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New york city, its going to take a little longer than that. sometime right around 3:00 or 4:00. and by 9:00 p.m. this evening, remember those macys fireworks in the new york city area, it looks like you clear out just in time for a great show. by 4:00 a.m. even the boston area begins to clear out. so your fourth of july forecast, theres the rain socked in. d.c., youre the lucky one, same for you in baltimore. but southern portions of new england, we do clear it out for a great saturday, a great ...

Again. will slowly weaken as it heads towards nova scotia. >> you were mentioning the cold front. does it become markedly cooler? >> it was over the gulf stream, the warm water all the way on its journey up to the outer banks and now the water temperature is starting to dramatically cool. >> right about here. >> and thats why its going to weaken. but the damage is already done in north carolina. were not expecting a lot of damage in the cape anyways. >> nbc meteorologist bill karins, thank you, ...

Everybody is good to go for this beautiful weekend. its the fourth of july, a lot of tourists are coming in and its a beautiful day here at wrightsville beach, north carolina. back to you. >> thank you very much for the very latest there. coming up, weve taken a look at where its been. now, where is arthur headed? what do expect as hurricane arthurs heavy rains and sustained 100-mile-per-hour winds continue to do as they trek north up the eastern coast. later, pizza for patriots. how one com...

Evacuate and so they have been here spending money. unfortunately, theyre here for the beach which they can enjoy but theyre going to have to keep out of the water today. well see what happens tomorrow as far as letting them go in. >> mayor, it sounds like you as well as other officials in that part of the country did well in precipitation here for arthur. what some have called a good rehearsal for the next storm. this being the first storm. did it meet your expectations or not? >> well, weve be...

All of a sudden you just see all that rain heading north. so eventually philadelphia, the new york city area, youve had a pretty dry morning. thats going to change shortly, especially there in new york city. youre going to get drenched for a good portion of the middle of your fourth of july. hartford area, youre going to be next as that rain just surges northwards out ahead of arthur and out ahead of that cold front. the storm itself will stay off the coast and it will begin to weaken throughout...

Cantore, who earlier today because of where he was at had some difficulty actually getting on the air as the storm, as arthur was passing through. those connections making it difficult as weve seen within the last 24 hours, so jim doing a lot of tweeting to get the information out to us and to his viewers. shifting gears now, disturbing allegations with the dad accused of killing his toddler by leaving him in an suv for hours. in a court hearing yesterday, prosecutors laid out their case again...

Emergency operations shirt into a casual shirt because he is on vacation starting today, in fact. he was reflecting on some of the conditions that he has seen. highway 12, that key artery that he was mentioning which connects some 300,000 people on the outer banks of north carolina he says is in better condition than they had originally thought and of course the latest information this hour is that now arthur, a category 1, no longer a category 2, we learned that within the last 30 minutes. now,...

Built for business. well, arthur, the category 2 storm, continues to move north unleashing nasty rain along the east coast. just look at those bands as they twirl, changing the plans of