They close one were heading out. He dont know it but hes going, too. Others say no way. Im worried. I mean i lost my house in katrina. And i know theres saying maybe just tropical even cat one but when your whole life is under one roof, its, you know, you got to go away and you just sit and watch the weather and wait and pray that you come back with something. Officials are expecting several inches of rape and union you shallly high tides at three to 5 feet the mayor says all the pumps are and running and backup pumps are stand by. Whatever we can do before saturday at 6 00 oclock, when they tell us we got to get out were going to keep on working. Because of the weather, grand isle and the library will be closed friday and monday. Now lets get the latest on nates track. Meteorologist Scott Williams tracking the storm for us. What its looking like, scott. Getting a little better organize still churning right around the yucatan peninsula look at the inn from a red satellite perspective on the system. You can see a burst of convention right now around that center of circulation. Its situated now just to the east of cozumel mexico right now 80 miles to the east there. Maximum sustained winds up to 6g pretty rapidly to the north northwest at about 21 Miles Per Hour. So take look at the latest from the National Hurricane center. By tomorrow afternoon in the open waters 70 miles an hour wind storm then making landfall sometime saturday night into sunday morning around new orleans along the gulf coast toward sections of mobile, alabama, likely as that category one hurricane. Then the remnant moisture heads right toward the lehigh and Delaware Valleys early next we week. Hurricane warnings posted new orleans over towards sections of mobile bay. Take a look at the spaghetti plots a good consensus take a look how the models making that bee line right toward new orleans then early next week whats left of it heads to the Delaware Valley. That threat of Tropical Storm force winds closing in around new orleans, biloxi mobile as we move toward the upcoming weeke weekend. So here at home it will be warm, it will be muggy over the next several days. Of course, tracking nate and then coming up, well have the timing of one to perhaps 2inc 2inches here locally of rain. Back over to you. All right, scott, thank you. We showed you this video recently of an armed robbery. The guy armed with a large 95 only on fox Philadelphia Police have linked the man you see here to even more incidents. He is now wanted for more than half dozen robberies. Police are hoping to get him off the streets before he strikes again. Dave schratwieser live at Philadelphia Police headquarters with the latest on this one. Dave . Reporter this guy has been quite a tear. Philadelphia police now believe he may have been involved in as many as seven armed robberies in some cases vaulting over the counters at local stores and threatening employees. And he jumped over the counter and he has a big knife. Reporter workers at the texas chick cant and burger restaurant on kensington avenue are still shaken after this mass masked robber vaulted over the counter way big 95 and demanded money. He just tell us like, um, open the register and give me all the money. Hes not in there very long. Maybe 20 to 30 seconds and hes out. Reporter mid afternoon robbery just one of seven knife point stick ups Police Believe are tied to the same suspect. Three in the kensington Port Richmond area, three more in northeast philly and possibly one in cheltenham. Its an urgency in catching this guy before he he is indicates la or before somebody gets hurt. He came around the counter and he put his hands in the cash register. The one girl held him he took the knife to her. This employee at jimmys house of pizza asked to us conceal her identity after the knife wielding bandit walked into the take out restaurant right before closing flashed a big 95 at three employees and held the place up. Im pregnant so i was i was like, you know what, let him take what he wants. It doesnt matter to me. I aint risking my kid for it. Reporter suspect has been caught on Surveillance Video several times but hes wearing a mask and gloves. He was wearing this diss diss tiff hadi in one robbery. Agria gray hoodie in others. Police say the employees are hoping for a quick arrest. Got to catch him. Put him in jail. Someone is going to get hur. Reporter now again no one has been seriously hurt at this point. Police tell us this guy also wears some yellow construction gloves and that gray hoodie in most of the robberies. Chris . All right, dave, thanks. 58 white crosses now stand along las vegas strip. One for each of the victims that died in sundays shooting. Police are now said to be looking into stephen paddocks recent purchase of tracer ammunition bullets most often used by military in night battles. 53 gators are also looking to whether paddock was planning other attacks. Researching other Music Festivals in las vegas and in chicago where he also book rooms. Boston police are also stepping up security around several upcoming events. The big question tonight that still has no answer, why did this happen . Well, one of the larger gun shows on the east coast is taking place this weekend in montgomery county. Fox 29s jeff cole is live in Upper Providence township you spoke to organizers and attendees about the decision to have this show go on as planned in the wake of las vegas. Right . Reporter well, dawn, organizers are blip about it they say theres simply too much money invested, too much money on the table here to simply postpone or cancel this event in the wake of vegas. Now turn out here is expected to be strong. Drawing people from across the region. They gathered five days after the killings in vegas and well before the 1 00 p. M. Opening of gun oktoberfest an expansive gun show in oaks, pa. You can go to gun store. There are 600 vendors selling weapons of all kinds here including the ar15 semi automatic rival. Why does a gun own are in near this gun, this ar15 . Why should they have that gun. Its their right to. Reporter gun dealer dave seller had several lined up at his table and see nos need to ban their sale. At some point, does the slaughter get so bad that these need to be stopped . No. Never. No. Because its the person that commits the act. Reporter organizers believe eight to 15,000 people will come through their doors at 12 bucks a head during the weekend event. Loaded guns are not allowed inside. Promotor pat mccarthy claims there was no way to postpone the show. A lot of people would lose a lot of money because this is a livelihood. People lot of lot of money. People love lives. Five days later youre selling ar15s in there. Yeah. Yes. And as the rest of the world is, too. Rest of the country. Reporter organizers say they certainly mourn for the dead in vegas. Reporters were treated well here. We were allowed to talk to vendors ton people coming in and out of the facility we got inside as well. But ask about vegas compare to this gun show and that did draw engineers from some here. Live in oaks, im jeff cole. More reporting at 6 00 oclock. Folks, back to you. Jeff cole, thank you sir. Mold found in south Jersey Elementary School has hundreds of parents worried for their kids safety and tonight that school is shut down. Fox 29s Joanne Pileggi live in williamstown with the latest. Joanne. Reporter hey, chris. Imagine this. Imagine this was your kid. Heres what happened. Some 500 students from one school in this district were separated this morning and sent to three other schools in the district including this one behind me and heres the reason. They found a serious mold problem in one of this districts Elementary Schools. This is holly glenn elementary in williamstown, gloucester county. And its now closed down and called unsafe for students. Theres differ levels they get tested on and the report they gave us last night showed of one of them tested high. So i dont think that, you know, i think theres an issue. Reporter and its all detailed in this environmental report released at a Board Meeting last night. Tests taken monday showed elevated levels of mold and the board voted to close the school. Parents n of the decision last night. Angry. I mean, i certainly am. If youre accumulating mold on the desks, these are the desks that our kids sit at. So if its getting to the point where the on the desk, you cant tell me that you dont know that its a problem. Reporter parents scrambling this morning to send their kids to three other district schools and as word spread on social media parents tell us their kids saw crews working in the middle school friday. On facebook they were posting pictures of people taking out Ceiling Tiles in the middle school while the children are still in session. Its like crazy. Reporter donna pulled her daughter out of the middle school. In the girls locker room theres like showers that were not allowed to use. What are they going to do if we find out theres more mold in all the other schools, too. Reporter elevated mold levels can be dangerous and can cause respiratory issues, allergies and asthma. The company that did the testing recommending the school be closed. I personally think the superintendent and the higher up people in this township need to be held accountable for this. Reporter we called the Superintendents Office a few times today. No return phone call. At the meeting last night the superintendent said that holly glenn would be cleaned and it may not open until early next year. Parents also tell us that all of the districts five other schools will also be tested. Chris, dawn, back to you. All right, joanne, thank you. Coming up, no youre not smelling things. Something is stinking up city streets. So whats making people hold their notices . And a philly statue defaced. The shocking site that greeted people in the city and why this vandal may need a history less lesson. And archaism coming to the philadelphia Sheriffs Office. How it will impact members of the citys transgender communi community. And all new at 6 00a school takes matter noose its own hands painting a cross walk on to the street. Now fox 29 getting results. Meet Steve Sweeney. Hes a doubledipping pension padder. Doubledipping pension padder he had two government jobs, two paychecks and padded his pension along the way. Hes a doubledipping pension padder now hes making over 300,000 a year as a lobbyist and a senator. Doubledipping pension padder so hes all set thanks to you, the taxpayer. Which is why Steve Sweeney had no problem voting to raise your taxes 145 times, including the largest gas tax hike in history. Sounds about right, coming from a. Doubledipping pension padder skyfox over the scene of a house fire in philadelphia this morning. Flames broke out at this home around 9 00 oclock. This happening on the 2200 block of titan street much that is in the point breeze section of the city. You can see smoke come out of that house as firefighters worked from above. Nobody was injured. And the fire was put under control. The cause however still under investigation. This was the scene of a crash on mlk in west philadelphia. It happened around 9 00 near the intersection of black road. Two people were taken to the hospital. The extent of their injuries is not yet known. A statue in philadelphia vandalized with anti nazi graffiti despite the statue not being of a nazi or even german much this is the statue located near the lighthouse on boat house row along the schuylkill river. Vandals recently painted the face and feet with an arc consist symbols and language so offensive we cant show you on television. Perhaps the vandal shows do a Little Research because the statue is not german. Its ice land dick explorer from the early 11th century who helped discover and map coastal regions of north canada. Dawn im sure you have smelled it. Philadelphia stinks. No, thats not an opinion, it is a fact these days. A nasty i dont know, sewer odor around the city for days now. We wanted to know why what was going on so we asked our blood hound bruce gordon to sniff out the truth and report back. He joins us in studio with what he found out bruce. I just took the clothes pin off my nose much this is not the usual sight, sounds and yes, smells of the big city. This is some serious stench. It turns out Mother Nature and, yeah, lazy locals are to blame. Tim mclaughlin out for a stroll with his miniature daschund maddie. Pity them both. They as they pass 23rd and parish a nasty sewer odor wafts upward. Maddie is the first to notice. He has a big cold web snooze. I need your powers of description here it. Smells like stale stagnant water, garbage type thing that just comes up from the sewer. Reporter distinctive sewer smell. Exactly yes. Reporter philly if you know is assaulting nostrils all over the city these days. We asked the water departments john to explain why. Short answer, three weeks without measurable rain. Normal rainfall water flow noose the Street Corner inlets and dilutes flushes away the waste found inside. When its dry and waste and debris thats inside of it, you just get a much stronger sense of what the smells are that coming out of the inlets. Reporter fully concentrated and just sitting there. Correct. Reporter there are underground traps. Normally filled with water that stop sewer smells from escaping to the street above. Just like the u trap under your sing at home. Says john sewer odor oars gases in there and the water level is too low, that odor could also escape from there. Reporter ever present sacks man david per year says hes noticed the sewer smell around his sound stage at fourth and mark. He knows the tourists around here are getting a whiff as we well. Its distasteful when somebody come by. They smell it especially they may a tribute it to or something. Reporter you dont want them thinking its you. Exactly. Reporter like most of us the man known as eddies baby boy doesnt have time to cry about the noxious odor. Does it impact your saxophone work at all . Oh, no. Reporter youre just playing. Yes. Reporter you would hold your nose and play. No. But i can, you know, put in my mind that concentrate on what im doing and were im doing is more important than that odor. Reporter i mentioned lazy philadelphians are part to blame for the odors thats because some folks to trash even dog waste down into the inlets. When we hit dry stretch and the mess sits there that smell that much worse. We can find a trash can, cant we spokes. Dawn. Lets hope so. Thank you bruce. Philadelphia Sheriffs Office unveiled new guidelines today on how to deal with transgender individuals. Some of those guidelines include referring to a person by the pronoun of the gender with which they identify. As well as asking whether they prefer to be searched by a male or female deputy. Deputies are expected to call transgender individuals by their referred flame even if it is different than the one on their government issued identificati identification. Its about fairness and tre treating people the way they want to be treated, and we live in a real cruel world where sometimes a person calling a name, a bad name you can change your life. The new transgender policy is similar to the one used by the Philadelphia Police department. It will be carson versus carson sunday when the eagles host the Arizona Cardinals on fox. Carson wentz of the eagles versus Carson Palmer of the cardinals. He guess have some injury concerns though going into this game. Sean brace here now with a preview. Sean. Thats right, good evening, dawn. For the second straight week, eagles will be without their star defensive tackle fletcher cox when they host Arizona Cardinals on sunday. And for the second straight season, under head coach Doug Pederson the eagles are experiencing early season success. If you remember, all the way back to last year after threezero start the eagles closed out the season fournine and failed to wretch the playoffs. This season sitting pretty at threeone with the next four out of five games at home, pederson is hopeful that the Lessons Learned last year will bring a few more wins this year. Our threezero start last year, um, even though we won those games, it covered up a lot of mistakes that we made in those games offensively defensively in the kicking game. I think this year the guys are playing probably a little more confident. Theyre learning how to finish the execution is better. Looking forward to it join us on sunday as we get it going errly fox game day live dicks off at 10 00 a. M. Followed by the main event eagles and cardinals at 1 00 and coming up later in sports, we focus on life without fletcher cox and why you shall be looking at guys like beau allen who recorded his first sack last week to fill the void on sunday. Over to you, chris. They got this one, sean. Thats right. Thank you, sir. Coming up a billboard draws controversy comparing the president to a dictator. Why the owner of a Clothing Store sponsored the sign. And its video you have to see a carjacking suspect jumps into a river to get away from police. After 8 years of chris christie, is kim guadagno the change new jersey really needs . Guadagno is christies handpicked successor. Says shes proud to be part of the christie administration. Guadagno was Chris Christies right hand as our schools came under attack, Critical Services were underfunded, and our Credit Rating was downgraded. 11 times. From the bridge to the beach, weve seen it all, and weve had enough. Kim guadagno isnt the change we need. A man a is dead after a double carjacking led to Wild Police Chase in south florida. Police say the chase began in nor