Tracy . Thank you. It is 5 00 a. M. And were preparing for the pope and how youll be able to see him in 22 days. 25,000 more free tickets will be available to the public and there will, two papalc praise through the crowds. The first will be saturday afternoon through center city. The second, heres the parade route the next day on the parkway, those details are still being worked out. The tickets will be Available Online starting next week. Organizers say requiring tickets for those closest to the papal stage is important for security reasons. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton joins us live this morning to break it all down for us. Monique . Reporter hi, tracy. I am standing along the parade route. According to the archdiocese, the pope will be in a parade thats going to extend just on the other side of love park that you see here and out along the parkway. It will occur saturday evening, just prior to the festival of families. Look at this map that weve made for you. The pontiff will come from eakins oval towards the basilica and loop around city hall. 30,000 general admission tickets or papal event, including getting into the parkway above 20th street will become available next week. Heres the breakdown for you. 10,000 tickets for immigration speech at Independence Hall will be available on tuesday on a first come, first served basis. Another 10,000 tickets for saturdays festival of families. They will become available next wednesday, also on a first come, first served basis. And then 10,000 tickets for sundays papal mass, available on wednesday to people as well on a first come, first served basis. Everything, you must submit requests online. Each person is allowed to request four tickets. Later today, the world meeting of families will be releasing further details and we also hope to find out information about the sunday parade just prior to the mass. Live at city hall, Monique Braxton, nbc 10 news. Now is the time to download the nbc 10 news app if you havent doen it yet. We have a complete section dedicated to the popes visit. About tickets, transportation and security. 5 03 now. New from overnight, a freg nant woman w pregnant woman was shot on her front porch in the frankford section of philadelphia. The woman took a bullet to the leg, a man was shot in the back. The woman is eight months pregnant. Shes in stable condition. The man is critical but police say he is expected to survive. Philadelphia police are investigating a Home Invasion in the citys Strawberry Mansion neighborhood. Two people climbed through the window a home, forced the couple inside to their basement and stole cash and electronics. The victims are okay. A woman and her elderly mother fought off two gunmen during a Home Invasion in the lawncrest section of philadelphia. Surveillance cameras captured the terrifying attack. Watch this. [ screaming ] unreal. The screams of a 76yearold woman there. She fought for her life. The attack happened suddenly, first one man and then another into a home on dorcas street. The oldest woman had to have stitches in her head. Her grandson tells us, hes thankful shes alive. Anger. Anger. Its a coward act. Co my fear was coming home and not having a family anymore. The familiy believes the men thought they had money in the house because they own a bore dag ga. They plan to move. The philadelphia parents who pleaded guilty to murder charges after their 3yearold daughter starved to death face sentencing. Carlos rivera and Carmen Ramirez will be sentenced on third degree murder and conspiracy charges. The girl died in their West Oak Lane home in 2013. Shes would born with a disorder that left her partially blind and unable to walk or talk. Sp[amirez also pleaded guilty t using disability check for partying and gambling at casinos. A main lineman faces charges after police say he performed a lewd act on himself while staring at a 5yearold play in the backyard. He was interviewed about what he was doing. He did admit and confess that it excites had him to go outside in the nude and the possibility to actually be seen by his neighbor excited him. Thats the reason for him doing this. The neighbor says the lewd behavior has happened at least eight times in plain view from her backyard. 5 05 now. A panel of judges ruled that congressmans chaka fattah private emails are not protected from federal investigators. Theres no policy that prevents members of the house from using private email accounts for congressional business. He tried to claim congressional. Hes accused of accepting a secret Million DollarCampaign Loan and taking a bribe from a lobbyist who wanted to it be a u. S. Ambassador. Fattah denied all charges. Hes married to nbc news anchor renee chenaultfattah. Shes labeled as person e in the complaint against her husband. The feds allege she took part in a scheme to fraudulently sell a car in order to pay Closing Costs on a vacation home. Renee is not charged. She denies any wrong doing. Renee is on leave from nbc 10. The time is 5 07. A settlement could be in the works in connection with the first court action in the paulsboro trainc derailment. A judge scheduled settlement talks for this month and next month. Residents, Business Owners and the Paulsboro School District are part of a lawsuit against conrail. In 2012, vinyl chloride was leaked. Breathing in the chemical can cause Serious Health problems. In delaware, the fire marshal says arson is to blame for a fire in simmons garden park on wednesday night. Someone torched playground equipment and caused 60,000 in damage. No one was hurt. Two years is too long to go without a contract. Thats the message from teachers in the Cherry Hill School district. Teachers rallied for a new contract yesterday at the administration building. Those teachers were pushing for pensions and health benefits. School was back in session in cherry hill on tuesday and now theyre off for the long Holiday Weekend, of course. Classes begin at the new and improved wyncote elementary school. They celebrated the grand reopening after a Long Construction project there. Kids and parents showed up to get a new tour of their school building. Say youll never let me go beyonce is the big headliner for this years made in america festival. The party is bigger than its ever been. Last night cruise set up five stages for the perform s and expanded the venue to make room toers. 140,000 people are expected to pack the parkway saturday and sunday. Heres a live look at the stage on the ben franklin parkway. Crews will close the outer leans beginning at 10 00 a. M. For more on the closures and how to get around them, lets check in with first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. Starting at 10 00 a. M. For that made in america festival, the ben franklin parkway outer lane will bec closed. Again starting at 10 00 a. M. You have time right now. If youre heading into the Center City Area from mlk drive or Spring Garden street bridge, take the east eakins oval on 24th street ramp but if youre headed from kelly drive, you must exit at fairmont for right now. Thats just a heads up for later on this morning. If youre heading out the door right now on the vine street expressway, if youre right around 24th street, you can see a threeminute drive time right in here, headed westbound. Youll have no problems. If youre headed eastbound, watch out for that work zone up on the righthand side. Otherwise, everything is still moving along. That runs true with the rest of our drive times in the philadelphia area. 95 southbound from woodhaven road up towards the vine street expressway. We only have a 13minute trip there the schuylkill is looking okay. No problems on the blue route headed southbound. We still have a 14minute trip from the schuylkill up towards 95. Well check in with mass transit. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. 5 10. We have a muggy start this morning. The humidity is noticeably higher than it was yesterday at this time. We will see the mugginess stay with us as we go into the afternoon hours and that humidity will likely fuel some showers and some thunderstorms. Theyll be out of the picture for the Holiday Weekend. Things are looking nice right on through labor day. Well see plenty of sunshine this weekend. 76 degrees right now in philadelphia. Humidity is at 76 . The wind has died down. Not a lot of wind expected but we have a little bit of a breeze thats bringing in drier air. Flashback friday. Look at that picture from six months ago. The pocono mountains. Thats snow on the ground. We wont see that for a while. We will see a little bit of fog in some spots to start with, thanks to high humidity, 100 humidity in dover. Look at that, the visibility not too bad at over. Its come down, just under two miles in millville. A little bit of a breeze isc blowing. Well see mixing. Satellite shows the clouds overnight moving out. Well get sunshine. The temperatures warm into the 80s. As we go into the noontime hour and into the afternoon hours, thats when well likely see scattered showers and thunderstorms. Most likely from the i95 corridor, trenton, philadelphia, wilmington and areas north and west, into the Lehigh Valley for allentown and reading, pottstown could see scattered showers this afternoon. Meantime look at the shore. Dry, sunshine, 77 degrees at toms river. As we go into the Late Afternoon hours, 4 00 could still see heavy downpours in delaware and some of the farther western suburbs into Lancaster County and southern berks county. Then we go into the evening hours. It clears out and thats going to set the stage for very nice weekend. Well go through it with the sevenday when im back in ten minutes. 5 12. It was tebow time in the eagles preseason finale. Was it enough for him to clinch the final quarterback roster spot . Well hear what birds fans think about tebows experience. We all know planning a wedding is no small task. Imagine for planning a wedding for the weekend of the papal visit. Youll meet one bride in philadelphia who is determined to get married when the pope is here. Sure, tv has evolved over the years. Its gotten squarer. Brighter. Bigger. Thinner. Even curvier. But whats next . For all binge watchers. Movie geeks. Sports freaks. X1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. 5 15. This morning, a migrant crisis is gripping europe. Thousands of people are stuck in refugee camps waiting to find out whats next. c migrants are trying to take trains across europe as they seek asylum from war and poverty in places like the middle east, as well as other places. Shooting happened in a Campus Parking lot near a baseball field yesterday at Sacramento City college. Police have not said what led up to the violence and theyre not sure if the gunman knew the students. In st. Louis, missouri, a 16yearold boy is dead at the hands of an 11yearold. Police say the 11yearold was home alone with a toddler when the teen and another person forced their way inside. The 11yearold shot the teen in the head. The mother of the 11yearold says that she bought the gun for protection after her home was targeted by burglars. Police are investigating. Five rutgers Football Players are facing charges in connection with some off the field violence. Police arrested four current players and a former team member with aggravated assault after what they call an unprovoked attack last spring. Two of the men along with three other students are also accused in a series of Home Invasions. Its well known if theyre on the Football Team or in the big ten, theyre probably ruining it for everybody else, especially if theyre starters. One of the suspects is from coatesville, another from egg harbor township. The the schools Athletic Director says the students involve have had been suspended. 5 16. Tim tebow made his case last night to stay on the eagles roster. He threw for 189 yards and two touchdowns. He also threw an interception. Matt barclay started for the birds, 4 of 9, throwing for 45 yards and an interception. The jets beat the eagles, 2418. We caught up with eagles fans at metlife stadium. All of their eyes were on the backup quarterback competition between tebow and barclay. I hop it is mr. Tim tebow. I dont think hed get nearly as much attention if he was a regular quarterback with his skill set. Im sure chip will win the best person. Im sure whoever wins that competition deserves it. Coach chip kelly will have to whittle down the roster to 53 players by tomorrow afternoon. 5 17. Now to preparing for the pope. The city of philadelphia estimates 1. 5 Million People will be here to see pope francis. Weve told you about the transportation and security restrictions that will be in place that weekend. Now imagine trying to deal with all of that on your wedding day. Hows that for wedding stress . Right . Nbc 10s katy zachry talked to one bride. This has been a challenge. A lot of people canceled and moved their wedding plans. This bride is soldiering on here. Reporter shes motivated and determined. Well meet her in just a second. Bride to be ann ha knows the vine street expressway will be closed, the stress of it during the weekend of the papal visit. So will ramps to 95. Those are two routes her guests will need to travel. Ha chose the date, sunday september 27th because numbers are important to her family. At that time she did not know that pope francis would be visiting philadelphia. Since then her bucks county reception venue offered her following weekend but shes declined and to further complicate things, shes having a twopart ceremony, one in philadelphia, one in bucks county. Her guests will have to travel during one of the busiest times the city has ever seen. A lot of people who were in hospitals, people who are media, people who live in the box and in new jersey, i had people rscp and then had to take back their rsvp. It has been heartbreaking. Its difficult but it is what it is. Reporter you may wonder how ann ha has such a greatc attite about this, looking toward the stress of the wedding weekend. Last year she battled quite a serious challenge that actually attracted the attention of president obama and well talk more about that coming up at 6 15. Reporting live in center city, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. Its 5 19. And the Labor Day Holiday is about to get into full swing. Nbc 10 and ventnor city yesterday where lifeguards packed up and left for the season. Shops and restaurants stay open throughout the weekend. Business owners hoping to cash in on the big crowds. Our hope is people are still in beach mode. At kings ice cream, weekends have been especially busy with people lined up around the block. Businesses have high hopes for the Holiday Weekend as they always do, with a great forecast, too. Lets check in with nbc 10s first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington to see how were doing so far. This is probably a good time onetohead down the shore. Definitely would be between now and noon, because i think after noon, thats when everybody is starting to really get out the door and head down the shore. If you are in new jersey, this is the new jersey turnpike but approaching the delaware memorial bridge. Roadways are definitely clear, no problems there. To get over the delaware memorial, youll have no problem. Heading out the door in new jersey, if youre on the 42 freeway around the ac expressway, where it splits off into the black horse pike, this goes to the ac expressway. No one taking that roadway right now. Just a little bit, a few cars. Otherwise if youre heading to philadelphia, no problems. On route 73 around the ac expressway, you can barely even see this camera because theres no street lights, right in this particular area, when a car goes by, thats what you can see. Coming up in the next ten minutes well check in with philadelphia roadways if youre heading to work. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. c 21 minutes after 5 00. A warm, muggy start this morning. A little bit of a breeze, mainly above building level. The winds not going to be all that strong during the day. The temperatures will not be in the 90s this afternoon. Though well get sunshine this morning. 76 degrees and still falling right now in philadelphia. The wind is calm at the shore. Thats a live view of cape may from the marquis de lafayette hotel. At the shore youre most likely to stay dry. Inland we could see showers. This morning, right new, though, a bit of fog with the elevated humidity. Quarter mile dense fog in hazleton. Most of the rest of the areas looking at no fog or light fog in mount holly. Its down to two miles even in millville this morning. Just like the last couple days, any fog thats around to start with wont last as the temperatures climb. Wont be as hot this afternoon and well likely see scattered showers. During the afternoon hours, 80s today. Those showers moving through during the afternoon. By evening theyre out of the picture. It clears the way for a really nice weekend. Perfect timing for the Holiday Weekend. 85, nice and comfortable saturday. The humidity low saturday will go even lower on sunday. 62 in the morning. 88 in the afternoon. Bright sunshine for labor day monday, up to 89 degrees. It will be a warmer monday but the humidity stays low for the holiday. Its tuesday, wednesday and thursday that are back into the 90s with the humidity coming back into play. That county clerk in kentucky is in jail this morning for refusing to issue samesex marriage licenses. Ahead in our next half hour, why her Staff Members arent necessarily backing her up this morning. Plus, this. [ applause ] a backtoschool surprise that brought a south jersey teacher to tears. A special delivery that could transform her school year. 5 25. On wall street, a big day. Traders are watching for one of the biggest news items of the summer. Investors are taking a cautious approach ahead of todays u. S. Jobs report. Futures are lower this morning while asian and european markets are also in the red. Stocks ended mixed on thursday, giving up strong early gains. Analysts expect 220,000 jobs were added to the economy last month. Although august tends to be quirky, the jobs number can be inaccurate as many people are on vacation when the government conducts its monthly survey. The Unemployment Rate is expected to drop to 5. 2 . The dow closing up 28 points thursday to 16,374. The nasdaq falling 16 to 4,733. Landon dowdy with cnbc. Thanks. Have a nice weekend. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. 5 26. 74 degrees. A muggy morning. The mugginess is back. But its not going to last through the Holiday Weekend. Before the weekend arrives, were likely to see showers. Right now, a dry view from center city. Temperatures will be climbing but we wont see the 90s later today. Jessica boyington is in the first alert traffic center. Jessica . Bill, were looking live right now. Route 202 around the schuylkill expressway. Hardly a car in sight. A good thing there. No problems on the schuylkill. Well show you live pictures of that coming up at 5 30. Good morning, im matt delucia. Live onc the ben franklin parkway. The stages are dark but its almost time for the made in america festival. Ill break down what you need to know, coming up. This is nbc 10 news. Parade plans. Its another chance to get up close to pope francis when he visits philadelphia later this month. We have the route plus details on additional tickets for the papal events on the parkway. Before the pope takes over the parkway, its beyonces house. Final preparations are under way for this weekends made in america festival. Well break down the schedule and road closures. Our stretch of steamy weather is just about over. The nbc 10 First Alert Weather Team tracking cooler temperatures for the Labor Day Holiday weekend. Timing is everything. Its 5 30. Good morning, welcome back to nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im chris cato. Hopefully your morning is off to a great start. Lets get started with meteorologist bill henley and his first alert forecast. Its a muggy one out there. Yes, it took a break yesterday but the mugginess is back. Thats giving us a bit of a warmer start this morning. Philadelphia, 76 degrees. Just dropped to 69 in pottstown, wrightstown at 68 degrees. Atlantic city the upper 60ss