I95 in south philadelphia. Definitely building as we get closer and closer to this Holiday Weekend. The delaware beaches will be a popular destination this weekend. Lets check in with nbc 10s Delaware Bureau reporter tim furlong. Have you noticed more drivers on the roads . Reporter i have. [ no audio ] this is when you know its holiday time. Everyone comes out. Reporter its a threeday Holiday Weekend starting a day early for many people. The trip advisor survey says 36 of philly area residents plan to travel for the holiday, 24 plan to take extra time and some of those are leaving today. Looks like many already have. It started to pick up a lot more than it was. Despite the rain and the overcast its been steady so far. Reporter in delaware almost 70,000 drivers will pass through the tolls on state route 1, the main road to the beaches. That number is up from last year. Why . Cheaper gas could be one answer. Aaa says the statewide average is 2. 67 per gallon the lowest since 2010 and a
Tall. Crews expected to begin putting it up sometime in september. We dont know exactly which streets will be cordoned off. We can give you this number right here four and a half miles, thats the perimeter of the fence. Drivers will be kept up to four blocks away from the barricade while the popes in town. You can expect a heavy Police Presence outside the perimeter of that fence. Its anticipated a million and a half people could crowd the ben franklin parkway as the pope celebrates an open air mass that last sunday of september. Thats not the only security challenge for this trip. Pope francis will be moving around the city celebrating mass. That mass is not open to the general public. But his trip to Independence Hall is thats where he will speak about religious freedom and immigration. The pope will also greet prisoners and their families at the Curran Fromhold correction facility. Developing news police are questioning three people in the murder of an 85yearold woman in philadelphi
I95 in south philadelphia. Definitely building as we get closer and closer to this Holiday Weekend. The delaware beaches will be a popular destination this weekend. Lets check in with nbc 10s Delaware Bureau reporter tim furlong. Have you noticed more drivers on the roads . Reporter i have. [ no audio ] this is when you know its holiday time. Everyone comes out. Reporter its a threeday Holiday Weekend starting a day early for many people. The trip advisor survey says 36 of philly area residents plan to travel for the holiday, 24 plan to take extra time and some of those are leaving today. Looks like many already have. It started to pick up a lot more than it was. Despite the rain and the overcast its been steady so far. Reporter in delaware almost 70,000 drivers will pass through the tolls on state route 1, the main road to the beaches. That number is up from last year. Why . Cheaper gas could be one answer. Aaa says the statewide average is 2. 67 per gallon the lowest since 2010 and a
Upcoming holiday weekend. As we take a look whats happening, you can see a few pockets of some showers north and west right now. But nothing heavy in sections of chester, montgomery as well as bucks county and down the shore still keeping tabs on few showers but nothing like what we saw the first part of the day. Those temperatures right now upper 60 to right around 70 degrees down the shore. If youre stepping outdoors, well call it mostly cloudy. Temperatures still kind of comfortable. No airport delays right now at the Philadelphia International airport. A couple of delays right now for newark as well as chicagos ohare. But as we take look at the friday forecast it looks like most of that rain stays to the south. When showers move back in on the fourth of july when i come indoors. Iain and lucy. All right, see you soon, scott. Right now at 6 00 a story youll see only on fox. Philadelphia police are closing in on the killer of an 85yearold woman. Only fox 29 us what there as investiga
Investigators also removed a 2. 5foot safe from the home along with credit cards and identification. Reportedly belonging to the murder victim who was beaten, stabbed and had her throat slashed. Obviously, whenever you have an older person killed all murders obviously are tragic but there are some that kind of stand out amongst others and certainly this is one of those. Reporter sources also tell fox 29 a woman is being questioned at the homicide unit. Shes considered a person of interest in the murder. Commissioner is confident an arrest will be made. Were making very good progress. Reporter police recovered the victims stolen 2007 Toyota Corolla on tuesday on the 3100 block of stillman in north philadelphia. Sources say police have searched that area for other evidence that could be connected to the east mt. Airy murder. To die so violently its certainly something that ought to be of concern to everybody. Reporter thats what has pushed homicide detectives now the three persons of int