You can only watch the super bowl on nbc 10. Good morning im rosemary connors. And just about 15 mipnutes from now well hear from Doug Pederson. The team of will use the new indoor practice facility at the university of minnesota to prepare for the epic showdown against new England Patriots on sunday. Also in minneapolis today, the secretary of Homeland Security will join police there to give an overview of the security plan for u. S. Bank stadium and the surrounding area where tens of thousands are expected on supported and for the pregame festivities this week. Expect to see patriots tightend Rob Gronkowski on the field when the eagles and the pats faceoff. Thats something new were learning this morning. They told reporters that he will play on sunday. He spent the last week in concussion protocol after being knocked out of the championship game. Super bowl lii is not just about the players and team, its about events for the whole family leading right up to kickoff. Randy gyllenhaal
Including one guy whose a volunteer who for this is the weekend of his life. Hopefully ill see you again. Greeting fans three the streets of Downtown Minneapolis one super bowl volunteer has a little more pep in his step. Any guesses why. Committee gives us this nice jacket but ill tell you im still going to wear my gear no matter what i have on underneath it. Reporter it was months ago tacony native james petrivis signed up to be one of the thousands crew 52 blue coat volunteers work the super bowl. He lives here now but little did this diehard eagles fan know his team would be here. Whats this like, man . Its amazing to be a part of the super bowl and have my Hometown Team that i grew uprooting for right here in my backyard now. Reporter his volunteer duties include being a city ambassador and working the bold north zipline across the mississippi river. But its always allowed him to meet gm Howie Roseman even got into opening night. I had to talk a little bit with brian dawkins, weap
To go. Now, fox 29 news at 10 00. So exciting. Super bowl sunday rapidly approaching as we said four more days pretty much all of philadelphia is getting seriou seriously pumped. Thank you much for joining us at 10 00. Im lucy noland. We are ready for some football. You know who is really ready . Our crew in minute money and here in philly covering the leader up to the big game. Dave schratwieser live in philly which is preparing for the super bowl after party. Chris oconnell is live in minneapolis. Well get to them in a moment. We begin with Kristen Rodgers at the mall of america and, krist kristen, huge news from the nfl today. Very excited around here. Oh, yeah, lucy the buzz here today in minnesota nfl on fox is getting even bigger. Fox and the nfl have agreed to a fiveyear deal for thursday night football. Roger goodell nfl commissioner spoke about it earlier today. Every network that was interested in that we had very aggressive bit bidding, and we see that our content even in th
Just one more day before they take on the patriots. The city is ready and eager for a big win. Boathouse row one of the many landscapes lit up in celebration for the eagles exeevment achievement, lets go over to chris sowers with the accuweather forecast. Reporter today its a twopart story. Today is cold, tomorrow, damp with a lot of the rain. 11 degrees in pittsburgh. 18 in philadelphia. And washington, d. C. 1 in syracuse, 17 city. Temperatures were in the 30s at the same time yesterday. Cold out there, winds out of the west southwest at 5 to 10. Putting the feelslike temperatures in the Single Digits in some locations. Trenton, allentown, reading, lancaster and wilmington, 15. 5 in the poconos. 10 in millville. 16 degrees in atlantic city. Waking up to clear skies, well see a decent amount of sunshine today with high, thin clouds rolling in later on. Call from accuweather, sun and clouds and cold, blustery high of 34. Windchills in the 20s, when icos well focus on tomorrows rain, il
Well see milder air from the south work on in here tt means rain and not snow. Well see clouds increase during the day. Sunshine fading behind increasing clouds. Blustery and cold high of 34. Never feels like 4 because of the wind. Windchills in the teens this morning and eventually climbing up into the low 20s this afternoon. 3 00 p. M. , 23. 5 00 p. M. , 22. Later this evening, dropping back down into the low 20s and upper teens again. Thats today as we head into sunday again, the rain arrives after lunch time. Ill be back along in just a few minutes, ill time it out for you in future tracker 6, ill have the exclusive accuweather thank you. One more day, thats how long we have to wait until the highly anticipated Eagles Patriots matchup in super bowl lii. Yes with Super Bowl Weekend finally here many are packing up their bags and catching a flight to minnesota. Thats where Sarah Bloomquist joins us live, sarah so many fans already there, im sure you can feel the excitement buildings.