On, it doesnt get a sea breeze you will stay in the 80s throughout the evening. Humidity still high but it will be dropping. Ill tell you when and how much with the sevenday in a few minutes. As we mentioned, todays near record heat prompted Philadelphia School officials to dismiss students at noontime today. This as doctors warned against the dangers of heat exhaustion in this weather. Nbc 10s jesse gary has been taking the temperature of the city, if you will. He joins us from south philadelphia. Does it seem like the heats keeping people inside today . Reporter well yes and no. There are people outside, i will move out of the way. We move to the East Passyunk crossing. People started the weekend early and are outside having drinks and some food. One thing you will notice everyone is in the shade whether its an umbrella or a tree but they are in some kind of shade. Its like an oasis in the desert, a place to go to seek relief. All day, the mercury has shown no mercy. Sweltering conditions forced many philadelphians to improvise. You have to have a fan. Theres no way to avoid it. You have to have a fan. Reporter and a plan in case the heat becomes more than an inconvenience. Temple hospital e. R. Doctor Jennifer Fisher says heat exhaustion can afflict the young and elderly when their core temps soar. Their body is not able to effectively cool their system so they can have cardiac events. Reporter dr. Fisher advises fluid and avoiding strenuous activities outside. But for some work and sweat go hand in hand today. These glass insulation workers nearly melting in the effect of the sun. Its stifling but just have to keep up on the fluids, take breaks when you can. Reporter and try not to use alcoholbased fluids if you are going to try to cool off because that will only make you hotter. The alcohol will since your body will have to burn that off. Best bet, nice icecold water. Live in south philadelphia, jesse gary, nbc 10 news. Sky force 10 cruising around the sky watching how the weather is impacting you. And photojournalist jeremy haas is our eye in the sky. What are you seeing over the delaware . Reporter right now we are over the delaware at the spruce street harbor park watching people hang out literally in hammocks right over the Delaware River trying to stay cool. Everyone else is grabbing spots in the shade that you can see, enjoying an ice cold drink. Looks like a nice place to relax and stay cool here in philadelphia. Get that breeze off the river. It helps just a little. Jeremy, thank you. Tonight, fans of one pop star are braving the heat as well to see their idol. Berks county native taylor swift is about to take the stage at lincoln financial. Nbc 10s drew smith live at the linc where fans are gathering. Drew . Reporter the gates are open just an hour to go before taylor swifts concert begins. Shes got a couple opening acts. People moving right on in pretty quick. The tailgaters are also playing it safe. We will show you where they are hanging out inside the parking lot drinking lots of water, staying in the shade. Thats what concert organizers say is important. Stay out of the sun for as long as possible so they can enjoy the concert for the full night. More than 50,000 people will pack into lincoln financial field to see taylor swift. Big fans say they wont let extreme heat get in the way of the fun. We love taylor swift. Her music is really awesome. It will be great to see her live. Reporter temperatures that feel like 100 are changing some peoples preshow plans. Probably in the air conditioned areas and hopefully we will see some of our people and get to go backstage. Reporter this family got all dressed up referencing smiths latest hit. They also packed extra bottled water. Its very hot. Very hot. Normally we would be tailgating but we just went to xfinity live instead. Air conditioning is key. Got water. Some fruit. Drinks. Reporter other families came out at noon to reserve the best spots in the parking lot so they could tailgate in the shade. Under the awning and were roughing it. You got to give it the full experience. Reporter at 7 00 the concert starts. A pair of openers, then taylor swift will be on a few hours later. It gives a little more time for the temperature to drop as well as the sun go a little deeper into the sky so people can cool down a little. Im drew smith, nbc 10 news. In the last hour taylor swift sent a message to her fans and gave a sneak peek of what they will see tonight. We will give you a look at that later in this newscast. Families are finding relief from todays hot, humid temperatures, some waiting outside in the heat for the chance to cool off at the sahara sam indoor water park in berlin. The temperature inside, a refreshing 74 degrees. For them they say mother natures steamy weather is a big boost to business. I cant wait to get in here. This is like so hot. Too hot. You dont want your kids getting burned or nothing. This is much better. At deptford mall in gloucester county, moms didnt have to worry about sunburn or tiny toes and fingers being burned on outdoor play ground equipment. You can try to beat the heat by getting weather updates. Tonight and throughout the weekend, from our nbc 10 news app, download it for free to get Severe Weather updates right on your smartphone or tablet. We are working to find out more information about a mom who was badly hurt in a house fire in northeast philadelphia this morning. Her daughter did not make it out alive. The younger woman was found on the second floor by firefighters. Sky force 10 was over the scene this morning. The call came in around 7 30. Firefighters say they were there in less than five minutes. They had the fire knocked down in less than 15 minutes. The father was able to make it out of the home after a neighbor kicked in the basement door. Fire investigators are looking into the cause but they think the fire started on the first floor. More than 100 cityowned lots and buildings went on the Auction Block today. Nearly 90 sold raising close to 1. 8 million for philadelphia. Nbc 10s Deanna Durante is live in north philadelphia where some of those lots will soon see some new homes. Reporter take a look behind me. This lot here at 18th and lehigh is zoned multifamily. It was the first lot to go on the block. The first lot to be sold for 7,000. It was a beautiful city when i heard about it when i was younger. It had all houses and stores. Everything around here. Reporter its certainly not like it was when april young was a young girl. But for a few thousand dollars, the eyesore now across the street is owned by someone other than the city. Im interested in everything really. Reporter bidder 164 quickly bought up the first two properties to hit the Auction Block and he didnt stop there. What do you plan on doing . Redeveloping them, of course. You want to sell them . Plan a Single Family house. We need more houses and everything and open up some more schools. Reporter people who live around the vacant lots the news is good. While these lots went for 7,000 each, others went for eight, 50 even 65,000, like this one on the edge of fishtown. Reporter the owners of the lots will be able to build on them sticking with the current zoning regulations. Dont expect to see anything happening in the next couple of weeks because they still have work to do. First have to clear the debris and again, follow all the zoning regulations. Deanna durante, nbc 10 news. Speaking of cleaning up new information on an effort to clean the entrance to ocean city, new jersey. Nbc 10 has learned that last night, City Council Unanimously passed an ordinance to allow the city to designate properties as abandoned and fix them. Earlier this week we told you about three gas stations near the entrance to o. C. That have sat abandoned for years. Today we learned that one of those gas stations a bp is owned by an independent contractor. They are being forced to remove the sign from the site. New at 6 00 the archdiocese of philadelphia has reached a tentative agreement with the association of catholic teachers on a new Labor Agreement for lay teachers at 17 archdiocessan high schools in the city. A vote is expected before the end of the month. Details wont be made public until then. Next on nbc 10 news at 6 00 a dispute in the air down the shore. See why some of the songs you hear blasting from restaurants and bars got those businesses in legal trouble. Also a wild motorcycle crash caught on camera. We will tell you how one local Police Department is hoping it can help other riders learn a valuable lesson. Will we officially have a heat wave . 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Explore your options with a oneday second opinion. Learn more at cancercenter. Com eastern. Taking a live look at cape may, if you want to beat the heat, this is one of the places to be. Its as much as 20 degrees cooler down the shore. First alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz will be along with his sevenday forecast in a few minutes. Now taking a live look at lincoln field, where taylor swift fans are shaking off the heat tonight to see tonights 1989 tour. In the last hour taylor posted this video on instagram. Okay. Here we are in the city. Thats the stage all the way around down there. Stadium vibe okay. A sneak peek inside the stadium from none other than taylor swift herself. This video already racking up more than 6,000 comments and more than 300,000 likes. A motorcycle going 106 miles an hour slams into a curb. Now police are releasing the video taken from the local drivers go pro camera as a warning to others. Limerick Township Police tell us the man didnt realize the road he was on would suddenly end. He was just going too fast to react. He flipped over the handlebars. He was wearing a helmet and landed in soft grass. That saved him from serious injury. On their Facebook Page the Police Responded to the crash this way. Why you should always drive defensively. Why you should not drive 106 Miles Per Hour on lightcap road and not know it ends in a t intersection all while wearing a go pro camera. New figures have been released about Economic Growth in all 50 u. S. States and the report says one state in our area has shown among the lowest growth in the country. Pennsylvania gdp grew almost 2 . Delaware was up more than 1 . But new jersey was among the states lagging near the bottom of the country with stagnant growth. It had a. 4 growth in gdp. It is a hot day for a long run but this was for a good cause. We were at the wilmington Police Department as officers from up and down delaware arrived with the Special Olympics torch. 500 officers from local, state and federal agencies teamed up to run 160 miles over the past three days. They raised 600,000 to support 4,000 special olympians who will compete at the games in newark this weekend. Playing outdoor tunes for customers got a couple store businesses in legal trouble. Did you know your Favorite Places to eat need to pay for the rights to play songs . Yeah. This is a look at the towns where bmi sued businesses for thousands of dollars over royalty problems. Bmi owns hundreds of thousands of songs and lets businesses buy the rights to the bands work. That girl is poison in one of the cases, flipflops beach bar in North Wildwood got in trouble for playing what is that . Bel biv davoe. We checked the court records. Flipflops and bobby ds came to a settlement with bmi. Nobody was available at either business to give us a comment. You mean you werent a poison fan . I know the song. Happening this weekend, the Borgata Hotel casino and spa debuts its new festival park. The 5,000 capacity outdoor concert venue opens tomorrow. The hooters as special guests g. Love and special sauce and Southside Johnny and the asbury jukes will kick things off. It will serve as a place for festivals and special events. An update on a boardwalk battle at the jersey shore over the use of an iconic recording you have probably heard before. Watch the tram car, please. The wildwoods claim that thats their recording in use since the 70s but Atlantic City has been using the same recording on its new tram cars. Atlantic city promised to stop using it but they havent so the wildwoods sent a legal notice to Atlantic Citys b b parking ordering them to stop. This afternoon, they began changing the recording to a new voice but the same message, but the folks in the wildwoods say humum, thats not good enough. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. Would have been nice to be down on the boardwalk in either of those places during the day today. Because there was some tremendous relief at the beach. It felt like 100 degrees in and around the city this afternoon for multiple hours. Just some isolated thunderstorms, so people cooling off with that and the weekend not as hot as it was today, and not as humid. We have some clouds out there associated with some showers and storms. Still dry in philadelphia obviously, at 93 degrees. Winds southwest at 15 miles an hour. It dropped down into the 70s in allentown and pottstown with the rain. Now theyre back up to 80 degrees. Still 90 throughout much of delaware and 80s in much of new jersey but not quite at the beaches. We can get in real close and show you that. Cape may point, we show you that picture all the time 74 degrees. Thats why there arent a lot of people on the beach. 77 degrees in North Wildwood. 73 in stone harbor. 75 in ocean city. Its in the 80s just a few miles inland. 74 degrees, Atlantic City marina and Atlantic City airport, ten miles inland felt like it was 97 today. Theres the front. It will put an end to that. Its going to be coming down and weakening but at least it will do enough to bring some cooler and less humid air around. We had some of those isolated storms. This one that came through northern Chester County is now getting into part of philadelphia. Mt. Airy looks like theyre getting hit. The one that hit allentown and easton is going into new jersey causing Power Outages and downed trees. Saturday its actually going to get warmer behind the cold front at the jersey shore because of the wind direction. Northwest wind so it will get into the 80s before the sea breeze kicks in. Then the sea breeze will hit everywhere on sunday with the southeast wind. The poconos, nice on saturday and a chance of thunderstorms sunday afternoon. For the rest of the night, just those isolated showers and storms. Warm and humid otherwise. 77 for the low in philadelphia and during the day tomorrow a hot day. May get to 90 degrees and make it an official heat wave but not as humid. So it will feel about ten degrees cooler than today. That should be enough for you to notice. 85 degrees on sunday. The clouds increase a little bit. Chance of thunderstorms mainly at night. And into monday. And we have kind of a humid week next week chance of storms that chance goes up and the atmosphere gets more and more moist later in the week. Im amy fadool from Comcast Sports net. We will get Conner Barwins thoughts on the release of evan mathis. Im amy fadool from Comcast Sports net. We knew it yesterday but the eagles made it official just hours ago. The Team Released evan mathis the guard had been looking for a new contract. He skipped voluntary workouts the past two weeks. Today, we got reaction from one of his former teammates who is always working. How you doing . Im conner. Im here to install your solar. Linebacker Conner Barwin surprised this cherry hill couple as part of the nrg solar team. He even helped install solar panels on the roof. Likely holding his breath watching him climb the ladder. He discussed mathis departure. Its a bad ending for everybody. I wish evan the best. He was a great teammate for two years. Im very confident in the guys that have been here all summer. Tobin, gardner, dennis kelly, alan, those guys have had a good offseason. They have been here every single day. Were moving forward. Im excited about who we have. Obviously evans moving forward. Good luck to him in the future. The phillies will look to try to cure their road woes tonight when they start a series in pittsburgh. They are just 723 away from Citizens Bank park the worst in the majors. Kevin correia will make his first start tonight. He spent the last two months with the giants aaa affiliate before signing on monday. Ryan howard and chase utley both out of the lineup this evening. Lefty on the mound for the buccos. Today in center city the taney dragons were honored with the wanamaker award, given to the athlete or team who has done the most to reflect credit on the city. The dragons were the stars of last summer in their run through the Little League world series. We have highlights for the phillies tonight at 11 00. That does it for sports. Well be right back. Woman i was tired of my chronic constipation and the way it made me feel the discomfort the bloating the straining. Id just felt this way for too long. So i finally talked to my doctor about my symptoms. Id tried laxatives before. He prescribed Amitiza Lubiprostone for my chronic constipation. It works differently than laxatives. 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