Months by pope francis and the world meeting of families. Now including not one but two parades featuring the pontiff. The first parade which will take the holy father from eakins oval to and around city hall will be prior to the start of the festival of families on saturday, september 26th. Reporter second parade happens just before pope francis gives mass on the ben franklin parkway september 27th. Organizers also announced 30,000 tickets for key papal events including 10,000 to see the pope at Independence Hall. Another 10,000 for festivities on saturday 9 26 and a final 10,000 tickets to see the papal parkway mass. They will be first come first serve. Everyone wants to see the pope and we totally, totally get that. Reporter many people we talk with arent sure these changes will make things any easier. We live so close to Independence Hall i thought wed be able to be close enough to see him. Now that theres tickets i dont know whats going to happen. Reporter modifications come after
At hall. 10,000 for saturday festivities and 10,000 to see the sunday papal mass. The event itself justifies all of the changes weve seen in recent weeks. Philadelphia is still going to be the best place in the United States to see pope francis. Huge areas are Still Available for tens of thousands of people. But the Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association says the sudden changes have already led people to change hotels if not cancel altogether. You have to think about the people who are booking their trips far in advance, paying a loft non come to the see to see the pope. Executive director ed gross says a third of Center City Hotel rooms are Still Available. Theres a sense of urgency but theres not a panic yet for the weekend. I mean i think that, you know, people theres still plenty of time to book those rooms but you know there is a sense of are you john see. Reporter all right. So the big question w do you get those tickets to see the pope . Well the archdiocese says they will relea
Life threatening disease. There is a medical break through changing your future that could help countless others as well. Are they the cutest girls, wow. Good day, everybody. It is eve of Christmas Eve, december 23rd. Are you ready. I think im ready. Ready to go, sue serio, are we all ready to go. I hold myself up in the basement and wrapped presents for about, many hours yesterday, watched several christmas specials and yeah, so answer is yeah, okay. Lets bring it on. Weve got rain. We cannot do anything bit except being prepared for it. It is here. Widely scattered showers. None of this is heavy rain but more nuisance then anything else and enough to make you meet those intermittent windshield wipers. They are around the philadelphia area. 48 degrees. 7 20 our sunrise time. Temperatures air above freezing. We are not dealing with any freezing rain or sleet just mild temperatures and mild and messy i guess you could say with fog up in the mountains, reduced visibility in lancaster and
Thief ton night that suspect is dead and the homeowner is now talking to police. It happened at a home on torresdale avenue in frankford. The admitted shooter says the man was breaking into his truck so he fired. And investigators are interviewing that man right now. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live at Philadelphia Police headquarters. Dave, of course, police have to sort through all of this right now. Reporter they do. That man who fired the fatal shot is still here at the homicide unit. Hes been here now for over 18 hours. Homicide detectives and the District Attorney still gathering information on this case at this hour no charges have been filed. Homicide investigators say it was just after 10 00 thursday night when a man who lives above this garage spotted someone near his pickup truck on his home surveillance cameras. He went downstairs to investigate. Someone was breaking into his vehicle, he shot the mail. Reporter the unarmed 30 year old south jersey man who police would not
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