In front of this many people if i hold on to it. Reporter within seconds, the Good Samaritans advance on the thief boxing poses are struck and christa makes one more admitted risky move. This was another thing i probably shouldnt have done but sense every pride. I kind of got in the guys attackers face where they were and there they told me to back off. Reporter standoff ends quickly and would be thief takes off for the record heres what he looks like. Take a good long look. Police say fighting back against an tack kerr can be a dicey mo move. We would tell people that your life or your physical safety is not worth any possession but tame its a personal decision. You have to decide for yourself. A. How valuable your valuables are. We dont know what was in that purse. Just the normal phone, wallet, keys, but, you know,. Its yours. Its mine. Reporter in all the hubbub she never really got the chance to thank the strangers who stood up for her. I dont know what would have happened if they didnt do that. They didnt have to jump in like that and its really showed a lot of character. Reporter goes without saying if that guy looks familiar to you, the bad guy, call philadelphia police. Christa says this incident has her rethinking some of her usual practices. Shes a little tighter with her purse these days. But she says sherr she she ririo let this incident take over her life that. Would mean the bad guy won. Shes not about to let that happen. Lucy. Absolutely not. Bruce, thank you much. Developing now in bucks county prosecutors charged a former youth football coach with sexually assaulting three children. Police arrested shannon Sean Westmoreland at exton square mall he work as maintenance worker. He now faces various charges of rape and sexual assault. Bensalem Police Say One of his crimes dates to 2005 when he was a football coach with the bensalem ramblers athletic association. They say the victim was 15 years old at the time. But League Officials say west more land has not been a coach Witness Organization for years. Police also accused westmoreland of repeatedly sexual assaults and would two other children saying those assaults began when the children were just four and six years old. Tonight a teenaged girl is in the hospital after bullets flew in Philadelphias Kingsessing section overnight. Police say the 16yearold was sitting on the front steps at a home on the 5900 block of springfield avenue when all of a sudden someone shot her three times. She was with group of friends but shes the only one hurt recent mains in the hospital stable tonight. No arrests yet. One person dead after a crash in philadelphia. It happened around 12 30 this morning near intersection of roosevelt boulevard and wyoming avenue. Police say two cars hit 35yearold err roll, as he walked off the curb noon road. Catching was taken to a hospital where he died. Both drivers did stay on the scene. 66yearold man has broken ribs an concussion tonight. Police want to find the guy who did it to him. Check out this Surveillance Video from the 4100 block of decatur street in philadelphias holmesburg section. Police say a man followed the victim into a garage back on june 15th or just noire lesion this video though hoping that this jogs somebodys memory of the victim doesnt remember what happened next. Surveillance video shows him leaving the garage 20 minutes later where he called 911. The guy got away with his credit cards, cash and phone. Ugly messages of hate directed right at police in south philly. Image depicting a communist symbol to the left along with terrible anti police messages. Crews have spent the day cleaning up that mess as police try to figure out who is behind that vandalism. Our jeff cole is south philly following all of this tonight. Jeff . Reporter lucy, Early Morning spray paint and run job the message left behind as you said ugly and hate filled. Enough actual toll bring a charge of making terroristic threats. Know what was so angry by the angry messages of hate many she took us on a tour where it had been scrolled. Why would somebody write these things here . I suspect im not from this area. Those people come in. This is a good area. Reporter city crews were at the corner of bouvier and West Passyunk this morning to wash the offending graffiti away but these cell phone images show an anti cop message, kill a cop, safe life, with whats thought to be a hammer and sickle symbol of communism nearby. The vandals used a stencil left behind to hit walls and doors and sidewalks. Around 5 30 this morning, neighbors on the 21 hun dead block of south bouvier street and also along the 1700 block of passyunk woke up to find some disturbing things on their properties and on the pavement. Reporter residents of this south philly community with an old world feel gathered to talk and watch police work the block searching for security video and clues. Saying or what they doing. Reporter many of the cameras in the neighborhood are but not at kjs auto sales police piled into the small sales office and left with video equipment. What have the police done . Took our unit so they can take it back to their lab or Technology Room and extract the information they need. Reporter symbols of anarchy and unrest appeared recently in the city. South detectives are workin wore case but the departments Homeland Security investigators are here as well focused on the anti police message. Residents seemed divided how serious a threat this is. But theres no debate on the message. Its repulsive. Telling me its a anarchy, young kids, i dont know. This is the first time we have had anything like this. Kids, you know, youll get kids that will sign their name once while. For somebody to go through all of this detail. Reporter obviously the video from the sales yard is really going to be important to this investigation. I just went over there and checked. The police have not been back with the equipment they dont know if theyve been able to get the images off of the security video. Well have more at 6 00. Live in south philly, im jeff cole, fox 29 news. Iain . Jeff, thank you. Funeral arrangements have been set for the two teens who drowned off the coast of Atlantic City. 1584 old ramon b. Quinn the second died last week after trying to save his friend 16yearold collie ya hand from a rip current near Martin Luther king boulevard. Authorities found the body of the second last monday. Three days later quinns body was found. Quinn could have been 16 years old tomorrow thats the day family and loved ones will gather for visitation at micha michaels funeral parlor in Atlantic City at 2 00. Hell be laid to rest on saturday in pleasantville. Visitation for hand set for tomorrow morning at 10 00. Followed by Memorial Service at Second Baptist Church in Atlantic City. Now on to your fox 29 Weather Authority. Taking live look outside at cape may. Pretty Beautiful Day out there today. It is nice. Not too humid. Not too hot. How long is it going to last . Thats always the question. Meteorologist Scott Williams has a check on your forecast. Hi there iain and lucy. Today certainly a perfect ten, but temperatures theyll crank up as we move toward tomorrow and the upcoming Holiday Weekend. But look at the hold High Temperature so far today on this wednesday. 80 Atlantic City. 79 philadelphia. Wilmington along with reading and trenton. 78 in allentown. Look at the average high for this time of year. We should be right around 86 degrees. A lot of sunshine out there. Certainly folks enjoying this wednesday. Down the shore thats the place to be. Low risk for rip currents today. But by tomorrow, we could go into that moderate category. 79 degrees right now and look at that humidity. Low at 31 . 78 in allentown right now. We have 78 in millville. Temperatures down the shore right now pretty comfortable. Low 70s ocean city. The boardwalk in Atlantic City 72 degrees. So for tonight, still comfortable. Upper 50s allentown. Along with pottstown. Low 60s in philadelphia. 64 degrees in wildwood. So calling it an evening delight. But well warm up by your thursday and it looks like a hot Holiday Weekend. Well talk about those temperatures and also the threat for a couple of pop up thunderstorms as well. Back over to you. All right. Lot to talk about thank you scott. Commuter nightmare this morning on i95 in delaware after a tractor trailer crashed. Look at that. It happened right around 1 00 a. M. South of the i495 split in new castle. Both northbound lanes stayed closed until almost 8 00 a. M. While investigators did their thing. The driver is not seriously hurt. We dont know what went wrong as of yet. A philadelphia i couldnt is speaking out about his sons battle with heroin. Tony luke, jr. Was on good day philadelphia this morning and had an Important Message for families dealing with addiction. You just get tired of fighting. You feel like youre letting everyone down. But you cant control it. You cant. And these people have a name and they have a voice and im tired of hiding that. I wont hide it. And i ask people, dont hide it. Yell that persons name as loud. Do not be ashamed. Theres nothing to be ashamed of. Let the world know that these are people and they need help. They dont need to be judged because believe me, people with an addiction judge themselves every single day. They dont need to be judged by other people that dont know them. They need to be loved. They need to be fixed. They need to be taken care of. They need to be treated. Powerful. Were going to eight full interview with tony luke unedited in its entirety in just a few minutes. Over 200 million in rebates coming to some pennsylvania residents. What you need to know to see if youre eligible for chunk of the cash. Controversial monument destroyed. Less than day after going on display. Who police say is responsible. A new face in the fight against crime. Why this furry little guy is becoming a fixture during court trials. Newest Family Member of the philadelphia zoo still needs a name. The unique process being used to name this baby gorilla. Protip for making ribs dont go it alone. Get these great smoked ribs. Thanks. Sure. Twenty minutes on the grill. And theyre done. You think he cares if i smoke ribs for six hours . What . What . Summer made easy at amazing prices. Only at giant. It isnt just about vision, its about care. Nobody cares for eyes more than pearle. The battle over the gop backed Health Care Reform bill rages on. Donald trump and Republican Leadership trying to push it through the senate. Foxs joel old man has more. Reporter President Trump the man who wrote the art of the deal with somewhat cautious prediction about the future of the gop backed plan to repeal and replace obama care. I think were going to get at least very close and evening were going to get it over the line. Weve given ourselves a little bit more time to make it perfect. Reporter Republican Leadership now asking for a reworked Gop Health Care bill by this friday after a pre fourth of july vote was postponed because of intra party descension over the controversial new measure. I think the longer that this drags out, the harder it becomes. There comes a point youve got to make some decisions and youve got to move forward. Reporter votes postpone many coming after a growing number of republican senators expressed opposition to the bill in its current form with 52 seat majority the gop can only afford to lose two votes. But despite issues within his own party, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell taking aim at democrats. Its unfortunate that our democratic colleagues refuse to work with us in serious way to address obama cares failures. Reporter democrats united in their belief the gop backed bill helps a rich while hurting the poor. As protesters again voiced their diss couldnt at the present time. Lets abandon cuts to medicaid and discuss what the American People are really concerned about. Premiums, deductibles, the costs and quality of health care. Reporter when asked about medicaid cuts in the gop plan, President Trump responded, this will be great for everybody. In washington, joel waldman, fox news. Live look at the new jersey state house in trenton. Lawmakers and governor Chris Christie are up against a clock to pass a new budget. The deadline is july 1st. Christies republican democrats control the state legislature. If they do not negotiate a deal before july 1st, new jerseys State Government could shut down. Which would mean state parks and beaches would close and Lottery Ticket sales would stop, however, casinos would remain open. And prisons, police and Child Protection services would still operate. Now, in the keystone state, a Top Republican state senator says its looking less and less likely that pennsylvania will have a budget of its own at the start of the new fiscal year. So far this is kind of the opposite of what goes on over in jersey, right . Republicans control the legislature and theyre saying the only agreement they can come to with democratic Governor Tom Wolf is a spending figure. So theyre okay with 31. 9 billion thats a step. Big step. The question is, where do you fine the money . How do you divvy it up lawmakers are grappling with the states biggest cash shortfall since the recession. Almost half a million pennsylvanians could be seeing some checks in the male. State department of revenue announced today more than 438,000 older homeowners renters and people with dissables will be issued tax rebates that will total more than 207 million. Those checks will be mailed out beginning july 3rd. Owners of Pennsylvania Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant have formally notified regulators they intend to shut it down. Excelon corp. Sent a letter to the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission Last week saying the plant will close septembe september 30th of 2019 because of severe economic challenges. Three mile island of course the site of the countrys worse Nuclear Power accident. It had a partial melt down at one its reactors in 1979. Animals in pennsylvania are now better protected from abuse thanks to in part new law that aims to prevent cruelty in the commonwealth. [ applause ] its huge big deal. Both Governor Tom Wolf and that little doggie right there you know libra senator richard al away sign the animal abuse statute overall into law today. Among the provisions of the sweeping new law intentionally inflicting extreme pain on an animal will now get i was felo felony. Get convict evidence felony animal abuse you can get your animal back. You can no longer tether your dog outside 24 7 and veterinarians and Humane Police officers will have protection from frivolous lawsuits. No one should be allowed to get away with cruel animal treatment. No one should be allowed to get away with the neglect of animals and now thanks to this statute they wont be able to get away it. [ applause ] again, its a big deal. Yes, it is. The law now known as act ten of 2017 takes effect in 60 days. The comprehensive Bipartisan Legislation actually now puts teeth in pennsylvanias Animal Protection laws. Big day in harrisburg. Amtrak service between washington, d. C. And Philadelphia Running again following a deadly accident. Amtrak says a train traveling from boston was approaching d. C. Union station last night when it hit two Railroad Workers on the track. Those workers were csx employees checking out problem on their trains wheels. No one on the amtrak train was injured. Service is suspended until 9 00 this morning. The National Transportation safety board is investigating. Now to arkansas, where a newly installed Ten Commandments monument is no more. Police say a man destroyed it less than day after it was put up at the state capitol. It turns out its not the first time this guy is accused of destroying a monument. Foxs willie james inn man reports. Reporter controversial monument is destroyed less than a day after it went on display. 6foot tall stone structure featuring the Ten Commandments was installed tuesday on the Arkansas State capitol grounds. But early wednesday it looked like this. With the 6,000pound monument laying in peaces on the ground after someone drove into it. You dont expect in america and should be expect that people are going to come and damage your property. Reporter authorities arresting michael tate read in connection with the incident. Facebook account belonging to a michael reid posted a live video of the destruction. Oklahoma Sheriffs Office says the 32yearold also crashed into Ten Commandments monument in that