Celebrating americas 239th birthday. Friday night airport big story is celebration of this countrys independence and tonight in the tristate it was amid Summer Nights dream. Philly pops filled Independence Mall with pate real estate otic music and as always the crowd loved it. Hundred of thousandsch folks migrated to the beaches and boardwalks of the jersey shore. Meteorologist cecily tynan is standing by with the weekend accuweather forecast Annie Mccormick is live on the ben franklin parkway and first we go live to action News Reporter jeff rheriko is bursting at the steams for the big holiday weekend. When you think of perfect days at the shore this is one weather is ideal and all though the fire wokz ended an hour ago plenty of cities some dont want it to come to an end. The sky over the jersey shore lit up as the 4th of july weekend kiktd off with a bang there was more than fireworks over the sky in wildwood and we found vacationers posing for selfies and packing boardwalk and these girls game from philly to the weekend. Whats your first thing to do. Rides. Water park. Eat. If women watching is juror thing, you know to expect the up expected in wildwood. Cowboy from new york. Basically you could say that. I definitely never seen in past 20 years never seen anything like him up here it was a first. In ocean city it was a first vacation for caleb foingtner glenside pennsylvania and she came to enjoy the seafood dish. Ocean city is special to our family we come every year and enjoy spending time together and being togethers a family. Some could barely continue their excitement. Hi, everybody. Hahaha. On the boardwalk teens jammed and restaurants were slammed and good job at preem vare as because of the it was better, much better. In Atlantic City fireworks capped off a perfect day at the shore for Dennis Family from willow grove. Nothing is better in ter time than being no weekend at the shore is finished unless you have funnel cake. Thank you to mengoza for this and jim ft. Folks there did not get a chance so see the fireworks in Atlantic City tonight there will be a weather repeat tomorrow night weather permiting. We will have to get the weather to permit. Thank you, jeff, the shore has no monopoly. Live on the parkway inphiladelphia. They do jim right now pretty quiet and not as active as the shore. Looks like a light show. Those are technical touches under the way on the big stage along the parkway ahead of the grand finale of the wawa welcome session. There was events in the city that includes today with Biggest Block Party in the city and con serlt by the philly pops. People filled Independence Mall for pops on the second. Im enjoying it beautiful. Philly pops annual holiday concert featured broadway stars showing off pit reotic sometimes but he said this is where it all began for usa. I think its kind of cool to think were here where they were to make us who we are today. A steady stream of visit towards wrapped around independent home and they dpraim canada. I want to show the difference other than our only wanted to come to philly its a fantastic place. Pat of the wawa welcome america festival the liberty block party. His activities and entertainment and food and its a company it makes i liable. Im here for the funnel cake. What would a block party in philly be without food representing the scene. We ate our way through finishing with something american of course. Its another good one if you like coconut. Spam is where its at. And apple pie. Old and new celebrations continue to grow. Crews worked into the tight night to put final touches on parkway same for tomorrows concert. Philadelphia is showing america how its done. Its always a big thing here in philadelphia because its pretty much where it all started. So its like we have to do a it big for the 4th of july. This is about i have to be here for the fourth. Nobody does it like philly. Back out here live crews working throughout the night to make sure everything is happening tomorrow. Everything stays in place. 700,000 people are expected to be be in the city tomorrow and before you head out make sure you go online and make sure youre bring when you are supposed to bring to all events. Live along the parkway, Annie Mccormick, channel 6 action news. Thank you any as the guest of the wawa welcome america celebration action news was able to get up close for fireworks tomorrow. Groups loaded thousands of shells into can sisters today planning for core obfy beginning in january and if it doesnt get better tomorrow night. Its 10 00 in the morning and Tamala Edwards and Matt Odonnell host a celebration of freedom ceremony and independent day parade right here on chapel 6 and place join us for philly fourth ever july jam on the washing way tomorrow night. Rick williams and cecily tynan host along with karen rogers and adam joseph. The concert begins at 7 followed by fireworks display over the Philadelphia Museum of the park. We have two days of holiday weekend. What about the latest information from accuweather. Lets go live outside to meteorologist cecily tynan. Cecily what about tomorrow and sunday. And jim surprised will be beautiful. Mother nature putting a damper on 4th of july in form of showers tomorrow. Stormtracker 6 double scan showing what im tracking its low pressure over West Virginia and that will be pushing east and thinen cloud overnight and bring showers as of tomorrow morning. Future thaker the shouz headed to the west. Take the up prel aor rain jacket it will push along the shore by the early afternoon. So this is what to expect tomorrow. It will be cloudy. And it will be cool. Temperatures only in the 70s. Here in the city at the shore, and in the poconos only in the 60s tomorrow. We will see scattered showers and evening some steady rain earlier in the day today the good news for fireworks is that rain will be moving out by the time the sun sets. The chance of rain increasing has he head towards the mitle of day you can see as we head through the afternoon and evening. Theyre looking okay and sunday will be beautiful and ill write it down including shore and poconos in the accuweather forecast, jim. Thank you, cecily. Thousands of people across the delaware and lehigh valleys deposit have to wait for fireworks today. They came early on this Independence Day eave. Action news stopped by many displays this one Washington Township high school an hour and 40 minutes ago patriotic spirit and marching band and performers wrapped themselves in red, white and blue for community Independence Day parade and uncle sam made appearance and mummers did as well. Nr were empty cars. Military vehicles fire trucks and more for all the crowds to enjoy. Community also came out of ambler Montgomery County fireworks bursting in air and dazzling display lit up skies thats with a carnival ride and the game is oh, well. Who knew. 6abc. Com will be a helpful resource this entire weekend find stormtracker 6 radar and latest hourly forecast from accuweather and you can see maps of current traffic conditions on area roadways before you get into the car. Weve also posted the full list of wawa also america festivities and few works as i and humidity. Philadelphia is making repairs on a busted water main. A 6 rain busted wheeler street before 3 00 this afternoon. Theyre still offline at this hour. Than nasty wreck route 70 Burlington County shut down the road for more than three hours tonight. Two people were hurt when the car and pickup collided 6 rbg intersection of 70 and washington boulevard People Better son upones rjs, these have not kermd who is at faults. Fbi investigating allentown and how they do business. Agents spent several hours yesterday that word coming tonight seizing documents from city hall and questioning top official including mayor and the city slice ter said they collected record from several offices that date wack to 2005. When officials have been surprised to testify or are target of investigation this appears how the city awards contracts. In a Statement Today city, said its tractortrailering fear theyre on and honest and its copit areing fully with fbi. We have breaking news tonight. U. S. Marshals have just caught this man 21yearold victor bennett. He was wanted for shooting a Police Officer in camden on wednesday night. And the fugitive Traffic Force went to an apartment of hadon over and hollies loom. He was loaded with. 9 millimeter handgun and held on you have to read. He is recovering this holiday weekend. A blue business suit arrived in a mask bucket style had and bank bandit who held up laws and foremen. Fbi released photographs us to ever gun point hite 10 30 in the morning and the bank robber threatened tellers but nobody was hurt. We reported this bank rock ro reason tuesday chestnut hill. Tonight we have surveillance engs of the hod yum. Im throwing a bag on Delaware County demanding to much. Thor ear 5251 guard. And fortunately nobody was hurt here and detectives juan tou take lease look at the suspect in late teens or early 20s. If you see them dont approach them call 911. The power was out for a week because of the storm and infewer rating south jersey residents. It will review Atlantic City electrics response in wake of storm. Roughly 280,000 people lost power. A Spokes Person for Atlantic City electric said the company restored service for 100 pous and you had 1600 workers on field. Still to come. Its delaware father and sons boys ones in vision your. Theyre trying to get tou tomorrows gatherings all concerned about isis. And the other rocket red glare caused for celebration one, much needed flies on the way after 3 previous disaster. Cecily. Yes. Youre day ever year. You have timing on rain and what when is clears out in the accuweather forecast. Phillies looking to keep stretch after dropping four straikts to brewers can they make the hold fins action. As 4th of july celebrations get underway this weekend lawn enforcement around the country will be on heightened alert. Theyre ramping up security and urging caution because of the increased concern about a terror attack. In boston, police are deploying special undercover teams to detect suspicious behavior. New york city ratcheting up Police Presence on the ground, in the air and water. Los angeles calls tomorrow the highest terror alert since 9 11 its mostly attacks by lobe wolves people me america radicalizeed and inspired by isis prop began daxt philadelphia helps 70,000 people to celebrate tomorrow in the birth place of currenty it is no surprise there will be hite end security measures and and uneven security measures and and uneven. City officials in philadelphia say they are in contact with federal authorities and are assuring tourists it is safe to come out. I want to emphasize yes theres been a lot of chatter youve heard that all over the country. Theres no threat anywhere that were aware of now in the country. Organizers asking visitors not to bring big coolers or cooking equipment and advising against big back backs. Nothing larger than a bread basket and they may be subject to security searches. Philadelphia authority taken proactive stopz communication. Metal signs differ id the parkway into sections and anyone who dials 911 will be asked for a letter and number from the nearest marker its not only for worst Case Scenarios families can use the grid system to communicate. Members of delaware family will likely never recover from vacationing in the caribbean poisoning the the grim news came from the governor. Steven esmond and his wife and sons were exposed to pesticides while at a resort in st. John. According to Virgin Islands daily news the chemical left steven and 14yearold son ryan paralyzed and steven served ahead of prestigious tatmall middle school in greenville delaware. 16yearold shawn is also unable to move and has been in and out of coma. Mother is in good condition. Department of justice is still investigating terminex in connection with this incident close to 40,000 showed up at a rally. One by the government and one imploring his country to vote no sunday rejecting power austerity in skaiching for creditors. It will give him more strength to negotiations. Greece had to close banks to avoid collapse as country defaulted on loan repayments. Maximum thrust and liftoff liftoff of the 60th progress resupply vehicle on route to International Space station. The words everybody wanted to hear today resupply launch takes off without a hitch. The rocket blasted off and tonight made it safely to orbit on tarring tote reach by sunday. The launch in april ended in fame your when the man crashed and spun out of control reaching the space station. Thats mission happens follow extraordinary explosion of another supply rock net october. All of these craft has been unmanned and nasa pushed back launch until the end this month while they investigate these failures and at least the ought row nawts on board. Accuweather forecast for the weekend. Today was nice. Sunday will be nice. And tomorrow, tomorrow will be damp cool and cloudy unstart natalie double scan showing showers are moving in kent county delaware near dover we have light sprinkles and he heavier near chestertown maryland. Has leading choice of most tour youre moving in during the oaf night hours. What a fantastic fireworks display. You can hear the ooing and ahing and comfortable there at the i always feel like a kid for fireworks. Thrilling. Rights now at the shore temperatures generally in low 7 0s. Cape may 71. Ocean city avalon and margate 72. Surf city 71. Millville 68. Wilmington 7 2. Trenton 71. Philadelphia 73. Allentown 74. And reading 7. Unfortunately tomorrow temperatures will not climb much higher than they with today. Reason why, this satellite 6 and action radar showing low pressure over West Virginia i hrd helped pull up the moisture, that brings us cloudy, cool, on and off shower in the day future tracker showing 10 00 in the morning mainly west of philadelphia they move to sore and intensify early in the afternoon. Still plenty of clouds cover 1bg and as we head through the afternoon towards evening this is when the moisture begins to he vap raid and clouds break up and rain should be done in time for work werz in parkway tonight. Its partly cloudy. Patchy fog developing with moisture on the ground at 7 00, 73 by 11 00. And 68 temperature opt cool side. Take a theater 65 degree high. Plenty of clouds. Showers. But sunday looking really good in poconos. Sunday and warm are high of 70. Once begun a moderate risk of rip current and ocean temperature mild 73. Down the shore tomorrow plenty of clouds and showers. Especially early in the afternoon. 74 degrees on sunday. Much better on the beach sunny and afternoon high of 78 degrees. So the exclusive accuweather 7day forecast cloudy and cool with showers for the fourth. 75 degrees. Sunshine is back on sunday though. High of 85. We bumpp up to 86 monday and muggy tuesday. 89 with thunderstorms and wednesday heat on 90. Cold front bring us round of showers and thunderstorms and drop temperatures back to mid 8 positive thursday and friday. Sunday is looking beautiful. Have a Great Holiday. Thank you. In mount holly it was fun evening at iron work parks. It was first celebration. Youngsters could enjoy lasts. And live music and at least for one young lady a lot of dancing. Skl l skl it has been a while since reported on phillies victory. Yeah, its probably been about a week. What about tonight . Dont hold your breath jim youll start tort turn blue. Theres two ways to look at the road trip. Four game losing streak they can use a change of scenery and on the flip side they have worst road record in baseball. Phils in atlanta. As usual phillies fall behind early. Johnny combs. Forget about them. Solo homer in the second inning and braves lead 10. Fill liz finally get to the braves starter julio. Hernandez singles in morgue toon tie the game at 1. Morgan victim long ball in the 7th inning, juan look at those yards. Phillies lose 21 reign now lost five in a row. Sixers big man joel embiid may not be healthy. Jal hell okafor side by side the possibilities are endless. Billy lang will coach the Summer League team. Hes excited about the future with embiid and oak for. I would belie physical i said no. You also remember how young they are and how bright the future could be. Hes in good spirits thats all i can ask for. Im excited to be here. Still ahead tiger woods has interesting day at the green briar classic and Serena Williams survives a scare at whimble don flyers defenseman has not seen an officer he likes and opted for sally arbitration. Top pick ivan the 18yearold defenseman selected 7th overall. Hell number town for flyers developmental camp. Tiger woods has up and down day at the green briar classic and 10 pictures other i would say we could watch. Tiger is minus 5. Third round windle done facing heather watson. Williams down 3love in the first set and fights back to win. This is match point. Serena advances fourth round. And finally tonight, gloves are helpful on a baseball diamond but not required. Minor League Baseball head of carolina course back and bear handed graph fwrap. He catches that with his fair hand. My hats have a great team. You are so in. Juney kimle live next on channel 6. Action news continues on 5 30 for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire action news team. Im jim gardner have a good night and Great Holiday weekend jimmy from hollywood, its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight jada pinkett smith. From terminator genisys, jai courtney. This week in unnecessary censorship. And music from nate ruess. With cleto and the cletones. And now, moving on, heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ]