Closures. To night we have much more detailed look at the tight security measures put into place fort popes visit to philadelphia. Mayor Michael Nutter laid out an extensive plan that will impact everyone coming to see the pope and those who live in and around the city. Good evening, im jessica dean. Im ukee washington. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt is along the ben franklin parkway with more on the restrictions that need to be known. David . Reporter ukee where im standing in the parkway behind me will become the red zone for pope francis visit at the end of the september. Mayor nutter throughout lot of information today regarding security. But the big thing is a security map that has several different zones that will play out that entire weekend. If you want to be anywhere near the action when pope francis comes to town, take a good look at this map. The black and red zones are the most secure. You wont find any vehicles inside. This huge event has in fact been classified as a
The restrictions that need to be known. David . Reporter ukee where im standing in the parkway behind me will become the red zone for pope francis visit at the end of the september. Mayor nutter throughout lot of information today regarding security. But the big thing is a security map that has several different zones that will play out that entire weekend. If you want to be anywhere near the action when pope francis comes to town, take a good look at this map. The black and red zones are the most secure. You wont find any vehicles inside. This huge event has in fact been classified as a National Special security event by the secretary of the department of homeland security. Reporter one week after announcing this traffic box, mayor Michael Nutter dove a little deeper into the box to give specific zoning instructions. The traffic box will go into effect in the city at 6 00 oclock friday evening. The red and black zones are more secure and will go into effect saturday morning. Pope fran
Call 18003419716. Right now on fox 5 news atten 88 degrees at 10 00. No doubt we remain stuck in the middle of a blistering heat wave. Look that. Actually beautiful, but shows the city is bake under extreme heat since the weekend. The First Official heat wave we had in two years. That is right. The best place to be near sprinklerrors the beach. People doing anything they can to stay cool. That one with a hard shell finish. Try take it in stride. The Parks Department capturing this adorable shot of a turtle. Well he see if we get some relief. We still have more heat to go. Meteorologist that is true, steve. Temperatures will come down a little bit. Todays high numbers were recordbreaking across the tristate area. We tied the record in central park with the high of 95 degrees. The same case toward newark. The temperature came in at 97 degrees. 90s in many spots. It was 92 in sussex. It looks like islip toward montauk point, read arings into the 80 he a today. Temperatures from saturday,
Eyewitness news copter you see just how big a scene this was and is still this afternoon. Traffic southbound has been diverted to route 17. They will be at this for quite some time today trying to figure out exactly what happened. All the details of what happened, and right now just trying to notify next of kin and straighten out exactly to get traffic flowing once again. Dolan channel 7 Eyewitness News. As we find out more breaking information we will update you on air and online at abc7ny. Three workers remain hospitalized with serious burns suffered in a massive explosion as they worked on a gas line at a high school in the bronx. Damage and tore a gaping hole in the side of the building as you can see from this tweet from marcus solis. He is joining us right now with the very latest. Its devastation, pure devastation. I have no idea. As a longtime teacher of Digital Electronics he had to come see for himself. These photos give you a sense of the force of the blast a gas fueled expl
One of the other box trucks, and when he attempted to merge back into traffic, from the right lane back into the middle lane, he lost control of the vehicle, and ended up going across the guide rail and struck a tractortrailer that was traveling southbound on interstate 87. Reporter two people, both in the truck that were trying to pass were killed. Two other people were injured. The accident led to enormous traffic jams in both directions, as investigators had to close lanes and divert traffic around the site. Ive got one hour to get myself to harman. It. Reporter some had been in the traffic for over an hour, and had barely moved on a friday in the summer. Were at a standstill. Its really tough, you know, and its hot, too. Reporter now, traffic is still awfully rough all around this accident. And again, the southbound lanes still closed. Two people dead. Both of them inside that box truck that tried to pass and lost control. Two other people were injured. Report live, jim dolan, chan