People will go to the polls on election day. You have a chance to avoid potentially longer aligned by voting earlier. There are voting location for drop off or in person voting. Kpix 5 is at the san mateo event center. We are there live. Reporter it is looking very good. Most early voting Locations Closed at 5 00 including this one at the San Mateo County event center. The workers are wrapping up for today and getting ready for tomorrow. They say monday and tuesday, it will be busy. Across the bay area, Election Officials are seeing record turnouts. From san mateo to San Francisco and across the bay and oakland, people are dropping off their ballots or voting in person. This is an tradition. I watch my parents a vote. This is an easy contact with this motor. No lines, in and out in less than five minutes. We are assuming it will be a big turnout. I did not want to wait in the lines. Reporter San Mateo County has 45 polling locations. There are mobile voting sites and shopping malls. Th
Steps being taken for the upcoming papal visit. Tonight we know major highways and the ben franklin bridge will close to traffic during this historic event. If youre coming to the city for the papal weekend pack your walking shoes. Good evening im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. Today city leaders reveal the security perimeter for philadelphia while the pope is in town. Eyewitness News Reporter Charlotte Huffman is live in center city to break it all down. Charlotte . Jessica and ukee, estimated 1. 5 Million People are expected to descend on the city and fill this parkway eventually later in september. And with it, theyre createing logistical problems for all of the businesses trying to serve all those people. Weve been discussing it every day and trying to figure out whats going to happen. What it will look like. Well be told are they going to tell us soon. Sent city owner Restaurant Owners have more questions than answers about pope francis visit. Philadelphia could set itself apar
Down. Charlotte . Jessica and ukee, estimated 1. 5 Million People are expected to descend on the city and fill this parkway eventually later in september. And with it, theyre createing logistical problems for all of the businesses trying to serve all those people. Weve been discussing it every day and trying to figure out whats going to happen. What it will look like. Well be told are they going to tell us soon. Sent city owner Restaurant Owners have more questions than answers about pope francis visit. Philadelphia could set itself apart as the largest in the history of the world meeting of families. Reporter handle influx of estimate 1. 5 Million People mayor nutter laid out the framework for road closures today. Parts of 76, 676 and route 1 will shut down. I95 will remain open with some ramp closures. Ben franklin bridge will shut down and in center city walking or biking is about all youll be able to do. Spring garden to ridge ridge to girard. No vehicles will be allowed to enter t
Slight hint of low lying included cover as we tend to see but right around this time of the year it picks up a little bit here over pennsylvania farmland. 55 degrees with that west northwest wind flow. The not very windy. That is allowing low lying included cover to form but it really is a crisp comfortable morning across the region. Storm scan is quiet as can be. We mentioned there is a disturbance. We will call it a storm system that is head willing our way. So by tonight the clouds in the only rebuild but the pockets of the rain start to move in. The thing is, this is a system that will be splitting the region in two. Further south, we have to deal with the rain and further north we will go, we will not have much impact at all. We will break those details down as show progresses but walking through your day planner, it is a nice day more sun then anything but clouds do start to build but we will keep you dry through whole day. Not until later tonight that anybody has to worry about
To effectively move emergency vehicles as well as a large number of buses that are expected. Lets talk about bridges, the ben franklin bridge is going to be shut down from new jersey into philadelphia. This is the first time officials have confirmed that for us. This will allow people to literally from new jersey walk across the bridge on the road into center city to see the pope, and lets hear from the drpa from a few minutes ago. The bridge will be closed to all vehicles except for emergency vehicles. And we will use it to allow pedestrians to cross into philadelphia from new jersey and back. Real quick, the walt whitman bridge will remain open. That will allow people to get from 95 into new jersey and back. As for when this all gets back to normal back to open again. It could take until monday by noontime. Live at city hall Randy Gyllenhaal nbc10. Our Team Coverage continues now with nbc10s george spencer. A lot of the popes events are in center city philadelphia. The street closure