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Man Attacks Coatsville Police Officer with Rock: A man was arrested after he threw a rock at a Coatesville Police officer's vehicle and then injured another officer during a caught on cam attack, according to investigators. Officer Jared Davis was on patrol and driving westbound on the 500 block of East Lincoln Highway in Coatesville in a marked police vehicle Monday at 1:50 p.m. As he was driving, Eric Watson, 29, of Coatesville, walked off the sidewalk in front of the Coatesville Library and threw a large rock at the officer’s vehicle, shattering the windshield, according to investigators. When Officer Davis exited his vehicle, Watson allegedly attacked him and tried to strike him in the head with the rock. Davis tried to arrest Watson but he resisted until other officers arrived at the scene and brought him to the ground, police said. One of the other officers who assisted Officer Davis suffered a broken sternum during the incident, according to investigators. Officer Davis was not injured however.

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Downed Wires Electrocute Jersey Woman: A woman was killed when she made contact with a live storm-downed wire while trying to get out of her car in New Jersey Monday, police say. The wire came down onto the car at Midway Avenue and Ginder Place in Fanwood as storms swept through in the late afternoon, according to Fanwood Police Chief Richard Trigo. The 26-year-old driver tried to get out through the passenger side and made contact with the downed wire and died, Trigo said. The unidentified woman was the only person in the car, Trigo said. A woman driving home with her 12-year-old daughter witnessed the electrocution. They said the rain was pouring when a tree branch snapped, taking down electrical wires. One of the cables fell on top of the victim's car in front of them.

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Melania Trump Speech Mirrors Michelle Obama Speech: Melania Trump's well-received speech Monday to the Republican National Convention contained two passages that match nearly word-for-word the speech that first lady Michelle Obama delivered in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention. The passages in question focus on lessons that Mrs. Trump, the wife of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, said she learned from her parents and the relevance of their lessons in her experience as a mother. They came near the beginning of her roughly 10-minute speech, which was otherwise distinct from the address that Mrs. Obama gave when her husband, then-Sen. Barack Obama, was being nominated for president. In Mrs. Trump's speech in Cleveland, she said: "From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise, that you treat people with respect. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily life.” In Mrs. Obama's 2008 speech in Denver, she said: "And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: like, you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond, that you do what you say you're going to do, that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.”

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Blockade Planned to Protect Health Center from Protests: A peaceful blockade is scheduled to protect patients of a health care provider in Philadelphia. After the Westboro Baptist Church planned a protest outside of the Mazzoni Center, an LGBTQIA-centric health care provider, on Tuesday, July 26,  an event was planned on Facebook to make sure patients were able to come and go in peace. The event has quickly grown, and now over 1,000 people have RSVP’d that they are attending the event. For more than 35 years, The Mazzoni Center, located at 809 Locust Street, has been the only health care provider in the Philadelphia region that targets the unique health care needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. The center benefits over 35,000 people annually with services that include outreach, prevention and education. Organizers are reinforcing that the event is not a counter protest, but instead a peaceful blockade.

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Phillies Lose to Miami: The Phils lost 2 to 3 against the Miami Marlins but it wasn't all bad news. Get your full sports news at CSNPhilly.

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Phillies Honor Officer Who Survived Shooting: Folcroft Police Officer Chris Dorman was honored by the Philadelphia Phillies as well as residents in Norwood, Delaware County. Officer Dorman has been recovering since he was shot seven times during an investigation last month. The benefit was held at a Norwood salon where they offered raffle tickets and more to support Dorman, his family and the police department. Read more here.

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are virtually tied in the polls as the Republican National Convention kicks off, according to a new NBC NewsSurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll.

Clinton has 46 percent support and Trump 45 percent, according to the survey of 9,436 adults who say they are registered to vote.

In a four-way general election scenario, Clinton has the backing of 39 percent, Trump 40 percent, Libertarian Gary Johnson 10 percent, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein 5 percent.

Half of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters think the GOP is divided now, but will unite by November. But nearly four in 10 think the party will still be divided in November.

The poll was conducted online from July 11 to July 17 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.4 percentage points.

Every time she hears of someone injured or killed in a crash on Philadelphia's Roosevelt Boulevard, Latanya Byrd's heart breaks all over again.

It was three years ago this week that her niece, Samara Banks, and three of Banks' four sons died on the Boulevard when a drag-racing driver plowed into them as they crossed near 2nd Street.

Banks and her three boys, ages 9 months, 23 months and 4 years, were among 36 pedestrians struck by cars that year on the Boulevard, and among 13 people who died on the road that year. With an average of three people injured in some kind of crashes on the Boulevard every day, Byrd and the rest of Banks' family are dogged by daily reminders of the deadly road that took their loved ones.

"My stomach just turns. I really just feel sick anytime I hear Boulevard, crash, death," Byrd said Tuesday morning as she stood along the Boulevard near Adams Avenue, a few blocks from where Banks and her sons died. Byrd joined local lawmakers and advocates along the Boulevard for a news conference as state Rep. John Taylor and City Councilman Al Taubenberger called for legislation to create a pilot program for speed cameras along the highway.

"It's so difficult. So many lives have been lost," Byrd said. She said Banks' surviving son, who narrowly avoided being hit the night his entire family died in an instant, went through therapy and is doing as well as can be expected. He's 8 years old now.

The crosswalk where Banks and the boys were struck, which previously did not have a light, has since been named Banks Way for the family. A traffic light was installed after the crash.

Taylor said the speed-camera law he's introducing would create a pilot program for cameras that log speed and automatically send a ticket to drivers who exceed 11 mph above the speed limit. The limit on most of the Boulevard is 40 mph. Officials said the initial proposal calls for a $150 fine for speeders, but that advocates from the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, who have consulted on the legislation, suggested a sliding scale of increasing fines.

The cameras would work similarly to several red-light cameras installed in the last several years along the Boulevard, and would target the same area stretching from 9th Street in Hunting Park to the Bucks County line. According to PennDOT, the Boulevard served as the scene for 61 traffic-related deaths from 2011 to 2015 -- an average of one a month -- and 4,670 more injuries in the same span, or about three people injured per day on average.

Of the crashes in the last five years, 159 have involved vehicles striking pedestrians. Just last month, 17-year-old Markaylah Jackson died crossing the Boulevard at Adams Avenue late one night after leaving work. The driver of the van that struck her took off, leaving her to die on the pavement. She would have graduated high school the next day.

At one point during Tuesday's news conference, the sound of screeching brakes cut the air along the 12-lane highway.

AAA Mid-Atlantic also supported the legislation, saying that a poll of area motorists showed that 52 percent supported the use of speed cameras, but more than half of those polled also reported that they recently drove in excess of 15 mph over the speed limit.

"Many people believe these crashes are inevitable," Jana Tidwell, of AAA Mid-Atlantic, said. "We're here to tell you that these crashes are preventable."

Officials said studies of red-light cameras showed that they work, with violation numbers decreasing as people become aware the cameras are there. They expect the same would happen with speed cameras. Like red-light cameras, speed camera violations would carry only a fine and not license points.

Taylor vowed to see the measure's passage through, as he and Taubenberger both rejected any arguments around the cameras being a violation of civil liberties.

"Maybe they ought to see what we see," Taubenberger said. "Maybe we should publish all the pictures of people who die here. That would [them] up."

The driver responsible for Markaylah Jackson's death has not come forward or been located. If you have any information on the incident, contact Philadelphia Police's Accident Investigation officers at 215-685-3180.

A car fire caused the closure of the Delaware County Courthouse and Government Center Tuesday morning.

The Delco Council posted that the courthouse on W Front Street in Media, Pennsylvania would initially reopen at 11 a.m. after a car fire in the parking garage. County spokeswoman Adrienne Marofsky later said the building would be closed for the rest of Tuesday.

No one was hurt.

No word yet on what caused the car to catch fire.

You've decided to open your home to a little kitty. And why not? Cats are playful and cute, and they don't require as much maintenance as dogs.

But there are things future cat owners need to consider before bringing little Fluffy home. Being a pet parent is a big commitment that requires time, effort and a lot of love. You also need to be make sure being around your new feline friend won't have you rushing to the emergency room in search of an epipen.  

Pet allergies are very common — between 5 and 10 percent of the population suffers from allergic reactions after being exposed to household pets. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), cat allergies are about two times more common than those caused by dogs. That's because dog allergens don't stay airborne as long as cats' do, according to LiveScience.com. 

Unfortunately, that also means a lot of animals — many of them cats — become homeless. 

About 11 percent of cats end up back in shelters because their owners are allergic, according to the ASPCA. With 3.4 million cats in shelters across the country each year, that’s about 374,000 felines surrendered because of allergies. And that number doesn’t include cats dumped out on the street each day. 

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There is a lot of confusion and misinformation about what exactly causes an allergic reaction to cats. 

Most people believe what they’re allergic to is cat hair — which isn’t necessarily true. The real culprits are the kitty’s saliva, tears, urine and dander — those dried flakes of skin that fall off. When a cat grooms itself or goes to the potty, it releases Fel-d1, a feline allergen, into the air, and onto its skin and hair. An allergic reaction happens when someone with a cat allergy breathes the air or comes into contact with protein-laden hair or dander.

Some of the symptoms of cat allergies include coughing and wheezing, hives or rashes, red, itchy eyes, runny noses, and sneezing. It can take anywhere from a few minutes to hours for symptoms to appear. 

All cats produce the allergen, so there isn't a truly hypoallergenic cat. Male cats produce the most allergens, and those who are intact make more allergens than neutered males, according to PetFinder.com. 

Some breeds can be more problematic for allergy sufferers than others. Cats with darker coats tend to give off more allergens. And allergy sufferers should stay away from short-haired cats since their coats don't hold the protein against their skin like long-haired cats, EverydayHealth.com suggests. 

"HYPOALLERGENIC" CATS
There may be relief for people who suffer from allergies but still love cats.

Even though it hasn’t been medically or scientifically proven yet, there are cats that may be considered hypoallergenic, which means they are unlikely to cause an allergic reaction.

The Balinese, the Bengal and the Burmese are all breeds that produce low levels of allergens. But the consensus is the Siberian is best suited for people with cat allergies.  

It’s believed the breed may have low levels of these allergens or proteins, according to Siberian Research's website. About 50 percent of Siberians are said to have levels lower than normal cats, the group’s research showed, while about 15 percent of the breed produces very low levels and could be placed with people who have severe or dangerous reactions to cats.

Erica Rice said she and her husband adopted a Siberian kitten after they discovered their 2-year-old daughter Brianna couldn't live with cats.  

"We had a cat before she was born," Rice said. "But she started getting runny noses and we weren't able to figure out why."

After getting Brianna tested, their doctor determined she had allergies. 

When their cat died, the family didn’t want to get another one because of the potential health risks to Brianna. 

"She also has cystic fibrosis, and we didn’t want to take any risks. There’s a higher risk of her getting infected because of her allergies," she added. 

Rice said because Brianna loves animals, her husband did some research online and contacted Siberian breeder Kate Stryker about adopting a kitten. Stryker runs ForestWind Siberian Cat Breeder in Buffalo, New York, and has been breeding Siberians since 2005.

"About 80 percent of our buyers are cat allergic or asthmatic or both," said Stryker, who also happens to be highly allergic to cats.

Stryker said she gives potential adopters questionnaires, asking them detailed questions: whether anyone in the household has allergies, if they’ve had allergy shots and about the types of reactions and symptoms. Once all the information is collected, she invites potential adopters to spend time with the felines — to ensure the cat is a good fit and so the animal won’t be surrendered because of allergies.

"I am very aware of the necessity to take a slow beat and to consider all of the various factors that go into making a successful kitten placement into a cat allergic or asthmatic home," she said.

According to Rice, Brianna and Duncan — now 23 weeks old — are inseparable, and the 2-year-old hasn't had an allergic reaction since they brought him home. 

"All around, he's just awesome," she said.

BALANCING CAT OWNERSHIP WITH ALLERGIES 
Because purebred cats can often come at a high cost, potential adopters can still consider shelter cats with some medical intervention. 

Cat allergies can be controlled with over-the-counter allergy medication — antihistamines and decongestants or nasal sprays. WebMD.com also recommends allergy shots, which have been known to make a big difference in some allergy sufferers.

The AAFA also suggests some lifestyle tips to help allergy sufferers minimize reactions while keeping kitty happy at home:

• Keep pets out of the bedroom and change clothing after prolonged exposure to an animal.
• Allergens love to settle into deep carpeting, which can make allergies worse. Think about getting rid of carpeting and sticking with a bare floor. 
• Using air cleaners with a HEPA filter can help remove pet allergens from the air.
• Although it may only be a nominal decrease, bathing a pet regularly can reduce the number of airborne allergens. 
• And it may go without saying, but remember to keep kitty's litter box clean. 

A newly constructed community center in Upper Merion is set to open very soon, according to the Upper Merion Township website. The long-awaited community center will offer state of the art fitness facilities and recreational programs.

The new community center, which was previously slated to open Fall 2015, features a strength and cardio floor, cooking studio, and Senior Service Center among other facilities and programs. The local Rambler Shuttle Service will add a stop for the center, which is located at 431 Valley Forge Road.

The Upper Merion Community Center will be a registered partner of Silversneakers Fitness, which will allow Silversneakers members to use the Community Center's Facilities. The new partnership is a result of a successful community effort through phone calls and facebook posts.

The Center is already offering a range of membership rates ranging from $325 for one adult to $700 for full families, with higher rates for non-residents. Pass holders will enjoy unlimited access to facilities, free group exercise classes and discounts for educational programs and pool membership.

A New Jersey mother of three was stabbed to death -- allegedly by her husband -- while the couple's three children were asleep inside the family's Pennsville home.

Police and EMS were sent to the couple's home on N. Broadway around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday after getting a call about a cardiac arrest. They found Ceema Singh's body on the kitchen floor with multiple stab wounds.

Her husband, 46-year-old Nitin Singh, was standing in the room, police said, and taken into custody.

The couple was having marital problems, according to investigators when Ceema Singh died.Their children, ages 15, 6 and 5 were asleep in the apartment at the time, Pennsville's police chief said, adding the children did not witness the crime.

Child protective services took custody of the children and were working with members of the family's church to keep the kids together, possibly with a church member.

Police said the husband made the 911 call, but did not admit to any wrongdoing.

Officials said Singh was taken to the Salem County Correctional Facility, held on one million cash bail. He faces first degree murder, aggravated assault and weapons charges.

Hundreds of workers and their supporters protested in front of Philadelphia International airport Tuesday, in a fight for better pay and benefits.

The demonstration outside of Terminal A included baggage handlers, cabin cleaners and wheelchair attendants who work for PrimeFlight Prospect and McGinn Security. They carried a sign which read, Respect Black Workers.

Workers want a minimum wage of $15 an hour and they want a union.

They also argue that the airport workforce is made up primarily of African-Americans and African immigrants who "live in poverty," according to a news release organizers issued before the protest.

"Last year alone the airlines raked in more than $23 billion in profits. Meanwhile, Philadelphia remains the worst city for deep poverty in America—with black Philadelphians twice as likely to live in poverty as whites," according to the Service Employees International Union.

Friends and family are mourning a local business owner, chamber of commerce president, US Navy veteran and retired Philadelphia police officer who died from a flesh-eating bacterial infection.

Jerome Rodio passed away Thursday at the age of 75. The Chester County Press reports Rodio was on a fishing trip in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland when he suffered a scratch on his arm while helping someone pull in crabs.

A rare, flesh-eating bacterial infection then entered his body. He was taken to the University of Maryland Hospital where he passed away.

A visitation and funeral service will be held for Rodio at the Stella Maris Church on 2901 S. 10th Street in Philadelphia Wednesday, starting at 10 a.m.

Rodio, who is originally from Camden, New Jersey but lived in West Grove, Pennsylvania prior to his death, was a US Navy veteran and retired Philadelphia police officer. He then started his own used furniture, antique and collectible business in South Jersey for 25 years before adding a location to Oxford, Pennsylvania in 2009. Rodio also served as the President of the Board of the Oxford Area Chamber of Commerce.

Friends told the Chester County Press Rodio was heavily involved in the Oxford community, volunteering at events, recruiting new businesses to the town and regularly attending borough council meetings.

“Jerome was many, many things to this community but what sticks with me the most is that he was a positive force,” Sue Cole, the interim executive director of Oxford Area Chamber of Commerce, told the Chester County Press. “You could feel his constant presence of keeping people on point, bringing light to those things that needed light to be brought to them—all while being respectful and keeping compassion for community members at the forefront.”

The federal patient privacy law known as HIPAA has not kept pace with wearable fitness trackers, mobile health apps and online patient communities, leaving a gaping hole in regulations that needs to be filled, according to a much-delayed government report released today.

The report, which was supposed to be complete in 2010, does not include specific recommendations for fixing the problem, even though Congress asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide them.

HHS' findings largely mirror those in a ProPublica story from last November. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the landmark 1996 patient-privacy law, only covers patient information kept by health providers, insurers and data clearinghouses, as well as their business partners. Falling outside the law's purview: wearables like Fitbit that measure steps and sleep, at-home paternity tests, social media sites, and online repositories where individuals can store their health records.

"Health privacy and security law experts have a reasonably clear idea of where HIPAA protections end, but the layperson likely does not," said the report written by HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, in conjunction with other agencies. "Moreover, even entrepreneurs, particularly those outside the health care industry 2026 may not have a clear understanding of where HIPAA oversight begins and ends."

The report was mandated under a 2009 law that called on HHS to work with the Federal Trade Commission 2014 which targets unfair business practices and identity theft 2014 and to submit recommendations to Congress within a year on how to deal with entities handling health information that fall outside of HIPAA. Asked why the report did not include any recommendations, an official said readers could draw their own conclusions from the findings.

"At the end of the day, it's a very complicated environment that we find ourselves in," said Lucia Savage, chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, which took the lead on the report. "We believe we're fulfilling our duties. If Congress has concerns about that, I'm sure that we will hear about them."

In 2013, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse studied 43 free and paid health and fitness apps. The group found that some did not provide a link to a privacy policy and that many with a policy did not accurately describe how the apps transmitted information. For instance, many apps connected to third-party websites without users' knowledge and sent data in unencrypted ways that potentially exposed personal information.

Paul Stephens, the group's director of policy and advocacy, said the issue has grown more urgent in recent years as employers give workers incentives to log their activities on mobile apps as part of wellness programs. "It goes beyond someone voluntarily saying I want this app," Stephens said. "There are basically going to be financial incentives to use the app."

Stephens also said many people do not read an app's privacy policy, leaving them open to having their information used in myriad ways.

The new report pointed to a number of major differences between information covered by HIPAA 2014 your medical records, for instance 2014 and data that's not. Among them:

• Under HIPAA, patients are entitled to copies of their health records. Companies that make trackers and apps "are not obligated by a statute or regulation to provide individuals with access to data about themselves."
• HIPAA delineates to whom and for what purpose a health provider may share a patient's health information and limits the use of personal health information for marketing. People who have provided information to companies that fall outside the law "likely will not enjoy the same protections against unwanted marketing unless the data collector has promised in its terms of use not to use data for marketing and does not change its terms of use."
• HIPAA rules require tight security over personal health information. Apps and wearables may not have the same protections.
• HIPAA requires understandable privacy policies and notices. Outside the law, those may not exist.

In addition, several federal agencies have a role in regulating privacy, new technology and consumer protections. The HHS Office for Civil Rights enforces HIPAA; the FTC acts against deceptive or unfair trade practices; and the Office of the National Coordinator encourages adoption of health information technology.

A 2014 study looked at 600 of the most commonly used health apps and found that fewer than a third had privacy policies. And for those that did, you'd have to have the reading level of a college senior to understand them, the HHS report said. Policies on Apple and Google mobile phone platforms "may be inconsistent, not articulated to individuals, or simply ignored by web developers skirting the rules that operating system developers attempt to impose on them."

Attempts to fix the problem through voluntary efforts do not appear to be working. In 2015, the Consumer Electronics Association issued a set of "Guiding Principles on the Privacy and Security of Personal Wellness Data."

"These guidelines can be adopted by companies, but are not required of CEA members," today's report said. "As of July 2016, we have been unable to identify any companies that have adopted the guidelines."

The report offers no suggestions to change that, either.

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Parks officials closed the beach near the pier on Coney Island Tuesday out of an abundance of caution after aquarium authorities say sharks were spotted just off shore there for much of the morning.

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Parks officials did not say anything about a shark, but John Dohlin, director of the New York Aquarium, said several had been spotted in the waters off the popular beach. NYPD aviation and harbor units were scouring the area.

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Dohlin said it's "impossible" to identify the species of sharks based on images and video, but they appear to be harmless basking sharks, which pose no threat to humans. Basking sharks can grow up to more than 20 feet long. Dohlin said he believes the sharks are coming close to shore for feeding.

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Sharks were also spotted off Monmouth Beach in New Jersey Tuesday. Beach police caught a school of sharks a few yards offshore, just north of the town's beach club.

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Police said there was no one swimming in the water at the time.

While sharks have been spotted singly or in pairs a few times this summer, there have been no sightings of schools of the fish like the one in Monmouth Beach.

All throughout the 1920s, a little girl named Ruby Gilliam handed out campaign flyers for her father and brothers, who were "always running for something."

The youngest of eight children raised in the mountains of rural Kentucky said she started the campaign work when she was 3. Ninety years later, Gilliam is still in politics.

"None of them ever won," she said of her father and brothers. "At least we tried."

All these years later, Gilliam is on the winning side. The 93-year-old Ohioan will be the oldest Hillary Clinton delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia -- if not the oldest delegate overall.

Gilliam won't be the only nonagenarian at the DNC. A 90-year-old woman, Felicia Kahn, of New Orleans, is also making the trip as a Clinton delegate.

"I finally made it," Gilliam said in a phone interview Tuesday from her home in Carroll County, chuckling at the idea of being the oldest delegate. "I've been trying to reach that mark."

Gilliam is taking a six-hour bus ride with other members of the Ohio delegation, and though she is legally blind, she said she's in good health.

"I'm very active and haven't slowed down," said Gilliam, who will turn 94 in November. "I'm one of those women, if the music starts, I dance. I'll tell you this: I'm a young 93."

The DNC in Philadelphia will be her eighth convention in a row. Her first was the 1988 convention in Atlanta when Michael Dukakis was nominated. Dukakis went on to lose to former President George H.W. Bush in the general election.

This time around, Gilliam has a more optimistic feeling about the candidate she will cast her vote for when ballots are cast at the Wells Fargo Center July 26 -- Hillary Clinton.

"I'm looking for Hillary to be nominated and then looking forward to attending her inauguration," she said.

Like Gilliam, Felicia Kahn, the 90-year-old from Louisiana, has a long history of attending Democratic National Conventions.

Kahn, who tweets often about politics, posted a picture to social media earlier this month showing her being honored by New Orleans City Council on her 90th birthday.

She has been involved in politics and community activism for eight decades, getting her start with the League of Women Voters, after graduating from Newcomb College in 1948. She spent 20 years with the influential organization.

“By the time I got to the 1970s, it was a really interesting time because it was the first time I got involved in the women’s movement. I moved to the Democratic Party because on the League of Women’s Rights boards, I couldn’t get involved with candidates,” she said.

Her first convention was 1976 when Jimmy Carter was nominated and eventually went on to win. Philadelphia will mark her 10th, though she didn’t attend a few as a delegate.

Both women said they’ve waited a long time for the chance to cast a vote for a female presidential candidate.

“I was a Hillary delegate eight years ago, so I feel very strong for Hillary and I feel absolute we have a woman with experience,” Kahn said.

After Gilliam gets off the bus and Kahn arrives via a flight to Washington D.C. and a car ride from there with her son, both will begin the task of nominating a candidate. Kahn said DNC officials have pressed the importance of arriving on time each day to the Wells Fargo Center: 3 p.m. Monday and 4 p.m. Tuesday. The first ballots will be cast Tuesday, she said.

Then, of course, there are the daily delegation breakfasts and the evening soirees.

“There will be plenty of cocktails,” Gilliam said. “Not that any of us would drink. Well, not me, anyway. Liquor and I don’t agree.”

Police are searching for two men who were caught on surveillance video attacking and robbing a man in the Fern Rock section of Philadelphia, according to investigators.

On July 15 at 11 a.m. a 67-year-old man was walking north on 5900 Hutchinson Street when the two suspects ran passed him, investigators said.

One of the suspects then told the victim, "Give me your cell phone," according to officials. The 67-year-old man then ran away as the suspects chased after him. Police say the suspects eventually caught up to the victim and began punching him, causing him to fall to the ground. Surveillance video shows the suspects repeatedly punch and kick the victim on the head and body.

Police say the suspects then took the victim’s cell phone and wallet and fled north on Hutchinson Street. The victim was taken to the Albert Einstein Medical Center where he was treated for his injuries.

Both suspects are described as 20-year-old, thin black men standing 5-foot-11. The first suspect was wearing a white t-shirt and black pants while the second suspect was wearing a dark-colored t-shirt and dark-colored pants.

If you have any information on the incident, please call 911 or 215-686-8477.