Getting a Second Chance to get their hands on the special passes. Good evening. Those passes are the only way people can ride the Regional Rail during pope francis visit in september. Riders are hoping luck will be on their side. Randy gyllenhaal is live tonight. You spoke to commuters eager to get one of those passes. Reporter denise the critical thing to know is most stations that day will be closed. Only a few hubs will be open to pick up passengers. Conshohocken is usually busy. People may have to go to Chestnut Hill if theyre lucky enough to get a pope pass in the first place. In less than an hour you can head to septas website and enter the lottery for the chance to win a pope pass on the Regional Rail. The golden tigckets will be in high demand. Not just for pope fans but locals who commute into the city for work. You have to work into the city that weekend . I do. People are talking about what the situation will be. Reporter todd works in hospitality. Hes going to try his luck
Athletes. Is it safe . Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Right now fires are burning from one end of california to the other. The worst of them northwest of sacramento where at least 24 homes are destroyed, 6,000 structures are threatened and 13,000 people have been urged to gather up their belongings and head to safety. In all an incredible 9,000 firefighters are working more than 20 fires across the state. But the socalled rocky fire has proven the most dangerous and confounding, tripling in size over the weekend. Nbcs joe fryer is there with the latest. Rowdy good evening, lester. You can see we are surrounded by smoke from the rocky fire. 2,500 firefighters are now on the ground here. And weve heard from veterans whove been doing this 10 20 even 30 years who said they have never seen a fire behave like this one. The villain of Northern California is a massive agile wildfire
Feels like 79. Noon 83, feels like 85 and mostly sunny. By 3 00, 88 will feel like 87 because there will be a breeze then helping to make it feel cooler. Skies will be mostly sunny. Coming up, we will talk an increase in humidity and opportunity for storms as we make our way into the workweek. Vanessa, thank you. Now to breaking news. Nearly a dozen people are hurt after gunfire erupted at a party in brooklyn. Cbs 2s ilana gold joins us more with more on the story from East New York, ilana. Reporter a total of nine people were shot on stanley avenue by crescent street. Police have been out here all morning. We have seen them talking to witnesses and they are going door to door to get more information on who fired the gunshots. This is what we know. Police say a fight broke out in a backyard at 2 00 this morning. Thats when a group of men opened fire during a house party. Nine people were shot. The victims are men and women, ages 19 to 38. Bullets hit them in the arms, leg and neck. Inj
You got elected to be mayor of this city. Step up and do your job. Calling out the mayor after a weekend of gun violence. The community now demanding answers from the city. But first, breaking news in new jersey. A Police Officer seriously injured in a Chain Reaction crash that littered a street for blocks. Good evening. Im diane macedo in for cindy hsu. A dozen people were hurt when a speeding vehicle went on a collision course at around 8 00 tonight. Cbs 2s Hazel Sanchez spoke with witnesses. Shes live in jersey city with more. Police are still here cleaning up what witnesses described as a crazy accident scene. A maroon minivan was speeding down ocean avenue behind me when it slammed in to that silver car you see being towed right now. That started a scary chain of events that left a dozen people hurt including a jersey city Police Officer who was struck by that silver car while standing on the sidewalk. Reporter witnesses say the driver of this maroon minivan was speeding on ocean
Hes in Critical Condition and severely injured in this accident last night. Reporter cars and minivans scattered across the street with debris. They described the accident a scattered collision. He hit another car. That car hit another car. Reporter around 8 00 sunday night, investigators say the driver of the van was speeding down myrtle avenue in jersey city when it hit the silver car. Police say the van spun out of control and pushed the car into a driveway. The car striking and critically injuring a Jersey City Police officer that was standing on the sidewalk. The Chain Reaction accident sent car parts raining all across the street, leafing 12 people hurt. I was leaving 12 people hurt. I was shocked it was daylight kids were outside riding their bikes. There was a group of kids playing football when the accident happened. Get hit. They did not get hit. Amen. Reporter the name of the released. As for the driver of the minivan, witnesses say he tried to run from the scene but was app