The action. Molette . Were looer at tive at the b metro station, where the pope next week will make a visit to the National Shrine. Right now metro and d. Dot are getting set to brief us on this threeday transportation event to move people fast and efficiently as possible. In the meantime people in this community are bracing for the big event. A papal visit to the National Shrine is expected to create traffic gridlock. Horrific. Reporter pope francis will hold mass around dismissal time for brookland middle school. I leave pretty much early enough in the day, 7 45 to get to work by 9 00. Reporter preps for the mass come with warnings about street closures. Thousands of Ticket Holders are urged to take a bus or train here. I dont know. For transportation in the city, its very hit or miss. A lot of people have been hearing, well, maybe shoe stay home and take a personal day, work from home. A lot of people might take that option. It might not be as bad as we think. Taking metro on that d
In september, plenty of clouds around and a threat for showers as well. Thanks so much for joining us. Chilly start, feels like fall. Lots of 60s and a cloudy, breezy day. The leaves have been falling, more from the dryness than the fall weather. And rain is certainly around. A decent amount south of town. In the metro, it will look threatening but probably not all [ no captioner audio ] and in southern st. Marys county light rain showers there. Temps are running in the 50s in damascus and rockville. Highs upper 60s and low 70s. And the shower threat mainly south and southwest of town. Ill be back with a look at the 7day forecast. We have a couple of 80s in the forecast. Mike, back to you. Sounds good, howard. Well see you in just a little bit. We are following pope francis. You are looking at the Upper East Side. He departs, no for philadelphia. Well have live reports coming up in the next half hour. We are tracking delays on metro. Five of the six metro lines, orange, silver, blue, a
A little after 5 04. Monday morning commute, lauren scala. Anything trouble worthy out there . No major troubles right now. If youre getting on the buses, we have a detour on the b63. Otherwise buses rolling along nicely. Major commuter lines look good as well. No delays or Service Changes there. At nite side of the Street Parking rules are suspended today, but meter rules still apply. More weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Thank you, lauren. In the meantime, service should be back to normal on the g train. Crews wrapped up repairs early after a train derailed north of hoytschermerhorn station. Chunks of concrete fell on to the path of the train. And today the citys newest subway station is open and facing its first rush hour test. That long delayed 7 train extension, well, it finally opened this weekend, just yesterday. Today, new yorks Katherine Creag is live with that. Reporter on this early morning, the one person we found here, an mta worker. Hes part of the cleaning crew,
Then he was in his element among the people. And during his speech, he praised our nations tradition of tolerance. It was time for the blessing and celebration by all measures what was a triumph. And 30 minutes ago, the festival wrapped up for the day with a bang. Tonights concert ended with fireworks over the museum of art. The philadelphia orchestra provided the accompaniment. Lets look at ben franklin parkway, a little high up to see people leaving the area. But it is happening. We have blanketed the area give you every Vantage Point of the papal visit. Brian and sharrie are along the parkway. All had a front row seat to the festival of families the pontiff spoke about immigration and religious freedom. Trish hartman is with those hoping to catch a Police Officers of the hol how a gle of the holy father. Lets begin with rick and monica who had a birds eye view. The parkway is all quiet right now. All the pilgrims have gone home. Just a few security people out there right now. The li
Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis are preparing to launch a balloon-borne telescope to unlock the secrets of astrophysical black holes and neutron stars. The telescope known as XL-Calibur could be launched from Esrange Space Center in Sweden as early as Wednesday, May 29.