Staying away at this point from the shore. What to expect with these popups that occur between now and 10 oclock. Theyre going to be very spotty but where they hit they will be severe, torrential rain the major threat, some wind and hail and there still could be an isolated tornado to try to develop in some of these storms. But as we move into the weekend as we rank the holidays, the best day will be tomorrow, low humidity, full sun, some high clouds, a close second for sunday and number three comes in for monday the fourth, a lot of clouds racing in and maybe rain by the end of the day. Well chat about the rest of the weekend brian and take a look at the radar once again in full accuweather forecast. Adam thanks. For so much you fourth of july weekend means a trip to the beach and shore towns are already packed with people looking to take in a summer day soaking in the sun or perhaps strolling on the boards. Action News ReporterJeanette Reyes live in ocean city today which figures to be a popular spot this week, jeanette. Reporter it certainly is brian and you know its no doubt that when you come to ocean city youre in for a treat but beachgoers made it very clear to me that you dont just come to ocean city, you have to prepare for it and this, all of this its just the beginning. The good morning got off to a foggy start here in ocean city but that was no match for excited beachgoers. I really like it. Reporter what about the weather . The weather is kind of funny. Yeah. Doesnt matter. Doesnt matter. You can still have fun it ice cream in hand little quinn couldnt wait to hit the boardwalk with his grandparents. Hi, ocean city. Reporter and show his patriotism. Happy fourth of july. Reporter from mini golf, to water parks and good music. The weather is supposed to be a good weekend, so were hoping to have a nice crowd but not too long of lines. Reporter theres tons to do. You can fly a kite or ride bikes along the boardwalk. Every day weve gone to the beach, we built castles, we boogie boarded, weve gone to the rides every night, mini golf. Reporter you may be wondering how do you take on an action packed long weekend. Super mom of four jennifer has it all figured out. Pack with purpose. Make sure you have your sunscreen, any diapers that you need. Reporter and dont forget your appetite. Trust me, youll need it. Pizza, pizzeria, and pizza fries. Reporter all of it sure to make for an unforgettable patriotic weekend. Have good days, ladies. [laughter] reporter and you are sure to have a good day as well. Now, we havent for goat 10 about the spectacular fireworks display here. There will actually be two in ocean city, one downtown, one uptown on monday and the comfort for each begin at 8 oclock at night. Reporting in ocean city new jersey im Jeanette Reyes channel6 action news. Back inside to you monica. Looks like fun. Thanks you so much jeanette. In Philadelphia City leaders are stepping up security for the Holiday Weekend particularly for events that will draw often who crowds like mondays concert on the ben franklin parkway. Chad pradelli live on the parkway right now with more on the citys plans. Chad. Hope to see chad in just a moment. Reporter chairs are in place the stage erected and security fencing is being constructed for mondays concert on the parkway. Hundreds of thousands will be on hand and police will be keeping a watchful eye. Every time we have these events we want officers to be seen so youll see a visible presence of Police Officers out there. Some will even be wearing the neon vests so theyll be easy to spot. But there will be officers you wont necessarily see. Reporter the attacks in orlando and turkey have heightened safety concerns. Philadelphia police say no new measures have been put in place to deal with this years celebration of our independence. Theres no specific threat to philadelphia at this particular time but of course were always, you know, concerned in a sense of making sure that were abreast of whats going on around the country, around the world. Reporter the art museum was bustling with tourists this afternoon, the general consensus to be people are aware but living their lives normally. I keep in my mind and just aware of the situation where im at but its not going to stop me from living my life. I think we need to continue on and do what we have to do. Reporter and a message from police this weekend, if you see something, say something. Im live along the parkway, chad pradelli, channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you chad. Heres a live look from sky6 at penns landing where there will be a fireworks display tonight. The fireworks will light up the sky over the Delaware River starting at 930 just one of many shows scheduled throughout our region this weekend. Remember if youre looking for a show in your town this weekend just head to our web site 6abc. Com. Youll find a list of local events broken down by state and county along with the times and locations for the july 4th festivities. Going to be fun. Oh, yeah. As we have been telling you all week here analysting are expecting a record setting weekend on the roads. That could mean crowded commute. Lets go live to autumn march vase in for matt pelman. Hi, sharrie and brian. Sure you want this one. Yes. Taking a look at the blue route approaching broomall. We have a 60 minute jamup from the schuylkill expressway down to 95 right now. We had a disabled tractortrailer taking out the righthand lane so we only had one lane getting by down around springfield so really backing you up all the way back through the midcounty tolls now at this point. So, thats going to cause problems on all the other roadways because people are diverting from the blue route on to the schuylkill expressway right now. So, lets take a look at the big picture. Schuylkill is definitely your best bet at this time. Because of that long line and southbound delays but still a slow go. Earlier accident on the westbound side of the schuylkill. They brought in a crew on the eastbound side right around conshohocken to clear that out so again a long line of vehicles there. Lets take a look at creek road on the 42 freeway. We just had a downpour come here really halting traffic. There was a standstill. We were up to about a 20 minute delay from this point down to the Atlantic City expressway but you can see starting to move now. Really going to be pushing on those brakes as you are approaching the garden state yes, the garden state parkway though from about the a. C. Airport to that point. Talking about the area bridges, taking a look at the ben franklin bridge, definitely your best bet right now are you at a standstill on the walt whitman. Well bring you an update in the next half hour. Back to you brian and monica. Sounds good. Thank you autumn. Action news has you covered online and social media. Get live traffic and weather updates any time on 6abc. Com and be sure to follow us on facebook and twitter for any updates this Independence Day. Meanwhile there is trouble for one part of the jersey shore this Holiday Weekend. Union workers at the taj mahal in Atlantic City went on strike this morning. Action News Reporter john rawlins now live outside the hotel where casino employees have been picketing all day, john. Reporter hey, brian. 900 to a thousand hospitality workers bartenders cooks, housekeepers on strike. The taj owner Icahn Enterprises as in carl icahn the billionaire said in a statement it made a good faith effort to restore benefits. Talks broke down last night. The first thing you notice the never ending loop of strikers. Then the noise. A constant drum beat as holiday merry makers descend on the boardwalk these strikers outside the taj mahal will not get lost in the crow crowd. It was assumed the taj mahal would be the toughest challenge for the union. Were out here today fighting for what they took away 20 months ago. Most important is our healthcare. Reporter four other casinos negotiated terms yesterday but taj workers entered talks farther behind the others. Two years ago a Bankruptcy Court terminated their pension and Health Benefits payments pushing them their president says down the socioeconomic ladder. Theyve taken people who are working class and middle class and pushed them down to working poor and thats a traves city. Reporter the union says the taj ownership offered a high copay large deductible plan. Some called it half baked. Theres not even a oven there. Its not a solution. Reporter the taj remains opened but many we talked to think the crowds are down for a major weekend. Ive only seen like one server on the floor for the drinks. I havent seen any maid Service Going on. Some of the restaurants are closed. Reporter a few hours ago it definitely some of the restaurants are closed. Many of the restaurants are closed but people are pouring in there. I think theyre going to be very busy this weekend. Notwithstanding. No one from the company, though, was available to talk to us and answer any questions. In that statement that was put out one executive is quoted as saying the Union Bargaining committee is hell bent on trying to close the property and killing the jobs and livelihood of other taj employees. No new negotiations are scheduled at this point. Live in Atlantic City, john rawlins channel6 action news news. John well no this weekends. Thank you. Pennsylvania governor tom wolf. Wolf says the election to replace fattah will be tuesday november 8th. Thats the same day as the general election meaning voters will not need to make an extra trip to the polls and the state wont have to spend extra money to hold a new election. It also means the winner will be able to take office immediately. That means they wont have to wait to be sworn in with the rest of the new Congress Next year. And still ahead here 4 oclock today new details about the deadly terror attack in istanbul. What we learned today about the people who carried it out. Plus the latest on a proposed gas tax in new jersey. While it will not go into effect for this Holiday Weekend it will have an impact on the roads next. A shooting outside a local womans shelter. Police are asking for your help to find a man who shot right through the front door there. Ya and hide it from the crew ya. . Squuuuack, theyre all morons anyway i never said that. They all smell bad too. No you all smell wonderful i smell bad if youre a parrot, you repeat things. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Squuuuack, its what you do. Longhorns grilled tastes of summer. Our new smoky pepper crusted filet with shrimp. Our new grilled hawaiian salmon. And our famous outlaw ribeye. Tonight. Only at longhorn steakhouse. You cant fake steak. Only at longhorn steakhouse. We are following breaking news in bangladesh today where gunmen have attacked a restaurant and taken dozens of hostages. All of this is happening in the capitol of bangladesh. It is inside the diplomatic zone which is filled with foreigners. The attacks have been ongoing all afternoon. The attackers in a gun fight with police. Two Police Officers have been killed thus far, at least 35 people are still trapped in the restaurant. Witnesses say there have been several explosions in that area. Of course were keeping a close eye on this breaking news this afternoon. Well bring you any updates as we get them. The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security says the mastermind of the istanbul terror attack has now been identified. Congressman Michael Mccall says a chechen extremist planned and directed tuesdays airport bombings. He is also known to be a top lieutenant in isis. His whereabouts right now are unknown. The cia and the white house declined to say whether they believe he was directly involved. And in response to the attack in turkey travelers are finding increased security in the u. S. On this busy weekend. Extra patrols are visible at airports train stations and bus terminals. Authorities say its an added precaution of course for the fourth of july holiday. There will be so many security measures and personnel you will not notice including plainclothes troopers mingling through the crowd and observing the surroundings for suspicious activity. An estimate how wide Million People are expected to fly today alone. Thats a half million more than the average summer day. The t. S. A. Advises that you arrive at the airport two hours before your flight. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie laid down the law today in the fight over transportation funding ordering the eventual shutdown of road work projects across the state. The move comes on the heels of the democrat led Senate Decision not to vote on a bill that would have increased the gas tax and continued funding for road projects. Christie also slashed 300 million in democratic budget priorities. Now all of that ramps up pressure on legislators as the debate resumes on july 11th. U. S. Attorney general Loretta Lynch said today she regrets speaking with former president bill clinton on a Phoenix Airport tarmac earlier this week. That meeting came as lynchs Department InvestigatesHillary Clintons use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Today in colorado lynch said it was merely a chance encounter with clintons husband and the two only made small talk about grandchildren but she understands how people see it. I certainly wouldnt do it again. [laughter] and, you know, because i think it has cast a shadow over what it should not. Its painful to me because the integrity of the department of justice is important. Now, lynch went on to say they she will not overrule the findings of any investigation into clintons emails. Federal regulators are launched an investigation into tesla after a driver died while using the companys auto pilot feature. The self driving vehicle crashed in willis ton florida when a tractortrailer made a left turn in front of the car. Tesla wrote in a blog post that the cars auto pilot system did not recognize the white side of that tractortrailer against the brightly hit sky so it did not activate the brakes. Tesla says this is the first known deadly accident in more than 130 million miles of self driving cars. Now here sal look at the days closing numbers from wall street. All three indices are in the green up. The dow closed at 17,949 up about 20. The nasdaq at 4862 up 20 as well approximately and the s p 500 at 2102 up about four. Someone could be heading into the Holiday Weekend with a fortune beyond their wildest dreams. The next Mega Millions drawing is tonight the and the jackpot is 415 million, 286 million if they take the cash option. The action cam was in wynnefield where we found lots of people buying tickets. Well have the winning numbers tonight on action news at 11 00. You could buy a lot of fireworks with that. Love everybody out there but i hope its mee. Time to check the accuweather. Meteorologist adam joseph with a winning weekend. Storm tracker6 live double scan will show not everyone is getting hit but where you are youre getting hit pretty hard. Some areas are getting hit over and over and over again. Severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 4 30 p. M. For the northern part of Burlington County, north of mount holly just to the west of new egypt. Hail has been the biggest concern as this is passing through. Many reports of at least quarter size hail with the storm that is moving north of georgetown. 30 Lightning Strikes from this vantage point. As that one storm continues to lift away north of wrightstown, another one developing near willingboro, rancocas along the new jersey turnpike, 295. Thats moving in the same direction as the original storm so as if youre drying out, expect another storm with some hail possibly and then a third now developing south of that in cherry hill so theyre moving over the same locations across that part of new jersey. Also in southern parts of new jersey, this storm is beginning to fire up and intensify near millville, also one south of mays landing about 10 Lightning Strikes in the last 15 minutes. At this point not moving towards the shore but watch this one just to the west of Atlantic City and then another one potent storm not severe developing in southern Chester County near oxford heading kaolin and parts of New Castle County. Theyre popping wherever they would like and at times theyre strong if not severe. This picture just tame into my twitter page from jackie in lumberton. She just got a new car as the hail is coming down looks like she threw a blanket on there to protects her windshield from some of that hail. Pass along any photos to my twitter or Facebook Page if you do see any of the hail or wind damage. 76 in allentown, 83 in philadelphia, 77 in millville. It is extremely humid out there which is fueling the storm. Theres a cold front coming from the west, severe thunderstorm watch up for the entire area until 10 00 meaning any storms could turn severe and even a tornado watch north of our area just west of new york city. Future tracker at 6 oclock again its hit or miss around the region as they push through. By 9 oclock it starts to quiet down as they lift to the north and to the east. Maybe a leftover shower with the actual cold front pushing through philadelphia and midnight at midnight tonight and by 3 00, 3 30 tomorrow morning that front is off the coast and as you can see the clouds are long gone as well. So, your Holiday Preview as we get into your saturday, sunday, monday here, saturday at the shore,