They got their first test over the weekend during the made in america festival, many that attended complained of poor cell service, crown castle identified and replaced some underperforming nodes. That bad an opportunities to test the performance and then there are all kinds of tweaks and adjustments made right up until the last minute. There are not many minutes left with the popes arrival just ten days away. Mayor nutter urged people to make their final preparations now. The incredible moment in history is upon us. They urge people to put their misgivings hinz them and get excited that its time for residents to take pride in their city and let it shine on the international stage. Cranes have lifted the super structure into place and the venue will be ready on time. And mayor nutter is urging residents and visitors to do the same. Get your septa passes and tokens and make the plans with your family what you will attend and decide on your favorite selfie pose. And of course i have so m
Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of aweso awesome. Right now rain and thunder moving in and a lot of it. Live look at wilmington bearing the brunt of these storms right now. Radar you can see the swath of green, yellow and or ranch covering a lot of our area. Look at our camera lense in reading covered in raindrops. The region getting hit with pretty heavy downpours right now. Were talking more than an inch of rain. Good evening and thanks for joining us im iain page. Im lucy noland. This is only the first round. Meteorologist kathy orr is track wagon we can all expect. Kathy. Take look at ultimate doppler behind me. You can see yellow and oranges pockets of heavy rain moving through the area most of it to the west of philadelphia but you can see down through wilmington, dover, even toward the shore points seeing some heavy rain. In south jersey comer land county seeing heavy rain as well. So this is all going to be moving through courtesy an area of low pressure.
Its not going to be a rough day weatherwise. Yesterday you had wall to wall sunshine, bright blue skies overhead and more of the same on the way today with a large area of High Pressure right in the neighborhood plus those strong breezes that were wrapping around that departing low Pressure Center are not going to be a factor today because the storm system that caused those is farther away and that high is closer to us. Still somewhat cool this morning. 62 in philadelphia. Down to 51 in allentown. 54 in reading. 56 in wilmington. 69 degrees little milder down in cape may and with the winds lighter its a little easier to take those cooler numbers. Winds right now are running in the Single Digits across much of the region and theyre calm wherever you see the zeros so not really doing whole lot out there this morning. 58 degrees on the bus stop by 6 oclock this morning. By 8 oclock, 61. A little milder than yesterday but still probably cool enough to put a jacket on the kids on the way in
With the investigation. This woman and others are ripping flyers down taking issue with characterization of group as some kind ever criminal enterprise and they believe there must be a better solution toe break this cycle of violence. Instead of put being them up there what about education. Educate kids so they dont be out here. When all you know is the straets thats all do. They dont have avenues they h closing down schools and libraries. Finally shutting this criminal group down will help the neighborhood back up. Its a group out of control and we believe getting the group over the street will improve the community. Atf set up a hot line to field calls about this group. They hope to make a last of arrests to solve those unsolved murders and successfully prosecute these cases in a place where sentences are toug toughest in federal court. Live at southwest detectives, channel 6 action news, jim. Sarah, u. S. Marshals picked up a man they wanted to talk to in connection with Sexual Assa
A friend. He is in stable condition. We have updates at 6abc. Com. Philadelphia firefighters are trying to put out flames in the citys hunting park section. The first call also came in an hour ago about a series of porch fires this is what chopper 6 show when it flew over the scene. No word on what started the flames. No reports of any injuries. Two people have been arrested in connection with the deadly Home Invasion in Montgomery County. Happened last month from the 2300 block of philmont avenue in lower moreland where police found a man shot on the front lawn. He later died at the hospital. Vernon odem was at a News Conference about the arrest that wrapped up moments ago, cern is live with the vern is live with the latest. Reporter the Montgomery County District Attorney has busted two people so far in the investigation of the murder that took place after the popes visit to philadelphia ended last month. These two philadelphia mendes monday smith and abdul ali he are in jail charged