There was a band and flowers from a group of children. The popes arrival in cuba carries with it a lot of significance. He becomes the third pontiff to visit cuba over the past 17 years and of course, the first lattin american pope to do so addressing crowd in native language. During the first remarks he urged u. S. And cuban officials to continue normalizing relations and fact of the matter is pope francis gets a lot of credit for renewed relationship between the two country and he issued a personal appear to president barack obama and raul castro last year and later hosted cuban and u. S. Delegations to finalize the deal and after he leaves cuba he heads to u. S. On tuesday and most of you know by now arrives in philadelphia next weekend after all the months of planning its crunch time for those preparing the way and tonight the wheels remain in motion. We have Team Coverage tonight of the preparations and we begin with action News ReporterNora Muchanic live along the parng way where road closures aalready in effect. Nora. Reporter hi there, walter, not a great day to get around the Art Museum Area the ben franklin parkway is shut down and the road closed and instead of cars its filled with tractortrailer and scaffolding and crews moving equipment around diverting traffic backed things up in the city today as drivers had to figure out another way to get where theyre going. Taking a drive that should take ten minutes took a half hour so far. Reporter that sums up what it was like driving near the art museum today it was bumper to bumper along pennsylvania avenue after the ben franklin parkway was shut down end to end for pope preparations. I think its a mess its inconvenine and i live down the street from here. Its bad. Shut down pushed traffic to side streets and alternate routes trying patience of drivers. I was trying to get to 30th street station west river drive is closed and east drive and now the art museum close sfwld you can see i have my gps in hand going alternate routes. Its frustrateing. Tow trucks on standby ready to begin moving cars out of secure zone tomorrow evening and sunday 6 p. M. Towing begins in light green areas you see on this map from the art museum, southeast beyond city hall and the trucks will be targeting vehicles that do not have the special city issues pass as lo louing drivers to park in city garages later this week. Ail get it out in time and take the train to work and back until friday and then work from home. Its hard enough to park here as it is. And now, you have to move your car and just because theyre trying to prepare everything. Preparations continue on the parkway. Crews are working non stop getting ready. And so is meg mcdonald of fairmont who says shes moving her car tomorrow before the tow trucks come. You know where you will put. Yes i have plans my parents live in south philly i can park my car there. And back live on the parkway now which remains closed and will be all week. Cross traffic is getting through, though, remember the first phase of the towing starts in the secure area tomorrow at 6 p. M. , 6 p. M. Sunday and be sure to move your cars so you dont get caught. Live on the parkway, the closed and almost desserted parkway, im Nora Muchanic, channel 6 action news. All right. Thank you nora. And this time next week the festival of families will be underway along the parkway with day of performances and ending expect edly with address from pope francis and thats the same stage the pontiff will celebrate mass turned. Trish hartman takes a closer look at the progress being made. With one week to go until the festival of families brings pope francis to the ben frank lip parkway event planners say hundreds of workers will stay busy around the clock. Its about building nuts and i bolts and putting the construction pieces in place. And we meet twice a day to check on progress and make sure we are where we should be. And things are right on schedule. According to esm productions president Scott America inhe says areach covering papal stage in front of art museum is 180 feet deep and stage constructed this weekend will be converted from festival stage saturday night to altar for the papal mass sunday. They say this area in front of the overall will be filled with 8,000 feet and he expects those to arrive on thursday. Also on thursday he hopes that stage will be ready for ligh lighting, camera and sound checks. Its a big musical performance. Its much like a variety show. Theres a lot of stage moves to rehearse and movement and audio and sound and lighting to rehearse and make sure we have that right. Local Union Workers were busy building press risers and running cables and installing dozens of giant screens for one of the biggest and most notable jobs theyve ever done. Once we hit ground, the energy level was there. And its increasing as we get closer to the show and youll see the workers themselves are just very excited about being involved in an event like this. In center city trish hartma hartman, channel 6 action news. And of course, preparing for the papal visit is a real effort to say the very least. More than 1,000 volunteers are giving their time to make the world meeting of families a success and today, 4,000 of those volunteers picked up official uniforms compromise pritioned of colorful easy to identify jackets and hats and we spoke with volunteers today who say their service is more about helping the thousands of expected guests than it is about seeing the pope. Its to be a part of world meeting of families and its so inspire when people come from all over the world who have to share their great catholic faiming and we have tremendous speakers this week. Its the the hold thing. And if you cannot be there, 6abc. Com will be your home for a live video during the papal visit. We will be streaming action News Coverage of every major event and along with live feeds are cameras across the area and youll also be able to watch our own online only digital updates. Okay. Movinging on to accuweather forecast it was exquisite late summer day with occasional breeze to make it feel that much better. What can we expect the rest of the weekend. Meteorologist Melissa Magee was live at the action news big board with a check of the forecast, walter we had a nice start to the weekend plenty of sunshine overhead and highs today still above average. High in philadelphia, 84. Right now were comfortable with sormly wind. 81 in city and 77 up in trenton area and poconos 7 0. 77 reading and along the coast in Sea Isle City 77. Few changes are on the way for the rest of the evening. Heres stormtracker 6 double scan radar were tracking a frontal boundary that stretched across new england stretching across the eastern great lakes and down across the southern ohio valley and this frontal bound write works its way east ward as we go through the rest of tonight and first half of the day tomorrow. Most locations should stay dry. So ahead of that frontal boundary numbers are in the the 70s and 80s and behind that check this out. Sue st. Marie 68, 66 detroit, 68 grown bay and 69 chick check and tap into a piece of cooler air as early as tomorrow. And so well talk about what we can expect. Well, its closer to average, closer to normal for us surprised and giving you a preview of eagles cowboy game at the linc and fall like temperatures on the way. Well talk about numbers in the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. Thank you, melissa. Its with a tense afternoon in city section of the tioganicetown ex neighbors were evacuated and swat team had to be called until one one man locked another guy in a closet at gunpoint north 16th street. A 23yearold man became angry when the victim a 27yearold man ended their relationship. And the incident ended after i short standoff and nobody was injured. Police are investigating a homicide in the city wissanoming section and it happened 1 30 on the 4,000 block of east cheltenham avenue and investigators say a man in 50s was getting out of his car when shot repeatedly and was rushed to aria torresdale and pronounced a short time later. No arrests were made in this case. Two people were injured early this morning when the vehicle slammed into a store in the city olney section at about 1 30 this morning two vehicles collided near intersection of north 5 and roosevelt boulevard and impact sent one vehicle into the front of Appliance Store there and the driver and passenger were taken to the hospital in stable condition and investigators are trying to determine speed might have been a factor. Meanwhile, city inspectors now have to determine if that buil building is still structurally sglound a scare at a thrift end up in kensington when two hand grenades were decided inside a bag. It turns out they were not live and were hall owe and this picture was send to action news from a viewer before 9 00 this morning and employee called 911 to tell police they found and when she arrives nearby roadways were shut down as precaution as investigators checked things out and i all clear was given a short time later. When you see breaking news or Severe Weather we want to you join the action. Email your photos and videos to join the action at 6abc. Com or use the 6abcaction on social media and its your way of being part of the action news team. And much more to come on action news tonight a local legendary war hero is immortgage lised in delaware country and well take you to unhave a veiling of a statue known as wild bill and how visitors in Atlantic City could get in on one of the hottest game shows of all time. And the cowboys arrive in town to take on the birds and tomorrows homeopener. Jeff skversky has sports when tomorrows homeopener. Jeff skversky has sports when action news comes right back. The action cam was in new up to square for unveiling of permanent honor for a local veteran bill waneer sacrifice is immortgageized in this statue Delaware County memorial statue and he fought in world war ii and was legendary member of the 101 air force Division Screaming Eagles portrayed in band of brothers. Hundreds of volunteers spent their day giving back to the community today. United way organized todays day of caring and 300 people converged on general george g. Immediate school in philadelphia and handed out books and put together teacher tool exits and spruced up classrooms. The foal is to have students stay an the path towards high school graduation. Female military veterans learned a lot today about leadership and it all took part in womens veterans rock lecture series Chestnut Hill in philadelphia. It focused on indispensable contributions to society made by woman and gave them resources to pursue new opportunities. With if you wanted to be on wheel of fortune or wanted to see thousand works had you to go to Atlantic City today. The wheel mobile was parked in front of the claireridge hotel. Fans had a chance to take a spin on the wheel and see how the grime game was blade and tryouts for vying to be a contestant. It will be there again tomorrow if you missed it. It will be there again tomorrow if you missed it. Sports are coming up i was about to head to thecheck. Bank, but out of nowhere it just started to rain. Like really rain. [clap of thunder] i did not want to go out. [clap of thunder] but then i was like duh, just use your phone. Mobiledeposittechnothingy to the rescue. Im rayna. And i bank human at td bank. Tomorrow is game two ape big implications during this one. Always against the cowboys. Eagles trying to avoid 0start for first time in eight years. Its still on their mind the last time the cowboys came to town the boys beat the birds and the eagles lost the division, too. The season meltdown is fresh and painful memory around here. Dallas won three straight at the linc tomorrow at 3 25 they wont have des bryant who killed the eagles over the years. Although eagles are not so sure that necessarily means this game will be any easier. I dont know how much it will change things up. We dont know. Well go in with what theyve done so far and prepare for that and they make changes and well adjust. The last two drives out there were not there to even contribute and we can go up and down the field. Theyre more than capable of moving on without des and he we have to prepare like we want to win a game. Temple football is finally on the right road. They beat ben state and beat cincinnati to start the season and owls hof around a top 5 heading into todays game against umass what a finish at foxboro today. Fourth quarter, umass blake to jaman wilson. Touchdown. Ut, oh, temple down three. Owls block the extra point. Stefan marshall scoops it up and totions it to will hayes, watch this hayes returns it 70 yards for two points. So temple is down one with a minute to go against the minute men. Temple then drives down field, third and sixth. P. J. Walker to John Christopher got it out of bounds 12 seconds left and austin jones going to 32 yard game winning field goal and 7 seconds left. You betia. Wow, temple wins 523 and they are 30 for the First Time Since 010 do i hear top 25 . Penn state face as i rutge rutgers team tonight that is a total mess. Rutgers star receiver is suspended for Domestic Violence and other players were arrested for a robbery and their coach suspended too. But penn state James Franklin doesnt want players to focus on rutgers. Its always just about us, and you obviously have to have awareness of opponent and who youre plague and things like that and i wanted to focus on penn state. Villanova losses star quarterback John Robertson today. Robertson goes down with a right knee sprain against rival delaware and backup zach bednarsik ledz them to come back win in 4th quarter be bednarsik with two touchdowns, nova beats blue henz 281. Penn opener did not go well in bethlehem today. Lehigh light up d with nearly 500 yards. Nick sharfnisky five touchdowns today. Penn losses 221. Theyre are records you want to be known for and ones you do not. Try to avoid a hundred losses for First Time Since 1961. Phillies have to win at least half remaining fourteen games including tonight in atlanta. Former sixers stars and three time mvp moses is malone laid to rest today in houston at a service. Charles barkley talked about how moses was a father figure to him he called him downch the 60yearold malone died last sunday of a heart attack and charles joked at the service that moses would give him a hard time about his love for pizza and eating too much but he loved him and called him friend. Moses was an original. More to come including meteorologist Melissa Magee with the exclusive accuweather forecast 7 day forecast when with the exclusive accuweather forecast 7 day forecast when action news comes right back the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services recently asked patients to rate the quality of over 3,500 hospitals. Fewer than 10 received 5 stars. Among them was Cancer Treatment centers of america in philadelphia. Cancercenter. Com eastern. People need to know victim that even good kids from good neighborhoods are still vulnerable to this tricked environment where theyre being taken off the street and put into bondage. For the First Time Ever dra dragon boats raised up and down the shores of lake luxenburg in langhorne, bucks county and Many Companies had their own teams suited up trying their hand at this ancient tradition it doubled as a means of helping the hungry. All proceeds benefit the Bucks CountryHousing Group and everybody was asked to bring a canned food donation. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast with meteorologist Melissa Magee. Gets who was outside all day today . Really. Perhaps ki tell. Got a little color or. It was sunny. That sun was kicking today. Temperatures above average. It looked like a cooler day. It felt nice. It was nice outside. Stormtracker 6 live double scan radar you can see its dry, its quiet. No issues with precipitation today. But as we go throughout the rest of tonight during the overnight hours were tracking a cold front moving on through. Well talk about that nay moment and in the near term well show you the picture outside and action cam was out in old city Independence Mall looking at Independence Hall and we could see a mostly cloudy sky and breaks of sunshine and fall all enough sun to get our numbers once against above average. And in fact, 7 degrees above average today with a high in philadelphia coming in at 84 degrees. Normal for us this time of year is 77. Nor near that record of 92 setback in 1983 and outside this evening its 81 in city and 70 up in poconos and 77 for reading and trenton at this hour and along the coast with that afternoon seabreeze kicking on in 75 in Atlantic City and 75 degrees as well in Sea Isle City. And heres satellite 6 along with action radar we have partly cloudy sky across the region and expect clouds to build and thickening the rest of tonight because of the frontal boundary extending up through canada whating cold front across the eastern fwraet lakes and down across the southern ohio valley and works east ward. Theres really got a lot of moisture sosh xwraited with this. Yes theres the possibilities of shower or two later on tonight and closer to dawn. Most locations should stay dry. But this will help to usher in cooler air for the second half of our weekend tomorrow. And so, heres the setup and a few clouds and were back to normal with the passengers of this front High Temperature tomorrow coming in at 79 with High Pressure over the ohio valley that will continue ton work its way east ward and thinking of tomorrow and speaking of tomorrow the eagles are at home at the lo linc taking on the cowboys. And it will be breezy with northerly wind that helps to dry the atmosphere out 8 to 16 miles an hour by the afternoon. 4th quarter will bump down to 75. We have a pattern change on the way next week. The jet stream dips south allo allowing for cooler air from canada to work its way southward. Temperatures next week will be in the 70s with rather cooler air to contend with. The call from accuweather the rest of tonight partly cloudy, tracking that shower close to dawn. Most locations should stay dry. 60 suburbs and 68 in philadelphia. If you dont fipt the showers youll notice a shift in the wind. Southerly to westerly which will help to dry out the atmosphere as we get in sunday. And heres the exclusive accuweather 7day forecast clouds and sunshine tomorrow. And in at 79. More sun by the afternoon. And on monday, its a breezy day its a cooler day with some sun. And in at 74 degrees and tuesday, mostly cloudy and in at 76 degrees with yom kippur beginning at sundown tuesday. Wednesday, its mostly sunny. Fall arrives and at 4 20 in the morning. 79. 79 on thursday and breaks of sunshine and mostly cloudy on friday and it does looks to be cooler as we get to next weekend the papal visit. Well track that closely for you too, walter. Well be outside a lot. Yes, we will. Thank you melissa. As melissa mentioned the official start of fall is a few days away and but dont tell that to the good people of peddlers village in bucks count question and outdoor competition held a scarecrow festival today. They could build their own toe take home and admire creative masterpieces posted outside several businesses there. If you missed out today you have time the scarecrows will be on display until november 1. And visions is next here on channel 6 and dont miss action news at 10 on phl17 tonight and were back here again on 6abc at 11. Now for Melissa Magee, Jeff Skversky and the entire action news team, im walter perez. Skversky and the entire action news team, im walter perez. See you back here after the oh my gosh, its the guy from last night. What . can i jump on your wifi . Yeah, you can try it. Hey i had a really good time last night. Yeah, me too. The only thing is that. The only thing is what . Whats the only thing . Oh my gosh hes married. Hes a kleptomaniac. Hes a pyromaniac. Hes a total maniac. Hey hey go back to your wife you sociopath leave slow internet behind. Get the fastest wifi available for better streaming. The 100 Fiber Optics Network is here. Tea . Get out of the past. Get fios. Im ilia garcia and im walter perez. Tonight on visions 2015 cheers the first latin american pope visits philadelphia. We take a look at his impact. singing from a congregation of followers to a Center City Kitchen with big plans. Nat empinadas culture is a big word around the philadelphia eagles. See how the hispanic culture is influencing the eagles locker room. Touchdown eagles plus the largest public arts exhibition in philadelphia history takes on some important issues. Its a special visions 2015 celebrating hispanic heritage month. Hello and welcome to visions m walter perez. And im ilia garcia you usually see ilia on our sister station, univision. Were happy to have her join us for tonights show. Im happy to be here with you, walter, celebrating hispanic he