Tweets boy the nfl and one suggesting puerto ricos debt contributed to the situation here. Of the unfortunately what weve seen over the white house from the weekend a distraction to nonsensical issues. To the president again, if you dont take this crisis seriously this is going to be your katrina. Reporter onetwo punch of hur mains irma and maria devastator the island home to more than thee million america americans. Basic necessities like food and water are hard to come by and most of the island is still without power. There arent enough generator oars diesel fuel to run them. We have no electricity. We have no water. We have people without roofs and we have people without houses. Reporter military planes are bringing in supplies but you can see there are still long lines all across san juan for some of the basic necessities of life, food, water and gas. It will still be days before that help can reach some parts of the country. In san juan, im garrett tenney, fox news. Many families here in our area have relatives in puerto rico some still have not heard from them. Others in the community with no connect to the island are coming tow to give what they can to help those left with nothing. Fox 29s joyce evans live now in camden. Joyce . Reporter well, iain and lucy, they are supposed to be done here at the Response Center here in cam, but they are still at it accepting water so theyre going to wait until they get as many and they got to secure them for the night. Were talking about community to work hard every day to make ends meet. But theyre more more blessed than folks back on their home island. Thank you. Reporter they started stacking up early case after case after more cases outside camdens small nonprofit respond daycare and Child Service center on bank street. Im just trying to do what little i can to help. Our goal to donate a thousand to 1500 cases. Reporter a forklift rolling in a pallet of water donated by cousins market. [ applause ] thank you. Youre welcome. Thank you so much. Youre welcome. Reporter one of several local businesses who stepped up along with neighbors even passing strangers. It doesnt matter what race, it doesnt matter where youre from, i think in time the need we shall always always stick together. Reporter monica rail months only the on resident who has family scattered all over the battered carribbean. Family nobody has heard from. Some for weeks now. This waiting is horrible, you know, i cry every night because i know i havent i havent heard from my family yet. Its like what do you do . Reporter peaches warners mom was hurt bad whole Hurricane Irma barreled over st. Thomas she was evacuated to puerto rico. Then came maria. Shes in the hospital with amputee because of the storm in st. Thomas so shes stuck in puerto rico. Reporter non home to go back to. Its hard. I mean, scary. Um, all we can do is just pray. For the people in need. For the people in need. Reporter theyre doing all they can. God bless puerto rico reporter okay. So while theyre still accepting water here at respond, theyve already gotten well over 400 cases. Now thats almost halfway to if they want to give a thousand and theyre almost there even still. Theyve got another two days to go. Theyll be accepting until friday and then a red cross truck is going to come and pick all of this up and make sure it gets to puerto rico. Lucy . That is a wonderful evident right there. Joyce evans thank you so much. Your fox 29 Weather Authority right now. Live look at wildwood. Maria the storm that weve been talking about the storm thats been so catastrophic to puerto rico is now a Tropical Storm still raging in the atlantic and whipping up dangerous conditions down the shore. Meteorologist kathy orr joins us now. Kathy, rip currents are still a big concern, right . Very big concern, iain especially today, tomorrow and into the end of the week. Were talking about our Tropical Storm still far offshore but still impacting us as well with swells coming out of the southeast and you can see it proper cal storm maria 70 miles an hour winds moving north at 7 miles an hour. Its only 160 miles southeast of Cape HatterasNorth Carolina it will continue that northerly track through tomorrow afternoon and then really accelerate toward the east and lose its tropical characteristics. But as we talked about still having an impact on the shore and our delaware beaches. Sea surface temperatures warm in the 70s. We have an on shore flow thats why. That on shore flow courtesy maria as well but that rip current risk will be high as well. So everyone is advising just dont go into the water. It has been very dangerous year at the jersey beaches for rip currents. And for rip current deaths these statistics kept by the National Weather service as of 1998 to the present time, there havent been more than this year, eight fatality this year the greatest number in one year followed by 2,086 fatalities we don want any more problems in the water. Guys the best news even though its going to be warm tomorrow, just stay safe and stay out. All right, kathy, thanks. Look out for that. Apprecate it. A car goes up into flames in bucks county and police say the man you see in this video is responsible for all of it. The guy was on a mission. Police say it took him several tries in fact. Fox 29s jeff cole live in bensalem. Jeff, police are worried he could strike again. Reporter yeah, lucy these are amazing pictures. Look arsonist is this bold theres always concern he simply likes flames and that will set that fire again and when you look at this video police have a right to ask, will this person strike again . The fire bug new there would be cameras rolling and flames rising. He came with his face covered and his eyes protected to set a 96 ford mustang a blaze. The unlucky owner works for this man. What did you think when you saw that video. I was surprised, very shocked that they did that. It doesnt make sense. Why would somebody would do it. Beyond me. You have elderly People Living upstairs. Reporter it was wednesday in the Early Morning when the arsonist is caught on the security camera. He tried three times to ignite the car. He throws a brick to break a window. He stuffs a rag in the gas tank and finally do you says the soft top with gas and lights with a boat flare. The flames immediately rise. He high tails it. Thats bizarre. We dont know why. Usually any type of car fire sometimes theres insurance reasons related to newer cars, high end cars. Or it could be someone that has a grudge again the owner we don see that in that case. Reporter the ford belongs to a woman whos had a string of bad luck of late. Her insurance wont cover the damage. Theres wood in front of our building that could have ignited and once it got into the clothing part of our building it would have just ignited. Reporter police are asking to stop a guy who may just like to watch things burn. For some reason, thats his thing. Lighting fires. You saw the lengths he went to to light the car whats next a building, a house, peoples lives can be at risk. Reporter and peoples lives were at risk in this case. Elderly folks live upstairs where the fire was. Luckily no one hurt. He says it was his landlord who called him about twoly, 3 00 in the morning and told him to get over here that the car was on fire. More reporting at 6 00. Jeff cole, fox 29 news. Lucy. Check back in with you then. Thanks jeff. The search is on actually over for the man accused of shooting his exgirlfriends mother in her own home. Police found the body of 30yearold greg feldman in the parking lot of a wawa on schuylkill road in phoenixville. Montgomery county das office says feldman died of self inflicted gunshot wound. On friday he went to the home in limerick and shot 48yearold amy herman twice much shes recovering and expected to survive. Its a City Government no nonprofit in control of million of dollars and now there are calls to investigate what its doing with that money. City controller Alan Butkovitz called for the state attorney general to investigate the mayors fund for philadelphia for what he calls inappropriate use of funds in general lack of transparency. The spending in question goes back to the nutter administration. Butkovitz says the fund which exists to help the philadelphia mayor advance his goals as used that money without justification on things like uber, restaurants, bars and airfare. The controllers review also finds that many grants circumvented all the policies and procedures in place. He also commented on the funds lack of cooperation. The ongoing refusal to provide documents and assist with auditors along with the questionable activity we already identified signals that millions of dollars could potentially be susceptible to fraud and misuse. Former mayor nutters administration maintains the funds manager approved all spending and therefore it was legitimate. Mayor kenney replaced the executive director and board of directors in june with hopes to restore some accountability. Another big blow for the gop today. Hoping to repeal the Affordable Care act. Senate republicans have decided to scrap the last ditch bill to repeal and replace obamacare. They say they basically ran out of time. President trump is frustrated with republicans who did not back the latest effort. They had planned to vote on the bill this week. Some republicans are calling it a shortterm set back. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says they havent given up on changing the health care system. Reaction is mixed on capitol hill. Through events that are under our control and not under our control, we dont have the vot votes. Today americans breathe a sigh of row leave because the health care of millions has been protected and preserved. The president and Congressional Republicans are now focusing on tax reform. North korea boosting its military after they say President Trump has declared war on their country. President trump says the u. S. Prepared for military options against north korea if necessa necessary. North korea says President Trump declared war in its military has the right to shoot down american war planes operating in International Air space. While the white house says the us has not declared war, americans are now banned from traveling to north korea. Coming up, he plays a big role in the history of the city of brotherly love, and you may have never heard of him. Wel now hes getting his due. Theyve become a household name. Chip and joanna. Now theyre hit fixer upper is coming to an end. A man found this while hunting in the woods. After some research he finally figure out who lost it. More than 15 years ago. 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 triple shooting in north philly overnight has left one person dead and police on the hunt for whoever is behind it. Someone tipped off police about a person with a gun on the 700 block of green street sometime after midnight. When they arrived, they discovered three men all with gunshot wounds. Paramedics transported them to Hahnemann University hospital where one man did not make it. The two others are stable. No arrests as of yet. A monument to under appreciated philadelphia hero has risen in center city. Nineteenth century civil rights leader Octavia Cotto statue stands on the south apron of city hall. That statue is surrounded by icons representin representing m accomplishment. Bruce gordon is a kind of a history budget ff. He joins us with the store story. Reporter when you consider in this story so full of history and history makers more than 1200 statues sit on city owned land this is the very first portray an individual africanamerican leader. Nice. Long after the ceremony al unveiling was complete the cato monument was still surrounded by add mirrorrers of all ages and colors this was history. Delayed perhaps but not denied. Im glad to see this happen. Im overjoyed. Tears come to my eyes. It does kind of make you step back and think that it took us this long to get to this point um to erect a monument like this. It is the right time for this statue to be here and i thank god it is here. Reporter cato changed live in mid 19th philadelphia he was a star athlete, raised black troops to fight in the civil war, worked to desegregate the Public Transportation and let led the local effort to win Voting Rights for blacks. It was that effort that led to his assassination on election day 1871. He was just 32 years old. We are thrilled to celebrate the legacy of octavia vcatto. Late morning monument ceremony was packed with dignitaries here to see catto receive his due ton put the tribute into context. Monuments are not neutral passive or accidental. They carry great meaning. Reporter mayor jim kenney led the 15year effort to generate support and money to create the catto monument. He called out the Trump Administration while describin g catto as an inspiration for us all. As we confront a mean spirited ugly less and intolerance em emanating from our nation caps to. The monument arrives at a time when race and tributes are part of a heated national argument. Just a block away sits the frank rizzo statue at the center of the local dispute. It is hope catto monument will ignite a new conversation about diversity and puck lib activism. The word spoken by mayor kenney echoed throughout the plaza as young people gazed up at the impressive monument you. The opportunity by viewing the statue to make your own contribution to our city and our country and i know you can because i know he does and i know you will. Reporter as one speaker put it this morning, this monument is not a destination. Its a journey. The artwork contains detailed history of cattos accomplishments worth reading remembering. History is made by lots of folks. Sometimes it takes while for them to get their due. Lucy. Took a good long while but he got it. Thank you bruce. Philadelphia police would love helping a bike thief. They released Surveillance Video of a man stealing a bike from a front porch in north philly he tried to remove the lock from the porch. Security gate for few moments. Ultimately he succeeded got inside took the bike, took off. Got information, give police a call. The Delaware State Police still looking for a suspect in Home Invasion that left another suspect dead. A man tells police that he was in his home on the irish field lane sunday night larry hobbs and another guy broke in with gun. Hole owner says a fight broke out and hobbs was shot. Hobbs died at the scene but the second suspect got away. Progress in camden schools is on the rise so says newly released state test results in schools officials saw the rate of pro efficiency and math nearly triple and the rate of proficiency in english more than double. School district Officials Say they got a long way to go this increase represents a great accomplishment. We are out pacing the rest of the state in terms of growth and we are starting to slowly and steadily close that gap with the rest of our wealthier peers and thats an amazing thing. [ applause ] the test results reflect the students. Hope for finding anyone else after leaks massive earthquake in mexico is dimming but there are families who are Still Holding out hope that their loved ones will be found. Foxs Jonathan Hunt has more. Reporter a growing sense of sadness and resignation is beginning to hang over the site where families of those still listed as missin missing have bn waiting for week now since the earthquake hit. They spend their nights here. They spend their days here grieving for those whose fate they do not know upon the telegraph pole here you can see a list of those who are still said to be missing. Believed to have been in the building which we can see up here is still being sorted through the rubble cleared slowly by rescue workers up there. Eighths very dangerous task for them. It is very delicate task. They do not want to bring in heavy machinery because that could cause more of that pile of rubble to collapse and if there is anybody in there, that obviously could endanger their lives. But obviously the sent of optimism is fading quickly and the Mexican Government is now saying that this rescue operation will turn into mere al recovery operation on thursday. In mexico city, Jonathan Hunt, fox news. Coming up, a cancer warning in your coffee cup. Why one group is suing. Slew of top executives leaving exequy fax. Well tell you the big name thats out today. Bombshell allegations in the world of College Basketball. Coaches facing federal charges. Prosecutors say its all about corruption inside the ncaa. 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. Terror unfold in israel as three people were killed another seriously hurt in a shooting attack just outside jerusalem. Police say the attack happened at an israeli settlement on the west bang border. Attacker opened