who just got the boot coming up next in sports. I had frequent heartburn, but my doctor recommended. Prilosec otc 7 years ago, 5 years ago, last week. Just 1 pill each morning, 24 hours and zero heartburn. Its been the number 1 doctor recommended brand for 10. Straight years, and its still recommended today. Use as directed. Mmmm. So areers are the veggies. Hs that one is mine. Nice job guys. Hope it tastes as good as it looks. giggles hey gus, i brought Something Else you might like. Million dollar silver and gold. Yeah. The new scratchoff from the pennsylvania lottery. With top prizes of a million bucks youve always had good taste. laughter keep on scratchin eagles shedding off dead weight early today they released marcus smith their 2,141st round pick plus traded alan barber to the broncos for a conditional pick in 2019. Lets get to training camp. The vets dont have to report until tomorrow but most of the guys are already there. Ready to go. And happy to do so. We jacked up. We ready to go. Because like you said, its our second year in the system. We dont have to spend a lot of time on teaching a lot of things no more. Just all about perfecting our craft and i think weve done that mini camp and now its time to really turn it up now that we in training camp. Villanova lump don cherry coming into camp trying to make the squad after being a practice player last year. Hes a long shot to make the team if were realistic but hes only worried about what he can do. Last year i mean i think i was cut or four of times. Cut from chicago i know what it feels like. Ive been on the highs and ive been oh loss. Veteran last year told me dont look at the numbers dont look at the depth chart or the roster just keep working and good things will happen to you. In a shocking and scary study just came out from the journal of the american medical association. Studied the brains of 111 players and all but one had cte a degenerative brain disease. Even before the study players knew the risks and you know what, they still play. The last i checked its still a physical sport, right. So physicality always be a part of it the more that you know technique wise to be able to play the game still physical but keep yourself as safe as possible then do you it but at the same time like these guys you cant worry about when you touch the feel. When you touch the field you play football. You go full speed. To the phillies. Yesterday Pete Mackanin yanked herrera out of the lineup after that he decided to send another message hes not playing tonig tonight. Mackanin says its not a it is. He didnt want to talk about it today, but he did meet with herrera. Id rather go into what hes good at, you know, thats between he and i and we had a discussion and its over with. So im going to put it in the past and look forward to him playing little bit more. Odubel is always getting yanked its a problem and he has to send message but it doesnt seem like hes getting it. Well, in philly you better hustle and run out plays. You got to do it. Join us tonight at 10 00. Can you see him now this burglar broke into a local Verizon Store but he didnt just swipe a few phones. That does it for us here at 6 0. See you back here at 10 00v a great night. I witness is up next. Protip chop all your veggies for the week at once. Super protip buy your veggies prechopped. Uber protip buy delicious produce you dont need to chop at all. 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