Weekend of september 26th and 27th will literally double the citys population virtually overnight. Mayor nutter insists philly will be ready. Philadelphia is the can do city and we can and will do everything in our power along with our many, many, many partners to ensure a safe and secure event a spiritual and joyful event. Reporter there will be once in a lifetime traffic headaches. Socalled traffic box will be established friday night at 10 00 covering the city from i95 to 38th street and from south street to spring garden, ridge and girard. Vehicular traffic will be a loud win that zone, but with many restrictions and with great difficulty. You will not be able to drive your vehicle into the zone during the papal weekend and once you drive outside the zone, you wont ab loud to drive back in till the papal events conclude. It lee system about crowd control and Public Safety and the ability to maintain some assemblance of security and order. Reporter despite what you may have heard, i
Thursday night, jims off, im monica malpass. The big story on action news is this new layer oven tighter security surrounding the popes visit. Yes, there will be a security fence. Heres a quick time line for you. On thursday, september 24th at 10 00 p. M. Construction will begin here on the secure perimeters. Black and red zones there will be off limits. And, friday morning, at 6 00 a a. M. Pedestrians trying to enter the red secure perimeter will need to go through metal detectors and be screened. No cars will be allowed in the black secure vehicle perimeter you see there. 8 00 a. M. Yellow lines take effect. Those are authorized vehicle access road and they will be reserved for emergency vehicles only. The residents cannot park on those streets by the way. Then friday night at 10 00 p. M. A secure perimeter will be set up around independent mall for the popes speech there. Also, on friday night, previously announced traffic box in center city goes into effect at 6 00 p. M. With the a
It is a blessing in disguise holy fathers historic visit will bring at tension to the world in philadelphia and possibly bring one to 2 million pilgrims but as we learn about more security restrictions tonight, many resident and businesses are simply praying that they get through it. Thursday night, jims off, im monica malpass. The big story on action news is this new layer oven tighter security surrounding the popes visit. Yes, there will be a security fence. Heres a quick time line for you. On thursday, september 24th at 10 00 p. M. Construction will begin here on the secure perimeters. Black and red zones there will be off limits. And, friday morning, at 6 00 a a. M. Pedestrians trying to enter the red secure perimeter will need to go through metal detectors and be screened. No cars will be allowed in the black secure vehicle perimeter you see there. 8 00 a. M. Yellow lines take effect. Those are authorized vehicle access road and they will be reserved for emergency vehicles only. T
Temperatures, 71 degrees currently. Im trying to decide which day i should gee to the shore after i get off work because it looks like a good shore weekend draft. Today it will be hot and humid with spot showers possible, but this is not the kind of rain that will cancel any plans. Moving forward, well be cooler and let humid for your sunday. And then it is a wet workweek as we get in to the extended long forecast. So we are tracking as we move forward quite a few changes on that extended forecast. Coming up, well take a closer look at that, talk more about your highs neighborhood by neighborhood and ill let you know how long we might see rain duringing the workweek. The g20 summit continues right now in hamburg, germany with President Trump meeting with more World Leaders this morning. But much of the attention is still focused on the president s meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin. Randy gyllenhaal is live with details on what they discussed and who President Trump is meeti
Our morning. Just some clouds. And it will be a humid one. My hair actually is a great forecaster because i can tell when its humid, it goes flat real quickly. So we are looking at hot and humid conditions about spot shower, but not a washout. Right now weertre at 72 in philadelphia, 68 in wilmington and redding. Allentown, youre at 67. And at the marina, 74. Not bad today well have a southwest flow, so that will keep our temperature pretty nice even along our shore points will be in the mid80s for our High Temperatures. As for philly, we go through the next few hours, 77 at 9 00 a. M. And 83 by your lunchtime. But we wont stop there. Were talking more right around 90 for forecast high. And well look neighborhood by neighborhood and ill let you know what sunday is looking like, that is my pick of the weekend, thats coming up. Protests raged through the night in hamburg. Police say that the protesters set fires and looted supermarkets. As you can see, officers had to use water could not