What the Environmental Protection agency calls a threat to public health. Vokes wagon accused of making cars that intentionally violate clean air standards. Nearly 500,000 vw and audi diesel cars built in the last seven years include a device that only turns on full emissions controls during official testing but turns off during regular driving. In a statement vw says its cooperating with the investigation. We are a little more than a week out from the popes arri l arrival. Seven days, 17 hours until pope francis lands in philadelphia and today drivers are starting to see the warning signs. The video Message Boards on the schuylkill expressway are reminding drivers about 76 being shut down next weekend. Nbc 10 found these detour signs posted on city avenue indicating some of the closures on the main line. And on the ben franklin parkway crews continue to set up for the meeting of families. Crews also continue to shut down the inner lanes there. Theyll remain closed until tuesday, septe
For part of the area. One part of the area. Still a chance. Good morning. This is nbc 10 news today on this friday. Im chris cato. Meteorologist bill henley is glad to be in the studio and not out in that blustery breeze. Yeah, its just getting started. The stronger winds will be here this afternoon. Right now a 10mileanhour wind but look at northeast philadelphia, allentown, the wind at 17 miles per hour. Well see gusts to near 40 miles an hour today. 52 right now at philadelphia international. Just about everybody is in the 50s. Well see sunshine, more than we saw yesterday. Look at the winds, 12 miles an hour, by 9 00, 14mileanhour winds and 22mileanhour winds at noon time today. 55 degrees, thats not a lot warmer than it is right now. Thats going to hold our temperatures back during the day. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when im back. Right now its friday morning. Jessica boyington has first alert traffic. On the vine street expressway closed east and we
The clouds have advanced quite a bit just during the day today. Theres still no rain around, but its getting closer, as you can see, the clouds, of course, have come in and this is a large area of rain thats getting closer and closer to washington, d. C. Its, obviously, going to hit delaware first. And that area is going to be pretty wet by the morning rush, thats for sure. Near 60 degrees now, upper 50s in much of the rest of the area. Remember the average high is only 59. Weve been spoiled last week because of all that warm weather, so these temperatures are more typical for this time of year. 7 00 its still just cloudy and on the cool side, but midnight the rain starting to move in. Probably already raining by midnight in delaware and extreme south jersey, just starting to move into parts of the philadelphia area, and by the morning rush tomorrow its going to be wet. 57 degrees, not especially cold, but when you combine that rain with all the leaves that are still going to be on the
Expressway to the blue route at 12 minutes, average speed, were moving along nicely. A few things, this out in whitemarsh township. It was blocked with a fallen tree. Dont have to worry about that. An accident reported on the blue route, the northeast extension between lansdale and quakertown thats cleared. So youre good to go there. And if youre heading out the door, you can take mass transit. No problems or delays so far. We have breaking news, a live look right now at southwest philadelphia where a murder suspect is still on the loose after a deadly shooting. The victim who was in his early 20s was shot several times on my does place after midnight. Police arrested one man on the scene. Authorities are looking for a second shooter who may still be in the area. Witnesses heard arguing before the shots rang out. And today a secret Service Agent with white House Clearance will face charges of sexting with teen girls. He will be in court later this morning. Matt delucia, what led the po
Here. You can see oak grove road that runs sideways by that high hill road could be an alternate. 295 is great but that might not get you where you need to go right there. Well get you past that scene no problem if you want to take the highway. And if you also want to take the highway on route 202, here what were seeing is Police Activity right around route 30. So its actually impacting both sides, the accident scene on the northbound side. Were seeing problems into the center and Police Activity headed southbound as well. More on these when i come back in 10. Its not a shock to many but now the work begins for jim kenney. The former democratic councilman is now philadelphias 99th mayor. As you said now the real work begins. Kenney will discuss as he prepares to take the helm in 2016. Matt delucia is live in center city. Matt, what will the mayorelect be focusing on now . Reporter there will be a lot on hills plate. That is for sure. The front page of the daily news says he is smiling