Were just two hours away. It is all going downright here tonight. A big Fireworks Show and concert featuri featuri featuring mary j blige and boyz ii men. Tonights preconcert will feature the philly pops and you dont want to miss Mandy Gonzalez. Shes killing it. You can hear her now. Theres music for everyone at the concert kicking off at 7 00. And fireworks kick off at 9 30. Know who has a better spot than us . Tim furlong in about a half hour. Well check with him. Hes got all access pass behind the stage. Behind the scenes. So hes there when the artists start to come in. First, back where i showed you those people, thats nbc 10 is standing by now in the crowd as they line up to enter. What is it like where you are . Reporter well, theres a lot of people, for one, and were getting a the lot of people gathering by us. Look, this is my new friend tooerns here. She wants to say happy fourth of july. Happy fourth of july reporter one thing people remarked about is how well everyone is dressed. How patriotic the kids are and their parents and how many of them are here along the parkway. Where keith and tim are standing by getting ready for the big concert tonight. But some of the little ones, well, they were interested in a concert this afternoon. Sure, there are games. I want this one. Reporter and food. Lots of it. Were here for the kids bop concert. Everywhere we turned kids on the parkway were looking for one thing. The kids what do they do . Sing and dance while parents and their kids were entertained with the party on the parkway. The beats seats were quickly filling up. For the smallest sets to perform. With their faces painted, families of all sizes took advantage of the free celebration. Dancing here for playing on the parkway. And this family are typically at their hometown parade. With the daytime headliners. We have a couple of kids bop fans. Here for the concert. A lot of people waiting for the concert. At 6 00 well show you how long people were preparing to wait here at the parkway. You can see our nbc 10 telmundo 61 tend. We have a few giveaways left before the concert tonight. Thank you for joining us tonight. Have a great fourth of july everyone well to it back to keith jones. For now live on the parkway. Back to you. All right. Well take it from here. Here is a birds eye view over the parkway. And nbc 10 mitch is live as the celebrations are underway now. And if youre headed to the con serlt, theres also a ticket scam we need to know about, mitch . Yeah, denise and rosemary. Youre looking at the line to get in. This is the ticketed area of the concert. Right in front of the strange. You can see the line is starting to get a little bit more dense as more and more people are starting to get in there. What i want to show you is what wawa welcome America Incorporated is warning people of. This is fraudulent ticket scam is what theyre saying. For the concert and the fireworks. I want to you what the tickets look like. On the left is the authorized ticket. Thats from a ticket. On the left is unauthorized ticket. Ticket leap the authorized retailer. If you want a closer look at the tickets to compare and make sure you have the right one go to nbc 10. Com. You can check out that picture in great detail. Its the latest from sky force 10. To you in the studio. Thank you. Good to know. Now to our first alert forecast. Two words holiday heat. But we should cool off with scattereds this evening. A dip in the water was your best bet today. Theyre still doing a live look at camel beach water park. The hot weather didnt stop families from getting out and about on their bikes today. Others grabbed the roller blades for a ride along kelley drive in philadelphia. Glen hurricane schwartz is tracking the most accurate forecast for your neighborhood. And, glen, theres a chance of showers as we mentioned tonight been could the rain move in . Where is it going to hit . It could get the philadelphia area. Take probably at least a couple of hours. The action is creeping north ward through the state of delaware. The south jersey showers have totally disappeared. But a couple of hours ago we didnt have anything north of well, not even up to dover. Now we have some action getting up toward new castle county. Now its building toward middletown. We have heavy showers and storm near georgetown. It hasnt moved much. Its building to the north. So there isnt any one Single Movement out of this. If anything, the one in georgetown looks like its building southward. Theres what we found in south jersey, but some of the moisture from the delaware storm is coming over toward cape may. And so its not a pretty evening there. There could be rain. There are more showers to the west that were going to have to be tracking, too. And we also are concerned about the amount of rain we have estimates of one to duoinches of rain that have already fallen in parts of delaware here. And more developing over the next couple of hours. Our future weather computer showing that. So were going to have to be tracking these storms hourbyhour as we go through the evening. All right. Good to know. Thank you, glenn. We cannot say it enough. Wawa welcome america july 4th concert and Fireworks Show is tonight from 7 00 to 10 00. Boyz ii men and mary j blij. And fire works at 9 30. Come down to the parkway for free family fun we have a big summer fun giveaway going on. You can win big. These are the prizes. A threenight all inclusive get away from Apple Vacations in cancun. Wawa coffee for a year. A trip to watch a taping of americas got talent live in los angeles. And a pair of twoday passes to budweiser made in america. There are several ways to enter to win a prize. Head to nbc 10. Com or download our free nbc 10 app. Well announce the winners during the concert tonight. Remember, stay with nbc 10 onair and online for complete coverage of wawa welcome america. Check out the effect details plus the holiday Weather Forecast on the nbc 10 app. Right now thousands of people are spending the holiday at the jersey shore they are soaking up the sun before the fireworks tonight. Nbc 10 sydney is live in ocean city. The beach, of course, jam packed. We can see it from the pier there in ocean city. I got to imagine, you know, a little toughy not many places to put your towels or umbrellas but families are not complaining. Reporter theyre not can you blame them . Across the way on the bode walk. They are handing out the fudge for free and so is the arcade. Im about to ask these guys if i can have a bite of their ice cream. The traffic going home is well worth all of this. The sunshine, the salty air, and sticking around for the fireworks at 9 00. Good luck fining a spot in the seasoned. Its packed and packed. Were going to hang out and relax for the day. There there are a ton of ways to relax and cool off. Hannah has the day offwork. Still her hands full. Be when you come to the beach with a family of 15. How do you keep track of everybody . [ laughter ] you got a central Meeting Point . In the midst of star spangled umbrellas, beach toys, towels, ands soaking up the sand, sports, and surf. Theres a game plan. You have a home base. If anybody gets lost you come here. They will celebrate americas birthday just for the day as well as her sons 14. Were going to spend the day with a couple of family and hes going to surf and enjoy the beach. All, of course, leading up to the fourth grand finale. Fireworks at 9 00. And the fireworks tonight. So you cant beat that. Reporter even if they have fight fanfilled traffic on the way home. Its worth it. Its worth it. Yes. Reporter and its pretty much been wall to wall here on the board walk and beach as well. With it being a Holiday Weekend, terrific weather and the state park closed during the threeday government shut down over the weekend. We asked businesses on the board walk did it send more people to the beaches . Youll hear their answers coming up when we see at 6 00. For now live in ocean city. Sydney long. Nbc 10 news. Thank you. Crowds there three times bigger than the tiny bureau population turning out for Independence Day celebrations. This was the scene for the early celebration in the Montgomery County community. The town leader said the celebration is legendary. The celebration kicks up later this evening lasts until 10 00 p. M. In south jersey, belmar celebrated the future. They started with a baby parade and followed by a bike parade and the independence parade later in the day. A major milestone for americas newest citizens. 47 people took the oath of allegiance today aboard the battle ship new jersey. Together they represented 33 countries including bulgaria, costa rica, germany, and south africa. Today nearly 15,000 people became u. S. Citizens at fourth of july events across the country. Still ahead pressure on the president as he plans a meeting with Vladimir Putin. The cyber subject people are pushing President Trump to bring up. New jersey is back in business and coming up the back up that still kept people from hitting their favorite spots. Holiday fun on the fourth. Wawa welcome america is a big production to pull off. The work that went into making it happen this year. Reporter im keith jones live at wawa welcome america. Thousands of people are trickling in to fill the white seats behind me. We have boyz ii men and mary j blige. A lot of work goes into putting Something Like this together. For eight years theres one organization chipping in and helping out in bringing this community together. That is wawa. Its my pleasure to bring in kathy pelosi. Executive Vice President of wawa. How exciting . Why this is our eighth year. Every year gets bigger and better. This year we started last thursday which was an amazing event at the National Constitution center. Over the weekend we have free admission for the residents of the city to come in and enjoy the best museums. We had an su awesome event. Were able to recognize our everyday heros. App great event today with the parade and getting grants for the Wawa Foundation to four worthy charitable endeavors. Its going to be amazing. The guy from south jersey. I hung up there on the hoeg day park. You showed me a battle scar you have from putting together how many . We had 23,000 this year. I have a few paper cuts on my arm. Reporter 15,000 volunteers. Yes. 15,000 hoegy eaters. And the first 1,000 hoagies is were distributed. Feed for people in need and the rest were distributed to the residents in the city. Was a giant picnic and a lot of fun. Executive Vice President of wawa. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. I appreciate it. Back inside to you guys. A little bit of a sound check goes on behind me. Sorry, hard to hear. Back to you. All right, keith, thank you so much. Well check in a bit. Now to the weather. It is a hot one. But theres a chance of a stray shower this evening looking live at the blue cross landing where families out having fun. Plenty of action in center city, as well. This is a live picture from the campus camera. So many free events in philly during a wawa welcome america festivity. Of course, mary j blige are set to take the stage tonight for wawa welcome america. Crowds starting to gather along the parkway nbc 10 meteorologist glenhurricane schwartz is joining us. It may be a close call for the fireworks. The best chance for any showers moving into the area are probably between 7 00 and 9 00. And a chance goes down as we head toward fireworks time. One of the reasons here everything is kind of building up to the northeast. Thats where it was like around 1 00. The general area of showers and now its up here. So its making some kind of progress toward wilmington and philadelphia. Meanwhile its still storming in delaware around milford and also down by georgetown. Getting pretty heavy rain. Its 2 to 3 inches per hour. And with the cells not moving much were getting some floating in parts of delaware now. The storm started to move toward the northeast. We have some of these coming up toward the pennsylvania border. Maryland. Thats moving up to the northeast, too. So were going watch these because the computer models are showing a general trend of development toward the philadelphia area as we go toward the 7 00 to 8 00 hour. Fortunately were not seeing much lightning with these things. At least not so far. 88 degrees now but its only in the 70s in central delaware and south jersey. The marina 74. The ocean temperature is 63 degrees. So its pretty cool there. So at 6 00 its at least partly sunny at 86 degrees. By the concert time 7 00 to 9 00 we have a chance of some showers and by 9 30 things should be quieting down. Like i said, its going to be a fairly close call here. The temperatures are fairly high. The humidity is fairly high. But then its the fourth of july. Lehigh valley looks the safest for any kind of showers. There could be some showers at part of the jersey shore down toward cape may as we head into the evening hours. Then as we go into wednesday, its cooler. We got wind coming in the ocean. The temperatures barely getting into the 80s and on thursday were barely getting into the 80 degrees, too. Because theres rain coming in here. Some heavy rain at times. So over the next three days, we have 85 degrees wednesday. So were not in for the 90s here. Thursday looks like a wet day. Friday looks wet, as well. And as you can see, the same story in lehigh valley. A high of only 75 degrees on thursday. The jersey shore staying in the 70s for a few days. Because were seeing that easterly wind. So its going to be fairly cloudy at the shore the rest of the week and on the cooler side. Keeping your kids safe on snap chat. The new warning for parents as a live location feature launches on the popular app. On this fourth of july, a reminder to leave the fireworks to the professionals. The warning from this teen who had his celebrations cut short with a trip to the emergency room. Fios is not cable. And we believe everyone deserves faster internet. So with fios gigabit connection, you get amazing download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people have. And its just 79. 99 a month online for the first year. Switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for 79. 99 a month. 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Tonight fireworks will lite the sky. But be careful. Thousands of people are hurt in fireworks accidents every year. Children are most common victims. Look what happened to a teen in washington state. The 17yearold has been in the hospital for ten days. He admits he was careless with some fireworks and right now he only has a pinky on his lefthand. His right hand is fractured. His chest and face are covered in shrapnel wounds. I didnt know it was going to go off that fast. I knew i was doing something dangerous but didnt know it was going to go off that fast. I thought i would have two or three seconds to throw it. Last week a police chief lost part of his arm in a fireworks accident. Its often called the Worlds Largest running party. Take a look. Today thousands of people laced up their sneakers for the peach tree road race in atlanta. The runners braved hot and humid conditions for the race. Really the only way to cool off just drench yourself in water. Pour it on. The peach tree road race, by the way, is a july 4th tradition since 1970. Forget the forks. These kids went facefirst during a cherry pie eating contest. The rules are simple. No hands. Napkins are optional and probably totally impractical. The contest is part of the National Cherry festival that runs through the weekend. From the suburbs to the shore to the city. Nbc 10 has you covered. Taking live look at the parkway where a party is about to get underway. We have your all access pass backstage ahead of a wawa welcome america concert. Holiday weekend headaches. Were following the backlash new jerseys budget battle forced families to change their plans. This summer in a place where flavor runs deep, any dish and every glass might be the best youve ever tasted as long as you dont forget your appetite. New york state. Its all here. Its only here. Plan your trip to the finger lakes at iloveny. Com the fourth of july is here and there is no shortage of celebrations honoring our countrys independence. Lets start with the party on the parkway. This is a live look from over the Ben Franklin Parkway. For the wawa welcome america concert just wrapped up. The orchestra will do their sound check next and the fourth of july concert featuring mary j blige kicks off at 7 00. Nbc 10 is taking you across the area for the festivities from center city to the suburbs to shorter. There are parades, fireworks, and of course, plenty of food. We have you covered tonight. Yeah. Were bringing you live Team Coverage. Nbc 10 meteorologist glen hurricane schwartz has your fireworks forecast for tonight. Ted greenberg is in ocean county where the state is open for business. And randy takes us to the festivities in upper marion. We start with tim furlong on the Ben Franklin Parkway. He has the vip pass to the wawa welcome america. Things are ramping up there. Yeah. Theres a couple of clouds coming through that im not thrilled about. Here is the deal. When it the concert kicks off we had Mandy Gonzalez from hamilton performing out here. Warming up awhile ago. This is the view youll see. Can you see some of of the view there . Our cable is a little jammed up over there. There is the view. Can you imagine. Yo