The Fourth of July is starting mostly sunny and warm in metro Denver, but a few fireworks in the form of thunder storms are expected to develop in the afternoon.

Thursday will be another hot day across the Denver metro area and Eastern Colorado with afternoon highs climbing into the 90s. Highs in the mountains will drop a couple of degrees as compared to Wednesday,

Residents in parts of the U.S. as far flung as New Jersey and Texas were contending with the devastating effects of heavy rain and thunderstorms that swept through their communities Thursday night.The storms are being blamed for at least three deaths in central New Jersey,

Some residents in the Northeast are spending their July Fourth holiday cleaning up from strong thunderstorms that swept through the region

Severe weather moved through central New Jersey, where thunderstorms were blamed for at least three deaths. Among them were two men in Plainfield who died after a tree fell onto their vehicle, according to a city Facebook post.