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the neck several hours as we lose the daytime heating but we'll take a tour across the area and in around philadelphia still a couple of pockets of sprinkles also moving toward bensalem, cherry hill, moving toward the moorestown westampton area moving a little farther off to the west. this thunderstorm over lancaster county dumping very heavy rainfall. look at the red probably 3-inches per hour there. towards sections of the lehigh valley the pocono mountains, jim thorpe right now also toward penn forest looking at moderate to heavy rain and in particular sussex county has seen several inches of rain. just to the south of the seaford area we'll zoom in little closer. up to 4-inches of rainfall here. so we have that flash flood warning there for sussex county until 7:00 o'clock. so hour by hour, that coverage will continue to diminish once we lose the daytime heating coming up we'll talk about excessive heat warnings and heat advisories for the latter part of the week. just how hot lucy and iain it will feel. >> all right, talk to you soon, scott. stay prepared for severe weather by downloading the fox 29 news app. you'll get live radar and alerts sent to your phone just search for it in the apple or google play stores. right now investigators are trying to find the gunman who killed an allentown barber as he sat in front of his shop. the violence happened in the middle of the afternoon. investigators are trying to sort out what led up to the deadly shooting. >> today our dawn timmeney spoke with relatives and neighbors of barber eric wagner. >> he was very family oriented, like got the family together, did anything he can for everybody. he was a great man. >> reporter: 18-year-old dugan can't believe his uncle is gone. killed as he sat outside his business. 40-year-old eric wagner was shot several times by a man walking by the headliner barbershop on the 100 block of south eighth street just before 4:30 yesterday afternoon. >> i couldn't believe it. it was like crazy. >> reporter: this woman lives in an apartment right across from the barbershop. she was watching television when she heard the gunshots. >> when i opened my door i seen the guy laying on the floor and i started screaming and hollering and crying and called the cops he's been shot. >> reporter: it's not clear why wagner was targeted and police aren't saying much. neighbors say wagner always sat out in front of his shop which he had recently renovated. >> they're very good guys. respectful. friendly and they're always asking me how i am because i'm on the dialysis kidney machine. >> reporter: memorial now marks the spot where wagner lost his life. many stopping today to light a candle in his memory. it's a tough reality for his nephew the high school senior says wagner was his mentor and helped him get a football scholarship to rutgers university. the teen says his uncle's murder leaves a hole in the hearts of those who loved him. especially the victim's eight-year-old son eric, jr. >> took him from his son, his family, his wife, crazy. we going to through this. it's a big loss. i hope he get justice though. >> reporter: investigators are not commenting on a motive here. witnesses say the shooter got away down an alley. anyone with information is asked to call allentown police. dawn timmeney, fox 29 news. on top of developing story. temple university's president is on his way out. it comes after yesterday's vote of no confidence by the school's board of trustees. now this would become the second forced departure of a top temple university administrator in just the past month. >> financial troubles brought the university to this point. let's get out to fox 29's bruce gordon who joins us live from temple university. so bruce, what's next? >> reporter: well, as you said, first came that vote of no confidence. next on july 21st the board of trustees here at temple will vote to fire university president neal theobold. less than four years into his tenure here in north philadelphia. theobold was brought here from indiana university as a top notch educator and a skilled bean counter. but a shortage of beans has now led to his premature departure. reaction to president theobold's ouster was decidedly mixed among temple students we talked to. >> your thoughts on his departure especially under these circumstances? >> really sad. i really liked him. i met him few times. close friend of mine. >> reporter: loss to the university? >> definitely. definitely. >> even being part of student government i don't know much about him. >> reporter: his departure doesn't mean a whole lot to you. >> not to me personally. >> reporter: his firing is tied to a hole in the financial aid budget that grew from $9 million last year to 22 million this year. last month theobold ousted temple's provost blaming him for the mess but spokesman for the trustees says it was theobolds to clean up. >> that deficit and that problem was the responsibility of the president. >> reporter: leadership problem. >> it was a leadership an management problem. >> reporter: temple has since shifted funds to fill that hole. but kevin feeley says theobold kept trustees in the dark. >> the role of the president to keep them informed about the operation of the university and the existence and growth of the deficit like this. >> reporter: that didn't happen. >> it didn't happen. >> reporter: faculty union president hochner likens theobold firing to an earthqua earthquake. >> the buildings are still standing but we're not sure what damage has been done until we clear away the wreckage. >> reporter: hochner believes and feeley confirms theobold's firing will not derail temple's plans to build a 35,000 seat football stadium on campus. >> i think it's going to be awfully expensive and i think there's going to be turmoil with the community. but that would have been, n would have happened regardless. >> reporter: who was president? >> right. >> reporter: we were unable to reach president theobold for comment this afternoon. we do know the university trustees plan to appoint richard engler former administrator as acting president temple university come july 21. lucy. >> thank you very much, bruce. skyfox over the scene of a large procession in wilmington. as dozens of firefighters and other first responders from across delaware honored volunteer firefighter tim mc clan hasn't. the firefighter' body is now at at a funeral home in lewes. his funeral is sunday. he died monday afternoon after falling out of a helicopter during a training exercise at the delaware coastal airport. the faa is leading the investigation into what went wrong. saying goodbye to three of five officers killed in the dallas police ambush. thousands of mourners tended services for officers brent thompson, sergeant michael smith and senior corporal lorne ahre ahrens. a sniper killed them at a black lives matter protest last thursday. the wife of brent thompson called the shooter a coward saying "you know your hate made us stronger". services for the other two officers michael krol and patrick zamarripa are later this week. happening now the son of a man killed in police involved shooting is urging calm despite the chaos that spark since his death of his father. alton sterling's 15-year-old son cameron touched so many hearts when he broke down on camera just hours after his father was killed and now a week later, cameron says his father was a goodman and that his death was a sacrifice to show how bad things are in his neighborhood. the shooting death is resulted in nationwide protests and police have also announced the arrest of a three people they say were plotting an tack on police in the city. now the teen says everyone has to come together. >> i feel that everyone gets you can protest but i want everyone to protest the right way. protest in peace, not guns, not drugs, not alcohol, not violen violence. >> alton sterling was shot dead by police officers last week after cops responded a to a disturbance at a convenience store. torments night police are loo looking for the ma who robbed a corner store in philadelphia's lawn crest neighborhood. take a good look at this the surveillance video from the minnow mart on 900 block of sanger street. the man gets a drink from the fridge and when he goes to pay for it, he whips out a gun. he asks the employee if he wants to die? after the worker handed over the money he ran off. so if you recognize him, please give police a call. workers at the philadelphia airport are zenning a strong message. they are going on strike when the dnc comes to town. the workers voted 461-five to walk out on the job. the union that's trying to organize the baggage handlers, wheelchair attendants and other workers say they want better working conditions that includes better schedule link, sick pay, $15 an hour and the ability to unionize. >> in philadelphia, you know, many unions and many workers have said we're to the going to go on strike, we'll have labor piece in philadelphia because the dnc is coming. and we think that's great. the reason why these workers are not saying that is because they do not have the things that those other union workers have. they don't have a collective bargaining agreement. >> more than 50,000 people are expected to come to our city the last week of july for the dnc. new at 6:00, employees at one atlantic city casino continue their strike tonight and they are taking a field trip. why they're headed to the big apple. and it was a priceless momento for a local family a connection to a loved one who lost his live fighting for our country. tonight a stolen american flag is back where it belongs and we have got the happy developments. howard? nba commissioner is not happy with what's happening in the nba with free agents these days and the sixers joel embiid went to las vegas to get work in but he found an interesting way trying to do so. that will be coming up in sports. great time for a shiny floor wax, no? not if you just put the finishing touches on your latest masterpiece. timing's important. comcast business knows that. that's why you can schedule an installation at a time that works for you. even late at night, or on the weekend, if that's what you need. because you have enough to worry about. i did not see that coming. don't deal with disruptions. get better internet installed on your schedule. comcast business. built for business. 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of the auditor's rental vehicle and took four laptops. officials say the data on one of those laptops may not have been secure. the department is contacting the affected people to notify them about the theft and offer credit monitoring and other fraud protection services. exactly one week after someone stole a treasured american flag from a north wildwood home, someone returned it today. it proudly flu again. >> such a moment. today north wildwood's mayor veterans from the vfw american legion and vietnam veterans association joined the corcoran family to raise their precious flag yet again. they fly it once a year to honor their brother patrick corcoran. a father judge high school graduate who died in the vietnam war. navy never found his body so this flag that draped his empty coffin was the last closest thing the corcoran family has of him. to get it back, is overwhelming. >> thank you for expressing this to us, the support made -- the support just made this so much easier for to us handle. the thousand thank yous is too few. and a million is not enough. this community, this country, we still remember patrick corcoran and all of those who perished in vietnam and i couldn't be more pleased as the mayor of the city of north wildwood that that flag is back in its rightful place. >> beautiful thing. the corcoran family says they will continue to honor patrick corcoran and fly his flag once a year despite what happened this past fourth of july. tonight we're getting a preview of the guns and roses not in this lifetime tour as massive stage is put in place the concert will be in town tomorrow at the linc. the tour is one of the most anticipated events this summer. >> man, i used to play guns and roses when i was a disc jock can he back in the day. back to your fox 29 weather authority. you're loving it, aren't you. >> i'll be loving the next few days even more. >> it will be even hotter. >> yeah. >> we know that this is iain page weather. i mean it's hot and humid but it can be dangerous. we'll talk about that coming up. a live look right now at center city. 77 degrees. somewhat hazy skyline there. the high only 84 degrees because of those clouds and scatter the downpours but look at the the dew points. the measure of moisture in the atmosphere, it's above 70. so very tropical and that's why we're able to squeeze out a lot of that moisture this afternoon. look at ultimate doppler over the last three hours. you can see we had widespread downpours but the coverage continues to diminish because we're losing that daytime heating. we still have thunderstorms in lancaster county, also, we'll zoom toward the lehigh valley, the folk know mountains right now. some light to moderate downpours around jim thorpe. as we move in around center city area, getting a dry break but as we move toward mt. laurel, also, willingboro, bristol, lumberton still some areas of light rain but nothing like what we saw earlier. in the meantime, toward lancaster, still looking at very heavy rainfall. rainfall rates here 23-inches per hour as that system that cell right over land cost county really not moving whole lot. look at some of the rainfall totals still coming in. dover almost an inch. northeast philadelphia .86-inches. trenton a little over half an inch. wilmington a little over a quarter of an inch in philadelphia officially a little over a tenth of an inch of rain. temperatures right now are pretty uniform in the mid to upper 70s. 78 in millville. 77 look at that popular number. 77 allentown. wilmington, dover, wildwood and atlantic city. we'll zoom in down the shore, and once again those temperatures pretty uniform. another heat wave is ahead. dangerous heat we're lookin loot those temperatures over the next several days anywhere from 95 degrees tomorrow to into on saturday. looks like we'll hang on to 90 for sunday as well. those will be the air temperatures. but feels like temperatures how your body reacts the danger of it all take look. right along the i-95 corridor we're looking at feels like temperatures tomorrow and even into friday 100 to 105 degrees. where you see the orange color south jersey, north and west suburbs, far north and west, feels like temperatures around 100 degrees. so take it easy. loose fitting light colored clothing. stay inside, stay in the ac check on the elderly, pets and children. feels like temperatures by 3:00 o'clock tomorrow afternoon 103 in philadelphia. wilmington. it will feel like 101 in dover and then on friday, not as bad but still feeling close to 100 degrees across parts of the area. the weather authority seven day forecast showing that heat danger for tomorrow. maybe an ice later pop up gusty thunderstorm hot again friday, 94 degrees. 92 on saturday. 90 on sunday. and yeah, you get the drift. we're talking about a continuation of the triple h pattern hazy, hot and humid with a couple of pop-up storms. >> that's time of year. >> pop up storm. >> do we have snow? i her drift. >> you get the drift. (laughter). >> ant arctic around about now for that one. >> i heard drift. that's the first thing i went to. joel embiid getting any closer to getting on the floor to play games? and what is he learning about joining the sixers in las vegas? tom brady is not used to what's happening in the legal system and i'll explain why he's waisting all of our time. that's coming up in sports. if you want to soar along the highest, longest and fastest zipline in north america, there's only one place to do it. and that's not the only thing you can only find in new york state. ♪ it's all in the catskills. only in new york. new york. it's all here. it's only here. plan your summer vacation at iloveny.com when you're the parent of a disabled child, you realize that the world can be a harsh place. but you also realize it can be a really loving, wonderful place. when i saw donald trump mock somebody who was disabled, i was appalled. you gotta see this guy... ahh, i don't know what i said, ahh, i don't remember! that reporter suffers from a chronic condition that impairs movement of his arms. it told me everything i need to know about his heart and what he believes deep down. priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. ♪ i may have never seen a bigger waist of time than this use of the court system as well as everybody else in this case that tom brady 98 gate issue. today the united states second circuit court of appeals denied a request to have his case for his four-game suspension overturned enure heard. the reality is district court and judge berman in new york should have never overturned the suspension in the first place because the process was already collectively bargained between the nfl and the union. that's my opinion as a legal counsel. so where does the prim madonna tom brady go from here? he has one last option. and that would be to request the supreme court of the united states of america to hear his case. it would cost him nothing because it's on the dime of the union attorneys. it's obvious he just wants an injunction allow him to play until it would be heard or denied and that would be months. what great use of the united states supreme court but brady has almost zero chance. all right. nba has a flurry of -- had a flurry of big signings this free agent period but the one many got upset kevin durant going to ready made team to try and win. he left owing okay city to sign with the warriors. the feelings the best players may not real goal to teams that may need them to win. they should go to the others but the teams that are already championship caliber it's not good for competitive balance and the nba commissioner adam silver wants a better way. >> i do not think that's ideal from a legal standpoint. i mean for me as i stuff earlier, part of it is designing a collective bargaining agreement that encourages the distribution of great players throughout the league. on the other hand, i absolutely respect a player's right to become a free agent and in this case for kevin durant to make a decision that he feels is best for him. my belief is we can make it better. >> if he wants my opinion i'm glad to help and i know i can. the 76ers sent joel embiid to las vegas to join the team and work with the coaches. doesn't seem he's really been in the games. let's go to las vegas. see that's he and robert covington when is the last time you saw players with their phones on the bench? that was sunday. this is last night. joel embiid is really paying attention to what's going on the floor. this is a joke. he's probably inter acting but he should be interacting with his teammates and not with whoever it is on that phone. >> he's interacting on social media. >> that's great. he's supposed to learn how to play since he hasn't played. >> exactly. i don't think he ever will. be sure to join us tonight for the fox 29 news at 10:00. a wild end to this high speed chase when a driver loses control and flips an suv. take closer look. what comes flying out of the one of the windows during the crash leading even deputes stunned. that does it for us here at 6:00. we'll see you right back here at 10. have great night. inside edition is up next. . sea of blue. and awkward. ♪ glory glory hallelujah >> storm over george w. bush swaying and dancing. and the football star's apology for posting this gruesome image. then -- >> jennifer aniston's blistering attack. >> why she says she's fed up. and victoria beckham kissing controversy. >> i do not kiss my kids on the lips. >> plus, zombie land. >> the shocking mass drug overdose. >> straight out of "the walking dead." >> this is crazy. plus, "modern family"'s ariel winter on taylor swift's new curvy look. >> good for her. and where am

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