The biggest threat is for delaware and south engineer sere. Northern delaware, they have had had so much rain this month. Its 3 00 p. M. Friday to 3 00 p. M. Saturday. The greatest threat is from the heavy rain causing flooding. Perhaps even creeks and rivers. And the chance of some severe storms as well. At least for a a brief period. Just some small showers mostly in delaware right now. Not bothering anybody. Not associated with this main area that is back to the west in West Virginia and ohio. And even that is just the beginnings. Its a different story into the next couple days. 81 in philadelphia. Later on tonight and into tomorrow morning, were talking about a lot of clouds. Showers and thunderstorms this evening. Tomorrow morning we may start off in pretty good conditions. Now to a deadly accident at the Ohio State Fair. One person is dead. Three others critically injured. Tim furlong spent the day toalking about concerns and rids and the Safety Inspection process. Reporter a chaotic scene at the Ohio State Fair. A piece of the fireball ride broke off. Lots of folks had seen the video. It makes me not want to ride today. Reporter the video didnt scare these people from coming out here today. These things happen. They just happen. A Florida Company brought the rides here for the last 20 years. The site manager checks to make sure all safety procedures are followed. I saw employees inspecting rides and testing them out before any riders were allowed on. The company says they are not doing this because of the ohio tragedy. This is an everyday process. In our industry, we hate to see anything bad happen. It depends on the customers and how they feel. Were always on it all the time. We strive to do better every day. Its hard to tell if any family didnt come out buzz of what they saw in ohio, but everyone says they are confident the state and ride company are doing everything they can to ensure safety. Tim furlong, nbc 10 news. Coming up at 6 00, he walks through the process of building the rides and whats done daily to keep riders safe. Then at 6 30, nbc nightly news with lester holt will have much more on the investigation into the accident at the Ohio State Fair. And who is responsible for ride safety. Chaos breaks out during a popular after work event in center city. Organizers quickly broke up the fight. No one was arrested or seriously hurt. Police say they may add more officers at the outdoor venues that participate on wednesday nights. The owner of chops restaurant and bar where the fight happened says crowd control will not be a a problem moving forward. Based on what happened last night, well have more security, be more aware and the safety and the security of our customers is the biggest priority to us. Its been popular. The event attracts thousands of patrons. Chops is one of 90 participating venues. Hes the mayor of the Third Largest city in pennsylvania, but ed pawlowski sat in a federal courtroom and pled not guilty to more than 50 corruption charges. Pawlowski arrived for his first appearance in philadelphia this morning alongside his wife and defense attorney. Heed to win his bat until court and win reelection this november. Hes facing bribery charges. I know im innocent. I did nothing wrong. Im locking forward to my day in court to prove that. Pawlowski was released on 50,000 bail. He had to surrender his passport. No trial date has been set. To washington now, feuding within the white house. Its front and center on twitter. Whiles hold a flurry of Health Care Votes as they make another stab at repealing obamacare. Heres a report from washington. The army top general struggling to explain what happens next after surprised twitter announcement banning transgender people from the military. The pentagon, he said, is awaiting actual orders from the president , but well today and tomorrow and always should treat every soldier sailor, coast guard with dig any and respect for their service of our nation. Reporter sources tell nbc news the president s announcement is tied to funding for his boarder wall, which was being held up in a dispute over Transgender Health benefits in. The military. They were going to have to work out the details. Im going to work hard on a piece of legislation to ensure that the president does not do this. Reporter another strong message from capitol hill to the president. Amidreports hes thinking about firing attorney general jeff sessions. Jeff sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay. This isnt a bull and this country isnt a china shop. Reporter they are Juggling Health care with a series of votes ending with the skinny repeal, a walkback of obamacare so far getting mixed support from republicans. I dont know what it says still. Im going to vote for it. Ill be on it like a hobo on a ham sandwich. Reporter the president laying on the pressure hoping they will deliver the first legislative victory. The boy scouts apologized for rhetoric saying the scouts remain strictly nonpart stand. A 2016 study is poking holes in the president s primary reason for banning transgender members in the military. Yesterday the president said cost was one of the reasons for his ban. Researchers at the Rand Corporation found the high end Transgender Health spending would account for. 01 of the department of defenses budget. About 2500 out of 1. 3 million active Service Members are transgender. The Pennsylvania Senate passed a ref knew package to patch a hole in the states budget. But a spokesman for the House Republican majority says lawmakers will have questions and concerns about the plan, which calls for a mix of borrowing and higher taxes. Right now theres no timetable for the house to return to harrisburg to consider the legislation. Firefighters faced obstacles inside a burning home. A neighbor called 911 around 2 00 this morning as they saw this house on fire. When firefighters showed up, they found all the doors locked and say the homeowner was a horder, which made it tough to get inside. The windows were covered up. And its in the front part of the house. The man inside the house died in the fire. Investigators will sift through the damage to find the cause. Police trying to figure out a shooting mystery this evening. This Video Shows Police finding guns in a va kabt lot in germantown. Right now they think it the guns belong to two men found nearby. One of them was shot in the back. They dont know where the actual shooting happened. They tell us the guns could have easily been found by kids playing in that neighborhood. A Philadelphia Police officer gets a gunned a him as he investigates two overnight carjackings. Then four hours later, the suspect robbed and carjacked a Security Guard outside the bank in northeast. Police found and followed both cars. One man got out of a car, pointed a gun at police and the officer fired once but did not hit anyone. Detectives arrested two men in the nearby woods. A new Law EnforcementTraining Fund in minnesota will not be. Named after castillo. The minnesota board that oversees Police Training voted against the governors proposal. The new 12 million fund is to help train officers in diverse communities. He was killed by a Police Officer last year. The officer was found not guilty. All new at 5 00, were Digging Deeper into President Trumps claims transgender Service Members cost too much. He says the cost is tremendous. Now well give you a closer look at the numbers. Also the Opioid Crisis is hitting close to home. It can affect your health care. And in the market for a new job, amazon looking to boost its payroll in our own backyard. Where you can go to interview, next at 5 00. A 500 billion company noun as preparing to hold a huge job fair in new jersey. Were talking about amazon. The jobs day will be held at ten locations across the country including robinsville, new jersey. Candidates can tour the facility and score an on the spot interview from 8 00 a. M. Until noon. They are looking for employees at local center. Its part of the olympian to hire 130,000 workers through 2018. The may r yo of one california town explains the tremendous impact the company has made in his area. Its been huge. In 2014 we had over 6,000 plus jobs. In the last quarter alone, our sales tax revenue went up 35 . Tap the. App for head to our website for more. Amazon and whole foods are in talks for the online retailer to acquire the Grocery Store chain. The deal could be historic. If approved amazon is expected to nearly double its stock to a whopping 2,000 a share. Unbelievable. Equity analysts say this could make amazon the first trillion dollar company. Grocery chain wegmans is preparing to expand. Customers are able to order sameday delivery using the instant car service. Home delivery is already available in parts of pennsylvania. A pop lor society hill restaurant is paying servers past and present a collective 230,000 after a lawsuit. We got our hands on the Court Documents today. A e former server filed a suit saying she had to share with the people polishing silverware the polishers dont have contact with customers so they shouldnt get tips. 41 servers are splitting that payout. New at 5 00, video of a package thief in north philadelphia to show you right here. Watch as the man eyes the box on a front stoop right here and paces as he waits for people to clear out of the area. E he sits on the stoop, checks out the package and eventually walks away delivery in hand. The dog days of summer are here. We all know that. The shelters are full so no better time to find a furry friend or give him or her a forever home. Nbc 10 and telemundo are committed to clearing the shelters. Join us august 1th as we find loving homes for animals in need. Most will waive fees. More than 50,000 pets found forever homes last year. Tonight crews are out spraying for mosquitos. Trucks with mounts equipped to spray open spaces will make their way through the darby b r burros. This is an effort to reduce the risk of mosquitobourn viruss like west nile. New jersey beaches that were closed because of high bacteria levels are back open. New test results reveal levels had return to safe levels. More heavy rain is on the way. Today is probably our only good beach day until sunday. Thats when wering. Water will be tested on monday. To our first alert weather at Philadelphia International airport. If youre catching a flight tonight, you should be okay. Tomorrow might be be a different story. No rain drops to report in the area. We know its coming. A first alert has been issued for tomorrow. Youre monitoring the possibility of strong storms and flooding with all of this. The worstover the weather is later tomorrow and extending into saturday. Everything is shifting on the time scale. Not necessarily on the severity scale. One area thats most vulnerable is in northern delaware. Theres been so much rain and some north of wilmington got like 7 inches of rain the last time. And now we have another threat of multiple inches. And so the greatest threat is south jersey. We have included all the neighborhoods in the first alert because just about any of the neighborhoods could get heavy rain and many of the neighborhoods are vulnerable because its been so wet. 3 00 p. M. Friday to 3 00 p. M. Saturday for the worst of it. The flooding and heavy rain is going to be the biggest issue. The possibility is more for delaware and south jersey. Temperatures now are in the mid 0s to near 80 degrees. Park side, 80 degrees in parkwood. And the temperatures over the weekend are not even going to get to 80 degrees i dont think. We just had some isolated showers in our region. A lot more impressive area back to the west. Thats not all that well organized. At least not yet. And so thats going to some time. These are isolated showers. Nothing to do with the storm thats coming. The computer model maybe even overestimating them because the clouds today l really cut down on the heating to trigger these things. There we go into tomorrow morning. Again, just an isolated shower to start off with. But other models showing big increase in the rainfall. Later tomorrow, so early in the day, thats the best part of the day tomorrow. The end of the day is friday night is the worst part. Because here comes some heavier rain as we go into friday evening. Overnight hours, obviously, Better Weather to the north than to the south. So it depends on what neighborhood youre in. But a lot of neighborhoods could get really heavy rain tomorrow night and into saturday. The rain just hangs around. The potential exists for some parts of our area to get 4 to 6 inches of rain and that could cause some big problems by saturday. Nbc 10 is supporting our schools to get students and teachers the supplies they need to succeed. Now through saturday, you can make an impact in local classrooms. All you have to do is donate money if you can or supplies to support projects that Teachers Want the to bring to their kids this year. So important you can donate today on nbc10. Com or the nbc 10 app. And headed down the shore this weekend. You can also drop off supplies in atlantic city. Well be collecting pens, pencils, construction paper, anything else youd like to drop off in front of the board walk hall on saturday from 7 00 to 1 00. The hunt is on to find the man who broke into a mosque not once but twice. The item he stole and the odd way he left the scene. Also do photo try this at home. The rb an officer rangeled this gator before wildlife officials arrived. And quoting joe paterno, but was said that has people so f e fired up. Thats next at 5 00. The new kmoun indications director is getting sacked for quoting joe paterno while make. Ing a point about honor and dignity. He mentioned the late football coachs off sided line act like youve been there before. Peb state fired him in 2011 over his handling of child sex wuz allegations against former defensive koocoordinator jerry sandusky. He died in 2012. He was never charged with a crime. The republican ticket is now set for the race for governor in new jersey. A running mate was named. Shes the mayor of wood cliff lake in new jersey. Shes the lieutenant governor. Shes looking to secede chris christie. Well have a look at the Details BehindHillary Clintons failed run for president. Shes penned a tell all book titled what happened. In the introduction of the book, she writes, i often felt i had to be careful in public like i was up on a wire without a net. Now im letting my guard down, she writes. Its scheduled to come out on 1e79 september 12th. More than 300 businesses will be celebrated to be t ed t. They have all beened by the editors or readers as the best of the main line. Included in that list, best coffee shop. When we asked why the readers chose his shop, they offer a different kind of experience. And our own Tracy Davidson is part of that list. She was named best tv news anchor by readers and best celebrity Facebook Page by the magazines editor. Shes great about social media. A string of crime happening across a jersey shore town. What you need to know so you dont become a a victim. The eagles are warming pup. First day with all of the veter veterans. The entire. Team, coming up. Were going to hear from doug and carson skbents how they have grown together and helping each other out. Hoping the birds will get to the playoffs. Stay tuned for that. Then the Opioid Crisis and you. How the drug epidemic may impact your health care. From Fertility Services to prenatal education, weve helped the two of you get this far. And were proud to now join all three of you, as you continue the greatest journey youll ever embark on. Aetna. You dont join us, we join you. Back to our weather. Were tracking showers moving into the region that may impact your weekend plans. Checking out the view over the Philadelphia Museum of art. Cloudy skies as the rain starts to move in. Storms will be severe through part of the weekend. Looking at the flooding here, this is in parts of missouri. The same system that dumped 7 inches of rain here is headed our way. Cars stalled. Others were just washed away. Glenn hurricane schwartz is here. We showed you a fair amount of rain and thats just the beginning. This storm is going to be developing along the coast. So theres going to be a lot more associated with it by the time it gets here. The other problem is its been so wet during the month of july that the rivers and creeks and grounds just cant handle that much more. Thats why we issued the first a alert. We did this yesterday to try to give you as much notice as possible. The biggest threat in delaware and south jersey, 3 00 p. M. Friday to 3 00 p. M. Saturday. The heavy rain causing flooding. The creeks and rivers may get involved too. The highest impact in delaware and south jersey. This could be a high impact event with the flash flooding likely in parts of the area. Philadelphia and the suburbs, we have a moderate to high threat of flash flooding would be the main consideration. Not much on the radar close by. You see some isolated showers. More activity in West Virginia and ohio. And again, thats just the beginning of the system getting developed. Well talk more where its going produce the heaviest rain and when, coming up. You can stay up to date when Severe Weather hits your neighborhood. Download the nbc 10 app and you can get alerts sent directly to your phone. Tonight from the suburbs to the city. 60,000 people died from overdoses last year. Thats like losing the population of lower marion. The epidemic is a Public Hea