Fox 29 news in hd sponsored by x1 from xfinity changing the way you experience tv. Live from center city in philadelphia, this is fox 29 news at 10 00. Its been 24 hours since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in texas, and even though its been downgrade to do a Tropical Storm, the heavy rains are expected to linger for several days as residents try to keep damage to minimum. Harvey was the first category four hurricane to make landfall in the u. S. Since 2,004, and that is where we begin tonight at 10 00. Good evening everybody. Im joyce evans. Im dawn timmeney. While the strong damaging winds may be dying down the concerns over flooding in the coming days are still front and center. Foxs Lauren Blanchard joining us live now from galveston witness very latest. Lauren . Reporter hi, joyce and dawn. Yeah really windy here galvest galveston. Although harvey has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm, its that flooding that has so many people concerned here in texas. Officials warning theres potential for catastrophic flooding as harvey spins deeper into texas unloading huge amounts of rain. Even triggering more Severe Weather inland. Cell phone video and a pierce to show a tornado forming in cyprus, texas, aerials and siena plantations showing destruction from another tornado. Please do not come back into these affected areas until youve got all clear from your county or city uoc. Thats very important. So much Dangerous Things going on out there. We want to make sure everyone stays safe. Reporter this storm is expected to continue to drop rain on the region for several days with some areas getting up to 50inches. Harvey made landfall late friday crashing into Southeast Texas as category four hurricane. And weakening to category one by saturday morning. Homes and businesses along the coast between Corpus Christi and houston received the brunt of the storm. With damage ranging from downed trees to collapsed buildings. Many spending the night at storm shelters for displaced residents like this one in austin, texas. Meantime emergency crews are beginning rescue efforts as the storm calms down and flood waters rise. The message to those that may need help or rescue make sure you put that signal out there that you are still there and you still need help. Reporter officials remain on high alert and rescue crews are out in full force tonight as we are watching for some of this flooding. Joyce, dawn . Lauren, were hearing reports of some cruise ships that may have been impact in the gulf. What can you tell us about that . Reporter yeah. What we know there are four different cruise ships who are all supposed to head here to galveston, to galveston port. That port was closed down because of the weather. There are now 20,000 people stuck on the sea. Two of those ships are head to do new orleans. Two of the other ships are not going to come to galveston until they get the all clear. Guys i was talking to a couple little bit earlier who were supposed to be getting on to those cruise ships once they made it to port. At this point theyre just stuck here in galveston until further notice. Wow. Lauren, thank you so much for that report. Stay safe out there. A teacher in the Philadelphia School district is in trouble witness law tonight. All stemming from an incident during a protest at that controversial frank rizzo stat statue. Police say the teacher got into a fight with the police and threatened them. Lets get out to fox 29s joanne phil will he gee live outside the rizzo statue in center city. Joanne . Reporter good evening, dawn and joyce, and everyone. Sharon Public Schoolteacher is charged with making terroristic threats and harassment and police say the incident happened right here at a rally ten days ago. Tear it down reporter this is amateur video on facebook of take down the rizzo statue rally in center city ten days ago. I dont walk around lying about cops. Reporter this is phil and Public Schoolteacher john sheeran joining the activists at the rally calling for miss mantle link of 2,000pound statue of former mayor and Police Commissioner frank rizzo. Racist bleep lying bleep. Sheeran lined by uniform police continued his police about some white police officers. The rizzo statue has recently been a target of protests with calls for its removal and a mural of rizzo was defaced in south philly. Some activists say rizzo oppressed the black community while others say he was a champion for the common man. All of this comes on the heels of the violent demonstrations and clashes between White Nationalist and counter protesters in charlottesville. Over plans to take down a statue of robert e lee. We want that racist bleep statue taken down. Reporter last night sheeran was arrested for his part in the mid august rally. And people on social media called him out because he is a schoolteacher in the city. Reaction this evening, mixed. They think that is the case, that Public School teachers are held to a little bit higher standard when theyre outside but at the same time they should be in some ways because theyre immediate roll models for children. Reporter sheeran teaches at this Elementary School in north philly in his neighborhood those who know him called him a standup guy. I just hope a couple minutes on facebook doesnt define the mans life. Ive known john for 25 years. Hes always been a gentleman. Always conducted himself gentleman like manner. Reporter a district spokesperson saying today that sheeran has been removed from his school pending an investigation. District spokesperson also said sheeran has been under investigation again no comment from sheeran. Dawn, joyce, back to you. All right. Joanne, thank you. Now to your fox 29 weather authority. As we take live look over the ben franklin parkway in philadelphia. Nice night out there. Going to be a cool and quiet night already is across our area. Meteorologist monica cryan joining us now with a first check on your forecast. Harmonica. Guys, its been clear all weekend long through friday night into saturday. Doppler radar has been quiet. Now im going to move down south where the big story has been what was Hurricane Harvey category four when it made landfall. Now a Tropical Storm but still going to cause a lot of problems because it just continues look how slow it is to move anywhere. Its pretty much stationary which means its dropping heavy rain in locations that are already starting to see some flooding. Impacts here 91. Even into the waters theres no impact. Weve got temperatures in the 70s. 77 degrees along the delaware beaches for those water temperatures. Very nice. Now we are looking at a moderate rip current as we head into tomorrow. Just be aware of that some of those rip currents may be strong and catch you off guard. Heres a look at your temperatures down the shore. Sea isle 72 degrees. Ocean city also at 72. North wildwood in the upper 60s dont forget about that breeze down the shore may feel a it will chillier. Inland in 66 degrees in camden across the region upper 60s in philadelphia. In wilmington about 66 degrees. Expecting tonight to be comfortable upper 60s nice sleeping temperatures and sunn sunny i didnt mean sunny, guys i meant clear skies, continuing overnight. Tomorrow weve got nice sunshine ill talk about that coming up in a little bit. Back to you. Monica, thanks so much. A psychic and her son are facing charges to night. They are accused of scamming an elderly man in south jersey out of close to 150,000. Police say the victim had already handed over thousands of dollars visiting sally kim wanda at village psychic in galloway township, atlantic county. This is a shot of the woman and her son frank marco. Shes accused of exploiting information gathered by the victim boise unpleasant childhood and charging him big bucks for her advice. She wanted to get rid of eight evil spirits that edwin him. Thats what she charged him for the. The elderly man ultimate agreed to transfer more than 147,000 from his Checking Account to a car business run by the psychics 24yearold son. Both are face of charges to night. Delaware state police need your help finding a man wandered for attempted burglary. Take a look at this surveillance photo. Police say he tried stealing from als Country Store on hickman road in greenwood. He damaged the door while trying to get inside much police say he ended up running away without getting anything. This all happened back in april. Police are just now releasing the photo. If you have any information at all, give police a call. Elsewhere north korea fired three short range missiles on saturday. All of them were successful despite initial reports from the u. S. Military officials suggesting that they had failed. Foxs ellison barber with more. Reporter less than 24 hours after saying north korea launched three missiles but two failed in night us military Officials Say that report is wrong. The u. S. Pacific command says the first and third missiles actually flew about 155 miles in a northeastern direction. Initially u. S. Officials said north korea launched three short range Ballistic Missiles and hawaii time it was the afternoon of august 25th. Pacific command said one missile blew up almost immediately. And the other two failed in flight. The latter description resulting in todays update. The latest u. S. Assessment appears to now match south koreas assessment. Launches are the first since the United NationsSecurity Council unanimously voted on augus august 5th to impose new sanctions on the regime. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson pointed that out when he spoke about north korea on tuesday. We hope that this is the beginning of this signal weve been looking for. That they are ready to restrain their level of tensions. Ready to restrain provocative acts and perhaps we are seeing our pathway to sometime in the near future having some dialog dialogue. So far this year north kor koreas launched 21 missiles. Thats how many they launched in all of 2016. Us military Officials Say the short range missiles most recently launched did not pose a threat to north america or guam guam. In washington, ellison barber, fox news. Major drug bust in georgia. More than a thousand pounds of pot found inside a home. How much money all that wed would be worth on the streets. From his darkest moments a little film maker drew inspiration. How he hopes movie based on his own experiences will help others struggling with suicidal thoughts. Hundreds of dollars on youmy car insurance. Saved me huh. I should take a closer look at geico. dog panting geico has a 97 Customer Satisfaction rating and fast and friendly claims service. Speaking of service . Oooo, just out. It was in. Out. In out. In what about now . That was our only shuttlecock. Take a closer look at geico. Great savings. And a whole lot more. Many questions still linger about what pennsylvania lawmakers will do about a 2. 2 billion hole in the state budget. House gop leaders have been quiet ever since the Senate Passed a 32 billion budget package july 1st 1 republican congressman says theyre waiting to see if the rank and file members produce a solution. Meanwhile Governor Tom Wolf may need to start freezing cash for state programs in september. Award winning film with a tough subject. The animated movie taking on depression and suicide. The director and animator says the movie comes from his own personal struggles. As fox 29 photojournalist bill rohrer reports, he now hopes his movie will help inspire others dealing with the same demons. Art means the ability to communicate to someone. Reporter they say art often imitates for nick ladon em mates a 24 frames her second. I think for this it was generic character design. The person inside is me. Reporter as a kid nick loved to draw. New early on in life, he was going to be an animator. I just imitated and drew and drew and drew and this is where i got. Probably about an eight ath of the animation drawings. Reporter eventually making his own short animated film. 6,000 sheets of paper. Each with its own story. The drawing really reflects the grittiness of the situation. Reporter deep reminder of his past l draw from your personal experience experiencesy you know you can make art. I feel like its true and hone honest. Reporter this film is called hanging hand drawn look inside his mind during his darkest moment. After years of being bullied, nick decided to take his own live. This was without a doubt the hardest scene i had to animate. This idea this menacing fog kind of drawing the character in. Reporter representing a mental tug of war between depression and his mothers lo love. Especially in that moment i was thinking about, um, my mom, and i had a memory, um, of my mom seeing me sinking me to sleep as a kid. What really pushed me through was just the guilt of losing my mom. It wasnt so much about me. It was about her that point report roar the thought of not ever seeing his mother again pulled nick out of the darkness. This film ends with two words. Hang on. It was just something that perfect. Hang on past those two hours or whatever that situation is, you can move forward and make your life better. Reporter he made this film during his junior year in college. It would be like your math homework kind of Getting International attention like it usually does not happen and all of a sudden, you know, its being played in beijing and saving someones life. Reporter after nick completed his film and immedia immediately caught on at various film festivals winning numerous awards. With his mother right by his side. I give great get great response. People are moved. A lot of people come up to me afterwards and say i had past issues with suicidal thoughts and your film touched me. Reporter nick hopes the film will help others struggling with depression. It doesnt necessarily stop. Its not this perfect, um, wonderful life, but, you know, youll have your ups and your downs and as long as you expect them and you can handle them, youll get through. Reporter live for nick now is looking up. His film hanging will be screened at Mental Health conferences this fall. He also touching character design and story boarding at Rutgers University camden. Im just blessed honestly. Reporter sharing his love of art to a new generation of animators. In camden, bill rohrer fox 29 news. A major drug bust over a Million Dollars worth of marijuana found stashed inside an atlanta home. Investigators say Drug Task Force got a tip to search the home. With help from the feds, the dea raided the home and seize the the drugs. Was found in giant blocks stuffed into a closet and another room. Take a look at that. The total weight of the weed was well over thousand pounds. Police believe the home was a stash house and that the dealers were working on moving it somewhere else. The new jersey lottery is growing again. Theyre bringing back a familiar game of chance. Its a keen know style game called quick draw dropped by the state lottery officials two years ago as part of an agreement to lower the required amount of revenue to be brought in by the lottery. Now, quick draw is coming back and its expected to bring in up to 20 million over the next year. That lottery game is featured mostly at bars and restaurants. In memphis, tennessee a Movie Theater has decided to pull showing of the 1939 classic film gone witness wind. The decision is based on feedback from the community they say. People running the theater feel the movie which is about a plantation and the civil war in the deep south could be incentive to large segment of the city. The historic theater has shown the movie for decades but administrators there say this years event generated numerous comments. The department of Homeland Security is looking to new technology to help better do its job. Small drones like this are expected to play an increasing role. Camp shelby in mississippi will serve as testing ground to evaluate different types of drones. Operators at that military post are using a simulated village to so many for actors and vehicles posing as targets. Officials say these drones will help with a number of operatio operations. Border security is a big part of what the drones are going to play the role they play. Search and rescue also another big area where they play play a role and also disaster recovery. The idea of government drones flying overhead raises privacy issues for some americans. Dhs is working on 45 see and civil liberties. Rampaging mobs left 30 people dead and more than 250 others injured in northern ind india. Comes after a court declared a quasi religion sect leader guilty of raping two of his followers. Mobs set fire to government buildings and attacked police and tv journalists in that town. Smashing the windshield of news vans and breaking broadcast equipment. More than a thousand of the leaders supporters were detained on charges of arson and destruction of public property. Controversy over School Calendar. Why parents in new york say what the school did to holidays was Political Correctness gone way too far. Are you good at guessing games . Well, if you think your skills are on point, it could earn you free pizza for life. Yup. Controversy tonight over a School Calendar in long island, new york. Some Community Members are offensed by a decision of the levittown School District to leave out all references to holidays instead of indicating, say, christmas, veterans day or mlk day. The calendar just marks it no school. The superintendent said the decision was based on the fact that th