The crowds right . Reporter a lot to do. Probably more than you can squeeze in to one weekend alone. Even a fourday Holiday Weekend like memorial day. Im going to throw some numbers your way. 5,000. Thats how many beach balls are strung up for this Second Annual beach ball drop. Some other numbers 25. Thats how many minutes it took us to get down here from farley plaza. There was no traffic at all. Also 63 degrees. I just checked my phone. Thats the temperature. Mother nature is cooperating. The main event will happen right out here. This is the main attraction. The main event at noon chris. Obviously, a beautiful day. Crisp, clear, ocean. The official unlocking of the ocean with u. S. Senators. That will happen about an hour from now as they do every year. Youre looking at video of the official unlocking of the ocean and the beaches up and down the jersey coast. It will happen right on North Carolina avenue. Again, yesterdays rain out of the way. Gorgeous weather here today. While there will are a number of exciting things to do the new bass proshop is open. Fireworks both tonight and tomorrow night here in Atlantic City city. City leaders and lawmakers are ready to unlock new opportunities for displaced casino workers to find place but not just seasonal but long term. This is the first Summer Season since the closure of three casaka ka si casinos last fall. Its great. Its a great place to be. Reporter if youre headed to the shore you wont be alone. Anticipate traffic along the garden state parkway. Will not be ready for the Holiday Weekend. The sun is out. An hour away from the official unlocking of the ocean here in Atlantic City and we have you covered all day today and throughout the Holiday Weekend. Were live in Atlantic City. Im cydney long. She mentioned Atlantic City unlocking the ocean, well wildwood have a similar ceremony. New jerseys Lieutenant Governor will be there for the ceremony. It starts at noon on the boardwalk at andrews avenue. Some people head to the shore but others take to the mountains. A live look in a moment of Camel Back Mountain in pocono township. Theres our lovely live truck. Sglo its going to be really nice Holiday Weekend. French maynor french manor is 60 degrees there. 68 in allentown and philadelphia and redding. A little different day than yesterday. Lots of sunshine out there. Nothing on radar. We have one or two tiny little showers in western pennsylvania. Some of the computer models could be moving in our direction this afternoon. There is a slight chance of a brief shower in some areas this afternoon. The rest of the day will be pretty sunny. Its also going to be windy. The temperature is about 20 degrees warmer than it was yesterday. Well see how much hotter it gets over the Holiday Weekend. A lot of people are packing up their cars and hitting the highways for the Holiday Weekend but find out if there are any backups building out there yet. How are things looking . You really cant get a better shot than this. This is a live look at route 73 at the Atlantic City expressway. A route many people will be taking to the shore in the next few hours. This is 73 at the Atlantic City expressway. Were seeing a little bit more traffic. Finally, this is route 1. Again, we are seeing some more traffic there. Probably the most ive seen in any of our traffic cameras. We move onto drive times i can show you with that along the majors in pennsylvania 95. 76 and 476 seeing a bit of volume but its nothing compared to what we would normally see. Its not accounting for any delays there. If youre a septa rider there is an Emergency Repair work theyre doing. Trains between thorndale are not running and likely wont be running until noon. Theres some traffic problems that not even katy can see coming. How about this . A cow on the highway. This video was posted this morning. Pris finally had to hit the cow with a tranquilizer dart to get her off the road. Tolls will be free between 5 00 and 6 00 p. M. Last year it cost the restaurant chain about 13,000 in totals. One story we pushed out through our app earlier this morning, this building fire that spread to a neighboring home. Its now under control. Monique, youre hearing there are some neighbors worried about the proximity of that tire to their homes. Reporter thats right. We have within out here talking to residents for about four hours now. Picking up space in empty buildings, taking up residents and then a fire occurred. People who live here say this isnt the first time donzzens of firefighters have battled a blaze. Every time someone moves out they find their way, move in. Make it their own home set fires and we have to worry about our houses catching on fire. Reporter the inferno quickly jumped to the house next door. Our camera was rolling when the residents came home to assess the damage. As far as our resources we look at whether its deemed vacant. We just assume somebody could be living there because we know that kind of thing happens. Reporter in january the city kicked off a program to demolish hundreds of blighted structures but unfortunately, this building is not on the list. The fire chief tells us they are constantly reviewing all the empty structures in the city to find out if they should be deemed blighted and if they should be demolished. Were told the fire started in the kitchen around 4 30 this morning. No one was hurt. Thats the good news. Black lives matter was the chant. Police arrested 20 people in this protest overnight in north philadelphia. They gathered to remember murder victim who was stabbed to death this week. Officers arrested someone nearby who tried to board a septa train without paying and the protesters tried to intervene and things got out of hand and then Police Arrested several protesters. Federal regulators are expanding their safety demands on amtrak following that deadly derailment last week. Late yesterday the federal Railroad Administration issued an emergency order on train speeds. The emergency order requires amtrak to use the automatic train control device where the accident happened. That system was installed last week. The rail carrier had to flag similar areas. For passengers these requirements and paying to get them implemented should be urgent. No brainer. The emergency order comes as the congressional funding battle continues. Yesterday Senate Democrats demanded the republicans provide more money to address a repair backlog in amtraks infrastructure. Last week members of the house voted to cut amtraks funding. This morning were hearing new details about how he was captured and what he had with him inside the vehicle when he was caught. A stunning discovery in the yearbook at one high school. Youll see why they had to be recalled and why some students have some very hurt feelings. Get ready for chilly temperatures for your friday night but a big warm up is on the way. Ill have details ahead. Yeah, im married. Does it matter . Youd do that for me . Really . Yeah, id like that. Who are you talking to . Uh, its jake from state farm. Sounds like a really good deal. Jake from state farm at three in the morning. Who is this . Its jake from state farm. What are you wearing jake from state farm . [ jake ] uh. Khakis. She sounds hideous. Well shes a guy, so. [ male announcer ] another reason more people stay with state farm. Get to a better state. Police arrested daron dylon wint. They say a large amount of cash estimated to be 10,000 was found in the truck. Hes accused of killing the ceo of an Iron Works Company and killing his wife and son and the housekeeper. He worked for the company ten years ago. Hes a former marines with convictions on his record. Police say Surveillance Video from the home plus dna found on a slice of pizza that was delivered to the mansion the night before the murders helped lead them to the suspect. We have some new video this morning that appears to show isisb4z militants inside this area. The video was posted on a militant website this morning. A small group of residents appears to welcome the isis fighters who were patrolling the streets. Nbc news has not verified the authenticity of this video. Yesterday isis posted on twitter it had seized the city. The group has destroyed or damaged antiquities and theres fears the same will happen. Homes and businesses have been evacuated after an unexploded world war ii bomb was discovered. A 110pound explosive was found. They had blast wall built arn the site. Its believed the bomb was dropped in the early 1940s. Today people in ireland are voting whether to legalize samesex marriage. It most likely will be approved. Robert gates says the time has come for his organization to reconsider the ban on gay troop leaders. Pete williams has the story. Reporter after a bruising battle two years ago led to admitting the ban on admitting gay young people to the scout, the robert gates, the former defense secretary says the Organization Must now accept that Public Attitudes are changing more quickly. He says the current policy that bans gay scout leaders will not survive. We must deal with the world as it is not as we might wish it would be. The status quo in our movement membership standards cannot be sustained. Reporter the Greater New York council is defying the ban. Just last month hiring an openly gay eagle scout to be a summer camp leader. 15 years ago the Supreme Court upheld the scouts right to exclude an assistant scout master when he came out as gay. Even if you dont exclude a young person when they become 18 years old, theyre not good enough anymore. Thats definitely the wrong message. Reporter gates said any change should reflect the religious churches. This is not what we expected. Leader lead. Bob gates is used to leading. This is not a guy used to sitting on the backseat and rubbing his hand and wondering what to do next. Such a big change would have to be approved by a vote of scout leadership. Happening now, president obama is honoring jewish heritage month. Todays event celebrates the contributions of Jewish Americans to American Society of culture. Its been five years since obama held the first celebration of jewish heritage month at the white house. Quite a change over the last 24 hours. Yesterday we had the steady rain. Temperatures in the 50s and very little wind. In fact the reverse of all of those things today. Its going to be increasing windy as we go through the afternoon. Very chilly tonight. Weekend warming leading to potential heat wave next week. A lot of sunshine on those roads making for great travel conditions. Its 68 degrees now. Its going to keep going up. Were in the mid to upper 60s across much of the area right now. With the wind direction coming out of west northwest you would think that the beach areas would be just as warm as the inland area. Pretty much the case. Over the weekend wind will be blowing on shore. That is going to play a big role right near the beaches. Its going to be on the cool side saturday and sunday despite all that sunshine. Warmer on monday. The temperature 59. Its typically that cold at this time of the year. Poconos will start off kind of chilly especially in the morning. Then sunday its a good bit warmer and a chance of a thunderstorm on memorial day itself. Ive taken out the chances of storm in the philadelphia area or down to the shore. Its 10 to 15 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. Nothing on radar now. We have a couple of sprinkles back to the west. We havent had much rain in philadelphia. Now its even less. Less than a. 1 of an inch. They are now in a moderate drought in that part of our area. This afternoon into the mid70s tonight going down. Look at that into the low 40s and even some 30s in the poconos. Thats cold. By monday its going to be hot. Quite a change. Sunny and windy this afternoon. Highs in the mid70s. Very close to average. Winds gusting up to 30 35 miles an hour. Tonight, unseasonably cold as the wind diminish 48 in philadelphia. 41 in some of the north and west suburbs. The sevenday forecast a good bit cooler on saturday especially in the morning and then we jump up ten degrees each day for sunday memorial day close to 90 degrees. Into the 90s next week. Some Important Health news for women coming up. Researchers say africanamerican women with Certain Health issues may be more at risk for a serious medical condition. Well tell you what you need to know. A new study shows fewer people are smoking. Well look at stats for states in this area. Youll see which local state has the lowest rating of people lighting up. Lifestyle counselling in the africanamerican community. Fewer people overall are smoking across the country. A new government report shows cigarette use and tobacco usage dropped between 2011 and 2013. 26 states reported a significant decline. Some people may be turning to smokeless tobacco. Rates of using that form have dropped in only two states and went up in four. Lets look at some local numbers. In pennsylvania the smoking rate is 21 . Thats down 1. 5 . Its down about 1 in new jersey. Delaware had the biggest drop. Thats now at 19. 6 down more than 2 from three years ago. Its a sickness that can spread on cruise ships and in schools. Now there are concerns that norovirus could be spread through the air. Well have details on that ahead. The cleanup in california continues after this weeks major oil spill. Well tell you what the impact has been on wildlife so far. 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You can see the life guards pulling the boat and their life guard stands out for this event that so many are excited for. Lets look at the video. This year u. S. Senators cory booker will not only unlock the ocean but talk at unlocking opportunity for laid off casino workers to find permanent work. Tonight and again tomorrow night fireworks will light up the sky over Atlantic City. Tropicana casinos will boast its lights. The jitney turns 100 years old. You can rely on that for the festivities. Visitors are excited this Mother Nature is on our side to welcome summer. Just Walking Around and seeing the different sights and the clubs. After the winter we have had, this is where i want to be. This is paradise today. Reporter it really is beautiful weather out here from street at 7 00 tonight. The Second Annual beach ball drop. There will be refreshments on the beach. Al live music. We have you all covered up and down the shore for memorial day weekend and well be out on the beach about a half hour from now. We will let you know when the ocean is officially unlocked for summer 2015. If you follow that drum beat it led you to new kong ride. It opened yesterday in wildwood. Check it out. We got a sneak peek. A rebirth of the original ride that was there in the 1970s. The owners hope that kong will revive memories in parents and create new ones in their kids. Memories of kong are fantastic. To have a ride that todays kids will really enjoy. Awesomest thing in the world. It was the best. That was amazing. Nothing but high marks from the tough critics. Kong is officially open. You can use the nbc10. Com app. Any traffic changes that you should know about. A lot of people are hitting the road. Not looking so bad out there now. You can see some Traffic Building out there. So, once people do get to their destination, the question is will they enjoy mice weather for the entire Holiday Weekend. I dont think well have to worry about rain as we go through the Holiday Weekend for at least 90 of the area. The temperature is going to vary. If you like it cool youll like saturday. If you like it warm youll like monday. Got a lot of sunshine out there now. A big difference than what we saw yesterday. 68 degrees in philadelphia. Were around the same in areas up to allentown and mid60s farther to the south. The wind will be increasing. The ocean will unlock 59 degrees. Youre welcome to go swim in it. The live radar showing no precipitation around. Theres a couple sprinkles in western pennsylvania. Not very impressive. Not very concerned about the showers coming through during the afternoon. Just a slight chance of isolated light shower. Temperatures getting into the mid70s today but winds gusting up to 35 miles an hour this afternoon. That could be the big issue. Well talk more about that big temperature rise and see when this much needed rain really is going to be returning with the seven day in a few minutes. Believe it or not Hurricane Season is just one week from monday. This sunday marks the start of National Hurricane preparedness week. Now issue the time emergency officials want you to make sure you have that emergency kit together or if you dont have one is the time to get it together. That kit should include three days worth of nonperishable food a can opener and food and plenty of bodttled water. A slow moving storm in texas causing flooding. Dozens of cars are still trapped in the high water. First responders spent hours helping drivers can stalled cars and having to rescue trapped drivers. The water was so high that some people turned the boats for transportation. Sky force 10 was high above a building fire in camden this morning. It broke out at cane avenue and rose street. One firefighter did suffer a minor leg injury when his foot went through a hole in the floor but the fire highlighting a problem thats plaguing many neighborhoods in camden. Neighbors are worried about their homes being involved in a situation like that, right . Reporter thats right. The cause of this blaze is still under investigation. Avoiding what happened here has been on the camden list of Top Priorities for years. They tell us they are frustrated when squatters move into abandoned buildings. Take a look at our video about four hours ago. Chris brown business is a few feet from where the blaze ignited. He watched firefighters battle flames at this vacant building. He believes eradicating blight is a Monumental Task in camden. Not only are squatters taking over Properties Like these people are also stealing copper pipes. They cant keep after it. Its just too hard when coming in the back side of buildings that are in the middle of night. You cant possibly keep up with it. The fire chief says his people are constantly monitoring properties. One firefighter was injured in this vacant building while battling the blaze when his foot got stuck in a hole inside. Hes going to be okay according to the fire chief. Officials now caysay it could take months to determine what caused that oil spill. We have more on the investigation and the clean up. Reporter this morning Unanswered Questions about what caused this pipeline to break. They will take that piece of pipe and have it inspected by a third party. Engineers determine that could take weeks and months to get that information back. Reporter it inspects the pipe every three years above and beyond what the federal government requires. The company now on the hook for clean up costs. Where oil is spilled a company will have to pay money for the recovery of that oil regardless of whether they took good care of the pipeline or not. Reporter so far crews have recovered about 10,000 gallons of oily water. You can feel the winds on this boat rocking back and forth and that can slow down a clean up. Reporter 17 boats are working to corral the oil slicks with more boons arriveing today. The true impact on not just the environment but animals will take several days if not weeks. Reporter today well get our first look at the six pelicans rescue and responders found an oil sea lion who will be treated at sea world. How did you get him in the crate . He actually walked right in. Reporter rescuers are bracing for more knowing they could see the true scope of this spill. Two state beaches will stay closed to the public this memorial day weekend. The u. S. Coast guard is just wrapping up a change of command ceremony in philadelphia. A Sector Commander was relieved from her duty after three years on the job. Captain Benjamin Cooper will succeed captain kathy moore. Check this out. The Pennsylvania Game Commission and local bird lovers were in center city today to celebrate a milestone for family of falcons. Look. No empty nest syndrome here. They have been living at city hall for years. Today the newest additions to the family were banded. A photography exhibit from todays event will be put on display next month. Its the time of year when students sign each others yearbook before heading off to summer break. That tradition was ruined for students at a high school in dallas, texas. Someone printed mean quotes. The prom queen who uses a wheelchair to get around says her picture had an insult. For them to take this thats not okay. Its really isnt. The principal is the yearbook advisor and he should have proofread it. The district is trying to determine who is responsible for the mean quotes. Once corrections have been made new yearbooks will be printed. The Police Department is in a whole new need of harleys. You can help out. Youll find out how you can adopt a motorcycle coming up. There are going to be big changes from the beginning of the weekend to the end. Ill have your holiday forecast coming up. We always hear about how when it comes to sickness on cruise ships the the virus can spread through the air. Reporter every year highly contagious norovirus is sickening people on cruise ships and in nursing homes. Until now the thought has been the germs settled op edd on surfaces. This is the first study im ware of that shows that the virus can hang out in the air for any length of time. Reporter kirk smith is talking about a new study in the journal clinical infectious diseases. In six of them norovirus was found not only in the air. They also found the virus in the air in a surprisingly high proportion of samples outside the patients room and the nurses station. Reporter right now Health Care Workers disinfect surfaces and wash hands also. Doctors say there are some suggestions to follow to prevent norovirus from spreading on surfaces. First line of defense wash the hands. Cook shellfish thoroughly and clean and disinfect contaminated surfaces with a chlorine based household cleaner. Very important there. The philadelphia Police Departments Highway Patrol is asking for a little help upgrading their fleet of aging motorcycles. Here is how you can help us. Joining us to tell us about this is marine rush. The Highway Patrol is very instrumental. Pope francis will be here the end of september and a couple of democratic conventions. The commissioner, commissioner ramsey heard from Highway Patrol that they have a need for 14 new motorcycles. Were getting the word out and working with Harley Davidson company and bryan is doing it at no cost. No above cost . Right. Each motorcycle is 18,000, fully equipped. We need 12 more. Were doing adopt a motorcycle campaign. Were hoping citizens from around the region will want to go to our website and donate 5 20, 300 18,000. 18,000 would be nice. That we would prefer. This is way to get really down and dirty into knowing you had something to do with it. The motorcades will be used the entire week. We know when traffic is tight motorcycles is the way to go. Philly policefoundationorg. Go to our website. We have splash page up to doe donate. Well post that link on our website as well. If i adopt a motorcycle can i use it on the weekends when the police arent using it . Well talk to captain about that. Thanks for joining us. Thanks so much. We hope you have those shiny new bikes in the garage in a couple of months. Great way to start a Holiday Weekend. We have the sunshine back. The big weather issue will be the wind. It is going to be chilly tonight. Weve got the warming trend. A big warming trend over the memorial day weekend. Look how blue that sky is. Not a cloud in it. 68 degrees. The wind west of 14. Gusting at 21. Its 11 degrees warmer than it was at this time yesterday. Remember yesterday it didnt go up. It went down during the afternoon with the rain. This is going to go up. The pollen is not too bad today. T going to go a little higher each day as we go through the weekend and into next week until we get some more rain. By the end of the weekend well be looking for that. We got offshore winds now. Its in the 60s just about everywhere even the poconos at 60 degrees. Before the Holiday Weekend were going to have a did i have kind of wind direction. Its going to be a sea breeze which will help keep the temperature down at the shore. Everybody will be cool on saturday. Sunday while the rest of the area warms up the sea breeze keeps things a little bit on the cool side but still plenty of sunshine even monday. No showers in the forecast either. That water temperature, 59 degrees, that is pretty significant. Thats typical. It takes a long time for the ocean to warm up compared to the land and so thats why we have the warmest Ocean Temperatures in august and even into september. Sad saturday in the poconos kind of cool. Then on sunday ten degrees warmer. Monday, thats about the only place with a decent chance of any kind of showers or storms. That would be monday afternoon in the pocono mountains. Farther north you are the better the chances. Weve got a couple little sprinkles there on the radar in central pennsylvania. Watch what happens as we go through the night tonight. The temperatures north and west in the 40s. I even saw 39 there. 39 in redding at 6 00 a. M. 40s in philadelphia. Thats pretty cold for this time of the year. Then tomorrow were barely getting up to 70 in philadelphia and 60s across most of the rest of the area. Look at some of the temperatures in the shore in the afternoon. You got to be prepared if youre headed to the shore with some kind of a jacket or sweatshirt or whatever. Its not going to be a real warm start to the weekend. Sunny and windy. Temperatures into the mid70s. Winds gusting up to 35 miles an hour. Then for tonight were down into the 40s perhaps even 38 39 degrees in a couple of spots north and west. Thats unseasonably cold. For the sevenday forecast, it is a little bit on the cool side tomorrow especially in the morning. You need some kind of jacket. On sunday it is good bit warmer. Monday memorial day is the warmest. Going up quite a bit each day there. No showers or thunderstorm except the chance up in the poconos on monday. Look what happens. We go into next week. We could have multiple days in the 90s. Well be right back. Regulators have linked six deaths to the defected air bags. They explode too violently and can shoot shawl piecemall pieces of metal to the driver and passenger. Nearly 34 million cars and trucks in the u. S. Are affected. Coming up this afternoon at 3 00, its ellen. Today she has actor gordon levit. This afternoon some Crystal ClearSurveillance Video from a driveway. One thing wrong. Thats not the guys driveway and those are not his cars. Police want you to take a close look at this video tape this afternoon. Nice start to the memorial day weekend. That picture back there is so much different than it was yesterday where it was just gloomy and rain. We needed the rain but we dont need it over the Holiday Weekend. Looks like were not going to get it. Its going to be relatively mild today. 76 degrees with winds. Tomorrow will be the coolest day of the Holiday Weekend. I can just guarantee it not going to rain on saturday. Sunday looks dry as well and ten degrees warmer and monday most likely dry too. Definitely on the warm side now. The humidity i dont think its going to be excessive on monday. It may start to build by the middle of next week and we could be dealing with a first heat wave. Look at that. Triple 91s there. Its possibly one of those days could be significantly higher than that. We see the chance of thunderstorms. We need the rain. See you later. I am never getting married. Never. Psssssh. Guaranteed. You picked a beautiful ring. Thank you. Were never having kids. Mmmmmm. Breathe. I love it here. We are never moving to the suburbs. We are never getting one of those minivan . We are never having another kid. Im pregnant. I am never letting go. For all the nevers in life state farm is there. [cell phone rings] melanie [inhales deeply] hey, brady. Whats up . Brady hey. Hey, mel, listen i need to see you. Its very important. Paul then tell me you dont still love me. Sonny paul, dont do this. Paul look, ive been completely honest with you about how i feel. Sonny i know. Paul dont you think that i deserve the same thing . Will well, look whos here. Does anybody want to tell me what the hell is going on . Chad father, why are you so interested in whether or not i get back together with