The bottom line is that the T5 is a good camera, the T5i has a few more features that are worth the money if you have it.
That is one of the ones I have been researching. The big draw for me is price. Performance does not suffer too much for the price. I dont really need a swivel touch screen LED. A couple of things draw me to Nikon over Canon, but none are real deal breakers. 24.2 vs 18Mp images and the Nikon wifi adapter. I know I do not have the cash and my wife would divorce me if i went to the level of camera that had built in wifi. For Canon I went to a local camera store and saw the focus for video and just taking video in general was a bit better on the Canon. I am not sure how much video I would ever really take. You never know.
Thanks for all the replies, keep them coming.