Americas birthplace for fourth of july events. This is where the u. S. Declaration of independence and u. S. Constitution were debated and signed. It is expected to be crowded here later on. At 10 00 this morning there will be a celebration of freedom ceremony which will be followed by an independent state parade. More than 6,000 participants will march through philadelphias most historic neighborhood. Now heres a live look over center city where more than half a Million People will be partying on the ben franklin parkway for the fourth. Jesse gary is live on the parkway this morning with a preview of the block party, free concert, and fireworks. Its going to be busy there today, jesse. Reporter it already is busy and look how things have changed. Look what im not wearing. Sleeves are up. Look whats out right there. I dont want to jinx anything so im not going to say anything more than that. Things have definitely changed. Ill move out of the way and you can see how busy it is behind m
Philly but the feels like temperature is still even close to 90 degrees in some locations like northeast philly stretching down into philadelphia and this is at 5 30 in the morning. You can only imagine as we go into the afternoon, the sunrises, we start to see the temperatures rising. We should push into the mid90s, feelslike temperature in the triple digits. 79 in reading, 74 in allentown and our actual temperature at 69 in the poconos. Our entire area pretty much under a weather alert for daenk russe heat. Thats going to stay in effect until tonight at 8 00 p. M. That heat index, the feelslike temperature, its the same thing between 100 and 105 degrees. It is going to be an uncomfortable day. Make sure you keep that in mean as youre heading into the rest of your morning. By 10 00 a. M. 87 degrees. Wind speeds out of the west southwest at 10 miles an hour. By the time you head out for lunch, im tracking how long this is going to stick around. Ill ill have the details in the extended
Philadelphia police are also working on this case. The deadly shooting happened over the weekend. Just before that, investigators say the gunman fired shots at a car in Overbrook Park. Reporter as you said, police now believe that the suspect is responsible for two crimes on saturday. That shooting in Overbrook Park and the murder that happened right here. Today philly police will compare ballistics evidence from both crime scenes to confirm it. The murder victim was an accountant, a high school and Temple University graduate. Police say in the prime of his life. They are confident they will catch his killer, especially with the 5,000 reward in the case. We know somebody out there knows this guy. Reporter this is the man detectives are trying to track down. He is wanted to shooting and killing 29yearold john lee at the apartments in ardmore. According to police, lee, an accountant, had just picked up pizza from a shop and was on his way to visit a friend shortly after 6 00 saturday nig
Saturday, i think well be tied for number one, looking nice with a mixture of sun and clouds and warm on sun and comfortable tomorrow, saturday though low pressure to the south will pull up some instability, so that mean the sunshine fading behind a lot of clouds and well have some showers on the way as well on saturday the 4th is not the best day but the weekend will not be a washout. Ill have more on the 4th coming up. Can you visit our website at 6abc. Com, there you can view our live radar including Storm Tracker 6 and look at the sevenday forecast. A young boy is expected to recover after falling out of a second story window of a north philadelphia home, it happened this morning and police say it appears to have been an accident. Chad pradelli is looking into the story on West Huntington street. Reporter yes the boy fell out of the window at 11 00 this morning, here is what police tell me happened. The boy was just inside of that second floor window you see there on the far right
Saturday, i think well be tied for number one, looking nice with a mixture of sun and clouds and warm on sun and comfortable tomorrow, saturday though low pressure to the south will pull up some instability, so that mean the sunshine fading behind a lot of clouds and well have some showers on the way as well on saturday the 4th is not the best day but the weekend will not be a washout. Ill have more on the 4th coming up. Can you visit our website at 6abc. Com, there you can view our live radar including Storm Tracker 6 and look at the sevenday forecast. A young boy is expected to recover after falling out of a second story window of a north philadelphia home, it happened this morning and police say it appears to have been an accident. Chad pradelli is looking into the story on West Huntington street. Reporter yes the boy fell out of the window at 11 00 this morning, here is what police tell me happened. The boy was just inside of that second floor window you see there on the far right