From concerts to museums. Wawa welcome america festival continues today. Plenty of events. Nbc 10 joins us now from independence hall. Reporter as of right now, im the only one at the party. Im a little early of course. Later on this afternoon, this place will be pretty bit rbis a busy and right in front of the building have the stage set for the performances later on tonight with the philly pops and a lot going on today. In the historic district. This will be the center of all the action on this eve of july 4th. The Block Party Begins here at noon. Independence mall. Really to keep everything bisz. This really is the best spot for that. Tonight 7 00 the pops on independence is the annual july 3rd performance by the 65 piece orchestra with some of the old patriotic favorites tunes in there mixed in with more modern hits as well. If you can make it out here for the concert, watch it on nbc 10 right here at 7 00. Also catch it on telemundo 62. Hamilton star Mandy Gonzalez is going to be a part of that performance. Little taste of broadway here. Take a live along at independence hall. So far the weather is nice here right now. Wait for all the people to come out here. Ive got the best seat in the house at the moment. Come out and join me later on. For now im live. Part of tv wawa welcome america fet value. National Liberty Museum opening the doors free. Theres more free family fun to tell you about all morning long. We are running down all of the free events happening as part of the wawa welcome america over the course of the july 4th holiday. Also get updates on the free nbc app. Breaking overnight, delaware has the new budget. Late last night and one day after the state deadline, the house and the Senate Passed the 1. 4 billion spending plan. First responders and other nonprofits. Taxes and alcohol, tobacco, and real estate transfers will pay for it. Governor john carney signed the budget bill into law. In new jersey the stalemate continues. Day three of shutdown there. Triggered by shutdown. Christie is a republican. Assembly speaker prixia toe is a democratic. The shutdown took effect after the budget deadline passed friday night. As a result state parks and noncircle services are closed. This morning the man accused of road rage murder is in prison. Turned himself in yesterday after a four day search across several states. Shot and killed 18yearold bianca last week. Happened when she was merging. Her parents listened yesterday as the county da announced his arrest and recovery of gun believed to be use instead the murder. Friend of the victim emotions are still raw. I just can feel that moms pain. I have children myself. This is a story of a savage and senseless murder. She was about to Start College at Jackson University in florida. Graduated from high school last month. New from overnight, investigators in Gloucester County looking for cause of this fire at this auto body shot. Happened just after midnight in franklin township. Flames and smoke ripped through the shop. Took crews about an hour and a half to put out the fire. No one was hurt. U. S. And japan are planning to Work Together to step up pressure on north korea. President trump spoke by phone of the japanese prime minster and they agreed to defend and respond to any threat of action taken by north korea. President trump spoke to the president of china last night about north Koreas Nuclear program. President is frustrated china hasnt done more to pressure and is considering trade action. Spending the Holiday Weekend calling lawmakers to rally support for the Senate Health care reform bill. Their conversations are ongoing as we speak. And so we look forward to hopefully them coming back after this fourth of july recess and getting the work done. President trump tweeted last week the republicans should appeal obamacare immediately and replace it later. If senators cant reach an agreement. Senators will return next week to try to get the 50 votes needed to pass the plan. New details in the laptop ban impacting passengers flying from the middle east and africa to the u. S. Travelers coming from Abu Dhabi International airport can use laptops in the cabin. One airline has been removed from the list banning laptops from the cabin. Airport and airline both increased security measures to meet safety requirements. Ban was created over fear of terrorist groups could smuggle explosives in electronic devices. Nice and clear. About half an hour away from sunrise this morning. Camelback mount going to see a lot of sunshine there. This hour temperatures have been cooling down. Much of 60s and pottstown. Ed aring 67 the in the 70s in delaware and philadelphia and mount holly and millville in the upper 60s. In the mountains 63 degrees. Humidity coming down overnight. Seemmy over the weekend. Winds coming out of west or northwest. Dry air coming. Not a strong wind, but the wind will be just enough to make it feel a lot more comfortable today. Doppler radar clear right now. See some clouds moving in north and west. Theres a chance well see Late Afternoon or evening showers. Primarily north and west. Most of those will stay outside of our area. Sort of north of the Lehigh Valley. Hour by hour forecast show the temperatures climbing fairly quickly into the 80s and then topping out in the low 90s this afternoon. Late this afternoon. 4 00. See isolated showers. Again most of the shower activity stay to the north. Allentown, redding night see a brief shower during the afternoon and late hours. Chance of showers around at 6 00 for the area. Quick popup shower is possible in some of the suburbs and into delaware. Then drying out as we head to tomorrow morning. Pretty nice day overall. A lot of sunshine. 75 degrees in philadelphia. Then into the 80s at 11 00. Low 90s by 3 00 this afternoon. Sunny skies and the suburbs. Feel that more comfortable breeze. Any showers should hold off. Delaware, sunshine warm temperatures to the low 70s at 7 00 to near 90s. Right up to 90 degrees at new jersey. Feel that same dry air in new jersey. The shore get s a little breezy temperatures drop a little bit. The trend is for cooler. Just in time for the fourth of july. 88 tomorrow afternoon. Middle 80s for wednesday and thursday. Theres a chance well get shors in the coming day. Take a look at that with ten day on ten when im back in ten minutes. Thank you, bill. We expect a light dayton roads. People getting a jumpb on the fourth of july. Give you a headsup in case something pops up. Jessica boyington will be the first to tell you about that. Now were going give you all good news. Starting off on route 38. Right around nixon drive. Both directions here. Westbound side right here. Eastbound. Not seeing any big problems or delays so far. Jersey roads almost empty pretty much everywhere. Still a little early for that. Were also watching mass transit. Detoured starting around 6 00 a. M. Little less than an hour until that starts happening. Obstruction in the road reported in upper doveland. Through that intersection end here with route 202 and drive times here. Nine minutes or ten minutes at the most. Schuylkill speeds still in the 60s. Ten minutes past five right now. Throwing punches. Prumpb sparks a new fire storm with a tweet directed at the media. Growing reaction this morning. Plus this. Cheers turn to screams as bullets fly in the nightclub. Person of interest. Staying safe on july 4. What you need to know before launching fireworks or launching up the grill. On friday showed up at bronx lebanon hospital where he had worked in 2014 and shot six people, killing one person before taking his own life. Also learning new details about the weekend shooting that injured more than two dozen people at a rap concert in arkansas. Hampton remains a person of interest in the concert shooting. Police think there are several suspects. And a dispute between area gangs. Fire killed more than 100,000 chickens. Happened saturday. Cause is under investigation, but its believed to be accidental. Three firefighters were treated for minor injuries. Investigators looking to report that this fire in western arkansas may have been started bid fireworks. At least four homes were destroyed after flames burned through the Townhome Development near a lake resort early sunday morning. Residents were evacuated by boat as the flames quickly fred. No reports of any injuries. Triple a is reminding people that more fires are started on the fourth of july than any other day. More than half of those fires are blamed on the unsafe use of fireworks. Safety experts say make sure you use fireworks in a clear area away from buildings and vehicles. Always have water nearby and dont experiment with any homemade fireworks. Lets get a look at south jersey. Route 42. Jessica boyington has that. Watching 42 right around route 41 which is over in depo ford. Heres the northbound side. That would be what is moving towards philadelphia. Maybe you have to get off 295. Thats a good drive there. Look at southbound moving maybe towards the shore or past this area. Not going to see problems there. Going to be a really quiet equal on the roads. Especially between today and tomorrow. Route 422 looks geed. Eastbound from the schuylkill. Average speeds there into the mid 60s. Watching mass transit as well. Septa buses going to be on detour. 38 and 44, that will start about 6 00 this morning. Service detoured around the area. Also watching 78 through the Lehigh Valley. Good driver so far around lehigh street. Doing great. Updates when i come back in ten minutes. Check in with jersey roads and get you where you have to go. 16 minutes past 5 00 a. M. See the sun. Not quite up yet it looks nice out there. Going to be a beautiful day. Lowering humidity. I like when bill henley starts talking about that. You will feel the difference today. A lot more comfortable. Getting a nice start this morning and spring city. Nice and clear this morning. As we are getting closer to sunrise. Sunrise at 37 past the hour this morning. 74 right now in philadelphia. 60s for south jersey. Suburbs and the Lehigh Valley and in delaware were looking at a mix of 60s and 70s. Right now in harmony hills. A lot of sunshine. Warming into the 90s in northern delaware. Delaware bech beaching will be 80s this afternoon. Right now in the upper pd. Pretty nice start. Dry start. Skies are clear. Definitely need sunglasses today. Leave the umbrella at home. A chance well see spotty showers late this afternoon. See a little activity moving into the ohio valley. Possibility for some areas north and west for this evening, but the chances of showers are pretty low over the next couple of days. Its not until later in the week that we get a good chance. See some showers on wednesday and thursday a possibility of some showers in the area. Wednesday afternoon for delaware and dover and at the end of the week, redding could see some wet weather for atlantic city. After the fourth of july holiday. There is a slight chance of some popup showers tomorrow afternoon. I think most areas are going to stay dry. Were in pretty good shape for the big day tomorrow. Parade at 11 00 jessica and i will be in that very parade. You know the weather is going to be great. 82 degrees at 11 00. The concert 7 00. 82 degrees. In between warm into the upper 80s. Humidity will be in check just like today and for the fireworks, 77 degrees by 10 00 tomorrow night. Today, not bad at all. 92. Its going to be a hot one. Humidity comes way down compared to the weekend. 88 degrees see more clouds around tomorrow. And theres an isolated shower threat, but i think most neighborhoods will stay dry for tuesday. Most neighborhoods stay dry on wednesday as well. 86 after a morning temperature of 68 degrees. Humidity stays low on wednesday. Come thursday, showers and then friday. Showers and thunderstorms in the upper 80s and some of those showers will linger into the weekend. 86 degrees on saturday. Then were drying the out for sunday, monday tuesday. All looks good, thank you. Now to breaking news, a fire in rocks broe. Nbc 10 live on the scene. Fire in the garage of a home. The fire is now under control. Were working to find out if anyone was hurt. If everybody made it out okay. Keep you updated on air and nbc 10 app. We are making this summer fun for nbc 10 viewers. During this years festivities summer of fun give away is our way of saying thank you. A chance to win one of these prizes here. Three night allinclusive get away vacation. 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Contact Design Solutions international for freef replacement light shades mpkts Auto Industry expected to learn today that business is about to take a downturn. Susan lee here with the cnbc business news. Good morning, susan. Reporter good morning. Yes, the big auto makers reporting june sales later on today, which are expected to drop for the month. Despite large discounts and rebates theyre giving out to consumers. Auto sales hitting a record high last year. Market is a bit saturated. Partly due to nearly new used cars. Hike incentives to get people to buy the new ones off the lots. Speaking of new ones, ford is moving forward with new selfdriving cars. Thats a great way to describe it. Definitely new. Very modern. Ford says its making great progress towards the goal of putting fully selfdriving car on the road by 2021. Company selfdriving fusion test cars this weekend. Relying on a startup for this new technology. It was cofounded by former google and uber ployemployees. Wall street to open the trading week a little higher today after a mixed session of stocks on friday. Markets open for half a day today. Just ahead of independence day. Fourth of july holiday and im wishing you guys a great one. Back to you. Thank you, susan. You too. Skies mostly clear for most neighborhoods this morning. Sunshine on the way and a more comfortable day too. Dry air moves in. 74 degrees at 5 26. Got your neighborhood forecast just ahead. Jessica boyington, shes tracking traffic this morning. Anything on the road this morning. Not so far. Doing okay. Just a little bit early to start to see big delays back up, but im not expecting it to be crazy out there. Watching 295 in mount laurel. Just around hartford road. Good drive so far. Eyes on it for you and update at 5 30. Budget battle. New jersey governor wants to return to the capital today to end the government shutdown. The continuing impact it could have on july 4th plan. President trump takes on trump on twitter. Sparking backlash from his own party. Shutdown impact. New jersey lawmakers could return to the house today to end a budget fight. Services wont be available to you until a deal is reached. Punch is thrown. President trump takes aim at a media company. Another tweet sparking backlash. Celebrating the fourth. Wawa welcome america festival continues. Everything from museum to music help you plan for the celebration. Nbc 10 starts now. Good morning. Welcome to nbc 10 today. Check in with meteorologist bill henley and most accurate first alert neighborhood weather forecast. At the shore, the third is starting off with fog. Just rolling in to cape may. Not going the last