At 11 00, the hd Holiday Weekend underway, drone watch 3 flying above the sights of the shore. Were in wildwood where the boardwalk is back in business and cbs3 along for the ride. This is summer fest. Good evening im jessica dean. Im Ukee Washington live in wildwood, new jersey. And were so excited to start our summer fest season here in the wildwoods. Every friday all season long, were going to showcase great people. Great towns, all around our region and give you what they have to offer and right now, once again, were starting here in the wildwoods. Quick. Lets take you back in time a little bit. This video from earlier today, of wildwood officials shows the unlocking of the ocean for another summer season, nice crowd, everyone so excited about another beach and shore season. Now, the businesses shore pumped two, but Vittoria Woodill joins us and they have some concerns the weather played a big factor but that didnt stop Business Owners or folks on the boardwalk and myself from having a little fun. Check it out. Memorial day weekend, the official start to summer the fun has begun. Theres a fishing rod and they have to get it on the rim of a beer bottle and the action on boards is just enough for the families who made it out. Is there anything better shan spending money on your kids absolutely not. Celebrating the memorial day weekend. Reporter Business Owners say they could use a little more. The weather is not very and having been friday night, you see the weather. Reporter at least youre in the pizza business. Everyone loves boardwalk pizza. Reporter many are taking advantage of shore lines. You won these prizes . What did you do. Trying to shoot it i had two out of the three. Are you kidding me are you like amateur golfer i play golf a lot are you thinking about joining the big league . I decided to help work the crowd. Time to play the game, got contestants for you, come on in. Right here. 23rd street. Ukee doing a story by the nor easter. Im working my parttime job right now. Here we go, here we go, energy. I think i have the future as a i dont even know what theyre called. I have a future bringing in to play games. Ill tell you, the boardwalk was a hit and this guy, Ukee Washington, everybody loves. We had a great time people came up and wanted to know where you were and we found you. You know i like to use the word family and thats what it felt like today. All day long all of it up and down the boardwalk were not done yet. Everybody down here today, im almost positive enjoyed the weather. At tad breezy but its unofficial start to the summer. Lauren casey is with us to talk more about the conditions little bit breezy as long as you got your wildwood hat youre good to go. Feeling a little cool we have a land breeze as opposed to a sea breeze. We have our Weather Center and were taking in the current kicks, 60 right now, thats anyhow not too shall be with, winds breezy but in the as gusty as earlier, and winds out of the west. They were out of the east. Ocean city temperature about 60, little bit chilly for us on the boardwalk. Feeling pretty good right now and feeling pretty good over the next couple of days in your memorial day weekend forecast, 77 saturday, increasing clouds, stray shower late in the day on sunday, we could see a shower maybe a thunderstorm, some sunshine, clouds High Temperature at 74 and warmer by memorial day weekend. Repeat of showers and thunderstorms as we head to monday, High Temperature at 79, conditions at the shore can vary a bit from the city and the suburbs, while have the jersey shore forecast coming up. First up i want to give a shout out to the wildwood pds, preventing us from getting involved in shenanigans, i can easily stay out of trouble but i know you have a hard time staying out of trouble. Its a good thing we have the officer around so true. And youre leading me to my next story on fun this weekend. But there are people in place to make sure no one steps over the line, the mayor says theyve beefed up Police Patrols to help handled the crowds. Officers will be ready on the boardwalk and beach to handle anything that may happen over the next three days. Mayor welcomes everyone to enjoy the festivities. Im going to take a ride. They retooled a major attraction here. One of their top roller coasters and lets just say, i rode it and lets just also say, im still not right. Still not right. I got on. Ill tell you more. Show you more come about ten minutes its not just wildwood, Atlantic City also kicking off. Chopper 3 in Atlantic City at the tropicana casino, dazzling fireworks display. The firework as the tropicana will continue all summer long every saturday night. Earlier there was a beach ball drop on the boardwalk outside resorts to welcome summer, the fourth year those beach balls have been let loose. Just in time for beach seasons, great white shark as returning, mary lee and sis company, two great whites have tracking devices. S sis. Youre much more likely to drown than get attacked by a great white. Theyre incredibly important for the oceans eco system the unofficial start means many are heading to the shore taking a dip and like most americans being concerned about one before sea dweller. Is bitten by a shark. You may be sharing the water with mary lee. A 50yearold great white shark. I definitely try to keep my eye out been tracking mary lee over four and a half year chris fisher is the founding chairman of o search shes the size of a minivan. You need to stay away. And mary lee has been joined by cisco, a smaller off the coast of delaware its not important enough to me to be in the water his teams goal is to track the movements and communicating patterns and great white attacks are extremely rare mary lee has been swimming 40, 50 years. Shes waiting for chance im telling you maybe if youre lucky youll get to see mary lees tail because shes more afraid of you than you are of her you see the fin, youre out. The organization is tracking more than 2000 sharks throughout the world and the Research Shows most great whites in the North Atlantic Ocean off the cape cod coast spend their younger years eating fish off of jerseys delaware shores. Just relax, swim around, dont worry, probably wont eat you probably. Police are investigating the death of an infant in southwest philadelphia. The six week old was found unresponsive in the 5800 block of willows avenue and pronounced at childrens hospital. Theyre investigating the babys death as suspicious, no arrests have been made. New developments in the russia election med link investigation. The washington is reporting Jared Kushner talked with the Russian Ambassador about creating a secret channel between the Trump Transition Team and krimlin. The fbi is looking into it. The president and six other heads of state will hold seven more meetings tomorrowly during a working lunch the g7 discussed efforts to combat terrorism. A Top White House official said the president s use on Climate Change are evolving following discussions. Attention septa riders, fares going up. The rate increase takes effect july 1st, here are some of the increases, a fare will cost you 2. 50. Weekly trans pass goes up to 25. 50. A monthly trans pass 96. Part of the transition to a new payment system. A popular photo spot for tourists and philadelphians is about to close a couple weeks. Well tell you about it. Ukee shows off his inner daredevil. Whoa. Ukee takes a ride on wildwoods newest attraction. The make over it underwent a t isnt complete without a tram ride mus the tram you the best time to get tho p weekend. Watch the tram care please. Wildwood local has lent her voice to the famous recording. Watch the tram car, please, the tram come back in 49 takes passengers along the twomile long boardwalk. If youve been to wildwood any time between 1992 and today, you may have seen my man behind the wheel i work 16 hours a day, seven days a week, with a little nap and i never get tired of it. He sure doesnt. The john a retired Freight Train conductor spent the last 24 hours driving the tram. He drives up and down the board and he joins us live. What do you love about it so much i love the excitement. I love the people. Every year, people come by and anywhere is gigi . They stopped tram car a little while ago when you took it down to the roller coaster about 15 times. Well, mr. Rosen is the mayor, but evidently he acknowledges me as the assistant. I agree. Totally. Let me tell you, gigi did take it down to the roller coaster and im telling you this is it no ordinary roller coaster. And i know first hand. How are you doing . The pressure was building. Participation to get on the rematched roller coaster at morey moreys pier. Eventually, i had to sample everybody. Whoa. Whoa, whoa. The new and improved ride, ok. My eyes were closed. It is really intense. Its really intense. Lauren standing by with the boards with the forecast. Thanks so much, ukee, pretty nice evening, got the breeze going, but we had dry conditions as weve been out earlier this afternoon, and thankfully we need dry weather because this may has been so, so wet. Weve had over six inches of rainfall in philadelphia. Just since may 1st, that is over three inches above average. Its time to dry out. Getting a look at satellite and radar. Sporadic in nature. Conditions are dry and temperatures not too bad of ties in the 60s below average over the last self days, we made it into the 70s. Not too bad in your 70 in philadelphia. Falling in in the middle 60s here in wildwood and we had the gusty winds through the date. Is a before i see especially if youre ocean side like us, within speeds up around ten to 15 Miles Per Hour across portions of the Delaware Valley and up into the lehigh valley. Overnight, were expecting to turn clear clouds moving on out. Seasonal temperatures falling back to 59 degrees and for our saturday temperatures warming up to the upper 77, partly warmer. Increasing clouds with a chance of passing shower coming in especially later in the day. Watching out for the tram car, jersey shore forecast of course, thats what Everyone Wants to know on this Holiday Weekend. Interviews and go home. That wasnt the case for phils. Pete mackanin. Aaron nola gets a start picking it up. Reds up by one, adam duval. Swinging accrual intentions. 11th of the season, 20, matty in the second. Deepest part of the ball perform the, cincinnati on top, 30, nola retired ten in a row until the sixth. Here comes one run, two. Of the reds now up 50. The phils had just one hit going into the 9th. Aaron altherr with an rbi double the phils fall, lost 21 out of 26. Hence the team meeting. We got to Start Playing as aggressive as we can. And take it to the other team. Just be aggressive at the plate i think it will turn, i think we just stay focused and keep coming out and focus on what we need to do and take each pitch, pitch by pitch. Chip kelly couldnt stand talking to the media. Now hes getting paid to talk as a member of the media. Funny. He just joined espn as a football analyst. Looking forward to adding a new respective. He was fired by the 49ers after a two in 14 season. The draft is less than month away and the sixers have started bringing in players for a look. Is lonzo ball going to take a trip. Ball is considering working out for team but will decide after agent meets with Brian Coangelo to discuss the direction of the team, lonzo turned on the celtics request and his dadid w laker whose are the second pick. The rocky statue is down for the count. Area around the rocky station will close two weeks. No selfies with rocky until area as memorial day weekend is official underway and we may go back one last time as they wrap up our very first summer fest. Guys . Jessica, it has been fabulous, dont you think i had a pizza, walked the boards, made friends. Uniform friends. Well leave it at that the highlight. Family, friends, food, wildwood, the place to be. Family spot and gig. Gig. I mean, how cute a gig. An quick reminder summer fest returns next friday, jessica, tori and lauren will take you to the devon horse show and so much more, summer fest on cbs3, memorial day weekend, memorial day we honor and pay tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice that will do it for us tonight, morning team back tomorrow from 5 00 to 7 00, from don, ukee, everyone im jessica dean, late show with ste jack be nimble jack be quick