. >> nbc 10 investigators profiled problems facing lni, licenses and inspections. call for the resignation leading that agency. department of licenses and inspections has come under fire since the deadly building collapse in 2013. today the controller called on a new mayor. the city controller is just look for attention. >> captain of the ship. his john to find a way to get done especially with notice over two years heeps interested in making it appear things look better. >> narcissistic personality disorder seems to compel the need for constant public attention. >> city controller lni, almost 2,000 inspects. >> a student murdered in her home. the boyfriend is charged with that crime. police arifted brandon meade for the murder of agatha hall. the ml char medical examiner say it's impossible she shot herself. >>> list are looking for the robber who stole her purse outside an elementary school this morning. >> it happened during an attempted sexual assault. officials did not delay the start of school but did call parents. detectives are reviewing surveillance video

>> reporter: jim, lni has confirmed there was an expired electrical permit for the construction site address, but it's not clear how exactly the fire started, even as this entire block of chancellor is now fenced off and many nearby residents are still being kept out of their homes. amateur video captured the hungry flames around 4:00 this morning as they consumed this restaurant construction site in the middle of center city. it was some eight hours later before we finally saw neighbors allowed back inside to grab essentials and we got a look at the charred destruction left behind. >> down at the ground was just, you know, a big camp fire it looked like. >> reporter: alex first saw the fire from his neighboring apartment high above, but fire commissioner says it took 100 firefighters more than an hour to get the blaze under control and for much of the day more than 100 residents were out of their homes. >> it sounded like a lot of popping. almost looked like i don't want to say explosion, but little explosions kind of. >> reporter: we saw atf investigators working with the philadelp

today, he released a report on the latest investigation into lni. lapsed monitoring of overtime, uncertified inspectors and issues with dangerous and unsafe properties not being addressed. the nbc 10 investigators first told you about properties that remain standing for years, even after lni declared them dangerous. those buildings need to come down and recommend mayor nutter remove williams. the mayor says that's not going to happen. >> he's the captain of the ship. it's his job to find a way to get it done, especially when he's had notice over two years. instead of getting it done, he's been interested in making it appear things are better but review and resisting and rejecting efforts to improve it. >> we're not going to get distracted by that nonsense or ego or narcissistic personality disorder that seems to compel need for constant public attention. >> williams will not resign as commissioner. >>> back in session for the first time in two months, pennsylvania senate is back in harrisburg to try to work on ending the budget stalemate. pennsylvan

teams from lni are on the scene of a building collapse in philadelphia, it happened in the area of seventh and columbian, you can see the sidewalk below is covered in bricks, nobody was hurt. >>> three armed men ransacked a family's frankford home and tied up one of the homeowners, the robbers woke up a man in the home by putting two guns to his head, the man's wife who only gave her first name of alice spoke to "action news" and showed us what happened inside of the home, she was inside with her grandson at the time. >> i was in the bed and heard commotion and did not get out of my room, and told my grandson stay under the covers. >> the thieves made off with $200 in cash, a flat screen tv video gaming systems a laptop and car keys. >> now a private meeting with pope francis and the kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. for the first time she is talking about how it happened. we are live now in new york with more details. >> reporter: well sara, so far the vatican is not answering questions about this meeting but according to kim davis, they met for ab

but there is a lni more to come. just remember not to drive your car through a flooded rotd. we see it a lot and it is very, very ngerous. more rain is coming. right now we're seeing a bit of a break, and the storms left over now will be isolated, just a few here and there. there will be more coming in later tonight. then there's a break during the morning commute. looks like more storms will develop around midday, and they will continue into tomorrow evening. as of now, we're talking anywhere from 1 to 2 inches of rain, but i wouldn't be surprised to see 2 to 3 inches of rain by tomorrow afternoon with more street and highway flooding scattered around the tristate area. the deficits we're seeing across the area since the beginning of the year range from 4 to 9 inches, lack of rainfall, below average rainfall. we are going to see a dent in this with rain coming, but it's not going to end the drought just yet. today we had 90 in central park, one more day to add to our heatwave. right now, though, the temperatures have cooled down due to clouds and the showers th came through

reporter: mayor nutter says williams is staying put and the controller on a personal crew side against the lni head. >> we're not going to get distracted about that narciss t narcissistic personal disorder that seems to compel the need for constant public attention. >> reporter: steve doesn't care who's in charge he wants dangerous buildings on gone. >> you get trash, rode ens and it affects neighbors. >> williams tells us he will not resign. nbc 10 has been track the number of vacant properties in philadelphia. when we reached out earlier this year, there was ait to total of 25,000. since then, overall-number has gone down to 16,000 but the number of unsafe or dangerous properties, look at that number, went up to more than 5,000. >> right now at 5:00, new details how the pope's visit will affect people in philadelphia, suburbs and new jersey. we begin in south jersey. it got easier to see the pope. what officials announced today at the gathering in camden. 8500 parking spaces available on the water front for the visit. that will put people closer to the ben franklin bridge and river link ferr

services, city streets department, and the sanitation division in particular, parks and recreation, lnithe health department and the commerce department, their response in setting up the business resource center and so many, many more. all of our public employees deserve huge thanks from the citizens and certainly all of the participants. i received a number of very, very, very positive comments from any number of people that i ran into. folks from here within the united states and also many of our foreign visitors talking about the support that they received from city employees, and we thank them. i know that certainly leading up to and probably over the course of the weekend there were legitimate concerns about any number of aspects of this event, but i and we certainly had faith that this event would be successful because of our public employees and our public safety partners both here and in the surrounding counties but also because of the spirit of the citizens of this great city. our public employees are the best in the nation at what they do. our citizens have a hometown pride. i

. >> let's get right to mall lni l henderson. >> he's about 23% in these new polls tied with trump thereot of the newcomers doing really well. if you look at carson there, he's up from 8% from july. fiorina is up from 3% in july, now at 10%. another poll from the des moines register and bloomberg also shows the same thing. trump there at 23%. carson at 18%. basically neck and neck there within the margin of error. people like huckabee not doing so well. he's at 4%. if you look overall at these numbers dating back to january, what you see really is this trend with these outsider, antiestablishment, nonpolitical figures doing really, really well. and one of the reasons is that folks in iowa, these likely caucus goers, when you ask them what they want their next president to be like, 23% say they want someone with government experience. 66% say they would prefer the next president not have any government experience. and that's why you've got people like that pediatric neurosurgeon named ben carson and that reality tycoon named donald trump doing so well. >> thank you so much. >>> while many