Joining us. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. Every day things are changing more equipment going up across the city. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live along the ben franklin parkway tonight. Chris a lot of action. Reporter yeah, a bevy of activity not just here on the parkway, lucy, but citywide as papal plans really kick in to high gear. From the Police Presence downtown, from the 15 new security checkpoints that have just been installed torque the giant 40 jumbotrons along the parkway, it is clear philly is almost ready for pope francis. Visitors flocking to town cant wait for pope francis to arrive. If they can get here. Lots of barricades. Reporter this group from kansas came out to the parkway Festival Grounds before the crowds came. Their First Impression everything was neatly man cured and the banners are beautiful. All the, you know, theres it looks like the city went all out. Reporter but some werent so happy with the pope preps. You guys are going to tell people maybe they should ma
The northnortheast. 72 relative humidity. Our sunrise is official at 6 49. Unlike yesterday, we should see some sun to start the day, pretty cloudy at this time yesterday. So we have 52 degrees in lancaster, 53 in reading, chillier 49 in allentown, very cool 44 degrees in mount pocono, 62 as we told you in philadelphia, 56 degrees in trenton, also, in the 50s, in wilmington, delaware this morning. So, your foxcast today has more sunshine than we saw yesterday. And High Temperature of 80 degrees, so, for the first day of autumn, it is actually warmer than the last day of summer. Sunny skies, and northeasterly breeze at about five to 10 miles per hour. Then tonight, clear skies, and low of 58 degrees. So, not bad to start the season. But of course the question is what about the weekend . Well give you our latest prediction of the weekend forecast coming up. Right now it, 5 01. We check in with bob kelly. Good morning you. Dont have to tell me twice to start party interesting at 5 00 in t
I mentioned arrives tomorrow. Coming up new information about the timing as well as who could potentially see over 3inches of rain. Dawn, back to you. All right, scott, thank you. Developing now, a Catholic School still picking up the pieces. This building in somerdale the target of an overnight burglar earlier this week. Investigators say the crook set his sights on thousands dollars worth of electronics inside. Police this was no quick smash and grab job and its what else did he that forced School Leaders to turn away students yesterday. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser following the investigation from northeast detectives tonight. Dave . Reporter dawn, this cold hearted thief broke a school window, ransacked several classrooms and the computer lab and made off with several thousand dollars worth of new lab Top Computers to night the school is trying to figure out how students will cope with the lot of equipment. When sister emily walked into the building at saint martin of tour school on m
Engulf the surrounding billings. I saw the fire escape come off the building and the whole side of the building came off on to the sidewalk. You can see behind me now the building is collapsing, this is exactly what they expected liz that is why they backed everyone out of here and then the second of 100yearold structures crumbled under the force of the water. 12 persons were reported injured and several critically, the smoke so heavy people were Wearing Masks to breathe and city officials evacuated the area as the fire went to seven alarms. One neighbor told me that it felt the impact was so intense, like a truck just rammed into her building live in the east village, channel 6 action news. Thank you, back in this area, the 3200 block was the scene of an apparent abduction in fairmount park, a man forced a woman into the backseat of a car and was last seen traveling west on kelly drive. Dann cuellar is live at the scene. Reporter well jim Police Continue to call this a potential crime
Petersburg. Dont get used to it. It is gone by late tonight. Temperatures crash down to the 50s. 40s overnight. Our High Temperatures coming up for the weekend, not too great either. A snapshot of 6 00 p. M. With the storms coming into the area. New information coming in in the next couple minutes. Well update this and have the latest on the track of these storms for your evening rush in a few minutes. On the ground. Were learning at least one person was killed and an entire mobile Home Community destroyed after tornadoes and storms ripped through oklahoma last night. Just two years after the town of moore, oklahoma was torn apart by a deadly tornado, residents are forced to clean up once again. Coming up in our next half hour jay gray is in bhoormoore with a look at the damage. Shocking details out of france tonight in the crash of german Germanwings Flight 9525. Were learning more about the copilot now blamed for the crash. You saw the breaking details in our nbc washington app. News