your favorite guy in the whole world, don't listen, dean, she is in love with blake shelton. he wanted to be here today but miranda wouldn't let him come. that is not true. he couldn't make it. is that the phone i hear? >> is he calling? >> hello. hi, blake. miranda said no. she has a problem with hoda, a lot of people do. it is totally understandable. we love you. he has something to say. >> is he on the phone? >> hi, hoda, blake shelton here. i'm so sorry i'm not there today for your birthday. i'm here in toronto, canada. we are doing a concert. and, man, i really hate that i couldn't be there. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. >> you can hang up now. >> i love you. i love you. >> can we just going? i want to hear it more. twice more. please. >> i love you. i love you. [ laughter ] >> toronto canada and we are doing a concert -- >> not that part. never mind. >> i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. >> he can talk and walk at the same time. here he is everybody, blake shelton himself. [ laughter ] >> and he has got a

i'm blake shelton. >> hey, guys, carson daly here. we've both been challenged the ice bucket challenge for great cause for als. who were you challenged by? >> freakin' hoda. >> hoda. >> never hated two people more in my whole life. >> this one's for you. >> oh! >> that was great. >> all right. >> i thought we had a deal. >> had a deal. >> do it quick. >> who will you calling out? >> okay. >> cold, right? >> i hate you. i still love you, hoda. still love you, hoda, still love you hoda, still love you hoda, still love you hoda. >> all day long. >> who did he challenge. >> pharrell. >> oh. >> gwen stefani and adam levine who happened to walk over at the time and adam got dumped on. watch what he did. >> oh, lord. >> please. >> are you ready for this? >> wa wa. >> great cause. one, two, three. >> wow. >> freezing. >> way to go, buddy. >> thank you. >> should have gotten his hair wet. the rule should be get your hair wet. don't you think? >> i love those two guys. one person who i love more than both of them combined. she's sitting next to

and the final person i'm challenging is blake shelton!ers and applause ] look at my pants. >> here we go. you have 24 hours. >> i am writing a check. >> kathie lee, drew brees, blake shelton. >> we'll see what happens. >> got to keep them guessing. >> on july 29 when the campaign kicked off more than $1.35 million has been donated to the als association. and that is 22,000 more than the same time last year. this is really catching on like fire. >>> there is a magazine called "new you" which i'm not on the cover. to the part we care about i put that humanitarian on the inside. >> exactly. so this is talking all about your cody house and kathie lee place. it has been around for -- >> pretty much since 1991. it was the first time i held -- the first lady, barbara bush. that was quite a while ago. and kathie lee's place was kr believe 1996. >> still taking care of kids all of these years. >> about 200 kids. >> it started because of the crack epidemic and the aids epidemic. it was a pandemic at that time. babies weren't living. we later worked

blake shelton, lady antebellum. those concerts were huge hits. one example, the casino investment community has been granted a grant for the triathlon. and $27,000 was approved for more summer concerts on the board walk. livenation says it will bring ten big-name shows to the board walk. livenation was behind blake shelton and lady antebellum shows as well. >>> a pop-up sheet. hundreds of people dress entirely in white. find out the exact location of the feast just before it happens. we do know tonight's will happen to south broad street. >>> from dinner to dessert. a special treat. nbc10 in camden will police officers added serving ice cream to their resumes. you see with the help of a fully loaded police truck, the police department gave out predesserts to camden kids. >> that's a cool thing. the online dinner, i'd be worried about mustard stain. abthat.h you. can see why you'ri "nbc10 news" starts right now. >> announcer: nbc10 news starts now. >>> it's time to turn up the heat. the taney dragons get one more shot in the little league world se

blake shelton took to the tape for a free beach concert in atlantic city, but it wasn't just the fans focused on this concert. todd quinones shows how concerts like tis could help revamp the boardwalk. >> reporter: casino industry is trying to mark itself as being more than just a gambling destination and that's why the casino owners couldn't poured this concert. ♪ >> reporter: country super star blake shelton hit the stage to a crowd that was ready to have some fun. >> this is great. i mean you have food, you have everything here. it's fantastic. awesome. he is special because it's free. >> reporter: thousands of excited fans hit the beach as early as 10:00 a.m. free concert on the beach drew an evident meated crowd of at least 60,000 people. the mayor puts it, you're looking at the future of atlantic city. >> atlantic city for one sore sick years keeps on reinventing ourselves. the chapter on gaming as a man in that plea has closed. >> atlantic city made headlines with a number of casinos that are looking at the possibility of having to shut down at the end of the season. thousands

country super star blake shelton. you can see the boardwalk. 60,000 people had tickets to last week's show. the mayor said this is what atlantic city needs. >> blake shell top grew quite a ground estimated 100,000 people joyd his concert on the beach. they're trying to reinvent themselves to get more mem to do ac. >> blake shelton had the beach rocking. >> thousands of beach chairs and umbrellas filled the shores with country music super star people took in live music and the hotel topps and others that couldn't get tickets partied along the boardwalk. >> a welcomed sight because excite nment ac has been neating for 2014 possibly a third of east coast gambling casinos could be done by end of summer. mayor dop guardian are one of the ways the city plans to revolve themselves. >> things to do besides casinos and gaming and having blake here and hundred thousand and extra people is a way we're rolling out the red carpet for everyone to come down. >> if you ask the thousands of people that watched the plan is off to a grea

. >> blake shelton. hats off. >> not going to get too many people disagreeing. >> he's on the cover. >> you know why, it's the whole package as they say. not just he's a sexy looking man and he is and a large man and tall, it's his personality, that smile, it's the aw shucks. >> something about guys -- >> charm about him. >> real guys. i think of like -- you may not agree. i think of blake shelton and vince vaughn, like sort of big men who are all boy and not -- >> got just the right amount of dirt on them. to quote a friend. >> some other people who made it, jake owen made the list under their -- >> he's adorable. >> yeah. >> and dierks bentley. >> love him. >> florida georgia line. what i love about the "us weekly" thing, you read it and here's the pages and then go here and there happens to be a rip out poster like tiger beat. isn't that crazy? >> that's fun. >> i know which side you're going to use. we love keith urban. a poster you can hang up over your bed or ceiling. >> you and blake, you can look

what a huge show by country super star blake shelton. fans packing the beach, the boardwalk, their boats. 60,000 people had free tickets to tonight's show. >> fox 29's drew dickman spent the evening at the concert where the mayor says this is just what atlantic city needs. >> blake shelton grew quite a crowd an estimated one hadn't dread thousand people enjoyed his free concert on the beach. city officials say it's one of the ways they're try to reinvent themselves to get more pebbled to ac ♪ >> reporter: shelton had the atlantic city beach rocking. >> i can't hear you. >> thousands of beach chairs and umbrellas filled the shore as the country music super star played some of his favorite hits. people also took into live music from boats and hotel rooftops. others couldn't get a ticket partied along the boardwalk. ♪ >> reporter: welcomed site excitement in ac has been fleeting in 2014 possible al third of the east coast gambling hub's casino could be closed by the end of the summer. mayor don guardian says free concerts of one of the ways

than 60,000 people packed the shore last night for a free concert performed by country superstar blake shelton. atlantic city mayor says historic town has more to offer than just gambling. >> atlantic city, for 106 years, keeps on re-inventing it self. >> honestly i think one of the major obstacles we have is the fact the media has portrayed atlantic city as dying. >> not last nightment check out the creed. beach was certainly alive. tourism officials now discussing making beachfront concerts a regular summer event. and i have one request. >> yes? >> can you please have them on a friday or saturday night? so we can go. >> i know. by the way, if you were at the show last night, hit us up on facebook or twitter. looks like it, indeed. we at any time to start your day off with a free cup of coffee? there is a catch, though. >> all right, let you nor where you can picick up that free drink. >> is facebook changing the way you look at the news? well you may only be getting one side of the story. katie? >> ukee, looking ahead to what may end up being a little bit of a spoiler for your weekend. speci

i challenged drew brees, kathie lee and blake shelton. >> carson, blake, did you do it? for a great cause. >> go, go! >> ready? go! >> oh! it's colder than you ever imagined. this one's for you. >> oh! woo! i thought we had a deal. >> are you ready for this? here we go. >> it's a great cause. >> one, two, three. >> freezing. >> so, blake took his challenge from hoda and immediately challenged adam. they're all on the set of "the voice". >> i like seeing blake shelton. >> i know you do. we should remind people it's for a really good cause, the als association. they're fund-raising this month because of the ice bucket dumping is through the roof. up $3 million from where it was this time last year. keep it going, guys. >> most people donating along with the challenge. that's the way to do it. >> has nobody challenged the president, who's on vacation on martha's vineyard? >> ethel kennedy did. >> ethel kennedy did. >> he wrote a check instead. >> good to know. willie, thank you very much. hoda, thank you very much as well. he's on his way up. kerry sanders gets ready for a

. >>> also, in ac, singer blake shelton performs free beach concert. more than 60,000 fans packed the shore line. the casino's help sponsor the event promoting atlantic city area as more than a gambling destination. mayor don guardian said beachfront concerts may become a regular summer event. that would be great for all of us. >>> meantime, singer mariah lambert is defaced. billboard marks the starlet's hometown every lynn dale, as you can see, somebody added a mustache to her likeness. officials say they're having hard time removing it, and they may have to just redo the whole sign. that prankster is on the loose but could face up to year in jail if he's caught. >>> i'm sure blake is not happy about that. >> no. >> i would not want to inch kerr that. >> okay, so, finally friday, katy? >> finally friday, and we're finally seeing the wet weather start to make return appearance. off to dry start. for the better part of the first half of the day, probably totally fine, in the clear, clouds starting to come, in moisture becoming more noticeable, it is tur

and i challenged blake shelton. >> carson, blake, did you do it? for a great cause, carson! >> go, go! oh! it's colder than you ever imagine. this one's for you. >> oh! i thought we had a deal. >> are you ready for this? >> it's a great cause. >> one, two, three. >> oh, freezing. >> so blake took his challenge from hoda and immediately challenged adam. adam coming out. >> i like seeing blake shelton on the rocks. >> i know you do. guys, we have fun with this. it's far good cause. the als association. they're fund raising this month because of all this ice bucket dumping. absolutely through the roof. it's up $3 million from where it was this time last year. so keep it going, guys. >> yeah. most people donating along with taking the challenge. >> has nobody challenged the president who's on vacation on martha's vineyard? >> i think ethel kennedy did. >> all right. >> he wrote a check instead. >> good to know. thank you very much. >>> and he's on his way up. kerry sanders gets set ♪ ♪ ♪ with one small catch.en use ♪ dove bar for 7 days? no mirrors. ev

added more security for this particular show after more than 60 house san people showed up to blake sheltonness news" reporter matt rivers tells us that city leaders are hoping out of towners will realize all the good things the shore town has to offer. >> reporter: welcome to the future of atlantic city. less this and more -- >> ♪ >> reporter: of this. at least that's what ac tourism officials are striving for. less slots and table games, more night live shopping and high end dining. this sunday it was crowds packing beaches to check out country stars lady antebellum. >> as gaming revenue goes down people have this miss perception that atlantic city isn't billed. -- filled hotel rooms aren't filled. that's completely wrong. >> reporter: there's in doubt that atlantic city isn't what it used to be. cass soon know after cass soon know is shutting down. so something else, something like this, has to fill the void. the thing is, though, it's a lot easier to draw crowds like these for a free concert in early august than it is in the middle of december. so the question evident aliblely becomes h

. >> blake shelton. >> you know why? because he is not so buttoned up, but he is gentlemanly. >> who is mine, hodie? >> yours is a man we all like to call hugh jackman. he has always been it. >> always. >> here's what i love about my i-hoda today. it's an old song that became new again. >> oh-oh. >> and we aren't going to -- >> is there a rapper in it? >> we're not going to put the words up. we're going to have a music video. it's a girl band. what is the girl band's name? that's the question. >> we're going to watch it. >> here 's called -- ♪ keep it coming ♪ do your dance ♪ do your dance ♪ quick mama come on baby tell me what's the word ♪ ♪ yow ♪ >> here we go. if you know this song. ready? ♪ pretty ladies, around the world got a weird thing to show you for all the boys and girls ♪ ♪ tell your mother your sister and your mama too ♪ ♪ because they're about to throw down and you know just what to do ♪ ♪ wave your hands in the air like you don't care ♪ ♪ fly by the people make them stop and look and stare ♪ ♪ do your danc

. >> 100,000 packing the beach for a free concert featuring blake shelton ♪ >> he drew a big crowd lastht. families from as far as away as pittsburgh amade their way here for the free concert on the beach. they're trying to come to bring people to come to ac. >> this is what be act act are act and hundred extra people is the way we're rolling the red carpet for everyone to come down. >> everything wins. >> there's another free concert scheduled for sunday featuring lady antellum. >> lady a. >> let's look at entertainment headlines. reports of impending divorce twirl around beyonce and jay-z he's making a plea to take her on a five week vacation during the last leg of the tour. he's bes vat to same his bottles quality time. >> they're open the run tour. they were holding hands and smiling. di enter know. >> they knew cameras were there. >> arnold swats naiinger celebrated 67 birthday yesterday, two days ago, 30th. >> wednesday? >> he thanked fans for birth day wishes and a video with a famous line. >> i want to thank you for birthday wish it's made me feel great i life all my fandz. hain

authorities are adjusting the crowd control after the 60,000 at the blake shelton concert. there's only one entrance causing one line and frustration. today there are multiple entrances, although everybody needs to go through security. >> the music plays on at musikfest in bethlehem. headliner jason durillo will be there tonight. last night the all american rejects were the headliners, musikfest runs through august 10. if you were there, you might have seen david murphy and his morning pal tamala edwards. david tweeted these pictures, he and tam were signing autographs before introducing the all american rejects. we have the full lineup whose there at 6abc.com. and find out who will be at the abc booth while you're at the show. >> you'll be there next sunday, right? >> yeah. >>> coming up next on sunday afternoon, a wedding on the water, ended up as a rescue. >> a record-breaking swimmer symptoms by the channel 6 studios with a challenge. >> storm tracker 6 live is nice and quiet, but we're expecting showers and thunderstorms to develop later on, we'll take a look at the ti

a couple of days before that, blake shelton also put on a free concert on the atlantic city beach. >>another showcase event in atlantic city is the air show. >> it attracts hundreds of thousands of people every year. live at 5:00 on the boardwalk is christine maddela. many agree that this is exactly the kind of event atlantic city needs to survive. >> reporter: right. the atlantic city air show is one of the biggest events of the year here in atlantic city. even though it wrapped up more than an hour ago, there's still a lot of people out here on the boardwalk. they are sticking around. >> i think it's great. >> reporter: this woman lives in philadelphia. >> easy place to come. we get here in about an hour travel time. once we are here, we put the bags in and we out enjoying ourselves. i love it. >> reporter: she takes her kids to atlantic city every year. this is the first time she's come to town for the air show. she wasn't the only one in town for the show. spectators packed the boardwalk and the beach. >> atlantic city is still alive, it's still a place i come every summer in spit

. >> next, blake shelton, i see that more businesses were broken into and loot the last night in ferguson, that is how you get answers, hash tag, real dumb,al sharpton pops up to fan racial claims, they should ask what he has done for jobs? >> when it comes to resources, a lot of these community want the resources, i'm not saying that government has to provide those jobs, but in a lot of these communities, their hands are tied, people are living paycheck to paycheck. charles: i want to tell you, i heard there was a big riot for a long time, we don't have computers in our coole school, then they gave out computer and prices came down, and a rap video with a hundred million views, i wonder if some kid that watched that video 4 million times could not have gone do a different site, and taught himself something that could have been market able in the real world? have absolutely. >> you can go. >> i'm not talking about how much they cost, i am talking about time, time is money, people squander that, then they say, what about me? what about you? you better take care of yourself, n nobody else w

. >> so, anyway, last night, blake shelton, about 70,000 people in atlantic sit. >> i amazing. >> how are there in the next four dade is. >> lady antebellum. >> tonight corn is playing, jason aldean will also be -- >> at the baseball park. >> okay. >> citizens bank park. >> citizens bank park? >> yep. >> and bill is he playing, sorry, i don't want to jump ahead, billy playing there saturday. >> so jason quite the star in the country world. >> massive. >> massive. >> so we had two great country stars, back-to-back, blake, 60,000. >> right. >> jason, 40,000. >> then florida georgia line after jason. >> opening up. >> opening up. >> not quite as big as jason. >> you're right. my bad. >> sold snout. >> got about 2,000 left. >> where do you get them? >> ticket masser. >> ticket master, okay. so, the next night, saturday night, oh, huge. >> billy joel? >> billy gem. >> last time we were here, out. >> let's play there little longer. >> billy joel? >> miley. >> shy going to have the wrecking ball with her, have you heard, sledge hammer? >> outdoors or indoors. >> outdoors at wells fargo, righ

your favorite guy in the whole world, don't listen, dean, she is in love with blake shelton. e just going? i want to hear it more. twice more. please. >> i love you. i love you. [ laughter ] >> toronto canada and we are doing a concert -- >> not that part. never mind. >> i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. >> he can talk and walk at the same time. here he is everybody, blake shelton himself. [ laughter ] >> and he has got a little something for his girl, don't you, blake? [ laughter ] >> good to see you. we know you have a concert. i guess he is staying. okay. >> i just want to say how happy i am right now. i'm ready for the next thing. >>> it's going to get worse. more of your friends wanted to wish you a happy birthday. what do you think they had to say? >> i don't know. >> happy birthday, hoda. sorry i can't be there in person but i have given a gif to kathie to give to you, wine and quite a lot of cash. >>> it's not so bad. >>> hello hoda. wanted to say happy 50th birthday. you don't look it or act it but i guess you are. >> i don't think you should

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and we have exclusive news from our friend blake shelton.ed "bringing back the sunshine." the water tower on the cover is from his hometown of ada, oklahoma. you can catch more from blake shelton on "the voice" when it kicks off here in september on nbc. >> carson in the middle of our fresh cooks live summer sizzle. we cannot wait. they're doing ribs. >> you notice they moved way across the plaza. he's got to bring some of those back. >> he better. if he wants to be let in the door. that's the price of admission. let's get a check of the weather. >> let's show you what's going on as far as your weekend is concerned. plenty of sunshine across the southwest. we're also looking at showers from the southeast along the mid-atlantic coast into the northeast. for sunday sunday! more wet weather along the east coast. west coast looking spectacular with lots of sunshine. temperatures still above average there on into that >>> happy friday. 8:32 is the time. i'm meteorologist christina loren. i want to show you a couple of things from this live pictur

have something for everyone, no wonder everyone's here, you can see, the concerts, we had, what, blake shelton was here for huge concert, lady antebellum. >> we had white any come in, does all of the events in atlantic city, blogs about it, but lady gaga has been here, kiss was here, a loft big bands, and i saw jerry seinfeld with mike jerrick. >> and when you driver down to atlantic silt you see the billboards highlighting the adsment the whole focus now to get people to realize there is more to atlantic city than just the casinos, that there are all of these act, the beach, that there are things to do, and they definitely have their work cut out for them. >> so you have got trump last to close in september, september 16th. the revel scheduled at this point to close september 10th just week before, you know, other ex ex ex, of this that they're trying to do something other than just the game that they have the air show there is week, they have the concerts, as we mentioned, but one of the critisisms of revel was that it was a very high end place. where they were really drawing from casino of

. >> blake shelton.like -- you may not agree. i think of blake shelton and vince vaughn, like sort of big men who are all boy and not -- >> got just the right amount of dirt on them. to quote a friend. >> some other people who made it, jake owen made the list under their -- >> he's adorable. >> yeah. >> and dierks bentley. >> love him. >> florida georgia line. what i love about the "us weekly" thing, you read it and here's the pages and then go here and there happens to be a rip out poster like tiger beat. isn't that crazy? >> that's fun. >> i know which side you're going to use. we love keith urban. a poster you can hang up over your bed or ceiling. >> you and blake, you can look up at him. hey. >> look at this one. this is your dream guy. >> i think tim mcgraw is so sexy. >> brad paisley. >> one of my first interviews ever when i was on another network, a gazillion years with his father it tug mcgraw. >> you're kidding. >> yeah. he was a great baseball player and a sweet man. >> wow. >> you didn't know

we had incredible entertainment, 80,000 people on the beach watching blake shelton a week ago.eith urban at the borgata. we have huge entertainment. our entertainment schedule can stack up against any city in the country. people don't give us credit for it, though. that's our fault we got to work that out better. >> you feed a branding guy. leave your phone out. i got some ideas, you know, from branding. i don't expect anything, upgrades, a suite or any of that stuff. tom, thank you. >> come down, see us any time, joe. >> appreciate it. thank you. i got the fly. >> you will spill a couple water every day. >> he was trying to kill the fly. >> he killed it. >> did he spill water yesterday? >> there was smoke. it was slick. we're trying to have a water cup challenge, for you, that's drinking. >> it was a middle eastern splash. >> do you have a drinking problem? >> like the guy on the airplane. >> it happened again. >> well, i was going after the fly. >> i think we have video of that fly. >> did you get the ply? >> i can't get remnant of it. >> pulverized it. the water spilled ever

blake shelton, even bigger dream teacher. but who would be the best teacher?backup -- oh, that hoda -- but i'm the only one we've got. >> my only issue with singing backup is i don't know how to do it. >> don't overdo it. don't sing at full -- >> first of all, teach how to sing backup. ♪ been working, so hard >> no, that's him. >> do we sing the same part he does? ♪ cut loose, foot loose try to sing something different. a third higher or lower than he does. hoda, you don't go where i go. you stay on it. me. me. ♪ foot loose." >> kenny, i want to apologize in advance. can we do real quick choreography? when in doubt just shake your you know what. >> kenny log begins -- loggins. you know what's about to happen. are you ready? >> i'm scared. >> we're sorry. i'm sorry. >> i've always wanted to mentor on "american idol." this is my chance. >> as close as you're going to get, right? >> an american classic will never be the same after this. >> this is that moment. >> we know you're a good sport. how's it been being out there with your own music? >> absolutely. it's s