Will be made. Right now on fox 29, final security measures for the popes visit to philadelphia are in place. Skyfox live over the ben franklin bridge this is now closed to vehicles until monday. Thousands of visitors will walk across it tomorrow to papal events. Looking live outside our studios in at fourth and market in old city. The fences are up, security perimeter in place around Independence Mall area and of course a huge security net crisscrosses the ben franklin parkway tonight and the setup looks amazing. It is just a massive undertaki undertaking. Philadelphias ready for the arrival of pope francis first thing in the morning. You can feel the excitement tonight. Good evening to you, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Its incredible time to be in philadelphia after months of preparation. Its time to welcome pope francis. Yes, but everybody wants to know what the weather will be like a little fly in the ointment fox 29s chief meteorologist Scott Williams here. How is it looking, scot
Right now at 10 00, here on fox 29 news, Doppler Radar lighting up. Some local areas seeing several inches of rain today and its not over yet. Did evening, everybody. Im joyce evans. And im dawn timmeney. Lets get over to mike. Now were starting to dry out in the city, still overcast conditions and some cooler conditions starting to move in. Take a look at our radar estimating between 1 to 3 inches falling north and west of the city and it was so weird because we saw another batch of rain run off the coast and philadelphia was sajd witched in between. We got lucky in some spots. You got lucky because the downpours were more towards the north and to the west. Still seeing some scattered showers and good downpours coming down as you get north and west into lehigh value, north shampton, the deal is isolated the downpours the rest of the evening. Not expecting any kind of widespread flooding concerns. I cant rule out the possibility of say shower or a clap or two of thunder. This low is st
Good evening, im iain page. You can feel the excitement is about to boil over in the city. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in old city tonight. Chris . Reporter excitement is putting it lightly, iain. It is building with every hour as we go to pope francis arrival here to philadelphia. Ive been all over this city in the Center City Area over the past week, i tell you it is building. This town is absolutely electr electric. And its been that way and its building with more people coming to about a half hour ago the steer secure vehicle area is now in effect. The hard work is over now, folks. Time to have some fun. One of the final steps of this massive security effort the biggest this city has ever seen and now its time to exhale its been a long and arduous process getting the world meeting of families the year long plus in the planning stages now. Just 11 hours away till the holy father touches down in philadelphia. We caught up with several out and about tonight, and we asked what this
Her in the head with a pistol. Cops say the man stole the victims purse and wallet with 50 bucks inside along with her personal paper work. Is my daughter safe going to school . Am i save Walking Around by myself taking her to school early in the morning going to work taking my son to daycare early in the morning . Its sad it happened but thats realistic place of where were at right now, you know, no jobs. Reporter there are surveillance cameras on around the school but investigators say they have yet to recover any video of the attack. Meanwhile neighbors are trying to pull together. I think we just need heavier patrol in the area. Once you call and report crime like this well have heavier patrolling but at this point we need something. Something obviously. Reporter many parents of course alarmed after seeing police tape when they were dropping their kids off the School District of philadelphia did send an alert out to parents. Meantime police have a vague description of the suspect.
South of the dover area. Moving around philadelphia into parts of south jersey, were talking anywhere from two to 4inches of rain. So we need the rain but it is coming very rapidly across the area. So thats why we have the Flash Flood Watch until 8 00. Aerial flood advisories north and west with the pocks of heavy rain on going right now. Take look at this. Shot by our own dawn timmeney coming in to work around the lincoln drive area. Dawn, that was pretty treacherous, right . I was cully going the other way but that was deep water and it was backed up all the way to city line. It was a mess. This is what were dealing with at this rush hour and also airport delays still coming in as well. Well have much more on all of this mess coming up with the complete forecast. Back to you. Glad you got in saving, dawn. Figured it would just be me and scott sole 11 keep tracking the weather at fox 29. Com. You can look at the live radar images and get those alerts to your enabled. Just click the li