Met privately with a group of sex Abuse Victims sunday morning while he was here in philadelphia. He also expressed his love for american nuns and even touched on his feelings for the city of brotherly love. Philadelphia pope francis said the people in philadelphia gave him a demonstrative welcome. In d. C. He said he received a warm welcome but it was a bit more formal. In new york he said his welcome there was a bit unlimited. He appreciated the warmth of all the americans calling it a beautiful, different thing. And now that the papal visit is over crews are hard at work cleaning up the ben franklin parkway. Lets check in with jesse gary lie along the parkway this morning. Reporter an army of workers for the city and private contractors just behind me and their vehicles, this is logan square, and you can see Philadelphia Police have it blocked off, 18th street as it comes across the parkway, and thats because of all the activity on the other side of the fountain. Lets take a look at
Memphis its 75, dallas its 76 and the next three days well be getting winds out of the southwest pulling up that warmer air. So, if youre heading to the linc tomorrow, 3 oclock for the armynavy game, were looking at record temperatures. Kickoff temperature 66 degrees. By the Fourth Quarter 61 degrees with a mixture of clouds and sunshine and i think some records will be broken in some other cities. Allentowns record high tomorrow 63 degrees. That likely will fall. Wilmington 64. Probably a new record high there tomorrow. Trenton, Atlantic City airport, those records may be beyond roof but i am track reacg warmer air. Well talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. Thanks cecily. Stay with 6abc. Com through the weekend as this record warmth bathes our region. Youll find the latest information from our team of meteorologists and of course stay ahead of whats coming next. In other news tonight the daughter of a local police chief is accused of using offensive slurs and throwing pun
It was a welcomed sight and sound on Taylor Street in fair mount this afternoon. A plow liberating their block from the blizzard of 2016. Some tell me they are surprised it didnt happen sooner. I just thought they were on it. We knew the storm was coming so i thought they could do a little more preparation but you know, its here now so i guess thats hopeful. Reporter in East Mount Airy neighbors decided they couldnt wait for help from the city. They counted on each other. We have to look on the bright side. The more responsibility we give away the angrier well be. This is a time to get together and help each other out. While the city of philadelphia reports 80 of residential roads are passable, the Streets Department admits this blizzard has been challenging. Thats the issue with this storm. Most of the stuff was not the actual storm, we had up to 17, 18 inches of snow drifts that drifted on some of the city streets so its an ongoing battle. Reporter ongoing battle because many roads h
Reading, pottstown at 38 degrees. 40s across delaware and south jersey. The icing threat not happening this morning. During the day, the showers come to an end. First thing this morning, 40 degrees at 7 clng. By 10 00, a little bit of a breeze. Its shifted. Its coming out of the west northwest. Well get enough sunshine to see the temperatures climb back into the low 40s this afternoon. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington is watching some of the wet roads. Good morning, bill. We are not wet just because of precipitation. We have a water main break. This is in sickerlerville, williamstown erial road northbound and southbound. 295 around route 130 in west deptford, southbound drive time 23 minutes from the 42 freeway to the bridge. Roadways starting to dry up. Heres 422 eastbound around the route 202 ramp to the southbound route 202. You can see we did have an earlier accident here and now we have Police Activity there.
38 degrees at lunch time and climbing. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. Right now, Jessica Boyington has a look at first alert traffic. Were watching an accident scene on 95, not causing a huge disruption, at least so far. This is right around route 1. You can see flashing lights all right here. Its pretty much into the lefthand shoulder. You can see traffic squeezing by to the righthand side. Not causing any disruption there of course. But again, its 95 northbound around route 1. Out in conshohocken, watch out for construction on balligomingo road. And heading out the door for mass transit, no problems or days fday s delays for amtrak, patco, new Jersey Transit or d. A. R. T. There may be some crowding on septa trains. Crews are focus on moving piles of snow from Street Parking spots and parking lots. I stopped and took this video on the way into work. You can see the machine moving snow along montgomery avenue, lower marion townsh