You factor in that humidity it feels like 96 degrees right now in philadelphia. So far the High Temperature has made it up to 94 degrees. Making today the hottest day so far this year. Look at the numbers. 90 in wilmington. 91 right now as we look at trenton. 92 in dover. But these are the air temperatures. You have to factor in that humidity how your body reacts and look at this. It feels like 101 degrees right now in dover. It feels like 98 in wrightstown. It feels like 97 degrees current currently in allentown. So thats the danger and thats why we still have that heat advisory in effect for much of the region along the i95 corridor interior south jersey north and west for feels like temperatures approaching that century mark so just take it easy outdoors. Hazy hot and humid. 90 degrees still by 7 00 oclock 7 00 oclock. Temperatures are going to be low to follow if youre stepping outdoors keep that in mine. Muggy conditions. 82 degrees by 11 00 oclock tonight. So what about the upcoming weekend . Will we cool down and also we have neurally issued Severe Thunderstorm Warning to talk about north and west. Isolated thunderstorm produce something gusty winds as well as some hail. Well focus more on this situation right now coming up. Back to you. All right. Scott, thank you. Beat the heat with fox 29 news app. You can track temperatures see just how hot its going to get and when things will finally cool off a bit. It is free to download. Just search for it in the apple or google play stores. Todays hot and muggy weather isnt enough to stop thousands from flocking to lincoln financial field tonight. All worth it by suppose to see taylor swift. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson live in south philadelphia tonight with a whole lot of t swift fans. I know shawnette you are one of them. I know youll be dancing to night. Reporter listen, i am but im not the highlight. Right . Take look at the highlight behind meme some of the concert goers just starting to arrive. Who you girls here to say. Taylor swift there you have it. They just got here. Some people have been here as early as 8 00 this morning. They have field seats and want to get there to try to get to the front row as possible. Crowds gathered early for the taylor 1989 concert at the linc. Their decked out in taylor swift t shirts, homemade posters and if theyre lucky enough wearing vip passes around their neck. But the hype of the show is being challenged by the oppressive heat. The only way to deal with it drink bottles of water and find any shade you can. Fans say its all worth it. The heat isnt going anywhere and neither are they. We really wanted to see and weve been waiting since december when when we got the tickets. Weve been real excited for long time and now that its here, you know it is hot. Hot weather but you got to do what you got to do. We brought a lot of food. Weve been preparing for like, yeah, about a month. We brought water. It. So hot. And humid. And icky and hot. Youre going to brave im going brave this for my daughter daughter. She turned 16. This is her 16th birthday present. Here i am as mom. Somebody is up for mom of the year right . Of course, the big thing is trying to stay hydrated here tonight. Were told you can only bring in one bottle of water, of course, you can buy more once youre inside. So we hear emergency crews are also going to be around the area were hoping that they dont have to do too much work tonight in terms of anyone getting heat exhaustion. Dawn, other than that, theyre ready for a good show. All right. Thank you shawnette. Because of the huge crowd of taylor swift fans headed to the linc tonight septa is beefing up Service Starting at 6 08 tonight there will be 10 extra trips so riders will be able to catch train every 10 minutes. There also be extra trips on the market frankford line as well. Thats starting at 6 05. As always transfer from the market frankford to the broad street line for free at the 15th street station. Developing now one person is dead after a house fire in north philadelphia. Skyfox above the home on avon street this morning. Three people were inside when the fire broke out. One of them couldnt get out in time. Fox 29 weekends karen is live in the citys somerton section for to us name karen, this is a tragedy for this community. Reporter so sad. Tragedy for everyone this is our seventh fire fatality of the year. The woman who lost her life, 45 years old up here on the second floor. She was in a bathroom. Her mother was found right by the front door very critically burned in fact she probably has to be transferred immediately over to a burn unit. The father was in the basement and there was a Good Samaritan who helped to kick down that door right there. The heart wrenching call no one ever wants to make. A pain so deep all the hugs in the world do little to comfort that sadness. A grieving family today in somerton after this deadly house fire killed a 45yearold woman and critically injured her 75yearold mother. Her father escaped but is in shock. So many lives devastated a community in disbelief. What goes through your mind today that you were just speaking with her yesterday and now shes gone . Really sad. Really like, i just saw her yesterday and shes gone now. Its sad. Daughter always out walking the dog. Investigators say that dog did die in the blaze. There were no working smoke detectors and the family may have been trying to tackle the fire themselves. Preliminary investigation indicates that they may have have been trying to fight the fire. There was a lot of smoke damage throughout the property. Most of the fire on the first floor. Members first arrived, there wasnt a lot of fire, just a a lot of heavy smoke. That tells us the fire was burning for awhile. So smoke, new york smoke alarms. Get out and stay out. Fire prevention came out to the block this afternoon going door to door to install free smoke detectors. They are always available by calling 311. You can get a free smoke alarm from the philadelphia fire department. Call our number 311 and well come out install the smoke alarm for you. 10 year lithium Battery Powered smoke harm. You dont have to worry about changing the battery it actually lasts 10 years. Prevent tragedies like this one the message is make sure check at this minute the smoke detectors in your house to make sure they are working. If you need one call the fire department. Prepare a plan and practice your plan. Get out stay out is the other thing. Do not fight a fire. Get out and immediately call 911 to prevent further tragedies in around our area. Chris, back to you. Good advice karen. Thank you. Firefighters also busy in south philadelphia this morning. This fire broke out just before 6 00 on the 1,000 block of schneider avenue. Crews had it under control in less than an hour. A woman in her 50s was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. She is expected to be okay. Big cleanup in southwest philadelphia. This after part of a business ends up on a sidewalk. Youre looking looking at the awning for the golden cup salon it used to hang above the forty four strong on 6400 block of woodland avenue. Witnesses say it collapsed around 6 00 this morning. No one was hurt but three People Living nearby are being helped by the red cross tonight. Happening now, more than 30 cats and kittens are rescued from a horrible hoarding situation in Newtown Square. These are just some of the little kittens varying in age that had to be removed from the property barely fit for human habitation. Put two traps over there. This is video shot a couple of days ago by rags to riches Animal Rescue as they tried to trap and catch more than two dozen kittens and about 15 adult cats from what can only be described as a house of horror. Garbage and cat feces strewn everywhere. They were actually living in the floor boards in the basement basement. You can barely walk in the basement the smell of ammonia takes over. We had respirators on. And it was pretty gruesome. Apparently theyre up in the ceiling. The rescue learning of the hoarding situation at this hour on surry street in Newtown Square after the man who lived here for years had to suddenly move. The property which belonged to his mom sold at sheriff sale and all of the cats left behind. I would be out cutting the grass and youd see a cat face every once in awhile pop up and i had no clue that there were that many more behind the scenes. Reporter neighbor john berberises occasionally he would notice a strong odor coming from the property but never ever imagined what was inside. Really not a bad person. Nice guy. Would help out and, you know, i guess its just one of those things. Got ahead of him, you know and got out of control. Fortunately these sweet kittens safe and sound and being properly fed and cared for now. All need homes. They appear healthy and are adapting although they are a little shane. The cats are all scared. They dont know whats going on. Their world has been turned upside down. I have foster homes for about eight of them. And well try and adopt them out. Theyre adorable. They are adorable. As for adult cats the Chester County spca spayed and neutered help and helping to place them at an area farm that takes rescues. If youre interested in adopting one of these cute kitties go to myfoxphilly. Com for more information. A racial controversy tonight surrounding the woman in charge of an naacp chapter in washington state. Rachel has been the president of the spokane chapter of the Civil Rights Group for years but recently comments by her parents have raised concerns about her integrity. They say their daughter is a white woman pretending to be black. She represented herself as a black on a job application with the citys police commission. It is triggered a National Debate over race and ethnicity. She herself is now at the center of a city ethics investigation. Are you africanamerican . I dont understand the question. I did tell you yes thats my dad and he was unable to come in january. Are your parents white . As you can see she has not commented directly about her family background. She says the question is not as easy as it seems. Meanwhile the naacp issuing its comment saying they respect her privacy in the matter. They added that once racial identity is not a disqualifying standard for leadership. The group is also encourageing americans of all stripes to become members and serve as leaders of the organization. Broken windows an weed choked lawn createing a eye snore local neighborhood after several years neighbors so fed up they called fox 29 and after we got on the case, it did not take long for to us get results. Wait until you see what happened happened. Plus, a bullet goes flying through the window of an elderly couples living room in georgia. But they are okay and they say this is not about luck. Why they credit divine intervention. And it is white Appreciation Day in a colorado restaurant. Why people offered 10 discount even more shocking the person who came up with this idea. And at first it seemed like a sweet romantic video of a fairy tale wedding but the drone capturing this moment is about to run into some trouble. Wait until you see what happened next. Its become a problem in every corner of the city. Vacant homes left to rot while neighbors pay the price. Its no secret that philadelphia philadelphias population is far less than it was 50 years ago. Right. The evidence is in the thousands of vacant homes left crumbling all over the city. Bruce gordon joining us in the studio now for all too familiar story the neighbors left behind the deal with that abandoned home bruce. Philadelphia officials love the term city of neighborhoods but in all too many of those neighborhoods there are vacant houses literally falling apart and taking with them the Property Values and the piece of mind of their neighbors. The weather beaten sign at the corner of 61st and washington speaks to the past glory of this neighborhood. The Horticulture Society green nest block award four years running but that was nearly their years ago. Before a single home took the life out of this southwest philly oasis. There it is mid block. A ram shackled connected twin with waste high weeds. Vacant for many years and falling apart. Neighbors say theyve call the city repeatedly with nothing to show for it. We called down to license and inspection and told them about it and theyre like unless the house is going to fall down theres nothing they can do about it. But were just tired of it. Take a look at it. You know. Reporter frustrated neighbors say the old owners of the place passed away many years ago and left the home to their children. For while there was some effort at maintenance when that effort ended neighbors picked up the slack. The woman next door paid to have the backyard weeds cut down. Theyre on their way back. Its dangerous too. A lot of times the door is wide open, the front door is open. You never know when somebody can go in there or start fire or anything can happen. Theres children in this neighborhood. Reporter families who have lived there most of their lives. They tend to their homes and plant flowers and generally take pride in their block. And they must put up with this. Weeds, trash and danger as their longtime neighbor. This is horrible. Would you want to live on this block . No. If i wasnt living on this block now, i would never moved here. So we need help. Somebody has got to help us. Reporter dont hold your breath waiting for help from the city. Their Contact Information for that husband and wife owner of the property shows only a mailing address. You guessed it. The vacant house itself. Took me about 15 minutes of digging to locate the owners. I was able to speak to the wife by phone. She told me there is no excuse for their lack of maintenance and promised they will be over to begin cleaning upper happens as early as tonight. Well keep an eye on it, chris. Im sure you will. Thanks bruce. If you need our help getting results go to our website myfoxphilly. Com scroll down to the getting results section of our home page. Well speaking of Vacant Properties more than 150 Philadelphia Properties hitting the Auction Block today. Fisher Auction Company handling todays event on mark street. About 160 City Owned Properties in south philadelphia and kensington up for grabs. Many of them small single lots. Organizers say auctioning them off is a way to improve the neighborhood and also to generate revenue for the city of philadelphia. So when is your iphone not really an iphone when you buy a refurbish model from a National Cell phone store. Investigative reporter jeff cole digging into this issue. Hes live in the newsroom with a look ahead to the story coming up after the game. Jeff. Single mom from downingtown wanted to make her 11yearold happy the child wanted an iphone iphone. So Amber Martinez bought her a pre owned phone from a National Chain few months later the problems started. Martinez paid three freight bucks for the phone which she actually financed. 11yearold daughter was happy using it for snap chats and instagram postings. But when the phone got hot during use and wouldnt charge, her mom returned it to the National Cell phone store where they she bought it. They told her hey take it over to apple for repairs. Regardless where it comes from youre certifying it as a real apple phone. Im expecting it to ab real apple phone. And i found out that its not because a real Apple Company wont fix it. Reporter thats right. Apple wouldnt fix it. She had an iphone but apple would not repair it. Tonight after the game, learn why apple took a pass and what that National Cell phone chain is now willing to do about it. Plus some tips on how you can avoid the same trouble. Cell phone chain will also explain what happened here tonight its after the game as fox 29 investigates. Im jeff cole. Dawn. See you then. Thank you jeff. Graduation day today for thousands of students on the Drexel University campus and between ceremonies yesterday today and tomorrow over 7,000 bachelors and masters graduates receiving their degrees. The University Also award warding 14 honorary degrees one of them going to tennis legend billy jean king. King delivering the commence many address today for the new graduates. Tennis great ending her speech by serving tennis balls into the audience. So definitely a memorable commencement address. Absolutely. Skyfox over levittown today capturing incredible tribute to our countrys fallen youre looking at more than 65,000 american flags placed at the false township park. Each of them representing americans killed or missing in action during the vietnam war. The flags were placed in the same size and shape of the Vietnam VeteransMemorial Wall in washington. Dc. Childrens hospital of philadelphia raising money for Cancer Research today. All part of their 12th annual alexss Lemonade Stand event. Over 30 let me made stands set up throughout the hospital. Some of them at chop satellite offices as well. Officials also say using the day is one to honor their own dr. Garrett was awarded the picture of hope. He is a Pediatric Oncologist and neuroblastoma researcher honored for his outstanding research. Proceeds from todays event go towards pediatric Cancer Research. The manhunt continues for two convicted murderers who escaped from a new york state prison. Tonight shocking new details about how investigators believe they broke out and who may have helped them. Also almost eight decades after her disappearance they still have no happened what happened to Amelia Earhart. We have a look at what could be her final moment before take off. What the new images reveal. And from mild mannered kids to karate super power. Taking the nation by storm. Are you