Look around, youll see the signs. Driving through here, i was noticing the banners and setting things up and all of the Different Things that are happening. Reporter heather is planning to go. Im really looking forward to actually watching my moms reaction and my aunts reaction. Reporter what will happen when she and others pull out cell phones to record the magic moment . Expect to be able to use phones to capture the memories that they need to capture and share and to use their phones as they would want to. Reporter we shouldnt see any slowdown . I shouldnt be trying to send and trying to send . Our goal to make sure people can use phones the way they want to use phones. Reporter carriers have added capacity along the parkway with 37 new nodes connected to a hub by underground fiber. Is my cell phone going to work . Right. Thats our goal. Reporter to get it to work . Yes. Reporter still, some unknowns. Well have to see. Well be winging it. Reporter but the moment to so many are planning for. Well talk about the time pope francis came to visit for generations to come. Take collective breath and savor the moment. Reporter one big unknown, how many people this cell phone system can handle. I asked the company and two carriers, some saying it just isnt broken down like that. Lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. A big test. Thank you. Use the nbc 10 news app to navigate the papal weekend, road closures, whats open, whats closed, see the parkway from the popes perspective. New information on the murder of a temple graduate student found shot to death in his car last month. Today New Castle County charged rauf with firstdegree murd murder. The victim graduated this year, found inside his car in a parking lot near his home. He had been shot several times in the chest. At the time, police discovered a substantial amount marijuana inside the car. We dont say a considerable about when talking about a little bit. Were talking about a lot. They also recovered a gun that matches one used in the crime. A Philadelphia Schoolyard became a crime scene. A woman attacked there and now parents are worried about their childrens safety. That attack happened at John Marshall elementary in frankf d frankford. Monique braxton has the story. Devastating and scary. Reporter thats how parents elementary reacted at they passed police and crime scene tape. Early this morning a woman told them she was pistol whipped. Her purse taken during an apparent attempted sexual assault. Our camera was rolling when police blocked Public Access to the schoolyard, a crime scene. Nervous, on edge. I didnt know whether to bring my child or to keep her at home. Reporter Philadelphia School district officials say, they called parents regarding an incident at 7 00. Some parents are upset they didnt receive a call. We saw children clinging to each other and their parents as they approached classes. Kids walking by themselves. Theyre looking at cops and cameras, whats going on, nobodys theyim nothing. Little kids might be scared trying to figure out whats happening. Reporter you think school should have been delayed . Should have been delayed ja but the district spokesperson said school will resume as planned. We asked about the gate is never secure. I dont have any information whether or not there have been incidents in the past whether the gate is closed or open. Ill be picking my girl up and dropping her off every day until whoever it was is caught. Reporter we asked one student what her parents told her to do if she faces frightening circumstances. Scream and run. Reporter the alleged crime occurred under the watchful eye of this surveillance camera. Detectives are reviewing videotape, speaking to victim with hopes of having a composite sketch to be released to the public. Monique braxton, nbc 10 news. Now first alert weather. What a fantastic day to browse the Farmers Market in rodney square. Sunny, warm in wilmington. You can see plenty of people out there enjoying the day. And some are turning on the ac again, after a stretch of cooler days. Nbc 10 first alert meteorology sheena parveen. Warmer today than it was yesterday. Yesterday was warmer than the day before that. All in the 80s how to except pocono. 85 in philadelphia 86 in allen town. 84 redding. Noticeable warmth compared to the beginning of the week. Monday, 77 degrees for a high temperature. Average is actually 78 now. Yesterday we were warmer in about the mid to low 80s. 8 about the high. Today so far, weve already got tonight 87 degrees. Now tomorrow, friday, staying in the mid80s. This stretch of weather is going to continue and end out the week for us. As we go into the weekend we have changed in the forecast. Also talking about the eagles opener sunday against the cowboys and we have dropping temperatures in time for the game. Coming up, well show you this, the forecast, and how much coolter will be getting into next week. The Philadelphia City controller wants major changes at department of licenses and inspections. Today, he released a report on the latest investigation into lni. Lapsed monitoring of overtime, uncertified inspectors and issues with dangerous and Unsafe Properties not being addressed. The nbc 10 investigators first told you about properties that remain standing for years, even after lni declared them dangerous. Those buildings need to come down and recommend mayor nutter remove williams. The mayor says thats not going to happen. Hes the captain of the ship. Its his job to find a way to get it done, especially when hes had notice over two years. Instead of getting it done, hes been interested in making it appear things are better but review and resisting and rejecting efforts to improve it. Were not going to get distracted by that nonsense or ego or Narcissistic Personality Disorder that seems to compel need for constant public attention. Williams will not resign as commissioner. Back in session for the first time in two months, Pennsylvania Senate is back in harrisburg to try to work on ending the budget stalemate. Pennsylvanias been operating without a budget since july. Were keeping track, more than 77 days. Senators say Governor Wolf is rejecting the monthold offer to boost school aid. In return the republicans want wolf to end his support to end traditional benefit in the states major public pension systems. The rejection sets back budget negotiations, house action expected next week. Right now the governments updating the governor stalemate. A live look from inside his briefing. Monitoring the governors comments. Well update you on nbc 10 news at 5 00. We have to recognize new jerseys battle to legalize Sports Betting is back into the courtroom. Two judges have removed themselves from the case. This comes one day after the four major sports leagues and the ncaa were ordered to respond to new jerseys request to have that case reheard. According to legal experts developments could be a soon the case could head back to court. Currently nevada the only state that allows betting on individual games at casinos and racetracks. Homeowners affected by Superstorm Sandy have extra time to have claims reviewed. Officials are giving victims a chance to have the claims given a second look. This comes after accusations of widespread underpayments. Femas giving victims an extra 30 days to have claims reviewed. More than 20,000 homeowners have asked for these reviews. The agency says 459 claims worth more than 7 million have been approved so far. The second Republican Debate is hours away, in simi valley, california. Frontrunner donald trump expected to target his competitors. But ben carson is getting a lot of attention with high poll numbers. Nbc 10 jay gray is live. What can we expect tonight . Reporter i think fireworks here. A lot of people taking aim at that frontrunner, donald trump comes into this with a lead in the pollsing a lot of momentum and a huge car target on his back. Round two in a republican free for all is hours away, 15 candidates 2 debates, 1 frontrunner. I hear theyre all going after me. Whatever. Reporter outspoken, some say outrageous and holding the outright lead among republicans some are calling on donald trump to shift from rally mode and shift to specifics of his president ial platform. Well come out with plans in a short time. Challengers are trying to make time with voters in a crowded field. Ben carson and Carly Fiorina gaining ground in polls and both agree both need to make a splash tonight. But it may be most important for the candidate coming into the campaign would be the one to beat. Im the tortoise in the race. But im a joyful tortoise. Reporter jeb bush is reaching out in a campaign ad and working to tie himself to the roots of the party. Legacy of reagan, republicans need to embrace right now. Reagan wouldnt attack people personally. He believed in the 11th commandment, thou shall not speak ill of another republican. Its a commandment most expect broken early and often at the reagan president ial lie bear tonight. Reporter so a lot of gop insiders are saying they expect jeb bush to change his tone tonight and directly challenge trump during the debate. Thats the latest live outside the reagan president ial library, jay gray, fl nbc 10 news. Ambitious cuts in greenhouse gases, such as Carbon Dioxide that trap heat, making the earth warmer, the push comes as negotiators rushed to finish a treaty ahead of a u. N. Summit in december. Tonight here, Hillary Clinton will visit the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. It will be clintons first visit to the tonight show since fallon stepped over as host. The show 10 35. The man accused of killing nine people at an history exsouth Carolina Black church is willing to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence and not the death penalty. Thats what Defense Attorneys said this morning. At that same hearing, media organizes challenged the judges gag order. Citing concerns about graphic photo and 911 calls that might have recorded sounds from the victim. As it happened again, police in phoenix investigating what may be another incident of shots fired at a car on the freeway. A man reported someone in another car fired or threw something at his vehicle. Police are not confirming this is related to a string of shootings on the highway but if confirmed, 12th incident along the stretch since august 29th. The body of a sixth hiker just found after deadly flash into thes that swept through Zion National park. One hiker still missingen the floods claimed the lives of nine children, three women. People are being told to boil water before they drink it. There are fears the floods may have contaminated the water supply. The crisis in europe reaches a boiling point. Hungary officially sealed its border now. Hungary put in place tough, new rules for anyone attempting to enter illegally. So far dozens have been arrested trying to force their way through openings in the fence. Police have used tear gas, water can coans to control protesters. Clashes began after a group of people broke through a barrier. Los angeles in the running to host the summer olympics, once again. L. A. Chosen as one of the five finalists. Rome, paris, hamburg, budapest also in the running. The winner announced next year in peru. Los angeles previously hosted the summer games in 1932 and 84. Philadelphia Police Department hitting the streets in style thanks to a newdow nation. Eight new fully outfighted harleydavidson motorcycles presented to the department today. Made possible thanks to a fundraising campaign. The donation comes at the right time. New bikes used as part of escort unit where pope francis upcoming visit. This papal visit is something where were all stakeholders. Everybody in the city. The Philadelphia Police foundation plans to denate more motorcycles this year. Dozens of companies are teaming up to put veterans back to work. Career fair began with Team Fast Track skydiving team jumped on the pier. 45 of the Biggest Companies met with 2,000 active duties, veterans and spouses looking for a job. Its part of philly veteran jobs. Drivers are pay more to use the burlington bristol bridges than change went into overnight. Fare went up to 3 for ez pass, 4 for anyone paying with cash. Burlington county bridge says higher tolls need fund improvements. Take a look, new video released of the baby panda at Smithsonian National zoo. The cub weighs two pounds. 4week 4 old cub has not been named. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist sheena parveen. Beautiful weather continues. Its going to keep continuing even as we go into the weekend. So the arm and dry stretch of weather will go through saturday, even sunday really. But well see changes with our temperatures. For sunday, eagles opener to talk about against the cowboyses. The fall chill does return as we go into the second half 0 the weekend and into next week. Live look out now, schuylkill river, nice conditions, plenty of sunshine. Thin clouds furthering the sun. Still warm. 85 in philadelphia. Humidly 29 . 86 in allen town, 84 redding and west chester. Atlantic city in the low 80s, 83 in dover we will continue to feel these temperatures as we end out the week. Into the weekend we see a changeup. For the rest of the evening, warm by 6 00, still in the mid80s. 8 00 tonight clear upper 70s. Nice and comfortable. By 10 00 down into the low 70s. The same weather path. Big area of High Pressure that keeps giving us dry air and sunshine. Clouds to the south staying to the south. Florida has the opposite weather pattern than we do. The big high blocking any of this from moving up to the north. Rain is staying away even across the weekend. We have weekend changes. A look at what happens happening. Big area of High Pressure keeping us sunny. Friday it will slide offshore. That will give us a south wind. More humid as we go into saturday. Thats all ahead of a cold front. The rain, though, not coming with this cold front. We get cooler and breezy for sunday in time for the eagles game. We will be staying dry starting out next week. For the eagles forecast, tailgating weather looking good. Breezy, temperatures around mid70s. Fourth quer quarter temperature around 70. Philadelphia, 50s. Tomorrow, sunny, beautiful, like today. Temperatures in the mid 80s, warm going into the weekend. Mid80s saturday. Upper 70s, breezy. Next week mid 70s. Middle of the week, rain chances come back. Breaking news from rutgers. The schools football coach suspended for three games. Rutgers says kyle flood contacted a faculty member about the academic status of a player. The university told the coach not to do so. Also fined 50,000 ut rutgers stoet attack on penn state this. Watch this High School Player rip off an opponents helmet and hit him in the face. This pennsylvania man found beaten to death in his own driveway. What police are doing today to find his capitol hillcapitol hi colleges dropping tuition by 40 coming up on nbc 10. Mirrors. They show us all our problem areas. Those places that we cant wish or squish away. Well now fear no mirror, and eliminate those problem areas with coolsculpting the patented cooling technology targets and kills fat cells, with no surgery or downtime. So if you want to see a slimmer you when you look in the mirror, go to coolsculpting. Com today to receive a limited time offer for a free consultation. Cost of higher education, overwhelming for many families. Now a local college cutting tuition in half. Rosemont announced tuition will be 43 lower for the 20162017, dropping from 33,000 to 18,500. Room and board also reduced. Rosemont hopes to make education accessible to more families. Students arrived for class at leap charter school. Housed in a 12story building originally camdens first skyscraper. 350 students call this school home. One of the most talked about Development Projects in philadelphia is now officially under way. The Historic Hotel is one of the most recognizable buildings. Officials broke ground at north broad street and ridge avenue. Transformed into a residential and retail site. Having over 100 apartments and 4 restaurants. A texas family outraged their son arrested for bringing his invention to school. There is is what they brought. Teachers thought was a home made bomb. Next, what the creation is and how president obama is now getting involved. Plus, football player, caught on camera, slamming a helmet into an opponents head. Why parents are upset over the way the refs handled the attack. Warmer and dry. Over the weekend falllike changes in the forecast. How cool it will get coming up. Vote for the High School Football game of the week. Heres a look at early voting now. This weeks choice, west catholic versus haverford, nearby sham mini versus council. Call or secretary 610624. Voting closes thursday. Then well announce a winner thursday at 11 00. This is nbc 10 news. A new push to solve one of the most high profile murder cases ever in burkes county. Seven years ago someone killed gary redner in his community. To this day the case is unsolved. Doug shimell with a search on the kill somewhere how a friend of the victim is helping. Reporter whether its police or friends or family of gary redner no one can believe its been more than seven years. He worked across the parking lot. I would go to learn from him. Reporter this man patterned the success of his two dairy queen fran sizer chizs based on what his friend taught him. He added money to the reward to find garys killer. Now imup to 10,000. I want to bring closure to my friends widow and family. Reporter the supermarket executive beaten body found near his home outside redding in march 2008. It was at gnnleys, left, came home, found in a neighbors driveway. Reporter for 7 1 2 years the case haunted the barracks. Is this a cold case . No, i dont think its cold at all. When we get opportunities, tips, phone calls, we follow right uppen this doesnt get put on the back burner. Reporter tips had taken them to several state but was no arrests. How could you do this . Reporter along with the familys pain come the pleas. That minute tip you think isnt work anything, that might be the tip that opens the whole thing up. Reporter there is a promise from his friend. Her. But were working hard to solve this. Pennsylvania state police say now is the time to call them with any information about gary redners murder. A stretch of 95 is back open following a crash this morning in a construction area. The crash caused quite a backup during morning rush. Sky 4s 10 over Bridge Street and cotman. Crews had to make repairs to a storm drain damaged. The road was closed for 20 minutes but its now back open. Out in california, devastating fires still burning out of control. Chewing through mile after mile of drought stricken woods and blazes claimed 600 homes. No end in sight. Nbc 10 National Reporter has the latest. Reporter inferno continues to rage. In its path, more brush and trees, less homes. But still, the embers leap from tree top to tree top advancing like dominos. All the way out to the lake. Reporter firefighters taking advantage of the cool weather and sporadic rain today to get more control of the valley fire. This is just one of a dozen fires burning in california. About a thousand homes and buildings have been destroyed so far in the two most destructive fires burning in the state. Officials say that number will go up. A Technical Glitch prevented the Damage Assessment crews from being able to report findings. The lopez family lost their apartment and staying at one of the many Evacuation Centers near the fire zone. Its upsettingle all of our hard work is glon lunone. Lunchtime reporter evacuees wait to see when and if they can go home. Just bought a house, now theres a fire. Its very difficult. Im trying to stay hard for my children. Reporter slowly families are finding out whats left of their lives. Everythings okay. Reporter and realize that luck was the only difference between them and others. Nbc news, middletown, california. Another display of aggression on the High School Football field lands one player in the hospital, and another player removed from his team. Take a look. Police in north jersey investigating this incident. It appears to show the member of the Football Team ripping the helmet off of an opponent and striking him with it. Hes since been taken off the team. The injured High School Player taken to the hospital where he got ten stitches. But the lyndon player penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct but he was allowed to stay in that game. Crazy somebody hit in the helmet with that. They should have been brought out. I dont think he should have played for the rest of the game or the season. The superintendent says the board is pursuing, quote, severe disciplinary measures permitted under law. This month two players in san antonio, texas, were suspended from school after video appeared to show them targeting a referee. One knocked him to the ground, the other jumped on top of him during a game. The players could face criminal assault charges. A 14yearold texas student and family claiming religious discrimination. A day arrested for showing a teacher a digital clock he made himself. The teen brought the digital clock from a pencil case but the teacher got spooked and called police. Police told him he was being arrested for having a fake bomb and the incident led to widespread outrage on social media. I dont think its fair at all. I just brought something to school that wasnt a threat to anyone. I didnt do anything wrong. I showed my teacher something. And i ended up getting arrested. Civil Rights Group Says his family is cannering legal action. President obama tweeted out this message of support for the 14yearold today, cool clock, ahmed. Want to bring to to the white house. We should inspire more kids like you to like science. Its what makes america great. Support from the president for him. Laundry detergent pods have been a problem a long time. Change coming to keep kids from mistaking these for a treat. And this staple for years one bakery hoping to attract the pope with its bread. Sky 4s 10 live over breaking news in kensington. Crews fighting his house fire. Flames are out but this house, yeah, looks charred. There were initial reports of an explosion but that hasnt been confirmed alt this point. This is water street indiana avenue. No reports of injuries here. Hewlettpackard hoping a move to go smaller pays off in a big way. Planning to cut 30,000 jobs, 10 of its workforce. New job cuts part of the breakup into two traded companies. Toys r us going in the opposite direction. The company set to fire 40,000 workers to help for the holidays. That number slightly down from the seasonal hiring. The Seasonal Workers will be brought in on a parttime basis with a chance to stay on past the holiday. Targets going on a health kick now. Its a change aimed at both customers and workers. The Discount Store chain will push granola bars and healthy grab and go snacks instead of the candy at the checkout. Also free activity trackers to 300,000 employees. Employees get extra discounts on fruits and vegetables. Trying to reinvent its image of wellness under the new ceo. The safety standard for packaging laundry pods approved packaging la protect children. D manufacturing to add a bitter taste to the film encasing the def detergent and make containers hard for toddlers to hope. The standard is not mandatory. According to the American Association of poison control centers, 12,000 children ages 6 and under ingest laundry packets last year. We all make mistakes at work but one mans misstep happened on live tv and got a crowd full of boos. The Major League Mistake this man made. We still have some nice weather to enout the week, staying warm and dry. Then weekend changes, falllike weather in the forecast. I am never getting married. Never. Psssssh. Guaranteed. You picked a beautiful ring. Thank you. Were never having kids. Mmmmmm. Breathe. I love it here. We are never moving to the suburbs. We are never getting one of those minivan . We are never having another kid. Im pregnant. I am never letting go. For all the nevers in life, state farm is there. And new york is my home. Theres no place like it in the world. And theres no time to see it like the fall. Take metro north to take in the beautiful fall foliage from high above the hudson. Swing a club at one of americas greatest courses. See spectacular sights underground. Or thrilling sights above it. Theres so many incredible ways to experience the fun of fall in new york state. Plan your trip at iloveny. Com. Theres something for everyone. A home run is cause for celebration, many teams set off fireworks when the Home Team Hits one. One nan charge of lighting up the sky in cleveland had an itchy trigger finger last night unfortunately at the wrong time. High drive, deep left field. Alex rios of the visiting royals went deep in fifth and, for some reason, his homer was followed by a fireworks demonstration. Cameras caught the man responsible for the fireworks and, as you can see, he felt terrible. Poor guy. Eagles trying to feel better about last weekend. Moving on from mondays loss against atlanta. A division showdown. Inside lincoln financial field birds taking on cowboys. Today hearing from sam bradford. More on what bradford had to say about losing game one. Danny . Yeah, its dallas week, bradford trying to put that behind him. Its a short one after the monday night loss falcons. The birds back on the practice field today preparing for a shorthanded cowboys team without a starting line back somewhere star wideout dez bryant. Fans are worked up about the loss of the falcons but sam bradford has moved on. This in league youve got to have a short memory. Win or lose, next opponent is coming quick, especially monday night football. Its a short week. Weve got to get the quick turnaround. Get going on the game plan, know what were going to do against dallas. Earn we came in, learned from our mistakes and were on to dallas. Coming up at 5 00, ill talk about this being Demarco Murrays first gape against his old team. You may be surprised to her feelings about playing against his old squad. Nbc 10 your official eagles station even when the game isnt on air. Come to us for exclusive pregame and postgame coverage, hear from players you wont see on any other stations. Now, your nbc 10 first alert weather. With meteorologist sheena parveen. A warm and dry day for us, kind of like yesterday but a little bit warmer through most of the area. Were still staying warm this evening. Heres a live look in the poconos. Completely clear skies. No clouds around. And this is the case over the past several days. Well stay like this ending out the week and into the weekend. But for now, were going to stay warm and dry for the end of the week and for saturday. Eagles opener, thats sunday. I do have the forecast. We will be seeing changes across the weekend in time for that, too. Were talking about a fall chill returning. A cold front will move through. It will drop temperatures. Warm through the lehigh valley. Mid80s. Mid80s philadelphia. 88 in bensalem now. Mid80s south jersey and delaware. 82 in atlantic city. The average high this time of the year is 78 degrees. Monday we were only at 77 but yesterday we did warm up to 83. Today so far, philadelphia, weve got tonight 87 degrees. Well stay in the general mid80 trend as we go into the weekend. Then changes towards the second half 0 your weekend. The country on the eastern half looking at comfortable weather. Many areas right around 80 degrees. Even towards tampa, mid80s but thats coming with rain for them. Either way comfortable temperatures up along the eastern seaboard. Were all under the same weather pattern. There you see it. Dry, satellite and radar, not showing clouds around. They are to the south, carolinas. This area of High Pressure, thats going to keep clouds and rain away from us. Any rain to the south like florida now will be staying to the south. So we expect nice dry conditions as we go into tomorrow, into friday and starting off the weekend. Really over the weekend, too. Heres whats going on. A big high giving us that summerlike heat with mid80s. Over the weekend, well have a cold front moving through. This is going to be on sunday. You will see increase in cloud cover but well stay dry. That leads us to sundays changes and eagles forecast. Tailgating weather, breezy, more clouds around by kickoff, by Fourth Quarter temperature around 70. It is going to be really nice to end out the weekend. Those winds will pick up but its going to feel more like fall. Tonight, still feeling comfortable 56 for the low in allen town. 63 philadelphia mid50s. 59 for dover. Tomorrow, sunny, warm, like today. Temperatures in the mid80s. Lower humidity until saturday. Thats when well be more humid. You might notice it. Mostly sunny into the weekend. More clouds with that cold front moving through. I expect the area to stay dry with that. Temperatures in about the upper 70s for sun. Monday, we drop into the mid70s, morning lows in 50s. Rain chance middle of next week. Over a week before pope francis arrives in philadelphia, one local town is whipping applause a plan to catch the pontiffs attention. Local bakers hoping to get the pope to take a detour and stop by during the papal weekend. This is nbc 10 news. Pope francis is looking forward to his visit to cuba and the u. S. Wit with, quote, great hope. He made the comment at the vatican this morning. Hell travel to washington, new york, philadelphia. According to the vatican, pope francis will deliver only four of the 18 addresses hell make during his visit in english. The rest will be in his native spanish. When visitors gather on the ben franklin parkway in center city to see the pope, theyll get a look at artwork created by legal students. Some of the stop lights in the area wont be in use, these colorful banners will be placed over them. Students from schools took part, ten chosen at random to have creations put on display. Going to be colorful. The pontiffs itinerary is set for the visit but one montgomery town trying to add a stop. How some people are trying to use bread to lure francis. Weve got the closeup here. Reporter baking bread since 1961. Liberty bell. Reporter born in italy, he returned from visiting home and made a stop in rome where he waited but did not get a glimpse of the pope. Threehour wait. Reporter hes going to miss the pope again ball hes be making religious breads and rolls for the bakery. Theyre already taking special orders. The pope. I think he likes the bread a lot. Reporter those here arent sure the pope ever had his name in bread before, hoping its enough not tonlonly to attract customers but the pope. Wonderful. Try famous tomato pie. The bread, italian bread is good. In italy, its good bread. Reporter in case the pope doesnt make it [ speaking italian ] welcome to america, pope francis. Never know. Might happen. He is known to be upspontaneous series of pictures on facebook has the Philadelphia Community fired up. Families with Young Children living in tents on an empty lot. The outrage that has led to help for those families. And another warm day but changes for the weekend. Cooler temperatures ahead coming up. Plus, we showed you this exclusive animation what the ben franklin parkway will look like during the popes visit. Next, our security expert walks us through the challenge of protecting all of those people nbc 10 news starts now. Right now, 5 00, outrage over families forced to live in tents on streets of philadelphia. Posted on social media. Couples with children living in tents on an empty lot. People contacted nbc 10 wanting to know how the city could let this happen. Local lawmakers are getting involved and families are getting help. Tim furlong joins us live in new kenningston. Reporter a sign calls this church of the poor. Theyre making a direct appeal to pope francis. You at home, you might call theres a campsite. Looks like a campsite. People out here last night, could be here longer, were prepared to call this area home. Thats how we ended up here, cant afford the rent. Reporter this isnt a resort but for six families last resort. They moved out here, tiny baby, to live in tent because the city has no place else to put them. Posts got us and others for a rally. We think theres something wrong with millions of people coming into the philadelphia area to see the pope and yet cant figure out how to feed, clothe, house our children. Reporter the citys spending millions to host the people when they should be spending more to put roofs over families. That would give her financial wiggle room. Two minimum wage jobs isnt enough. You need medicine, food, clothes on your kids. Im sorry. Our city cant afford not just to host the pope. We can ford to host the families. Reporter toward the end of the rally the housing aut