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
Worked out to sea and conditions are starting to improve. Weve seen one to two inches of rain in the area highlighted in green. Its created ponding on roadways and flooding and lowlying areas. Some of the roads get closer to the coach, they dont drain very well. If youre traveling over the next couple of hours, you may be fine one minute and the next minute you may encounter a road that has ponding and puddling. Take it slow. All the new york airports are on time, washington, d. C. And baltimore on time, too. Looking at a high of 79 degrees today and showers possible tomorrow. Well talk about that in a few minutes. A fastmoving fire has claimed the life of a woman in delaware. You can seem the flames consuming the roof of the home on the 400 block of cedar avenue in belvidere at 3 30. An elder elderly man escaped and refused treatment at the scene, an elderly woman was pronounced at the scene. A 3yearold girl was hit by a stray bullet while sitting on her porch in grays ferry. Two men
Losing streak. We have downpours across south jersey, but most of the lighter precipitation is west of the delaware river. Well go over to Storm Tracker 6 live double scan there it is, as we set it in motion, the back edge of this is pushing through western portions of the state of delaware, so we dont have too much longer to go, but where youre seeing the across and organs oranges, we have reds popping up here and there, if youre traveling north on 295 or the new jersey turnpike, you get into Central New Jersey theres a lot of rain falling in parts of the area. No reported delays in allentown and Atlantic City and philadelphia. Most of the airports around new york city are okay and baltimore an washington, d. C. Are on time, as well. Were not seeing any weatherrelated delays, but that could change in the next halfhour or 45 minutes if those drenching downpours pull to the northeast. Future tracker 6 has all the rain out of here at 9 00 a. M. , with a hit or miss shower during the afte
Accuweather says the feel of fall isnt far behind. Meteorologist chris sowers has the a check of the accuweather forecast. Reporter yesterday it was beautiful. Yesterday we were close to 90. We topped out at 79. Today well be well up into the 80s. Down the jersey shore the coastal system we were watching yesterday morning that is tracking closer and closer to the delaware valley. Therefore were seeing patchy fog in some locations. The jersey shore is seeing cloud cover and scattered showers. Temperature wise its milder than yesterday at this time, but not too terribly bad, 67 degrees in philadelphia. Ten cooler in allentown, 5. Poconos 58. Millville, 65. Sea isle city, 68 degrees. Heres the satellite and radar composite for the most part were seeing partly to mostly cloudy skies this morning, right there on the immediate coast were picking up a few scattered showers. 95 of the viewing area is dry. Places like Atlantic City, brigantine, lbi picking up showers and patchy drizzle. Visibil
Reason for this, it stretches along the eastern seaboard from carolinas to maine. Now that the heavy rain is out of here, well see cloud cover, and occasional shower by afternoon, 79 degrees is the forecasted high today. That forecast holds for tomorrow, as well, the jersey shore today and tomorrow, its not looking pretty. Ill have the entire forecast when i come back in just a bit. You better go into hiding, thanks, chris. Dont forget you can take 6abc no matter how large or small your smart phone or device screen is, check it out 6abc. Com anytime anywhere. Firefighters were called to the a home in belvidere around 3 30. They rushed inside and tried to rescue the woman, but she was pronounced at the scene. A man was able to get out with minor burns. A stray bullet claimed the life of a 3yearold girl in the grays ferry section of philadelphia. Three other people are hospitalized and detectives are questioning a person in the case, the tragedy unfolded on the 1500 block of south edding