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
Closer. It is thursday night and the big story on action news tonight is a possible break in this philadelphia murder mystery. Lawmen say they have found the victims laptop computer. Action News Reporter Sharee Williams is live at police headquarters, sharee what are the details here. Reporter jim its day four in this investigation and detectives are hot on the trail with this one. Not only did they recover her stolen laptop built right now as we speak were being told here at headquarters three people are being questioned. Its an on investigation and were still continuing to work it very, very hard. Philadelphia police are pushing hard to find out who killed 85yearold regina prunner holmes. Action news learned three people are being questioned by the homicide unit. Holmes was found monday inside east mt. Airy home beaten stabbed and with her throat slit. Police believe robbery was the motive. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey says the investigation is moving strongly in t
Day of my life and it really was the best day of his life. The new star taking the tennis world by storm. Not even ranked in the top 100 living out of an rv so he could drive to the tournaments, he took down one of the best players in the world at wimbledon, who is this new king of the court . And then the sun came crashing in good morning, america. And that was an incredible win for dustin brown. But all eyes are on that other big sporting event you might have heard about over the weekend. The world cup final. We celebrate the fourth rooting for team usa at least we better be. Theyre going to go for their first title in 16 years and hoping to exact revenge upon japan after losing to them four years ago in 2011. Much much more on the big game live from vancouver coming up on the show this morning. Cannot wait for that. We begin with that Terror Threat this Holiday Weekend. Law enforcement all across america on high alert worried about possible attacks, especially from socalled lone wol
Exploding over old city tonight kicking off a weekend celebration and this is only one of several shows across the area area. The rain didnt stop being from heading out. Im lucy noland. Im iain page. You can see families piled into penns landing trying to get a glimpse at the show. Take look at the right your screen. Down the shore kids and parents getting in miniature golf much thats always fun. I love that. Little windmills. On your radar great start to the Holiday Weekend on the way. Thats what were helping. Scott, what you have. The rain and clouds we saw for much of the day its moving out across the open waters of the Atlantic Basin so as we take tour across the area you can see were drying out around philadelphia. Some leftover showers right now in monmouth county, and also down the shore, you can see some of thicker clouds as well as some of those showers we saw during the day ending across the area. So your get away fox cast a lot of you already hitting the roadways and by ways
Take look at the right your screen. Down the shore kids and parents getting in miniature golf much thats always fun. I love that. Little windmills. On your radar great start to the Holiday Weekend on the way. Thats what were helping. Scott, what you have. The rain and clouds we saw for much of the day its moving out across the open waters of the Atlantic Basin so as we take tour across the area you can see were drying out around philadelphia. Some leftover showers right now in monmouth county, and also down the shore, you can see some of thicker clouds as well as some of those showers we saw during the day ending across the area. So your get away fox cast a lot of you already hitting the roadways and by ways as we take a look at the forecast for your friday were looking at partly cloudy skies in the city. 84 for the High Temperature tomorrow. Down the shore well call it partly sunny looks pretty good, 75. The pocono mountains partly cloudy a high tomorrow of 74 degrees. So tomorrow if