And about enjoying nice weather but things will change late this evening. Take live look right now. You can see highlighted here, we are looking at very heavy rainfall. The red, the orange and yellow rainfall rates in excess of 4inches per hour now moving into sections of bucks county. Around perkasie, richland moving into sections of pottstown right now, limerick, montgomery county, also, as we move into Chester County very heavy rainfall and well put a tracker on this activity moving on off to the east. So moving forward wilmington, by 6 00 oclock. 6 01 philadelphia. Moving toward middletown around 7 07 as this line continues to move from west to east. Also, a lot of lightning if you struck by lightning. Take a look at the lightning strikes win this area. Almost 200 and as we take look at the set up, you can see how ahead of a cold front very tropical air mass so squeezing out a lot of that moisture thats why we have that severe thunderstorm watch in effect pretty much the entire area until 9 00 oclock this evening and also we have a Flash Flood Watch until midnight. So once again as we time this activity out, by 6 00 oclock, moving along the i95 corridor. Then into parts of south jersey and down the shore by seven, eight, 9 00 oclock. Well talk much more about totals from this system and that weekend forecast. Back to you. All right, scott, thank you. As we take live look at cape may we want to remind you that you can download our fox 29 weather app to get up to the minute conditions from the fox 29 Weather Authority. Be sure to turn on notifications so we can get urgent information to you. You can find the apps in the app store and google play stores. A developing story out of washington, d. C. Steve bannon is out at the white house. President trump chief strategist has resigned. Which means since the start of his campaign the president has had three Different Campaign managers, two Communications Director twos National Security advisers, two different chiefs of staff and now hes looking for another chief strategist. All of this as the president reaches his seventh month in office. And bannons departure showing more evidence a white house in turmoil. Foxs joel waldman has all the details for us from washington tonight. Reporter he was President Trumps top adviser and his chief strategist. But now steve bannon is out of a job. The news coming just as President Trump was touching down in maryland this afternoon on his way to camp david to huddle with his National Security team about afghanistan strategy. But new york just three days ago, President Trump speaking glowingly about bannon. Hes a goodman. He is not a racist but well see what happens with mr. Bannon. Reporter but one day later, in an interview with american prospect, bannon contradicting President Trump when asked about north korea saying there was quote no military solution here. Theyve got us. Bannon is the eighth high profile departure in less than eight months of the trump presidency. Steve bannon has been very controversial figure from the start, and as the president pointed out the other day, he wasnt with him all the way. Reporter most recently white house director of Communications Anthony scaramucci who feudally publicly with bannon was ousted after ten days and just before him chief of staff Reince Priebus was also shown the oval office door. A known nationalist, bannons exit comes as President Trump continues to be heavily criticized for his reactions to the so called alt right rallies in charlottesville. Steve bannon helped bring in the conservative wing of the Republican Party and get people behind President Trump that might have been the important contribution he made. Reporter white house Officials Say the decision to fire bannon was made by general john kelly the president s new chief of staff on the job just three weeks. In washington, joel waldman, fox news. And now to a story you first saw on fox. The man police say did this is in custody tonight. Fox 29 cameras exclusively caught this guy in the act vandalizing the controversial statue of former philadelphia mayor frank rizzo. Police arresting the 40yearold this morning. Statue should be taken down has been the subject of debate this week in the wake of the violence in charlottesville. Its the second time this week someone vandalized that statue. Lets get right out to Dave Schratwieser live at city hall across from the rizzo statue tonight. Dave . Reporter chris, the rizzo statue has been cleaned up and there is no Police Security detail out here tonight, but the guy who climbed up on that statue last night in front of our fox 29 cameras, well, hes behind bars facing criminal charges. Police took 40yearold wal lee ram men of germantown into custody friday morning after he calmly walked up to the controversial frank rizzo statue thursday night and spray painted black power across the front of it. I mean its terrible. Vandalism in any situation is a terrible thing. Its like every other crime. When we can, well find you and were going to prosecute you. Reporter ram men was taken into custody at his home on chew avenue after fox 29 cameras caught him in the act. Vandalizing the statue across from city hall. Police recovered the spray paint can and other evidence during a search. Thats the type of assistance that helps us in all crimes. Not just defacing a statue, whether it be homicide or robbery whatever. Reporter Police Detail that guarded the statue all week after threats were made to tear it down was not in place thursday night. Ram men just walked up and proceeded to deface the statue. Id like to get the details where everybody was when that was being spray painted but, um, we have more problems in our neighborhoods than painting statue. Were not about defacing any property. Its our mission to protect people and property. Reporter rizzo statue supporters showed up friday morning and placed a black sheet over the good feet team one emotional when speaking to fox 29 about the overnight vandalism. I just was really upset that somebody would take the time out to do hatred like they just did. Theres a way to go about exercising your views on such issues and we would highly suggest that people use them instead of resorting to damaging either city or private property. We all have to pull together and make, you know, our nation safe again. Reporter now, ram men was hit with criminal mischief, institutional vandalism and desecrating objects. Those are the charges against him. Theyre all misdemeanor force. He has a prior arrest for aggravated assault in 2009. Chris . All right, dave, thanks. Police in radnor want to you take good look at these surveillance pictures. Cops say this man threatened an employee with a gun and got away with nine highend watches. This happening tuesday around 5 00 p. M. At a Jewelry Store in East Lancaster avenue. Hes also seen hopping into this hyundai elantra. Police are offering a 5,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest and conviction. You probably heard of skimming its when someone tam with machinery in order to steal peoples credit or debit card information. Well sunoco on 23rd and fairmount discovered a skimming device this morning on one of its gas pumps. The question how many customer accounts were compromised . Fox 29s Joanne Pileggi live tonight from Spring Garden. Joanne . Reporter hey, chris. We happened to fine one victim and Police Suspect there could be more. Now that skimming device was discovered at the gas station this morning and the Company Quickly called police. Didnt take long for police and sunoco investigators to figure it out someone had tampered with at least one pump at the gas station at 23rd and fairmount. Just a short time later yanni who lives and works in Spring Garden told us few days ago i used that exact same pump, pump number five and i used my debit card. I went to make a transaction it wouldnt go through. I only had four dollars in my bank account. Reporter yanni saw the police and the sunoco truck at the station then put it altogether. When i went and checked my bank on the application on the phone it told me there was like 90 or 100 bucks pending. I was like what the hell is this . Reporter Police Confirmed the skimmer incident at the sunoco is under investigation by the major crimes division. And sunoco representatives confirm an employee did find a skimming device at the the pum pumps. Im assuming thats what happened. Somebody scamming through the pump. Reporter police are reviewing Surveillance Video from the last couple of days to see if they can fine out when it happened and perhaps get a picture of the person or people who did it. Much credit card or debit card information was compromised. This is a rather common scheme. Coming up at 6 00 well give you some tips on how you can avoid being scammed like this. Live in Spring Garden, im Joanne Pileggi, fox 29 news. Back to you, dawn. Reporter joanne, thank yo you. Tonight police in newark, delaware, have this guy behind bars for an ax attack. Police say 18yearold Brandon Bryant assaulted someone in his home yesterday on white clay drive. Victim told police that he went for a visit to friend at the home when all of a sudden bryant attacked him. He is going to be okay. Bryant now facing serious charges. Altercation with police leads to major drug bust. It happened about 11 30 last night Wilmington Police were called to a home in the 300 block of east 23rd street for suspicion activity. Thats where officers encountered 25yearold rydell mills. Police say mills attempted to get away and when they tried to stop him, a struggle ensued. One officer sprained an ankle. Ultimately mills was detained and police found 44 grams of crack cocaine and about half gram of heroin. Were following developing story out of finland. A man goes on a stabbing spree. What police are saying about the attack tonight. Plus its hank. Im practicing ocean rescues with the ventnor beach patrol. With these rip currents, you better respect mother nature. Hanks toes take coming up. And philly born rapper me mill under arrest. How a post to instagram let red to charges. Hey, have you heard theres an eclipse coming . Really . Yes, of course, were all excited about it, but what about the animals . What will our pets do when the sun disappears . Every year south jersey sends more and more tax money to trenton, but gets less and less back thanks to Steve Sweeney and chris christie. Heres the sweeneychristie record eight years of underfunded schools. Huge tax breaks for themselves and their rich friends while we pay more. And homestead rebate funding for seniors cut in half next year. Dont believe the fake news from his wealthy donors. Steve sweeney stands with chris christie, not with south jersey. Developing story out of finland. Two people are dead after a man went on stabbing spree in the downtown area. The man stabbed eight people before authorities shot him in the thigh and detained him. Authorities believe the man acted alone although they say its too early to jump top any conclusions. The possibility of terrorism has not been ruled out at this time. Meanwhile investigators are still learning the details of the barcelona van tack in killed 13 people yesterday. Police say the attack and another one an hour later in a town just south of barcelona are in fact connected. Ton night the u. S. State department confirming at least one inner loop is among the dead. Foxs Connor Powell has more to tonight from barcelona. Reporter the memorials growing here in barcelona as the world mourns those killed in dual terror attacks. Victims hail from more than two dozen countries including the United States. We offer our thoughts and prayers to their families as their going to be dealing with a very, very tough few days ahead of them. Reporter terror starting thursday when a van rammed into pedestrians in busy tourist area of barcelona. Isis quickly claiming responsibility for the carnage. Another deadly attack hit hours later when a car plowed into people in cambrils. Authorities shot and killed five suspects after that incident. The attacks are cleaved to have been planned for some time and are being investigated together. Along with a deadly home bombing in another town on wednesday. Investigators initially believe it to be simple gas explosion but later found the building was packed with butane canisters. Translator what we are most concerned with is managing to sort out the facts and put the criminals where they belong and being efficient in order to avoid repeating these events. Reporter police say the attackers may have originally planned to use explosives or gas but an accidental blast earlier in the week may have prevented them from carrying out a far deadlier attack. In barcelona, Connor Powell, fox 29 news. Chris and dawn, back to you. Thank you. Women who served our country now have brand new place to go. The Women Veteran command center just opening its doors for the very first time in philadelphias grays ferry section. Its open to female veterans in philadelphia and surrounding counties. The goal of the facility is to help women find new opportunities. Its located on the 1300 block of south 33 are street. Can you smell it . Football in the air. The eagles, can you believe it, already halfway through their preseason. The birds beating the Buffalo Bills 2016 as we got to see a little bit more of what well see in the regular season. One of the biggest stand outs from the team was their defense coming away with three turnovers last night. So sean brace here with more on the dominant performance from the team. Sean. Thats right g evening, dawn. Eagles look good on one side of the ball last night. It was pretty easy for all of to us see. The new additions rookie first round pick Derek Barnett who recorded his third sack in 59 total snaps is extremely focus. Lets focus on the newly acquired corn back ronald darby. Traded and not even seven days later on the field making plays like this one. What a pick. Run back. You got to love it. Thats something this team has been looking for over the past few seasons. A play maker. After the game, the leader of the defense side Malcolm Jenkins spoke about why the defense looked crisp. So far so good. Two take aways, um, pressure on the quarterback, solid tackling, good in coverage new york city with plays. Those are things you make a list going into the game what you want to accomplish and we pretty much accomplished it all. Our guys were in a position to make plays. Michael kendricks today and darby had the other one and its great to seem its great to see our defense come up with take aways and put the offense in good situation. Well have more on what the offense needed to to improve later, and also, a picture that is Getting National attention. Thats Malcolm Jenkins with his fist up and virginia native chris long who joined jenkins during the national anthem. If this picture bothers you in in way you need to look at the mirror because youre part of the problem. A lot more to discuss later in sports. Guys. Thank you sean. Swimmers getting tugged and towed down at the shore all because of rip currents stirred up by hurricane gert. No surprise it is keeping lifeguards on high alert. Hank went to ventnor to find out how bad these currents really are and how lifeguards are dealing with the danger. Now give me your left leg. Left leg coming in. All right. Roll on three. One, two, three. Thats a lot of dude you just put up in the boat. You guys really are good. Reporter its hank im on duty with the ventnor city beach patrol. Conditions are awesome. Come on down. But the rip currents are for real. It they made lot of rescues this past week. My take is, dont be the one that has to get schooled by mother nature. Ventnor city lifeguard dan schultz shot shy about caroling swimmers he knows the more he can control the safer things a are. As the current moving we want to keep people, you know, down out of the way of the boat just in case we have to take the boat out for rescue. Always talking to the public, talking to people so they know and understand the dangers of the water. Reporter its been dicey at the shore with hurricane gert lurk bowing the atlantic. Her power sends bigger waves and stronger rip currents one i can feel as i swam to play victim in an ocean rescue training exercise. The conditions keep lieutenant Meghan Holland and her team on their game as you can see. Ocean can be deceiving. You get rip tides that will pop up out of nowhere or, you know, they move up and down the beach, when they grab a hold of you its did you tough to get back in. We had a full family of ten get suck out at once. Reporter yup. Ten people. All at once. Last sunday. How do you game plan for Something Like that . I guess practice does make perfect. Dan schultz called for back backup. I came down from headquarters. The other beaches come down and cover. And we just basically responded way were trained. Reporter you a live guard in high school. Trust me. Best summer gig you can have. Its fun riding along with this ventnor city team has they train even if i can barely keep up but the point here is you. You should be at the beach this weekend. The water is perfect. But dont forget the at