Locations for those on foot. We are not frisking people. Now the eagles game on sunday. Private security and extra cops insized the stadium and beefed up security in hot spots. Especially frankford and cotman and may fair and along south broad where they learned a lot from the spontaneous revelry that broke out when the phillies won the world seriouses in 08. They have a plan set up for the rest of the city, we have 21 districts and each of our 21 captains of those districts identify hot spots they are historical locations where people come out to celebrate when one with of our sports teams wins. Reporter so Just Announced by the police just moments ago. On sunday no parking along south broad from south street to the stadium area. Including in the median lane where south philadelphia people park from 2 00 p. M. Until 3 00 in the morning, there will be no towing police say but ticketing will be up to each individual officers discretion. Im vernon odom, channel 6 action news. Vernon, tha
Only a few hiccups and as you said the number of people there that became an issue. The expectation going into the parade. 2 to 3 Million People there. An established report today of an analysis made by an organization in britain estimated 700,000 people there. The city officials here skeptical of that analysis. They believe it was a larger number of people. They think it was the largest organized event they have ever seen here in the city in a parade fashion. But could not produce the numbers for the 700,000 figure. Going to the cleanup. The cleanup is still going on and the city has a good handle on it. At this point they collected 60 tons of rubbish from the parade in excess of any other event that may have happened prior in philadelphia. Obviously a significant number of people here and they left a lot of trash behind. We heard from Police Commissioner ross about Police Activity during yesterdays parade here in philadelphia. We made two arrests yesterday. One was for assault on pol
The Vince Lombardi trophy. And tonight the eagles are hoping to wrestle it from the spending super bowl champions, the patriots. The stage as minneapolis game day is here. The long wait is almost over. For generations of eagles fans that will hold a special place as the world watches. It is sunday morning, let us kick off our coverage. Our starter bob brooks is live with security in philadelphia. Jeannette reyes is with fans and Trish Hartman is on the super bowl shopping. Ducis rodgers, jamie apody, Sarah Bloomquist are all in minnesota. Look for their reports coming up later today on action news. Lets take you live sky 6hd overlooking the philadelphia skyline proudly decked in green as the city gets behind our eagles. First chris sowers with the super bowl accuweather forecast. A lot of rain today. People better have their umbrellas handy. Periods of rain, some of it heavy at times. Yesterday afternoon the computer modeling came in and it pushed the moisture in a little earlier than
Issued a winter advisory until 10 00 this evening because initially this is going to start as snow in these counties here. It will transition over to a wintry mix, sleet and freezing rain and eventually go over to rain as some milder air works its way into the area. As of now temperatures are below the freezing mark of 32. Bethlehem 32, lake harmony 22. Colder stuff out here to the west, but numbers are above freezing south and east thats part of the wn why theres no advisory for new jersey and delaware. As we take a look at future tracker here, the snow line will continue to lift to the north as the day wears on. This is just a cold rain for the immediate philadelphia area today. Accuweather says cloudy and damp this afternoon with rain developing around midday and a high of 44. Ill have much more on this with the timing and the accuweather 7day forecast all coming up in about 10 minutes. Thank you. It is finally super bowl sunday. The eagles will take the field in about nine and a ha
To friends of the victim. Reporter and they all say he was a kind and wonderful guy and theyre deeply grieving about his untimely passing. He was a father of two. He passed away after being hit by a hitandrun driver at this gas station on monday afternoon and an intense manhunt continues tonight for the hitandrun driver who never stopped and looked back at what hed done. Local police and Mercer County prosecutor need help in finding the suspect who left man to ultimately die. Charles nevius jr. Resided in trenton but he was most popular here in Lawrence Township where he long worked as a gas attendant at this quick check. A hitandrun driver struck him monday afternoon while he was trying to flee a separate hitandrun of a vehicle seconds earlier here on the stations lot. Witnesses say negative yes was trying to say nevius was trying to stop the driver. The Good Samaritan known as simply chucky the father of two passed away the next day at age 28. Him trying to intervene with a Traffic O