The july fourth concert and fireworks on the parkway. A live look at the Philadelphia Art Museum and ben franklin p k parkway. Look at that. A lot of sunshine today. Humidity is dropping. We look live at cape may. We have Live Team Coverage to help you get ready for the fourth of july. We have a look at family fun for wawa welcome america. We kick things off with our meteorologist. Overall, things look very nice as we go through today and your fourth of july. Live view outside over the parkway. Its sunny out there right now. We are going to stay with those mostly sunny conditions through much of today. Look at the temperatures. The results of the sunshine and low humidity. Were at 87 in philadelphia and wilmington. 88 in millville. Our coolest temps are north. Allentown and pottstown at 81. With many of us heading to the 90s, make sure if you are going outside you are drinking plenty of water and hiding out in the shade from time to time as well. Radar and satellite, not a thing to track across our area. Its the sunshine that we have. A few thin clouds overhead. If we pull out and you look to the north, there is a front to our north. That cold front not firing off storms. Its going to try to bring a little line of rain to our area by this evening. That could impact the philly pops concert tonight at ind p d Independence Hall. Spotty showers. They may pass our region, meaning a spot shower could pass 7 00 through the Independence Hall area. 85 the temperature. 83 at 8 00. By 9 00 p. M. , 80. If the rain does look likely through the afternoon, this may be moved indoors. We will talk more about the forecast for the monday and we will look at all the forecast for your events going on on fourth of july coming up. He wiwe will keep our finger crossed the rain holds off. From concerts to museums, theres a lot of free events to take part in today. Pame Pamela Osborne is live at Independence Mall. Tell us more. Reporter theres a lot going on this afternoon. You may hear they are going through some of the sound checks. Theres going to be music, entertainment and other activities and fun for the family. Crews have been working very hard this morning getting everything set up for today. They have been working on stages, stages at the Kimmel Center for performing arts. That will be a preview to the broadway plays coming to town this season. It goes from noon until 7 00 today. That is all going to be followed up with a form answer performan philly pops. This is video from last years performance. The 65 piece orchestra will be back and at it begin at 7 00 tonight. They will play lots of patriotic tunes and frozens let it go as well. Certainly, a lot to take in. Something for everyone to see no matter how old or young. The best part of the whole thing is that its absolutely free. Come on down. We would love to see you here. Live from Independence Mall, Pamela Osborne. Its philly at the movies tonight. Enjoy sing from 9 00 to 11 00 on franklin square. Tomorrow, catch the celebration of freedom and Independence Day parade. We will host it live on the mall right here on nbc 10. You can even wave to bill and jessica. They will be in the parade. If you are along the route, just give them a wave. This leads up to the main event, the concert. The fireworks at the ben franklin parkway at 9 30. Watch the events right here only on nbc 10. Stay with nbc on air and online for complete coverage of wawa welcome america. You can find details on all of the events by tapping the nbc 10 app. Speaking of jessica, traffic is light today because of the holiday. If you are heading out for wawa welcome america fun, theres detours to know about. Lets get an update. Thankfully, we are seeing light volume on all of the roads because a lot of people arent out driving around because with all these extra closures, if there were that normal morning rush, we would be in a sticky spot. Lets start where pamela was, the wawa welcome america festival. The historic philadelphia block party. Thats starting around noon. They are seeing closures in place. Its going to last at least most of the cleanup and through all of the entertainment that happens until 7 00 p. M. You can see that closure starting between 5th and 6th street between market and chestnut. Around that surrounding area, around the Independence Mall and we are seeing more closures around the ben franklin parkway that will start later tonight and tomorrow morning. Center city and the surrounding areas are going to give you a run for your money if you are heading out the door. The roads look great. The schuylkill is what we are watching. Its smooth both directions. Earlier we were seeing delays getting off the gerald avenue offr ramp. Cars on the garden state parkway. No delays now. You will probably see moving from the Atlantic City expressway for some traffic around the 7s mark. Watch for the merge. For now everything looks okay. Thank you. Now to day three of the new jersey government shutdown. Lawmakers are back trying to find a solution to the budget impasse. Katy zachry has the latest. Reporter lawmakers began trickling just before 10 00 this morning. They are here because governor christie asked them to come to work and try and reach an agreement on a budget. A lot of eyes in new jersey are on the state house today as taxpayers deal with an unexpected State Government shutdown. The governor asked lawmakers to come to work monday morning to iron out a budget impasse thats preventing State Government from operating as normal. The impasse has closed beaches, state parks and historic landmarks throughout new jersey on one of the busiest holiday weekends of the year. The reason, governor christie wants the plan to allow more state control of horizon blue cross blue shield. But the Assembly Speaker is but the Assembly Speaker is fighting that and has enough support to cause a stalemate. I was in the state house outside the achambers. By 10 00, only a few had shown up. We are learning that at noon today, speaker preate is set to meet with representatives. Governor christie is defending his right to be on a state beach closed to the public because of the government shutdown. Here is a picture of christie soaking up the sun at island beach state park. He is making no apologies for it. He said he made his plans before the shutdown and the media had simply caught a politician keeping his word. A different story in delaware. Delaware has a new budget. Last night and one day after the deadline the house and Senate Passed the 4. 1 billion spending plan. Lawmakers approved restoring more than 60 million in cuts to senior centers, First Responders and nonprofits. Taxes on alcohol, tobacco and real estate transfers will pay for that. The governor signed the budget bill into law. Two firefighters are in the hospital after suffering from extreme heat while battling a house fire in richland. Crews from the quaker Fire Department were called to the home around 5 00 last night. Took them an hour to put out the flames. One person is hurt in a house fire in philadelphias overbrook section. This broke out in the basement of the home along kenmore road. It was quickly put under control. Fire destroyed a garage. Firefighters were called to silverwood street around 4 30 this morning. They quickly put out the flames. The man accused of a road rage murder in Chester County is in prison. He turned himself in yesterday after a fourday search across several states. Authorities say he shot and killed an 18yearold last week. This happened while she was merging lee ining lanes. Her parents listened yesterday as the county d. A. Announced the arrest and the recovery of his truck and a gun believed used in the murder. For loved ones and friends, emotions are still raw. I just could feel that moms pain. I have children myself. This is a story of a savage and senseless murder. She was about to Start College at Jacksonville University in florida. She graduated last month. The family of the suspect posted this handwritten note on their front door. It says, our hearts go out to the family. We will have no further comment at this time. Two children are thanking the police for their hard work arresting him. They delivered treats and a note of thanks for the Police Department and the department tweeted out this picture. Speaking of twitter, smackdown, President Trump is getting criticism if his party after he tweeted this doctored video clip. The controversy next. Later, reduced to rubble. This is all thats left of a home in Lancaster County after a deadly explosion. What were learning about the moment just before the blast. From the philly pops concert tonight to the parade and concert, fireworks tomorrow, i have all the information for your fourth of july forecast coming up. Come to sesame place before little kids become, big kids. Before dress up, turns to makeup. And tag becomes hashtag. Before furry hugs, become first loves. Come to the only place, that makes Little Hearts race. Get unlimited visits with a season pass for 6 payments of less than 19 a month. President trump is keeping all options open on pushing for health care reform. The president s top legislative aide insists the senate is getting close to agreeing on their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. The aide says the president is calling lawmakers to get the deal done. President trump believes the gop should consider repealing the aca and replacing it later. President trump is taking no break from tweeting this holiday weekend. His latest post is a video and the target is cnn. It shows old images of the president at a wrestlemania event. Whats new is the persons face is covered by a cnn logo. The president recently blasted the Cable Network after it was forced to retract a story about one of his close allies. One republican had this advice for the president. Fortunate, people are now begging the president not to do this. He ought to stop doing it. The president tweet follows attacks against msnbc hosts. Cnn responded to the president tweeting, its a sad day when the president of the United States encourages violence against reporters. We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his. The u. S. And japan are planning to Work Together to step up pressure on north korea. President trump spoke by phone with the japanese Prime Minister and they agreed to defend and respond to any threat or action taken by north korea. The president also spoke to the president of china last night about north Koreas Nuclear program. The president is frustrated that china hasnt done more to pressure north korea and is considering trade action. Announcer now your nbc 10 first alert weather. We will start with a tour outside from region to region, beginning in easton, pennsylvania. Beautiful blue skies. A few thin clouds out there. The same can be said in wilmington. A little more cloud, but its the haze. High, thin clouds. This is a sunny day across the board. We go from wilmington to cape may, new jersey. Look at everyone out on the beach. Im only a little jealous. Very nice conditions at the shore today. We are tracking across the region the possibility later today for an isolated storm to develop. Mostly this potential will be for the Lehigh Valley. Take a look across the map. We did include the spot shower chance over center city. This will be in the late part of the day. Models are starting to increase that chance just a tad. If something moves through, its not going to ruin any plans. Something that might affect plans, how hot it is. 91 for the forecast high in summerton. 87 in west chester. Look in the Lehigh Valley, upper 80s. This is the best chance of a spot thunderstorm or shower moving through. Also in mercer county, could see a storm roll by. We will look at future model in a second. I will show you what i mean. Inland, you start to see warmer temps. In delaware, 91. Rehoboth beach, mid to upper 80s. Hour by hour, we see clouds to our north. Right now, the front thats to our north is not producing any rain. In the afternoon, it may be able to fire off a few showers or an isolated storm. Humidity low. Thats a good sign for us. It lowered the potential. Most models are giving this line around 4 00 to 5 00 through berks county and Lehigh Valley. A spot storm is possible. The models are now keeping this line together just enough that we may see a storm move through parts of the i95 corridor. Most were moving it over to mercer county. This is a spotty chance. Im not saying its going to wash out any plans this evening. Its around 6 00 to 8 00 we see the possibility. Then things kind of clear out overnight. Into tuesday for the fourth of july, we start with clouds. Otherwise, fairly dry conditions across the map. Thats through the morning hours. In the afternoon, the southern parts of our viewing area could see a spot shower. It doesnt look like anything terribly dangerous or anything very strong. We could see a spot storm roll by mostly southern zones and thats into tuesday each as well. Lets talk about some of the events going on. Tone the parade at Independence Mall. Warm conditions to start off at 10 00 a. M. , 80. We witness gll get to 85 by noo. Humidity not terribly high. Partly cloudy conditions for the parade. Lets go into the evening hours for the wawa welcome america concert and fireworks. 6 00, people getting outside, 84 will be the temperature. Cooling down to 79 by 9 30 with the fireworks with mix of scattered clouds. It does look dry for the fourth of july. Staying safe on the fourth, a warning before you dive into the holiday fun. What you need to know before firing up the grill or launching fireworks. Restlessness. Extreme anxiety. Pacing. A constant urge to move. If someone you know is suffering from schizophrenia they may also be struggling with akathisia a common side effect of some schizophrenia medications. Learn more at myakathisia. Com. 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Nbc 10 is giving you a front row seat. Theres more in store. A live look at the ben franklin pa parkway. The weekend has been packed. It has been packed. With all kinds of events. How is it going . Flawlessly. People are coming. The people are having a great time. We have people who are going to the Free Museum Days, 5,000 people came to a rocky movie night. The weather has been beautiful. Thank god for that. People are fingers crossed for tonight. What are some of the must see events today and tomorrow . For sure, the historic philadelphia block party. Its a celebration of all things philadelphia, all things what it means to be an american. Historic characters, free, great entertainment. Also go see kids bop on the parkway tomorrow at 1 00. If you are not going to come for the concert, if you watch it at hope and you have young kids, come see kids bop at 1 00 on the pa parkway. Fireworks tomorrow night on the Delaware River and the art museum. We want people to come out to meet your neighbors, to come give the festival some energy and passion and make it your own. This is philadelphias home grown festival. This is what we basically gave to the world. We want people to come out and enjoy themselves. How about best advice for people who head out . You can stay home and watch the concert and the fireworks on nbc 10. If you are heading out to the concert and fireworks, whats your best advice . Come out early. We have jumbotrons along the pachlw parkway, bring a blanket have a good time. Live entertainment all day. Everything is free. Thats what i think is great about the wawa welcome america fess t festival. More Free Museum Days today and tomorrow. No reason not to take advantage. Incredible what you have done. Continued success for the next 48 hours. Thank you so much. Here is a reminder that today from noon until 7 00, enjoy the block party that you were talking about. Kids will have fun activities at the go forth and learn kids zone. Carnival games, face painting, crafts, drum lessons and more. Our summer of fun giveaway is our way of saying thank you to our nbc 10 viewers. You have a chance to win one of the prizes. A three night all inclusive getaway from Apple Vacations in cancun, wawa coffee for a year. How cool that would be . A patio set from county line fence. A trip to watch a taping of americas got talent live in l. A. And a pair of twoday passes from live nation to budweiser made in america, several ways to enter. Go to nbc10. Com. Get bonus entries by looking our facebook page, follow us on twitter, share the giveaway. We will announce the winner live during the july fourth concert on the park didnway which you c watch live tomorrow night at 7 00 followed by the fireworks from the ben franklin parkway. Watch it h