Area, a new website has you covered. Today the pennsylvania Governors Office announced the launch of the papal 511 website, which will offer real time traffic conditions on highways in the philadelphia region and details on how to reach the papal venues, along with routes for bypassing the area. Just click on the nbc 10 news app for a link to the website. And you actually dont have to wait 12 days to see pope francis in center city. You can see him now simply by looking up. The first of more than 550 banners showing a smiling francis went up today near the cathedral basilica. Over the next ten days, workers will install three different kinds of banners throughout the city and there will be plenty of eyeballs to see them. A spokesperson says the week Long Convention has sold out. Final registration numbers will be close to 20,000, three times the size of the last world meeting of families in milan in 2012. Thats about 5,000 more than they initially expected. She said the banners going u
Keep us posted. Lets check with katy zachry also live on the scene talking to people who have been evacuated. Katy. Reporter im a few blocks from where jesse is. This is where hundreds have been evacuated. They are along the sidewalks and standing along walnut street around the 300 block from the 12 to 1400 block of walnut street. Hundreds are out here as you heard from jesse there have been at least two Apartment Buildings evacuated and the last few minutes, though, good news for people in the Walnut Square apartments, thats at the corner of walnut and 13th. Walnut square apartments were reopened. So everyone really flooded back inside trying to get back inside. They were evacuated in their pajamas or whatever they went to bed in. From what we can see is a number of fire trucks, a large presence of firefighters here. Still working to get the fire under control. We see a number of flashlights from the upper story levels in the Apartment Building. Were hearing that the fire started as j
They say they will not have a definitive cause until their investigation is complete. Just watching this all go down. Volunteer firefighter left for work at his other job 90 minutes before this. He says friends quickly texted him cell phone videos of the flames that tore through his apartment above judge john jordans law office. Chief a. J. Cummings already at work across the street. This morning, small explosion, enough to rock the police station. We felt it. Reporter a block away, mark ran to his window. In bed. Little after 8 00. I heard a boom. Reporter he showed us burnt insulation he says rained down on his home and others ten minutes ahead of the intense flames. Just coming down. Then the fire started. Its not ash. Its from the blow up. Reporter from sky force 10 you can see the enormity of the devastation. Police say construction crews working to install new gas lines hit a line, forcing the gas to fill up in the homes basement. Obviously, there was nobody in there. Nothing was
In just two days, its burned more than 61,000 acres and consumed 400 homes. 1,000 buildings could be gone before its over. 19,000 people have been forced out. 1,200 firefighters are moving in. And Danielle Nottingham begins our coverage. Reporter there was nothing they could do but run for their lives when fire raced through middleton, residents captured these images as they were forced to drive through the flames. There was fire everywhere. Our houses, our neighbors houses, everybodys houses were burning up. It was awful. Reporter joyce rein and Everett Francis were among the thousands trying to escape. It went all the way around us. There was no stopping it. We just watched the houses around us burn. It was utter chaos. It was crazy. Reporter the valley fire burning in this town 95 miles north of San Francisco is destroying up to 2,000 acres an hour. Haimd heidarys apartment was one of 50 leveled in this complex. Everybodys okay . Yeah, thank god. Thats the only good news we have. Ev
Good evening tonight from los angeles, and we begin with the breaking headline. The state of emergency here in parts of california tonight. The national guard, thousands of firefighters battling 12 wildfires. And one of those fires has turned deadly. Hundreds of homes gone tonight. We have dramatic images from inside the inferno. The valley fire in nap pa. One family fleeing to the left, to the right, everything on fire there. Haunting images of the aftermath. The charred american flag. Where the town once stood, that sign now reading, this is where we belong, still standing. Meanwhile, an urgent race. Cars, flames behind them as families try to get out. California governor jerry brown say, we are in a battle with Mother Nature tonight. We traveled north to the valley fire today, where we were stunned by what was left. Tonight, authorities stunned at the speed and strength of the valley fire. The first moments captured as it erupted on saturday. On the ground here, they tell us faster