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New york city, it's 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 macy's 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, there's the rain socked in. d.c., you're 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 sunday but the problem will be occurring over the next 12 hours as literally there's a cold fron...

The sunshine along with just a nice breeze. now, there is still some problems to be had with this storm. we're focusing more now on the jersey shore, long island, connecticut, rhode island and also eastern massachusetts. we have a cold front that's stalled out to the north. that's that little rain band you see south of albany and north of new york city. we have a lot of heavy rain to the south that's being sucked to the north. it is going to be a soggy fourth of july in that region. let me take you through it a little bit. there's areas of long island, already some squally weather coming onsho...

Kind of a different category. numerous areas had wind gusts that would do significant damage anywhere else in the country, but eastern north carolina, you are storm tested. you get storms like this often. the structures are built better. that's why we're not hearing reports of a lot of damage. look at our storm, it's almost now parallel to ocean city, maryland. it still has a well-defined eye with it. it's starting to weaken slightly but you can clearly tell we have a hurricane just off the virginia coast this morning. right now winds are at 100, pressure at 976. it's racing to the northeast a...

All of a sudden you just see all that rain heading north. so eventually philadelphia, the new york city area, you've had a pretty dry morning. that's going to change shortly, especially there in new york city. you're going to get drenched for a good portion of the middle of your fourth of july. hartford area, you're 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 the day today. again, maybe it will be a strong tropical storm, maybe it will be a low end hurr...

Many communities on this fourth of july holiday. forecasters are warning high surf and dangerous rip currents are a threat along many of the new york area coastal areas. nbc's ron allen in long beach, new york. he's been there all morning monitoring the situation. and i'm told, ron, that you are with the long beach supervisor. of course their concern is that safety in the ocean right behind you. >> reporter: exactly. i'm going to let one of the experts answer all your questions about this situation down here. it's john scuden, the boef supervis -- beach supervisor here. he's been here 40 years...