We hold these truths to be self evident that all men all men are pree created equal. All right. Thats what i was talking about right there. Boys two men. Also today free admission to the National Museum of jewish history and Philadelphia History Museum a lost stuff going on in philadelphia and towns throughout our area. Have been holding celebrations for the fourth of course from parades to bike races folks putting their own twists on americas birthday. Fox 29s joyce evans live at pennsylvania lapping. Shes hasnt Party Hopping all day long. Joyce, you actually started your day in evesham, right . Reporter i actually did, right across the Delaware River here from penns landing whereas you can see behind me the part of the big party is still going on on this river bang. But i got to tell you while theres a huge and very dramatic kind of thing going on on this side of the river, on the other side, there is nothing quiet as quaint as a small town parade. It had every site and sound you cant expect from an old small town main street parade. Happy fourth of july reporter except 15, 20 yards behind them all right. Reporter hes the mayor of evesham. Red, white and blue, happy fourth to you. Reporter hes not riding inside a fancy convertible with a bunch of dignitaries. Ive never ridden along. I stand at main and maple and directly wheat parade. Ive never actually seen the parade. Mayor randy brown cant help himself. The first nfl winning kicking coach cant stand on the side line. Once football coach always a football coach. I dont care if youre the mayor or youre a coach. I love it. Just see the smiles on the kids faces why we do it. It takes up all my attention like i cant even take my eyes off of it. Reporter little ones cant standstill. With all the bands passing by. You like the music . Yes. Coming every year. Enjoying the sights, sounds. This is probably of the best time you can come out and meet anybody. Reporter neighbors, people about town and big city new yorkers. Quiet impressed by small town nj. Thank you for your service as always. This is the best part. I get to interact with everybody right here. Reporter its definitely a Contact Support for the mayor but he can get too pumped up. The band through me out. They wouldnt let me start dancing theyre afraid their big tuba was going to run me over. Reporter even the mayor gets called bad play. Is he heard my oh motions through the mayor off the para parade. Reporter he got over that very quickly. A lot of fun out there. We had and then later in the afternoon we came back on the pennsylvania side of the river and we went to a parade that was full of symbolism and spoke with some people who put their lives on the line for our freedom. Thats coming up at 6 00. Lucy. Cant wait to talk to you. Thank you very much, joyce eva evans. Back to the part parkway Joanne Pileggi joins us. Happy fourth of july to you, joanne. I see you got like probably hundreds of thousands of your closest friends with you. Reporter thats right, lucy. They will be hundreds of thousands of my closest friends as you said here we are along the parkway. The stage, the big stage tonight about 100 yards away from me and im going to be joined by some horses and some Police Officers thats great. Everybody is out here. If you take look, there are crowds gathered behind the barricades over there. Those are the early birds. Trying to get the best seats for tonights celebration. There are actually barricades up for blocks. No one but official vehicles and officials can come into this zone around the parkway and around the stage. But as i said many people started lining up hours ago in advance of the show which starts around 7 00 oclock tonight. Some of the big names boys two men, philly pops and of course mayor j. Blige. The head lining act tonight. Again the concert starts at 7 00. The fireworks start around 9 30 tonight. It will be an absolutely Wonderful Party here Independence Day celebration. Wawa welcome america Independence Day celebration and well be back in about half an hour to give you a little more flavor of the scene. We were just over there by the stage a few minuting a getting a sound check. Its exciting. Its great to be here. What a better place to be. Well be back in about half an hour and again at the top of the 6 00. See you then. Fantastic. How is the weather out there, joanne. Can you see like the makeup is already sweating off of me. I know its hot. I was just out there, too. Hot on the pavement. But it will be a great celebration. Thank you so much. It is. Thank you very much, joanne. Joanne talked about it. It is hot, fox 29 Weather Authority right now this is the greatest place to be. Ocean city, new jersey, the beach has a lot of folks there ready to rock and roll for this fourth of july. Weather is perfect for the kerth. Monica cryan whats in store over the next few hours . Well, good thing it looks like most of us are going to stay clear you may notice a little bit more cloud cover but at this point many of us are rain free. Here we are looking in old City Temperatures like we were saying well reelly warmed dawn. Your high 89 just shy of that 9. Were at 88 degrees. Those winds out of the southeast about 5 miles an hour. 77 in millville cooler Atlantic City ya 82 degrees. Allentown 86. But heres what i was talking about. Notice most of southeastern pennsylvania and into south jersey are dry. But we do have some showers and thunderstorms starting to pop up near dover and into milford, delaware. So some of us are seeing some wet weather and then as we head through the next few hours, were talking your fireworks forecast. We are going to continue those i lated shower and Storm Chances. But isolated is the key word for that. So make sure to keep track of your radar. But i think weve got a nice firework forecast especially here in philadelphia for the big firework and concert display that we have the ben franklin parkway. 82 degrees around 7 00 oclock. Now notice, 9 00 oclock, 10 00 oclock, as we get those fireworks going, well be into the upper 70s. Low 80s 76 degrees around 11 00 oclock as people are starting to leave all of the activities. Ive got a look at your full forecast coming up in just a bit. Sounds good. Mon any cash a lot to talk about. Well talk to you soon. Live look at row hoe both beach from our camera there always filled with action if youre still looking for something fun to do this evening very easy. Check out fox 29. Cot follow for a full list of activities. Developing story out of north philadelphia. Maybes found a child sized coffin along the 3,000 block of west clearfield street. The discovery is unsettling enough, right, but its what was inside that little coffin that has police on the case. Fox 29s dave kinchen is live in north philly at the scene. Dave . Reporter lucy, this case is very bizarre. Quiet frankly its making headlines around the country, and again these details may be a bit unsettling for people watching us tonight. Lets go to some video here. This is video taken by a person on facebook showing this white coffin partially wrapped in a garbage. Discovery was made 9 00 oclock last night on west clearfield street in normal philadelphia. And cops working with the medical Examiners Office say two involved organs belonging to an under fan or small child were in the coffin but they say there was no body inside. Nobody, no skeleton remains of any kind. It was found across from the Mount Vernon Cemetery so police launched a chopper to check from the air using a search light looking for disturbed or doug up graves from that cemetery and another one. They did not find anything cadaver dog was brought in to examine the area but again nothing unusual found by police. But no one knows where this coffin came from. Police are working with Funeral Homes in the area to see if they may have any kind of insight here so this Investigation Continues at this hour. Lucy . Thank you very much, dave. Well check back in with in you a little bit. Tonight the coroner in Lancaster County released the name of the utility worker killed natural gas explosion over the weekend. The Coroners Office says 54yearold richard bolder from east lampeter township lost his life while responding to a report avenue gas leak. Two other ugi employees are injured. New jersey is back open for business. Early this morning new Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed the states final budget after a three hiv day government shut down. The governor signed 34. 7 billion budget agreement. The deal included reshaping the state Largest Health insurer horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of new jersey which covers 4 million people. Allstate parks and beaches reopened for the holiday marine nass all that stuff after they closed during the impass. As millions head to big celebrations across our nation, police are stepping up patrols to keep it safe in one big city drones are a key line of defen defense. Police in germany uncovered a huge stash of weapons ahead of the g20 submit what they think this may have stopped as International Leaders prepare to gather. And [ applause ] huge day, congratulations to group of young new americans. A local naturalization ceremony has just made them citizens. Another live look at the ben franklin parkway. Mary j. Blige set to entertain the crowd tonight. Happy fourth of july to you. Not much is left of a home in Delaware County after a fire overnight. Flames broke out just past 1 30 this morning on bonsall avenue in alden. No injuries reported and its unclear if anyone was in the home at the time of the fire. Investigators are looking into what started it. In philadelphia, crash on i95 sent two people to the hospital. It happened right around 1 00 near front street. Not a lot of information on what happened here but traffic is back to normal now. A special fourth of july tradition in philadelphia. Its all about being american. Actually its about becoming american. [ applause ] welcome to americas newest and youngest citizens. They rang the bell today at the betsy ross house in old city. This incredible tradition the childrens citizenship ceremony happens every year on Independence Day. 13 children became american citizens and you know that number is no accident. It represents the 13 original colonies. I was born an american. My mother did most of the hard work. When it came to my american citizenship but you actually and your families have chosen this country and chosen to work hard to become citizens and the really wonderful part even though i was born here as citizen you and i are equals now. Were equal. You have every single right that i had born here. Youve earn it. Congratulations so great. Congratulations to all of them. Large cities are beefing up patrols to keep the nations biggest fourth of july celebrations secure. Laura inn gill has whats going on. Reporter thousands of firework loving rebellers filling the seats and sidewalks all up and down new yorks east river tonight to see that spectacular show in the sky and as their eyes are gazing upward, the nypds eyes will be everywhere else looking and making sure this event stays safe. New yorks finest are constantly updating adjusting security measures for every day and big event protect. This year the nypd will assign several thousand uniformed officers on patrol. Equipped with Radiation Detector force big back searches people will notice large trucks blocking streets. Something new this year will be utilizing over 100 block of vehicles and almost 20 sand trucks. Counter terrorism offices will be working theyll have Radiation Detection devices on their person. Explosive detecting detective k9 will be deployed. Nypd started using these trucks for parade routes and other public gatherings aft laughter year bastille day massacre 86 people were killed by a terrorist driven truck in nice, france when it ran in a crowd viewing firework. This will be a works for firework show in the big apple. All of our specialized commands will be out in force. Even though there are no specific threats were dealing with youll see and tell all new yorkers to be ready for this and see this as a good thing. You will see well armed Police Officers with long guns. Youll see vapor wake dogs. Reporter vehicle related attacks have been a priority and security planning for other cities as well. In washington, d. C. Large fences have been placed around the National Mall for the firework show tonight and in Boston Police there will be deploying a tethered drone for the first time to keep an eye on thing. Despite all the stepped up efforts, police around the country remind us all if you see something, say something. In new york, laura ingle, fox news. To germany now where ahead of g20 Summit Police may have just prevent add violent situation much police say they seized arsenal of weapons including throwing knives precision sling shots and chemicals. They found them in hamburg during a raid of two homes and believe the plan called for using the weapons and chemicals for acts of violence during the g20 summit. The summit will bring together President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin for the very first time and then theres north korea and its inter continental Ballistic Missile aspirations. Leaders are reactioning quite strongly to the countrys test firing avenue missile capable of hitting the United States as in alaska and hawaii and it happened monday night. Foxs Lucas Tomlinson has the latest from the pentagon. Reporter north korea taking a big step forward with its Missile Program on monday night. The pentagon confirming the north carried out its first suck suss fell test of inter continental Ballistic Missile. Russia and china are stepping in with a proposal. We agreed to active vol develop our mutual initiative based on russias step by step plan. At the same time freezing the Nuclear Capabilities of north korea and large scale military exercises by the United States. Reporter but that offer isnt sitting well with lawmakers on capitol hill who say President Trump needs to take an harder stance again the north pointing out this latest missile could potentially reach hawaii or alaska. The greater the capacity with their missiles, the more danger american interests are obviously the continental u. S. Eventually. So its a huge problem. Test is another sign of king eighty one uns evident to develop a missile capable of hitting the u. S. Weapons program is geared toward keeping kim in power. Not carrying out first strike against the United States or its allies. There can only be one out come , end of north korea. Its not something he wants to see happen. Reporter russia and china also pushing the United States to remove the anti Ballistic Missile system from south korea the military says it needs to guard against threats from the north. At the pentagon Lucas Tomlinson, fox news. On this long holiday week went the party is going on sometimes having designated drives status is not the most fun thing but now one family rewarding those who step up. And we keep hearing selfdriving cars are set to take over the streets of america. Coming up we jump behind the wheel for a test drive. And the thought of growing older is not something most people really relish. But these super agers show us all how to head into our golden years with grace and dignity. If youve got a life, you gotta swiffer a lot of folks enjoying all the festivities that go along with the fourth of july and undoubtedly some will unfortunatelunfortunately over. Each year we hear stories of people driving under the influence of alcohol with tragic results. Our Bill Anderson spoke to family who notice this all too well. But theyre using their experience to save others. This is john saying hi from the academy. 17 years ago we lost our son to drunk driver. He had just graduated from the United States Naval Academy with honors. Coming home for his mothers birthday. And was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Roar report many of the fourth of july weekend is about celebrating independence. To others, its about the beach or grilling but at least one group wants to us recognize that you can still celebrate the fourth of july weekend and do it responsibly. We created Hero Campaign as a way to save lives by promoting designated driving. If the person had that hit him had just had designated driver that night, our son would be alive today serving his country. Reporter hero cam pin is reminder that unfortunately too many people over do it with the alcohol and then try to drive. In Atlantic City they tried to make being the designated driver fun. Its moc mocktail challenge s not alcoholic for designated driver. Reporter bartenders from throughout the area presented their best nonalcoholic drink. Little spice to it. Reporter to many of the bartender us what just a fun competition, but to at least one, it took on a much deeper meaning. My youngest brother was killed in a dui related accide accident. He was driving intoxicated. Reporter Kevin Donahue says his family will never be the same so when he was asked to participate in the mocktail challenge he wanted people to see how simple it can be to save a life. To safe families from having to go through these tragedies such as the elliots have gone through, such as my family has gone through. Wide awake mock teeny. Even with the personal stories the hero teeny mocktail challenge was for a somber event and thats actually the point. Everyone understands the importance if they win of what theyll theyve a accomplish. They might be saving life by creating that drink to someone who will drive their friends home. Reporter a mock cops tale for designate designated drivere saved the elliots son or Kevin Donahues brother. The competition is real out here. They arent lecturing or shaming anyone. Theyre simply using events like today to show people how easy it can be to make a decision that could spare you or someone else a lifetime of main for goodness sake. Ill Bill Anderson. Emergency room doctors are bracing for busy night in the hospital. They say this holiday fun often comes with big emergencies. All right. Monica, no big weather, right . Well, we do have some storms but theyre very very isolated. Ill take a look at your radar and show when we have better Storm Chances in your seven day forecast. Stick around. Mmmm. So areers are the veggies. Hs that one is mine. Nice job guys. Hope it tastes as good as it looks. giggles hey gus, i brought Something Else you might like. Million dollar silver and gold. Yeah. The new scratchoff from the pennsylvania lottery. With top prizes of a million bucks youve always had good taste. laughter keep on scratchin screaming when you see an intruder, you act fast. Boo. So do we. Uh, why arent you running away . Raid kills roaches seven times faster than the next leading ant and roach spray. Seven times faster . gasps raid get raid and get tough on roaches fast. Its good to be tough. 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The bells of Christ Church at second and market have been ringing every single Independence Day since 1776. So there you go. Historians say no other church has played more significant role in our nations birth. Among those who sat in its pews ben franklin, george washington, john adams, betsy ross the list goes on. Live look at the ben franklin parkway where thousands will gather tonight for the wawa welcome america concert, and that is where our fox 29s Joanne Pileggi is tonight. Joanne, you drew the good straw on this one. This is a great place to be tonight. I did. Thats true. Last time about half an hour ago the sun was out. Were on the blacktop we noticed my makeup was melling we got a little shade arc little breeze. People are happy here tonight. The excitement is building for as you said the 2017 wawa welcome america Independence Day celebration. Lets get to the video right n now. People were here lined up as early as noon today. Getting in. There are tickets needed to get in for the seated area of the concert venue which is just to my left over here. Concert the stage is about 100 yards away from me. Museum right over there where the fireworks will be held tonight. Again, everyone festive some people dressed in red, white and blue, everyone very excited for tonights headliner mary j. Blige. Im here with my cousin linda and my new friends and were here to sea mary j. Since 2 00 oclock. Hey reporter yeah thats the tenor here seriously. Smatter other acts tonight, boyz ii men, philly pops. The concert starts at 7 00 oclock the fireworks set to go off over the museum red, white and blue beautiful firework the firework starting around 9 30 tonight. Well be back here in a little while and back here after the fireworks, too bring you all up to speed. Back to you lucy. Fantastic enjoy, joanne. I know youre work but enjoy t too. We will. Emergency room doctors say holidays can be very busy time for them having fun can often lead to accidents. Foxs nick magill goes inside one hospital with a look. Reporter phone of dr. Charles monty never stops ringing. Oh, my. Yeah. Reporter its this time of year that the chief of indianapolis ems says his phone rings more than usual. Every year its here we go again. Ive been at this for 18 years. Every year here we go again. Reporter we met the doctor where hes the chief of care Integration Unit he toll us from july 2nd to the fifth er departments including his can see a 15 to 20 increase in patient activity. You can probably guess the first reason why. We have typically increase in fireworks related injuries about this time of year the neck several days. Reporter firework may be the top reason for the increase, mary monty says alcohol is a close second people tend to over drink this time of year and that can lead to sickness or other types of debilitating issues. When you mix that with the fireworks, um, well see lots of accidents a tribute totter alcohol related and as well as fireworks and burns. You can see how it becomes a chicken or egg type thing. He says the final reason for the big up tick in er visits has to do with people forgetting to take their medicine. Lots of chronic medical problems flareups are common he says. Alcohol may play a factor in that, too. Also forget to mind their diets and so after a few days of poor dietary intake, high salt, plus alcohol we see, you know, typical chronic medical conditions player flop. Reporter most of these er visits can be prevent with a Little Common sense but if this holiday you find yourself taking a little vacation from all of that, doctors like him are more than ready. We have a whole Emergency Department based on that, yes. Reporter in indianapolis, nick magill, fox news. Got to be careful out there. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority right now. Lets take a live look, l we go, wildwood on picture perfect fourth of july down the shore. We are hoping for more of the same, right . Monica cryan has your forecast in 15 seconds. Lots of sunshine down the shore and across the delaware valley. At least through the morning seeing a little bit more cloud cover as we head through the afternoon. Here we are taking a look in cape may. No one is letting that bother me. Its 82 degrees. Dew point this is what i like to see 50s at least weve got 50degree dew points. 60s and 70s get a little bit sticky heres the temperatures across the shore points. 72 in cape may. 72 in ocean city the boardwalk coming in at 74 degrees. And then back more inland cinnaminson at 86 degrees. Expanding this back here we are looking at mount pocono 74 kind of a nice relief from that heat and 86 degrees for those of us in lancaster. So if youre wondering why we are looking at increase in cloud cover not only that, some Storm Chances through the afternoon. A frontal system has actually stalled to the south of us. A lot of these storms that are popping up since it is a stalled front are actually staying in the same location. Thats why we are looking at an localized flooding issue with this and a concern because these storms kind of are staying stationary over the same points including parts of central delaware, kind of moving little bit more north. Let me take you hour by hour so we can get a better look what to expect for our fireworks forecast. Well continue isolated shower and Storm Chances. I dont think it should ruin many peoples firework displays just because as we led to 7 00 oclock thats a lot of times before those fireworks get going. It still is very isolated storm chance. 9 00 oclock as we get closer and closer to the fireworks events especial follow the ben franklin parkway, we could see a cell popping up south of wilmington and that is continuing a few cells popping up around the philadelphia area but philadelphia does look like well keep it clear and dry and then as we head into the overnight its this starts to clear out. Were talking a lot of cloud cover as we head into our wednesday morning. Partly to mostly cloudy. But then as we head into the afternoon that cloud cover seems to break apart and weve got partly sunny conditions at least through wednesday. Thursday well see more clouds and a chance for some stormy activity especially as we head into the afternoon. Overnight tonight 69 degrees in the city. Partly cloudy. Isolated storms cant be ruled out. Winds out of the southeast five maybe even 10 miles an hour. Temperatures will be a little bit below average. Low 80s through thursday. 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South florida goodwill working hard to make sure old glory looks glorious on this fourth of july and everyone of them. Goodwill flag center creates about 600 flags a day for the u. S. Department of veterans affairs. Many end up draping the caskets of u. S. Veterans. Goodwill employees use 100yearold embroidery machines to make these incredible flags. No loose threads, every flag is perfect and inspected thoroughly before shipping on out. They have to be perfect because we talking about the American Flag. It is important for soldiers and the flag we respect. Umhmm. It takes about 900 employees to make the flags. Here in pennsylvania, its not just philly that has a big connection to todays holiday. The battle ofgettysburgisa huge moment in our countrys history different war of course. Hundreds of people gathered today for a battle of gettysburg reenactment. The blast of more than 2,000 yankees and couldnt federal reenacts filled the town as they faced off on the 154th anniversary of the civil war battle. It was one of the bloodiest battles in american history. But today some were actually upset the reenact many used the couldnt federal flag. They were just doing history. Telling people the story of what happened in this country the greatest battle this half of the world. Kind of hard to do that without flags. Reenactment and all. The gettysburg civil war battle took more than 51,000 casualties in just three days. The fourth of july is a time to show your patriotism maybe even more than usual. But for some of our veterans holiday comes with anxiety. And for a lot of folks growing older is not something they relish. But these super agers show us all how to head into our golden years with grace. Hello, sean bell. Happy fourth to you. Happy fourth, lucy. After rolling out in the First Summer League Markelle Fultz the whole entire game the first one in sixers uniform. Hear what he had to say later in sports. You got all this American Steel around you but people do change in the car. Its hank im on roosevelt boulevard. Road rage kills weve known since long before wednesday when i wasnt witnessyearold Bianca Roberson was murder. My take is, why do we still participate in it when we have a choice . Kimberly quinn doesnt fight angry drivers. Shes got another ways dealing with them. Theyre yelling, theyre hollering i go like this. [ laughter ] it just reflects all their negative energy back on them. Reporter ill admit ive been mad on the road before a lot of us have. The question is can you stop yourself and move away before you do something stupid . You have to. Your whole world depends on it. Nobody got hurt. You didnt get hurt. Eventually the road wage going to catch up with the individual who had the road rage problems. Reporter it was a quick hot flash of blind stupid road rage saw david desper allegedly killed Bianca Roberson last week. Im sure hed love a do over but life doesnt work that way. And now two families are shattered. People are angry, you know, life is hard. Everybodys rushing somewhere. Reporter jack rollo says he gets the fury. People are stressed out but you wont see him confronting other drivers. Even if hes in the right. Ill let them go. You just let them roll. Yeah. Theres no sense in fighting them. Reporter aaa survey last year found more than half of us have purposely tailgated another driver almost as many have yelled at another driver, 4 of us have gotten out to confront another driver. Thats when tragedies happen. If thats you just got to calm down. If you donts have ass cab driver youll be dead man. Physically you are going to mentally kill yourself because this job is tough job. Report roar this is an easy talk to have now while youre watc watching testimony v be honest if youre somebody who flips out on the wheel work on yourself, drink dee car, meditate, people are on their phone, batter drivers are here to stage. Thats not changing. The on thing that can is your attitude. Im hank and thats my take. In your health tonight something that might have you thinking twice before you head to the Grocery Store. Researchers in new jersey swabbed various surfaces at stores to test for germs. The results arent exactly appealing. They say Grocery Store shopping carts are the worsts which is really no surprise. Were all handling them, right . They have 360 times more bacteria than bathroom door handles. Thats why you got you know those little sterile wipes they have there, use them. The second most contaminated area is the cash register. Those registers have been ringing over this holiday. For many the best of the fourth are the fireworks but for combat veterans it can often bring up painful memories and trigger ptsd. Foxs joe, talks to few vets how they deal with all the noise. Reporter fourth of july firework are a hallmark of celebrating freedom but for some who risked their lives defending that freedom, fireworks can bring them right back to the horrors of the battlefield. My anxiety and my depression trying to get away from the noise. Reporter richard lives a complex built exclusively for military veterans. He says when he and many of his neighbors hear the explosions of fireworks, it triggers their post Traumatic Stress disorder or ptsd. I kind of like turn the tv up and shut the windows. There are cases of ptsd here. Some worse than others, but a Fireworks Show nearby could trigger quite a few people. Sitting on your couch and all of a sudden theres allowed explosion outside those are triggering the memories putting you back into your deployment time. Reporter James Brashear the commander of the West Sacramento veterans of foreign wars chapter. He says, some vets avoid being Fireworks Shows but even inside their homes they cant avoid hearing loud fireworks explosions in their neighborhoods. Settinsetting off an explosit to guy whose been blown up for a year it will cause problems. My heart rate immediately jumps. Shortness of breath. People even realize that veterans go through what youre going through . I really dont think so. Reporter both of these vets say they dont expect Fireworks Shows to stop. Nor do they want that. But they say, if youre lighting fireworks off near your home, get to know your neighbors. One of them could be a veteran. Reliving the war from their living room. In West Sacramento, joe chalil fox news. When it comes to lighting your own fourth of july show, doctors say that youve got to be very careful about firecrackers and sparklers even bottle rots rockets he is special when it comes to your eyes. Every single year hospitals treat 10,000 fireworks related injuries and most of those cases involve children and many of the injuries are eye injuries and its legal fireworks that parents buy for their kiddos that are most often behind those injuries. Have you ever heard of super ager . These are Senior Citizens who defy the common frailties that come with aging. Their golden years are in fact golden and as foxs sylvia perez reports the hope is that studying them could unlock the mysteries of aging. Reporter it is a gathering made up of seniors. But not just any seniors. They are part of an elite group of people over 80 that are being studied because they are socalled super agers. Neuro scientists emily rah you go ski a lead investigator individuals who are over age 80 who have memory performance as good as individuals in their 50s and 60s. Reporter whats their secret. Thats the great mystery northwestern researchers are trying to unravel. Why are these seniors aging at a healthier pace than their counterparts . Ask super ager you might get different answers. Lillian ruben stein, 93 years old. And you have to live live to the fullest the good and the mad. Reporter irma goldstein, 104. I go to exercise class once five times a week when the weather is good report to get to the bottom of their Union Physical nature scientists are folking on their brains. This part is thicker. Reporter it turns out their brain display marked difference from their peers including physical shape and shrinkage typically found in aging. And theres a particular region of the brain called the anterior singlet cortex. That was much thicker than an average 80yearold and closer to a 50yearold brain. We know that the anterior cingulate is important for attention and attention supports memory. Reporter how can we all become super ager . Theres no definitive ansates but there are some anecdotal results from these special seniors that we can learn from. They are socially engaged and active with family, friends and their community. They come from all walks of life and many have suffered hard times battling cancer, losing children, but throughout the hard ships, they are very resilient and always seemed to bounce back. I think thats something that we can kind of take home with us today. To say, well, were all going to experience stress but auri action to it may be important for our biology and may be important for aging. Reporter thor these seniors being part of this elite group is a badge of honor and theyre proud to be associated with each other. Until recentl recently she was l driving on chicago free ways. She believes to keep your mind sharp, you have to stay active and take care of yourself first. Thats why im a super ager. Reporter sylvia perez, fox news. Thats great. We keep hearing selfdriving cars are set to take over the streets of america. Up next, why dont we jump behind the wheel for a little zest drive. 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So foxs Lauren Demarco is ho hopping behind the wheel to see what hull the hubbub is about. Reporter Fairfax County showing off some cutting edge technology. I cant believe were driving around and youre talking. Its not how automation. Warning red light ahead. Its also about connectivity about 200 people signed up for this event to take a test drive in the audi q7 an tesla model x, level two automation. Depending on the circumstances, they know to stay in the line or brake all on their own. Its really cool how they stop smoothly. While level twos are the only ones youll see on the road right now, level five automation would be a car that completely drives itself. And becoming a society where everyone gets around in level five, that would require connectivity or communication between both cars warning vehicle collision. And with infrastructure. Even though its green because based on the timing of the light it knows it will be red by the time we got here. A Company Called e trance which is hoping to be involved in many new market space showed off its connectivity software. Would you feel save driving around in a world of automated cars. I would. What if theres a glitch. People have glitches all the time. What about a whole generation of people that might not know how to drive. You know, back in the old days, they didnt think that elevators were safe to run without people operating them. The biggest problem we see right now is distract. People are doing all kinds of things in their vehicle when theyre supposed to be paying attention to the driving task. Reporter kathy magee with ddot says theyve been working with Virginia Tech outfitting vehicles with multiple cameras and a black box like device to connect with sensors already placed along i66, the beltway u. S. 50 and route 29. Its all for research. About 32,000 people die every year. If you can substantially decrease that by 80 to 90 look at all those lives you saved. Reporter they say it could open doors for the elderly, blind or handicapped people. On bad days i cant drive. Im losing the use of my hands as well as my legs and that would be a really fantastic way to get people back out. Reporter were excited to be on the leading edge. Happy too town dread 41st birthday, america. Philadelphia celebrating, folks down the shore through the poconos showing patriotic pride. We hold these truths to be selfevident that all men are are created equal. Hometown celebs boyz ii men honored at a huge celebration at Independence Mall as philadelphia gets ready for big party on the parkway. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6 00. Happy Independence Day 241 years old. Big time party in old city as the fourth of july marches down Market Street from the ben franklin parkway to jersey shore and in between and beyond americans are spending the day celebrating our nations birthday. Good evening to you. Ill lucy noland. Thanks for joining us. Iain has the night off. Lets get out to our celebrations. Fox 29s Joanne Pileggi joins us live now from the ben franklin parkway. Hey, joanne. Reporter hey, lucy. Hey, everyone. Happy fourth of july. Ill tell you, out here on the parkway, everywhere i look coming down kelly drive, coming off the streets here, coming toward the parkway, people are walking over here. Theyre walking closer to the stage. Again, the big event tonight the wawa welcome america fourth of July Fireworks and concert. Its all set to kick off less than an hour from now. The big concert starts at 7 00 oclock. Boyz ii men and the headline
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