thing every year so sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don t. coming up, we ll have the latest weather forecast with what you you can expect today during your celebrations. we re going to start with two u.s. cities responding to a series of mass shootings last night that left a combined eight people dead in fort worth, texas then in philadelphia. in fort worth, three are dead and more than a dozen injured after two separate shootings. while in philadelphia, a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with an ar type rifle killed five people and injured two. a toddler and a 13-year-old boy. at least one man is now in custody and officials there are set to give a press conference at the top of the next hour. we ll cover that for you live. in a statement, president biden responded to the violence writing quote, today, jill and i grieve for those who have lost their lives and as our nation celebrates independence day, we pray for the day when our communities will be fre
if you delay the hot dog competition, you ve stopped history. that cannot happen. guad, you and i know this. let s talk about conditions in miami before we get to michelle here. reporter: conditions here are very nice. we ve had more visitors than expected here this week. in fact, miami beach is the top beach city destination this fourth of july weekend. the airport authority says they ll be serving about a million passengers going through miami international airport the entire week and as you can see, conditions are perfect. it is hotter than usual. i keep saying the sand behind us is so hot, you can t walk on that barefoot. you have to wear shoes because it s so hot. life guards say they have a lot of tourists that aren t familiar with the ocean and water so they ask them to pay special attention to the water if they re going to get in because of the possibility of rip currents in the area and other parts of florida.