Works, we will talk more specifically about the storms, and what to expect as we head in the rest of the week coming up in your full forecast in just a few minutes. We will see you then. Annual fourth of july party on the parkway kicks off at noon and it has been a fun packed afternoon for visitors. Eyewitness news reports leash a nieves has been on the parkway all day and shes with us now, tell us what comes next, alycia . Reporter well, jessica, in just a little while we can look forward to major performances, music legends and then big fire works show at 9 30 but all day long it has been nothing but fun for several who come here every year, and for some like myself hoff been here, come here for the first time. Party on the parkway. Happy fourth of july. Reporter for many in the region it is a tradition on the fourth of july. Always coming out here with family, enjoying music, festivities. Reporter for some others like myself, it is a new experience, navigating the five blocks of fun, so i inn listed some help from others who have been here before who know more about what to do. Im newby to the fourth of july celebration, party on the parkway f is there one thing turf do here what would it be. What would it have to be . You have to get some of them free yogurt. Reporter food is a big part of the fun, is there so much of it from philadelphia classic toss frequent festivals, snacks, it is all quenton keith did during his first two hours here. What have you done so far. Ate. Ate . Frenchfries and chicken fingers. Reporter any funnel cake. No, not yet. Reporter plan to have funnel cake. Yeah. Reporter me too. To burn off calories from the food is there plenty of activities to do here like this, are you ready. Wow. It is a good view. Dont fret if you are afraid of heights back on solid ground there has been a ray of games. My turn. Reporter okay, one more try. Ready to take that extra step. Ready. I will do it this time. Make it go. I should be better at this. Reporter for those who lack skills in games if dancing is your thing, well, there are, and there will be plenty of performances at party on the parkway. They will philadelphia legends boys two men here. Back in school we used to dream about this every day. I cant sing, sol sorry, i didnt mean to embarras you. Reporter im hoping boys two men will sound better, mary j. Blige is scheduled to perform here, later, and just so you know later on we will talk more at 6 00 about a scam going on with the free tickets that were given out. We will have more at that at 6 00. Plus more about festive fun happening out here, reporting live on the ben franklin parkway, alycia nieves for cbs3 Eyewitness News. All right, it looks like fun, thanks very much. In olde city you had of american independent day parade marched right past the place where it ale began. Dozens of floats, marching band and military groups participated in the parade down Chestnut Street past independent hall. 4,000 people took part in that parade. That all men, all men are created equal. Wow. And, that is members of the boys two men reading excerpts from the declaration of independent at celebration of freedom ceremony in olde city. Philly pops big band perform for patriotic tunes and mayor jim kenney said today is the day for americans to celebrate , their freedom. This country belongs to everyone, it belongs to men, women, black, white, brown, immigrants, lbgtq, everyone. Mayor kenney presented veteran ralph gallot i with the award, he was a pow with senator john mccain a admiral james stocksdale. Award is given to those who achieved more than thought possible. Montgomery county town is showing off its patriotic spirit on this fourth of july. Hundreds lined high street in pottstown this morning, for their fourth of july parade. Law enforcement and veterans groups all took part and parade was cancelled last year because of lack of funding, rotary club of pottstown organized and sponsored today s event. And those kid helped kick off july 4th fun in doyletown bucks county with the decorated bike contest. Riders pedaled over bubble wrap on the ground of the castle, todays celebration also included a water melon eating contest, games, food and live music. A lot of people arent spending the holiday, enjoying sun, sand, surf down the shore , this is a live look at the packed beach necessary ocean city, new jersey. When this picture perfect day turns to tonight, get readied for a spectacle in the sky, fire works show is set for 9 15 and visitors we spoke to in Atlantic City said they are having a great time. The attractions, the ocean is my favorite part, of course , but the boardwalk, a little bit, all of the walking and spending money but it is fine. Fire works at tropicana tonight and then after i jump through we will go and chill out for the night. If you are Still Deciding on what you will do tonight go to cws philly. Com. From the city to the suburbs to the shore you will find all of the celebrations happening in the area, right there on our web site. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signs a new state budget ending a three day government shut down, while state owned beaches and parks are reopened, Eyewitness News reporter Henry Rossoff found out that the crowd today are smaller then normal. Reporter few people are here at the state park but by fourth of july standard this is basically empty. Even though shut down is over new jersians had to adjust their plans. Kids are in the water, parents are digging in the umbrellas, and life guards are back on duty. Just a couple days off that we didnt expect to get off. Reporter is there something missing at this state park this independents day. We came out two weeks ago and it was more packed then it is right now. Usually crazy busy but it is crazy weekends in the summer and right now it is not that bad. Usually many more people at this park. Reporter jim powell and his families were first ones at beach this morning and hoping things would pick up. But because of the change of plans over the weekend people turned away because parks were closed people made other plans. Basically we were coming out on a saturday but since with all of the state parks being closed. Reporter visitor christian and his daughter samantha were among those who rearranged their Holiday Weekend but they decided last minute to still get in a beach day. Everybody who has plans to do something just got put on to them and killed a lot of what they will were do, and political backlash. Ultimately we are won that suffered from it all, and it was sad that they could not get together beforehand or that they could not close some of the government but leave the parks and recreation and all of the other Emergency Services opened like they did because what does it take to keep a park opened . Reporter this wasnt only state park we visited . Coming up at 6 00 we will take you up to rancocas state park, it is also very slow there as well. At par vin state park Henry Rossoff for cbs3 Eyewitness News. If you have a drivers license, registration or inspection stick their expired during the governmental shut down over the last few days you have a little bit more time to renew those. State Motor Vehicle commission is giving drivers a two day extension and documents will be valid until thursday, and the offices have been closed since saturday. They are scheduled to reopen tomorrow. Police continue to investigate discovery of an infant sized casket, on a sidewalk in north philadelphia eyewitness spotted the casket overnight on the 3,000 block of clear field street across the street from mount vernon cemetery. Police say that the casket contained what is believed to be human organs but no body. I was pretty shocked, like it looks like something straight out of the thriller or something. We aint know something pop you the, eat us we didnt know if something was alive in there. It didnt really november smell to it but whatever was found in there was crazy for them to actually use caution tape. Coming up on Eyewitness News at 6 00 how police are working to track down where the casket came from, and why it ended up on the streets. North korea claims it has successfully tested its first interest continental ballistics missle capable of hitting the you had, it flew higher and longer then any previous test, cbs news, correspondent moa lenghi is in washington with the u. S. Response. Reporter all cheers from kim jong un, after his country s latest missle test this one a potential game changer. State television reported it was a hasan 14 inter continental ballistics missle, u. S. Officials now say all indications are that it was a icbm. It flew for 40 minutes reaching altitude of 1500 miles, before splashing into the sea of japan roughly 600 miles from the launch site and with the potential range of 4,000 miles, it is capable of reaching alaska. Not much further then that for 10,000 miles or so would it need to reach new york or washington d. C. So north cover reace on pace to have a Nuclear Weapon capable of reaching continental United States. President trump warned china that the u. S. Will act on its own if beijing does not tighten economic pressure but president s options for going it alone are limited. There is very little you can do, except sanction him, every time he does something, and build our missle defenses. Reporter even direct talks with the north are unlikely to result in the nuclear free north cover re. There is no way north korea will abandon Nuclear Weapons. Denuclear says in the near term is impossible. Reporter china and russia called for all part toys come to the negotiating table. Moa lenghi for cbs3 Eyewitness News. In the meantime President Trump is scheduled to meet with russian president vladamire putin on friday, the two leaders will both be in hamburg germany for g20 summit this will be the first bilateral meeting between u. S. And russian president s in nearly two years. So far no word what the two leaders will discuss. Fight to save young boys life ignites in an international debate, why doctors say that they cannot save the boy with an extremely rare conditions, and, what happens to him next. Plus gas prices plumet just in time for fourth of july but experts say dont get used to that we will tell you when we will see a jump at the pump again. But first tonight a jaw dropping and stomach churning performance by Joey Chestnut, the record breaking number of hot dogs he has eat tone it is super bowl of eating , people from all over the country gather in new york for the annual nathans famous fourth of july hot dog eating contest and cbs news correspondent Nicki Batiste is in coney island with the winners. Champion of the world. Reporter Joey Chestnut won a tenth title at nathans famous july 4th hot dog eating contest in coney island. Yes. Joey chestnut, he is like tiger wood into hot dogs, baby reporter chestnut consumed 72 franks and buns in 10 minutes, a record for this competition. I make my money performing, i have been really lucky with how i have performed. Reporter new jerseys carmen sincoti took second place with 62 hot dogs. In the womens competition mic i soto of lah las vegas ate 41 hot dogs and buns. Once i got my rhythm going, it was fun. This lively crowd came from all over the country and here not just for hot dog battles but for wild atmosphere. Definitely the scene. We are enjoying it. It is rowdy, fun. It is probably most american thing anyone can ever think of just hot dogs in excess and everyone is really into it and patriotic and excited. Reporter carter brown and his family came from florida for the event. I have been watching this for a while and always wanted to see it. Reporter carter hopes to compete when he gets older but he has his work cut out for him, right now he says most hot dogs he can eat in one sitting is four. In coney island, new york, Nicki Batiste for cbs3 Eyewitness News. In case you are wondering, because im sure you are. I am. Joey chestnut gobbled down more than 20,000 calories and almost 1300 grams of fat. Wow, he will have to go for a brisk jog i think afterward. Dawn even move after that happens. Much better to talk about being outside, and maybe eating hot dogs in moderation in moderation. Nice sunshine across the area, through much of the day but we are starting to cloud up in Center City Philadelphia due to storms off to our south , mainly concentrate add cross parts of the delaware and those storms just are not budging. But temperatures right now we are hot, 88 degrees right now in philadelphia, wind out of the southe at 5 miles an hour so not too much of a breeze to help cool us off but rain did cool a lot of beach goers off check out this image rehoboth beach, where is everybody . Just an hour ago this was packed but rain is coming down , you can see umbrellas out, people fleeing the board, fleeing the beach because of that shower and storm activity that has developed over last couple of hours, flood advisory in effect for much of the delaware, dover, milford, georgetown, millsboro that runs until this evening we could see localized flooding because of the heavy nature of the rainfall and prolonged nature of the rainfall as these storms just are not budging. Searing wind with driving storm surround are very light and they are staying stationary. We are moving down toward south of the city, that will prolong, heavy rainfall two to 3 inches of rain possible. We have seen that in parts of the south jersey, cumberland count which this cell that has dissipated we are starting to see dissipation in this cluster of cells, even down in Sussex County seeing that long lived cell west of long neck. We have scattered thunderstorm activity northward of the delaware border as we look toward lancaster county. Keep a close eye on this next couple of hours, these storms could sneak into Center City Philadelphia but at this point we will stay mainly dry but here are cells across portions of delaware, embedded thunder and gusty wind, light green, out flow, that is rain cold air disseminated out from those cells and generating some light rainfall, we are picking that up on our radar imagery but for fire works tonight do have that place you could seek shelter. We have one of these storms develop overhead, chance is minimal but not, nonexistent otherwise partly cloudy conditions and temperatures not feeling too bad in the 70 s. Future weather showing thus particular model bringing in those cells up toward Center City Philadelphia, other models are not but as we head into midnight a lot of activity, will kind of wayne as we lose the heating of the day so we will be quiet overnight tonight and then for our wednesday, cloud, to increasing sunshine, not quite as hot, east wind developing and High Temperature of 84 degrees and temperature while they are toasty we are at 87 in wilmington. Eightysix in allentown. But very apparent where were seeing rain, 77 in millville and 73 in dover right now. Down the shore temperatures still warm 82 in cape may but sea breeze is cooling things off in ocean city as we ares down to 74 degrees. Dew points not too intense in the 50s and lower 60s. Not too humid. That will change as we head into thursday and friday and dealing with steamy to oppressive conditions, and we will up the rain chances as well but as far as tomorrow is concern, not too bad, and Temperature Department or humidity department, more cloud around but as we head into thursday, round of showers, steamy conditions, and more showers and thunderstorm activity as we head into friday before we will clear things out just in time for upcoming weekend, check that out, could be one of our nicest of the summer. It looks like, at this point. Okay, we will look to that. When you come back to work tomorrow a short week. Yes. Which is is nice. Thanks very much. Still ahead on Eyewitness News let freedom ring we will give you rare look behind the scenes of a philadelphia independent day tradition. Plus blown to pieces, simple problem that start that had big blast and lesson we can all learn from it, leslie. Well, sixers have the day off but one nba superstar was impress by Markelle Fultz debut. And baseball at the bank this afternoon we will show you patriotic solute, before todays phillies pirates game. Sports is next. But first here are some of the fire works shows around town tonight, we will have more throughout the show and you can see the full schedule, on cbs philly. Com fueling 100 stronger ht jus with active prov nutrient n. Having a baby. Caring for your parents. Learning you have a condition. These are moments when people realize that where you get your medicine matters. And they look to us. Cvs pharmacy. For advice. And ways to save money. Plus, get up to fifty extrabucks each year just for filling prescriptions. Switching is easy. Were here for you. Join us. At cvs pharmacy. Leslie, lot of people do fire works, food, shore but baseball really feels appropriate for the fourth of july as well. Cook outs, yeah. And baseball. They go hand and hand. Phillies playing pirates at the bank, mark leiter, junior on the mound going for his second big league win. Before the game phillies had a veteran celebration honoring our nations hero from every conflict since world war two. To the game, bases loaded jam in the third, john gaso hits a fly ball to shallow center field. Odubel herrera makes the catch , adam frazier tags up from third, herrera started the play cut off short, there and they get Josh Harrison at third but run counts. Phillies down one to nothing in the fourth. Well, sixers with the day off, game two of the Summer League tomorrow begins utah last night number one overall pick Markelle Fultz played in his first game since february. Got high praise from kevin durant who likes his hesitant jump shot. We knew he could score, markelle came first 13 and scored 17 points for six of 16 sho