news," hurricane arthur has come ashore, howling winds and heavy rains have chased away vacationers from the north carolina coast. we've a live crew in atlantic county tracking conditions ahead of arthur's path. >> it is all systems go for the 4th of july celebrations, the wawa welcome america festivities will soon be underway. >> let's go over to david murphy and matt pellman filling in for karen rogers. >> reporter: the big story is hurricane arthur pulling away from north carolina, still on a track to go close enough to our coast to provide a little rain this morning. currently there's not a whole lot going on related to arthur. we have a branch of rain in the northern and western suburbs

that is producing steady rain in berks county, lancaster county and allentown. a couple of cells popping in along the coast that's it for now. as we take a look we have that flood watch in effect up until noon today just in case anymore cells pop in from that passing hurricane. not a lot of expected. all day there's an advisory for rip currents down the shore. if you get swept out to sea, don't panic, that's the first rule of thumb. all you have to do is swim parallel to the beach north or south, you'll get yourself back in, and swim near lifeguard stations today. all right. 74 degrees, still muggy as you survey the numbers. 76 by noon, a little rain around in the morning. noon, 77. maybe a few lingering showers, 3:00 p.m., 79. we're drying out the humidity is dropping.

we get a high of 80 around 4:00 p.m. and back to 77. some of you may have bright sunshine by 6:00 p.m. this evening. fireworks look good, i'll have the forecast coming up. not a lot of fireworks on the roads so far this morning. we have fireworks in the sky with that storm. we're paying the price for it this morning. amtrak signal problems resulted from the stormy conditions. septa airport regional rail line and newark regional rail line are halted for the morning commute. they have shuttle buses for the city and the airport line, use the 101 and 102 trolley if you're heading to media. otherwise we're on a holiday which in most cases means a sunday schedule with mass transit. 202 minor accident off to the side volume so light it's not causing problem. cape may county we have a downed

pole and downed wires blocking route 9 by the white house church indian road and wildwood boulevard. a tree on wires is blocking up pike creek road this morning polly drummen hill road gets you around that. >> we have the latest developments on hurricane arthur's track. the category 2 storm made landfall last night. right now it's battering the outer banks with winds up to 100 miles per hour. thousands do not have power right. the governor has i should a state of merge -- issued a state of emergency. the shoreline communities that did not evacuate remain under a curfew this morning. a full report is expected minutes away. >> holiday travelers will feel the effects of the hurricane this morning, eve pilgrim is in

atlantic city. good morning, eva. >> reporter: we have light rain and mist a lot of fog. if you look at the beach, you can't see the beach right now, because the fog has set in. earlier this morning when we could see the waves you could see that the waves were pretty churned up, they were crashing in pretty high this morning, the jersey shore as you mentioned isn't expecting to get the brunt of hurricane arthur, but he'll have an impact on holiday festivities. it was beautiful weather except for the wind slapping things around, arthur churned up the waters raising major concerns about rip currents, lifeguards kept swimmers close to the beach and no boogie boards were allowed. >> for a day like that stay waist deep and have a parent around you. >> we pulled boards it's a lot safer. without having boards drifting from the crowd and what not. >> back out here live in atlantic city, the fog as we've

been out here this morning, has gotten thicker and thicker, at the beginning of the show we could see the beach and the water, now you can see it's just a cloud, it feels like, over this area. the other thing that's affecting people at the shore who are trying to enjoy the festivities. most of the shore towns have their fireworks on the barges out in the ocean, because the water conditions are so dangerous, they are postponing the fireworks show. here in atlantic city, they are postponing theirs until sunday. eva pilgrim channel 6 "action news." >> it is foggy down there, thank you, eva. >> severe storms dealt a punch across the delaware and lehigh valleys. trees toppled in the suburbs. a woman suffered minor -- miner injuries when a fallen limb fell on her car.

somerton section of philadelphia, a wires came down. peco customers lost power, crews have brought the number down to 63,000. delaware and south jersey are dealing with scattered outages. >> but the skies will clear up just in time for the cull minute nation of the wawa -- culmination of the wawa welcome america festivities. 500,000 people are expected to pack this space for the largest free concert in america. crews putting the finishing touches on the concert last night said the conditions will cooperate for the performers. >> we have to be aware of wind, right now it is within the acceptable levels we are all ready and we want everybody to have a good time.

>> good time sounds good. philadelphia police will have plain clothes officers keeping the peace o parkway. bring clear bags and keep the coolers at home as a security precaution. matt o'donnell and i will kick off things with the freedom ceremony attended by vice president joe biden and followed by the parade from 11:00 p.m. to 12 and rick williams, cesily tynan, adam joseph and karen rogers will bring you the wawa welcome america jam followed by fireworks. >> reporter: storm tracker 6 live double scan shows you most of the rain is in the northern and western suburbs, as we go into that two-dimensional view there's a little bit of showers pushing up the i-95 corridor. that's pushing through chester county and new castle county,

the steadiest rain in berks county and lancaster county and allentown you're getting caught with a little bit of this same thing in bethlehem and easton. no lightning, but this is an early rain band we're expecting from arthur. looks like one is forming off the coast, but right now it's scattered stuff down there. we have cloudy skies the sun trying to break through some of the early cloud cover, that hams even when you have the deck of clouds over philadelphia. warm and muggy out there, dewpoint, 67. it's on the humid side. winds north/northwest at 10 miles per hour. overall it will be a breezy day. between 9 colorado -- 9:00, matt was asking about the parade route, past 9:00 a.m., looks like the rain wants to taper off

even at the shore and the afternoon looks like a day of improvement where we'll see the rain end by midday and before that in spots and eventually sunshine returning as we go into the ladder portion of the afternoon. temperatures will be easier to take today. 75 degrees by 8:00 a.m. 77 by 11:00 p.m., still some showers around, still might field humid this morning. 2:00 p.m., 79. a high of only 80. with the humidity lowering it will be nice. that 80 will hit at are 5:00 p.m., 80 in wilmington and philadelphia and milled 70s down the shore, again, the general theme today is morning spotty rain and afternoon clearing and improvement not a bad away to go especially with the 4th and all your afternoon and evening activity. speaking of which, fireworks looks good, partly cloudy exit might clear out and a little bit

of a northerly breeze. some of the suburbs might dip into the 60s. hurricane arthur is a category one with 100-mile an hour winds. it is pushing off the coast of north carolina as expected. it will push off our coast with scattered rain bands coming in. we're looking at rip current down the shore, we're seeing shopping water down there. the rip currents will be an issue today and into tonight. that's what future tracker 6 has for you on saturday, nothing, basically. it will be a nice day. today, 80. afternoon clearing, breezy. tomorrow, lots of sun, highs in the 80s. humidity behaving itself, both days. sunday, still beautiful, no

prob, 87 degrees. breezy and hot next week. >> a hiking trip ends tragically for a college student now his family wants to know if his death was part of a fraternity hazing ritual. >> reporter: not much cooking out in bucks county, route one looking super near the pennsylvania turnpike. nearby in south hampton ton there's many parades today we'll run down the list coming up after the break. >> an i will loosive snow-loving -- an

>> welcome back you're taking a live look down the shore into cape may. at least the rainy weather, david said it maybe on and off spotty throughout the region, where you are this evening,, things are looking good. but if you're on the water be careful there's strong rip currents out there right now. >> matt, anybody out on the road this morning. >> reporter: there are a couple of and the few that are out are tending to run into things as things would go. we have a crash on wednesday of the schuylkill expressway,

approaching 202. more police officers than vehicles involved. with such light volume this is not causing too much of a problem. not a problem, but later today we'll vaton of different parades around the region. we'll have street blockages saturday one in bucks county begins at 1:00 p.m. and starts at bustleton pike and proceeds north on bridge town pike. jenkintown this is at 11:30, starts at leadem street and greenwood avenue. delco, starting on marple avenue. paulsboro parade there's at 10:00 p.m. continuing on broad and delaware and ending at the high school. it's a run this morning, the mayor's cup 5k in evesham township.n this morning, the main street will close, in addition to other local streets and berlin we have a parade with the closure starting at

8:00 a.m., the white horse pike will be blocked by taunten avenue that's some of the list. let's grab the ipad for the waze report. if you're heading to cape may, things look good on ac expressway and garden state parkway, no issues right now. >> hurricane arthur continues to slam the coast of the north carolina, abc's marc implet -- marci gonzalez is riding out the hurricane in nags head. arthur makes landfall as a category two with 100-mile an hour winds. the storm bringing flooding and wild spread power outages and tornados. >> when i got my kids in the living room, then took them to the bathroom and saw when we were heading to the, the ceiling was just collapsing behind us.

>> reporter: arthur moving north up the coast, more than 400 miles wide taking aim on the outer banks. on hatterrous island evacuations were mandatory and elsewhere, many vacationers visiting for the july 4th weekend chose to head out before the severe weather moves in. >> it's a bad situation, there's nothing else you can do. >> we're packing up to head to safer ground and hope they call us back. >> reporter: no heading back to the beach just yet as arthur continues to pummel the shoreline. and we are not just keeping an eye on this, with wind and rain, with a possible storm surge up to 5 feet there's serious concerns about flooding. marci gonzalez, abc news, nags head north carolina. >> you can track arthur's path with the storm tracker 6 live app it gives you access to live radar and hourly weather it's a

letters with audio warnings. >> police are investigating a deadly shooting in atlantic county in newtenville section of boon -- buena vista township. the 30-year-old was found with two gunshots to the neck. a young man dialed while on a fraternity hiking -- died while on a fraternity hiking trip. he died on the overnight trip. they say they ran out of water and he lost consciousness on a trail. his family said he was left in the woods with no shoes or water and expected to torched his way out. police -- to find his way out. police believe the death was accidental. two former wing bowl champions will compete for the crown in coney island.

son i -- chestnut set a world record last year carving down 69 -- scarfing down 69 hot dogs in ten minutes. his goal this year is to devour 72 dogs. >> a teenager foster child suffers a setback in finding a forever family. it's a real life wolverene spotted in a place he is rarely seen. >> reporter: we have a flood watch up until noon, we'll have radar in a secon

>> a rare sighting in utah trail cameras captured a wolverene in the mountains. the first time a wolverene has

been spotted in the bee high -- bee hive state. there was one spotted in wyoming, and they will look at pictures to see it is the same animal. >> reporter: we have cancellations because of the storms last night. no service on the newark/wilmington line or airport line. otherwise we're on a holiday schedule with patco and njt. trees are leaning on whiter at upper pike creek road. benjamin franklin parkway is blocked in preparation for the festivities tonight. >> reporter: there is rain outside, there's a basic line of it that's pushing up through the northern and western suburbs,

not so much in philadelphia. a little bit down the shore with more coming before too much longer. my twitter follower michelle in west chester tweets some of the damage last night. as you can see on storm tracker 6 live we don't have any heavy weather to add to that this morning. 76 by 9:00 a.m., 77 by noon, in through here showers and thunderstorm. why the afternoon we're looking at quick drying and clearing. our high today, 8o humidity lowers later in the day it will be nice for fireworks tonight, too, tam. >> thank you, david. an orphan teenager who made an emotional plea for his family to adopt him. he was involved in a physical altercation involving two members of his prospective family. he moved to the family for a 90 day trial period. he was with the family only a few weeks before he was removed. the i adoption agency has taken him back to florida.

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[ telephone rings ] how's the camping trip? well, the kids had fun, but i think i slept on a rock. ♪ the best part of wakin' up what are you doing? having coffee. ohh. ♪ is folgers in your cup >> philadelphia police have charged a man whose mother was found dead in his freezer. he has been charged with abuse of a corpse. he has not been seen since his mother's body was found in the feltonville home. the medical examiner's office is waiting for the body to thaw to determine how she died. police believe she died in

january. police say the body found in the surf off ocean city is believed to be that of correspond -- corenthian hammen. doctor well den pritchett stepped down yesterday. marjorie napp has been named to take his place. >> a car thief who botched his getaway in a big way. >> we continue to follow hurricane arthur's path along the east coast. we'll have an update from north carolina where it struck overnight and what it wo3o3

>> good morning everyone, it is 6:00 a.m. on this friday, the 4th of july. developing this morning. >> hurricane arthur roars ashore pounding the north carolina coast with whipping winds and drenching rains. >> the crowds have arrived at the jersey shore ahead of the holiday weekend. accuweather is tracking hurricane arthur along the coastline. >> the sun is up, they are getting ready for the 4th of july festivities. 4th of july forecast david murphy and matt pellman filling in for karen rogers. >> reporter: hurricane arthur is barrelling up the coast and still on a track that will take it well off our coastline. the closest tha