sounds you're used to hearing on the wildwood board walk might get drowned out. ♪ when country star, tim mcgrawts the sand to celebrate the nation's independence. >> it's amazing. i can't wait. >> reporter: today, promoters revealed mcgraw is the headliner of a big concert july 4. >> he is going to rock the beach. >> reporter: on the final evening of a four-day celebrate america festival on the city's famously wide beach. >> it's so big there's just so much room. it's -- it's really just out of this world. >> reporter: the festival includes a concert by the phillie pops on july 2, and they expect to sell at least 40,000 tickets to the mcgraw show, and owners say it's an added boost to the summer's busiest weekends. >> it's going to be exciting activity, and we're very excited for it. >> we'll try to set up some shuttles. try to set up maybe offsite parking with shuttles bringing them in. >> reporter: organizers say the celebration honors veterans with 10% of profits given to local veterans' organizations including those responsible for maintaining the wildwood's vietnam memorial wall. >> we wer

. ♪ >> tim mcgraw will be the headliner for the july 4th concert down the shore.be the final event of celebrate america festival on the beach between mariners landing and adventure piers. >> there's so much room. it's out of this world. >> it's a shot in the arm for the city of wildwood and cape may county. >> the festival also includes a concert by the philly pops on july 2nd. tickets to see tim mcgraw good on sale friday afternoon. 10% of profits will be given to local veteran organizations. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> 4:27. a little bit of a breeze and lots of clouds. 52 degrees. we're watching some showers to the west but it looks like they'll be avoiding us for most of the day. got your neighborhood forecast just ahead. jessica boyington is in the first alert traffic center watching the roads on a wednesday morning. what's happening out there? >> bill, we're watching a lot of ongoing construction right now. it's the vine street expressway right around 24th street. we are closed east and westbound in between the schuylkill and broad. i'll have

organizers expect to sell at least 40,000 tickets to the tim mcgraw show.ness owners say it will be an added bonus to one of the summer's busiest weekends. >> boosts business as a whole. the hotels profit from it, local stores profit from it. >> reporter: organizers say the concert honors u.s. veterans and 10% of organizations are given profit, including the vietnam memorial wall. >> it's a half size replica of the one in washington. it's not free. there's a lot to pay for. this is a big support and helps us out for the year. >> reporter: tickets for the concert go on sale starting tomorrow. for a spot on wildwood's normally free beaches, you'll have to shell out between $25-$150. ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. >>> if you don't want to go to the shore for the holiday weekend, there's another option. the welcome america festival is fun for the family too. >> nbc 10 and comcast nbc universal are the new home for the nation's biggest birthday party. a live look right here. that parkway will be host to the big july 4th concert and fireworks, and you you can watch

hill's husband is making a stop in the city of philadelphia we're talking about none other than tim mcgraw. >> ♪ >> ohio, get ticket on wednesday. producers of the president decided to extend presale hours so from 10:00 until noon today. get your hands on discounted tickets to do that show. >>> celebrate america weekend is going down, july 1st to the third in wildwood, the weekend will feature the beach, festival, philly pops solute series, battle of the bands and ending with that tim mcgraw concert. >> sound like a fun weekend to me. >>> woman wrestled to the ground, at a local park but she fights back, how her and the attacker both managed to get away. >> or how she managed to get away. >>> a local school hit by tragedy just weeks after a young girl is beaten to death at howard high school. another teen dies in the shooting. plans in place to help grieving classmates. >>> also, a a tack in a local park has resident on high alert how a woman for the back when she was brought to the ground. >>> search for clues continues as terrorism, to blame? the latest on the aviation mystery. >>> it is

. >>> country music superstar tim mcgraw will perform on the beach in wildwood on the fourth of july. >> yes. >> ♪ the concert will take place on the beach between morey's pier, mariners landing and adventure peer. hunter heyes and matthew rose will open for mcgraw. general admission ticket are set to go on presale tomorrow. wildwood is hoping to replicate success of the 2012 kenney chessany beach concert he drew a huge crowd, thousands more watched on line. that concert was sponsored by american express. >>> don bell has your sports, my hand are sweating, i'm ready to they're lottery thing tonight. i'm ready. >> you are fired up i'm fired up. >> we are excited about this. this could change everything. >> yes, it could. >> fourteen nba cities glued to the tv in less than two hours nba draft lottery takes place in midtown manhattan. sixers have best chance of winning the number one overall pick but last time that happened, they drafted, hall of famer allen iverson. and speaking of the answer, his former teammates dikembe new tum bow tweeted this, congratulations to the sixers for grabb

. >> general admission tickets are set to go on presale for tim mcgraw's july 4th beach concert in wildwood. show place between morey's pier a and mariners landing. hunter heyes and maggie rose will open for mcgraw. >>> coming up we will get another check of weather and traffic. >> katie is tracking a a few moving showers, the best days for come, she will be back with our forecast when >>> a stubborn system trying to make its retreat still leaving behind clouds in our area this morning and you possibly could see a quick shower. again, nothing is looking like a wash out here at all today and i think you'll getaway without the umbrella but there is activity and frankly this looks like it will be worse then it will be over our area what we have is decent study pockets of rain through southwestern, south central pennsylvania and that shut fizzle as it continues to rotate away, but, that said, we're still allowing for a shower here and there this morning. the best chance would be northwest of philadelphia and, rain an amount not much, at most even in spotty locations up to a tenth of a inch at w

well, wildwood officials announced tim mcgraw will perform on the beach in the fourth of july, he willp up the four day long music and food festival on the wildwood boardwalk. mcgraw's concert will be held on the beach between mariners landing and adventure pier. resale tickets go on sale at noon today, everything else can buy them starting friday. >>> minnesota couple is taking their love of cost co to a whole new level. you have to see to it believe it. they love costco so much, they decided, to take their engagement pictures, at the store, because, you know, nothing, says romance, like holding a a huge packet of raw meat, or a 4-dollar chicken. after the couple posted on line they became a huge hit and that is why i go to cost co. too bad they cannot register for wedding gifts at cost co. >> i wand fur they met there, people pick each other up for super markets i heard odd pick up lines. >>> well, coming up next. >> have have you. >> yes. >> we have three things you need to know. >> we will be right back. kind of like this look. i'm calling it the "name your price tool" phase. whate

tim mcgraw will perform on the beach in wildwood on the fourth of july.ill take place between morey's peer, mariner's landing and adventure peer. general admission tickets are set to go on pre sale tomorrow. >>> with summer right around the corner you're sure so to see more road construction popping up but there's one stretch of highway that seems to always be a work zone does we're talking upstate 95 both directions between center city and the northeast. is the construction there he have going to end? >> question nicole brewer is here with more on the timeline. this is something i've heard many people ask before. >> ask, explain about et cetera ukee and jess. a lot of folks are sick of seeing the orange cones and everything that comes with it. but it was michelle d who wrote in to ask when will the i-95 construction between vine street and cottman of a finally be completed? it's a good question, michelle. i'm just not sure you'll like the answer. ♪ >> lanes of 95 are in a construction zone. >> you drive on 95. what's the experience like. >> bad. >> the c

tim mcgraw will perform on the beach in wildwood on the fourth of july. will take place between morey's peer, mariner's landing and adventure peer. general admission tickets are set to go on pre sale tomorrow. >>> with summer right around the corner you're sure so to see more road construction popping up but there's one stretch of highway that seems to always be a work zone does we're talking upstate 95 both directions between center city and the northeast. is the construction there he have going to end? >> question nicole brewer is here with more on the timeline. this is something i've heard many people ask before. >> ask, explain about et cetera ukee and jess. a lot of folks are sick of seeing the orange cones and everything that comes with it. but it was michelle d who wrote in to ask when will the i-95 construction between vine street and cottman of a finally be completed? it's a good question, michelle. i'm just not sure you'll like the answer. ♪ >> lanes of 95 are in a construction zone. >> you drive on 95. what's the experience like. >> bad. >> the

tim mcgraw is coming to the wildwoods for a huge beach concert on the fourth of. it is part of wildwoods celebrate america weekend. fireworks will follow the concert. a portion of money raised by the event will go toward help veterans. tickets are now going on sale. of course, son of tug mcgraw, the local phillies pitcher. >> glenn "hurricane" schwartz here now with a look at the afternoon weather. looks gloomy. and cloudy. >> but the clouds are not all that low. the lower portion of the atmosphere is fairly dry. there's rain up there trying to fall down, but it's evaporating before it hits the grown, at least from philadelphia northward. as we go to delaware and south jersey, is reaching the ground. as it continues, more and more of the atmosphere is going to be saturated. so that's why we generally have the raindrop during the day today. tomorrow, we're gradually drying out as we go through the day. thursday and friday look beautiful. and then as we go into the weekend, that's a different story. i don't really see very nice weather. as a matter of fact, we could

flr ♪ >>> tim mcgraw helping celebrate america's independence on the sand in wildwood.romoters revealed they will headline the july 4th concert. organizers expect to sell 40,000 tickets to the show on the beach. >> a shot in the arm for the city of wildwood. it's a shot in the arm for the cape may county. >> tickets on sale tomorrow. you can expect to shell out anywhere from $25-150. >>> if you don't want to go to the shore for the holiday week, the wawa welcome america festival is fun for the family. >> that's right. we are the new home for the nation's biggest birthday party. let's look outside. this is the ben franklin parkway. it will be host to the big july 4th concert and fireworks. you can watch it all live on nbc 10, telmundo 62 or iphone and other device. look for stories and event schedules on the app and nbc10.com. >>> all right, also happening tonight, bringing booze to the board walk. >> a moneymaker or mess waiting to happen? new details on the proposal and we asked locals what they think. >>> plus, sex in a cemetery. how police say this substitute teacher

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presale is today for general admission tickets to tim mcgraw's july 4th beach concert in wildwood.he show takes place between morey's pier and mariners landing and adventure pier. hunter heyes and maggie rose will open up for mcgraw. >>> still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning a commuter night the nair after a fight break out beneath a train tracks in new york city. we will show what you started the blaze. >>> and sixers fans went wild when the team got the number one pick in the nba draft lottery, pat gallen is talking to the sixers ceo scott o'neill live in our studios, up next. >>> plus this. >> this little boy was diagnosed with cancer, volunteers gave his family a little breathing room, what they do and how you can help as well in this weeks story of brothe pat toomey started his career as an investment banker. ♪ then, a wall street wheeler-dealer overseeing stock trades in new york, london and tokyo. next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. in the senate, it's no surprise toomey's been siding with wall street. voting to allow banks to cont

. >>> well, country superstar tim mcgraw will perform on the beach in wildwood on the fourth of july. >> ♪ >> the cobbs earth will take place on the beach between morey's pier, mariners landing and adventure pier. the hunter heyes and maggie rose will open for mcgraw. general admission ticket are set to go on presale tomorrow. >>> wildwood is hoping to replicate success of the 2012 kenney chessany beach concert he drew a huge crowd for a free show and thousands more watched the on the internet. that concert was sponsored by american express. >>> michigan woman went into labor at a garth brooks conser. jacob and emily biker were enjoying their last nights baby free and they had a c-section scheduled for monday. so on at day night they went to the cons inert grand rapid. well, by the time garth brooks finish his final encore around 2:00 a a.m., their son was ready to make his entrance. >> we were standing up, you know, singing, getting in to it and stuff. there were a couple times where she was having some contractions. >> just before 5:30 a.m. they welcomed jackson to the world. he wei

there will be plenty of fire works at new jersey shore this independent day, country superstar, tim mcgrawhe fourth of july in the beach in wildwood as part of the wildwood celebrate america weekend. presale is today for general admission tickets, she takes place between morey's pier mariners landing and adventure pier. hunter heyes and maggie rose will be opening acts. the lets turn over to katie for a look at the forecast. >> good line up. yes, we are still tracking gray skies right now, jim and eventually we will brighten up for some sunshine. by tomorrow especially but for now you can see look at this, it is all fizzling this pocket of showers in central pennsylvania, it is just residual moisture north western suburbs most noteably getting in on that right now. damper depending where you travels will take you but up and down i-95 it is still dry, mid 50's being reported. we will probably tack another 10 degrees on to that daytime high simply because we just don't have sunshine to offer up here today. by tomorrow though high pressure starting to regain that control so we will see partly

you mentioned the other two artists but you say tim mcgraw was the greatest influence. in what way? ot of people's lives. tim has been around, and he has been around my whole life and is still doing it. to stay relevant that long is impressive. and he's become a good friend. and of course as one of my idols. not to call him -- to call him a friend is weird. >> from idols to crushes and this involves a country music legend. you secretly had kind of a crush on what woman in country music? >> i don't think it's a secret. it's reba mcentire. >> he's the queen. why reba? >> she's -- you said it. she is the queen. i grew up loving reba. she gets better with age. she looks better as she ages, like a fine wine that reba. >> she's so much fun. we have to ask you, you have the blue eyes and dimples. do you have a girlfriend? >> i don't. >> there have been rumors about kelly osbourne. >> there have been rumors. >> what's one that? >> i guess if i take a selfie, the last two times i have taken a selfie with a female and put it on line, all of a sudden the next day we're dating. >> would anyone l