The summer. Always a prize, any prize, any size. Reporter the prize tonight was a balmy, busy evening on the steel pier. A night to take a last summer ride. I would like to ride bumper cars. Reporter a last weekend taste of candy floss. Reporter candy floss . For dinner, ill have red lobster. Reporter was it a good summer . The pier owners think so. Were actually up about 20 from last summer. Reporter but its game over at this end of the boardwalk, after 27 years the show boat will close its doors sunday. The neighboring revel hotel closes monday, but its casino closes tuesday. It almost feels like youre on the titanic ship and its sinking down and everyone is singing and everyone is playing those instruments. Reporter abi took video of his room with a panoramic ocean view. 22 9 or 399. In the last hour, the revel is charging top dollars for the rooms still available. The showboat told me i can still get a room for less than 200 if i hurry. Do i need to be out on sunday . We might get
A few scattered showers at 7 00. Mugginess and 78 at 9 00, well into the 80s at lunch time with clouds thinning out. Storm threat for later today. The future weather when i come back to show you where those showers are likely to pop up. First katy has traffic. We are seeing wet roads in the area, but not accounting for issues. This is a live look at 78 at lehigh street in the lehigh valley. If youre headed home from the poconos, 309, 22, as well as 78 looks good. Headed into philadelphia, a live look at ben franklin bridge, traffic, we are seeing moderate traffic in both directions, its moving find. There is longtime track work in the westbound lane. But thats not accounting for issues. Some closures on the ben franklin parkway to tell you about. The inner and outer lane closed between 20th street and eakins oval. Here are the most extensive road closures, this is because of cleanup. 767 westbound, the exit ramp on to 22nd street. A cleared scene to tell you about on the Atlantic City
Part. The casino closes tomorrow, but the hotel closes this morning at 11 00 a. M. Now once all is said and done, if everything goes as planned, at the end of the summer, four casinos will close here in Atlantic City, eliminate being 8,000 jobs. Casino experts have said this is painful but necessary to right size and stabilize this mark. Revel opened little more than two years ago, amid high hopes of saving Atlantic City crumbling market. But the 2 billion hotel and casino never turned approved. After filing for bankruptcy twice, qualified buyer was never found. This alone will leave more than 3,000 employees without a job but in all, these closures mean nearly third of Atlantic City entire work force will be unemployed including thousands who lost their job just yesterday down the boardwalk at showboat. Very difficult for the guests, very difficult for the employees, it is a sad time in Atlantic City. Level already sold at cut rate price. The new owner then could turn it into another
Wizard of oz. Superstorms across iowa. Dozens of homes destroyed. A Lightning Strike at the beach injured three people. It was really loud. We have to defeat isis. Theyre turning up the heat. Hes very cautious, maybe in this instance, too cautious. Meanwhile hes trying to take over rebelcontrolled airy. The whos who in hollywood hacked, various starlets took social media by storm. They call it a flagrant violation of privacy. Start your engines. Tony stewart raced for the first time after his car hit and killed kevin ward jr. Tony stewart was not able to complete the race. His car was slammed into the wall. They had to make an emergency landing. The plane experienced problems with cabin pressure. Two fell off a ride at carnival in texas. A woman was seriously hurt. Youd be anywhere. What made choose to be here . The nachos. I cant finish, for gods sake . And all that matters. Days after the nfl issue add much tougher dough mess vis violence player a player was arrested on Domestic Viol
Good. Partly sunny and nice. 78 degrees. Your winds should remain on the light side. And then a high of 83 degrees, and partly sunny and comfortable, too, as the humidity is up a little and still remains comfortable for this time in august. Thats going to change for tomorrow. We are tracking more showers and thunderstorms, and we will show you when we expect all of those coming up in your first alert forecast in a couple minutes. In just over three hours from now, the gates will open and concertgoers will flood the ben franklin parkway for the third annual made in america festival. Nbc 10s matt delucia is along the parkway, and we have seen clouds line up early. Anybody out there yet . Reporter plenty of workers, but so far no fans. They are getting the gates all set up, and by the organizers e estmation, 80,000 people will be here. Its a wonderful way to get people real excited on a holiday. Reporter the intense labor on this Labor Day Weekend could be seen behind the scenes, as worke