There is thunderstorm activity in southern delaware and farther to the south and west. Heavy rain around washington. This will move up into the area as we go through evening. More showers in the forecast. Some of us have the potential to see strong storms. We will take about what can expect that and a time line for when the rain will end. Thats coming up. Tfrjts, the demise of revel. Two years ago, it opened as a shiny symbol of atlti hos. In a down economy, can you look for anything nicer or newer re inspiring openg up rightnow . Tthis i its horrible. Its terrifying. Newest is a 2 billion shell. Nbc 10 news explores what went wrong and what the future holds as three casinos prepare to shut their doors at the same time. Reas supposed to lead a renaissance intltic city. This rev latest domino to fall in a year full of casino closore than 3,0 gone in a matter of weeks. 20 minutes of nonstop n 10 jseyd greenberg live in Atlantic City. Repr certainly is. Despite all of its struggles, many customers are absolutely come aer is rrifyi. Reporte e news that revel will close by september 10th is doubly ther o dealer here and at neighboring showboat, which is slated to t month. Its horrible. Its liketerrifying. I work two jobs and you lose two jobs. Its horrible. Reporter some 3,100 revel workers will lose their jobs in a statement today, the bankrupt resort set it regrets the imbakt this decision has on its employees who have worked so hard to maximize the potential of the property. However, it is faced with several unavoidable circumstances. It sucks that its going down like this. Reporter it comes after we reported yesterday that no qualified bidders had emerged in a bankruptcy auction. Today the companyfforts to irove their bottom line have not proven to be enough to put it on stable financial devastated. I love staying here. I love staying here and i love stayat showboat. Th going to beg. Reporter it opened in 2012 after being built for nearly 2. 5 billion. Sources tell us a major financial burden that proved to be an obstacle in the bidding process is this adjacent plant which provides electricity, heating and cooling to revel at a yearly cost of 36 million. Someone would step in, the governor, someone would step in and save us. This is Atlantic City. Reporter i reached out to the Governors Office for comment but have not received a response. Revel says it still hopes for a sale of some form through the pending bankruptcy process. Right now, cannot avo a shut down. Live in Atlantic City, im ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. Atlantic city start twd 12 casinos this year and by the end of the year a quarter will be gone. The Atlantic Club was the first to go shutting january 13th. Next is showboat scheduled to close august 31. Then revel following on september 10 and finally trump plaza closing september 16th. A new jersey lawmaker says its not too late for his constituents in Atlantic City. He released a statement saying stay with nbc 10 for coverage on the casino crisis. Less than 30 minutes, our Live Team Coverage continues with luann kaun. Shes following the money. Investment dollars dry up. Visit nbc10. Com for a section devoted to this crisis now unfolding in Atlantic City. Today, outrage in Atlantic City. Homeowners protested a tax hike outside city hall this morning. They are upset over a recent decision to raise property taxes by 29 . City leaders say it was necessary or the town would have lost out on 20 million in state aid. Otherwise the mayor said taxes would go up 47 . People we spoke with say enough is enough. I dont have a job. Im not working. So im living on a fixed income. I cannot pay the taxes that they doubled my taxes. Some counsel members said tax appeals by casino and no hotel or luxury taxes coming in from the state put the city in that position to raise property taxes. This just in. The sale of the Los Angeles Clippers is now complete. The deal between ballmer and Shelly Sterling was finalized today. Sterlings estranged husband was under pressure, as you know, to sell the team after recordings of him making racist remarks were leaked earlier this year. It was a brazen crime. A car sprayed a Police Department with bullets. Police are looking for the people responsible and they have upped the reward for the arrest to more than 25,000. Nbc 10s Christine Maddela is live in west deptford. What kind of damage are we talking about . Reporter you can see the damage in this door here behind me. This is the door Police Officers use to go in and out to their patrol cars. You can see the large bullet holes left behind. Above the door and to the right theres a surveillance camera. That camera was installed just about four months ago. The video from that camera is just about all the Police Department has to go on right now. The vehicle drove through the Library Parking lot. Reporter the parking lot isseis adjacent to the lot. We would assume shots were fired during the first pass. Reporter they think thats when he fired five shots into the door before driving off. A larger bullet. Its a larger mass. It could cause more damage. Reporter it didnt go through the door. Another round was shot into the brick wall to the left of the door. Reporter here is the seventh shot. It went through my window. Reporter the deputy chief wasnt there. No one was. An administrator was at his desk two doors down. He took cover. Stayed low into the station. Reporter the driver came back later. This time driving faster through the Police Department lot. If you are going to fire seven rounds into the side of a Police Department, this was not a warning and clearly out to hurt an officer. When the police are here to serve and protect us, now they have to worry about themselves coming out their own home. Its really disturbing for me to say the least. Reporter i asked the police what kind of gun was used in the shooting. They said they dont know exactly which weapon, but it was a high caliber gun, mostly a. 40 or higher. They enhanced the video they showed you in the story. They were able to pick up more clues. They are trying to track down more Surveillance Video from area businesses. Live in west deptford, Christine Maddela, nbc 10 news. A senior u. S. Defense official says the pentagon is considering sending more military advisors to iraq. They have affected Kurdish Forces in northern iraq. The pentagon has 250 military personnel in iraq in advisory roles. The please chief in ferguson, missouri, will not release the name of the officer who shot and killed over this weekend. Thats because the department has been getting Death Threats. He fears it will make the officer a target. Nbc 10s jacqueline london is following all of the developments from the digital operation center. Ferguson police chief tom jackson had planned to release the name of the officer involved today, but changed his mind after Death Threats were called in to the Police Department, city hall and posted on social media. The officer was placed on administrative leave saturday after shooting and killing 18yearold michael brown. Witnessed say brown was unarmed and had his hands in the air when the officer shot him. Police have not said why the officer started shooting, only that it was preceded by some sort of scuffle. Browns death has sparked racial tensions, protests and looting in the small suburb outside st. Louis. Today reverend al sharpton joined browns family in a call for calm. No one has the right to take their childs name and drag it through the mud because you angry. To become violent in Michael Browns name is to betray the gentle giant that he was. County Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting. The fbi launched a civil rights investigation. Police in ferguson are investigating another threat, this time the threat on social media. In a video posted online, computer hacker known only as anonymous is encouraging the people of ferguson to take a stand. We are anonymous. To look at people of ferguson, take heart and take your sheets. You are not alone. We will support you in every way possible. Occupy every square inch of your city, demand justice, staying silent could result in the death of your kid tomorrow. Anonymous goes on to threaten Law Enforcement warning them that any abuse or harassment of protesters will result in every webbased asset of the department and government being taken offline. It calls on lawmakers to act to prevent future tragedies. Hackers did get into the Ferguson City website sunday night causing an email outage. Its unclear if that attack is connected to the anonymous threat. Live in the digital operation center, jacqueline london, nbc 10 news. Construction is now under way on a dozen new Energy Efficient apartments in philadelphias Strawberry Mansion section. The Philadelphia Housing Authority broke ground today on the oak field street apartments. This is from the wider in library. The apartments are build with Energy Efficient features to make them more affordable. They are expected to open by spring of next year. A billion dollar boost to new jerseys critical water and sewer plant. They will get upgrades and storm Protection Measures under a bill signed by chris christie. Some of the money will be used to better protect facilities impacted by hurricane san sandy which caused 2. 6 billion in damage to waste water and Drinking Water unfra structure across the state. When it comes to his job as governor, voters are split on chris christie. They are pretty sure he is preparing to run for president. His job approval continues to hover just above 50 . A pole out today finds 52 of voters approve the job he is doing. 57 expect him to run for president. 48 believe his decisions on state issues are more influenced by his potential candidacy than whats best for new jersey. Investigators say a power surge caused the power to go out at morys peer last night. People were trapped when the lights went out and some of the rides shut off. An nbc 10 viewer showed us one of the rides that got stuck. Everyone got off the rides okay and no one was hurt. The power came back on after 30 minutes. An update on breaking news in the death of Robin Williams. Authorities reveal the actor committed suicide by hanging himself with a belt. He was found by his assistant yesterday in a bedroom at his San Francisco bay area home. Williams was last seen the night before. The actor also had superficial cuts on his wrists and a pocketknife was found nearby. Investigators arent saying whether williams left a suicide note. His death is stirring up memories for people across the country familiar with his work. Dead poets are dedicated to sucking the marrow out of life. Spirits soared, women swooned and gods were created. Not a bad way to spend an evening. He was john keating of the dead poets society, a film shot in delaware. This afternoon, people around our area are taking a look at the legacy of Robin Williams and starting a new conversation on mental illness. Nbc 10s doug shimell live in wilmington. You talked to a therapist who says this kind of high profile death can have an impact. Reporter it does. Mental Health Clinics say a case like this makes them keep an extra eye on some of their atrisk patients. A celebrity suicide makes the ratio way too real for therapists. For every Robin Williams story, there are a lot of families, a lot of communities who are suffering and dealing with these issues on a everyday basis. Was this a dagger i see before me . Reporter therapists say the sudden death of Robin Williams ended years of battling drug abuse, debregs and bipolar disorder. At places like this that deal with highrisk Mental Health patients, they advocate everyone should watch for sudden changes. More withdrawn, not communicating as much as they had in the past. Maybe just, you know, doing things or conducting them schls differently. Reporter he says they have been checking on clients with suicide at tendencies. Check in to make sure there are contacts with individuals multiple times weekly, not just phone calls but also facetoface efforts. Reporter the key to keeping someone from hurting themselves is intervention. Be willing to approach them. Be willing to seek support and resources from community agencies, community programs. It will go a long way and hopefully saving a life. Reporter Robin Williams had suffered a heart attack several years ago. Physicians say 33 of heart attack patients often go on to develop depression. Live in wilmington, delaware, im doug shimell, nbc 10 news. The oscar winning actor delivered many iconic lines over his long career. One of the most memorable came in a movie based on the life of a pennsylvania man. Good morning, vietnam who can forget that . That was williams in the 1986 film good morning vietnam. He played a character loosely based on a man as a d. J. During the vietnam war. The pittsburgh native met with williams on more than one occasion. He spoke about the man so many saw but so few actually knew. You walk up to him and say hello and he starts doing a routine for you. He is always on. And the only time my wife and i have ever seen him drop that was when he was playing with his little kids. Wow. Williams was nominated for the best actor oscar for his role in the film. He lost out to michael douglas. Stay with nbc 10 for continuing coverage as we remember Robin Williams. Visit nbc10. Com to see messages mourners are leaving. We have a message from williams daughter. Yesterday we showed you how the kennedy clan gave president obama the ice bucket challenge. Well, we got the president response. The president appreciates mrs. Kennedy thinking of him for the challenge. Though his contribution to this effort will be monetary. There you have it. No bucket of ice for president obama. Instead, the president will make a donation to an als charity this week. We are watching a lot of activity on the radar this afternoon. A lot of showers moving in. For some of us, this rain is pretty heavy and its causing flooding concerns. This is this New Castle County. From newark to middletown, this is heavy rain. This is into salem county along 95 and 295, lower alloways creek seeing heavy rain. We have a flood advisory for parts of New Castle County until 7 45. This is because of possible localized flooding from the heavy rainfall. For delaware through kent county, still seeing heavy rainfall. Sussex county seeing lightning strikes near longneck and still seeing heavy rain. Georgetown seeing heavy rain. This is continuing to move up from the south. Closer to philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs, the rain is consistent but it is on the lighter side. For suburbs in new jersey along 295, 95, even 78, the major interstates surrounding philadelphia, we are mainly seeing lighter, consistent rainfall. Some is heavier could move into the philadelphia area very soon, especially the heavy rain in delaware that you see. This could hold together and move into south jersey as we go through the next hour or two. The rain isnt over just yet. As we go through tonight, we still have a risk of severe storms for parts of the area. It includes lancaster, chester county, parts of south jersey and all of delaware. For the rest of this afternoon and evening, we still do have the potential in these areas of some heavy rain continuing. High winds with some strong thunderstorms, lightning, which we are seeing in Sussex County right now. And the possibility of hail. There is more rain around the washington and Baltimore Area which will be moving up into our area. Its all part of a big weather system. You can see we are seeing a brunt of the heavier rain from this. Not everybody locally but we do have a lot of heavier showers around right now. Future weather keeps the rain around through the rest of the afternoon. By 7 00, 8 00, notice how you see heavier rain. This will mostly be confined to delaware, south jersey and the philadelphia area. If you are in the Lehigh Valley or the poconos, you wont see as much in the way of heavy rain. By 11 00 tonight, we have scattered showers around. By early tomorrow morning, some could deal with rain for the morning commute, 6 00 a. M. Wednesday. As we go through the afternoon, we will see clearing and even through the rest of your wednesday afternoon, we will see developing sunshine. Temperatures have been very cool with all the rain moving in. 72 right now in philadelphia. Lehigh valley, low 70s. South jersey and delaware, only the mid to low 70s. Its a much cooler afternoon right now. As we go into tonight, temperatures will mainly be in the 70s. This is mostly for the overnight hours. We will continue to have those cooler temperatures in the forecast. As we go through the next seven days things will change. As far as wind gusts, gusting near about 25 miles an hour in philadelphia. Coming up, we will talk about tonights forecast and also a look at the next seven days. Thats straight ahead. They call it the facebook fire challenge. People setting themselves on fire trying to impress their friends. This is a dangerous stunt. 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