With a look at showers around right now. Thats right, we have seen hot and humid conditions. That will continue the rest of the evening. Its not out of the question that we could see a popup shower where you live. Right now, most of rainfall and thunderstorm activity is mainly confined to parts of lancaster county. Also, just moving out of trenton. If we take a look at the cell moving into lancaster county, its starting to die down. That seems to be the trend as we head into this evening. Its going to be a warm and humid evening with temperatures by 7 00 feeling like they are at 85 degrees. Its going to feel like the mid 80s at 10 00 p. M. You wont need a jacket if you head out tonight. Our actual temperature, 88. Chance much showers will remain as we head into your 8 00 hour. Humid and warm, 81. By 10 00, the actual temperature at 78. Sheena will be back with a closer look at when the severe thunderstorms will affect you and your weekend plans. We want to remind you that you can download our app. Get information right to your smart phone and tablet with the nbc 10 weather app. Its a Free Download you can get on our website, nbc10. Com. Us congressman sha can a fattah is defending his reputation. The tenterm congressman says he has done nothing wrong despite allegations by a former top political aide. Harry hairston is back from interviewing fattah. He is joining us live from our digital operations center. Whats the congressman telling you . Reporter quite a few things. He has not committed a crime and he says, this investigation into him has gone on long enough. Moments after congressman fattah left this event in west philly promoting quality education, i asked him about allegations of criminal wrongdoing by his former chief of staff. Are you disappointed in nailer for what he pled to and his words that link you to something inappropriate . You never know what pressure people are put under. Reporter the nailer pled guilty to a scheme. Nailer also implicated fattah in the scheme. In all of my years as an elected official, very never been involved and never would be involved in any illegal conduct. Reporter the feds have been investigating fattah for more than seven years, the foe us dollars earmarked to nonprofit organizations. Theres a tendency that the good guys want to get the bad guys. Sometimes they make circumstances where they try to make people who are good look bad. Reporter you have done nothing wrong . I said, i have never. So never is a very clear declaration. Right . No illegal conduct, period. Reporter fattah is set for reelection this november. He tells me he is confident he will win. Thanks, harry. He is married to renee fattah. Fighting words over the arrest of the son of allentowns police chief. The District Attorney says the comment is irresponsible that he was targeted. Doug shimell is live where the d. A. Just finished a News Conference . Reporter this is very uncharacteristic for him to go public about an investigation. He felt like he had to do it. He revealed new details about this case. He said that his detectives were on their way to an unrelated operation a week ago today when 22yearold Chris Fitzgerald stopped his car suddenly in front of detectives, allegedly got out and pointed a gun at them. He was arrested. The defense attorney that he has hired said that his client was convinced that somebody in that car was following him because he claims they were tailing him all over the city of allentown. Knowing what chris is, what he was doing that day, he was obviously doing nothing illegal. So the only conclusion that i can come to that makes any sense i dont know this but i certainly suspect it, that hes a black male driving in a nice car in allentown and these detectives started following him for a profiling reason. Its the only thing that makes sense. This was not an accident. This was an intentional pointing of a Deadly Weapon at two individuals. Now, whether they were police or not, whether mr. Fitzgerald thought he was being tailed or not, whether whatever he thought, have i no idea what he thought. But you dont pull a gun and point it at two people. Thats a crime. Reporter jim martin says one of the reasons he went public is he felt that the comments from the defense attorney were irresponsible. He felt they could create racial and civil unrest. Martin said he had been told by members of the Africanamerican Community that some people wanted to put together a protest march. Thats why he went public to say this was not an investigation of the Allentown Police chiefs son. It was not racially profiling. It was simply to get the truth out. Live in allentown, im doug shimell, nbc 10 news. New at 6 00, Pennsylvania State police say no charges will be filed after a local mother died while jailed because her sons were truant from school. The coroner says the woman died of Heart Failure in june. She was serving a twoday sentence in the prison because she was unable to pay 2,000 in truancy fines. She had a history of high blood pressure, anxiety and bipolar disorder. Lawmakers are working on new measures to prevent parents from being jailed for their childrens truancy. Tonight in Atlantic City, fears what have comes next. Warn notices may be issued about layoffs or even a possible closure at trump taj mahal. New details about how the community is banding together to help thousands of casino workers who are newly unemployed. Ted greenberg has the details. Thank you very much. Reporter cindy is grateful for this bag of clothing for her four kids after she lost her job of 15 years when showboat shut down on sunday. Every bit counts. Im thankful. Reporter this 21yearold boy, a cleng senior and son of a former Atlantic City mayor has created clothing, benefitting dozens of families. I try to put myself in other peoples shoes. Reporter both of his parents worked as dealers at trump taj mahal, which could be close to declaring bankruptcy. A source familiar with the situation tells nbc 10 that taj mahal informed the main casino union that notices warning employees of mass layoffs or a possible closure may be issued in the near future. If its true that the tanlj a mahal is filing for chapter 11, it would be the fourth. It hasnt closed in the past. We have no reason that it would close now. Reporter no comment from the tanl taj mahal. Is the summit coming too late . I dont want to say it is never too late. Its never too late to turn everything around. Reporter this lawsuit was filed this afternoon by the owner of the popular rain forest cafe inside the taj mahals sister casino, the trump plaza. Its seeking to keep the restaurant open even after trump plaza closes on september 16th. In Atlantic City, im ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. Taj mahal is twice as big as trump plaza. According to the new jersey casino control commission, taj mahal employees are more than 2,800 people. Taj mahal has 160,000 square feet of gaming space. Thats double the space at trump plaza. Trump plaza is closing but the online site will stay open. They will take internet bets after they close. That will change when the trump plaza surrenders its casino license. Thats not expected to happen quickly. Theres a potential buyer eyeing the former showboat casino in Atlantic City. Latitude 360, that develops restaurant and entertainment complexes, says showboat is one of three locations it is checking out. The complex has restaurants inside as well as video games. Stay with nbc 10 for continuing coverage of the casino crisis. We have an entire section on nbc10. Com devoted to the economic impact. You will find information on how Atlantic City is trying to help the workers find new jobs. Chris christie is wrapping up his threeday trip to mexico. 2,000 students packed the bleachers at a field to see the governor. They waved american, mexican and new jersey flags welcoming him. He met with the governor of the region and invited him to come to pasaic. The trip is seen as part of a larger effort to polish his Foreign Policy ahead of a potential run for president in 2016. The secretary of the department of Veterans Affairs says the v. A. Medical facility in philadelphia needs a few good men and women to help local vets. During a visit, he says the hospital has made progress but has 160 medical positions to fill. He says the more staff, the less veterans have to wait for appointments. The Center Serves 60,000 vets a year. Next at 6 00, a war of words at penn state. How joe paternos son is firing back after the universitys plea for civility. Should High School Boys be able to play field hockey with the girls . Male students say its their right under title 9. Who says there should be no boys allowed . Im tracking storms that will move in this weekend. It could mean Severe Weather for some of us. I will tell you which areas are at risk and when they will arrive in my nbc 10 first alert forecast. Tens of thousands of Army National guard members wont be at regular Training Drills this weekend, including some in our area. Guard leaders from pennsylvania to hawaii have either postponed order canceled drills this weekend because of a 100 million budget short fall. There wont be any in delaware either. Efforts are under way in congress to get funding reallocated so drills can be held later this month. Drills in new jersey are going on as planned. The son of joe paterno has strong words for the university tonight. He is angry over a message to the community sent from university leaders. It started when University Official issued a Public Appeal online telling students, alumni and residents to be polite and respectful even when disagreeing. It was in reference to the fallout over the sandusky child sex abuse scandal which continues to this day. On his blog, jay paterno fired back at the president of penn state and other leaders. He wrote, respect is earned and is a toway street and added stating the truth is not incivility, its not disrespectful. He is a former coach for the lions. His father was fired in 2011. The Allentown School board voted to ban boys from playing girls field hockey. They had been allowed but injuries prompted the state to change the rules. Four boys cant play field hockey anymore. You dont want the females to get hurt because they are more aggressive. Some females dont mind. Like me, i would love to play football. If the guys are bigger and stronger and they are hurting the girls, then i think you have to take a different look at it. The final vote on ban is expected september 18th. Title 9 was enacted in 1972. Under the law, schools arent required to offer the same sports for boys and girls. Schools dont have to offer an equal number of sports for each sex. The schools must accommodate boys and girls to the same degree. A hot and humid day today. Here is a live look out at the link. Its going to feel different sunday, in time for the eagles home opener. A few showers around tonight. That will stay in the forecast. Tomorrow, a first alert day because we expect storms to move in. Some of these could be locally strong. As we go into sunday, after the storms move through, it will be a cooler day and the humidity will be a lot lower, too. Right now, the humidity is high. Temperatures are feeling like the mid to low 90s. Feels like 93 in philadelphia. Feels li s like 9 i3 in allento. Warm and humid for us. On the radar, a few spots of isolated showers. Lancaster county had thunderstorms. Those have rained themselves out. Mercer county, the thunderstorm we were watching earlier is really starting to diminish and slowly moving to the northeast. Tomorrow though, we are watching this line of storms moving from st. Louis up to chicago. This is severe right now for this area. As we see that move closer tomorrow, some of us will see strong storms. Tomorrow a first alert day for tomorrow afternoon and evening. Strongest storms should be north and west of philadelphia. Thats the best threat for those. Either way, any storms can provide heavy rain and pretty high winds. The Severe Threat tomorrow is for carbon and monroe counties, lehigh and North Hampton counties, including allentown. Late in the day tomorrow we could see strong storms, heavy rain, strong winds, lightning and hail. The same line of thunderstorms will be moving through the area. We could see strong storms through other parts of the area. Future weather does keep us mainly dry tonight. Starting off tomorrow, we could see patchy fog early in the morning. By 10 00 we could be on the dry side. 3 00 in the afternoon, we could see showers around. Then the line of thunderstorms starts to move through late in the evening hours. By 10 00, we could still see the line moving through philadelphia into south jersey and delaware. It starts to clear up for sunday in time for the eagles home opener. You will feel less humidity. By 4 00, upper 70s. Along the shore tomorrow, very late day thunderstorms. Were talking about late tomorrow night. Ahead of that, we could have showers, around 80, hot and humid. By sunday, mid 70s and cooler. Tonight, we will keep a chance of a few isolated showers in the forecast. Late fog developing. 73 for the low in philadelphia. Tomorrow, a hot, humid day. Showers and thunderstorms late in the day. Most of these in the evening and tomorrow night. Temperatures still in the low 90s. Cooler sunday, around 80. We stay cooler as we start off next week. Eagles season opener, its under 48 hours away. While it may be the first game for the rookies, hear how the head coach isnt cutting them any slack. 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When the clock strikes zero, tune in for the post game live. The phillies begin a threegame weekend series tonight. Hollands will miss the remainder of the season with a shoulder injury. We told you how uconn was reported for a rules violation after the head coach spoke with mone davis. She is sad they got in trouble for that phone call. She hasnt been shy about her desire to play basketball for them. Media tour continues for the taney ace. She will be a guest tonight on the tonight show. He needed four yard for the touch down, but he will run more than that. One way, then the other. You can vote for the High School Blitz game of the week for next friday, september 12. We have complete coverage for you on the High School Blitz every saturday night at 7 00 right here on nbc 10. We get a little bit of a taste of that was tonight at 11 00. The bengals are gaining fans before playing a game this season. This morning, the team signed camden new jersey native and penn state product still to his practice squad. He will earn a salary while his 4yearold daughter is under going cancer treatment. A great gesture by them. Thanks. For a look at whats coming up at 11 00. 14,000, thats how much money two men took from an elderly man after meeting him at a local casino. Police released these photos. Thats tonight at 11 00. We are tracking storms for tomorrow. Tune in at 11 00 tonight for sheena parveens forecast and the latest on the threat of Severe Weather. I will see you at 11 00. The news continues now with nbc nightly news with brian williams. On our broadcast tonight, high drama. All afternoon an unresponsive pilot, a plane flying out of control, fighter jets scrambled and tonight a tragedy at sea. Grounded in iran with 100 americans on board ordered to land. Destroying isis, is the world finally going to get together to fight a brutal enemy. And risk factors as tributes pour in for joan rivers. A closer look tonight at the procedure she was having just as millions do every year. And tonight what patients should know if they have one scheduled. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening