Closures. To night we have much more detailed look at the tight security measures put into place fort popes visit to philadelphia. Mayor Michael Nutter laid out an extensive plan that will impact everyone coming to see the pope and those who live in and around the city. Good evening, im jessica dean. Im ukee washington. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt is along the ben franklin parkway with more on the restrictions that need to be known. David . Reporter ukee where im standing in the parkway behind me will become the red zone for pope francis visit at the end of the september. Mayor nutter throughout lot of information today regarding security. But the big thing is a security map that has several different zones that will play out that entire weekend. If you want to be anywhere near the action when pope francis comes to town, take a good look at this map. The black and red zones are the most secure. You wont find any vehicles inside. This huge event has in fact been classified as a
The restrictions that need to be known. David . Reporter ukee where im standing in the parkway behind me will become the red zone for pope francis visit at the end of the september. Mayor nutter throughout lot of information today regarding security. But the big thing is a security map that has several different zones that will play out that entire weekend. If you want to be anywhere near the action when pope francis comes to town, take a good look at this map. The black and red zones are the most secure. You wont find any vehicles inside. This huge event has in fact been classified as a National Special security event by the secretary of the department of homeland security. Reporter one week after announcing this traffic box, mayor Michael Nutter dove a little deeper into the box to give specific zoning instructions. The traffic box will go into effect in the city at 6 00 oclock friday evening. The red and black zones are more secure and will go into effect saturday morning. Pope fran
Americans we mourn with gold star families, but we cannot feel their pain. Theres nothing anyone can say or do to really comfort families suffering the loss of a loved one, but there is a lot people can say or do to cause grieving families additional pain as weve seen over this past week. As members of congress we are there for our constituents. They are our family. It is our obligation to speak up when they are hurt. The loss of an American Service member should be should not be politicized. Our Fallen Heroes should be honored. Sergeant la David Johnson is an american hero. Sergeant Jeremiah Johnson is an american hero. Staff Sergeant Brian black is an american hero. And Staff Sergeant Dustin Wright is an american hero. The 28 men and women who have lost lost their lives in service to our country this year are all american heroes. Let us honor their sacrifices and comfort their families, as has been the tradition in this country, until the last week. Mr. Speaker, i yield back the bala
Brandished two guns, one was a paint ball gun, the other a pellet gun and began yelling allahu akbar the suspect shot by police and in an undisclosed hospital. We want to go to Connell Mcshane who is on the scene. Reporter charles, picking up what youre reporting to us this evening. Weve had a terrorist attack in Lower Manhattan, not far from the World Trade Center. And witnesses that weve spoken, to the witness in that scene that you described tell us, one man did from looking at a footbridge above the scene earlier today, able to see two bodies covered in white sheets. Another young man coming out of a local school saw a number of bikes mangled laying on the ground. I want to show you video obtained by colleagues at fox news and shot by a witness, and in this video we see a man whos alleged to be a perpetrator to the act of terrorism, not independently confirmed by fox that this is the man, but saw that man getting out of the white rented home depot pickup truck that you talked about
Starting today. Good day philadelphia at 5 00 a. M. Starts right now. Right now, taking a liver pick at Lower Manhattan where this is an active crime scene, still, and we can see, that theyre still looking for evidence, at this hour. That area has closed off. A lot of questions, learning about the suspect, did he act alone, part of larger network, as we mentioned the investigation still, in the early stages, as we look live. This is along the west side highway, place where a lot of bicyclists, a lot of people going running, walking during the day, especially on day like halloween, getting ready for the parade. Steve keeley is there, gathering more details as we mentioned, well have live report coming up in about 90 seconds. It is good to have you with us this wednesday. It is good to have everybody with us, this morning, you mentioned it, all saint day today. So holiday for some of the kids at some of the Catholic Schools. Some of the kids off from school. All showing their sugar high.