Independence. From the festival to the fireworks later on. Really, theres something for everybody. One thing to keep in mind is you will notice a lot of police. Law enforcement on high alert. News 4 derrick ward is live downtown with what you will need to know about that and other big events going on for the fourth. Its raining, i see, derrick. Reporter in this part of town, you will see a lot of police around town. Considering whats going on and what day this is, theres probably a bit more. Certainly more of a secure per am ter. There are other things going on as well. The fireworks are the big draw this evening. Theres a Folklife Festival on the mall. Its been moved up closer to the capitol. I dont think its necessarily a security concern, but logistics and repairs being done to the mall. Folks are already down here getting ready gather. The parade gets under way at 11 00. Some folks are going to be here ahead of time. The prime spots are under trees. We caught up with folks who were
Yard nearly two years ago. As Scott Mcfarland reports, coordination was smoother this time around. Two years ago after the Navy Yard Shooting, cc police said there were too many vehicles on the scene, is that it was so crowded officers struggled to move around the area and navigate the building and Many Police Agencies on the scene were on the same page. Two years later, the mayor said Police Worked well together. Im very proud of all of the officials that answered the call. We know that there have been a lot of Lessons Learned from previous incidents. But why did so Many Police Agencies respond to what amounted to a false alarm . Because different agencies had different specialties. U. S. R. Police flew their eagle two helicopter above the navy yard a special sized unit from which rescuers can propel to the ground in an emergency. Particularly helpful because its kept in a hangar within close range from the navy yard. We have a crew here at what we refer to as the eagles nest. And the
Construction on an off ramp off the schuylkill expressway. Around Spring Garden street you can see right here road closed signs. We have no access to the schuylkill expressway westbound from the Spring Garden ramp. Eastbound access is okay. They do have local detours posted around the area. This will be out there until at least august 4th for right now. They are going to have to plan your trip accordingly. If you dont follow the local4z stbound 13 minutes from the blue route up towards the vine street expressway. Pretty much the same going westbound towards the king of prussia area as well. 202 cars are green and moving. 11 minutes northbound or southbound up towards the schuylkill expressway. Area bridges doing just fine so far this morning. Waltman bridge is clear and so is the ben. Two lanes blocked headed westbound into the city. One of our regions longest serving congressmen indicted. Chaka fattah is accused of participating in schemes and years of illegal activity. 29count indict
But those have died down. That is not the main threat. This is. The storms moving through southwestern pennsylvania. Right along North Central pennsylvania too. That line of storms will be moving in. Before it gets here the temperatures will head up. You see mostly cloudy skies right now. We will see some breaks of sunshine. 79 degrees at 8 00. Middle 80s by 11 00. At 2 00 this afternoon, 90 degrees and then we will be watching for storms during the later afternoon hours in philadelphia. We will go through the future cast hourbyhour when i come back in ten minutes to show you when the storms will likely arrive in your neighborhood. If youre heading out the door right now Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. We are working through a work zone here on 295 in new jersey. As you can see right here around the black horse pike we are having work zone here in the center. We are losing some shoulder on either direction. Left hand shoulder. Good news the off ramp is open here. Vehicl
Live from the kgo broadcast center. This is abc 7 news. Tuesday training is underway in asia, a day after the worst plunge in over 7 years. So far, its lost 6 . And the necay also dropping. Good evening, im dan laesh. And good gbegin with worries wall street. The dow average dropped almost a,000 points and in the end, it was the worst day in four years, down almost 600 points. And lillian, one sillicon valley power housemaid a move that helped the rebound . Reporter thats right, as bad as it was, it could have been a lot worse, if not for an email from apple ceo, tom cook. Moments later, stocks rebounded, thanks in large part to steve cook. Saying that his company is doing just fine in china, despite the slumping economy. Here was the fundamental assumption that china was impacting their business, when in fact t wasnt. But theeect of the email only lasted so long. The dow down about 3. 5 . The white house asserted calm. I would say the on going strength and resilience of the u. S. Econ