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Lady visited the hospital. They did not visit parkland. Maggie rulli has the latest. Reporter the president and first lady are grieving with parkland this friday night. Very sad Something Like that could happen. Reporter offering their support to a Community Still raw after Wednesdays School shooting took the lives of 17 people. Two of them, both teenagers, laid to rest today. What if that was your child that was shot three times in th heart, in the head, in the hand . Think about it. Reporter their alleged killer now offering to plead guilty in order to avoid the death penalty. No word yet if the state will accept the deal. We are part of this community. As this community hurts, so do we. Reporter the fbi has now at mitted they were warned about the alleged shooter six weeks ago. The agency reveals on january 5g9, a person close to nikolas cruz called the tip line with information about cruzs gun ownership, his desire to kill people, erratic behavior and disturbing social media posts.
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
Across the area. Down the shore right now 81 in surf city. 76 degrees in brigantine. We have mid 70s right now in cape may as well as wildwood. So for tomorrow, as we take a at that forecast area wide in the city 76 degrees. Were looking at mostly cloudy skies down the shore. Scattered showers 74. Only in the upper 60s in the pocono mountains. Well talk much more about that rainfall as well as what to expect for the fourth of july evening fireworks celebrations across the area. Back to you. Dawn. Thank you, scott. Were keeping an eye on the roads heading to the shore for people getting a late start on the weekend. Heres a live look right now at route 42 at the the ac expressway. So far looks like no big issues. We of course will keep checking throughout the newscast. And for many people who had off from work today theyre already down at the shore. Taking in the sunshine. Relaxing. The place to be. Among them our own Joanne Pileggi is working today however, but lucky for hersheys on the