Nearly 100 record highs set to fall this weekend in Northeast

PHILADELPHIA - A warm holiday weekend leading into Memorial Day left Philadelphia riddled with numerous violent incidents, including at least 12 fatalities that pushed the City of Brotherly Love to more than 200 homicides before summer. >> Philadelphia gun violence resourcesThe bloodshed began early Saturday morning in Mill Creek, as a 30-year-old man was found with multiple gunshot wounds. He died a short time later at the hospital.Several hours later, one man was shot and killed while two women were injured in a shooting in East Germantown.Early Saturday evening, police were called to a double shooting in Kensington that killed one man and injured a 25-year-old woman.Philadelphia police investigate a double shooting in Kensington that killed one man and injured a woman.

Philadelphia police say a father and his nine-year-old son were shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in Wissinoming. PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia’s Memorial Day weekend was disrupted by gun violence across the city, leaving eight people dead, including a nine-year-old boy and injuring at least 12 people, including two teenagers and a four-year-old.The bloodshed began early Saturday morning in Mill Creek, as a 30-year-old man was found with multiple gunshot wounds.

OCEAN CITY, N.J. - The Memorial Day weekend saw many head to the shore. Beaches were packed, from Ocean City down to Cape May as well as the Delaware beaches.Seagulls in flight, sunny skies, a cool ocean breeze presented a picture-perfect Jersey shore day."It’s very crowded, but it’s a beautiful weekend and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else," Alisa Rutherford stated.The weather cooperating big time in Ocean City, bringing crowds and tourist dollars."It’s been very busy today.

Philadelphia police investigate a double shooting in Kensington that killed one man and injured a woman. PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia’s Memorial Day weekend was disrupted by gun violence across the city, leaving four people dead and 10 people injured, including two teenagers and a four-year-old.The bloodshed began early Saturday morning in Mill Creek, as a 30-year-old man was found with multiple gunshot wounds.

Nine Inch Nails will headline Boston Calling for a second night after The Strokes were forced to pull out due to a member of their camp testing positive for coronavirus.In a statement posted to Instagram this morning (May 28), The Strokes announced their set at Boston Calling tonight (May 28) and their show in support of congressional candidate Kina Collins on Monday (May 30) would be affected.Trent Reznor and co. performed a 21-song set at the Boston festival last night (May 27), appearing in place of Foo Fighters following the death of their drummer, Taylor Hawkins.“We’re very sorry for the conditions that led to us being here.

Jupiter (centre left) and Mars (centre left below) appear next to each other in the sky, above Ely in Cambridgeshire. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images) Memorial Day weekend may unofficially kick off the start of summer, and this holiday weekend brings an extra special treat to the night skies. Mars and Jupiter are going to draw incredibly close in the predawn sky on the nights of May 27-30. NASA says the two planets will appear 20 degrees or so above the horizon in the eastern-southeastern sky.

Travelers begin their Memorial Day holiday getaway at the Los Angeles International Airport on May 27, 2022. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) NEW YORK (AP) - Airline travelers are not only facing sticker shock this Memorial Day weekend, the kickoff to the summer travel season.

TRENTON, N.J. - Gas prices have halted their sharp rise just in time for the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend, and analysts say the record-high prices aren’t expected to keep travelers from taking to the road. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey on Friday was $4.75, down two cents from last week. Drivers were paying $3.05 a gallon on average a year ago at this time. The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $4.59, unchanged from last week. Drivers were paying $3.04 a gallon on average a year ago at this time.Advertisement

PHILADELPHIA - The storms are gone, making way for a sunny and beautiful Memorial Day weekend.Travelers fought the rainy weather on their way down the shore Friday night. Although some pockets of drizzle are still expected early Saturday, the sun is set to peak through later today and stay the rest of the weekend.Down the shore, highs are set to hit 77 on Saturday, 73 on Sunday and 76 on Monday to round out the holiday weekend.Download the FOX 29 Weather Authority App to get the latest weather updatesThose staying home in Philadelphia will experience some high temperatures: 81 on Saturday and 85 on Sunday.

PHILADELPHIA - Afternoon storms didn't stop flocks of beachgoers from braving nasty weather conditions and traffic to get a jump start on Memorial Day Weekend.A cluster of strong storms barreled over parts of the Delaware Valley on Friday, brining heavy rain and severe weather warnings. The National Weather Service issued brief tornado warnings for a pair of New Jersey counties during rush hour. The storms couldn't have come at a worse time for vacationers eager to spend the long weekend enjoying the New Jersey shore.

LOS ANGELES - Gas prices are so high that demand for fuel during peak driving season this summer is expected to slump, according to experts.According to data by the Energy Information Administration compiled by Bloomberg, demand for gas has hit its lowest level during this time since 2013, excluding the impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, high gas prices have brought demand down by 5%.Gas prices have been hitting fresh records for the past 11 consecutive days amid the energy supply crunch in the U.S., according to the American Automobile Association (AAA), which noted that the stretch of record-high prices as the pump is "unprecedented."Speaking with Fox News Digital, Andrew Gross, the national spokesman for AAA Inc. revealed that drivers should expect elevated prices throughout the summer, especially if the war in Ukraine rages on.The national average for a gallon of gas was $4.59 last week, a slight increase from the day before and a new record high.Thursday’s record was 16 cents higher than the week before, nearly 50 cents higher than the month before and $1.55 more compared to the same time last year.All 50 states had a national retail price over $4 a gallon on Thursday, according to AAA, with Oklahoma offering the cheapest gas at $4.03 a gallon and California offering the most expensive gas with an average of $6.06.

POTTSTOWN, Pa. - There are new details in the deadly Pottstown explosion. Five people are dead, while two are injured, in the Montgomery County community.From the air, the site of the explosion looks like a war zone, with rubble twisted and strewn for yards.Tanya Johnson lives a few doors away. "I hear a big bang, which I thought was thunder and I heard another bang and all the glasses in the house started to shake," she said.That was just after 8 Thursday night, when emergency crews arrived at the corner of Hale Street and Butler Avenue.

Peterborough police are warning residents to be very wary of cryptocurrency investment deals after a resident recently lost $100,000 in a scam.

NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. - Erosion from an early May storm is keeping some beaches in North Wildwood closed on the eve of the unofficial start of summer. FOX 29's Shaynah Ferreira visited North Wildwood Friday morning as crews continued working onshore. North Wildwood Mayor Patrick Rosenello says out of the town's 30 guarded beaches, about eight or nine of them will not be ready to open Memorial Day weekend. Rosenello also says crews are about two weeks behind schedule due to the nor'easter that moved through the area on Mother's Day. He is also urging people who see sand piles to stay away from them because they could be unstable. Areas between 10th Street and 19th Street have been impacted by the delays, but the mayor recommends visitors go to beaches north or south of those affected areas. Rosenello says North Wildwood is looking forward to summer and the community is ready to welcome visitors back for sand and fun.Advertisement"This is definitely the first normal summer season since 2019," he said.

COVID-19 on Friday.The number of hospitalizations stood at 1,288, a net decrease of 27. In the last day, 61 patients were admitted and 88 were discharged.There were 36 people with the disease in intensive care, a drop of seven.The province registered 590 new infections of the novel coronavirus based on PCR testing, which is only accessible to certain groups.The health department says 11,733 PCR tests were given at screening sites Wednesday, the latest day for which that data is provided.The update shows the results of 191 rapid tests were declared by Quebecers on the province’s online portal.

Maharashtra on Friday reported 536 new COVID infections, the highest number of cases reported in nearly 2 months. And with this, the total tally went up to 77,34,439, while the active tally is at 2568, the state health bulletin said. 

Katie Price has revealed she has completed her community service after her car crash last year, and enjoyed it so much she has vowed to keep volunteering. The former glamour model, 44, had been ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work after avoiding jail when she crashed her car last September while under the influence of alcohol and already banned from driving. Katie was made to stay at The Priory and then do community service at Horsham Matters, a Christian charity that provides essential services to people in need.The mother-of-five revealed that she would be continuing her work with the charity, writing on Instagram: ‘So happy I’ve completed my 100 hours community service @horshammatters_.‘What a fantastic place been so good to be treated as a real person not a product not judged and they met the real person I am not what I’m betrayed (sic) to be!’She added: ‘I love it that much my mental health has benefited to. I am now officially going to be a volunteer and continue weekly helping the community and being part of a fantastic team.

LOS ANGELES - Ellen DeGeneres brought her nearly two-decade daytime talk show to an end Thursday with a celebrity lovefest and a forceful assertion of her achievement as a gay woman daring to be herself.DeGeneres and guests Jennifer Aniston, Billie Eilish and Pink shared memories and affection as "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" concluded its Emmy-winning, 3,200-plus episode run that began in September 2003."Twenty years ago, when we were trying to sell the show, no one thought that this would work. Not because it was a different kind of show, but because I was different," DeGeneres said of the pushback from TV stations.When the syndicated show went on the air, she was prevented from saying the word "gay" or even the pronoun "we," DeGeneres said, since the latter would imply she had a partner.

Maharashtra since 5 March when the state had witnessed 535 cases. 

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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Pennsylvania resident caught a record carp while fishing from the bank of Summersville Lake in West Virginia, regulators said.Ayden Minick of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, caught and released the carp on May 7, the Division of Natural Resources said in a news release. It measured by a DNR fisheries biologist at 41.2 inches (104.6 centimeters) long, breaking the record of 41 inches (104.1 centimeters) caught in 1988 by Charles Cook at Stonecoal Lake.The carp weighed 45 pounds (20.4 kilograms), which was just shy of the record of 47 pounds set in 1998 in a Preston County farm pond.Advertisement

UPPER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP, Pa. - An emergency shipment of baby formula is expected to arrive in Pennsylvania on Wednesday. According to Nestle, the shipment is being sent to a distribution center in Upper Macungie Township in Lehigh County. The products will then be sent out to hospitals and stores nationwide to help combat the shortage. RELATED HEADLINESNestle says it has significantly ramped up production. The shortage was fueled by supply disruptions coupled with a shutdown at the Abbott Nutrition plant in Michigan in February after four babies suffered bacterial infections from the formula produced by the facility. President Joe Biden has directed the FDA to import more formula to help struggling families across the country. A U.S. Air Force plane has already transported about 78,000 pounds of baby formula from Europe in an effort called Operation Fly Formula. AdvertisementINDIANAPOLIS, IN - MAY 22: Pallets of formula is seen near a U.S.

Bahamas has officially been released in a new report.According to the newspaper Nassau Guardian, the American tourists died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Multiple Bahamian outlets have corroborated this claim.The deaths occurred at the Sandals Emerald Bay resort on the Bahamas’ Great Exuma island on May 6. Prince William, Kate embark on Caribbean tour with monarchy ties under scrutiny Samples from the three victims were taken and sent to a lab in Philadelphia for analysis earlier this month.Michael Philips, 68, and Robbie Philips, 65, were both found dead in one room.

PHILADELPHIA - A soldier was taken to his final resting place in Pennsylvania 78 years after he was killed in World War II.Army Pvt. Walter G.

In closely watched developments, especially among parents and healthcare providers, Pfizer and BioNTech today announced strong efficacy for a three-dose regimen of the child-sized dose of their mRNA vaccine in kids ages 6 months to 4 years old.

Health Ministry data. The total active cases stood at 14,832 on Monday and the daily positivity rate was at 0.69%, as per the Health Ministry data.

India on Sunday logged 2,226 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,31,36,371, while the active cases dipped to 14,955, according to the Union Health Ministry data .

baby formula flights will arrive in Indiana this weekend. The White House said Friday that the U.S. Air Force planes will depart Germany's Ramstein Air Base carrying 132 pallets of Nestlé Health Science Alfamino Infant and Alfamino Junior formula.An additional 114 pallets of Gerber Good Start Extensive HA formula are expected to arrive over the new few days. ABBOTT SAYS IT WILL BE AT LEAST TWO MONTHS BEFORE BABY FORMULA FROM SHUTTERED PLANT HITS SHELVESIn total, approximately 1.5 million 8-ounce bottles of the three hypoallergenic baby formulas will arrive.Shelves are pictured empty in Chelsea, Massachusetts on May 20, 2022.

PHILADELPHIA - It's starting to feel like summer this weekend!Temperatures are set to soar Saturday with a record-breaking 96 degrees. Heat and humidity will make that warm weather feel even warmer at 100 degrees.A heat advisory will go into effect at 11 a.m.

Health Ministry has flagged concerns regarding the considerably slow pace of Covid-19 vaccination drive across states and union territories, and urged them to significantly expedite the pace towards full vaccination coverage by saturating all eligible beneficiaries.

An aerial view taken on April 12, 2022, shows the city of Mariupol, during Russia's military invasion launched on Ukraine. (Credit: ANDREY BORODULIN/AFP via Getty Images) POKROVSK, Ukraine - Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol on Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine, after a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of the strategic port city to a smoking ruin, with over 20,000 civilians feared dead.Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin the "complete liberation" of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol — the last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance — and the city as a whole, spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.There was no immediate confirmation from Ukraine.Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti quoted the ministry as saying a total of 2,439 Ukrainian fighters who had been holed up at the steelworks had surrendered since Monday, including over 500 on Friday.As they surrendered, the troops were taken prisoner by the Russians, and at least some were taken to a former penal colony.

cost of energy rising, cooling down the house in the midst of the sweltering summer heat is going to cost more than usual. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated that on average there will be an increase of 3.9% in the price of electricity for U.S.

Gas prices have been hitting fresh records for the past 11 consecutive days amid the energy supply crunch in the U.S., according to the American Automobile Association (AAA), which noted that the stretch of record-high prices as the pump is "unprecedented."Speaking with Fox News Digital, Andrew Gross, the national spokesman for AAA Inc. revealed that drivers should expect elevated prices throughout the summer, especially if the war in Ukraine rages on. The national average for a gallon of gas was $4.59 on Friday, a slight increase from the day before and a new record high.Thursday’s record was 16 cents higher than the week before, nearly 50 cents higher than the month before and $1.55 more compared to the same time last year. All 50 states had a national retail price over $4 a gallon on Thursday, according to AAA, with Oklahoma offering the cheapest gas at $4.03 a gallon and California offering the most expensive gas with an average of $6.06.Tighter supply and increased demand have pushed gas prices higher, according to the association."Demand is up," Gross told Fox News Digital as he explained what is contributing to the elevated prices."Typically this time of year we are in a little bit of a lull.

Ulrika Jonsson has confessed she is "nearing" the time for a hip replacement. The former Gladiators host, 54, admitted the news was difficult to take in because she saw it as a sign her body is "falling apart."Speaking to Mail Online, she said: "I've got a couple of friends who have had hip replacements and they're a bit older than me and I just thought that's not really something I want to be contemplating already."Ulrika admitted that she is a very active person and spends a lot of her time gardening or walking, so the news of her hip made her panic."For me it was a bit of fear and panic because you just think it's not really something you can halt.

A wave of buyer’s remorse is taking shape in several heated real estate markets, after housing prices started dropping and the number of sales slowed over the last two months.