You may notice some new security changes as you you can see officials keeping everybody safe. Karen, i know they are getting ready because Market Street is shut down to traffic. I had to find creative ways to park. Good morning chris moviey happy fourth. It is happy fourth of the july. It is one of the best holidays as long as you dont have too much food and too much work and you can just watch the fire works. We will let you know what will be happening down the shore. They have moved them to saturday. First lets get to caitlin with the check of the weather because we have had a strong system moving through and we are not out of the woods just yet. Good morning chris and karen. We are starting off this fourth of july without power or cleaning up. We had wind damage with the storms that came through between 6 00 and 8 00 p. M. For the the city but most of the wind damage in northeast philadelphia, bucks county and lehigh valley. Heres ultimate doppler going back to last night. You can see band of the showers and thunderstorms that formed and kind of drifted through. We saw several rounds. Right now what were looking at is scattered showers off to the north and west and scattered showers down the shore. We will zoom in a little bit. Most of the rain is from Chester County, berks county, bringing in allentown and poconos. Nothing too heavy though. Raining down the shore right now we are seeing scattered showers from cape may up through ocean city, strathmere and a few just moved off shore in atlantic city. Delaware getting a break but there is some more showers filling in. This is very the scattered, very light, you dont have to go too far until you see arthur a tightly organize hurricane and new bringing in heavy rain to portions of the North Carolina up through Virginia Beach, norfolk, virginia. Heavier rain actually is in Del Marva Peninsula from cape charles up through about the salisbury area but as that moves northward it will move, a bit east ward. Flash flood watch is still in effect until noon for the whole area fox future cast shows by 9 00 a. M. Heavier rain is at the shore and will stay at the shore. Since this is moving out to sea, it will be grazing new jersey, that is where we will see rain through this morning. By 8 00 tonight everything is long gone, skies clear and really not a bad night. Temperatures in the 07s right now your fox cast. In morning rain giving way to late day sun. Already feels cooler. Sixtytwo the low temperatures. Sky clear. We are looking cooler. Starting off not too great the but we will stay around as we head in the afternoon. That is your fox cast. Much more to come. But first lets take a look at traffic this morning. We are going to start down in new jersey, u. S. Nine closed near, both directioned near indian trail road. Follow detour there. This is down the shore. Inland off of island but between wildwood and avalon it looks like, where u. S. Nine is closed, in word yet on why. The detour is listed. Guys . Another stormy night as kate lynn said with lots of lightening. This is what it looked like in center city overnight this hit in the evening right around 6 00 oclock, went until about eight or nine or 10 00 oclock there were Power Outages to tell but. Peco is recording 57,000 outages. Pse g says 595 outages and del marva is reporting 5700 outages in new castle county. For more on the damage in our area jen freddies in the news room what did you see driving in, jen. It is not as bad in Montgomery County and along the schuylkill. That is good news. Neighbors in the northeast are wondering how long before crews clean up the damage from last evenings storm. On newtown avenue this tree snapped in half. It damage part of the porch roof and a fence on this one home. Next door to that a mother says she had gotten out of the car with her twoyear old when that tree, came down on top of her car. It sounded like a big bomb. Very scary. She was screaming like crazy, you know, i just grabbed her and go to the bathroom. Scary night for many people. Heavy rain and wind also took down power lines, and, some houses on the block without power overnight. Storm damage, clean up underway, also in Chester County. The thursday nights rain storm, brought down several trees, and strong wind, and some of it was blamed for a house fire. Malverns fire chief says the wind thrustness to two power lines, and lit a home on fire. Luckily Fire Fighters put out the fire before it did get too serious. And when that storm started coming up, i noticed outside, it looked outside the dining room window and i saw these big, white sparks like fire works going on. Reporter if there is any good news in all of this it is that so far we have no reports of anyone injured because of the storm damage. The heres what we will do. I will get in the roving car. Im heading towards Chester County because right now that is where the bulk of the Power Outages are but we want to hear from you. Tweet me, facebook me, talk to me, email me, do whatever oe can to tell me where i should be heading. We were initially going to go towards bucks county, northeast philadelphia but we understand that the crews have much of that under control especially when were talking about the pout Power Outages. Right now we will head down i95 south toward Chester County to see what is going on. But if you have a big tree or something very visual or something you think we need to know about just go to facebook or twitter and tell us about it. Who are you going with, jen. Im going with michael. Good, he is a good driver. Is there a hash tag we will use this morning. Fox 29 storm. Yes good all right. Thanks, jen. Lets take a look at our breaking news coming in right now. Police are investigating a deadly double shooting in frankford. This happened shortly after 9 30 last night. This is 5200 block of akron street. Police say a 25 yearold man tied at temple hospital after being shot in the chest. The other victim, 25 was also shot in the leg, and is listed in stable condition. Neighbors in one Delaware County neighborhood say they are on high alert, after police say a man tried to lure two young girls into his car with the promise of candy this happened sunday around 7 00 p. M. On glendale boulevard in aston. Police say the girls age 11 and 14, were playing when the suspect stopped and told them he had candy and to go get in his car for that candy. Parents are now warning their kids about how to stay out of harms way. When someone wants help looking for a puppy, or trying to lure you to come towards the car, just run, run and find an adult. Police say the suspect is a man driving an older model gold four door sedan if you have any information you are asked to call the police. Some big doings happening in camden. The the city is honoring men and women who serve our country with the second ever Freedom Festival. One solute, nice job. Active duty and former members of the military signalled the start of the festival from the battleship new jersey yesterday over the next few days. Fire works will light the sky, live music will fill the air. You can also check out a mini fighter jet and new Jersey National guard hum vees. One veterans says days like this are really hard to put into words. It is somewhat overwhelming. Like i said, it is a great honor and that they would actually choose me to do this, it is a great honor for me to to so. The Freedom Festival lasts through sunday, active military veterans and their families get a big discount. Right now construction is underway to fix that bridge on i495 in delaware, what were now learning someone tried to do weeks before the bridge was shut down. And also rising from the ashes, how about this, the shirt cornerback opened, touching message the owner got from customers during the rough few months. Welcome back. You can clearly see where arthur is still a category two hurricane, that strengthened from category one to category two spinning along the North Carolina virginia coastline. This is where fourth is spoiled for the first part of the the day. As far down as south from Virginia Beach, norfolk and outer banks and eastern North Carolina they saw a lot of rain yesterday, last night. They are seeing it last night ape right now coming in band on the northern flange of that. It is close bias this southern del marva tip. Further northward, rain is a lot more scattered. It looks like towards our south. It looks like it will move right in our area for today but luckily arthur is still expect to take that eastward turn. That being said we have rain ourselves to deal work moving organized north and west. We are seeing showers from Chester County, berks county, allentown, mount pocono, raining there seeing a break in the city but we have some showers down the shore and southern delaware. We will expect southern delaware and the the shore point along new jersey coastline to be affect the most with this rain as arthur takes its north east ward turn. As a result Flash Flood Watches in effect until noon, the whole area, we are under the gun to see some rain. Fox future cast by 7 00 a. M. Heavy rain filling in parts of the delaware, south jersey, down the shore and by 10 00 a. M. You will see eastern new jersey coastline that is seeing the heavier rains. By noon time though is there arthur. We see heavy rain, all off shore. Still showers along shore points. It is cloudy and damp here in philadelphia by 4 00 oclock a big change. Left over shower. Otherwise sunnies out from west to east and it will be a really nice even of the day for many of us. Then by 8 00 oclock town the shore rain has moved out and we are seeing skies clear. Temperatures right now in the mid 70s. Your fire works forecast in the city 5 67 89 oclock on the parkway 79 degrees, partly cloudy skies. By 9 00 while fire works go on 72 under partly cloudy skies and a nice night. That is your fire works forecast, we will have your seven day, still ahead. Lets go to the roads and book to u. S. Nine and we will just mention this ten minutes ago, closed in both directions near indian trail road. Thinks due to the down pole probably due to last nights storm so follow posted detours. Patco running trains every 20 minutes friday and saturday due to the Holiday Weekend and burnt mill road is closed between spring mill road and norway road and alternate there is all the tenant bridge. Lets stay with travel here because delawares transportation secretary now says, caitlin, officials should havclosed that damage i495 bridge earlier. Transportation secretary says that investigators, documented a series of missteps leading up to the emergency closure of that bridge last month. We have also learned that an engineer email a warning back in may that bridge columns appeared to have been tilting. His tenth has implemented new procedure to make sure they respond more quickly and effectively from here on out. Rough weather is putting a damper on those down the shore. Arthur churning in the atlantic and expect to make it rough for those looking to enjoy the water because it can be dangerous cue to the rip current that are a big concern. Drew dickman spoke to the member have the beach patrol and what you can do to stay safe. Many directions, the ocean. They say dont go in the water, were not going in the water. It is scary. Reporter parents and children are taking note as rip currents more powerful than usual are hitting the jersey shore. But with the storm coming mark jamison with the Ocean City Beach patrol say rip currents run further in the ocean making it more dangerous. When there is increased storm surge, increased chance of head injury and you might want to ride waves, but with the storm surge they will break in Shallow Water and they will have what we call flash, rips, where water comes up and pulls out with the storm surge. Reporter jamison says there are three general ways to spot a rip current. You will notice discolored water flowing begins the grain of the ocean. You may see a flat spot with the slick, oily look. Section of what looked like white foam is another sign that the the water is going out to sea. Youll find them on beach west jetties or pipes, natural man mate structure that cause a hole. That water exits out through that hole f you go to the beach where is there not a jetty or pipe it will create a depth spot and that is where it will exit. Reporter the last sunday a current swept away a 14 yearold boy swimming at ninth street beach in ocean city. Authorities believe they have found corry ham on body near the longport bridge h that tragedy is in the back of parents mind especially with the water being more dangerous than usual this weekend. Yes, it is pretty scary, i have a 13 yearold son and a ten yearold so it is pretty scary. Reporter drew dickman, fox 29 news. That is a big concern those rip tides. 4 16. There was a fire that destroyed an olde City Building but could not keep the decades old business down. They have made a come back and quickly. The new shirt corner officially opened yesterday. The grand opening is going on throughout the entire july 4th weekend. Store moved just a few blocks down Market Street. It is at seventh and Market Street. Back in april, you may remember, the flames ripping through that building. We have covered it all morning on good day. It had the shirt corner for 60 years, the stores owner Gary Ginsburg said he reopened as quickly as he could. All of my customers were waiting for me to open up, calling me at home, all of the stores were calling me saying gary, what do you have that these customers want because we cannot even wait on them. They are waiting for to you open up. We never saw so many people that with waiting for to you open up. How nice is that . Ginsburg says he was able to keep all of his employees what a classy guy, investigators are still looking into what ignite that had april fire. Final preparations are now underway for tonights wawa welcome america concert right on the parkway with names such as nickie men aj, Jennifer Hudson in the line up. This will be a big one. But, officials, they are taking things pretty seriously here with the large crowd expect you can expect to see new security measures all to keep you safe, however, right now officials are not giving out any specifics but they say there are some things you can do to make their job easier and to keep you safe. As far as security, obviously clear bags. Stay away from the cooler, stay away from things that we cannot the see inside. Those kinds of things we dont need and it will tax our ability to sit back and just get some stuff done. Youll see extra security cameras on the parkway today, the locations, however are secret but evidently they will be out there so you might not see them. This is what it looks like on the parkway after the storm, trees were up rooted, portable potties were tossed right over. Yuck. Clean up was quick, and thousands prepared for tonights big fourth of july celebration. Jennifer hudson in town, karen. Speaking with Jennifer Hudson on our good day show all morning long. It is 4 19. Vicepresident joe biden will be in philadelphia today taking part in the celebration have of freedom ceremony at independent hall, and annual event includes music, speeches and reading of excerpts from the declaration of independence. Todays ceremony will recognize 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act and 60th anniversary of Supreme Court decision ending school segregation. 4 19. Government is warning Al Qaeda Linked terrorist are ratcheting up their efforts. They are saying they are trying to target planes at airports overseas. Specifically planes with direct flights to our country. Officials believe that terror groups may be trying to create explosives, that xray machines and metal detectors cannot the detect. Home land security says it has no specific threat but they are trying to stay one step ahead of the terrorist so they would have extra scrutiny on flights heading to america. Judge denies bond for georgia dad accused of leaving his toddler in the hot car to die. At thursdays Court Hearing many were stunned Justin Ross Harris faces murder and child cruel can i charges after leaving his 22 monthold son cooper back in the car for seven hours. The attorneys say harris was preoccupied, sending sexually explicit messages and pictures to as many as six women while his kid sat in the hot car. They say there was no evidence he was unhappy in his marriage. Unhappen any his marriage, we plan to show he wanted to live a child free life and is there evidence to suggest that based on his internet searches reporter plus revealed harris and his wife, childs mother, had two Life Insurance policies on that boy. California Officials Say that a stubborn wild fire in napa county had damaged two homes but it is in the holding a threat to the famous vineyards, the fire has destroyed, near will 4300 acres and several evacuations of those, close by, in polk valley. There are in reports of any injuries. That is good news. It has been so dry there and we have had quite a round have rain there yesterday, karen. We have fire works with lightening, we had once again, caitlin we had a lot of violent weather and a lot of rain. Do you have any idea how much rain we had or if there is any Flooding Issues on this day. No Flooding Issues as far as rainfall amounts we have not gotten a list of what has come out but i would guess an inch, and another inch, last night so wednesday night, thursday night, we will see a little bit more today. Once that comes out we will be sure to let you know there is still a Flash Flood Watch in effect. The lets go town the shore where we will talk about the highest impacts due to arthur. This is still going to bring nasty weather today. Raining there now. We expect rain and thunderstorms throughout the day. It is not clearing out until late afternoon. Biggest thing is rip current risk is high with swells to four to 5 feet. That will pull you out quickly. It is dangerous. Do not go out in the ocean, it is so stormy but we expect rip current risk to remain high through the weekend. They will pull you out quickly. Best thing you can do if you feel that tug while out there is to a, not panic. Swim parallel to the shore. Follow guidelines of not swimming alone and swim with life guards only when they are present obey the warnings. Will youll see the flags out on the beach today. That is a look at your shore forecast. Lets get back to the roads where we have changes due to mass transit the because of the holiday schedule. The septa has all a mass transit lines operating on a sunday schedule. Youll see delays and detours throughout the the city. Thinks due to the parade. Regional rail operating with a special late night schedule though. Patcoes running every 20 minutes on friday and saturday due to the Holiday Weekend, karen. Thanks, caitlin. How about the fightin phillies, the the bull pen, blows the lead but then miami helps give it back to the phillies, highlights from last nights game coming up in sports. Good morning, im howard eskin, phillies finally won a game, it was first time in the week after a six game losing streak but they did have help from the miami marlins. Lets go to miami, ninth inning, phillies down fourthree Jimmy Rollins man on third and one out. Second base man comes home. Probably shouldnt have done that. Bouncer ties the game up at four. Next batter up, chase utley this should have been a double play bail but second base man bobbles, gets one out, there was a man on third, he scores, fivefour phillies win and break their losing streak. In the womans final it is set at wimbledon after semi and petra is one of the finalist, here, right here, winning the the match, straight and she wins in the near court and she wins sevensix, sixone. She plays Eugene Bouchard in the finals and that is on saturday. Quarter finals of the world cup that is today. That is sports in the minute. Im howard eskin. Thanks, hour. Today marks seventh fifth anniversary of what could be one of the most famous speech necessary sports history. Lou gehrig announcing he is retiring due to als. Today i consider myself the luckiest on the face of the earth. I have an awful lot to look forward to. He appeared in june form for eight games in 1939 after hitting. 295 and 29 home runs in 1938. The disease als is now named in his honor. Lou gehrig, lou gehrigs disease. 4 27 is the time. Florida mandy sides it is good idea to wrestle a who will gator. What he told two teens who ended upcoming to his rescue straight ahead. Epic melt down why this law maker sobbed and screamed in front of the thousands as cross the Delaware Valley without power, we are checking out damage live. Before we pack up the kids and head down the shore we have a very important warning for parents this morning, how hurricane arthur is stirring up very dangerous waters. The. This was insane. Thank you. A local vet blown away by a surprised home coming what he thought was happening, outside have of his window. Of course, Everyone Wants to know about the fire works where you can catch the festivities all around our Delaware Valley and which may have been moved due to these storms. I know where you wont see them tonight, well, on penns landing. I park there. Because Market Street is shut down in preparation for all of the events today but evident thely and there is a fine i will tweet out showing that there are no fire works along penns landing tonight. Wow. That is the sign i saw. I want visual proof of this but we will check with the city on all have of this. Were having an internal debate. We will chat and get right back to you, and it is the the fourth of july as we appreciate you warning us. Some parades may be moved so we will break that down. Caitlin what do we expect. Heres what we have been saying, we knew we would be clearing out well in time for fire work so hopefully not seeing too many cancellations. Dreary weather is for the shore. We will all see rain this morning. The heres why. Arthur still a cat two hurricane churning accredits North Carolina and virginia coastline bringing heavy rain to the the outer banks, all the way up to norfolk through Virginia Beach and ocean city, maryland will start to see heavy rain zooming in closer, it is pushed out of south caroline, wilmington and made land fall last night as cat two. Some rain starting to make its way northward we have scattered showers, many of which north of west of philadelphia. Light rain, pushing through chester and Delaware County, otherwise lancaster, berks, allentown, mount pocono we are seeing steadier rain. We have steady rains moving in salisbury, southern delaware and as arthur makes a northeast ward turn we are seeing most of the rain in southern delaware and new jersey coastline. Flash flood watch is out until noon time today, 74 in the city, wind north at 6 miles an hour. Seventyfour but already starting to feel more comfortable. Dew points are dropping, that cold front that brought storms yesterday will bring cooler air. Thinks coming off a heat wave, three days in a row in the 90s, yesterday 92. Day before 96 and we were in the lower 90s on tuesday as well. For to daze our high is only 79. Much cooler. Wind will be gusting later today. Do i want to emphasize that because we will get the very gusty wind around the area. Twenty to 30 miles an hour wind later today with late day sunshine. It will look prettier. For tonight, skies clear, very comfortable, temperatures falling in the 60s and remains breezy. That is your fox cast for the city, much more to come on your full forecast. To the roads we have a lot have of events happening in the city, thinks for celebration of freedom ceremony from 10 00 a. M. To 11 00 a. M. Independence day parade from 11 00 a. M. To 2 30. Party on the parkway june until 7 00 p. M. The july fire works, from 7 00 to 11 00. Septa has almas transit lines operating on a sunday schedule. Expect delays at bus routes as there are detours throughout the parade. Regional rail operating with a special late night schedule. Patco running every 20 minutes on friday and saturday due to the Holiday Weekend, chris. Check out lightening over city hall and Severe Weather moved through the area. Beautiful shot. There are Power Outages due to the storm last night, peco reporting about 56,000 outages. Pse g says there are 595 outageness new jersey and del marva is reporting 7500 outageness new castle county. More information on this from jennaphr fredrick, shes in the news room or the at least was, shes roving now. We will check with jen fred. Good morning, jen in the roving vehicle, what is going on, what do you see. Reporter heres the thing. We have been driving through south philadelphia, i95 south, we are on our way to Chester County. We are basically heading to the West Chester University neighborhood because we are being told that there are some down trees, possible damage, potentially some Power Outages there. We do know that there is Power Outages in Chester County. So that is the the reason why were headed that way. If you are waiting until this morning to get away, the roads are clear, there is not a lot of ponding or water or anything on the any of the major roads. Were talking about 95 or the schuylkill. We have heard that the remaining Power Outages are in Chester County. Earlier today we were thinking we would be head to go bucks county, northeast philadelphia but we do know that those areas where there were Power Outages have been restored. Bottom line, guys we are asking people via twit error facebook if there is damage in your neighborhood, looking outside, please do us a favor and let us know so we can head to your area. Again right now headed to the west chester area neighborhood, guys. Thanks, jen. Jersey shore water may look inviting this fourth of july but authorities are warning vacationers to proceed with caution. Jennifer joyce joins with us more on those warnings and rip currents are real issue out there at sea. Reporter it is and unfortunately given the weather it is in the so inviting to be out here. There is a lot of rain and lots of fog down the boardwalk. However it could clear up later today. If you do brave this weather for a spot in the sand you need to be extra careful venturing in the ocean. Hurricane arthur is already producing choppy waters here at the new jersey shore. The the Ocean City Beach patrol says as of yesterday waves were already two to 3 feet higher then normal. Big concern is rip currents. They are expect to be strong these afternoon as the storm moves up the coast. Mark jamison with the Ocean City Beach patrol says there are three ways to spot a rip current. For one youll notice discolored water flowing against the the grain of the ocean. You may see a flat spot or a slick end oily spot to look at. The lastly a white foam which is an indication that the the water is going out to sea. Jamison warns that these rip currents can easily produce injuries. When there is increased storm surge, increased chance of head injury. You might want to go out and ride waves but with the storm surge they will break in Shallow Water. We will have a flash rips where water comes up and pulls out with the storm surge. We have talk to parents yesterday on the beach and they say they will be listening to life guards this weekend and if they are advised to stay out of the water they will follow those instructions as they do not want to take any chances. The these warnings come just days after a 14 yearold boy was violently suck under water in a rip current. And then we heard news yesterday thates were will an alligator and doesnt turnout quite as he planned. Yes claims he went in there after it. A law maker, throws a fit in front of the whole room of reporters, why the crying and screaming. Good morning, welcome back, 4 41 a. M. On this friday fourth of july. If you are up early that mens you have to work just like we are or maybe just getting ready to hit the roads. Yesterday we saw the storms in the evening which is good, we have the whole daze to travel if you needed to do so but might have been slowed down anytime with those rough storms that have caused wind damage and power outage. In reports of flooding just yet but we will wait and see as rain continues to fill in. There is ultimate doppler right now, it doesnt look too bad and all steady stuff is towards the the south, we are looking at some, pretty organized showers north and west, this is mainly from lancaster through allentown. Very the scattered showers down the shore, northern flange of arthur a category two hurricane has made it to the del marva along the maryland peninsula and those steady showers moving into delaware and south jersey where we are watching for heavy rains for the rest of this morning. Lets look at your, seven day forecast because we are off to a soggy start for some but morning rain will give way to sunshine later today. It will be a much nicer afternoon. Cooler, less humid but windy, gusts over 30 miles an hour as arthur departs and a cold front moves out. Much nicer for the weekend. We have two, tens, 84 saturday, 87 sun take with lower humidity and sunshine. Great to be at the shore. Watch out for rip current risk and we will see that remain high through the rest of the Holiday Weekend. That is your seven day forecast, lets check out the the parkway. That is scheduled to be closed due to the concert and fire works going on later tonight. It is closed from 11 00 a. M. Today for the party on the parkway. Those fire works tonight and tomorrow night the fire works will be at penns landing. A florida mandy side it is good idea toes were will a alligator but this did not work out so well. What he told two teens who work out so well. What he told two teens who came to his rescue straight the answer to treating your dogs fleas and ticks is staring you right in the face. Nexgard, from the makers of frontline® plus. 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This japanese politician is the latest internet sensation, reporters were asking him about allegations he spent 300 you this dollars on personal things, when he broke down. Japanese Officials Say, lawmakers received 5,000 a in for personal expensive, and this has now gone viral. Murder trial of Oscar Pistorius has been add urined until monday. Yesterday a sports physician testified that pistorius acted on a fight or flight impulse when he fired through a bathroom door killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp prosecutors say he took his gun out of the holster and opened fire. An overpass under construction, collapses and killing two people. It happened in the city hosting the world cup. It crashed the front end of the passenger bus. Two trucks and another vehicle were smashed bye it wasnt finish in time. A florida man by the off more than he can chew when he tried to wrestle an alligator. There were some teenagers who managed to rescue him. They will now explain what the guy was thinking. I dont know what was going through his head because would i never even attempt Something Like that. This is one of those only in florida stories. Yes, i just cant believe that he actually tried to wrestle a gator. You heard him right, 18 yearold Daniel Butler says a 29 yearold man attack an alligator not the other way around. Crazy. Daniel and his buddy, ryan were hanging out near the shoreline at the the park in mulberry, they ran across matthew pope, who claimed his dog was just eaten by an alligator and he was looking for revenge so he jump in the water. Tried to grab the gator by the snout and the the gator got upset and broke free from his grip, and proceeded to bite the man on the right arm. Reporter it got worse. The the gator dragged him under and he was gone for a few seconds, he came up, screaming because he was hurt, asking for help. Reporter sixteen yearold ryan did what most of us would not. I just jumped in. Reporter then daniel jumped in too. I went to grab it by the belly and when i touched it gator freak outlet go and took off. They helped out of the water but his arm was in bad shape. Ran over and called 911, and stuff like that. Pope was rush to the hospital. Wild life officials trapped and killed the gator but it turns out that the dog tail may have been just that. A tail. We heard later that he felt he didnt have have a dog, another dog just trying to get the the gator. I believe he thought his experience level was a little bit higher then it actually was and obviously i dont think he will be doing it again. Reporter gloria gomez, fox news. Rock band sticks and far evener are saying thanks in the big way after firemen extinguished a fire on their tour buses earlier this week. The band will donate last nights show in camden to the philadelphia fire department. Local 22 widows fun. We showed you this scene on wednesday. A fire on one of the buses spread to the other. Two buses were parked in Northern Liberties when this happened. Nobody was hurt. Their concert was at Susquehanna Bank center went out. Band themselves, were in insuring when this fire broke out. Just in time for the the fourth, a heros welcome. Private first class joe jones the third is back home he spent 11 months in afghanistan. Family and friend turned out in audubon, to say thank you for your service. Generals had no idea what was going on. This was insane. I went outside and saw something was going down outside. I saw the cop cars. I saw warriors watch behind them. It was breathtaking. Thank you for your work, generals has been a member of the National Guard since 2012. He spent time last toning thank those who served before him. A lot going on in camden. City is honoring men and with men who served with the second ever Freedom Festival. One, solute, nice job. Active duty and former members of the military signalled the start of the festival from the battleship, new jersey yesterday. Over the next few days fire works will light up the sky and live music will fill the air. You can check out a fighter jet and new Jersey National guard hum vees, one veteran says days like this are really hard to put into words. It is somewhat overwhelming. As you said, it is a great honor, and that they would actually choose me to do this, it is a great honor for me to do so. The Freedom Festival lasts through sunday and active military veterans and family get a discount. 4 51. There is so many events happening in and around our city in the greater Delaware Valley. Caitlin what are we expecting this day in terms of the events going off. I think it might be a soggy start for parades for morning events, you will have rain, and then turning windy in the afternoon morning rain giving way to late day sunshine. We will see skies clear later on and tonight looks nice. It is more comfortable. We are in the dealing with any heat today. Let update arthur category two hurricane made land fall. Currently 40 miles north of Cape Hatteras but from now where it is on the North Carolina virginia border bringing heavy rain the two beach towns there supposed to make a northeasterly turn. Not going straight up del marva in new jersey. It will move largely out to sea. By tonight off the coast of cape cod, long island and then moving in the canadian mar times by saturday and biggest impact with arthur will be rough surf and high rip currents we are seeing today. Fox future cast shows heavy rain will filth inner to delaware, new jersey, by 10 00 a. M. Raining down the the the shore. Continues to rain all morning. Rain looks limited here in philadelphia Flash Flood Watch out the but only flooding concern will be in southern delaware and our shore points and then into tonight it doesnt look so bad. Not looking like we will get too much rain here in the city, forecasted rainfall amount only about an inch and that is down the shore. Doesnt take much there and they are coming off a night of rain. Still a concern. Fire works 5 00 p. M. In the city. Seventynine with sunshine. Breezy tonight. Seventytwo by 9 00 p. M. And much better end to the fourth. That is your fire works forecast new back to traffic this morning where we have been talking about some closures, ben franklin parkway closed from 11 00 a. M. To 11 00 p. M. Expect lane closures to continue into a saturday. Also expect road closures beginning 10 00 a. M. Due to the independent day parade, intersection of sixth and chestnut and end of the intersection from front street and Market Street. Those are two close another toss avoid as we go through the rest of the day, chris and karen. Thanks, very much. Again ben franklin parkway is place where we will see all kind of fire works, and fun tonight and of course we will have live reports throughout the evening. With the nickname like kaboom town you have to live up to your name so the town that set off this fire works displ. Kaboom town celebrates a fourth of july, half Million People turnout for one of the nations biggest fourth of july celebrations, thinks 30th year of the event, officials reportedly will start planning next years celebration, next week. A preview of what we will see here in the Delaware Valley tonight. A pit bull brought back from the brink when philadelphia fire fighter stepped into save her, how he found the backup he needed on line. Also, the final touches are underway for todays wawa welcome america concert on the parkway. You may notice new security changes how you can help happy fourth of july, 5 00 oclock in the morning a lot of people heading down the shore, threat from hurricane arthur, however is looming and as you can keep your family safe in the water. Last nights storm left a path have of destruction. Check out this, a toppled tree right under a car and our jen freddies live checking out the the damage. Caitlin roth is standing by with the holiday forecast. Were off to a stormy start for most of us, we will have rain today in the forecast but we will clear out for fire works and rest of the weekend. Threats still lumen they sun comes out. Ill explain, coming up. All right. Yeah, what is up with the dog and the
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