Parts of the areas. We got behind in the Rainfall Department but some spots got 3, 4 inches or more than that yesterday. A few scattered light showers. They cleared through philadelphia. You can see light rain approaching tabernacle, the water fo waterford area, mullica township, Atlantic City and egg harbor. Theyre not going to last all day, neither will the temperatures. Were in the 60s. 80s this afternoon. The good news is, the high humidity weve experienced lately, thats going to be taking a break. Youll feel it at the shore, too. Eventually theyll take time for the drier air to arrive in cape may. Cape may is 70 degrees right now. Well be in the 80s this afternoon. The hour by hour forecast is calling for clouds to start with but you can probably leave the umbrella at home. Dont forget your sunglasses. Youll see sun breaking through at 10 00. With northerly winds out of the north northwest at 10 miles an hour, thats the dry air coming in as we warm up to 80 degrees by 1 00 this afternoon. Your neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when im back in ten minutes. Right now, Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. We are watching several accident scenes. We are showing you one on the vine street expressway which is involving a tractortrailer. You can see, this is the vine right here. This is the vine headed westbound. We have Police Activity right here on the scene. All of the lanes are being forced off actually single line headed towards the schuylkill expressway and 30th street station. I have another view of that right in here so you can see that it is involving a tractortrailer. These are our cameras from 24th street. From our 24th street camera. Right around the schuylkill and headed towards 30th street is where youll see the problem. Still watching the accident scene on the blue route. These are the southbound lanes. We still have Police Activity. The accident scene on the shoulder around route 30. Chris . Remembering 9 11. In just a fuhr hours, a series of somber ceremonies will honor those killed in the terrorist attacks in new york city, washington, d. C. And, of course, shanksville, pennsylvania. One of the biggest local memorials in this area is the garden of reflection in yeardley, bucks county. Thats where nbc c10s katy zachry is live this morning. You taught me something about an hour ago that bucks county lost more people on that day they any other county in pennsylvania. They did, chris. I actually grew up in bucks county. Thats a fact many of us here from bucks county know very well, sadly know very well. The remembrance ceremonies here at the garden of reflection began last night with an evening ceremony, a candle light ceremony on these grounds and the tribute to the victims continues this morning in just a few hours. Every year, this 9 11 Memorial Ceremony is widely attended. As we said, bucks county did lose the most men and women of any county in pennsylvania, nearly 20 victims. Some of them were from here in lower makefield, the yeardley area and several victims family members are part of the plan process for the Memorial Services here at the garden of reflection. At 8 30 theres a remembrance ceremony. Tonight there will be an Evening Service and this weekend, theres a 5k run to honor the victims that lost their lives 14 years ago. We will move locations coming up, giving you a closeup look at the beautiful tribute they have here. Reporting live in yeardley, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. A remembrance ceremony will be held at the site of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan where terrorists crashed those planes into the trinh towers 14 years ago today. Two memorial pools stand in the footprints of those towers. The names of those killed are etched in stone there. Ceremonies are also being held at the pentagon and in shanksville. The goal is to bring local officials up to speed on events happening the weekend of the papal visit. The meeting is at 9 30 in conshohocken. The public is invited to attend. Meantime in delaware, transportation officials are also gearing up for the popes arrival. Theyre hosting a media roundtable at 10 00 this morning at the d. A. R. T. Administrative office in wilmington where they will go over transit plans and other details surrounding the papal visit. There are just 15 days until pope francis arrives in philadelphia to cap off the world meeting of families. Youre seeing behind me animation that the secret Service Revealed yesterday, showing the screenings and fencing that will be put up around center city. The secret Service Released that yesterday. Security will transform the city. One thing youll notice, metal detectors. Those will be in place near city hall, the parkway and around the cathedral basilica. People who live within the perimeter will have to start moving their cars pretty soon. You can park those in the Naval Hospital lot in south philadelphia for free but space there is limited. Or you can go to one of six tpa garages on september 20th. This is when you have to start doing that, september 20th. 20 will cover you for the entire weekend. And you can count on nbc 10 to alert you to any changes or updates in the citys plans. Here are three more stories well be following for you today. The coast guard will be out again today in a couple of hours looking for a missing pilot. His plane went down yesterday afternoon about seven miles off the coast of Atlantic City. The plane was flying to ac from michigan. Today, the delaware attorney general, Wilmington Police and the fbi will announce the results of a monthlong investigation into several murders andc Violent Crimes in wilmington. Last year, newsweek dubbed the New Castle County city murdertown usa. This year the city is on pace to beat last years record. There have been 20 homicides since january according to citydata. Com. Organizers of the rittenhouse walk are meeting today. They will raise money for awareness and care in our area. This is the 29th year for that event. And what donald trump said about Carly Fiorinas appearance and how she is shrugging off his insults. Second season at the shore kicks into high gear this weekend. Well tell you about some of the events that aim to make your summer just a little bit longer. A few showers in the vicinity of cape may this morning. Just light showers. Not the heavy rain cape may saw yesterday. Beach avenue is drying out at 5 37. Here at nbc 10, its 67 degrees. Remembering 9 11. In pennsauken, a sea of flags is flying again this morning, honoring the victims of the terrorist attacks. Later this morning, students at Lehigh University will be putting flags across their campus this morning, the second year this school has done that. Were right back. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. c 20 minutes before 6 00. The heavy rain is done. Still a few sprinkles in the area. Were starting to dry out northeast philadelphia is at 69 degrees. Humidity is elevated this morning. It will be coming down as the day goes on. Well see sunshine. Just a few scattered showers in Central New Jersey and at the shore. Theyre pushing offshore Atlantic City one more just light rain shower coming into the Atlantic City area in the next half hour. During the day, well see more and more sunshine. 70s for the pocono mountains. In the 80s, low 80s for allentown, reading and quakertown. Partly sunny skies for doylestown, trenton and mt. Holly. At the shore, the clouds break to warm rehoboth, 80 degrees, 83 for cape may and Atlantic City. A nice summer day today. A warm afternoon with clouds breaking, 85 in philadelphia, 84 for wilmington and williamstown. Dry today but not this weekend. Got the sevenday forecast when im back in ten. 5 41. 11 times in two weeks. This morning were following the investigation into a string of shootings on an arizona freeway. Plus, a special honor for a local legend. Well tell you about the statue of Smokin Joe Frazier being unveiled this weekend. Looking live right now around 676, the vine street expressway, right around the schuylkill expressway where we have an accident scene blocking out that lefthand lane. Part of the next lane over. One lane getting through, headed west on to the schuylkill and 30th street station. Well have more details on this when i come back. And remembering 9 11 today at Dover Air Force base, a Memorial Service will begin at 10 30. The museum incorporates two pieces of steel from the World Trade Center, a rock from the United Airlines flight 93 crash site an a block from the damaged portion of the pentagon. This fall at dunkin donuts, get lost in pumpkin. Pick up your favorite pumpkinflavored beverages and baked treats, like the new pumpkin cheesecake square, while theyre still here. America runs on dunkin. A medium hot coffee, cream and two sugars, please . Medium hot coffee, cream, two sugars sounds good. At dunkin, we make your coffee just the way you like it. If not, well make it again on the spot. See you tomorrow. Thats the dd commitment. America runs on dunkin. 5 45. Tomorrow marks one year since a gunman ambushed two Pennsylvania State 2r5troopers outside the Blooming Grove barracks. He sparked a sevenweek manhunt until police finally fon him hiding in an abandoned airplane hangar in the poconos. Frein is charged with murder and attempted murder. Hes pleaded not guilty. His trial is scheduled to start in december. Someone is shooting at cars in arizona and police have no idea who it is. There have been 11 cars, trucks or buses hit by gunfire while driving down i10 in feign i. Windows have been shot out, bullets have ripped through seats. No one has been hurt at this point, though. Police admit they dont have any leeds and are asking the public for help watching the roads. 5 46. A new Jersey Police officer will Face Criminal Charges in a deadly wrongway crash on the Staten Island expressway. Sores say pedro abad had a blood alcohol content three times the legal limit when he hit a tractortrailer head on in march. A fellow officer and a friend were killed, a third officer was hurt. Get ready for this. Tonight, donald trump will be on the tonight show with jimmy fallon, the gop president ial frontrunner will discuss his campaign, probably some other things as well. Jimmy fallon will probably make a few jokes at the billionaires expense. You dont want to miss that here on nbc 10. A new cnn National Poll shows trump in the lead again with 32 support. Also climbing, though, is former naur row surgeon ben carson jumping ten points up to 19 . Trump is attacking carson and former ceo carly fiorina. He personally insulted both of those rivals, talking about fiorinas looks in a Rolling Stone article and talking about carsons doctoring skills. A doctor, perhaps an okay doctor by the way, you could check that out, too. Were not talking about a great he was an okay doctor. Now, as for fiorina, he in Rolling Stone made a comment about why anyone would vote for her with a face like that. She shrugged off that insult sign shes gettingat insult under trumps skin. As for Vice President joe biden, theres been a lot of speculation whether he will run for president. Last night biden was on the lay sh late show with stephen colbert. He said hed be lying if he said he was prepared to run following his sons death from brain cancer may. He said hes still emotional and overwhelmed. Events are planned over the next few weeks for what the shoretown is calling its second season. The first event is under way, the roar to the shore motorcycle rally. There will be vendors, merchandise and Live Entertainment all weekend. And today, tomorrow, the mummers perform. There will be a strut contest and a parade. Wildwoods are saying come on down. Any weekend is a good weekend for a strut contest. For all the Outdoor Events this weekend, the good news is we dont have that seering heat that we had earlier but we could still have showers around. Unfortunately, yes. Not expecting what we saw yesterday and last night but we could have heavy downpours and strong thunderstorms, too. This morning, though, not happening. Nice breeze is blowing. As dre air thats coming into the area, the humidity will be dropping, still elevated this morning as we had these rain showers overnight and still a few spots, seeing a light rain shower first thing this morning. Everybody has the cloud cover, now 12 minutes before 6 00. It is a cloudy start. This is the view from center city, looking towards the comcast center. 68 in philadelphia. Thats 4 degrees cooler than yesterday. It will be a warm afternoon. Well get rid of the clouds over center city and see more and more sunshine during the day and warm into the 80s today and 80s to start the weekend on saturday. This is the dry air thats coming in. Look at that wind. 13 miles an hour at philadelphia. That nice northerly flow will help with the drying process after we saw inches of rain yesterday. Still a few scattered light showers moving through winslow, in Camden County and into atlantic county. Those showers are out of the picture for the rest of the day. This weekend, thats yesterdays rain, thats saturday and into sunday. Showers and some thunderstorms. The futurecast showing theyll be on the move. Well start off dry this evening, completely dry. Those storms way to the west by tomorrow morning, well get sunshine to start with. 9 00 in the morning, clouds in central pennsylvania with that rain. As the day progresses, the afternoon hours well see clouds starting to move in at 3 00. The showers, thunderstorms, most likely to arrive during the evening hours. Thats 10 00 saturday evening and then the storms rolling through and into the area again overnight and into sunday morning. Brt not today. Sunglasses, partly sunny skies, warm this afternoon. Normal high temperatures 80 degrees. Well be above that today. Tomorrow it will be another warm one, up to 81 degrees. Those lateday showers and thunderstorms will top us out at 81 and bring us into the cool zone for sunday and monday. A few showers sunday morning, clearing out in the afternoon, plenty of sunshine for monday, tuesday and wednesday. Were back into the 80s. The humidity stays low through thursday. Look at that. We are still watching that accident on the vine street expressway. Lets hope things can clear up before the morning rush takes full effect. Nbc 10s first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington has an update for us. Jessica . With that timingc were getting pretty close. Hopefully this will be cleared up. Right now were not seeing that happen. Westbound on the vine street expressway, this is a good shot. You can see all of the traffic on the westbound vine moving into one lane, really smushing together to get to the schuylkill or 30th street station right in here. Our westbound drive time from 95 up towards the schuylkill, only four minutes. Its not impacting your commute at this point with the drive time but you can see that everybody is really watching out for this over on the lefthand side earlier tractortrailer scene. As we head out the door to 422 around trooper road, we still have an eightminute drive time. No backup here yet. No real problems there. Well update you on the vine street expressway accident and cover mass transit coming up. Chris . The penn Ridge High School class of 64 is dedicating a war memorial on hellman field. That group raised 20,000 with help from local veterans. This memorial is a tribute to 13 students from penn ridge who have lost their lives on active duty since 1954, the year the school opened. And speaking of high school sports, we asked and you answered. The results are in for this weeks High School Blitz game of the week. The winner, Garnet Valley versus bonnerprendie. You can watch highlights of that game and many others on the High School Blitz tonight on nbc 10 news at 11 00. Well have a new crop of games for you to choose from starting tomorrow. Football is back. The nfl variety, too. So is tom brady fresh off of his deflategate controversy. The patriots beat the steelers last night in a game that you watched right here on nbc 10. Brady threw four touchdown passes. Of course he almost missed the game after being suspended for four games for his alleged involvement in deflate gate but a judge overturned that suspension much to the chagrin of the steelers and the patriots won it 2821. Eagles fans, were counting down to monday night. As vai sikahema walks into the studio. Were about 86 1 2 hours away from monday night football but whos counting . When the birds battle the falcons. And the team got revved up at xfinity live in south philadelphia during a party during the nfl kickoff game. Current and former players were there. Expectations for this season are high. Vai started a new thing called periscope bonding. Hes walking behind us when were on periscope dancing behind the camera. Follow us on periscope to see that action. Count on nbc 10 all season long for complete insider coverage. We are your official Philadelphia Eagles station. Well have xwluf access to the team for our postgame show after the monday night game. Watch this, this is new here. Eagles game day kickoff, premieres this sunday at 10 00 a. M. Comcast sports nets john clark will be hosting it. Hes joined all season by malcolm jenkins. Theyll have expert analysis with eagles broadcaster mike quick ahead of mondays Season Opener in atlanta, including an exclusive interview with new eagles running back de marco murray. Youll hear what he has to say about the eagles thriveheaded monster. Periscope, join the conversation. Periscope is an app, a free download. Download and you can broadcast live from anywhere. We chose to broadcast from our broadcastc behind the scenes. Our address on periscope is nbc philadelphia. You can see vai dancing offscreen on that. Primate or part of our family tree . Well tell you about the scientific discovery that provides new insight into our ancestry. Yoplait. The smooth and creamy yogurt your whole family loves. Yoplait original with no artificial sweeteners, no artificial flavors, and no high fructose corn syrup. 5 57. More than 100 prestigious men and women are getting top honors. The Philadelphia Tribune celebrated its annual list of the citys most influential africanamericans, including elected officials, education leaders, Business Leaders and community activists. The most influential africanamericans will be featured in a special edition of the tribune on sunday. Speaking of influential philadelphians, how about smokinc joe frazier who has h own statue in south philadelphia, finally. A 12foot bronze likeness set to be unveiled at the corner of 11th and pattyson streets. Were told it depicts frazier midpunch in his 1971 fight against ali. He was the first boxer to ever beat ali. Scientists believe they found one of our new ancestors. A new species of human is giving us insight into our past. Researchers uncovered a large pile of bones in south africa, an area called the cradle of human kind because it yielded over 1,500 specimens since its discovery in 2013. The latest specimen looked like this, a mix of humanlike and more primitive characteristics. Researchers are trying to figure out how old the fossils are and how they got into the cave. This may be proof that primitive ancestors buried their dead. Thats why the bones were in the Small Chamber that took this long to find. And indoor practices of rituals like that. Also the very first man cave, rabbit ears an a bowl of chips. No evidence of a tv. Nbc 10 news today news at 6 00 starts right now. Nbc 10 news starts now. The pope is coming and his trip is kuzing major changes in philadelphia. Well have the latest on tight security to the crowds and the parking challenges for people who live in center city. Floodwaters make it tough for drivers to get around. This is video from overnight in Camden County. You do not want to do this. This morning, we are drying out. We are drying out. 67 degrees, a live look outside. Cloudy but dry as the rain heads out and the sun will move in. 6 00 a. M. On the nose. Good morning, welcome back to nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im vai sikahema. Its starting to feel like fall today. You think so . It feels like fall today. Lets get to meteorologist bill henley with the first alert forecast. It is cooler this morning in the wake of the heavy rainfall that produced the flooding. Brooklawn, new jersey, this was overnight. Those waters have come down since this video was shot. Theres a chance well see more showers and thunderstorms this weekend. Those storms could come with heavy downpours. This morning, no sign of the heavy rain. Its completely out of the picture. That being said, theres still a few sprinkles in new jersey. You can see them in lower Camden County, winslow, into atlantic county. A few sprinkles. They wont last. Well see the clouds break and get sunshine to warm into the 80s this afternoon. Might feel like fall righw