tossed at this statue today. and there are calls for its removal. some say it should stay in place. arrested at the base of the statue of former commissioner and mayor frank rizzo, the egg toss is a criminal act m cos after a councilwoman calls for the removal of the statue. >> frank rizzo has a clear history. he ran on a vote white campaign. >> reporter: but for those who worked with him and knew him, the statue has to stay. >> i'm sad to see history rewritten. >> reporter: rizzo was credited with having more african-american officers on the police force in the late 190s than any other city in the u.s. but rizzo was also seen as targeting black neighborhoods to combat crime. >> if you were a bad guy, it didn't matter if you were black or white. >> reporter: rizzo's raid of the black panthers office in 1970 has been widely criticized.

the day before that raid, thomas gibbons was shot in a trsk stop. rizzo responded to the scene. >> how is she to suddenly be the spokeswoman to take away the statue. >> jim kenny says the decision to place the statue was done by the public and the rule process should be in the same way. >> i wasn't a fan of the statue, but it doesn't mean i can unilaterally tear it down. that's not a good precedent set. >> reporter: not only to stand watch, but because of a march that is plan ned for this evening, organizers tell us that march is much bigger than just this statue. they say it is calling attention to the issues facing a large chunk of the population here in philadelphia and what can be done to serve them better. that's the very latest, deanna

durante, nbc 10 news. frank rizzo became police commissioner in 196. his legacy includes pushing back against black panthers. he served as a two-term mayor from 1972 to 1980. we break down u both sides of the debate over the statue roigt now on the nbc 10. bowing to the pressure. president trump ends two of his councils ceo after ceo drops out. >> they were leaving out of embarrassment. >> fallout of the president doubling down blame iing two si for the deadly violence in charlottesville. >> there's blame on both sides and i have no doubt a about it. you don't have any doubt either. >> when a ceo from our area dropped out of the president's council this afternoon. , it seemed to be the last

straw. >> rather than putting pressure on the business people of the council and strategy and policy forum, i'm ending both. they see no problem with the way the president responded to the charlottesville violence. >> lauren mayk spoke with them today. they are not abandoning ship. >> criticism to president trump's comments came quickly and public, but we wanted to know how his supporters are feeling. people here in our area who voted for him, worked to get him elected. those it i spoke to today liked what he had to say. we first met daphne during the campaign working to get donald trump. >> all we care about is this man is try iing to do promises. .

>> he tells the truth. once again, it's the reason why we voted for him. >> you like what you heard him say. >> they are attracting criticism from democrats and republicans. >> i don't understand why they are in this country. there's vie leps on both sides. and real organized a rally this summer supporting the president and aiming to send a message. >> the rally was to show the african-american community and donald trump supporters respect what they made out to be. >> reporter: president trump does have ab ability to connect

with his supporters and we watched clips from his press conference today. the woman that you saw got to agree and tell me, yeah, i just posted something about that very thing. i'm lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. >> more than a thousand people packed a schaar the losville theater today to honor the women killed at this weekend's protests. >> they tried to kill my child to shutter up. guess what. you just magnified her. >> reporter: that was the mother of the woman from charlottesville who was protesting while nationalists. a car crashed into her group and killed her. an hohmann is charged with second-degree murder. white supremacists were shouting nazi slogans and carrying torches when the violence broke out. it started as a demonstration against the removal of a statue

of confederate leader robert e. lee. here at home new demonstrations aimed to e denounce hate and bigotry. a religious group lined the lobbyist city hall to speak out against what they call domestic terrorism. the group said they will not look back to the, quote, old days when bigotry were tolerated, encouraged and excessive. >> in the lehigh valley, a petition is growing to take away a degree. they were asked to rescind the degree. the petition kroits the response among other things. pennsylvania lawmakers are consideration a move to cob dem white supremacists. a state senator introduced a resolution to do just that and wants all senators to co-sign it. stay tuned for "nbc nightly news" with lester holt right after this newscast. they are track iing the fallout

over the president's response to charlottesville, that's coming u right at 6:30. >> turning to your first alert weather and return to summer all around the region. heat and humidity are back today. beach goers flocking. kids getting sweaty at the park. swimmers enjoying the water in north philadelphia and northern liberties. the slides are popular at camel beach. a live look right now at the si river that's moving right along. in delaware people are sweating it out in wilmington tonight. a live look at that game, which started about an hour ago. and it's a sweat while you skate kind of night. a live look the at the rink on penns landing. >> how long will this heat and humidity stay with us? for that let's go to meteorologist grand stralenn "h schwartz. >> i'd say for the next week or so, it's going to be fair ly ho

overall. we're going to have several chances of getting to 90 degrees. >> it's 87 in philadelphia. it's 89 in atlantic city. marina at 89. we have a land breeze for much of the day. look at that ocean. 8 degrees. and those clouds continue to be fading away. that's not going to be the story as we head toward the end of the week. when the rain comes in a few minutes. new at 6:00, this new video of lifeguards rescuing a young girl. the 9-year-old was pulled out of the beach. you see her right out there after two lifeguards got to her.

she fought through fear and did her best to try to stay calm. >> i was nervous, but then when the lifeguard came out, i felt more. >> there you hear that crowd cheering after they watched today's rescue play out. a toppled tractor-trailer is making for a slow commute tonight. sky force 10 was over route 55 in harrison township. no one was seriously hurt here, but at last check, only the shoulder was still getting by in the southbound lanes. >> prosecutors say jealousy may have motivated a south jersey husband to allegedly kill his wife and leave her body in the backyard pool. norman long appeared in court for the first time since he was arrested two weeks ago. he was accused offing his wife to death inside their home in june. michelle long was serurfing the

internet for a house moments before her death. long is being held with no bail until his trial. four robbery suspects are in custody after a chase that ended in this crash in delaware. they were want ed off, police went right after them following them on busy route 13. the chase ended when the car crashed in wilmington. all four men ran from the scene, but officers eventually caught up with them. up next new at 6:00, a jogger sexually assaulted now fellow runners wants justice. their message, tonight. and later improvements needed. carson wentz telling us what he needs to see during tomorrow's eagles and bills game.

your official eagles station is counting down to the first home game of the season. the eagles play the bills tomorrow night only here on nbc 10. we'll tell you why carson wentz says he needs to be closer to perfect, that's coming up in it sports. first new at 6:00, runners fighting back. a solidarity run begins in minutes to support a jogger who

was sexual ly assaulted. shefs running at norristown park. that's where denise nakano is joining us live. runners want to just stop the violence. >> reporter: and take a look at the crowd behind me. they are here to stop the violence. they'll be here to support victims of all crimes. this event came about because of the ago tack on the jogger and they are here to reclaim the park. a solidarity run to support crime victims just minutes from stepping off. >> i hope we can come together and rally as a community today. >> reporter: the event comes a little more than two weeks after a 19-year-old jogger was attacked at gunpoint at norristown park. the place runners, walkers and community members have gathered to take a stand against violence and stand up for victims of all crimes. >> the fact that it was a stranger, a random act of violence is very disheartening and scary and uncomfortable. >> reporter: police are still looking for the man who sexual assaulted the jogger earlier

this month. sky force 10 over the scene where detectives scoured the for evidence. >> i am concerned about her, just what she went through. >> reporter: kim farmer no longer walks alone after the attack on a young jogger. she brings her 16-year-old son with her. solidarity run organizers have teamed up with victim services center of montgomery county, which offers services to crime victims and families. they utilize this park for events and believe there's no better time to take a stand than now. >> what's important for society and our community to know is that we need to believe and support survivors. many don't feel like they can come forward and talk about this and get the services that they deserve. >> there's about 100 walkers and joggers out here so far. the event begins in 15 minutes and lasts thl 7:30.

police are looking for the attacker and there's a reward for information in the case. live in norristown, denise nakano, nbc 10 news. turning now to our first alert weather. hello, summer. heat and humidity are back after a stretch of cooler days. you're looking live at boat house row. and in center city, soak it in while you can before the season changes. no complaints at all at the beach. a live look at cape may. it's in the low 80s there today. let's get to glenn "hurricane" schwartz with a closer look. >> we'll have another day tomorrow much like today except for the dense fog in the morning. we're going to see a whole lot of that. we have dry weather, it's been dry all day. all across the area for the most part, the sunniest award goes to the lehigh valley. we're at 84 degrees right now.

the airport is at 8. all at 87 kbres. only 80 degrees right now. some clouds coming down blocking the sun a little bit in chestnut hill. no showers associated with that. those clouds are breaking up, as you can right there. going back to the west, there's some moisture building up. west virginia, kentucky, some of that it headed in this direction. that gives us kind of a dilemma for it the eagles game tomorrow. because we are going to be dry in the morning and early amp, but there is moisture that's going to be advancing. it's going to be warm. it's going to be humid. and there is a chance of a couple showers in the area as the game starts. but the better chance of rain is at the end of the game. maybe on your way home, as you

can see on this map. and then on friday, it gets even wetter. look at that. showers and thunderstorms and potentially more than an inch of rain in parts of the area. it doesn't clear out until saturday morning. that's good timing. sets us up for a pretty good weekend. overall with the eagles game, it's on a partly cloudy side. it's warm and kind of humid for football. just a chance of the thunderstorms. are there chances for thunderstorms flocking us for the solar eclipse? i don't think so. i think we're in pretty good shape. 86 degrees, mostly sunny. . remember the max eclipse is about a quarter to 3:00. temperature might drop a couple degrees as that happen weekend, the rainy day, the stormy day. and the unbelievably humid day.

so feel like florida. then onur increasing sunshine. it gets up near 90 both diedays over the weekend and even at the jersey shore we have temperatures in the 80s. we're talking about a land breeze. it could be some showers at the shore first thing on surday morning. but otherwise, that's pretty good looking weekend here. now the. tropics are pretty active. we have a hurricaneincreasing in the atlantic. that's gert. then you have three system out in the atlantic getting to the peak of hurricane season i and at least a couple of those are likely to develop as we go into the next couple of weeks. >> this week nbc 10 is clearing the shelters. you're looking live at our kid day cam here. there's some workers at the shelter as well as some cats up for adoption. hanging out until they find

their forever families. shelter fees for cats and dogs this saturday. use the nbc 10. app to find the shelter near and see which breed best matches your family. coming up, eagles players can't wait to play in front of fans. we'll hear from them. phillies avoid trying to get swept in san diego. that's next.

i'm john clark. eagles fans are look forward to seeing the debut of alshon

jeffrey tomorrow night. first e preseason game at home. and you would think that carson wentz was perfect in the first game in green bay last thursday. he was 4 for 4 with a perfect quarterback rating. but carson says he wasn't perfect. there's things to work on. what do you want to e see in game two? >> there's some sloppy plays. there's some sloppy things we have to clean up. and the biggest thing i have been preaching is consistency myself and as a team. we can't have negative plays and then a a big lay. we have to stay ahead of the change and just be sharp with a little thing. >> the newest eagle cornerback ronald darby should make his day tomorrow night. he was thrown in as a starting quarterback. he hopes to make a good first impression against a team that traded him to the eagles. >> i still got a lot more to learn. each day i'm learning more and from the save safeties.

they are helping me. >> nbc 10 is your home for tomorrow ie tomorrow's game and every game this preseason. joining us tomorrow night at 6:00 for our one 46 hour pregame special. we'll sit down with torrey smith, then the game at 7:00. if you want to e see the nbc prime time line up tomorrow night, that will be on cozy. the phillies get swept in san diego this afternoon. yes, they lose again.strikeouts most by a rookie but they sent him back to aaa after the game. ball four, mie yers says, i'm going to steal third. next batter the runner at first breaks towards second. so the catcher throws to second and mie yers says i'm stealing

home. he steals all three bases to score. that's only happened in basebal years. phillies lose to the pee dee raies. i'm john clark. we're right back after this.

a live look at the ben lin parkway. a a warm night out there tonight. that's going to continue. >> tomorrow is going to be just about as warm as today. we have 89. tomorrow close to that. the humidity is still pretty high tomorrow. then it really gets hot on friday. even though the temperature may be a little bitter because of all the rain and thunderstorms. it's going to feel like florida humidity then. that set us up for a nice weekend, but it's hot all the way through the middle of next week. hotter than normal. we also were maybe having good timing with the eclipse on monday coming before the next round of storms moves this. because overall, still a wet pattern. >> no clouds on monday.

thank you for watching. up next is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. we'll see you back here tonight at 11:00. tonight, the growing backlash. new fallout after president trump equally blamed both white nationalists and anti-racist protesters for the violence in charlottesville. his business councils disbanding as ceos flee in a mass exodus. more republicans renouncing his message. more confederate statues pulled down. plus new reaction across the country, and our tom brokaw weighs in on it all. also paying tribute to the victim killed in that virginia violation. her mother's powerful call to action. military crash. an army chopper goes down off hawaii. the urgent search for survivors. toxic plane danger. raising concerns about what you're breathing when you fly. and honoring the king 40 years since we lost a legend.