Successful and safe visit for the pope and for the public. Reporter Security Officials are defending the order toss close down the ben franklin bridge stretches of highway and restrict movement in a three square mile swath of center city. Outdoor event such as we see here to the burlingtonbristol parkway in philadelphia, it creates enormous challenges bust we have to adapt to that and we have. Reporter joe clancy director of u. S. Secret service. He says plans must be in place to evacuate the pope and visitors in case of an emergen emergency. You have to have structure. If you dont have structure, you have mayhem. Reporter meanwhile city officials are still pushing back against claims that philadelphia has overreacted to the popes visit. Adopting security measures that go far beyond what will be experienced by those in new york and washington when the pontiff visits those cities. There are any number of events in both new york and washington, d. C. All ticked much smaller venues and no
Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of awesome. Right now a bizarre standoff for a group of families without a home. Now take a look. Some with children. Only weeks old. Set up tents in this abandoned lottery fusing an offer from the city for a roof over their heads tonight. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. They say its part of a much bigger problem. Our fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live at this socall tent city in fair hill tonight. Chris . Reporter thats right, iain. At least seven homeless families will be staying yet another night in this make shift tent city here in north philadelphia. These families some of them as you said with infant babies rejected the citys offer for Emergency Shelters tonight. Instead this will be their home they say to prove a point. We do have space for up to six families tonight. Reporter the citys top two housing officials arrived to fair hills tent city offering Emergency Shelter to the two dozen people who have taken up resid
That is the vehicle that investigators say somehow hit the child. This all happening on the 6300 block of leonard street. The vehicle involved does not appear to be equipped with flashing lights on the roof like other Police Vehicles have. We do not know where other lights and we do not if there were other lights and sirens in use i should same were toll the fouryearold was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. And a search for a group behind a brutal attack. A van pulls up and immediately several people jump out and start their beating and that is only the beginning. Good evening im dawn timmeney. Chris oconnell is off tonight. Police say the group used more than their bare fists to beat this man. Fox 29s Joanne Pileggi talk to a witness season live at northwest detectives. Joanne . Reporter dawn, the police have made two arrests. Now, they want to fine the rest of the group of people who violently beat a man outside of a Convenience Store in olney this week. All of it captured o
Finally getting the kids out. Theyve been cooped up all week with the clear skies. The rain fell pretty much all week lowcn were bringing back the sunshine today. Nice startci] to the day, even nicer tomorrow. This tells the t story, mostly cloudy skies, were movinpahe clouds out. A pretty shot. Temperatures not too bad rightt now with the clouds in place. Were mainly looking at the 40s and 50s,q 41 in philadelphia 52 in chester springs, 53 in wilmington. To the north and west, temperatures mainly in the 40s, 47 in allentown, 47 in lancasb 50 degrees right now in blue bell. If youre n waking up tolp in beach haven, yourerwaking up to 51 degrees and 52 in dover, delaware. The winds will be the big storyjf today. Winds anywhere from 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour later on today. Were starting to seee1 them pick up already, 13 mile per hour5 r hour at times. By 8 00 50 degrees by noon 57 windy, by 4 00, 61 and sunny. Even nicer on sun. E1 well have yourok full weekend forecast coming up. N kcen
Radnor Middle School hosted its annual Memorial Day ceremony on Thursday, May 23. Led by the RMS Student Council members, the event brought together 900 students and staff members from 6th to 8th grade, alongside esteemed guests from various military branches.