nbc 10 news starts now. i think tim's progressed. but we didn't feel he was getting enough right few. >> tebow time is officially over. today the eagles cut quarterback tim tobio from the roster. it's just one of the shake ups for the birds. what's next for the roster? >> it couldn't be more true. denise, time changes things. this time yesterday it appeared tim tebow was on the roster. matt barkley was trade while

chip kelly saw progress, it was not enough. >> i think he really improved his throwing motion from a couple of years ago. he worked extremely hard on it and deserves a lot of credit for that. i talked to him earlier today when we released him. heettes needs more playing time. e needs to get out there and get actual reps. i think he has done a ton on his own on an individual basis. now it's taking the next step and playing the game. >> chip kelly says they will add a third quarterback. if no other team claims tebow, he could rejoin the eagles if kelly thought he was the best option. after his elise, tebow tweeted his appreciation, writing thanks eagles and coach kelly for giving me the opportunity to play the game i love, romans, 8: 28, #blessed.

>> fans we spoke with today seem to agree with chip kelly's decision to let him go. >> his name is good, but he -- as a player, i don't think he is ready to play for the eagles. >> i think he is a hard worker but i don't think he fits in anybody's matrix. maybe if he finds the right team. >> look at it like this, tim tebow had his opportunities, ultimate come back story, but a little bit short. >> the number 11 jersey was the 16th best seller at nfl shop.com. now all those tebow eagles jerseys are collectors items. nbc 10 has an entire section devoted to the eagles. the labor weekend is in full swing from the city to the store and thousands are soaking up the sun on the beach and others are heading to the mountains. a live look at camel beach water park in the poconos.

a great day to be outside. first alert meteorologist brittney shipp is here with our holiday weekend forecast. how does it look for people hetd heading out tonight? >> it looks great. this is one of those forecasts where you can't go wrong no matter whether you are in the poconos or down in the city, the suburbs or along the shore. 83 right now in philadelphia. 78 in washington township. 83 in chester spring. 75 in mount pocono. along the shoreline, cooler, we have an on-shore flow keeping us cool. 79 in woodbine. 77 in dover. our city planner for tonight a. lot of people will be out at made in america. when beyonce is on the stage, in the 70s. tomorrow, on sunday, temperatures warm up, ranging between 84-88. plenty of sunshine.

i am track even warmer weather. i'll go over what to expect pou until 10:30 tonight. a lot of people out here enjoying the weather and waiting for big act. >> with music pumping down the

parkway, thousands of fans flocked to made in america, most of them here to see the big closing act. >> beyonce! >> the two-day festival kicked off at noon today with tight security and long lines. it's one of center city's biggest events all year. >> i'm having a lot of fun. made in america rocks. everyone should come north carolina year. >> i want to see once. >> armani dawkins wants to be rapper when he grows up, inspired by philly musician meek mill, who is performing tonight. >> i could do the, i could do the, i could do the same. >> come on! >> but in the backdrop of this huge event is the looming arrival of pope francis. today's festival had about 70,000 people. when the pope comes, that number could top 1 million on the parkway. >> it is a good run through, definitely. but i think when the pope is here there will be little bit more people. >> reporter: today is also a good preview of what it could look like out here on the

parkway when the pope comes. you can see the fencing they have got lining the festival. they have got traffic restrictions in place as well. today's festival. tomorrow going in with a lot of security just a taste of what could be coming in just three weeks. well, the unofficial last weekend of summer is drawing crowds down the shore. a strong summer season is wrapping up with more great weekend weather. george presser visited several towns on the jersey shore today. george, this weather is bringing shils to business owners? >> reporter: denise, one of those business owners told me today this has been the perfect weather season in family oriented towns like ocean city. that means the crowds show up in places like atlantic city, where they are working to attract nongamblers, it's the boardwalk that's the indication, and it appears things are going pretty well. on the ocean city boardwalk this afternoon, it definitely still

looks and feels like summer, at least for the rest of the holiday weekend. how about this weather? >> this is amazing. it is amazing. that's why we're here. >> reporter: lina white and her husband from montgomery county got to the shore almost every other weekend this summer. on the beach today, families were poked under colorful umbrellas. but the water was less inviting, even dangerous in spots. what was it like. cold, very cold. >> i came prepared, brought my body board. but the lifeguard said no body boards and you cannot go in pasture waist. >> reporter: all because of the rip currents? >> yes, it's very rough. >> reporter: strong sales at the bike shop thanks mostly to a string of dry, clear weekends. >> it has been a great summer. the weather has been fabulous. >> reporter: up in atlantic city, the summer push was to get visitors for reasons other than gambling, a good start, business owners tell us, but they all

emphasize summer's end doesn't mean you can't keep coming. how big a drop off do you see. >> if the weather is nice people still come down. >> reporter: for many, the change of seasons brings its own excitement. >> when the eagles start-up, you know it's time for fall. >> reporter: that's your indication? >> yeah, and hockey. >> reporter: hockey and football. as we mentioned the high rip current threat does have lifeguards on alert and very cautious up and down the jersey shore. so far, we have heard of no major issues. live in atlantic city, nbc news. a sleep over mystery. tonight a young girl is dead. and the health threat that may be lurking in your fridge. why you may need to check the veggies twice.

police south jersey are investigating the mysterious death of a 14-year-old during a sleep over. she was found dead at home along the 200 block of barns borrow road in man thieua township. she and teammates from her soccer club spent the night at the home. police say the death is not suspicious. teammates plan to hold a candlelight vigil for her tonight. tonight a man is in critical condition after a shooting in camden county overnight. police found the 34-year-old victim just after 1:00 this morning this the parking lot the wouldland village apartment complex. a possible person of interest was seen running from the area. so far, no arrests. growing drought concerns in the garden state. thousand lack of rain is impacting farmers, and possibly your water supply. plus, we've got a break from

temperatures in the 90s. but i am trauk tracking warmer weather, but dry weather as we head into the rest of the holiday weekend. i'll let you know exactly what to expect from the poconos to the city to the shore. that's all coming up in my full forecast.

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garden cucumbers. the produce was sold in new jersey. drought conditions have now taken over most of new jersey, frombergen county and along the entire shore to cape may county. nbc 10's brian thompson tells us there are serious consequences beyond suburban lawns. >> reporter: inbergen county, united water was first out of the gate this week for the appeal for voluntary conservation. its three main reservoirs below 50% capacity. with this warning. >> we may be headed to mandatory restrictions. >> reporter: ten days ago, a noaa map showed dry conditions in northeast new jersey. now that covers most of the state with the northeast being in a more severe moderate drought. the threat to drinking water supply is making jersey american water appeal to its north jersey companies now.

what is doing well? >> corn. >> for middle sex county farmers the sun has been burning up corn fields since a promising start to the growing season a few months ago. inside his farm stand customers still come for the crops he has been to irrigate. they are fine. look at these two ears of corn. the smaller one is kellerman's the right is from another farm. >> they are still sweet, just not as big. and you are not get oourg your money's worth, i don't think. >> reporter: i shucked this ear of field corn, and the lack of water shows in the dimples on each kernel of corn. kellerman does have irrigation here but doesn't have the time to keep everything irrigated. so this sue keeney crop is also a lost cause. with these drought conditions bringing deer to these fields to find anything moist -- >> i never had them eat do you keeney b. i can't grow do you

keeney now. now your nbc 10 plert weather with meteorologist brittney shipp. >> we had a great start to the weekend. temperatures staying in the 80s, done with the heat wave finally. but we are going to start to warm things back up as we head into tomorrow and into monday. and then once again back into the 90s heading into next week. a dry weekend on tap although i am tracking the return of storms in the seven-day forecast. there is a look outside. mix of sun and clouds, 83 degrees. humidity is down to 44%. it should have felt comfortable throughout day today. wind speeds out of the southeast at 8 miles per hour. and across the rest of the region, similar conditions in allentown, low 80s. but look at cape may a lot cooler, 75 with plenty of sunshine. quite a spread with the temps. comer air coming off the ocean. that's always nice, especially since it was too hot for you over the past couple of days. 80 in trenton.

84 in chester springs. mount pocono along the shoreline mid 70s. beach hachb 679, 78 in millville. comfortable day. cooler than yesterday. satellite radar shot shows we are just seeing a few clouds from the south moving into cape may, dover and philadelphia. everywhere else will see clear case is through the rest of tonight. a little bit of patchy fog is expected as well. here's the weather story. we have wind speeds from the northeast. that's bringing in dryer air. we have more of an on-shore flow bringing us a cooler breeze. temperatures down along the shore line and into the city. heading into sunday and monday we will stay nice and dry. but you will notice the wind direction shifting again as an area of high pressure starts to shift off the shore and we will see more humidity returning with

more moisture coming up from the south. we are going to see the high pressure strengthening closer to us, so our temperatures will continue to climb as we head into the next couple of days. tomorrow is going to be very warm. 87 in if fill. 82 in wildwood. temperatures in the poconos, close to 80. still comfortable. still dealing with a moderate rip current risk at least until 8:00 p.m. tonight. keep that in mine. sunday, 80 degrees and sunny. labor day, 82 and sunny. for this even, our temperatures are going to drop down into the 70s -- or the 60s i should say for philadelphia. 61 for the suburbs to the north and west. tomorrow a little warmer than what we saw today. temperature also range between 85 and 88 degrees. but lots of sunshine sticking around. your seven-day forecast shows we get close to 90 degrees on your actual labor day and we track a series of storms thursday into next weekend. a great day to tailgate.

temple and penn state kicked off their seasons at the link this afternoon before a sold out crowd. fans were out there early to get the celebrating started. it's part of a busy day in local sports, right danny? >> 100% correct. it's the furs saturday of college football season. we'll update temple and penn state from the lincoln financial field. the eagles have cut some dead weight. we'll hear from chip kelly on why tim tebow just didn't fit.

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server. plus, inside the desperate journey thousands of migrants and refugees are taking to the west from their war-torn countries. and also we'll take you to california. the drought taking its toll on the majestic sequoias. we'll give you a rare climb to the very top. gas hasn't been this cheap since 2004. how americans are saving a billion dollars this holiday weekend. that and more when we see you on "nbc nightly news." denise, back to you. >> all right. we'll see you soon. thanks, thom. this is the xfinity sports desk, brought to you by xfinity. your home for the most live sports is that once again, the eagles roster is down to 52 guys after the team cut 22 players today, which includes quarterback tim tebow. it appeared tebow would make the team after matt barkley was traded to the cardinals. just two on chip kelly's roster right now. he explain his thinking today.

>> we had an offer for a trade for matt. we thought that was the pest possible scenario. we felt that tim really progressed but we didn't feel he was good to have to be the three right now. we are going to add a three right now. but we are not going to have four quarterbacks. >> tebow hasn't played in a regular season game since 2012 with the jets. hasn't started a regular season game since 2011 with the broncos. he was released by the patriots after training camp in 2013. rod didinger explains. >> chip gave it every opportunity, through the spring, all through the preseason, through all the preseason games. he put tim in all these situations, including two point on conversations, i think when he decided what is was what he could offer me it doesn't outway

what i can get out of a traditional third string quarterback. >> matt barkley was the sthird quarterback for the past two seasons. threw just one ball last year. kelly also touched on barclay's time with the team. >> i thought matheson did a nice job. he came in -- had the shoulder injury towards the end of his senior year. he will tell you that affected him a little bit in his first year. but i think he improved. and you know, you hear about a million trades that have been going on on the cut down day, there aren't as many as everybody really says there are. he was the only guy we had any offers for. so we felt that we were going to get another draft pick in here. >> here are a few of the other players the eagles let go today, which puts the roster at 52, one below the maximum. they include rasheed bailey. chip kelly said the linebacker

in a jeed good was the final cut. >> we have got ten on the roster. it is a difficult position in terms of we have the most depth at that position. that was the toughest one, najib. gave us everything he had, worked hard and was productive. but we couldn't fit in an 11th linebacker. >> kelly is right now catching kelly and his staff will scour the nfl waiver wire. they can add ten players to the practice squad and fill their one roster vacancy. phillies road tripping in boston for a late afternoon game. miley on the hill for the bo sox. in the fourth, one run in. jackie bradley jr. snacks this into the gap. scores two. asher gave up seven in the inning. the sox didn't stop there.

number 496 for ortiz. inning. it's now 9-2 in the ninth. >> lincoln quarterback ej mckenzie find row. 64-yard touchdown. lincoln takes a 24-6 lead. in the fourth quarter, lincoln taking the lead. steven scott from five yards out. third trip to the end zone on the day. difference maker as lincoln holds on to win 29-22. that's sports. denise, back to you. folks were all aduz on the battleship new jersey today as in buzz haircuts. the battle ship new jersey museum and moerpial offered free buzz kids in the ship's barber shop for kids heading back to school. after getting their new 'dos, guests got to take a tour of the

ship. beautiful weather. >> beautiful down the shore, at the poconos, can't beat it. no matter where you go it's really nice out. seven-day forecast shows we will turn up the heat heading into sunday. 87 and warm. monday, labor day, close to 90 degrees. it's going to start to feel hot again. hot and humid conditions expected tuesday. could have another heat wave on our hands. there are a few 90s in the heaven-day. tracking storms starting thursday continuing until sunday. >> the holiday weekend holds out. >> yes, good timing. >> that's it for 10 news right now. we'll see you back here after the notre dame game. "nbc nightly news" is next. for updates at any time, head to nbc 10.com.

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