People just started rushing out of the parkway here. You could see the horses therely its Philadelphia Police mounted patrol and you may be able to see some people coming out right now. Nicky minaj is on stage and stopped her set actually for a few minutes because there was a report of a scuffle and an officer even being tackled, and what i noticed was people just rushing all the way out. It was such a steady flow of people that i was actually pinned between a young family as we were trying to get in to do our live shot pinned up between them an gate. So kind of a scary situation here but the Philadelphia Police rushed in and it looks like things are under control or heading towards control but you know what, this is a good event. A great time out here too despite this situation. We want to show you some of the highlights from the night so far. They are your hometown house band legendary roots are back with the sound track at the wawa welcome america philly fourth of july jam. Once again they brought some friends from the iconic to the soulful pop of vicky martinez. The friday night fun bringing out the young and young at heart from all over. Coming from new york to this, wow im still taking it all in. Im a little baloney way. I did not expect to be doing what im doing right now fourth of july. Happy fourth of july i think its going to be really exciting. This is like the first time ive ever gone to something this big and its all free so its awesome. Reporter everyone is here with a favorite. Im really excited to see one of the reasons i want to come out. One big name kept coming up. Nicky. Nicky minaj. Nicky is my girl. Shes killing it right now. Nicky minaj seen here doing a sound check before her show. You would almost think she was the headline act. I think what shes doing in a male dominated industry is pretty amazing. Shes my girl. I love her. Reporter nicky minaj finishing up. Fireworks around 11 15 tonight. Fireworks. A brief scuffle that took place here lot of people rushing out of here after a fight and a report that a Police Officer may have been tackled as well but cops have rushed n it looks like everything is under control. Lucy . Of course, well have the very latest on myfoxphilly. Com. Thank you so much, dave kinchen reporting live on the parkway. Beautiful around here as you can see behind dave but a hurricane is just off our shore. To your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Arthur losing strength now back down to category one hurricane tonight. And North Carolina folks are surveying the damage tonight. A lot of flooding you see right there to contend with. Thankfully we have no reports of injuries. On top of the latest chief meteorologist Scott Williams whats happening right now, scott . Hi, lucy. Hi, everyone. Beautiful conditions across our area this fourth of july evening as we look at philadelphia, you can see were dry, were quiet, the cloud cover is diminishing but look at hurricane arthur. Its pulling away racing rapidly to the northeast right now at 28 Miles Per Hour. Still a cat one hurricane. Winds at 80 Miles Per Hour. But that system is moving well away. But take a look at the past fourth of july high temperatur temperatures. Typically were in the 90s this time of year. Todays high only 78 degrees. So that means its the coldest fourth of july so far this decade. How about that . 71 degrees right now stepping outdoors. Comfortable for fireworks, backyard barbecue. Humidity only in the low 40s. So beautiful weather. 66 right now in wilmington. Um per 50s even in the pocono mountains. Mid 60s right now down the shore. Still a little breezy winds gusting at times over 20 Miles Per Hour. But look at the forecast for saturday morning. Were talking 50s and low 60s. Open up those windows let fresh air in. That complete weekend forecast lucy is coming. Talk to you then, scott. Though arthur did cast a shadow over some fourth of july celebrations, the seasons first named storm has not wreaked widespread damage but it did rain on the parade of holiday revelers. Foxs jonathan surry is in the outerbanks with how the aftermath of arthur is going. Reporter hurricane arthur crossed the outerbanks during the Early Morning hours pushing water, sand and debris on to portions of highway 12 and temporarily cutting off access to hatteras island. But the storm even with 100 Miles Per Hour winds caused far less damage to homes and businesses than many had feared. Happy fourth of july. This has been actually a very good day. There have been no casualties or serious injuries reported, and that was our number one goal. So that puts a big smile on all our faces. Reporter the storm departed on a northeast path taking it south of cape cod but losing strength over cooler waters. Arthur cannot have come at a worst time for tourists who flocked to the outerbanks and droves each year for Independence Day vacations. Many decided to hunker down on the islands and make the hurricane part of the experien experience. Were you scared . No. No. Not at all. It was, um, pretty funny actually because my dad was scared. Maybe not scared but we were prepared. We wanted to ride it out. This is our once a year vacation and once in a lifetime experience here at the outerbanks. Reporter given it was a category two, um, i was expecting it to be a lot worse. Reporter Surf School Owner Robert Farmer has run various Small Businesses on the outerbanks for two decades. He says, he learned to put the storms in perspective. Its a risk being here, but, um, you know, theres a reason people vacation here. Reporter despite arthurs bad timing the storm system moved out of here pretty quickly and beach goers wasted no time in returning. Now that the sun is poking in and out of the clouds, many of these coastal communities have decided to go ahead with their planned Independence Day celebrations over the long Holiday Weekend. In kill definitely hills, North Carolina, jonathan serrie, fox news. Not the greatest beach day. Some people braced it and contended with rain and wind in the morning and rough surf all day. Still the shore is a popular spot over this long Holiday Weekend and fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose joins us live from ocean city. Last time we talked at 6 00 the surf was definitely up. Looks like now the crowds are up. Reporter yeah, thats right. The bad beach weather is really not affecting the crowds along this boardwalk. It is so packed with people out there you can see waving at the camera everybody happy having a good time on the rides and in and out of the these local businesses. Really just a festive mood down here at the shore for the kick off to the Holiday Weekend. The late evening sun finally bursting through the clouds sending a it will billowing red, white and blue. Like some good wind but not like this. Perfect july 4th to fly her technicolor kite. I like it because i can like steer it back and forth. Reporter rough waters and rip tied just beyond those breakers stopped swimmers short of going all in. It wasnt a total wipe out. The waves are great. Good for surfing. Schools of surfers taking advantage of the unsettled seas. This is a middle of the august, end of august, beginning of september kind of water. This is very ive been guard for long long time and i dont remember anything like this on july 4th. Normally its sunny and calm and peaceful. Reporter beach patrol keeping an eye on the shore line as hurricane arthur turns up the atlantic ocean. The resulting rip tides is snag even the most experienced swimmers. Try to relax. Ride the rip out. Because it will take you out ways but sooner or later it will dissipate and then you can swim sideways like a along the beach a little bit and come in where the rip current isnt. Its obvious that people are being very cautious today. Nobody on the beach. Only the surfers in the water. Reporter maryann among the pools of vacationers pouring into the jersey shore this weekend. In great spirits already, but nonetheless by the promise of comradry ahead. Well be ringing in our teenaged boys tomorrow. You got to watch them. Absolutely. 15 and 14 year old will want to be going out further. Ill be standing by the edge of the water watching. Reporter and back here live, you can see out there in the distance still very rough seas much those waves are breaking pretty high. Now its supposed to calm down a little bit later this weekend but those dangers for the rip currents still going to be very very apparent. So of course have great weekend but stay safe. Lucy, back to you. All right sabina. You can get the latest weather conditions by going to myfoxphilly. Com and clicking the weather tab. Youll find the latest forecast and of course live radar. Developing right now the search for the shooter put a man in the hospital. Police arrived at the 2500 block of ridge avenue just past 5 00 this afternoon. Thats in philadelphias strawberry mansion. A 23 year old man ended up shot several times in the head in the arm and in the groin. He is hospitalized tonight in critical condition. In Atlantic County community is on alert following a series of garage break ins. Hamilton Township Police say thieves are targeting sheds and garages and stealing everything from power tools to mountain bikes. Officers are now asking residents to be on the look out and obviously report anything suspicious. Neighbors say theyre on top of it. Are you kidding me . Oh, my gosh it doesnt make me feel comfortable at all. Our garage is usually open when were home. But it is what it is. You know, you cant i dont know. I guess theres so much badness out there you cant live every day in fear. Police say the thieves have been striking at night typically when everyone is asleep. In Cumberland County watermelon shut down part of interstate 81. Three people are on the mend after their pick up overturned this morning. A load of mellons spilling all over the highway. Crews worked for hours to clean up that mess and the pick up driver, his wife and friend and are all seriously injured. A baby chokes on a chicken bone by the side of the road. Up next, a cop says one thing helped him save the day. Plus, celebrating july 4th as only philadelphia can. The crazy characters who came out to celebrate americas birthday, and the city where it all began. Scott . And lucy, of course, beautiful conditions tonight. What about the upcoming weekend we have the details coming up. And scott, check this out. Whats the fourth of july without fireworks . Love these thing. Heres a taste of show in audubon, camden county. Very nice. Lots of fireworks shows throughout the weekend. Head to myfoxphilly. Com for an entire list. In florida, an 11 month old boy is recovering in the hospital after choking on a chicken bone and things could have turned out much worse had it not been for the quick actions of two sarasota Police Officers. They noticed a disturbance on the side of the road and jumped into action. Neighbor gave little rile land gibbs a piece of chicken had a bone in it and the baby started choking. His mother who doesnt want to be identified had no idea what to do. He was gagging a lot, foaming at the mouth, lips turning blue, face turning blue, his eyes were in the back of his head. When training kicked in, um, and i i grabbed the baby and started giving we named it the infant heimlich. The mom says shes forgiven the neighbor and shes just glad her son is here to celebrate his very first birthday. applause . And such a happy fourth of july for 13 children. They gathered today at the betsy ross house in old city to become our nations newest citizens. Ages eight to 14 years old, these Young Americans came from countries that include the united kingdom, myanmar and cambodia. Welcome aboard. And back here at home in roxborough, actually in roxborough, a celebration of our nations birth Salvation Army of philadelphia led the 184th annual Independence Day parade of churches and sunday schools. Big name for a big event including bands and marchers and all kinds of drummers, too. Fourth of july festivities on going, of course, and they started early at Independence Hall. Patriotic music filling the air for the celebration of freedom ceremony. Hundreds soaked it all in. Mayor michael nutter, vicepresident joe biden and other dignitaries were on hand. The program featured music and reading the declaration of independence. This years ceremony recognized that the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the courageous spirit of those who fought for equal rights. During the Civil Rights Movement people paid for their freedoms wither time and their lives. Today we must ask ourselves what am i willing to do to help my fellow citizen, my neighbor, my community . Following a ceremony the Independence Day parade featuring floats and dancers made its way from Independence Hall through center city and wrapped up at front and chestn chestnut. The centerpiece of the fourth of july is always always Independence Mall writ really all began. It is the American Experience on display across a couple of city blocks. Our bruce gordon tonight takes in the sites and sounds quite the birthday party. Reporter once again celebrated americas birthday 238 years old but still spry for our age, it was possible to experience the highs and lows of our nations culture without every leaving the mall. Reporter we are patriotic. We are the worlds melting pot. Were the leaders of the free world. And we can be very weird. For the record darth vader did not lead troops against the british. And it would be tacky to point out that this septa bus is ru running about 44 years behind schedule. Declaration of independence is the signature document in a revolution that shocked the world but today we remember little of its contents. Any particular phrase come to mind . Were the people. Thats the constitution. But reporter but ask anyone who lives or even visits this place and them they will give you the gist of the declaration. It means like freedom for everyone, like, like devil acceptance for everyone. Individualism. You feel that being fully realized. Its something that we fought for and our freedom. Weve earned it. Reporter freedom may not be free on but on this day the red, white and blue cupcakes were which may explain why the cupcake dwarfed the gathering for the reading of the declaration odeclaration. That line was delivered just across the street from the home where our nations first president kept slaves. Reminder that not all of the promises of this amazing document have been kept. Every man should be created equal and no bias. Thats the way i feel about it. Reporter you dont feel were there yet. No. Reporter so many people we talked expressed disappointment in our nation offers proof of one of its great strengths, freedom of expression. They can practice whatever religion what, whatever politics they want, and they cant do that in a lot of other places in this world. Reporter no, they cant. Which may explain why this party is nots much about a place or even a country as an idea. Reporter on Independence Mall, bruce gordon, fox 29 news. You saw from bruces pictures right there, a little bit of rain. A lot of wind this morning. Fox 29 weather court chief meteorologist Scott Williams and it is glorious tonight. It was beautiful for our station barbecue. We did. We were right in the back patio. We had shrimp. We all kinds of stuff going. Wonderful. Beautiful conditions for a barbecue as well as those fireworks. Earlier a lot of folks were on edge thinking the weather was going to ruin a lot of plans, but even though it turned out that be really nice day. You were talking three days ago saying its going to be fine. Believe me, its going to be fine. It was. Temperatures in the low 70s. Humidity is comfortable as well. Beautiful conditions. It is still a little breezy those winds at times gusting over 20 Miles Per Hour. But the high today only in the 70s. 78 degrees. We should have high temperatures in the upper 80s for this time of year so well below average for the fourth of july. Temperatures area wide right now its cool in the pocono mountains in the 50s mid 60s in millville. 63 in lancaster. Look at those winds. You can see gusting over 25 Miles Per Hour in the philadelphia area. The satellite and radar showing arthur pulling well aways away. We have dry, breezy conditions. Clear skies and watch the clock. Saturday, wall to wall sunshine across the area. Saturday night, beautiful for fireworks. Sunday, more of the same. Sunshine so the weekend looking good. A pair of tens in the offing. Fireworks for tonight, 61 degrees for the low. 50s in the suburbs. So a little cool and then down the shore the danger still rip currents. Ocean temperatures around 60 degrees. So the water is a little cool because of upwelling but dont forget that sunscreen. What about the pocono mountains dry, mid 70s saturday. Upper 70s on sunday. So just beautiful, get outdoors, enjoy. But look at the temperatures as we head back into the upcoming work week. Hazy, hot, yes, humid, 92 for the high on monday. And then tuesday, wednesday, thursday, back into the upper 80s, low 90s. You get the daytime heating with all of that moisture and humidity. Popup showers and thunderstorms are likely but once again its beautiful tonight. Beautiful for the weekend. But there is still a danger in the water with those rip currents. Thats absolutely right. Got to be careful. Beautiful when it counts which is perfect. In the mood for some sports, good. Because Colleen Wolfe is in the house. Look at that. Lucy, this story, this is crazy here. Joey chestnut wins big today at the annual hotdog eating contest but his championship wasnt the belt prize of the day. And changer for the world cup host country. What happened to change major this is home box come to hhgreggs 4th of july sale and save up to 30 storewide plus, up to an extra 500 more when you buy multiple major appliances. Get this samsung French Door Refrigerator for only 999. Or a samsung 51 hdtv for just 398. Get savings storewide on amazing deals and the boxes they come in. Come to hhgregg. And fill your home with happy. So many celebrated the fourth the phillies spent the day struggling. They managed just two hits the entire game in a night to forg forget. Well, of course, unless youre a pirates fan. Then this was a party. This little guy knows. Hes so stinking cute. The pirates they score four runs in the first including this mercer rbi single two runs score and the pirates go up four to nothing. Then in the second, Andrew Mccutcheon he sends this one out to left center and ben revere and tony gwynn jr. Both going for the catch and they collide instead. Mccutcheon gets the triple and they definitely get a headache from that. Pirates now seventwo lead in the eighth. Mccutcheon homerun shy of cycle and its off the wall. Scores a run though and the pirates go on to win eighttwo the final. Into the world cup brazil and columbia look to advance to the semi finals. Brazil with the early one to nothing lead. And in the 68th minute david lewis puts them up twozero. But this is what everyone is talking about. The 87th minute n a. M. Ar gets need from behind and hes not exaggerating. He has a fractured vertebrae and will remain out for the rest of the world cup. Thats a huge blow to brazil. Even though they beat columbia twoone. And in wimbledo wimbledon ses Roger Federer in the near court. Now federer rushes the net and slams to win in straight sets and hell take on a familiar face top seeded Novak Djokovic in the finals taking on today. Match point, here it comes there we go. There he is. Looking nice there. Now, he comes in to play the volley and rips the four hand into the corner to advance to his 14th grand slam final. Finally what could be morrow man tick than the annual nathans hotdog eating contest. Right. I dont know. Well, im sure you can think of plenty of things but for the winner Joey Chestnut this is a place he would eat 61 hotdogs after proposing to his long time girlfriend. He takes home the mustard yellow belt an fiance, too. Not bad way to kick off the Holiday Weekend, right . Its amazing. By the way shes one of those power eaters too. A match made in heff vin. This guy. Hes four days before his big thing he actually powers down 40 dogs. Next day doesnt eat anything. Next day he does a protein shake and its time for the big contest. That is quite the preparation right there. Listen, happy birthday america and hope you had a great fourth of july. Thank you for spending your friday night with us. Join us for fox 29 news tomorrow night at 6 00 p. M. 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