Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11 00. All right. Are you ready four more days, super bowl sunday getting closer and closer. The wait is kind of getting unbearable. Thanks for joining us tonight at 11 00. Im iain page. Super bowl at the top much our minds kind of hard to think about anything else and were jealous of our fox 29 team in minneapolis for the big game. Like our Chris Oconnell who joins us live tonight. Chris . Reporter eagles eagles. We got eagles fan here. In minnesota. This is what i was talking about. First of all, if any super bowl the most important thing about the events is these blue coats. They are volunteers. Tens of thousands of these and you can tell theyre so nice. Welcome to minneapolis. We cant wait to see you guy. Including one guy whose a volunteer who for this is the weekend of his life. Hopefully ill see you again. Greeting fans three the streets of Downtown Minneapolis one super bowl volunteer has a little more pep in his step
Including one guy whose a volunteer who for this is the weekend of his life. Hopefully ill see you again. Greeting fans three the streets of Downtown Minneapolis one super bowl volunteer has a little more pep in his step. Any guesses why. Committee gives us this nice jacket but ill tell you im still going to wear my gear no matter what i have on underneath it. Reporter it was months ago tacony native james petrivis signed up to be one of the thousands crew 52 blue coat volunteers work the super bowl. He lives here now but little did this diehard eagles fan know his team would be here. Whats this like, man . Its amazing to be a part of the super bowl and have my Hometown Team that i grew uprooting for right here in my backyard now. Reporter his volunteer duties include being a city ambassador and working the bold north zipline across the mississippi river. But its always allowed him to meet gm Howie Roseman even got into opening night. I had to talk a little bit with brian dawkins, weap
To go. Now, fox 29 news at 10 00. So exciting. Super bowl sunday rapidly approaching as we said four more days pretty much all of philadelphia is getting seriou seriously pumped. Thank you much for joining us at 10 00. Im lucy noland. We are ready for some football. You know who is really ready . Our crew in minute money and here in philly covering the leader up to the big game. Dave schratwieser live in philly which is preparing for the super bowl after party. Chris oconnell is live in minneapolis. Well get to them in a moment. We begin with Kristen Rodgers at the mall of america and, krist kristen, huge news from the nfl today. Very excited around here. Oh, yeah, lucy the buzz here today in minnesota nfl on fox is getting even bigger. Fox and the nfl have agreed to a fiveyear deal for thursday night football. Roger goodell nfl commissioner spoke about it earlier today. Every network that was interested in that we had very aggressive bit bidding, and we see that our content even in th
Survivors in iran fade after sundays earthquake dead on declares a day of National Mourning for the more than four hundred people who look killed of the disaster. And a football debacle for italy for the fourth time in fifty decades ago to not be in the world cup john ngugi before and his team until of off defeat to be to underdog sweden in that qualifying playoff. On a woman i can tell you im on that thought she might. U. S. President dollar trump has wrapped up his tour of asia in is on his way back to washington it was a packed visit that took him to japan south korea China Vietnam and the philippines heres a look at the hits and misses of the president s asian diplomatic offensive. Donald trump may have written the art of the deal but the art of diplomacy hasnt always come easy so this was going to be an ambitious two by any measure he was there to rally u. S. Troops. Confront pyongyangs provocations. North korea is a worldwide threat that requires worldwide action and do some deal
By the way, james blunt stops by live in our studio this morning. So did you go to the concert last night, i heard it was packed. Let us know. Ed sheeran, james blunt, at it again tonight. But james is with us today. Look at that video and imagine just singing just to you. , who james blunt . Beautiful. Mable, a little later this morning. Well, now. Sue be . You wish. One wishes. It will be hot in here. Oh, wait, thats the wetter. Ya, well, this is going to be worse today. Even added excessive heat watch just for good measure, now down to seven out every ten in your weather by the numbers, here it is, the counties affected by the excessive heat watch. It is all the urban, i59 corridor there, will feel like it is in triple digit later on today, so prepare tore that. Do any exercising your tee do outside either this morning or late, late, late in the day, were off to muggy start with bus stop buddy and the dog and the water bottle by his side. 79 degrees, southwesterlies at 8 miles an ho