Far fewer than the million to million and a half city officials had guesstimated would attend. Mayor mayor said a packed parkway and a service were proof of a successful event. He lashed out news reports suggesting attendees would face massive inconvenience. I think that in some instan instances you all scared the bleep out of people with some of the stories. Reporter i pointed out to the mayor there was plenty of blaming to around. A lack of coordination and communication among numerous government agencies. At one point a map was shown to reporters suggesting up to seven hour walk times from new jersey to the papal events. Nutter admitted it was, you know, during that stretch there probably over a couple weeks not some of the finest moments in Public Service as collective. Reporter not everyone who attend actually saw the pontiff. Nutter promised to look into reports that massive backups at some metal detector stations caused thousands of visitors to miss the mass. Despite arriving ho
Pockets of heavy rain moving through the area most of it to the west of philadelphia but you can see down through wilmington, dover, even toward the shore points seeing some heavy rain. In south jersey comer land county seeing heavy rain as well. So this is all going to be moving through courtesy an area of low pressure. Its being squeeze by a cold front ever so slowly because you can see little curl right around washington, d. C. See that curl . Thats an area of low pressure and thats the back edge of the precipitation. So all this is going to be pushing toward the northeast and the heaviest rain is still expected to be north and west of the city. Temperatures in the 70s with the humidity still very high. Heres a look at what to expect overnight and into the morning hours. Heaviest rain to the north and west. One to 2inches of rain locally higher amounts. Some 3inch reading not out of the question and rumbles of thunder. In the philadelphia area the i95 corridor, around an inch of rai
Dont take threats seriously. We take threats seriously. It does not mean they shouldnt investigate these things. They d its a good thing they d you never know. You never know. I do think with all the things going on around the popes visit, everybody is kind of looking for that one little nugget of something that would kind of make this story something more than just the pope comes to america. And i dont think this is it. I mean thats the world were in right now. Social media has no noose boundaries in terms of geography now. So we have to be very vigilant in that rash. But, again, you know, we monitor that. Its monitored at the state level. Its monitored at the federal level and there is followup and follow through on these things if something comes to our attention. Now again the commissioner told us he does not believe this plot was operational. That it was in its infancy stages in early stages and that the 15yearold is did not have the money or the resources to carry this out. The f
Spunt has details. Reporter Philadelphia Police are still on scene. Many have asked if this is related to the case from last week when authorities found three bodies inside a garage connected to an apparent funeral home. That case is separate. But tonight we are learning more about what allegedly happened in this building behind me. Detectives waisted no time getting to the bottom of a complaint lodged against Hawkins Funeral Services in west philadelphia. Within minutes, detectives discovered three bodies one was in a coffin. The todd toddythe other two dec. Blair hawkins while hes licensed to be a funeral director, police say the building is not. We tracked hawkins down on his way to meet with police. Im response al for the bodies that are being taken care of in there. But hawkins insisted several times police have it all wrong. There is a misunderstanding. One of the bodies is, um, we picked up from the home and apparently the doctor didnt sign so its going back to the medical exami
Spunt has details. Reporter Philadelphia Police are still on scene. Many have asked if this is related to the case from last week when authorities found three bodies inside a garage connected to an apparent funeral home. That case is separate. But tonight we are learning more about what allegedly happened in this building behind me. Detectives waisted no time getting to the bottom of a complaint lodged against Hawkins Funeral Services in west philadelphia. Within minutes, detectives discovered three bodies one was in a coffin. The todd toddythe other two dec. Blair hawkins while hes licensed to be a funeral director, police say the building is not. We tracked hawkins down on his way to meet with police. Im response al for the bodies that are being taken care of in there. But hawkins insisted several times police have it all wrong. There is a misunderstanding. One of the bodies is, um, we picked up from the home and apparently the doctor didnt sign so its going back to the medical exami