Taylor Swift in Toronto: LIVE updates from outside the Rogers Centre [Video]

Taylor Swift is in Toronto to perform her first of six sold-out shows at the Rogers Centre tonight.

The highly anticipated show gets underway at 6:45 p.m. with crowds of excited ‘Swifties’  already making their way inside the Rogers Centre. 

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Follow along as CTV News Toronto provides LIVE updates throughout the day:

6:15 p.m.

Ottawa’s Jack Laidlaw was recently diagnosed with hereditary spastic paraplegia type 4,a rare genetic disease.

“What it means is the neurons that connect the brain to his lower body are slowly deteriorating and he’s slowly becoming paralyzed,” his father explained.

After his diagnosis and speaking with researchers in the U.S., the family decided to raise $3 million in an effort to get a cure for Jack. In that fundraiser, Taylor Swift tickets were donated and sold for $20,000 to the highest bidder, but an anonymous donor matched that donation.

“The lady that bought the tickets donated the tickets …